Accessing Creative Energy

Having hosted a weekly radio show called 'All That I Am' that has focused for the last 6 months on the question, "what is creativity and why is it important?", the following guide helps you access that creative energy.

WHO

Who inspires you? A writer, a musician(s), poet, people that you know - mentors, friends, family, any elderly people who have inspired you.

Write down why each of them have inspired you, and what you have learned or what you are still learning or enjoying about them.

WHAT

How can you translate what's going on in your head into something tangible:

a written word, phrase or piece
a piece of dialogue you heard, or are thinking about
a poem
a sketch
a drawing
a painting
a jingle
a song
a dance
any kind of movement

WHEN

Some of us are morning people, some evening, some night etc. But the reality of our lives are that it is probably more real to ask when do have have any time where we can even think about being creative. So can you think about when that time might be. A train journey to work, a walk home from dropping the kids off, your lunch, the middle of the night when you wake up from a dream - can you scribble it down?

Find the tiny moments even if you stay longer in the toilet to write down something someone said that made you laugh, or a poem that you may even choose to flush down the toilet.

WHERE

Some people like quiet, some noise. If you don't know, try both, usually you'll know which one suits you better. Is it outside walking in nature, or is it sitting in a cafe people watching.

Or is it only on the train or car on the way to work when you can sing out loud and make up words, or shout or say a poem or a ditty.

HOW

Just find a way. Buy a tiny insignificant note book and write anything you think of as and when. Listen to a song and write down a lyric that particularly touches you.

Make a crazy doodle drawing. Maybe of the person sitting opposite you.

Find a way. There is no other thing to say.

WHY

Why must you access your creativity. Because the energy of creativity is fundamental to everything that we are. The more you use it the more it will turn up and find solutions, the more easily communication becomes and the more fulfilled you will be.

Accessing creative energy is only difficult because it open us up to a vulnerability that in every day life we find easy to avoid. However this energy is a life source with much to offer the person who is willing to give it a little time, stop any judgements, and play with a different side.