What is Creativity?
Here in England September represents the end of Summer and the beginning of Autumn as well as the start of the
new school year and the start of many new initiatives in business, life and lots more besides. When anyone is looking to make any kind of change in their life, often the approach they take needs to become
attractive or appealing in order for them to maintain it and often it may not remain attractive or appealing for
as long as we like. I get lots of people that tell me that they find it difficult to maintain enthusiasm or keep on
investing the required levels of energy in order to make a real success of a project or a goal. So, for that reason, I want to talk about enhancing creativity today. When you become more creative, you can
begin to make more out of your every day experiences and perceptions of what it is that you are doing, you can
make life more colourful and have more fun and joy when you are more creative. So what actually is Creativity? Good question. We can all be creative; creativity is about making new connections - and that is literally
physiologically true within our neurology. Creativity is the mind's growing edge. It often involves a lot of
discovery. By creating new connections you build your brain power and develop mental and interpersonal
flexibility which can begin to heighten your ability to do a huge array of things with more and more ease. Imagine this; every time you link two things together, you create a third entity. That new connection can itself
then connect with other ideas, additional possibilities. Imagine the impact this can have throughout a system like
your brain! Neil Armstrong first stepped onto the moon in 1965. That event changed our beliefs and thoughts about the
universe. It also altered thoughts and beliefs about human inventiveness and skill: this event helped us to recognise that if we want something enough, we can find ways to do something that we may have believed to be impossible before. I reckon this gave may people some powerful and liberating thoughts and beliefs about human capability. I heard on the radio recently that there are also plans to land on Mars now! I always fancied being an astronaut. Being creative on an individual level has the same potential: when you connect things together, you go beyond both of them; and you have the possibility of forming new beliefs about yourself and your potential. I remember when I was first learning about NLP, hypnosis and my other beloved subjects, I was so excited, I would read so much material that I felt like my brain was literally growing and stretching. That's not too scary is it? I love working with children. They have such a vivid imagination, I can remember when I used to play football for hours and days on end as a youngster, I was not just imagining scoring in the World Cup final, I really was actually there at Wembley Stadium scoring that goal, I am telling you I was there! Children are amazingly creative, each of us has been a child (some still are!). Children show their creativity in the way they discover their environment and make their own meanings of it. Many children create new worlds while playing with toys, they don't need elaborate or sophisticated toys, equipment or props, the meaning comes from within them; the meaning comes from out of themselves. You need to give yourself permission and time (and energy) to make new connections and links which is what creativity is all about. It is about the process rather than the outcome or the final product. You can be creative at home or at work, when changing habits, updating behaviours, resolving issues, or just making life happier in any way you can. You can be creative with words, ideas, thoughts, materials, food and the kind of fun you have. You can be creative with your surroundings or with your internal world. In addition to this, creativity creates something new. That's right, even if every ingredient is already known to you or is familiar. An insight for example, is creative because the new conclusion is gleaned from information you already had; it is the new perspective that makes the difference. Above all, being creative returns us to that state where we are scoring goals in World Cup finals. It is about being
absorbed and enjoying doing what you are doing, paying attention to detail, having a grand vision, being
excited and playful, wondering what would happen if... Adam Eason is an author, consultant, trainer and motivational speaker in the fields of hypnosis, NLP, personal development and human potential. His website is filled with information, stimulating articles, resources and uniques products and can be found here; http://www.adam-eason.com.
He is author of the best selling book on Self-Hypnosis; "The Secrets of Self-Hypnosis: Harnessing the Power of Your Unconscious Mind."
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