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***I took off the password for the blog. It was a huge annoyance rather than a help!
***I took off the password for the blog. It was a huge annoyance rather than a help!
Like I said yesterday, today’s email is an overview of Cultivating Creativity. This course came about when I began thinking about how I wanted to go about my days being mindful and notice the beauty in the simple moments, to make the ordinary, everyday routines of life sacred. To dive a little bit into self care and self love through my self expression---by being creative.
The more I thought about and journaled about all those themes, the more I came to realize that everything I wanted to accomplish was a form of creativity. Many times we hear people say I am not creative because I can’t…..sew. Paint. Draw. Write. Knit.
And for years that was me too. I can knit, I can sew a straight line, but it is only recently that I saw those things as being creative. I believed that to be “creative” meant that you had to know how to paint like Picasso or write a Pultzer Prize winning novel.
My goal is to introduce you to the idea that every aspect of life is enfused with creativity. Our every thought, movement can be seen as a form of creativity.
CREATIVITY---Phenomenon whereby something new and somehow valuable is formed: an idea, theory, invention, literary work, painting, song, etc.
Something new and valuable is formed.
Yes.
I want to live a life focused on mindfullness. That is creativity.
I want to have a home full of joy and laughter where my people feel loved and nourished. That is creativity.
I want to weave words together, to create art projects with my daughter, to take yarn and some needles and knit a pair of socks. All of that is creativity.
Every one of us has some form or another where we are creative. What is yours? Where in your life do you want to find your creativity, try something new that you may have always thought, "I can’t do that?"
I chose "Cultivating Creativity" as the name for my course because I believe that creativity can be cultivated. We can provide soil for our creative pursuits to grow and flourish; we can encourage creativity in ourselves by finding where our passions are, what do we want to create and then provide soil for those creative pursuits to grow and flourish.
How we go about cultivating our creativity is unique to each individual and each unique creative pursuit. Cultivating Creativity will walk us through providing soil for our creativity by using our souls, our bodies and those creative activities we wish to do more of.
For today I invite you to take a few moments and sit with your idea of what creativity is. What does it mean to you? Where do you see you are creative? When you think of the word creativity what comes to mind?
I invite you to share, if you wish, a little bit about what creativity means to you, or share an aspect of life where you are living creatively.
Creativity is nestled and waiting in everything. Every interaction within my waking hours has the potential for the seed of creativity to grow. How I prepare breakfast, our homeschooling, our spirituality, etc. creativity simply needs the act of intention to begin to sprout. Lighting an incense as I warm the wate for dishwashing is in itself an act of creativity. In adding these creative breaths throughout my day, I've realized I gain pockets, if not extended moments, of time to create in a more traditional way (drawing, art, etc.)
ReplyDelete"Creativity simply needs the act of intention to begin to sprout." I love that Melanie.
DeleteMy whole life I always thought I wasn't creative, it was a mantra that constantly ran through my head. It kept me from trying so many things. Then one day last year I decided to start a nature journal, then I decided I wanted to teach myself to watercolor, then to draw. My curiosity with nature was what drew me into wanting to be creative, to look at things differently, to try new mediums.
ReplyDeleteI love how it was nature that showed you you are creative!
DeleteMy whole life I always thought I wasn't creative, it was a mantra that constantly ran through my head. It kept me from trying so many things. Then one day last year I decided to start a nature journal, then I decided I wanted to teach myself to watercolor, then to draw. My curiosity with nature was what drew me into wanting to be creative, to look at things differently, to try new mediums.
ReplyDeleteI have felt artistic to some extent since I was in high school. I have done some artwork and sketches that I love but since I have gotten older I see creativity in many more areas of my life. Creativity looks different when I am involved in different things but it feels very rewarding and personally fulfilling in all areas!
ReplyDeleteYes!! Creativity runs so much deeper than the things most of us normally associate with as being creative!
DeleteI have always thought of myself as creative. Loved arts and crafts as a child and learned to crochet. Later painted, sew, knit, many different yarn and thread crafts, pottery. Played the flute and guitar. Some good at and some not so good at but enjoyed them anyway. I always thought of creativity to do with making something in crafts or the arts. I see now that I am creative in other ways: I created a family and a home. I create meals. I have created relationships. With my actions and reactions I can create good and bad. Taking time to relax and enjoy my time creating a knitted item makes me happy and that has a positive effect on my actions and reactions.
ReplyDeleteI remember watching you knit years ago, you were one of my inspirations to learn!! I also remember us all going to Art & Soul a few times where we painted different pieces. That was fun!
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