Every Monday, you can now expect to receive Creative Prompts to stimulate your own creative thinking.
Idk about you, but my body pulses with frenetic energy whenever I get struck with creativity. I’m usually lying awake in bed, with thoughts racing, eyes moving, body tossing and turning. I feel a buzzing in my blood and bones. Instead of just feeling miserable about the restlessness, I’ve been leaning into these imaginative spells. I get up, move to the couch or dining table, do some stretches, drink some water, and open my notebook to spill my guts until I get tired. Until I’ve expelled the energy. Until the frenzy is over. I find it both relieving and productive.
So my questions for you: What does creativity feel like in your body? How are you using those sensations to inform your behaviors? What’s the result?
I just checked out an interesting book from the library called The Creative Habit by Twyla Tharp, where she emphasizes establishing a daily routine to warm up your creative muscles and give yourself the physical and mental space to be creative. She swears that by practicing creativity like it's a habit, it will produce more and better results.
I understand this approach if you work in a creative field where you are not able to wait for creativity to strike and have to produce something on a timeline. However, I do not and the best inspiration strikes me at the most random times and it feels so frantic and immediate. I welcome the mental itch when it arrives and I'm not sure if this is something I can or want to put to a schedule if I don't have to.
I've always said that there is a sixth sense that has nothing to do with seeing dead people. I believe "visceral" is the sixth sense and it's how I sense my creative motor moving. It feels restless and inevitable and sometimes almost like I need to turn my entire body inside out to scratch the itch. I think there's something so physical about the creative process that it fuses all our body's systems together so everything can empower the creation.
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I just checked out an interesting book from the library called The Creative Habit by Twyla Tharp, where she emphasizes establishing a daily routine to warm up your creative muscles and give yourself the physical and mental space to be creative. She swears that by practicing creativity like it's a habit, it will produce more and better results.
I understand this approach if you work in a creative field where you are not able to wait for creativity to strike and have to produce something on a timeline. However, I do not and the best inspiration strikes me at the most random times and it feels so frantic and immediate. I welcome the mental itch when it arrives and I'm not sure if this is something I can or want to put to a schedule if I don't have to.
I've always said that there is a sixth sense that has nothing to do with seeing dead people. I believe "visceral" is the sixth sense and it's how I sense my creative motor moving. It feels restless and inevitable and sometimes almost like I need to turn my entire body inside out to scratch the itch. I think there's something so physical about the creative process that it fuses all our body's systems together so everything can empower the creation.