Deep Creativity offers practical guidance for getting in touch with your own unconscious reservoir as well as engaging your everyday world to deepen the source of creative expression. Three Creativity Exercises from the authors of the book.Deep Creativity: A Practical Guide for Getting in Touch with Your Own Unconscious Creativity
The ESSENCE OF SLOWING DOWN
Creativity comes alive when our senses of hearing, taste, smell, sight, and touch are awakened and revered
- The senses are our raw creative data and material
- Begin by taking a 360-degree look around your environment
- Focus your attention on what you can hear when you enter your creative space
- Ask yourself what you might like to hear that could enhance your creativity
- Touch the clothing against your skin
- Feel the temperature that surrounds you
- Sensing your fingertips, warm your hands, thank them for the work they are about to do
- Smell the air smell
- Think of ways to bring in smells to evoke the experience
Opening Doors from an Oblique Angle
Come at the subject matter from an oblique angle
- This is the opposite of what feels more intuitive-to come at something straightforwardly
- There are two ways to approach this problem
- Approach the problem through oblique medium or discipline
- Google sunflowers
- Read about them in a book about them
- Another approach is to simply acknowledge that you are resisting the painting and pull a random book off the shelf
CODE OF NO, OR NO COMMANDMENTS
Most of us as creatives want to say yes more often, but our instinct is to just say yes
- Creating a Code of No simply means writing down your own rules for when you will say no to something that will keep you from saying yes
Try to understand more deeply why we sabotage our own creativity
Why we are impelled at times to say yes to others and no to ourselves
- Make a list of codes and commandments to keep handy
- Look back over any codes or commandments you might have broken and ask yourself why
