When you engage your heart while immersed in creative activities, you add a boost of incredible power to whatever you do. To demonstrate this concept, think about the last time you were deeply in love with someone. When you said, “I love you,” you were not just saying it with words, were you?
No, you said it with your eyes, with your heart, with your energy, and as such, the recipient of your love was able to feel it more deeply. On the other hand, have you ever said “I love you” to someone when you were really feeling annoyed or angry at them? Your words said, “I love you,” but your heart was saying something far different. Very likely, the other person could feel a difference in the energy level.
The same thing applies to whatever you do. If you tried to make a painting or write a novel when you were only half paying attention to it, how good do you think it would come out?
In order to enhance your creativity and achieve better results with your creative works, try engaging your heart. This means not just seeing your works with your eyes, and not just manipulating the works with your hands, but actually “feeling” a sense of love, joy and inspiration with your heart.
First, it helps immensely if you are doing something you truly enjoy. It is possible to generate a sense of love and joy for something you don’t like, but it takes a lot more effort. Instead, try this technique with something you already enjoy. Then:
Fully immerse yourself in the activity. Let go of all worrisome thoughts, emotional burdens, anger, frustration, and stress. Promise yourself that you can pick them back up later if you want to, but in this place and time you choose to set them down. Blot out all distractions and focus fully on your artwork, writing, or whatever you are creating.
Allow yourself to feel immense love and joy for what you are doing. Don’t do it halfheartedly, go all the way! Allow yourself to laugh, cry, sing; whatever feelings come up within you, infuse them into your work. If you feel moved to go in a different direction than you originally intended with your work, go with that feeling and do it. If you can let go of rigid ideas about how something “should” be done, you give yourself the opportunity to discover how it could be done!
Suspend judgment of your work. Too many of us try to edit and censor ourselves because we don’t trust our creative inspiration. We’ve got a streak of perfectionism that holds us back from taking bigger risks and trying something new. Let go of your fears that your work won’t be “good enough” and allow it to bloom into something far better than you imagined.
Let your heart lead you in every step and you’ll find that you won’t have to control the creative process because it has a beauty and wisdom all its own.
No, you said it with your eyes, with your heart, with your energy, and as such, the recipient of your love was able to feel it more deeply. On the other hand, have you ever said “I love you” to someone when you were really feeling annoyed or angry at them? Your words said, “I love you,” but your heart was saying something far different. Very likely, the other person could feel a difference in the energy level.
The same thing applies to whatever you do. If you tried to make a painting or write a novel when you were only half paying attention to it, how good do you think it would come out?
In order to enhance your creativity and achieve better results with your creative works, try engaging your heart. This means not just seeing your works with your eyes, and not just manipulating the works with your hands, but actually “feeling” a sense of love, joy and inspiration with your heart.
First, it helps immensely if you are doing something you truly enjoy. It is possible to generate a sense of love and joy for something you don’t like, but it takes a lot more effort. Instead, try this technique with something you already enjoy. Then:
Fully immerse yourself in the activity. Let go of all worrisome thoughts, emotional burdens, anger, frustration, and stress. Promise yourself that you can pick them back up later if you want to, but in this place and time you choose to set them down. Blot out all distractions and focus fully on your artwork, writing, or whatever you are creating.
Allow yourself to feel immense love and joy for what you are doing. Don’t do it halfheartedly, go all the way! Allow yourself to laugh, cry, sing; whatever feelings come up within you, infuse them into your work. If you feel moved to go in a different direction than you originally intended with your work, go with that feeling and do it. If you can let go of rigid ideas about how something “should” be done, you give yourself the opportunity to discover how it could be done!
Suspend judgment of your work. Too many of us try to edit and censor ourselves because we don’t trust our creative inspiration. We’ve got a streak of perfectionism that holds us back from taking bigger risks and trying something new. Let go of your fears that your work won’t be “good enough” and allow it to bloom into something far better than you imagined.
Let your heart lead you in every step and you’ll find that you won’t have to control the creative process because it has a beauty and wisdom all its own.
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