Mindful creation

byTigan1987

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3 years ago

What stimulates your creativity?

Everything in life is creation! Isn't that food for thought. Did you know that even one little thought is enough to carry off a series of events? Did you know that we think we become!
Sometimes there's the niggling thought at the back of your mind that something is going to happen, it may be a good thought or A bad thought. But funnily enough all of a sudden that niggling thought that was once at the back of your head, is now smack bang in front of you. And then you wonder? Did I make that happen? Or was it just that I knew it was going to happen?
There's research up on research of looking at our 🧠 brains! They are fascinating for scientist. But there's also a ton of research on how our thoughts have a direct impact on our bodies and our reality. Have you ever had a panic attack? Convinced yourself something sinister is happening to you and your body responds to this with a racing heart, sweats and a dose of adrenaline too! Well our thoughts and feelings affect our bodies and so is so impossible that they don't affect our material worlds too?!
So what do we do in a world full of stimulation. How do we find a balanced mind for our creative flow. A creative flow that serves us well rather than making us feel as though we are being dragged through our lives without much choice in what happens to us.
For me nature is a great healer, mother Gaia and all her gentleness. The wind in the trees, the birds singing, a babbling brook or raging ocean. Her love always helps me to wash away the cobwebs and energise my tired soul. Then there's yoga, I love movement, I've always been that one person who gets up on the dance floor before anyone else and who isn't afraid to let go and bounce my body to every little beat without feeling embarrassed. But yoga, this movement is a gentle flow connected to the breath to help center my challenging thoughts and bring me back to a place of remembering to breath.

Breathe? Did you know that most of us don't actually breath correctly? Yes that's right, now you're here with me, let's just pause a minute and 'breath in for 8 and out for 8'!

Ahhhh that's better! Did you feel it? Your chest actually raising up and falling. Well that's a real breath! I bet you don't breath like this on a regular basis. I definitely don't! So consciously breathing is indeed an amazing way to fully be present in a moment of the world is feeling too much. Doing it regularly you will feel a massive impact on your brain function and how your body feels!

And now there's meditation! One of my most favourite because with good practice and consistency the world is your Oyster! Because meditation works with your breath and helps you to fully relax and you can do it anywhere, so you can merge nature and meditation! What a bliss that would be.
All these things can seriously help stimulate your creativity by giving your brain the space it needs from the everyday worries and rush of society. That little bit of space can open a doorway for the spark of a new idea!

Meditation basics

So if your not one to sit still with your eyes closed, which I get I struggled a lot with this at first, then for you it may be more satisfying to try some mindfulness. This really doesn't need to be hard work, you just need to be present in a moment. For instance you're making a cup of your favourite hot beverage. Mine is tea here in the UK of course, so instead of just getting a cup and making a drink mindlessly, you can try to be completely present. Start by feeling the coolness of your mug/cup as you pick it up, take in the colours and the texture of it. Boil the kettle and listen to the sound, notice the steam as it hits boiling point and watch the steam dance about the nozzle. What ever you chose to put in your cup take in the smell of it and as you pour the water watch the patterns it makes as it enters your cup and the way the water changes colour and then stir your beverage and watch as it swirls around your cup. All the wile you should be feeling relaxed. How easy is that. That's mindfulness, instead of rushing on to the next 'to do' of the day, you are being present. This is a form of meditation!!
Well meditation is best done somewhere calm, to begin with away from distractions. Sit somewhere comfortable with the right temperature and close your eyes. Instead of trying hard to forget about everything, sit and just take notice of the thoughts that are coming into your mind, try not to follow them into stories, just be aware they are there. Breathe!! You can even try the counting technique so you can distract your mind a little. Follow you breath 'in and out', just allow yourself to be for a while in this moment just breathing. The more regularly you practice this the easier it will get.
There are lots of guided meditations you can do, you can find these on YouTube. This is where you are taken in a journey. But try to do the silent one from time to time to get used to sitting with your thought without getting too involved in them.
It is amazing in the adventures you can have when you get really good. My swan painting above was from a meditation I had where I was floating through space on the back of swan!
So I decided to put my minds creation on to canvas !

What will your mind create if you let it?