Unleash Your Creative Thinking

Sound like work? Heck no...in fact most people find that their most creative ideas appear when either on vacation or in a very relaxed state. Yet the problem for many of us is that we don't ALLOW that relaxed state very often, we stay to busy, to regimented with schedules, clocks and more to let creativity happen. Turn off the screens and the noise, listen to pleasant music and just doodle.

"Whenever an answer, a solution, or a creative idea is needed, stop thinking for a moment by focusing attention on your inner energy field. When you resume thinking, it will be fresh and creative."
~ Eckhart Tolle, Practicing the Power of Now



Creativity is about much more than just drawing, painting or making music. It's also about using the tools you have in unexpected ways and finding unique solutions to perplexing problems. Keeping a journal is one way to harness your creativity. You are more creative than you think you are. As Earl Nightingale says, "We have 50,000 ideas run through our minds daily. Ideas are like wet slippery fish. You got to get 'em when they show up or they will slip away never to be seen again." By keeping a journal, you can remember at least some of those 50,000 ideas, and then maybe you can apply some of them to your business or other projects.

So how do you unleash your creative thinking?

For one thing, creativity LOVES solitude. Provide yourself some quiet creative time regularly.
About creativity: "It can first fit into the cracks of your life, and as you nurture it, it will expand into a glorious interior garden." SARK
"True intelligence operates silently. Stillness is where creativity and solutions to problems are found." ~ Eckhart Tolle

Edward deBono has written over 50 books on creative thinking and originated the term 'lateral thinking' Here's his take about creative thinking:
Creative thinking is not a talent, it is a skill that can be learned. It empowers people by adding strength to their natural abilities which improves teamwork and productivity. It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all.
There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all. Without creativity, there would be no progress, and we would be forever repeating the same patterns."

Ever get tired of that 'think outside the box' expression? In real life - our 'boxes' are very real. Maybe you are married (that's a box) or have a job, mortgage and kids (all boxes). The point is to make the best of whatever it is you HAVE, of whatever boxes your life includes.


Did Houdini 'think outside the box'? No, he accepted the reality of his box, yet did not allow the fear of it to prevent him from working his magic from within. So it is with you, to accept whatever 'boxes' exist in your life, yet to strive toward creative problem solving in spite of your boxes, to go beyond them into a way of thinking that inspires you to think of solutions in spite of your box. That is sometimes referred to as 'the Houdini Principal' => to rise above fears and limits to think beyond impending issues in order to find creative solutions.

How to be Creative by SARK

* Read the newspaper backwards.
* Break a dish you never liked.
* Refuse to sit still for negative thinking.
* Take a hot bath and a nap and let it all soak in.
* Hang out with a young kid for an afternoon and play with crayons, swing on swings ...
* Draw or doodle for a couple of minutes each day, maybe in a journal or blank book. Write in it, too...anything...captions, quotes, funny words...just whatever comes to mind.
*Alter your routine as much as possible and make some 'mistakes'.

Right brain dominant people are generally considered to be most creative. We have a natural tendency towards a particular way of thinking, still the two sides of our brain do work together in synergy in our everyday lives.

The right side of of the brain tends to focus on the visual, then process information in a simultaneous and intuitive way, looking first at the whole picture and then the details. The focus of the left brain is much more verbal and analytical, processing information in a more sequential way, looking first at the pieces then putting them together to get the whole.

Embrace insanity. As John Russell once said,
"Sanity calms, but madness is more interesting."


Every creative thought was once deemed insanity by other "normal" people at one time or another. Luckily, that didn't stop the creative geniuses from standing by them. The thing is, sanity or being normal confines people to think...well, normally. Creativity is essentially breaking through barriers. Yes, this may include the bizarre and the downright strange. An example of a creative personality would be George Washington, who often rode into battle naked, or James Joyce, who wrote "Dubliners" with beetle juice due to an intense fear of ink, or Albert Einstein, who thought his cat was a spy or arch nemesis sent by his rival. Find a balance to ALLOW allow your creativity yet not get you detached from the real world completely.

Think creatively everyday about your own life, your dreams, your intentions. Every time you see your goal or intention presented by the Dream Manifestation Wizard software on your screen you physically rewire your brain by creating new neural pathways.
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Just like our muscles grow stronger with exercise, our creative talent needs exercise as well. So make it a habit to carve out time DAILY to allow focus on some kind of creative activity or playful designs. Maybe play with photographs or create a collage, get a blank book and play on a page in some way. Draw, color or doodle with crayons, markers, calligraphy pens...whatever you like. Even a few minutes daily of allowing yourself the time to just play with creativity in some way will make a difference over time.
Yes, even doodling is a creative activity. Ever heard of a mandala or a zentangle? They are simply artistic shapes that started out as a doodle. Play with lettering and fun fonts or draw a design and then write some words inside the design. Consider collecting a few idea books that stimulate creative thought such as the ones below.

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