Fearless Creating

Whatever we enjoy as creative projects, sometimes there's nothing like the thrill of simply creating for the joy of creating.

The excitement of the unknown possibilities, the feeling of fear mixed with awe, the spontaneous free flow of ideas, words, images or sounds...

Decide for yourself to put aside an hour or so to commit to creating purely for the pleasure of it. Choose a media or format that you've always wanted to try but never had the courage to. Or something you loved when you were a child but haven't returned to in years, maybe decades.

Don't have any expectations of yourself, or aim to complete a piece of work within the time period you've set aside. The aim in fact is simply the experience of creating, not the final "product".

Whether it's finger painting, writing spontaneous prose, playing piano, tap dancing, carving wood or anything else, just begin, experiment, flow where it takes you, and enjoy the child-like sense of discovering at your capability to express your feelings and ideas, and the deep human need we all have to simply create...