Increase Your Creativity - The Power Of Letting Your Creativity Go Underground

What do you think of when you think of creating?

Do you have images of a writer typing away at their computer? A painter at their easel? A musician experimenting with their instruments?

Most of the time we tend to think of these kind of obvious images that represent creating. They’re all about creative people in the midst of creating their art.

Then, because we have this strong picture of what creativity is, we feel that unless we ourselves are involved in similar scenes, then we’re not being creative.

In truth, there are many, many, different forms of creating.

Most of them are far more subtle than the obvious kind of images described above.

One of the most powerful forms of creativity is when we put our subconscious to work whilst doing something else.

This is like taking your creativity underground, letting it work its magic beneath the surface, away from the bright lights, out of view.

What are the best ways to encourage our creativity to work underground?

To let our creativity go to work while we get on with something else, the other activity needs to take enough concentration that we’re occupied, but not so much that we can’t let ourselves daydream.

The kind of scenario that works best are physical activities, like washing up, cleaning, cooking or exercising.

While our bodies are occupied with the physical actions, only a tiny part of our mind needs to be engaged to keep us focused on the activity in hand.

The rest of our creative mind is free to explore, create, concoct and imagine all sorts of wonderful new ideas and connections.

If we just sit down and do nothing, there’s too little going on and it doesn’t work.

We’re not able to let our minds be creative as there are too many thoughts swimming around. Plus, because we’re not actually doing anything physically, we start to feel guilty about that!

So by combining a physical activity that needs to be done anyway, with allowing our creativity to get to work while we do, is the ideal combination.

One final tip: You might be asking – “How do I get my creative mind to work on the right things?”

There are two answers to how to get your creativity to work on the right things:

Answer 1. There ARE no right things. If your creative mind is allowed to spiral freely it will come up with all sorts of ideas that can you use in many different creative projects and other parts of your life.

Answer 2. You just ask it. If there is a particular problem or issue you’re stuck with or need guidance on, just ask your creativity to help out. Sounds almost too simple, doesn’t it? But it works.

For example if you’ve got to a difficult point in a story and you’re not sure where to take the relationship of the two lead characters, just ask your creativity: “What different options are there for the relationship of my two characters? In what different ways could the story develop?”

Asking like this gives your creative mind the permission to get to work on coming up with some ideas and solutions.

Try this technique of taking your creativity underground yourself while doing other every day activities and see how you can make it work best for you.

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