Creative Self Belief - Top Techniques To Boost Your Creative Self Belief To New Levels

Sometimes we can be severely restricting our creativity and the ease with which we create, even though we don’t realise it.

Even with the best of intentions to be as creative and free as possible, there are certain elements, which if they’re not in place, will mean your creativity will have a “low ceiling” and you’ll not be able to hit the creative heights you’re actually capable of.

One of the main ways this can happen is through neglecting your self belief.

Self belief isn’t something that’s just either there or it’s not, a mystical element you have no control over.

There are many ways you can actively build your self belief in creating.

Here are 2 of the best techniques:

1. Positive affirmations. Whatever you tell yourself you are, that’s what you become. If the chatter in your head is constantly saying “you’re not good enough”, “you’re no artist”, “who do you think you are trying to be creative?”, then that’s what you’ll believe.

You can turn this around by replacing these negative thoughts with positive ones that will support and nurture your creativity.

Uses phrases that are positive, personal and in the present tense. Here’s a few examples:

a. I am a highly creative person, ideas flow to me freely.

b. I deserve the opportunities to express my creativity and will make the most of them.

c. I am constantly developing and evolving, I become a more experienced artist each day.

Even if you don’t believe them at first, by saying these affirmations regularly (at least 5 times each, 5 times a day) you start to believe them. Then your behaviour begins to match what you believe, and your creativity flourishes.

2. Gathering evidence. Most of us are very quick to dismiss any creative work we’ve done in the past. How often have you found yourself saying or thinking something like – “oh that wasn’t really creative, I was only playing around. Anyone could do the same.”?

The other common way to dismiss your efforts is to conveniently forget you even created them! To show yourself what you have created, and how creative you actually are, take the time to gather the evidence.

Think of everything you’ve created in the last 6 months, year, 3 years, 5 years. Don’t just pick huge projects, note down anything that’s creative, from cooking a special meal to making a greetings card for a friend, writing a daily journal and cultivating a vegetable patch.

These are creative activities, so count them all. Creativity is not simply about carving huge sculptures or writing epic novels. Truly creative people create everyday and in everything they do. You’ll soon realise you’re the same.

These are 2 of the top ways to boost your self belief in your creativity.

Which one will you pick to start working on first?

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