If you’ve ever embarked on a creative project, you’ve likely experienced moments of pure joy. Some may even call the experience a sense of higher consciousness. In other words, creativity seems to pour from you. In these moments of creative flow, you’re experiencing creativity as a form of mindful meditation.
Freedom
Creativity engages our imagination. Turning new and imaginative ideas into reality frees us from the constraints of everyday life. Creativity allows us to access a part of ourselves that is not ruled by time, pressures, or conditions. It’s no wonder many of us long for more of it in our lives. When creative energy flows through us, it connects us to our deepest selves and even the world around us.
Mindful Meditation
The above description parallels what it means to engage in mindful meditation. When you meditate, you focus your mind in silence to clear internal chatter and external distractions as a method of relaxation. Writing and painting and sculpting and dancing as with most forms of creativity you’re silent and focused. When you practice mindfulness, your concentration is in the present moment in much the same way as when your center of attention is putting words on the page, cutting glass or carving wood.
In today’s world of constant stimulation, mindfulness is a means of maintaining a moment-by-moment awareness and slowing down. Mindfulness pulls your power back into yourself. Meditation encourages you to be proactive rather than reactive to the stimuli surrounding you.
No Judgment
In the classic sense of mindful meditation, you become aware of absolutely nothing.Either that, or you bring your full attention to what you’re doing … without judgment. This is key because as soon as judgment flares up, suddenly you begin to doubt yourself. Negative feelings emotionally block you and trap you in negative thinking. No longer in a state of relaxation, you lose the flow. Your energy plummets. You become stuck or blocked. Frustrated or uncertain. Full of fear and self-doubt, you just don’t see the point. Without mindful meditation, you are tempted to give up.
Obstacles and challenges bring emotional lessons created specifically for each individual person. View the spiritual purpose of creating as a challenge to express yourself with no doubt or fear. With that knowledge, you’re encouraged to continually return to your full attention. With mindful meditation you focus less on emotional traps and more on the words you’re writing and the scenes you’re envisioning.
Reach Your Artistic Ambitions
When you approach creativity as a form of mindful meditation, you’re less likely to become emotionally derailed. When you approach creativity as a form of mindful meditation, you’re much more likely to realize your highest artistic ambitions.
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