Key Messages
Exploring Your Creativity: Embracing Your Creative Spark To Enhance Your Life
Do you have a creative side? Of course, we all do!
Whether we’re most drawn toward words, artistry, instrumentals or photography, there’s a creative spark burning deep within us all.
Unfortunately, it’s often easy to ignore our deep creativity and try to get on with our lives.
This is an enormous mistake that should be avoided as much as possible.
The Deep Creativity book will help you unlock your true potential as a creator.
It utilizes stories from the authors’ own creative experiences, along with thoughtful questions to ignite your inspiration.
You’ll learn why a spider’s web can be likened to a poem, how you can make good out of difficult circumstances and why sacredness is not limited to religion alone.
Celebrate the existence of your internal creative spark and take action today by reading Deep Creativity!
It’s a powerful tool that helps you appreciate your unique perspective and become more open-minded towards ideas which resonant deeply.
Tap Into Your Deep Creativity Through Love: Three Authors Share How To Draw Inspiration From Romance, Reality, And Life Itself
Everyone has a deep level of creativity inside them, and the key to unlocking it is through love.
This is the core message behind Deep Creativity, a book written by three depth psychologists.
In the book, they outline seven different ways that we can tap into our deep creativity – with the first of these being through love.
At its simplest, romantic love can have a profound effect on creativity.
As evidenced by poets such as Dante, who penned an abundance of odes in honour of his muse Beatrice, can be incredibly inspiring to create something beautiful.
But other types of love are also important for this purpose.
For example, learning to love simply creating for its own sake without any expectation or pressure for perfectionism will help encourage your creative spirit and foster deeper levels of inspiration.
Finally, even reality itself can be tapped into as a source of creative energy when one takes the time to appreciate its particularity and beauty — from leaves changing colour in Autumn to sunsets over calm seas.
Ultimately, no matter what type of love one chooses to cultivate and embrace, it will help open you up to discovering the creative potential lying within us all.
The Power Of Nature To Inspire Creative Energy And Connect Us To Ourselves And The World Around Us
Connecting with nature can turn even the most mundane activities into opportunities to be creative.
Just take Jennifer, Dennis and Deborah as examples.
Through engaging with the natural world around them — whether through photography, contemplation or observation — they were inspired to tap into their inner creativity.
Jennifer discovered that simply carrying a camera gave her a new way of looking at the world around her, and reminded her of how she was connected to it.
Meanwhile, Dennis enjoyed an appreciation for how something so simple as a spider’s web could transport him from the ordinary and everyday into something special and extraordinary, suggesting that creativity involves being able to render the invisible visible.
Finally, Deborah was grateful for an experience swimming alongside a sea turtle, where she learnt to emulate its serene stillness when under pressure or rushed.
In all these cases we see how nature can spur all of us on to creativity..
Nature serves as both an inspiration and teacher beckoning us out of our regular routines and towards greater potential within ourselves.
How To Find Our Muses And Take Time For Creative Inspiration
No matter who/what your muse is, they are an integral part of deep creativity.
For Dennis, it’s the tranquil 4:00 a.m.
hours that lend him clarity and inspiration.
But for Jennifer and Deborah, their muses have taken different forms – the wise and kind woman called Fish that Jennifer encountered at camp in her childhood, and the city of Amsterdam for Deborah that she now has a love affair with.
In one way or another, we all have our own own muses to inspire us if we take the time to recognize them.
These muses can be abstract or concrete; within us or out in the world around us.
Whichever form they come in, these relationships are reciprocal – you must give these muses the attention and space for them to give back.
Only then will you become a source of creative inspiration for others as well.
We Should Appreciate How Creative Engagement Can Help Us Move Through Suffering
It’s amazing how suffering can trigger our creative self.
Deborah discovered this while visiting a client in the late stages of terminal brain cancer.
When she approached his house for the first time, Deborah was astounded – he had painted vibrant images onto the wheelchair ramp and walls inside his home.
Despite his deteriorating health, her client had used his suffering to create something meaningful and beautiful.
Dennis too felt the power of suffering when he read about some children who had died in a plane crash at the dentist’s office one day.
The only way he could cope with what he had read was by writing a poem about it – something that helped him feel less alone in his suffering.
Jennifer found herself encountering her own emotional pain when she witnessed a mother and daughter yelling at each other on the subway one day – an experience that terrified her so much that she ended up writing a screenplay about it in order to process it.
She eventually realized why this story resonated with her so deeply: it was tapping into childhood wounds that were left behind by abandonment.
Understanding And Managing The Creative Impulse
Creating something, for most of us, starts with a creative impulse.
We may be inspired by everything from tragedies to love, but that urge to make something is the same – regardless of what inspires us in the first place.
Deborah believes fostering a relationship with the creative impulse is at the heart of any artistic practice.
It’s not just about listening for when it comes; it’s also about being aware enough to act on it when it does arrive.
As Deborah says, if you don’t listen to it, eventually your creative impulse may start showing up less and less in your work.
In short: It’s vital to foster a relationship with the creative impulse.
Doing so isn’t always easy – sometimes you’ll find yourself going through periods when the creative impulse just won’t come or will seem out of control – but ultimately it can help you create better quality art since you’re giving it more attention.
Even if the things you make are never shown publicly, nurturing this relationship can still be incredibly beneficial for personal fulfillment and growth as an artist or creator.
Understanding The Spiritual Nature Of Creation: Learn To Respect And Honor Your Own Myth
Jennifer believes that sacredness is more than just religious, and encompasses all aspects of our lives.
In her book, Deep Creativity, she explains that it is possible to find creative inspiration in everyday tasks like cooking, sleeping, sex and silence.
Deborah was brought up Catholic and found her spiritual enlightenment through reading mystical poetry.
Dennis learned that each of us is living out our own unique myth and by honoring it we can recognise the sacred nature of life.
Deep Creativity puts forward the idea that sacred does not have to include religion but rather be found through finding one’s purpose in life, understanding how creativity can play a role in this and focussing on what matters most to you.
Where people look for their creativity temple or work space also says a lot about how they view their creative pursuits.
It could be somewhere such as a home office or even a garage or backyard – the important part is treating it like the special place it is.
The Power Of Deep Creativity: How Art Inspires Art And Why We All Need It
Have you ever looked at a work of art and felt something stir within you? It could be a painting, a song, a poem – whatever it is, your own creativity has been sparked.
That’s the power of art – it can bring out our deepest creative potential!
Jennifer experienced this for herself on a drive through California one day when she listened to a song by Johnathan Rice.
Suddenly and almost unexpectedly, an intense story came flooding into her mind, and she felt compelled to write it all down.
When she read the piece back, she realised that despite not being identical to Rice’s song, her writing was directly inspired by it.
This was Jennifer’s experience with ekphrasis, which means using one type of art (such as a song) as your catalyst for creating another (such as Jennifer’s story).
Dennis was another example of this – he wrote entire books inspired by great works such as Moby Dick and The Divine Comedy.
Wrap Up
The Deep Creativity book is all about encouraging us to embrace our creativity and use it to its fullest potential.
The key message is that we’re each capable of producing amazing works of art regardless of our background or experience level.
To achieve this, we must treat the creative impulse as something sacred and never ignore it when it appears.
In conclusion, if we want to reach our creative goals then we must honor the creative impulse that visits us.
Take the time to express yourself through whatever medium you choose – words, images, music, etc – and tap into the deep well of creativity within us.
Doing so will result in a richer output from your muse, no matter what form it takes.
