by Dane Isaacs

Created on: April 19, 2008

Simply put, Creative Inspiration is a reaction to your environment; not an action for you to take up because you have a want to fulfill. When we desire something we feel want, and this is not the open awareness we need to truly find out what talents we can produce. It may sound too simple but everything needed for inspiration is available to you at all times. The real trick is how see it.

Thinking, while one our greatest tools, isn't in charge of much of what we do. Sure we tell ourselves we act from thought because "that's how to be an adult", yet all of this "rational thought" is tinged with emotion. We are never free from ourselves, and so we must learn to work with ourselves. So if creativity doesn't arrive from decision to act, then how does it come about.

Everything you take in(sight,sound,touch,emotion, etc) is like food for your unconscious. Much in the way a double cheese burger will make you physically sluggish, so will poor experiences drag on creativity. If you're trying to write about why you love life, and you lost your job three days ago, there could be a problem. It doesn't mean you are without talent. It just means you're trying to draw something from yourself that simply isn't active right now. So lets take a look at how to active yourself in a way that supports you.

If you want a result from yourself, then you're going to have to prepare yourself for that result. If you have a desired goal start deciding what kind mindset supports you best. If you're writing a love novel; go spend time with someone you care about or be around a couple you can observe. If you want to paint a sunsets; take 30 minutes a day for a week to simply observe the sky. All these little experiences work their way into everything you do. All of your experience becomes fuel for your achievements.

So where do our ideas come from: the experiences we feed our unconscious. Our best ideas will always seem to come out of no where. So we must respect our unconsciousness's need for experiences that support what we want to do. Much like a diet for a healthy body so too must we keep track of what we put into our heads as well.

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