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Today's
quotation:
Creativity
of all kinds focuses your mind, engages your imagination,
and feeds your soul. Being creative can also facilitate
understanding
and encourage healing. Creativity is mindfulness in
motion--intuitive,
artistic motion. Creative moments and activities give you a boost
and help you feel energized and good about yourself.
Sue
Patton Thoele
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Today's
Meditation:
One of the most important things that I've learned about
creativity over the years is that I actually have to
pursue it, to make a strong effort to be creative, if I'm
going to be creative. It doesn't just happen because
I want to be creative; rather, it takes conscious effort
on my part to be creative rather than following the same
old ways of doing things.
I find that the effort is truly worth it, though.
And it's not because I have a creative something-or-other
to show off to other people when I'm done, but because of
the sense of accomplishment that the effort
produces. When I make an effort to be creative, I
feel more in tune with the world in general, and more like
I'm actually using some of the gifts with which I've been
blessed. I feel that I'm doing something in a way
that only I can do it, for even though others may do it
similarly, no one will do it in exactly the same way.
I can be creative in writing stories and poems. I
can be creative in choosing the colors for painting a room
or a house. I can be creative when I write letters
to friends, or when I draw a picture of a tree that I
see. I can be creative when I cook (though that can
be dangerous!), and I can be creative when I plan my
classes each week. I can think of creative gifts to
give to friends and loved ones, and I can try to find
creative ways to encourage those same people. When I
do these things, my spirit is strong because I'm using my
gift to do positive things in the world, as only I would
do them.
I know many people who were somehow convinced while they
were young that they aren't creative, so they put no
effort at all into creativity any more. But they are
creative, just in ways they haven't explored because
they've given up. The lack of creativity in their
lives, unfortunately, robs them of some of the best
feelings they can ever have. You are creative in
your own special ways--explore that creativity for all
that it's worth, even if no one ever sees the results but
you!
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