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All creatives have their routines, their own special ways of finessing their lives and preparing their surroundings to give them their best shot at the right mood or atmosphere for their very best work. Creating the right external conditions to support creativity does have its place, but it doesn’t take care of the whole picture, and so tends to be something of a hit and miss affair.
If you rely solely on external circumstances and resources, then when these fickle friends dry up, so will you. This stands to reason, and we can each of us verify the truth of this for ourselves. An internally driven resource, on the other hand, is always there for you, and this is what our Creativity Workshops and secular meditation courses are for. You can still do the crossword puzzle before you work, or go for a walk, or whatever is it that gets you going, but add a basic level of mental training, and you add a whole new dimension to your creative process.
Not only does mind training hand you the specific tools you need to re-programme your less constructive habits and work through your mental blocks, it also allows the subconscious processes to do their creative work unimpeded. Your ‘instrument’ will be more sophisticated, responsive and alive. The kind of work you produce will be more genuine, more quirky and more uniquely ‘you’. Every moment you are present and awake is one more moment noticing the extraordinary things that are happening in and around you every moment of every day. You are more directly in touch with reality, and this intimacy, authenticity and immediacy will shine through your work. Dickens walked London. But literally walking London is not nearly enough, it is how you walk London that matters.
Training your mind in attention and awareness balances your mind and awakens your senses. You discover the primacy of mind in experience, and you begin to make use of it. You gain better focus and more stamina, and you come to enjoy the creative process so much more. Once you develop a technique that brings peace of mind, staves off sleepiness, steadies you through bouts of restlessness; and then brightens up your mind, then that’s a technique you'll have for life.
We would like to discuss this further with you, and we have a lot more to say. Wherever you are in the world, if you are interested in a Creativity Workshop, or one of our Foundation Courses, we would love to hear from you.
If you rely solely on external circumstances and resources, then when these fickle friends dry up, so will you. This stands to reason, and we can each of us verify the truth of this for ourselves. An internally driven resource, on the other hand, is always there for you, and this is what our Creativity Workshops and secular meditation courses are for. You can still do the crossword puzzle before you work, or go for a walk, or whatever is it that gets you going, but add a basic level of mental training, and you add a whole new dimension to your creative process.
Not only does mind training hand you the specific tools you need to re-programme your less constructive habits and work through your mental blocks, it also allows the subconscious processes to do their creative work unimpeded. Your ‘instrument’ will be more sophisticated, responsive and alive. The kind of work you produce will be more genuine, more quirky and more uniquely ‘you’. Every moment you are present and awake is one more moment noticing the extraordinary things that are happening in and around you every moment of every day. You are more directly in touch with reality, and this intimacy, authenticity and immediacy will shine through your work. Dickens walked London. But literally walking London is not nearly enough, it is how you walk London that matters.
Training your mind in attention and awareness balances your mind and awakens your senses. You discover the primacy of mind in experience, and you begin to make use of it. You gain better focus and more stamina, and you come to enjoy the creative process so much more. Once you develop a technique that brings peace of mind, staves off sleepiness, steadies you through bouts of restlessness; and then brightens up your mind, then that’s a technique you'll have for life.
We would like to discuss this further with you, and we have a lot more to say. Wherever you are in the world, if you are interested in a Creativity Workshop, or one of our Foundation Courses, we would love to hear from you.
