Are you the busy, hardworking professional,
who works so many hours, there is no time to explore the world of woodworking
or crafting?
Perhaps you are the husband or boyfriend
who has given up making model airplanes because you’ve been told you’re an
adult and you need to grow up?
Or maybe you’re the busy mom who spends
more time cleaning up your children’s painting messes, but you’ve neglected
pulling out your canvas and oil paints to create your own masterpiece?
Believe it or not, most people have given
up their hobbies and their joy of creating due to work, responsibilities,
relationships and perception that there is lack of time.
The result? THE LINK TO THE FUN ZONE HAS BEEN LOST.
When was the last time you played or had
fun creating? Can’t remember? Has it been a long time?
Our happiness factor is LINKED to the
ownership of creating.
Creativity is the activity our right-brain
needs to feel alive. If you’re in a
left-brain centric occupation, chances are you have put your right-brain on the
back shelf of your life.
Linking your left-brain and right-brain
together can actually improve your productivity, sense of joy, happiness and
fulfillment and well-being.
This vital link of ‘creating’ is necessary
for driving our life’s journey and ‘purpose’ forward as we take ownership of
our pathway and gain clarity in daily life.
Zoning out in front of video games, TV or
the Internet in a zombie state of being, hinders our internal curiosity factor
we were born with in childhood.
As a child, if given Play-doh or Legos or
crayons and told to ‘go create’ – we had the liberation and freedom of creating
whatever it was we wanted.
As we become adults, the idea of ‘perfectionistic
tendencies’ creeps into our psyche and we become judgmental of ourselves and
others in the creative process.
This is destructive to your journey and
actually roadblocks you to your destiny of creating something that you
enjoy. In essence, you censor your
ability to have the ‘wonder’ factor of creating freely as you wish and you halt
your ownership of your own FUN ZONE.
Now creating has become a task – making it
more difficult to create happily. Negativity can enter and be self-sabotaging
to your ability to move forward in your life.
Is this how you want to live? We all know that you don’t want to imprison
yourself from having fun or creating freely because then you limit your own
freedom to simply BE.
About four years ago, a colleague and I
stumbled into a place where you can purchase a canvas and paint on the
spot. There was no art class, there was
no prerequisite to participate…. BUT there were rules….
The rules were – you were not allowed to
use a paintbrush. You were not allowed to
‘control’ any aspect of your art. In
other words, you had to let your art simply ‘flow’ freely and be satisfied with
the idea that you were creating something beautiful, because YOU did it – no one
else and not even your mind, you simply created.
We used small squeeze bottles (similar to
the kinds you normally see ketchup and mustard in on vendor carts) – filled with
various colors of paint. You were
allowed to choose your colors and use as much or as little as you want and how
you wanted. You could do swirls and
lines and it would all puddle together becoming whatever it was to become and
spill over the sides and make a mess.
This was the most liberating, freeing
feeling … to create without borders or boundaries, or self-judgment or rules in
terms of what it must look like to be accepted as art. We are all artists.
The lesson was not lost on the idea that
this was applicable to each person. We were all encouraged to get in touch with
their ‘inner artist’ and be free to create and return to being that child who just
go with it.
Psychologically speaking, we were given a
life gift in our journey to go back and claim that lost artist-child
within. Linking back to that freedom and
innocence of the FUN ZONE of playing and being was joyful.
Don’t we all deserve to have joy? You know the answer to that. So ask yourself….
- When was the last time you created something?
- How long ago did you have fun and freedom just being playful?
- Did you forget your inner artist?
- Is there some creative endeavor you have not tried yet, but want to?
- Have you only put creative efforts on a bucket list for when you have time?
- Where were you when you last felt creative and what did you do?
- Have you forgotten how to have fun and is this the real reason you don’t start?
- What obstacles have you put in your way to prevent you from creating?
- What obstacles have others put in your way to prevent you from creating? Why the heck did you give them permission to do so?
It’s time to LINK back to your artistic side, your
right-brain and build a bridge between your right and left brain again to allow
yourself to have fun, joy, creative fulfillment and happiness in your life that
YOU get to incorporate whenever you please as you please.
Without this precious link to your inner
artist, you’re not enjoying your journey and you could be preventing your
destiny from happening.
Find your own
Linkronicity within your creative self and simply let out that true artist
within.
Namaste.
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