By Lance Winslow

Far too many creative people beat themselves up for no real apparent reason, many put themselves under unnecessary stress and feel they must perform. This is a real problem because creativity does not quite work that way. If you ask a creative person how they go about getting into a creative mood, it’s amazing the answers you get.

It is almost like a ritual they go through in order to put themselves into that perfect psychological mindset and personality displacement. Whatever works for them is great, because once in that creative space it is just amazing what they can do. Perhaps, you are a creative person and this is all common knowledge, if so, I salute you and a humbled by your talents.

Nevertheless, it is important to resist beating yourself up or bombarding yourself with negative bio-feedback, instead you need to give yourself what I call; a creative hug. What is a creative hug you ask? Well, think of it this way, it is the very opposite of the depression state. You need to uplift yourself not get down on yourself to create. Easier said than done for that special creative mind, yes, it’s true.

Ask yourself what do you love to do most? Well, that’s a good place to start to reward yourself after a creative encounter, but did you know it’s also a great place to start to get into a creative mood as well? This is all part of giving yourself that creative hug that you so deserve, so you can give your best creativity to all the rest of us, who do not have your natural talents. If you’ll do that for yourself, all of us out here well have the best creativity to enjoy, brought to us by you.

Topics: Becky Harber, Dr. Frank Harber, Frank Harber |

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