[Jewelry making - Article 00323] - Re: [Orchid] Creativity Blues

[Joel Elfman]

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    Grace, I am sure this list will have some wonderful thoughts for you.
    They always do.  Before I add my thoughts I just want to let you know
    that I am also a Personal Coach w/ several certifications in hypnosis
    and NLP along w/ some other training.  And if you ever need to
    consult off-line I would happy to do so.  These ideas are the results
    of my training and may or may not be applicable to you. Also, you are
    poviding a limited amount of information and I will make certain
    assumptions perhaps some of them are correct and perhaps some of them
    are not. My first request to you would be for you to perhaps consider
    that this is very useful cycle for you. Your mind and body work
    together to do this amazing amount of work through the holiday season
    and then ask for a little bit of time off to renew themselves.  When
    you stress your body or your brain to high levels your mind-body will
    automatically try and renew itself. And a simple and elegant way for
    it to do so is to demand a little bit of time off to allow some
    healing or downtime.  When people don't take time to renew from
    mental or physical stress they potentially could create greater
    physical or mental health risks. Imagine running a marathon every day
    w/o a break.  You have developed a natural routine that protects you,
    consider honoring it. Consider if you haven taken any time to thank
    your conscious, your unconscious and your body for their hardwork
    doing the season. Perhaps, you can find additional ways to restore
    yourself from those draining times.  Get a massage, a small
    mini-vacation, even a single day off can be extremely useful, go to
    the movies.  Enjoy, revel in it.  This is my day to do nothing. To
    renew yourself.  Spend time w/ someone important to you.  Do
    something simple and foolish, whatever is appropriate your mind and
    body, your creative side will come up w/ a wonderful suggestion is
    just right for what you need. For creativity, go over some of your
    old creations, remember the different stages, how you first thought
    of the idea, the different stages, what might you have done
    differently.  There maybe useful stuff in here and some stuff that
    is less useful so dwell on the good stuff.  Look over old jewelry
    catalouges, books for inspiration.  Go to a museum, art exhibit,
    etc. What has inspired you in the past, where have you been inspired
    in the past, where/what might inspire you in the present or the
    future During it all, don't fight the fact your a little less
    inspired then usual, more importantly know you've always come out of
    it, and will again. There is an extremely simple process that you can
    use to literally link any feeling such as creativity to a
    picture/sound/touch inside or outside your head.  In NLP this is
    called "anchoring" and the process can be easily searched on the
    web. It is simple Pavlovian training and it is something as humans we
    do all the time.  If you know a couple who has ever had "their song",
    that particular piece of music is an "anchor" or trigger for a
    particular feeling they have about each other.  Both positive and
    negative feelings can be anchored.  Make a picture in your head of a
    person you don't like and you'll get that negative feeling.
    Anchoring is also the process by which advertisers try and rope us in
    all the time, or the process you use every time you try and make a
    memorable logo for your business, when the person sees the logo they
    should remember you or your work. 

    My other main suggestion would be to concentrate on what you want,
    not what you don't want.  Often the unconscious mind does not
    understand the concept of "not" doing something.  The old adage comes
    to mind of "don't think of pink elephants" and the first thing the
    mind does is to make a picture of a pink elephant and then try and
    remove it.  Focus on what you want instead.  Imagine someone instead
    of saying "I don't want to fail this test" and making a picture of
    themself failing first, they say "I want to pass", and then they make
    a picture of what they want.  For someone in your situation, they
    might normally say "I don't want to be stuck..", instead they might
    say "I want to be creative again" or something like this.  The
    feeling or combinations of feelings that are useful for you in any
    situation are totally different for each individual. And your
    positives should be concrete, positive, acheivable goals or feelings.
    I hope some of this is useful or helps spark a wealth of 
    useful ideas for you or for this list in their offerings to you. Joel


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