Let Your Creativity Flow
Issue 12
Beautiful Insights
Be Creative, Be Yourself
Society sends out the message that only the chosen few are really creative and if you aren’t – then it’s best to forget the whole thing. But that is so wrong, everyone can be creative in his or her own small or big way. Being creative can enrich everything you do and deepen your understanding of yourself and the world.
Pablo Picasso said, “The important thing is to create. Nothing else matters, creation is all.”
During our very early years we are free of inhibitions, then as we get older we’re taught that a picture must look like something, that a story has to follow a logical sequence, a poem has to rhyme and a song has to have a melody. Our creativity is squeezed out of us and inhibited by rules – many people convince themselves that they aren’t creative.
We need to undo this negative programming to enable our creative imagination to run free. When our creativity flows out into the world, it feeds the creativity of others and the world is made …