Creative expression and mindfulness are cousins, maybe even siblings that get along really well.
- Both cultivate an inner world that welcomes all aspects of who we are without expecting perfection.
- Both take us on an adventure fueled on an elixir of curiosity, courage, and rebelliousness.
- Both awaken us to a different way of thinking that moves us beyond fear to a more liberating way of life.
How we talk to ourselves results either in despair or joy, creative paralysis or unfettered creative expression. Creativity is a relationship with ourselves. That relationship will either result in resistance, pressure, and judgment in the creative process, or curiosity, willingness, and the kind of perseverance that leads to confidence, freedom, and delivery.
Here's a book I recommend if you really want to pursue the kind of self-talk that benefits your creativity. Chatter: The Voice in Our Head, Why it Matters by Ethan Kross
Creativity serves the mindfulness because being in that process is like having an affair with the present moment.
This is what I teach in the Kaizen-Muse Creativity Coaching Certification training. It combines mindfulness, psychology, intuition and imagination. It's both for people who want to liberate the creativity of other and/or themselves. It starts in two weeks (Aug 2)