Discover Your Ability to create and live a happier life
Looking toward the future is always exciting. The past year allowed us to redefine our resolutions leading into 2022. Ask ourselves what we have learned and want to create, knowing that life can change at a moment's notice.
After an incredibly destabilizing period worldwide, all the newswires report that the global community is bouncing back. Restrictions are relaxing; a "new normal" is making its way.
Creative Resilience
An important lesson I discovered, or more so an observation, is the overwhelmingly resilient nature of humankind. Pivotal to this resilience is our creativity and innate capacity to create, whether through necessity or pleasure.
The ability to bring into existence something new. A solution to a problem, adapting to new situations or painting new artworks. These give appreciation to the fact that we as a species are more creative than we possibly thought.
We typically assign creativity to the artists; mark-making on canvas, painting, drawing, sculpting, acting, designing or writing words to a page. These are the traditional ideas of creativity.
Everyone Can Create
A Jane Thompson artwork in Nadia & Martin’s home in Melbourne
We all create, are creative. Positive creativity could be described as joyful, negative creativity as sadness or despair. We are always creating one way or the other.
Committing yourself to one act of positive creativity per day can enormously impact your well-being and those around you.
Nature walks, reading a book, flipping through a magazine, listening to music, or helping your local community.
Creativity Reduces Stress And Increases Happiness
Google it! "Does creativity reduce stress!" Absolutely!
Give praise to another's good work. Smile at a stranger. Each of these will also lead toward greater and greater abilities to create.
Visit art galleries! Yes! It's true! Surround yourself with creativity, and soon, you'll be feeling a lot more creative yourself.
"We only learnt after we had decided to acquire Scandi Dreams, by Marisabel Gonzalez, the meaning of this piece in the artist's words was 'Just because we dream of snow and quiet'.
“We have a beautiful place in Japan with some stunning sumi-e art (ink wash paintings) on the walls and cannot wait to return.
“It is the place we enjoy escaping to and my favourite spot to sit in the morning with my tea or coffee, it has a gorgeous view of the mountain and snow. Our big kitchen window reveals pretty Japanese birch trees within untouched national park.
“My husband Tim grew up in the Snowy Mountains and all our kids have snow in their veins, so ‘dreaming of snow and quiet’ is very appropriate and meant to be for our family!
“May have to rename it ‘Japandi dreams’.”
- Simone