THOUGHTS AND COMMENTARY
A Book Excerpt From
The Road to Neuroplasticity and Change to Heal Trauma, Improve Cognitive Capacity and Maximize Performance
ABOUT THE BOOK
BOOST AND REIGNITE
YOUR CREATIVITY
See Also:
Divergent Thought and Creativity
Achieving Creative Flow Boost and Reignite Creativity
Creativity and Visualization
The Neuroscience of Creativity
Divergent Thought and Creativity
Achieving Creative Flow Boost and Reignite Creativity
Creativity and Visualization
The Neuroscience of Creativity
20 WAYS TO BOOST CREATIVITY
Get More Rest
Your brain actually produces more creatively when it is fatigued. According a University of Pennsylvania research study the tired brain struggles with filtering distractions and focus so it is subject to wandering. Creativity benefits from a wondering brain. You will find yourself thinking much better outside the box.
Exercise
Psychology Today says that "Sweat is like WD-40 for your mind–it lubricates the rusty hinges of your brain and makes your thinking more fluid. Exercise allows your conscious mind to access fresh ideas that are buried in the subconscious.”
Fine Tune Your Environment
Turn the volume on your headset to low and dim the lights. Background noise at an ambient level do not distract your thoughts like silence does. Silence allows you to focus on one thing and it is better for critical thinking. Researchers further found that dim lighting contributed to creativity. They theorized that the subconscious feels free.
Learn to Relax
By relaxing, you rejuvenate your mind and creativity flows naturally. There are many ways to relax and unwind. Simple activities like walking on the beach, engaging in your favorite sport activity, or whatever you choose that helps you relax.
Practice Meditation
Meditation silences all those hectic thoughts that are constantly playing in your mind throughout the day. Practice Mindfulness, By following different meditation techniques, you gain an inner calm while opening your mind to more creative thoughts and better ideas.
Write It Down
Writing down your ideas as soon as they pop into your head is a great training exercise for the brain to keep the ideas coming. Writing ideas down clears the mind to move on to other ideas, and you never worry about forgetting them.
Expand Creativity with Lists
Creating interesting lists about the things in your life you care about the most helps expand the creative thought process.
Stop Criticizing Yourself
Knowing you are doing things as best you can removes the barriers in front of your creative ideas. Never be harsh or criticize yourself, and learn to accept yourself for the way you are. You are creative, and by accepting that fact your self-limiting beliefs won’t block creativity.
Remove the Pressure of Expectations
Removing expectations is removing the stress you have about the outcome. Putting love and passion into your creations with no outcome expectations increases the chances of having an amazing creation.
Make Time for Reading
Nothing is better for relaxing and stimulating the mind than reading. Reading opens the mind to new ways of thinking while increasing creativity. If reading is not your hobby then don’t force it; start small by spending 30 minutes a day with a book on your favorite topic. It can be anything you like. Devoting a set amount of time every day has you reading one or two books each month with little effort.
Listen to Classical Music
The brain functions better and is more creative when listening to certain songs and compositions. Albert Einstein always credited his creativity to listening to Mozart. He found listening to Mozart compositions helped his thinking. Today, science research has proven the idea of music-enhanced thinking. The brain’s creativity and performance increases from the positive effects of certain frequencies, also known as, iscochronic tones and binaural beats.
Do Something New
If you want to give your creativity a big boost, bringing in many new ideas, do something you’ve never done before. This is anything you’ve always thought you’d like to do, like skydiving or bungee jumping, but have never taken the time to do.
Practice Makes Perfect
Practicing your craft every day, even for a little while, keeps your mind creative. If you write, then write something every day. If you want to be a good designer, design something every day, even if it’s just something as easy as redesigning the logo for your favorite cereal.
Put Limits on Yourself
Put limits or boundaries on yourself. For example, Dr. Seuss wrote his best selling children's book Green Eggs & Ham after a bet that he couldn't produce the book in under 50 different words.
Distract Yourself
Take a break and explore the eccentricities in life. Research suggests that reading experiencing something absurd or surreal can help boost pattern recognition and creative thinking. Your brain will go into overdrive trying to process the content and you can use that to your benefit.
Counterfactuals
Engage in counterfactual thinking. Think about a situation you encountered and ask yourself what could have happened. it will exercise your cognitive functioning.
Networking
Network with others and share your work. By changing your perspective and opening your mind to the ideas of others you may be revitalized.
Ask Yourself Questions
Ask yourself questions like “Why?” and “Why not?” and “What if?” and answer them. You will gain valuable insight from your responses.
Hidden Meanings
Look for hidden meanings. Avoid jumping too quickly to conclusions. Look below the surface. Look out for signs, symbols and the synchronicity. Hunt for hidden meanings.
IN A RUT?
REIGNITE YOUR CREATIVITY
The best thing you can do if you are stuck is to find a distraction. Distracting your mental process will reawaken the creativity that had gone stale. Try some of these ideas to wake it up.
GET GOING: Get in your car or on your bike and maybe the wheels will start spinning.
GET CURIOUS: Read something different, watch something new. Seek and discover.
GET VISUAL: Immerse yourself in the visual arts, look through photos, drawings, from r graphics. Visit a museum and lose yourself.
GET TIDY: Declutter your space and declutter your mind. Tidy up, file away and organize.
GET SOCIAL: Tweet, chat or Snapchat your way through cyberspace. Talk to new and different people.
GET INSPIRED: Read the classics or some poetry, look up inspirational quotes, read up on new subjects. Be attracted to the great thinkers of the world.
GET GOOFY: watch cartoons, read comic books or lose yourself in a multiplayer video game universe.
GET CALM: Meditate or practice mindfulness, do yoga, sir quietly in reflection.
GET NAKED: Get in a steaming hot shower or bath. If you have one then get in the hot tub.
GET ARGUMENTATIVE: Get online and participate in debates on hot topics of yours. Stand your ground.
GET GIGGLING: Put on any kind of comedy show or movie or stand up routine that makes you laugh.
GET OVER YOURSELF: Hit up ideas from friends or coworkers. You don’t have to e the source of everything.
GET FEARLESS: cast away doubt and fear and write anything and everything that streams in your mind.
GET UNSATISFIED: Look at a satisfactory solution again and challenge it. Dismiss it. Find a new path.
GET BUZZED: A safe and sane couple of glasses of something can open your mind.
GET YOUNG: Play with some kids, get out the legos or crayons or tinker-toys and just have fun.
GET GOSPEL: Get spiritual in the way you know how.
GET INQUISITIVE: Seek out answers to questions, find people to ask them or come to conclusions on your own.
GET HISTORIC: Revisit history. Read up, visit landmarks or attend lectures.
GET TO THE STORE: Window shopping will trigger your creativity with visual cues,
GET WILD: Hit the zoo or the aquarium- or play with some dogs. The animal kingdom might give you wild ideas.
GET SCIENTIFIC: Seek out chemistry, biology or physics information. Using the left brain might spark something in your right.
GET STUFFED: Cook, bake and eat. Pile on the calories to give you energy to think.
GET SWEATY: Go running, swimming or to the gym. Flood yourself with endorphins.
GET TO BED: Sleep will recharge your batteries so you can try again tomorrow.
Get More Rest
Your brain actually produces more creatively when it is fatigued. According a University of Pennsylvania research study the tired brain struggles with filtering distractions and focus so it is subject to wandering. Creativity benefits from a wondering brain. You will find yourself thinking much better outside the box.
Exercise
Psychology Today says that "Sweat is like WD-40 for your mind–it lubricates the rusty hinges of your brain and makes your thinking more fluid. Exercise allows your conscious mind to access fresh ideas that are buried in the subconscious.”
Fine Tune Your Environment
Turn the volume on your headset to low and dim the lights. Background noise at an ambient level do not distract your thoughts like silence does. Silence allows you to focus on one thing and it is better for critical thinking. Researchers further found that dim lighting contributed to creativity. They theorized that the subconscious feels free.
Learn to Relax
By relaxing, you rejuvenate your mind and creativity flows naturally. There are many ways to relax and unwind. Simple activities like walking on the beach, engaging in your favorite sport activity, or whatever you choose that helps you relax.
Practice Meditation
Meditation silences all those hectic thoughts that are constantly playing in your mind throughout the day. Practice Mindfulness, By following different meditation techniques, you gain an inner calm while opening your mind to more creative thoughts and better ideas.
Write It Down
Writing down your ideas as soon as they pop into your head is a great training exercise for the brain to keep the ideas coming. Writing ideas down clears the mind to move on to other ideas, and you never worry about forgetting them.
Expand Creativity with Lists
Creating interesting lists about the things in your life you care about the most helps expand the creative thought process.
Stop Criticizing Yourself
Knowing you are doing things as best you can removes the barriers in front of your creative ideas. Never be harsh or criticize yourself, and learn to accept yourself for the way you are. You are creative, and by accepting that fact your self-limiting beliefs won’t block creativity.
Remove the Pressure of Expectations
Removing expectations is removing the stress you have about the outcome. Putting love and passion into your creations with no outcome expectations increases the chances of having an amazing creation.
Make Time for Reading
Nothing is better for relaxing and stimulating the mind than reading. Reading opens the mind to new ways of thinking while increasing creativity. If reading is not your hobby then don’t force it; start small by spending 30 minutes a day with a book on your favorite topic. It can be anything you like. Devoting a set amount of time every day has you reading one or two books each month with little effort.
Listen to Classical Music
The brain functions better and is more creative when listening to certain songs and compositions. Albert Einstein always credited his creativity to listening to Mozart. He found listening to Mozart compositions helped his thinking. Today, science research has proven the idea of music-enhanced thinking. The brain’s creativity and performance increases from the positive effects of certain frequencies, also known as, iscochronic tones and binaural beats.
Do Something New
If you want to give your creativity a big boost, bringing in many new ideas, do something you’ve never done before. This is anything you’ve always thought you’d like to do, like skydiving or bungee jumping, but have never taken the time to do.
Practice Makes Perfect
Practicing your craft every day, even for a little while, keeps your mind creative. If you write, then write something every day. If you want to be a good designer, design something every day, even if it’s just something as easy as redesigning the logo for your favorite cereal.
Put Limits on Yourself
Put limits or boundaries on yourself. For example, Dr. Seuss wrote his best selling children's book Green Eggs & Ham after a bet that he couldn't produce the book in under 50 different words.
Distract Yourself
Take a break and explore the eccentricities in life. Research suggests that reading experiencing something absurd or surreal can help boost pattern recognition and creative thinking. Your brain will go into overdrive trying to process the content and you can use that to your benefit.
Counterfactuals
Engage in counterfactual thinking. Think about a situation you encountered and ask yourself what could have happened. it will exercise your cognitive functioning.
Networking
Network with others and share your work. By changing your perspective and opening your mind to the ideas of others you may be revitalized.
Ask Yourself Questions
Ask yourself questions like “Why?” and “Why not?” and “What if?” and answer them. You will gain valuable insight from your responses.
Hidden Meanings
Look for hidden meanings. Avoid jumping too quickly to conclusions. Look below the surface. Look out for signs, symbols and the synchronicity. Hunt for hidden meanings.
IN A RUT?
REIGNITE YOUR CREATIVITY
The best thing you can do if you are stuck is to find a distraction. Distracting your mental process will reawaken the creativity that had gone stale. Try some of these ideas to wake it up.
GET GOING: Get in your car or on your bike and maybe the wheels will start spinning.
GET CURIOUS: Read something different, watch something new. Seek and discover.
GET VISUAL: Immerse yourself in the visual arts, look through photos, drawings, from r graphics. Visit a museum and lose yourself.
GET TIDY: Declutter your space and declutter your mind. Tidy up, file away and organize.
GET SOCIAL: Tweet, chat or Snapchat your way through cyberspace. Talk to new and different people.
GET INSPIRED: Read the classics or some poetry, look up inspirational quotes, read up on new subjects. Be attracted to the great thinkers of the world.
GET GOOFY: watch cartoons, read comic books or lose yourself in a multiplayer video game universe.
GET CALM: Meditate or practice mindfulness, do yoga, sir quietly in reflection.
GET NAKED: Get in a steaming hot shower or bath. If you have one then get in the hot tub.
GET ARGUMENTATIVE: Get online and participate in debates on hot topics of yours. Stand your ground.
GET GIGGLING: Put on any kind of comedy show or movie or stand up routine that makes you laugh.
GET OVER YOURSELF: Hit up ideas from friends or coworkers. You don’t have to e the source of everything.
GET FEARLESS: cast away doubt and fear and write anything and everything that streams in your mind.
GET UNSATISFIED: Look at a satisfactory solution again and challenge it. Dismiss it. Find a new path.
GET BUZZED: A safe and sane couple of glasses of something can open your mind.
GET YOUNG: Play with some kids, get out the legos or crayons or tinker-toys and just have fun.
GET GOSPEL: Get spiritual in the way you know how.
GET INQUISITIVE: Seek out answers to questions, find people to ask them or come to conclusions on your own.
GET HISTORIC: Revisit history. Read up, visit landmarks or attend lectures.
GET TO THE STORE: Window shopping will trigger your creativity with visual cues,
GET WILD: Hit the zoo or the aquarium- or play with some dogs. The animal kingdom might give you wild ideas.
GET SCIENTIFIC: Seek out chemistry, biology or physics information. Using the left brain might spark something in your right.
GET STUFFED: Cook, bake and eat. Pile on the calories to give you energy to think.
GET SWEATY: Go running, swimming or to the gym. Flood yourself with endorphins.
GET TO BED: Sleep will recharge your batteries so you can try again tomorrow.
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