Sometimes, when life happens, we can end up feeling stuck, lost, even trapped by self-limiting beliefs or self-protective comfort zones.
Our perceptions can become our prisons and our creativity can become shackled by the scope of our own perceptions.
Then our imagination can join the party and start working against us, finding fault and questioning who we are and what we want in our lives.
It’s like creativity and imagination become a double act that sends us into cycles of boredom or loops of frustration.
On the other hand, when our creativity becomes unshackled and imagination is working for us, not against us, they can collaborate to become useful in our lives, in our work, in ourselves.
They open doorways that provide glimpses of other ways of seeing and being in the world – of new flow, new peace, new possibilities.
Together, imagination and creativity can generate the new ideas for things we want to make, for adventures we want to have, and for the life we want to live.
I run a program at my studio, and online, that uses a gentle yet profoundly powerful process to help you discover how to unlock your creativity and liberate your imagination using the medium of paint.
The program is not about making lovely pictures - you can do that later if you want – but instead, the process is about learning to use paint as a tool to translate ‘your’ creative process into a visual language so can engage with it, explore it, discover what wants to be expressed, and apply it in your life.
You don’t need to be an artist or painter to join us, you just have to be curious and excited to see what can happen if you set your creativity free.
Once you’ve learned the process it’s up to you how you use it. You can make art - even if you have never made any before. You can apply it to the art you already make.
You can also use it to discover more about who you are and what works for you (it’s amazing for that).
Or, you can use it to explore how you feel and what you want to do about some of the challenges you face in life.
Whatever you choose, if you turn up to life with your creativity and imagination working for you, not against you, your life and all you do with it, will almost certainly have a little more ease and flow.
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