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Member You - Emotions and Thoughts in the Creative Process
The one nagging question that is on every new webmasters mind is "how do I get traffic to my website?" The truth is that unless you're going to spend a lot of money advertising you're going to need to work creating quality content and tracking every stat. A consistent, steady flow of traffic is not easy, and many people don't know where to start. That's why I've devised this step by step plan for generating traffic.For the purposes of this article we will assume that you have already settled on a niche and domain name. Before you do anything: start creating content. Write at least one article a day. If you see yourself needing to take a break try to write several articles in advance so you can take a break without losing days.Submit your website to the top search engines and DMOZ, and then forget about it. Don't worry about getting your website crawled by Google -- it'll happen, just give it time.
If we're not calm and centered, connected to that universal creative flow, we get impatient with this phase of creation and want to rush it along.
And when we can surrender to the moment, give ourselves over to unknown results and lose ourselves to the present moment, we're achieving life skills that other people spend years to develop through meditation and other spiritual and bodywork practices.
While my view of self-care certainly advocates a serene and peaceful life as an ideal, it's not about shooing away the more tumultuous emotions and harmful thoughts, but processing them, giving them a voice and then letting them go.
And practicing our art is a GREAT way to do this.
It provides a mirror, both in the moment and later, of how we were feeling and what our thought processes were in the moment of creation.
OUR GIFTS TO THE WORLD
That leads us to the last piece of this topic – the thoughts and feelings that our work may evoke in others, when we choose to share it with the world.
Our expression can help those out there who have neither the words NOR the creative outlet to express their own feelings. I've experienced this myself, when I find that a songwriter has hit on my own feelings or experience and all of a sudden I have a way t
One of the rising issues with a wholesale distributor is getting both parties trust- both from you and his part to conduct immediate business. Since many of today wholesale list online offer hundred and in many, thousands of potential distributors and wholesalers- sometimes it is just not easy getting the most important initial trust bond between your wallet and your potential provider.Why it is not easy to establish a trust bond between a new wholesaler and distributor from a potential small-based-business? The main reason of this trust-bond issue rise when you start to get hundreds and thousands of targeted visitors to your sites every single day. You not only get visitors, but one of the greatest benefits of being open to huge amounts of targeted readers is that you get the benefit of joint venture partners.As you get potential joint venture partners, your e-commerce hosting server can crash and burn from floods of visitors in an i
When I was working on the Creativity Interviews, some artists I interviewed spoke about walking away from their art when they're feeling emotional – taking a break or getting some distance. But others talked about using their art to process challenging emotional experiences; pouring their heart out into their work and using it as a cathartic and therapeutic experience.
So we can see that there are a few different sides to this story. There are the emotions and thoughts we bring into our work with us, there are the emotions and thoughts we have ABOUT our creative work, there are the emotions and thoughts that are evoked in us AS we work creatively and there are the emotions and thoughts we evoke in others when we share our work with the world.
WHAT WE BRING IN WITH US
Artists spoke of achieving, "the right mental landscape – a mind clear of external disturbances", mental clarity - the "freedom from disruptive and negative thoughts, upset from personal life" or a positive outlook. (The Creativity Interviews, page 5)
We want that clear mental landscape, and yet we bring a LOT into the creative landscape with us.
When we embark upon creating something, we bring our whole selves into the process with us. Our prior experiences (and our thoughts and feelings about those), the state of our physical body (and our thoughts and feelings about that), our hopes and expectations of the future (and our thoughts and feelings about those), our relationships (and our thoughts and feelings about those) and, of course, our creativity and creative skills (and our thoughts and feelings about those).
THOUGHTS AND FEELINGS ABOUT OUR CREATIVITY
Worth a special mention are those thoughts and feelings that we have ABOUT our creative lives. Do we deserve this time to create? Have we given ourselves permission to do it? What messages have we gotten throughout our lives about taking time for creative expression? Do we value our work? How has our work been judged by others and how do we feel about that? How do we judge our own work?
It seems that self-awareness is key. The more we understand these thoughts and feelings for what they are, the more time we spend evaluating them, questioning them, and discussing them with others, the better. With greater self-awareness and understanding, we're able to incorporate these elements into our work, instead of having them be something we need to fight against or overcome.
And when we bring them into our work, our work takes on a new depth, since it's drawn from a fuller range of our emotions and thoughts.
On the other hand, when we're left fighting against those negative and distorted thoughts and troubling emotions, and trying to work in spite of them, then stress, self-doubt, paralyzing procrastination and performance anxiety can result.
AS WE WORK
"Several artists spoke about surrendering to the unknown, acknowledging their spirituality (higher power, higher self) and being in flow – being part of a larger cycle of creation, re-birth, and evolution over time." (The Creativity Interviews, page 5)
Sometimes our desired mental landscape can be attained only by rising above everything we bring with us into the creative realm. When we reach this higher state of existence - a connection with spirit, with the universal creative flow, with all the art that's been created before us and all of the art that will be created in all of time - our real-life concerns fall away.
This amazing experience is often cited as the reason we just can't stay away, we just can't give up our creative dreams even though we struggle with them.
"Many of the artists described highly creative times when they are responding to strong emotions and want to express them through their art – transduce them from one form of energy to another. These emotions are sometimes brought on by other pieces of art they are witnessing – the depth of their experience as a listener or observer inspires creative expression from them – a desire to participate in the creation." (The Creativity Interviews, page 7)
Sometimes I hear people say that they'll get to their creative project, their creative dream, as soon as things "calm down" in their life. And yet it's the creative process itself that's usually the most effective at bringing about the calmness of mind and emotional stillness that we crave.
And we need this calm and stillness in order to respect the stages of the creative process. The "incubation" period, for instance, when ideas are forming, percolating, developing or cocooning.
"Watch me. I'm making a cocoon. It looks like I'm hiding, I know, but a cocoon is no escape. It's an in between house where the change takes place. It's a big step since you can never return to caterpillar life. During the change, it will seem to you, or to anyone who might peek, that nothing is happening - but the butterfly is already becoming. It just takes time." - From Hope for the Flowers by Trina Paulus
If we're not calm and centered, connected to that universal creative flow, we get impatient with this phase of creation and want to rush it along.
And when we can surrender to the moment, give ourselves over to unknown results and lose ourselves to the present moment, we're achieving life skills that other people spend years to develop through meditation and other spiritual and bodywork practices.
While my view of self-care certainly advocates a serene and peaceful life as an ideal, it's not about shooing away the more tumultuous emotions and harmful thoughts, but processing them, giving them a voice and then letting them go.
And practicing our art is a GREAT way to do this.
It provides a mirror, both in the moment and later, of how we were feeling and what our thought processes were in the moment of creation.
OUR GIFTS TO THE WORLD
That leads us to the last piece of this topic – the thoughts and feelings that our work may evoke in others, when we choose to share it with the world.
Our expression can help those out there who have neither the words NOR the creative outlet to express their own feelings. I've experienced this myself, when I find that a songwriter has hit on my own feelings or experience and all of a sudden I have a way to
What’s all this nonsense we hear about brands and delivery, surely it’s just modern day hocus-pocus set to part us from our hard-earned cash? Our fore fathers didn’t need it so why should we?To say our fore father’s existed in a world without branding is to completely misunderstand the whole underlying concept of branding as explained by Gerard Tannem of Islandbridge, ““Even in today’s fast-paced world, we continue to be social animals. People still buy people. Once upon a time, the person was the brand and our choice was a personal one. Just as they’ve always done, brands serve to connect us with the people behind a product or service, allowing us to choose quickly and confidently in a world where we are spoilt for choice.”Shopkeepers of yesteryear had time to talk to their customers, and in doing so found out exactly what they needed or more importantly liked. Today not only are store owners rushed off their feet keeping just trying t
When we embark upon creating something, we bring our whole selves into the process with us. Our prior experiences (and our thoughts and feelings about those), the state of our physical body (and our thoughts and feelings about that), our hopes and expectations of the future (and our thoughts and feelings about those), our relationships (and our thoughts and feelings about those) and, of course, our creativity and creative skills (and our thoughts and feelings about those).
THOUGHTS AND FEELINGS ABOUT OUR CREATIVITY
Worth a special mention are those thoughts and feelings that we have ABOUT our creative lives. Do we deserve this time to create? Have we given ourselves permission to do it? What messages have we gotten throughout our lives about taking time for creative expression? Do we value our work? How has our work been judged by others and how do we feel about that? How do we judge our own work?
It seems that self-awareness is key. The more we understand these thoughts and feelings for what they are, the more time we spend evaluating them, questioning them, and discussing them with others, the better. With greater self-awareness and understanding, we're able to incorporate these elements into our work, instead of having them be something we need to fight against or overcome.
And when we bring them into our work, our work takes on a new depth, since it's drawn from a fuller range of our emotions and thoughts.
On the other hand, when we're left fighting against those negative and distorted thoughts and troubling emotions, and trying to work in spite of them, then stress, self-doubt, paralyzing procrastination and performance anxiety can result.
AS WE WORK
"Several artists spoke about surrendering to the unknown, acknowledging their spirituality (higher power, higher self) and being in flow – being part of a larger cycle of creation, re-birth, and evolution over time." (The Creativity Interviews, page 5)
Sometimes our desired mental landscape can be attained only by rising above everything we bring with us into the creative realm. When we reach this higher state of existence - a connection with spirit, with the universal creative flow, with all the art that's been created before us and all of the art that will be created in all of time - our real-life concerns fall away.
This amazing experience is often cited as the reason we just can't stay away, we just can't give up our creative dreams even though we struggle with them.
"Many of the artists described highly creative times when they are responding to strong emotions and want to express them through their art – transduce them from one form of energy to another. These emotions are sometimes brought on by other pieces of art they are witnessing – the depth of their experience as a listener or observer inspires creative expression from them – a desire to participate in the creation." (The Creativity Interviews, page 7)
Sometimes I hear people say that they'll get to their creative project, their creative dream, as soon as things "calm down" in their life. And yet it's the creative process itself that's usually the most effective at bringing about the calmness of mind and emotional stillness that we crave.
And we need this calm and stillness in order to respect the stages of the creative process. The "incubation" period, for instance, when ideas are forming, percolating, developing or cocooning.
"Watch me. I'm making a cocoon. It looks like I'm hiding, I know, but a cocoon is no escape. It's an in between house where the change takes place. It's a big step since you can never return to caterpillar life. During the change, it will seem to you, or to anyone who might peek, that nothing is happening - but the butterfly is already becoming. It just takes time." - From Hope for the Flowers by Trina Paulus
If we're not calm and centered, connected to that universal creative flow, we get impatient with this phase of creation and want to rush it along.
And when we can surrender to the moment, give ourselves over to unknown results and lose ourselves to the present moment, we're achieving life skills that other people spend years to develop through meditation and other spiritual and bodywork practices.
While my view of self-care certainly advocates a serene and peaceful life as an ideal, it's not about shooing away the more tumultuous emotions and harmful thoughts, but processing them, giving them a voice and then letting them go.
And practicing our art is a GREAT way to do this.
It provides a mirror, both in the moment and later, of how we were feeling and what our thought processes were in the moment of creation.
OUR GIFTS TO THE WORLD
That leads us to the last piece of this topic – the thoughts and feelings that our work may evoke in others, when we choose to share it with the world.
Our expression can help those out there who have neither the words NOR the creative outlet to express their own feelings. I've experienced this myself, when I find that a songwriter has hit on my own feelings or experience and all of a sudden I have a way t
About the new Playstation 3 gaming system, many serious gamers are saying, “sign me up!” Featuring the new Blu-Ray technology and up to a 60gb hardrive, this is one game system that experts say could last for some time to come. Others are still on the fence.The original Playstation system was introduced in the United States in 1995 and Playstation 2 followed in 2000. In early 2006, Sony announced the end of production for Playstation 2 as it began working toward the much ballyhooed introduction of the high-tech and next-generation Playstation 3.So why should someone pony up nearly $600 for the new Playstation? There are several factors driving the success of this new gaming system.* Featuring high-tech HD technology, the graphic capabilities of the new Playstation 3 are much improved over former models. The PS3 features IBM’s “Cell” processor and a processor that allows the machine to make two trillion calculations per second.inst or overcome.
And when we bring them into our work, our work takes on a new depth, since it's drawn from a fuller range of our emotions and thoughts.
On the other hand, when we're left fighting against those negative and distorted thoughts and troubling emotions, and trying to work in spite of them, then stress, self-doubt, paralyzing procrastination and performance anxiety can result.
AS WE WORK
"Several artists spoke about surrendering to the unknown, acknowledging their spirituality (higher power, higher self) and being in flow – being part of a larger cycle of creation, re-birth, and evolution over time." (The Creativity Interviews, page 5)
Sometimes our desired mental landscape can be attained only by rising above everything we bring with us into the creative realm. When we reach this higher state of existence - a connection with spirit, with the universal creative flow, with all the art that's been created before us and all of the art that will be created in all of time - our real-life concerns fall away.
This amazing experience is often cited as the reason we just can't stay away, we just can't give up our creative dreams even though we struggle with them.
"Many of the artists described highly creative times when they are responding to strong emotions and want to express them through their art – transduce them from one form of energy to another. These emotions are sometimes brought on by other pieces of art they are witnessing – the depth of their experience as a listener or observer inspires creative expression from them – a desire to participate in the creation." (The Creativity Interviews, page 7)
Sometimes I hear people say that they'll get to their creative project, their creative dream, as soon as things "calm down" in their life. And yet it's the creative process itself that's usually the most effective at bringing about the calmness of mind and emotional stillness that we crave.
And we need this calm and stillness in order to respect the stages of the creative process. The "incubation" period, for instance, when ideas are forming, percolating, developing or cocooning.
"Watch me. I'm making a cocoon. It looks like I'm hiding, I know, but a cocoon is no escape. It's an in between house where the change takes place. It's a big step since you can never return to caterpillar life. During the change, it will seem to you, or to anyone who might peek, that nothing is happening - but the butterfly is already becoming. It just takes time." - From Hope for the Flowers by Trina Paulus
If we're not calm and centered, connected to that universal creative flow, we get impatient with this phase of creation and want to rush it along.
And when we can surrender to the moment, give ourselves over to unknown results and lose ourselves to the present moment, we're achieving life skills that other people spend years to develop through meditation and other spiritual and bodywork practices.
While my view of self-care certainly advocates a serene and peaceful life as an ideal, it's not about shooing away the more tumultuous emotions and harmful thoughts, but processing them, giving them a voice and then letting them go.
And practicing our art is a GREAT way to do this.
It provides a mirror, both in the moment and later, of how we were feeling and what our thought processes were in the moment of creation.
OUR GIFTS TO THE WORLD
That leads us to the last piece of this topic – the thoughts and feelings that our work may evoke in others, when we choose to share it with the world.
Our expression can help those out there who have neither the words NOR the creative outlet to express their own feelings. I've experienced this myself, when I find that a songwriter has hit on my own feelings or experience and all of a sudden I have a way t
A strong sex life with another person can be very fulfilling, which can leave very positive effects on many areas of your life. It may be true that as you get older, sex may not be the same as it was earlier in life, but many things change along with age. Aging is one of many natural changes, which can affect intimacy, as well as the psychological changes, which accompany it.Regardless of whether or not you are older or younger, everyone needs intimacy. That fact does not change simply because your age does. Older men, for example, enjoy life including the part of his life, which contains intimate relationships, even if it is not experienced in the same way that it was years ago.As men get older, they have a harder time achieving an erection. Often when they do get one it is not as hard as preferred, nor will it last as long as preferred. To overcome this, you can try different sexual positions during intercourse positions which feel
Sometimes I hear people say that they'll get to their creative project, their creative dream, as soon as things "calm down" in their life. And yet it's the creative process itself that's usually the most effective at bringing about the calmness of mind and emotional stillness that we crave.
And we need this calm and stillness in order to respect the stages of the creative process. The "incubation" period, for instance, when ideas are forming, percolating, developing or cocooning.
"Watch me. I'm making a cocoon. It looks like I'm hiding, I know, but a cocoon is no escape. It's an in between house where the change takes place. It's a big step since you can never return to caterpillar life. During the change, it will seem to you, or to anyone who might peek, that nothing is happening - but the butterfly is already becoming. It just takes time." - From Hope for the Flowers by Trina Paulus
If we're not calm and centered, connected to that universal creative flow, we get impatient with this phase of creation and want to rush it along.
And when we can surrender to the moment, give ourselves over to unknown results and lose ourselves to the present moment, we're achieving life skills that other people spend years to develop through meditation and other spiritual and bodywork practices.
While my view of self-care certainly advocates a serene and peaceful life as an ideal, it's not about shooing away the more tumultuous emotions and harmful thoughts, but processing them, giving them a voice and then letting them go.
And practicing our art is a GREAT way to do this.
It provides a mirror, both in the moment and later, of how we were feeling and what our thought processes were in the moment of creation.
OUR GIFTS TO THE WORLD
That leads us to the last piece of this topic – the thoughts and feelings that our work may evoke in others, when we choose to share it with the world.
Our expression can help those out there who have neither the words NOR the creative outlet to express their own feelings. I've experienced this myself, when I find that a songwriter has hit on my own feelings or experience and all of a sudden I have a way t
The Senate is acting a lot like four-year-olds told they can't have something they really want. They're bound and determined to keep pushing until they get it! There is a new amnesty plan for illegal aliens being floated since the original McCain/Kennedy Amnesty appears dead on arrival.Speaking of Senator "I am influenced by bad money so therefor we have to regulate it" McCain, I heard him again trumpeting the claim that there are jobs Americans just will not do. And even claiming that if lettuce farmers offered $50/hour for the whole season Americans STILL wouldn't do the job of picking the heads of lettuce in the fields. Again I counter that if you take the Welfare away (and even if you don't) any American in need of a job that wouldn't work 40hrs for $2000 a week should probably have their citizenship revoked and they should be promptly deported to the Socialist paradise of France.But I don't want to digress about McCain's contin
If we're not calm and centered, connected to that universal creative flow, we get impatient with this phase of creation and want to rush it along.
And when we can surrender to the moment, give ourselves over to unknown results and lose ourselves to the present moment, we're achieving life skills that other people spend years to develop through meditation and other spiritual and bodywork practices.
While my view of self-care certainly advocates a serene and peaceful life as an ideal, it's not about shooing away the more tumultuous emotions and harmful thoughts, but processing them, giving them a voice and then letting them go.
And practicing our art is a GREAT way to do this.
It provides a mirror, both in the moment and later, of how we were feeling and what our thought processes were in the moment of creation.
OUR GIFTS TO THE WORLD
That leads us to the last piece of this topic – the thoughts and feelings that our work may evoke in others, when we choose to share it with the world.
Our expression can help those out there who have neither the words NOR the creative outlet to express their own feelings. I've experienced this myself, when I find that a songwriter has hit on my own feelings or experience and all of a sudden I have a way to explain how I've been feeling. And not just explain, but express it by singing along.
"When we feel, we begin to be alive. When we express a feeling, we share with the rest of the world that we are alive. When we express a feeling through music, we invite the rest of the world to share in our experience of the feeling, and to be alive with us." - Source Unknown
Imagine the impact of something you created while in the state of flow – do you think someone who's listening to, looking at, wearing or handling that creation can experience even a tiny bit of what you were experiencing? We HAVE to believe that they can.
In my work as a music therapist, I infuse every note that I play and sing with my intention to bring joy, life and healing to my clients. And I see the evidence every day that my intention meets its mark.
So meet your emotions and thoughts in the creative realm. See what colours they are, what they want to say and become and what forms they want to take. And then let them out to play with others.
This article was originally published on the Creativity Portal website.
© Linda Dessau, 2005.
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