How to Open Your Creativity to the Warm Symphonies of Inspiration All Around You
April 9, 2009
By Dan Goodwin
Ever feel you’re fresh out of new inspiration for your creativity?
Everything you see, feel and think about seems just a tired rehash of an old idea, a repeat of something you’ve already done a lot better.
It’s these times where you need a new injection of inspiration. And this begins by opening your senses, ever ready and waiting to devour new stimulation.
You might wonder what I mean by opening your senses.
It’s not as if you go around with a huge duvet wrapped around your head all day long. Your eyes, ears, nose, mouth and fingers are fully operational, receiving loud and clear the sensory signals all around you. Aren’t they?
How open are you senses REALLY?
Let’s think about hearing and the sense of sound for a moment. Take a typical rock music track, and there are different instruments, different layers in the mix. There might be a drum track, bass guitar, lead guitar, vocals and keyboards. Listening to the music we can isolate each of these and hear the details, the melodies, the rhythms. We can also hear the music as a whole, how it’s all intertwined and forms a single sonic organism, made up of these individual parts.
Wherever you go in your life, this same kind of warm symphony of sound is around you.
Now of course if you’re in your local supermarket, you don’t hear a rock band pounding away as you pass the bakery counter.
Not unless you’re in some very interesting dream.
But maybe what you do hear is the soft hum of background chatter of the staff and customers. Maybe you hear the metallic clink and whoosh of the baker out back lifting trays in out of the ovens. Maybe you heard the ker-clunk ker-clunk ker-klunk of a shopping trolleys half jammed wheels it passes. Maybe you hear the beep-beep-beep of distant checkouts.
The point is, just like recorded music, there’s a multi layered tapestry of sound in our every day lives. But most of the time we don’t even hear it.
Apply this not only to sound, but also to your other senses of sight, scent, taste and touch.
Take a few moments here and there to focus on each of your senses and you’ll quickly realise that in any given situation there’s a huge amount of creative stimulation around you.
So instead of feeling like your in a sensory vacuum, start gently opening each of your senses and noticing the multiple sources of stimulation that can feed your creativity and produce new ideas at any moment.
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