#449 Snippets of wisdom: The two first steps to awaken your creativity.

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Agi Keramidas 0:03
Patrick, welcome to Personal Development mastery podcast, and this is another snippet of wisdom where I select my favorite, most insightful moments from previous episodes. Today, I have selected for you a snippet from my conversation with Patrick Williams, who is an artist and TEDx speaker. It is about creativity. What are the first two steps to awaken our creativity? I also asked him, How is creativity connected to spirituality?

Patrick Williams 0:42
I don't think that they're separate. I don't think you can, you could tease them apart. They're 100% reliant on each other, and I'm sure that there are plenty of people who identify as materialists, and I mean that in they believe that the world, the universe, is made up only of matter. And then there are all of us, others who who think that there's something more to existence, that that there is a whatever we call it there. There are so many ways to God, the universe, spirit, divine, all those words, many, many more, 1000s of, 10,000 more. I believe that exists. So when I'm in that role of of being creative. If I'm if I'm moving toward an idea that I want to express, I choose to tune myself into the part of myself that has a higher awareness that is, we all know what that feels like. We we, many of us may only have tiny glimpses of it every once in a while, but for sure, when that happens, we know that something remarkable is happening. Even even the most staunch skeptics or atheists have those moments of the light bulb going on or a huge heartfelt love for a parent or a sibling or a one of their children or their or their partner. Everybody knows those moments when our awareness is more in tune with the divine, my way of saying it right now. So, so there are, there's levels to creativity where creativity can be when you're attempting to ideate something, come up with the idea of a painting or a symphony or a poem, a piece of prose, a dance, whatever it might be, or a widget in innovation. There's the ideation part, and then there's the paint to Canvas or linen or pencil to paper, feet to the floor, if you're a choreographer, those are creativity is happening then also. But those are two flavors, so to speak, of creativity that are that are super important. And both of them have, I believe both of them need, ideally, in the in the best possible world, they you, you merge with the divine in both those processes and when you I believe, when you do that, more happens, more more is available to your awareness, because you're expanding your awareness and you're you're focusing it in into a receptive level of consciousness. Does that make sense?

Patrick Williams 4:16
One of the most basic exercises that not only do we all have access to, but all of us do every single day we have to is taking some time during the day and allowing yourself to focus on your breathing simply sit and clear. Find a quiet moment. It this doesn't have to be a large meditative process. Accessing our creativity is is relatively uh, simple in some ways. Is that it, it takes a quality of self awareness, introspection, and your breathing is an absolutely spectacular way to do that. There are, there are probably 10s of 1000s of of tutorials on good breathing on on YouTube. So I'll let everybody who's interested in you know, explore those find, find the one that really resonates with with you. But simply taking 234, times a day to take 10 breaths, and people will think, Oh, that's a piece of cake. But when you're sitting and focusing on your breath, you'll find that there are all kinds of distractions and all kinds of of little things running through your your mind starting to take you away from was that the fourth breath or the seventh breath so, or was it the third so? These things are common. You that, and those are good. They're really good things to experience, partly because when, when you're in that state of relaxation and focus on your breath. That is the beginning of the practice to connect to your creativity. And if you do it one of one of my core things to focus on is helping people take divergent experiences and bring them together. So breathing and creativity are two totally divergent in some ways, ideas and practices and bringing them together. Another very important is to be in nature at some level, even if it's just a little patch of grass outside of your apartment, or, you know, if you're in New York City, get to the Central Park, it's it is nature. Spend time in nature. Nature is our biggest teacher. And in my TEDx talk, I The woods were my teachers. The trees there were my teachers and and that experience allowed me to be more in touch with my creativity. I firmly believe so, breathing and nature the first two, first two important steps, I think, for your creativity awakening.

Agi Keramidas 7:55
Thank you for listening. You will find the full conversation with Patrick Williams in episode 366, the link is in the episode description. If you enjoy listening and appreciate what we're doing here, the quick, simple favor I'm asking of you is to click the subscribe button until next time. Stand out don't fit in .