Emancipating Your Thoughts: Unleashing Creativity in Your Artistic Practice
Today, we delve into a topic that lies at the heart of every creative endeavor – how to emancipate your thoughts and set your artistic spirit free. Whether you’re a seasoned artist or just starting on your creative journey, breaking free from mental constraints is essential to nurturing your imagination and producing truly remarkable art. My wife gave me a box of cards for the holidays in 2022. I was puzzled because they were creativity cards and I thought, what the heck is this, I don’t need them. Well, folks, I was wrong and I will attempt to do a card a week and record an episode about how I am utilizing the card I draw every week if you decide to pick up a deck and do these let me know.
Links on Emancipate
Points to Consider
- Cultivate Self-Compassion
- Embrace Vulnerability
- Break Free from Perfectionism
- Experiment and Explore
- Collaborate and Connect
The Kernal of Emancipate
Follow a stream of consciousness and keep a record of your awareness.
Emancipate Definitions
Emancipate: to give people social or political freedom and rights, to free a person from another person’s control Source Cambridge Dictionary
Emancipate Challenge
- Alone or with your collaborators, set aside time, say seven minutes- to do nothing but follow the stream of your consciousness. Speak into a recording device, draw, or write whatever comes to mind without censoring or editing yourself.
- Explore Buddhist teachings about consciousness, meditation, and the mind.
- What might you learn about yourself and the work you create when you regard your thoughts as a flowing stream or river?
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