The Road to Genius

What is it that makes a genius? How can we become like a genius in everything we do? Are our true talents hidden by the mind? This article addresses why we are all different and what it is we need to do to become brilliant.

When I Was A Child – How Creative Freedom of Childhood Can Help Us Increase Our Creativity Today

As creative adults, for many of us one of the most difficult aspects of creativity is allowing ourselves the freedom to experiment and to be pioneering in our own way as artists. So how can we break free from this stranglehold and begin to nurture once again that pure unhindered sense of creative adventure we ALL have at a young age? Try this exercise to get you started –

Creativity Is The Key

Creativity is indeed our key to our destiny, our divine rit. Motivator, Kurt Lee Hurley provides a humorous and insightful look at what we are here to do and to be creative.

Mildew and Mustard

Mildew thoughtfully squeezed a blob of toothpaste. He brushed his teeth hard, before noticing it tasted a bit funny. He didn't have time to wonder how Mustard had managed to squeeze chili seeds into his tube of toothpaste. His mum found him downstairs with his tongue stuck to the inside of the freezer. His eyes were wild, cross-eyed and popping.

Magick – Creating a New World

There are a great many magickal traditions practiced today and they all share several common elements. The primary element of a magickal tradition is the importance of spiritual growth and development. From that point all else follows and nothing can be achieved without it. Magick is a process whereby we may direct the world with our will to manifest whatever we wish for. Research in quantum physics shows that we may directly influence the world we live in through our thoughts and beliefs. Magick embodies this principle and helps us to realize it so that we may use our will to re-create the world around us.

Overcoming Creative Resistance: The Lesson of the Dragon Slayer

Something all of us who are creative have in common is experiencing internal resistance to our creativity or creative flow. Time and time again we try to eliminate the dragons - those negative thoughts and doubts of resistance - from our minds, which usually results in much anguished and exhausting mental gymnastics and leaves us slumped defeated, and more often than not giving up on our creative efforts altogether. But, there is hope. You see we don’t have to try to be dragon slayers, there is another way...

Part II - Do Visualizations Really Work?

Using an example from Part I on the visualization series, this describes in 3 steps how I used the visualization process to make one of my dreams come true.

Cool Henna Design Tattoos

One of the coolest displays of art that I have seen was henna design - no, really. It was a really cool nature design and was utilized in the form of giving a tattoo. Tattooing is simply using what nature has to offer and using it as a form of expression on the human body. In many cases the natural ingredient is ink. But there is something so quaint and ethereal about henna design that I find it to be simply breathtaking.

Sunshine and Showers? Why Your Creative Life Needn't be as Unpredictable as the Weather

Stop for a moment and think about how you might describe your creativity right now if it was a type of weather. Would it be sunny clear blue skies? Scattered showers? Constantly murky cold and overcast? Blizzard conditions?! Whatever the current “weather conditions” in your creative life, they needn’t be permanent. We all have the ability to change how we react and the direction we’re heading in at any time.

The Brain Drain

Is it getting harder to remember things? Author shares his strategies for keeping it all together.

How One Invention Idea Can Change Your Life Forever

Most famous inventors have done it with a single invention or a single idea. Actually that is all it takes - just one really good idea - to change your life forever!

Creatively Stuck? Try Sitting With The Silence

As creative people, the position of being stuck for ideas and direction is unavoidable, and one that we’re all faced with now and again, for however short a time it lasts. But if we can let go enough of the maelstrom of fears and ideas in our thoughts and truly listen to what the creative project is asking for, we’ll find the answer often leaps out and becomes quite obvious. Here’s how...

Creatively Run Down or Unwell? Call Your Creativity Doctor!

Most of use when we feel unwell or out of sorts in some way, will seek some kind of medical help, traditionally from our local doctor or General Practitioner. But who do we turn to when our creativity feels sick or unwell? There’s no “Creativity Doctor” for us to make an appointment with. Or is there..?