Creativity Confined

We confine our creativity on a daily basis. Find out how to break it out of jail in this mini podcast.

Grasshopper Notes are the writings from America's Best Known Hypnotherapist John Morgan. His podcasts contain his most responded to essays and blog posts from the past two decades. 

Find the written versions of these podcasts on John's podcasting site: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1628038

"The Grasshopper" is the part of you that whispers pearls of wisdom that  seem to pop into your mind from out of the blue. John's essays and blog posts are his interpretations of these "Nips of Nectar." Others have labeled his writings as timeless wisdom. 

Most of the John's writings revolve around self improvement and self help. They address topics like:

• Mindfulness
• Peace of mind
• Creativity
• How to stay in the present moment
• Spirituality
• Behavior improvement

And stories that transform you to a wider sense of awareness that presents more options. And isn't that what we all want, more options? 

John uploads these podcasts on a regular basis. So check back often to hear these podcasts heard around the world. Who wants to be the next person to change? 

Make sure to order a copy of John's new book: WISDOM OF THE GRASSHOPPER – 21 Days to Creativity. These mini-meditations take you inside where all your creative resources live. And you'll come out not only refreshed but recommitted to creating your future. 

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Also, download John's FREE book INTER RUPTION: The Magic Key To Lasting Change. It's available at John's website  https://GrasshopperNotes.com

Transcript

Creativity Confined

“You cannot not create,” so said The Grasshopper many years ago.

Each one of us creates every day. We're creators who can’t help but create.

Many of our creations are slight variations on a theme of what we’ve already created. That’s the result of our creativity flowing into previously formed patterns.

Think for a moment of your patented move. (You know you have one). You re-create it for personal and public consumption on a regular basis, even when it’s no longer working for you. That’s when your creativity gets stuck in gear.

It’s not that you’re not creative; it’s more a case of your creativity being confined.For our atheist listeners, think of creativity as the God you don’t believe in. It’s the part of you that gives you ideas and actions that simply can’t flow from a noisy, confined, and patterned conscious mind.

Every time you create something new, you’re expressing your godliness. Every time you re-create something, you are relying on your patterns.

Re-creation makes up the bulk of our life. That’s quite useful. That means we don’t have to figure out a door knob every time we approach a door. We’ve automated that skill.

It’s when the automation isn’t working that we need to get curious about creativity.

Here’s a surefire way to limit your creativity: Think your personal database is the only one available to you. That’s like believing that Google is the only search engine.

Did you ever find something online that Google couldn’t produce? That’s not a knock on Google; it does the bulk of our searching. It becomes problematic when we continually use it to search for the thing it can’t find, like creativity.

That’s when it’s time to get curious about creativity.

Getting access to our creative database begins by knowing it’s always available. And it becomes more available when we quiet the debate that it’s unavailable to us.

Please don’t mistake this for positive thinking. You can affirm, “I’m creative, I'm creative” until the cows come home and still have an empty barn. This is more of a positive action. When we take action and find a way to quiet our “know-it-all” mind, we’re granted access to the creative database.

Caution: There is a difference between numbing and quieting our mind. Numbing won’t allow us to perceive our surroundings, while quieting gives us a panoramic view.

Bottom line: A quiet mind is the prescription for creativity confined. 

All the best,

John