Mindful living and creativity
Creativity is a combination of several factors, that is a quality of finding something new from ordinary things. It is just like a process of training the mind to weave various elements into a particular subject.
The key elements those influence creativity are perspectives, mindfulness, imagination, introspection and inspiration.
That means any tangible or non-tangible thing in the outside world can be observed and felt by the senses, which lasts as an imprint in the mind through experiences as well as memory and helps to retain certain thoughts ultimately transforming them into ideas, which emerge through immense introspection. As per my experience living in the present moment, with complete awareness is just like driving your mind most productively in the right direction.
Perspective
Creativity is all about setting one’s own vision and goal in a way that certainly differs from the rest of the world. That definitely resonates with the aim to keep growing towards individuality.
It is completely dependent on own opinions and observations, which precisely define where you stand and your vision from that situation.
A gigantic structure may look like a small object from a certain distance or it looks different from a higher altitude so, that never makes it less significant but surely it distributes the attention to over all scenario.
Mindfulness
Not only in the field of art but also in each and every sector of life needs mindfulness or to stay aware about everything both inside out to develop a sort of cognitive skills, empowering the abilities of observation, attention and interaction.
lf the mind is not completely at the present moment it misleads the Intelect to remain ignorant about many basic details of observation, causing confusion and disparity. Mindfulness helps to bring clarity and channel the attention in a very significant way, anything happening around brings a kind of consciousness to absorb something important from that situation. It is very much essential to acknowledge the possibility of something unknown.
Basically it guides the thoughts to reflect the feelings exactly the way they are.
Imagination
The most fascinating fact about imagination is, it provides a scope to fly with your own colors of thoughtfulness to anywhere in the world within no time and interestingly it never costs a single Rupee.
There are innumerable ways to persive the things with own imagination, thus it attracts a multitude of possibilities to explore and express the thoughts.
During prehistoric times, people residing in caves painted the walls with several impressions from their imagination which reflected many hidden facts about the life of hunter gatherers. No creative thoughts can sustain without gliding in an open space of imagination. It helps to persive the world differently and empowers the mind with unspeakable liberty to chase the thoughtfulness.
For example an illustration can justify, The sky looking Pink, Yellow or golden which does not make any sense to ordinary eyes while
They can serve the purpose of a meaningful work of art from another window of visualization.
From time immortal, through natural process of evolution many art forms evolved and they have their own narratives. Even science also suggests the hypothetical ideas in many areas of life and survival.
Introspection
When mind absorbs something from the world outside it starts blending the thoughts to find the insight it is seeking for. Sentiments and feelings associated with a certain topic help to evaluate the things and to get a better and clear understanding. That is a process of introspection. It is completely a personal approach and one of the most important factors that influences creativity directly or indirectly.
Inspiration
Inspiration is a kind of food for thought to take an action forward, for innovative ideas to spring form the mental realm. The point is how one sense a thing or situation which plays a pivotal role, to think of a new narrative. Human body is fitted with five sense organs which proactively support the heart to generate a feelings. So, inspiration covers a wide range of modalities of supporting self expression. Not only what is visible to eyes inspire to act in a particular direction but also the invisible factors like sound, taste, smell and touch, also contribute to fuel the creativity. Anything and everything can become a source of inspiration at any point of time. Only thing matters is how mindful or aware one becomes to listen and grasp the insignificant whispers of mind. Once a perfect tune is set it flows effortlessly. Sometimes intuitions also influence the ideas greatly that is the gut feelings about something, which is a kind of pattern mind follows for a long period of time. A painting or an art created by chasing that feeling is called intuitive art. For example Sometimes many facts are accepted as hypothesis like the emergence of this Universe. No one exactly knows how it happened but many theories were found revolving around it. An artist can get inspired and create a huge presentation basing on those hypothetical ideas may it be supported by the Big bang theory or something else. Interesting isnt it!
Even at times overwhelming emotions like happiness, sadness or some kind of inner anxious moments trigger the mind to create something unique.
© Sambita Pani