About Pain and Creativity.
Please play the video to listen to Spanish Harlem in the voice of Rebecca Pidgeon. This music inspired me to create the post below.
In the first piece the woman’s tears become a dress that covers and protects her body. This is a visual representation of how difficulties have the potential to turn into something beneficial. This does not deny the pain. It is an invitation to filter the pain through the lens of creative thinking, and in the process find new ways to deal with it. Thus, creativity gives us the power to transform reality. Henry Rollins says: “Pain is personal. It really belongs to the one feeling it. Probably the only thing that is your own.” I have observed that a person who owns and acknowledges pain has a better chance to overcome it.
Thinking creatively is an art that involves opening up your mind to new interpretations of experience. It begins with deliberate intention. Life gives us endless opportunities to think creatively. Everyday we have the option to see problems in a way that will enhance, not cripple, our lives. Practicing intention will make a difference in your personal life as well as on your art.
Brillianty put Elsita! I was just thinking about this subject this morning and how the past 2 years have been very stressful for me…but I’ve actually been more creative as a way to escape the stress…not saying I’d like more stress though! It’s time to be creative AND healthy/happy! xxxx
Hi Lois!
I hope that this year is a more peaceful one for you. Keep up with your creativity. I wish you all the best!
Elsita
Elsa Mora recently posted..About Pain and Creativity.
I just really enjoyed this, thanks Elsa. To be sung to, while watching your little drawings form and reform, and reading your words about using creativity to find new interpretations of situations, was the perfect thing for me this morning. I hadn’t started the day well and something about the alive nature of your post, surprised me, the way fresh creativity does, and it did in fact give me a new interpretation of the day and already I am thinking of some ‘sideways’ ideas to solve the problems that had me in a gloom when I woke up. Thanks for waking me up a second time!
Great Nicola! I’m so glad to hear that this post helped you today. I hope that things get better soon.
Elsita