Stage 5 – Walking Toward Your Creativity
In the previous stage of your creativity journey you may have found yourself considering several indistinguishable paths. You experimented with each one, going down a path until it no longer served you and then retracing your steps in order to try another route. As you explored each one you became …
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Act – Take the First Steps
Exercise #4 of Stage Four of the Creativity Journey – Forge Your Path Are you starting to have an idea of which direction your unique creativity journey is going to take? Do you have one or several different media that you would like to explore? Go back to your list …
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Create – Draw a Dragon
Exercise #3 in Stage 4 of the Creativity Journey – Forge Your Path Think about the fear that is plaguing you at this stage in your journey. Now draw that fear as a dragon. Does this dragon have fangs? Does it breathe fire? Is it green, or black, or pure …
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Stage 4 – Forging Your Creativity Path
You will focus more on your own path during this stage. The play that you rediscovered in Stage 3 will continue to be important for feeding your creativity throughout the entirety of your journey. As part of a regular practice, play can help keep your creative juices flowing and when …
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Learning to Play Along Your Creativity Journey – Stage 3
As children, our creativity flows effortlessly from us. We have not yet learned to question ourselves. We don’t yet hear the negative voices and see no distinction between our created selves and our authentic selves; there is no artifice yet. For this reason, a vital step in your creativity journey …
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Act – Get Ready
Exercise #4 in Stage Two – Starting Out The action that you took in the last chapter was to create your To Do list of prep items. As if you were preparing for a journey, you created a list of the things that you would need to do to get …
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Create – Paint Your Vision
Exercise #3 of Stage 2 – Venture Forth As you imagined the start of your journey in the earlier exercise, what did you see? Get out some poster paints, watercolors, crayons or whatever you have handy, and paint it. But wait, as soon as I placed that period I could …
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Explore – Who Are You?
Exercise #2 in Stage Two – Venture Forth You will learn a lot about yourself during this journey of a lifetime. You will discover strengths that you didn’t know you had and you will uncover your authentic self. But you start this journey with more than you realize too. Take …
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Imagine – Your Creativity Journey Starts Now
Exercise #1 in Stage Two – Venture Forth Now that you have ventured forth, where does your adventure begin? Though I didn’t realize that I was on my creativity journey at this stage, when I do think about my trek, I envision a jungle. You walked through the door or …
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Venturing Forth onto your Creativity Journey – Stage 2
You are an explorer. You made the choice, walked through the door and began your creativity journey. On this adventure, you will reawaken your creativity and you will find that your unique voice becomes loud enough for you to hear. You will reconnect with your authentic self and begin to …
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