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Act – Begin Your Practice

Exercise #4 in Stage Nine of the Creativity Journey – Feed Your Light There’s nothing holding you back now. You understand your unique form of expression, the art that only you can make. You have designed a creative practice and learned the value of creating simply for creativity’s sake. So get started. Begin your creative […]

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Create – Just Do Something

Exercise #3 in Stage Nine of the Creativity Journey – Feed Your Light After taking an online class together a few years ago, a small group of my fellow students and I stayed in touch via email. We shared what we were working on and our joys and frustrations with our art practices. After a […]

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Explore Your Practice

Exercise #2 in Stage Nine of the Creativity Journey – Feed Your Light By now you may have a pretty good idea of what your creative practice looks like. You’ve defined the principles that will guide your creative life and decided what is and what is not important to you. You’ve selected a form of […]

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Imagine – Your Meditation

Exercise #1 in Stage Nine of the Creativity Journey – Feed Your Light As I mentioned in the last post, many artists begin their creative practice with a meditation of some kind as a way to ease out of the cares of the day and into the art. Your gear-shifting can include an actual meditation […]

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Feeding Your Creativity with a Creative Practice

One of the most exciting stages of the creative journey is when you find your light, when you discover the creative expression that is uniquely yours. However, once you find that light, you need to keep feeding it with a regular creative practice.  The fear you may face at this stage is the worry that […]