How to use creativity in life? Creativity is innate, it is one of the greatest gifts that we all have available. A gift that allows us to progress, evolve and innovate.
Creativity is born in the heart of a child
Creativity is innate but develops more or less intensely depending on our education and our nature.
We begin to use creativity when we are very young: although adults give us great help, the discovery of what surrounds us and the exploration of ourselves and the world leads us to awaken and train this wonderful gift. As children we get dirty without fear, we color, we use our imagination and we look at the world with wonder , without patterns and limits.
Creativity in our head
Our brain is made up of two hemispheres: the right hemisphere and the left hemisphere. The left hemisphere governs the rational, logical, analytical part. It represents and allows the expression of the part of the human being with masculine characteristics and directs the right part of the body. The right hemisphere, on the other hand, governs and expresses the creative, emotional, intuitive part . It represents and allows the expression of the part of the human being with feminine characteristics and directs the left part of the body.
Education that teaches us to develop the left side of the brain
According to in-depth studies, the two hemispheres are balanced until the age of six. School education leads us to use the left hemisphere more to the detriment of intuition and creativity.
Fortunately, creativity is innate and it is sufficient to stimulate it as much as possible to learn to use it and make the most of all its benefits, which are truly many.
How to Boost Creativity: Using the Right Side of the Brain
To use creativity you need to activate the right part of the brain in all possible ways:
- opening our minds to new stimuli,
- breaking away from our usual habits, starting with our eating habits, discovering and experimenting with new tastes and flavours, and even changing the route we take to get to work,
- broadening one’s gaze and imagination.
Two Necessary Ingredients to Use Creativity in Life
Will is a necessary tool: if we let ourselves be attracted by the comfort of what we already know, we will turn off creativity. If instead we make a little effort to change taste, path, music , creativity will find its space to manifest itself.
Every form of art is useful for nourishing creativity: painting, cooking, dancing, singing, listening to melodic music and letting yourself be transported.
The manifestation of creativity
When does creativity come and how does it manifest itself? Sometimes on the most positive days, when we feel more open to life, other times in those moments of darkness and it is like a light that saves us by bringing us an unexpected solution.
It manifests itself both with grandiose ideas that lead to great innovations , steps forward or noble projects, and with small suggestions for dealing with small everyday issues or problems in a new way.
The important thing is to have the ability and strength to grasp and put into practice the ideas and intuitions that come to us from our imagination.
Create the right space and the right questions
Creativity is a gift that needs space as well as nourishment: it is made of new ideas that sometimes break the rules or make us go against the current, whether it is our “inner current” or that of society.
Creativity is made of questions that if left as such for a while without choosing the answer “immediately and at all costs”, find the right and innovative answer. The important thing is that the question is not a “why” that presupposes a limited answer that closes the mind, but ” how can I do , how can I solve …” that instead opens the mind and the heart.
Creativity allows us to change direction when necessary, enrich ourselves and the world, save ourselves from a difficulty or a moment of crisis. Watering the wonderful seed of creativity can give excellent fruits useful to ourselves, to those around us, to the world.
