What are the requirements for creativity, playfulness, spontaneity?
Posted 25-01-2008 at 04:58 PM by Andre
Strange thing has come up in my mind now. I tried to find what stops me from just writing or drawing right now, and it is simply a lack of I guess call it impulsive sense of what to actually do. I seem to either lack it or only possess a rudimentary form of whatever it is that provides creativity. Spark or whatever you call it. Some other things seem related. I find myself taking things very seriously even when they are not and I can't say that there has ever been anything that actually merited that seriousness either. I noticed before I seemed incapable of playing around with people. I figure that playfulness goes back to somehow being spontaneous, but then all I see is that I seem incapable of that too. In my travels I often saw people playing and laughing in the streets or on the beach, but I felt so far removed from it that I couldn't even imagine myself doing that. How do people do it? It does not seem like something I can assign as fault of this problem either. How are people able to think about what to do to suddenly play a joke on someone for example? For anything like that.
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 |  Good point Andre! For me it seems I used to be able to do these things but they are no longer there. I can't even figure out how they once were there. It's all just... gone. |
Posted 03-03-2008 at 07:18 AM by morgan  |
| |  I just was sharing that the other day. I used to be a 'Tigger' until all this hit. I've lost the spark. I really had given up of ever having any part of the previous me, but twice this year I felt it even for a few minutes. It's there still but deeply buried. Now that I know that I have hope that when all this stuff is put away it will return at some level. Andre, I was in the hospital 3-4 years ago, during the stay I had art therapy. It was a blessing, I learned so much about myself, my emotions, how I unconsciously thought about things, and that I stink at art. I also thoroughly enjoyed the messes and the quiet freedom to respond to what I was creating without necessarily discussing it until afterwards. So, I went and bought all this art stuff when I was released. I couldn't do anything - I had no stimulus to project with from a therapist. After 6 - 8 months, I located an Art Therapist. It's been amazing. I go twice a month to what I call - my 'art class' because how can you explain it to someone who doesn't see art as a tool to unravel our insides. There is a National Art Therapist organization on line that maybe you could find one near you, or contact a local private facility to see if they have any leads you could pursue. AS I SAID - I STINK, but it is the process not the product that I measure success on. |
Posted 24-03-2008 at 08:56 AM by Cindy  |
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