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Visualizing & Animating Your Creativity - 5min Creative Exercise with Krista Kankula
This exercise was actually inspired by Ryan and a question he asked me when I was a guest on the podcast.
We’re going to visualize and animate our creativity.
This is a great practice to experiment with because…
1) It’s a fun way to use our imaginations and think differently
2) It gives us an opportunity to appreciate and celebrate our capacity to be creative - remembering even when we’re feeling blocked or uninspired we always have the ability to be creative.
3) It’s a chance to explore our relationship with creativity and be curious about what we might need to support and allow our creativity to flourish.
So you’re going to close your eyes or focus your gaze. If you’re listening in the car, come back to this when you can close your eyes or focus your gaze safely.
Take a deep breath in and slowly exhale out and you can even let yourself sigh. Repeat this two more times.
Begin to picture yourself walking through a park, there’s a windy pathway lined by evergreen and maple and birch trees, there are patches of gardens with wildflowers in different shades of yellow, pink, orange and blue and there’s a slowly flowing river off to the side.
In a moment you’re going to walk up and see your creativity.
. Imagine what your creativity would look like if you animated it?
What kind of character or object would it turn into?
What colour or colours is it?
How does it move and communicate with you?
You now see your creativity waiting for you on a bench. You’re excited to spend some time together.
You’re going to ask your creativity some questions and just notice what it wants to share with you:
Ask your creativity, what encouragement or guidance do you want to share with me?
What’s something you want us to collaborate on and create together?
And lastly, what does your creativity need in order to flourish?
You can open your eyes now and you may want to write down any messages or ideas you got from this visualization. You can always re-ask yourself these questions and journal about them.
You can use this visualization as a way of connecting with your creativity - maybe you take time to have a weekly or monthly brainstorming session with it OR you can use the visualization to inspire a piece of art - maybe you draw, paint or make a comic about your creativity.
I hope this exercise helped you activate your imagination and think of your creativity in a playful and different way!
