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Imagination, creativity, happiness

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"I don’t like emotions… For some reason I’m more comfortable in imaginary circumstances." – Actor William H. Macy

 

One of our primary tools as a creative person is imagination. But in his book "Stumbling on Happiness" Harvard psychology professor Daniel Gilbert proposes that imagination may directly impact our sense of happiness in limiting or distorting ways.

 

Meghan Daum writes in her column "Goodbye to you, Mr. Smiley" [Los Angeles Times, May 20, 2006] that the book suggests "happiness is largely an anticipatory experience… we spend much of our time not so much experiencing pleasure as thinking about future pleasure and taking steps to ensure its attainment."

 

From the "Imagination, creativity, happiness" section of my book "Developing Multiple Talents."
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Website - http://developingmultipletalents.com

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Be More Creative With More Self Care - Part 2

Be More Creative With More Self Care - Part 2 | The Creative Mind | Scoop.it
Good self-care is taking steps to stay replenished with the energy and positive attitudes needed to be productively creative.
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How Dealing With Intense Emotions and Trauma Can Release Your Creativity •

How Dealing With Intense Emotions and Trauma Can Release Your Creativity • | The Creative Mind | Scoop.it
As an artist, you need to access your emotions to make your art, perform, or accomplish your goals. Emotions are your creative power. Sometimes, your past emotional experiences can hijack your feelings in the present; thus, interfering with your creativity or performance.” – Psychotherapist Mihaela Ivan Holtz
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Psychology, neuroscience and Creativity with Shelley Carson, PhD

Listen to full-length interview, plus see videos and much more, in article Shelley Carson on enhancing our creative brain.

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How can you thrive as a coach? Christian Mickelsen on business success

How can you thrive as a coach? Christian Mickelsen on business success | The Creative Mind | Scoop.it
Christian Mickelsen helps personal coaches grow successful businesses to make a difference in the world, and helps anyone improve their money mindset.
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The Creative Mind

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"By stimulating wonder and curiosity, awe may be the key to creativity." || + more articles

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The Creative Mind

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Multitasking – or optimal performance?
Douglas Eby's insight:

Our complex lives seem to demand multitasking to keep up. But can we be trying to balance too many plates in the air, doing too much at once to really express our creative talents, or to effectively achieve?

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Conformity and Being Creative

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Actor Lily Collins notes in her book that “Different shouldn’t be considered confusing, negative, or something that divides us. It should be a quality we applaud and admire within ourselves and others.”
Psychotherapist Mihaela Ivan Holtz notes “In the ‘comparison trap’ you find yourself in a spiral of challenging emotions and thoughts."

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The Power of Finding Your Creative Voice

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"When you find your voice, doubts, insecurities don't interfere with that voice. No waiting for the right moment. You don’t need anyone’s permission." Psychotherapist Mihaela Ivan Holtz

But many actors and other artists find themselves disconnected from their authentic creative voice at times, feeling insecure and self-critical.

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Developing confidence as an actor

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Ian McKellen admits that it has taken time and life experience to develop the self-confidence that now helps fuel his dynamic roles.

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The Experience of Synesthesia

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"What would be truly surprising would be to find that sound could not suggest colour, that colours could not evoke the idea of a melody, and that sound and colour were unsuitable for the translation of ideas.” Charles Baudelaire

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The Inner Actor Daily 7.05

The Inner Actor Daily 7.05 | The Creative Mind | Scoop.it

The Inner Actor Daily for Jul. 05, 2018 - Personal growth, emotional health and career topics for actors and performers.

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The Artist’s Unconscious and the Metaphor of Birth

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"The vastness of the unconscious capacity to process, associate and make meaning of ideas and experience is the life force of the creative process." Cheryl Arutt, Psy.D.

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The Inner Actor Daily 6.26

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The Inner Actor Daily  - Personal growth, emotional health and career topics for actors and performers.

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What actors say about the emotional challenges of intense roles

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“You go to work, and sometimes what is demanded of you is that you break your heart.” Jurnee Smollett

“Then all the terrible things I’ve had to go through surfaced after we’d finished shooting.” Maggie Gyllenhaal

After one particularly violent scene, Summer Bishil remembers going back to her dressing room and “having a little emotional tantrum and crying. And being very sad…really tired too.”

“Lady Gaga also described the feeling of being out of touch with herself, feeling as if she was still on the set while taking a walk in the city.” Psychotherapist Mihaela Ivan Holtz
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Melora Hardin on Being Creative and Multitalented

Melora Hardin has wide-ranging passions as an artist, including acting, directing, dancing, writing and singing.She says of her multiple talents: “I’m always very very keen to keep my eyes and heart and ears open to opportunities to be creative.“That’s really my reason for being on this Earth
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Shelley Carson on enhancing our creative brain

Shelley Carson on enhancing our creative brain | The Creative Mind | Scoop.it
Topics in our interview relate to the creative mind and developing creativity, including the seven brain activation patterns she discusses in her book.
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The Power of Using Your Own Authentic Creative Voice

The Power of Using Your Own Authentic Creative Voice | The Creative Mind | Scoop.it
When you find your voice, doubts, insecurities don't interfere with that voice. No waiting for the right moment. You don’t need anyone’s permission.
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How artists work with rejection, a constant part of the arts world

How artists work with rejection, a constant part of the arts world | The Creative Mind | Scoop.it

“Rejection lurks around every corner in the arts world. In fact, for you, the creative or the performer, knowing how to tolerate, be with, and work with rejection is almost a career requirement!

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How to have a more successful creative life - Eric Maisel programs

How to have a more successful creative life - Eric Maisel programs | The Creative Mind | Scoop.it

Eric Maisel, PhD is author of more than 50 books, and provides multple program on creativity, the creative life, and creative business success.

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Energy Medicine, Energy Psychology, Energy Sensitivity

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How do different forms of energy impact our lives and creative expression? “Creating is not an energy-neutral state: it is a high energy state."

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Programs for emotional health and creativity

Programs for emotional health and creativity | The Creative Mind | Scoop.it

Programs to enhance your emotional health and creative life.

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Margaret Atwood Teaches Creative Writing

Margaret Atwood Teaches Creative Writing | The Creative Mind | Scoop.it

“So for me I think it’s not a question of sitting around wondering what I’m going to write; it’s a question of sitting around wondering which of the far-fetched and absurd ideas I’m actually going to try to tackle.” - Margaret Atwood, author of The Handmaid’s Tale.

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The Creative Mind Daily 7.05

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The Creative Mind Daily 7.05 - Information and inspiration to enhance your creativity and personal growth.

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The Inner Actor Daily 6.29

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The Inner Actor Daily - Personal growth, emotional health and career topics for actors and performers.

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The Creative Mind Daily 6.27

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The Creative Mind Daily 6.27 - Information and inspiration to enhance your creativity and personal growth.

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