Fostering your creative interests can lead to a more vital and fulfilling life. To find creative fulfillment you need to eliminate all obstacles that might prevent your becoming creative. The use of positive affirmations can change negative thoughts and behavior into positive ones and is a powerful method to enhance your creative ability.
Afirmations have been used for hundreds of years as a valuable form of positive thinking to foster optimism, constructive living and a more creative lifestyle. They are simple to construct and easy to use. There is no need for formally developing affirmations since spontaneous wishes to succeed in some endeavor, wanting to change a mood or attitude and having an urge to be creative can all be used to stimulate the development of affirmations. Affirmations, although in great abundance from hundreds of authors and thousands of books, are most effective if they derive from personal wishes to change into a strong positive person and if they are repeated daily with much feeling and unquestioned sincerity.
Some affirmations to develop creativity can be:
I believe in my power to become (or be) creative.
I will never doubt my innate creative ability.
I will always be creative (or more creative).
I will eliminate all negative thoughts from my mind.
I will become a painter (or sculptor, composer, writer, comedian, poet, etc.).
My subconscious (or inner self) will feed my conscious mind with creative ideas.
My ability to create images to feed my creativity will expand.
Through my own mental power I will always overcome all blocks to my creativity.
I am creative and filled with unlimited energy to fulfill my wishes.
Belief in your ability to succeed and eliminating negative thoughts and feelings are vital in your continuing path to evolve creatively. Repeating various affirmations daily will help steer you toward a creative lifestyle.
Even though developing an unwavering positive attitude may take weeks or months to work fully, the initial change in attitude, with its accompanying feelings can take place in minutes. You need to accept such change and then make certain that you do everything possible to maintain it and permanently change old attitudes and behavior.
Never feel anger, guilt or inadequacy if the changes you anticipate and hope for take longer than you thought or you have a temporary relapse. None of that makes any difference. It is essential that all negative feelings are stopped. In time your affirmations will succeed in changing who you are.
I can not overly emphasize the value of affirmations. Merely taking steps to overcome negativity will often be the primary impetus to change. Then by repeating the affirmations you assure yourself that the changes will remain positive. You begin to do whatever is needed to fulfill your own affirmations. By implementing your affirmations they become self-fulfilling prophecies. You owe it to yourself to leave no stones unturned in this period of your life.
You can rapidly and effectively expand your creative life by following the methods and exercises described in Awakening Your Creativity where you will find the primary tools to change your life in ways that will excite and delight you. You can become creative.
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Marvin H. Berenson, M.D. is Clinical Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry, USC Keck School of Medicine, psychiatrist, lecturer, author and artist.
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