Presence- “I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.” – Albert Einstein
Periodically I go back and read blog posts I have written on my www.LaurenCard.com site and this morning I read one from October last year titled, Einstein’s Important Discovery. The post is about being present and the benefits you can gain from this state.
The one that resonated for me today was: Improved creativity – If you write or do some other creative work you may have found that your best work flows out of you when you are not thinking that much. You just write, paint, or play. You enter a state where things come naturally to you. Later you can choose to edit your work.
Whenever I get a creative block, either in my design work or painting, I know I’m in my head too far and when that happens… nothing happens!! What I do to fix this is to get quietly comfortable and go through a process of what I call “centering” (some call it meditation). This could last for a minute to an hour…depends on how I’m feeling. I just let go of what I call my “Monkey Mind” and focus on emptying the useless chatter. The results are amazing and usually result in a flood of new ideas, or the solution to my dilemma comes to light.