 Creative exploration of Van Gogh's Starry Night, painting by Jenny Leigh Hodgins by Jenny Leigh Hodgins Listen to the Podcast version here. Plenty of adult music students have told me that they were not creative. I’ve always responded, ‘Nonsense!' Everyone is creative. Some of us have learned to tap it more naturally than others. Anyone who knows me uses the word creative to describe me. I blog, podcast, write, compose, play piano, improvise, sing, garden, take photos, make videos, design my website layout, present, facilitate. As a former music and piano educator, I've been known to tweak a lesson in mid-stream to make learning accommodations for my students, lead drum circles on the beach, and more. The point is that I know how to be creative. Ideas, thoughts, patterns, melodies, rhythm, words, drama, and humor burst forth from me as an unstoppable fountain. Creative expression is more natural to me than breathing. Immersed in creative projects, I sometimes forget to breathe! Incidentally, I’ve never met a child who was not able to be creative. Young people are fully tapped into the creative dimension. They need no map to get there. Adults, however, are a different story. We sometimes lose our way to creative freedom, due to stress and pressure from our daily responsibilities. We grow out of touch with ourselves, and forget how to listen to our intuitive voice. We pay too much attention to the harsh judgments from society, and shrink our creative energy in response. We foolishly compare ourselves and our creativity to others, with standards that aren't fair or realistic. There will always be art that's better or worse than ours. There will always be someone whose creative skills are more honed than ours. There will always be people whose creative output surpasses our own. None of this matters. What matters is that we allow our authentic creative expression to flow sincerely and honestly. If you’ve lost your way or simply need some help getting connected to your creative side, here are some things I’ve learned about how to be imaginative:
Setting aside time to explore creative adventure is not only healthy and enriching for you, it will lead to your creative development. The more you give your creative life, the greater energy it will ignite. Enjoy your process and Viva La Vie Boheme! Let me know if these suggestions are helpful or if you have more tips for tapping creativity by leaving a comment below! Thank you for showing your love of my content with a LIKE or by sharing this blog with others. RELEVANT LINKS:
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 Photo of her Trek bike at sunrise over Kentucky Horse Park, Iron Works Pike, Lexington, KY by Jenny Leigh Hodgins. Photo Essay Series
By Jenny Leigh Hodgins This is the fourth of my photo essay series featuring images from my nature photo calendars. The calendars include monthly self-care themes highlighting strategies for nurturing your creativity and inspiration. See more of my nature-inspired products here. I got my Trek road bike the year my brother tragically died in a car accident. Our final conversation was about bicycling. John was an outdoorsman who loved hiking, camping, and cycling. He was 12 years younger than me, so there was a large gap of time after I’d moved from Kentucky to Florida, when our interactions were limited to my visits home for holidays, or when he and his now ex-wife visited me in Florida. I’d just moved back to Kentucky from Japan when he drove down from his Indianapolis home to spend time with me. Basically, we didn’t know each other as adults, so he made an attempt to connect. We sat in my parents’ office while he yammered on about the fun of camping and cycling, urging me to make plans to do both with him as soon as possible. His enthusiasm was always at the forefront of his personality. He also knew a lot about bicycles, so I took notes on bike companies and local stores to shop. He died a few months after that chat, a few days short of turning 29 years old. As part of my grief therapy, I determined to buy a bicycle to honor his memory and his love of nature. I went to the store he recommended and bought this bike. Whenever I ride my bike, I feel John with me, like the kid he always was to me; eager for me to pedal faster, go higher, fly over hills and explore the back roads to see new adventures through his eyes. I don’t go as fast or as far as I did when younger, but I still enjoy everything about cycling that John talked about in our last conversation. This picture is my bike on a short break as I snapped the sunrise over Kentucky Horse Park, just off Iron Works Pike, where I’d cycled from Legacy Trail, Lexington. This scene feels like my life swelling up with healing energy from breathing the cool morning air. Lexington’s signature rolling bluegrass hills and quietly grazing horses permeate my soul with familiarity and an unparalleled aesthetic. This photo reveals the profundity of the universal force within life, surpassing time and physical boundaries, connecting me with my brother’s heart, which feels to me the same as my own. I’m alive in this setting, with eternity enveloping my life. My mixed emotions are always worth enduring for the spiritual cleansing effect that cycling through nature yields. I can’t help but think my brother knew the impact cycling would have on me. The spiritual, compassionate connection I feel through immersion in nature while cycling is our unbroken link. My bike rides enable me to absorb value from both the suffering and joy of life. Although painful experiences happen to us all, this snapshot represents the rewarding depth of richness and inner strength gained from the dramatic cycle of life and death. There is beauty even within our suffering and loss, if we are willing to open our hearts to find it there. May your wheels always roll forward as you feel life’s gentle breeze on your back. If you loved this blog don't forget to show your awesome support by Liking the link, Subscribing for more updates and adding your comment below! MY NATURE-INSPIRED PHOTO ESSAY SERIES: Keep Looking For Moments Like These To Celebrate & Appreciate How To Use Difficulties To Inspire Appreciation & Creativity What Kind Of Intent Is In Our Heart? How To Use Nature To Reinvigorate Your Spirit How To Nurture Yourself For A Positive Impact On Your World How To Open Your Heart To Find Beauty Within Suffering & Loss How Do You Find Hope To Create Positive Value? Belief In Your Own Creative Vision How To Connect To Ignite Positive Power  by Jenny Leigh Hodgins This is the second part of my blog, What Are Ways For Nurturing Creativity And Inspiration? Read Part 1 here. KEY WAYS FOR NURTURING CREATIVITY:
When I shine my authentic self, I open the way for others to be empowered. My victory at expressing my true self allows others to see their own possibilities. My win is your win. Happy people create a peaceful world. This is a solid reason to believe in myself as a creator.
Your conscious mind needs breaks. Your subconscious is always absorbing for you, so you won’t miss out. Take a much-needed break, knowing that ‘time on the shelf’ (a phrase coined by pyrography artist, Amanda Packard, featured on YourCreativeChord Podcast) is exactly what’s necessary to rejuvenate inspiration. When you come back to your creative process after a rest, you’ll find your energy has exponentially grown.
How do you handle negative self-talk or doubt within the creative process?
I pray about negative self-talk or doubt. Prayer in Buddhism is not wishing or asking external help. It’s making a determination to win over weakness, enjoy, appreciate, and use struggles and victories as personal mission to encourage others and repay gratitude.
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I appeared as a guest for Lynnis Minutes YouTube show in February 2020. Watch the edited short version above. I was invited to share ways for nurturing creativity. I sometimes use my ‘Creative Exploration Formula’ for jumpstarting a creative project. In the above video, I mention a few steps from this formula. For the full version and detailed walk-through, click here: Creative Exploration Formula Does my creative exploration formula inspire you? Let me know and/or share your creative hacks by leaving a comment below! Recommended Content: In my blog, Learning To Be Creative, I walk through my creative process in a simplified way. What Are Ways For Nurturing Creativity And Inspiration? Part 1 What Are Ways For Nurturing Creativity And Inspiration? Part 2 Why Should You Dream Too Big & Harness Your Powerful Imagination? Defeat Fear & Doubt with Your Courage & Capability How To Deflect Negativity To Become Happier Believing In The Positive My Top Tips For Winning Over Your Insomnia How To Live A Life of Joyful Creativity 5 Ways To Use Music & Nature For Self-Care  "Creative Exploration Formula" by Jenny Leigh Hodgins by Jenny Leigh Hodgins
I have more blogs and podcasts that cover this topic from different perspectives under my Creativity, and Inspiration sections, so check those out! I also learn about the creative process from the creators and positivity experts I interview for YourCreativeChord Podcast. I sometimes use my ‘Creative Exploration Formula’ (see above image) for jumpstarting a creative project. This is a way for creators to get in the creative zone, minus the negative inner critic, to start a new project or continue one. It’s a step by step process, but as creators, we know that rules are for breaking. So change it, break it, throw any part of it out the window if the muse has landed with you. GET INSIDE YOUR BOX! Start by setting limitations or parameters for yourself, or by placing yourself within a structure. This gives you a clear box where you’ll set yourself to work on creating something new. The idea of limits may already be set for you if it’s a professional task you must complete. Remember that limits are a good way for sparking fresh ideas that wouldn’t normally flow if everything were wide open or willy-nilly, anything goes. Limits force you to think. Thinking within limitations pushes you to find a new way to do something. Being in a particular box is good in this sense. If you get blocked creatively, find a way to break open that box. LET GO OF YOUR HEAD! Before you begin creating something, you must mindfully let go of your head, whatever mood you’re in, any expectations, and check your ego at the door. None of these are welcome in the creative process. They are the uninvited. Let them go. The point is to not care about your results. Yet. MAKE IT STUPID. During some creative sessions, I’ve set myself the goal of writing the worst possible song I’ve ever composed. I purposely strike the attitude that I do not care about the result. I strive to make it stupid. Ignore all the rules or protocol. I do that to forcefully eject any expectations or inner critic from my inner space. Ninety percent of the time that I use this strategy, my creative results blow me away with positive ideas I would never expect to emerge. Getting rid of that inner critic is a super powerful way to get creative juices pumping! TUNE IN TO YOUR INNER COMPASS. I silence myself to tune into what I believe in or care about. I hone in on my powerful feelings or beliefs. I let everything be guided by that inner compass. It is authentic and mystic. It’s both my higher power and my deepest desires, dreams, wants (or sometimes, pain), or passion. I allow that place to fill my silence with truth, no matter what it feels or looks or sounds like. I let the creative voice flow. If I hear negativity creep in, I start again from the top:
I tap into my heart with an open, pure curiosity to learn and be led. I allow my curiosity to explore, brainstorm, try anything and anything. I allow myself to be okay with whatever happens. I go deep into this process, ignoring all rules or outer ‘voices.’ I pretend that everything is an experiment. Because it is. ENVISION WITH GREAT ATTENTION Sometimes, I spend time visualizing. I envision the mood, color, sound, story, setting that I intend to express. I practice deeply feeling these, through each nuance, change, or detail, and through each of my senses. WELCOME FAILURE I allow for failure. I invite failure. In the words of L.A. Composer, Kristen Baum, who I recently featured on YourCreativeChord podcast, "Failure tells you as much as success." I use failure, mistakes or messing up to ignite my curiosity for inquiry. I ask myself why it’s not working. Once I find something not working, I ask myself what I could instead substitute. I make shifts, changes, and "redesigns" based on the answers from my questions about the 'failure.' My ‘Creative Exploration Formula’ leads me through the creative process like a trusted friend. But if I feel creative block and am unable to dislodge myself from it, I review my list of ways for nurturing creativity. Watch for next week's blog featuring ways for nurturing creativity... YourCreativeChord offers quality content, a positive community, and support for those interested in nurturing creativity and inspiration. IGNITE YOURCREATIVECHORD! I’d love to hear from you. It means a lot to me that my content is helpful and empowers you. Please take a moment to join the conversation below to let me know if you find this blog helpful or if you have questions or suggestions! Recommended Content: In my blog, Learning To Be Creative, I walk through my creative process in a simplified way. What Are Ways For Nurturing Creativity And Inspiration? Part 2 Why Should You Dream Too Big & Harness Your Powerful Imagination? Defeat Fear & Doubt with Your Courage & Capability How To Deflect Negativity To Become Happier Believing In The Positive My Top Tips For Winning Over Your Insomnia How To Live A Life of Joyful Creativity 5 Ways To Use Music & Nature For Self-Care  Image courtesy of Lynnis Woods-Mullins by Jenny Leigh Hodgins
I was invited to share my tips for nurturing creativity and self-care for 'Lynnis Minutes,' a 30-minute Facebook Live video hosted by Lynnis Woods-Mullins of "Wellness Woman Over 40." I quickly shared with her Facebook group membership how I approach creativity, handle negative self-talk, creative blocks, and what self-care has to do with it. Click here to watch it!
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by Jenny Leigh Hodgins YourCreativeChord is all about nurturing creativity and inspiration. My content features strategies for overcoming problems, reaching goals, exploring and sparking creativity, and living an inspired life. I also feature interviews with creators of all kinds, from artists, composers, writers, to choreographers and beyond. This month features a creative woman who scores music for films, writes poetry, and is now co-writing her first fantasy fiction novel! Beyond collaborative conversations with other creators, I also share my personal creative process. I write about my experience, my failures, and what inspires me to encourage you that fresh ideas can happen:
I'm personally inspired by the awe of nature's beautiful and systemic perfection. Getting outdoors, or simply looking at images of nature has been scientifically proven to boost wellness and creative inspiration. ANNOUNCING MY NEW LINE OF NATURE-BASED PRODUCTS WITH SELF-CARE AFFIRMATIONS TO NURTURE YOUR CREATIVITY So, today I'm especially excited to announce my motivational nature-inspired products for nurturing creativity and inspiration! The photos on this page are a sample of available products and designs I've created! My new designs hosted on Zazzle feature my photos from nature immersion with my positive self-care affirmations. These are intended to:
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Sometimes we even doubt our ability to be creative at all. In those moments, if you have one of my inspiring nature-based products, you’ll get a friendly, warm, gentle reminder that you’ve got this. Creativity is in your life just as it’s in mine. My designs are based on my personal creative process of finding time for self-care, especially through experiencing nature. There's the scientific research proving that experiencing awe improves your optimism and lowers stress. Nature is a constant source of awe. Research shows wellness improves even if you’re looking at pictures of nature instead of being outdoors physically! Release Your Stress To The Air I want you to see how incredible you are. How easy it can be to release your stress to the air and relish the vibrance and wonder that nature brings to your senses. Exploring the profundity of nature’s compassionate force can put you back in rhythm with your own inherent creative flow. I create my designs as a resource for nurturing your creativity and inspiration. For my annual nature calendars, I use Zazzle because their decent quality materials allow you to write your personal events and notes on them easily. I left plenty of white space so you can set and track your personal goals in the same place where you’ll see a joyful or peaceful moment in nature. The same place where a positive affirmation will be to encourage you about your infinite creative potential. You can feel how I incorporate authenticity, an open heart and sincere determined effort in the creative process from each of my product designs. If I can make something out of the simplicity of an ordinary moment within my day, so can you. All my nature-inspired products were made to empower you and me toward manifesting our beautiful relationship with the unceasing compassionate power of the universe. BE MORE CONNECTED TO
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Photo by Jenny Leigh Hodgins Why You Should Dream Too Big
Josei Toda, a deeply humanistic man who gave his life to rejuvenating the spirit of Buddhism, encouraged others to dream ‘too big,’ explaining that we only achieve a percentage of our goals in life.
“What we can achieve in a lifetime is always but a fraction of what we would set out to achieve. So if you start out with expectations that are too low, you'll end up not being able to accomplish anything at all.”
I’m learning the importance of expanding my perceived limitations. Honestly, thinking big is new to me. I need more practice with envisioning my goals, dreams and my life’s future. Without analyzing the specifics of how I’ve arrived this way, suffice it to say, I don’t think I’m unique in this struggle.
The fact that there are incredibly successful achievers in this world, standing out above the masses of mediocrity, is proof to me that many people have this same issue of living within the boundaries of lower expectations. Though I’ve embraced Buddhism for 32 years, I’m still finding I have much to learn about living more joyfully and successfully.
Buddhism teaches that our lives contain everything necessary for our victory, happiness, success and fulfillment. Looking outside ourselves is not necessary. Believing in our greatest potential is the key to these qualities in our lives. (Cultivating this belief in ourselves also paves the way for believing in the potential of others.)
Theoretically understanding this, and being able to manifest my greatest potential are two different matters, though.
Use The Power of Imagination To Expand Your Vision
I’m immersing myself in a process of learning from others, particularly those who have achieved success at the things I want to do, or who have acquired fortune. I especially value learning from those who have overcome great obstacles. Their stories prove the power of one individual life.
Athletes, artists, and entrepreneurs are my role models, as I value creative thinking. Creative professionals seem to be adept at envisioning an outcome, which becomes the fuel for the targeted actions they take to make their desired result a reality.
My mentor in faith, Daisaku Ikeda, clarifies, “The more specific and detailed the blueprint we have in our hearts, the better. The point is to continue vividly painting the target we have and to advance toward that goal single-mindedly. Then, at each instant, the reality of our lives will gradually approach the painting that is our aspiration.”
Expand Your Dream Too Much
Taking this into account, and reflecting on Josei Toda’s advice to dream ‘too big,’ I encountered a similar thread in Gary Keller’s #1 Wall Street Journal Bestseller, The One Thing The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results. Keller points out how expanding our vision dramatically beyond our limitations has a powerful effect on the results.
Instead of thinking about what’s immediately in front of us, Keller advises to “set a goal so far above what you want that you’ll be building a plan that practically guarantees your original goal.”
Keller also encourages the power of imagination, persuasively suggesting to ask a bigger question of ourselves and “pause to imagine what life looks like with the answer. If you still can’t imagine it, go study people who have already achieved it. What are the models, systems, habits, and relationships of other people who have found the answer? As much as we’d like to believe we’re all different, what constantly works for others will almost always work for us.”
I’m not discounting the value of making consistent and significant effort. The most successful, creative and happy people I know work regularly at their craft and are striving for self-improvement in a disciplined manner.
Harness Your Power of Imagery Toward A Larger Vision
But the power of envisioning a clear, expansive, larger goal is effective. People use this power of the mind, and the spirit of pushing against or cracking open boundaries to accomplish incredible things.
Written language was invented to convey ideas. Music was created from noise. Both the written word and music are languages now used to communicate broadly and intimately. Airplanes enable people to fly through the air. Rockets explore outer space. America was resourced as a result of finally challenging the theory that the earth was flat.
How To Achieve Your Biggest Goal With Your Imagination
These outcomes are the results of humans thinking outside the box, questioning their perceived reality, and going for it. This is an inspiring lesson. Here’s my takeaway:
- Brainstorm to clarify your goals, based on your values.
- Get specific with when, how, what and why (your values) your goals are to be reached.
- Multiply and expand your goals well beyond your original expectations until your goals seem possible, but just short of impossible.
- Determine the momentum of effort you will need to generate the desired result (reach your goal). Being specific on when, how, why and what determines this momentum.
- Practice visualizing your new, larger goal’s fulfillment.
How I’ve Used Imagery, Prayer & Preparation Successfully
Let me share an example of how this has worked for me. For many years, I made my living as a performing musician. This did not come easily for me, because I initially had debilitating stage-fright. But I was able to overcome my nerves, allowing me to make a living as a performer, and perform well because I followed this formula:
- I prepared well. This included my musical repertoire, gear and clothes needed for the show, verified directions, extra time to the gig, and communication to the person responsible for my payment.
- I took care of my health. I maintained a consistent schedule of practice, healthy meals, exercise and ample rest.
- I used imagery to master my presentation. I envisioned my successful musical performance regularly during and outside my practice routine. I imagined every note, musical nuance, and lyric of each musical selection, from start to finish, exactly as I intended it to sound at the event.
- I visualized my best mental state. I countered my stage-fright with the same tactic; I imagined myself feeling, looking and sounding confident, free of nervousness, successfully performing from the moment I arrived until the last moment of the gig. I used thorough details, from the atmosphere, room design and layout, to the people responding positively. I practiced what confidence felt like with each of my senses. I evoked my emotional experience, hanging on to that feeling as long as I could.
Along with my daily Buddhist chant to raise my life-state, my thorough preparation and mental effort laid the groundwork for my success as a pianist/vocalist, teacher, facilitator and public speaker.
Now performing or speaking publicly has almost zero effect on my nerves. I have eliminated stage-fright through the use of imagery, prayer, preparation, and repetition.
Since I’ve had success using imagery to overcome stage-fright and perform, I now harness it for other areas of my life too. Visualization is a transferable skill. Currently, I practice it toward my business, health and creative goals.
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University of Kentucky Associate Professor Ryan Hargrove CLICK HERE TO LISTEN TO PART 1 of my 2-part podcast, featuring my interview with University of Kentucky educator Ryan Hargrove, on tapping the creative process. See below for details.
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I had an insightful conversation about the creative process with Associate Professor Ryan Hargrove, of the University of Kentucky’s Department of Landscape Architecture. Hargrove teaches metacognition and creative thinking through a variety of projects, trips, interviews with creative professionals, and a class called “Living on the Right Side of the Brain.”
Hargrove’s future goals are to provide more active learning opportunities through creative reflection and association deep dives for all University of Kentucky students, including electives, co-curricular activities, trips, and long-term masters projects.
Viewing People & Creative Ideas Holistically
Hargrove’s teaching methods and views on creative thinking both educated and inspired me. His strength as a teacher of creative thinking is his prime focus on understanding the individual person. He looks at how each person learns best, digging into discovering how they think. This undertaking guides his teaching and mentoring strategies.
His inclination toward empathetic listening is refreshingly disarming. When teaching students, he takes into consideration that each person has arrived from a different path, with a unique learning speed, baggage, and skills.
Hargrove instructs with less of the theoretical, knowledge-pouring traditional manner, and more of a holistic process aimed at bringing all aspects of each individual’s strengths and weaknesses to navigate problems.
This resonates with the creative process itself, as it functions in connection with all aspects of the whole being, too.
His responses to my questions delving into best practices for tapping creativity were encouraging to me as an entrepreneur, writer, poet, composer, pianist, vocalist, and hobbyist photographer.
His viewpoint is valuable to any creative professional or anyone interested in tapping or improving creative flow. Here are some of the points from my dialogue with Hargrove that stood out as most useful to those interested in nurturing creativity.
Is Your Creativity Divinely Struck Or Consistently Disciplined?
Although inspiration can and does strike sometimes from seemingly divine intervention, the reality is that most brilliantly creative people consistently work hard at their craft. By continuously doing this disciplined work, the creative person is more able to capture ideas readily and link diverse pieces of information together in a new way.
Commit To A Way Of Seeing Life
Hargrove made the point that creativity is not an “on or off switch,” but rather a commitment to a way of seeing the world. Creative professionals typically are always open to receiving ideas for inspiration. They constantly seek out new ways of looking at life, new or different perspectives, techniques, styles and experiences.
Learn To Think Creatively Versus Knowledge Is Power
Gaining knowledge is important but is not the end all. Especially as we have access to knowledge at our fingertips with electronic gadgets, learning to think creatively is a more valuable asset. This skill leads to transformative ways to solve problems and open new creative ideas.
Adjust Yourself To The Moving Target
Successful creatives don’t have the creative process figured out. They know creativity is fluid, always changing, and that their creative flow is also morphing over time. They accept this and adjust themselves to the moving target of inspiration.
Mindset Is Your Best Skill
Successful creative people know themselves well. They know that listening to yourself, and being in alignment with your creative process is instrumental toward creative production.
Divergence Is Enlightening
Immerse yourself in new perspectives to grow. From exploring podcasts, blogs, books, doing new things like painting, dancing, cooking, new music, trying a new sport, traveling to new places, to meeting new people. Engaging in conversations, working on problems with others, or trying new experiences or things are valuable in two ways:
- First, it opens you to new concepts, systems, means, and perspectives, which lead you to inspiration and being able to incorporate new interconnections of thought. This heightens your senses, and forces you out of your default, to notice new things.
- Secondly, it offers the chance to ask others how they think or approach creativity or a problem, which gives you a fresh angle or fills in missing pieces. It broadens your perspective and offers new energy into a whole new network of things. Seeing something differently triggers your inspiration.
Be Open To Inspiration
Be open to the idea that a eureka! moment can come from anywhere. Creatives know that being open to inspiration means it can come from unlikely or unexpected places.
A four-year old child. An elderly man at the park. While shampooing in the shower or during a bike ride. While taking the trash out. Or from a completely unrelated conversation with a friend. Anywhere and anyone is acceptable and welcome as inspiration!
Reflection Is Where Creative Force Ignites
Taking time to reflect on the problem or time away from a creative project or daily responsibilities is a crucial form of nourishment for the creative mind. There are two kinds of downtime that are helpful to sparking inspiration:
- Restful. Moments of quiet where you allow your mind to wander, or completely rest, away from stimulus. Naps, a walk in nature, reading a book, watching a movie, playing with a pet, listening to music, meditation, yoga, prayer, massage, daydreaming, or relaxing in a bath.
These are moments when you are not actively pursuing creative tasks or solutions to a problem.
- Thoughtful Reflection. Taking time in nature, exercising, journaling, while actively thinking about your thinking about a problem or a creative idea. Making yourself aware of how you are approaching a problem or creative idea.
Reflection is evaluating what’s going well and what you could change to improve.
Skill of Association
The skill of association is a critical aspect of creative flow. This is the ability to absorb disparate pieces of information in an organized manner within your mind. And later, combine that information to create something new or to address a problem with a fresh approach using the incorporated new information.
Having a way to organize new ideas or perspectives is key to the skill of association. This happens when you take time to sort through your experiences and become aware of interconnections with the new information before storing it in your brain.
Asking how to organize the new idea in your head, why it’s interesting, or how it could connect to other things leads to an organizing system within your mind.
This assimilation supports your ability to feel inspired by these new and interconnected things.
Craft, Skill, Experience
Creativity requires you develop your craft or technical skills, and develop a repertoire of both life and creative experiences. The more proficient you become at your craft, the more readily you can incorporate new ideas. The more you live your life, the more ideas and experiences you’ll have to draw forth creatively.
Self-Care Habits
There is power in practicing healthy choices. But the creative life can also lead to imbalance or unhealthy habits because it can be all-consuming. When an idea strikes, other aspects of your life may easily be neglected (eating, exercise, relationships, sleep).
However, when you place top priority on consistent self-care, other aspects of your life will generally flow better. If you feel good physically, you can usually do better work.
Surround Yourself With People Who Are Better Than You
Connect with people whose skills and character you admire and who bring out your best by challenging you to grow and improve yourself. Ask people who will be brutally honest to assess your creative work.
Get Comfortable Being Uncomfortable
Seek out new challenges. Push yourself beyond your comfort zone and learn to live with ambiguity versus certainty. The discomfort of ambiguity leads to generating solutions and creative inspiration because it forces you to change your thinking.
Putting yourself in a situation where you must endure a problem state forces you to grow beyond your norm which leads you to new levels of inspiration.
Embrace Failure
Mistakes and failures are part of the creative life and are good if used to reflect on and adjust how you’re thinking about the problem or creative project.
Use failure as a learning tool to improve your creative process. Failures provide incredible growth opportunity when used to assess your approach and try new angles of thought.
The creative journey joins all aspects of your whole being, from the physical, emotional, mental to the spiritual. All your experiences are interconnected and have the potential to influence inspiration.
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I’m focused on becoming my best self. I’ve started working with a life coach as a way toward manifesting my potential and maintaining balance as an artist, entrepreneur, volunteer, and caregiver.
My friend, FayAnne, has me immediately paying attention to my values. Top on my values list is creativity.
Some people have difficulty owning their sense of creativity. I am alive with it. I love it. I live it. It is my religion (or at least an expression and reflection of my Buddhist practice*). I have no problem stating unequivocally that I’m a creative person.
I exhale creativity. It’s always been part of my daily life. I write (blogs, poetry, non-fiction), compose music (orchestral, piano-based, musical theatre), use my photos (nature) for my Instagram mini-blogs, annual nature photo calendars, and online content. I’m also a gardener, decent cook, public speaker, and explore painting on canvas for fun.
Where I struggle, though, is taking care of my creative self. Or even recognizing that this is a treasured part of who I am as a person. To me, it just IS.
FayAnne guides me to see that my creative, energetic, encouraging, strong, compassionate, inspiring self is a gift to others 🤭 because I, like all artists, have the power to connect deeply, uplift and help others tap their empowered self. I’m learning it is important to protect and support that aspect of me; that constantly, creatively expressive artiste. 👩🎨
We must take extraordinary care of this creative force that is within each of us. We must deliberately guard this beautiful treasure from over-stimulation.
Sometimes we must allow silence. A moment to feel our breath rise and fall.
Space. An area to absorb our surroundings and internal activity.
Time. For our experiences to settle in.
Solitude. To refresh our energy.
As self-care practice, my coach asked me to make a metaphor for this. The metaphor I chose, for my whole being, encompassing my creative flow, physical health, spirituality, emotional and social world is a symphonic (as in composition of many harmonious parts) OCEAN. 🌊
OCEAN has alternating colors of blue, green, and glistening bright white waves that gush, crash, build, surge with fluidity, sooth, calm, or gently flow.
My creative process, including writing, composing, taking photos and designing my visual content are part of OCEAN. All my online biz tasks are also part of OCEAN, including technical, technological, administrative, marketing, and planning.
Nothing is separate or compartmentalized.
This is a new way to think for me. Generally, I, like most artists, separate creative flow from business or administrative tasks.
But this OCEAN view makes sense to me as I am ONE person that encompasses ALL these tasks and creative projects. It makes sense to see every task in my daily routine as part of the flow from that essential core at the center of my life.
YourCreativeChord is OCEAN. It is a place you can get ideas, strategies, and encouragement about a variety of topics. I pour all of my experiences with piano, music, creativity, caregiver and inspiration into this OCEAN called YourCreativeChord.
Though each section is a separate world unto itself, each world also connects to this one whole, harmonious collective force; OCEAN.
If we met at a social event, we may discuss a few things that we have in common, like gardening or writing. As we continue learning about each other, we discover that we both have a multitude of interests, talents, jobs or skills. The integration of all those branches is revealed in our unique personalities.
Just as we each have various interests that are encompassed by our individual lives, my offering to you through YourCreativeChord is ALL ONE THING. The creative, spiritual, emotional, physical are all interconnected and feeds the whole life; It’s all one thing!
As you explore my content, you’ll find connections between all these topics that relate to the one thing that is YourCreativeChord.
I’m describing the interconnectedness of life, but also how learning effective piano practice strategies, building caregiver support, spiritual wellness and opening your creativity are two but not two. They are uniquely separate and yet all connected to the same essential core called LIFE.
Another way to see this bond is to recognize how expressions of the creative life stem from the same impulse within our lives. My life coach gave an example of seeing something within the visual as audio;
A flower as a melodic phrase.
A harbor view as a pattern of rhythm or dynamics.
A song as a color.
These are all expressions of who we are as human beings. I’m an artist, a musician, a composer, a cyclist, a pianist, a writer, a poet, a spiritual facilitator, a daughter, a sister, a friend.
Your specifics may vary slightly; a film composer, runner, guitarist, painter, photographer, fiction writer, rapper, spiritual seeker, son, brother, father.
These all spring from within the same vital center within each life. That means there is nothing to separate me from you, or either of us from the connection to creativity or wellness.
This OCEAN is not just about the arts, either. My social, financial and business goals are part of OCEAN. My success in all these areas comes directly from my OCEAN’s momentum of creative output, spiritual wisdom and physical energy.
My personal challenge is learning that I can’t boss OCEAN into doing something!
As a creative process, the OCEAN is not concrete or finite. It has expansion. It ebbs and flows.
Allow this.
Don’t judge.
Don’t attempt to push the OCEAN around like a Bossy Boss.
Get out of the way and let it flow. Let it morph in its natural, creative, spiritual, emotional and physical way of choice.
Part of this process is learning to TRUST that creativity—OCEAN—the one thing—will be able to head in the direction and generate the success and the social, business, financial or artistic victory I desire.
I’ve experienced this.
Things happen when I clarify that it’s all one thing. When I TRUST my sincere intent to speak from the voice of my OCEAN to the world around me--things resonate, connect, and guide in the best and most positive way.
I’ve transformed music classrooms, chorus rehearsals, musical performances, speeches, relationships, and readership based on my ability to trust my inner voice in this way.
I’ve had audiences express emotion through tears and standing ovations, readers send messages of deep gratitude and relevance, students rise up to pull out creative brilliance and explosive energy, jobs and/or clients suddenly available, and people open up--all in direct response to my TRUSTING the OCEAN and that everything is ALL ONE THING.
This is the power that artists wield. And in my opinion, we are ALL artists.
Some of us are just a few steps ahead in the zone of getting accustomed to our connection to this OCEAN.
This is what YourCreativeChord is all about. My inner journey to connect to your inner life, to tap into and empower our best potential, greater selves.
We get there instantly, leisurely, methodically, and randomly through various ways, niches, branches, and aspects of this one thing we call life.
Welcome to YourCreativeChord. IT’S ALL ONE THING.
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Jenny Leigh Hodgins with her mother, Minva G. Hodgins I’m posting my poem (below) to honor Mother’s Day, and as a tribute to my amazing Mom. I wrote it a few years ago, while sitting in my Florida home, as a recollection of fond memories from my teen years.
We lived in a 3-story white stone house, with a chain-fenced backyard, in Lexington, Kentucky. Mom tended a vegetable garden at the end of our backyard.
I hope this post brings a smile to your face and fills you with a sense of gratitude for mothers everywhere. Whether they are biological or adopted, every mother figure in our lives is a treasure.
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I hope you spend a little time enjoying and appreciating your mother. For those whose relationships are less than positive, I hope you can have a prayerful moment to appreciate that at the least, you are here because of her.
My relationship with my mother has its complexities and it took years for me to appreciate her the way I do now. Ultimately, though, the gift of life she gave me is the most precious of all. It is for this, and everything else she has done for my life, that I owe her my eternal gratitude. Happy Mother’s Day.
From My Mother’s Garden To My Heart
Photos by Jenny Leigh Hodgins Day after summer day, hours upon hours, her body doubled over, almost upside down, with thick gloves, digging through weeds to pull up yellow squash, or heads of lettuce and cabbage, or cucumbers and tomatoes…
Particularly amused, she’d hold one of the large ones up in the air, flashing it at us as if she’d proudly caught a rotund fish, and shout with glee, ‘Would ya LOOK at this thing?!’
From our swing-set seats or upon briefly halting our mad dashes through the water sprinkler, or our wrestling match with the dog, we’d give it a once over. A quick glance at that bumpy, odd-shaped giant, yellow catch-of-the-day. And roll our eyes in mutual amazement.
With her large-rimmed straw hat, she protected that fair, freckled, beautiful Southern-belle face from the bold sun beating down at her. I was always quietly amused at how she’d brazenly wear those strapless halter tops and short shorts, bearing all kinds of skin, sweating bullets through her pores— completely immersed in the greenery and rainbow of vegetables she tended patiently and cheerfully.
Ever so often, snatching up a hoe, she’d thrust it into the ground, as if spearing a swimming crab, let out an unexpected loud yelp, then flip her arms forcefully, to toss the remains of a garter snake against the fence.
How I used to moan and groan when she’d order me out there with her to pull weeds or pluck green beans, dishing out grief like a true adolescent whenever I had to sit out in that heat with her and my Aunt Nonnie, to pull strings off those green things.
One by one, throwing them in a silent pile inside my grandmother’s big, antique porcelain bowl. Those moments were like sitting on time, as if nothing else in the world would happen next. As if all there was to do was sit in the heat plucking out strings, building my mountain of fresh, snapped pieces in that old bowl.
After all my fussing, there’s still nothing that compares to the aroma and those scrumptious feasts she’d lay out before us, day after day, night after night, with the colors of her garden always arranged as beautifully on our table as any painter’s glorious canvas scene.
Never will forget the warmth of her kitchen, the artistry of her table, set by me with careful instructions from her, my director at the helm. Every meal a special occasion of a mother’s love, each plate carefully decorated with her flair; Vegetables draped elegantly over those flowery designs on the edges of our china. Main course meats and pork sliced ever so symmetrically, dotted with sauces or gravies for just a splash of color or a special, flavorful sensation.
Even now, in my own inferior kitchen rumblings, those delectable moments in my memories of my mother pull me through, guide my tastebuds, hold me up, as I put together my own dinners.
I sit, in silence, chewing my food while far away in time and thought, re-living my mother’s way of filling her children with love and nourishment.
I am grateful, and oh so satisfied, to have experienced my mother’s wonderful, Southern hospitality.
 Jenny Leigh Hodgins with her mother, Minva G. Hodgins during a trip to Safety Harbor, Florida.  Jenny Leigh Hodgins' mother, Minva G. Hodgins, casually creating a watercolor scene.  Jenny Leigh Hodgins & her mother, Minva G. Hodgins, in slap-happy hilarity. |  Tropical trees on beach painting by Minva G Hodgins  Jenny Leigh Hodgins with her mother, Minva G. Hodgins. |
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