Today I am going to talk about
enhancing your creativity through other means and practices. Of
course playing guitar will enhance your creativity in itself,
especially improvisation jamming with a fellow musician. If you have
a guitar teacher, ask them to jam with you, playing the rhythm while
you, play the single notes of lead guitar. This can yield some of the
very best music.
Mindfulness meditation will also help
creativity as it creates a peaceful mindset from which to allow the
intelligence of the universe (for this is where all creativity comes
from) to flow through you. There are plenty of resources to help with
this.
There are many ways to strengthen this
connection. The most obvious one, but often overlooked is just to ask
for an increased connection with the other planes. No joke, this
stuff is real, I know from personal experience. I write another blog
on Spirituality called spiritual-knowledge.com so if you would like
to know more then click the link. I will try to make this more about
music then spirituality, but have found the two intertwine, not to
mention hearing from certain individuals that music is a divine
practice in the higher levels of creation, although their kind is
infinitely more complex and beautiful.
Learning another instrument will get
your brain working in different ways but on the same subject; music.
I recommend keyboard, they can be very cheap and go well when played
with the guitar. They also allow a much more regimented way of
looking at music theory then guitar. The white keys and black keys
are organised into sharps and flats and this visual stimuli makes
understanding keys, octaves and scales easier because it is such a different perspective.
Visualisation journeys are very good at
increasing your levels of creativity, if you use the right kind of
stimuli. A very good one is contained in Jean Houston's Passion for
the Possible which is all about using the five senses extensively to
enhance your life in general. She includes a very nice guided mental
journey in this book and many useful techniques for creating a better
life. Obviously, a side effect of this is enhanced creativity.
Trying your hand at drawing and art
will also open you up to a more creative mindset and exposing
yourself to creative content such as art and music.
Many people say that dreams are where
they get their best ideas, look up sleep hygiene, and one way to
increase the vividness of them is to drink apple juice before you go
to bed.
These are just some techniques to
increase this illusive force's influence over you. I phrase it like
this for it can feel like a being that rages inside me, a hunger and
need for a million notes a second to explode out of my amplifier.
There is a lot to be said for the manic energy that can be created
through mental illness, a blight most of the time, but combined with
a powerful mindset created by meditation it can be a very creative
force. I truly believe that my creativity has seen a major
enhancement by going slightly crazy, the connections that I make
these days are very random but we as humans are suckers for trying to
find order in chaos. Of course I would not recommend this as a way of
enhancing this force as it hurts. A lot.
