Worried that you’re not creative? You are, but you may be out of touch

with it. Your intuition may lead you into a world of novel ideas,

experimentation, and brainstorming that will perk up your work life and

stimulate innovation and problem-solving. Intuition training is not

just for New Agers. Many executives, business owners, and exploration and

development pros attribute their successes to following

intuitive clues.

Intuition is your internal selective information and sentiment source. It is an

inner library of physical and aroused cues that may direct you onto

the right avenue. It is the composite of “gut feelings” and perceptions

unique to you. It is an inner way of knowing. Too often, we are trained

to discount or repress that cognition and hence deliberately neglect

it, devalue it, or refuse to recognize it is message. Intuition is a tool

for clear or deep perception and illumination. Can you recall a time when your intuition

prompted you to follow a dissimilar course and connected you to a result

you were looking for? Quentin recalls a time when his intuition prodded

him to take an unfamiliar exit off the expressway on his way home. As

he turned off, he felt absurd and almost turned around. But he

followed this country road and passed an intriguing building with a

“for sale” sign on it. He stopped in amazement–this building fit his

image of the gourmet shop he wanted to open someday. Here was his dream

in reality; the rest was up to him. The originative procedure demands, like

Quentin, that you’re more than willing to step into the unknown and see what

happens. Creativity is born of inspiration and your inspirations evolve

from your passions. So follow your whims and see where they lead. These

excursions will stimulate new thought patterns and generate new

paradigms for you. To support you to massage your intuitive talents, you

can undertake a series of exercises to arouse originative chances for you.

Exercise #One: What Inspires You?

What do you feel excessively affected emotionally by or passionate about? What kinds of books or

magazines do you read? What kinds of people do you most like to talk

with? What kinds of interests/projects are you drawn to in your leisure

time? If you went back to school, what would you most like to learn

about? What do you fantasize about? What are your aspirations? What

kinds of activenesses stimulate your originative expression? Do you long to

paint or write or build or coordinate or sing or play something? Write

down everything and anything that comes to mind. No idea is defective or

silly. What is your internal voice urging you to explore/experience?

Let this exercise be the beginning of a originative journal. You may be

surprised at the wisdom and guidance stored for you in these seemingly

random thoughts.

To facilitate the new, it helps to clear away the past. Think back to

any repents you have in regards to lost opportunities. Kim wishes she had

studied technology in college rather of teaching. Paul had a probability

to go into business with a friend and turned it down as he was too

scared. His friend is now a millionaire who works part-time. It may not

be too late for you.

Exercise #Two: What Creative Dreams Have You Abandoned and Why?

Make a list of all of the things you wanted to do, but didn’t. Then

think back to what your intuition told you in regards to this option. Are you

still fascinated in this path? What does your inner voice tell you

about this choice now? Note any patterns that are still possible or an

enduring imaginativeness that you want to manifest.

You need to make peace with these cast offs. What may you learn from

these mistakes? Rudy learned that he hadn’t been ready until now to

write his play. His imaginativeness just became bright sufficient for him to tell the

story. So he was capable to release his regrets. Melissa, on the other

hand, always wanted to become a lawyer. Now at age fifty, she thought

she was too old, but the dream still beckoned her. This was a choice

point for her. She could either live the rest of her life with the

sorrow of not having become a lawyer or she could go to law school. Or

she could leverage her achievements and become a lobbyist, a political

activist, a paralegal, a city official, or fulfill her dream in

numerous substitute ways. It was time for Melissa to move on. Grieve

what you will have to and then turn the corner and make room for the next

episode.

Learning to trust your intuition is the critical foundation for

creativity. Think back to the times when you were clear that a

particular choice was not a wise one. Your “gut” admonished you versus it.

Silvie, a billing consultant, recalls a phone call she received from a

potential client. The woman owned an oldfashioned store and sounded

stressed, disorganized, and demanding. Silvie had a negative visceral

reaction to the woman’s voice. Yet, Silvie necessitated more business and

this was a big account, so Silvie hushed up her intuitive radar and

accepted the woman as a client. A year later, the woman sued Silvie for

malpractice. During the legal proceedings, Silvie learned that this

woman had sued her last two billing agents and that lawsuits, not

antiques, were her essential source of income. Silvie swore to heed her

intuitive doubts in the future.

Exercise #Three: I Am Grateful to my Intuition for the Following…

When has your intuition steered you right? Make a list of the times

when your intuition helped you to make the right decision or prompted

you to undertake something. What have you learned in regards to how it operates on

your behalf? One of the greatest blocks to creativeness is fear. Fear

keeps you from exploring new ways. Fear of failure keeps you from

enjoying an experimental mind set where failure is expected and

welcomed as new information. Fear of being wrong or criticized likewise

clips your originative wings. Almost every one may do not forget attempting

something fresh and new and being chided. Therefore we learn to play it

safe, discontinue taking risks, and stop the flow of originative solutions.

While most persons are educated in a school system that advocates one

right answer, today’s workplace requires you to invoke new answers. The

beauty of the entrepreneurial mind set is that it allows you to

innovate and make up your own solutions. Fear of “getting the wrong

answer” halts your flow of distinguishable ideas.

Exercise #Four: What Frightens You Most About Expressing Your

Creativity?

What is your fear about? What originative traumas from the past still hold

power over you? What do you fear from your internal critic and others?

What person(s) from your past criticized your ideas and actions? Write

this all down so you may see it.

Fear is a element of danger and risking is necessary to creativity. If

you read with regards to writers and artists and businesspeople, they all

acknowledge fear. You will never be free of fear but you may minimize

it and strategize around it. Just don’t let fear keep you from your

true self. Whenever you accomplish something, you become vulnerable to

criticism. Leaders are many times arguable and consequently targets for

someone’s arrow. Are you living your life for them or yourself? When I

get afraid to write, I pick up a book called “Walking on Alligators: A

Book of Meditations for Writers” by Susan Shaughnessy (Harper, 1993).

Writing often times feels dangerous to me and reading when it comes to other writer’s

similar terrors helps me to forget my doubt and just commence typing. You

need to find antidotes for your fear. Mentors, support groups, classes,

coaches, readings, etc. all offer help schemes which may undo the

demons from the past. Figure out what solutions will most help your

fear to stay in the background and use them.

Another form of support for your creative thinking is a fostering environment.

Where do you do your best thinking? Where does your inner self feel

most daring and alive?

Exercise #Five: Creative Stimuli

Describe the idealisti surroundings for your originative process. Imagine it in

all of it is detail. What distracts and what stimulates you? Are you

alone or with others? Is there music playing? Are you outdoors? What

tools do you need? Are you at home or at a quaint inn? Knowing what

sparks your originative fire allows you to make that space. Lots of

creative persons talk with regards to having a studio or room of their own. Kay, a

painter I know, may paint anyplace that’s light sufficient if she has her

female jazz singers serenading her in the background. Music is her cue

to let go and play with her colors. Trudie, a landscape architect,

built an office for herself above the garage. As she lives in the city

and doesn’t have a view of trees, her office walls are plastered with

pictures of plants and trees and gardens and she has silk flowers all

over. Her rug of outdoor carpet spreads out like a lawn and her desk is

a table inside a rickety old trellis with strings of vines and garden

tools attached to it. She keeps bags of dirt and peat moss in the

corner so she may smell them and pretend she’s in the garden. You recognise

what business she’s in. Even if you only have a little space, make it

your own and fill it with personal catalysts.

Sometimes when you have a business problem or feel stuck on a decision,

nothing seems to help. Sit quietly and ask your intuitive guide for

suggestions. You may likewise write yourself a note requesting an answer

and put it in a drawer and let go for a while. Or you may change the

format of your project or question and see what happens. I often times find

drawing a picture of what I’m attempting to write with regards to opens up new

angles. Other innovators try proficiencies like turning a project upside

down or sideways or miniaturizing it or making it into a story or

photographing it or talking about it with a child. These configurations

often cut through the haze. You’ve heard tales of inventions that were

actually faults or the result of a hair brain scheme. Experiment with

your dilemma and watch the solution appear.

Comparisons are also helpful. For example, Brian’s intuition spurred and encouraged him

to ponder how his decision when it comes to whether or not to cut staff was like a

tree. So he bundled up in his parka and went out to look at the oak in

his front yard. He ultimately realized that his workers were the roots

of his company; they kept the tree up. Cutting an employee was like

chopping off a necessary root, yet, he had to cut the payroll. So, he

went back into the house and started out to draft plans for scaled down hours,

part-time positions, and occupation sharing. Honor your intuitive messages and

allow them to support you.

Exercise #Six: Your Creative Saboteurs

Write down all the things, people, places, activities, or thoughts that

diminish your originative energy. What would you like to subtract from

your life that interferes with the clarity of your intuitive channel?

Your intuition is a worthful asset; you can’t afford to have it

compromised by clutter, other people’s needs, or busyness. Even if you

only find the time to write in your originative diary or sit quietly for

fifteen minutes a day, you are connecting with your intuition. Preserve

the messages and insights. From the above list, what may you subtract

from your life to free up more originative space for yourself? What life

choices support your ingenuous energy? Honor your person cravings

and notions. Do you thrive in tranquility or excitement? Diligently

restructure your lifestyle to cultivate your intuitive noesis and

its originative offshoots. Enjoy the new and stimulating adventures that will

result.

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