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Tips about Thinking Creatively in Everyday Life

You can use the Magical Secrets to generate fresh new ideas in your everyday life. Here are Kathan Brown’s suggestions:

1. Cultivate Sensuality. Touch things, actually or in your mind. Feel the thickness and texture of a fabric, a book, or a flower petal to get a sense of it. Look at an artwork by imagining you are within it, touching each shape or line. You’ll learn to think with your senses as a counterpoint to rationality.
2. Use a Lot of Time. Set up some oasis time when you can focus full attention on something that matters to you. Everything else will fall into place around it.
3. Get into the Flow. Do the first thing, then the next thing, then the next thing, without strategizing. Obstacles increase the possibility of discovery, so if something throws you off course, meet the challenge and move on.
4. Have an Idea. Think before and after you do a creative task, but not while you’re doing it. While you’re working, go where the work leads. Then look at what you’ve done and see if there is an idea there that you can use to start the next thing.
5. Don’t Know What You Want. Don’t set goals. Just start working and get fully involved in what you are doing. If you get stuck, think about how many possibilities there are within the framework you’ve chosen. What can you use that’s at hand?
6. Know What You Don’t Want. Familiarize yourself with what others have done in the field you’ve chosen, so you won’t waste time trying to re-invent the wheel. Don’t worry about finding exactly what is most suitable to you. Just start somewhere that is not unsuitable.
7. Stick Your Neck Out. Advice from mentors and friends can be useful, but you don’t need to be part of the party line. Go against the prevailing attitude if you feel like it.
8. Use Every Tool. If a computer is your primary tool for what you do, try adding work done with tools you can hold in your hands. A trip to the art supply store may be just what you need to get your mind unstuck. On the other hand, if you’re not using computers for your art, you might consider that possibility. Old tools are deeply satisfying and should not be completely abandoned, but change is good.
9. Use Every Source. Art is a speculation of possibilities, and in our day the possibilities include poetic images created over the past two thousand years or more. Tools are conduits from your body to your mind, and you can use images as tools. Do not disrespect your sources; they never mold entirely to your vision and may be stronger than your mind perceives.
10. Become Skillful. Art is anything done sublimely well, and every kind of creative work benefits from high levels of skill in its execution. However, all the skills you use need not be your own. Know when you must develop a skill yourself, and when you can work with others whom you have instructed and chosen because their skill exceeds your own.
11. Take Yourself Lightly. Live your life the way you make your art, with pleasure and full engagement, but without forcing things. People who are not self-important are the ones whose work is most likely to develop and change and remain interesting over time.
12. Go into the Ether. Art-making is a mixture of the practical and the ethereal. The sensuality of concentrating on tools and materials sets the mind free to roam in an unworldly place. Then the necessity of decision-making brings it back. Thinking around the edges of what you are doing, moving back and forth from the ether to the materials in front of you, is exciting and engrossing.
13. Own It. This Magical Secret will come to you automatically after you have mastered the other twelve. You cannot try to achieve it, but it will come. At some point you will know for sure, deep down, that you are doing your work, the work you should be doing. And at that point, the work is almost certain to be good.

by: Kathan Brown

HOW TO GET A RESTFUL SLEEP

1. Do mild forms of exercise before bedtime. You may take a short walk after dinner or do some stretching.
2. Read light material. Avoid reading the news that will cause you unnecessary stress or other materials that will activate your brain instead of shutting it off in preparation to bedtime.
3. Slow down all mental and physical activity one hour before hitting the sack.
4. Take a warm, relaxing bath.
5. Wear soft and comfortable sleeping clothes.
6. Listen to soft, pleasant music.
7. Do not eat or drink before sleeping. Indigestion and a heavy stomach will give you difficulty sleeping.
8. Forget about all your worries and problems when you go to bed.
9. Picture a tranquil scene – mountains, the peaceful waves of the beach, etc.

15 Tips to Stay Positive

There are times when we must go through negative situations. Maybe people say something negative about us, or they show rejection or even resentment against us. In such situations, it may be difficult to stay positive. We may be inclined to react negatively to them. That won’t do us any good though; doing so will just make the situation worse. People may behave even more negatively to us. Our day would be filled with anger and disappointment. At the end, nobody wins.

Though it’s not easy, it’s important to stay positive in negative situations. Beat the negative situations by staying positive. Here are 15 tips on how to do it; pick the ones that work for you:

1. Never respond when you are not calm. If you are not sure that you are calm, don’t respond. Take time to calm yourself down first.
2. Take a deep breath as a first step to calm yourself down.
3. Speak in gentle tone to reduce the tension of the situation.
4. Realize that you can find opportunities in negative situations. Albert Einstein said: “In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.”
5. Look at the content of what people say to you for something positive that you can act upon to improve yourself. Don’t just reject the whole messages.
6. For the rest of the messages which is negative, simply ignore it.
7. Maintain positive view of the people. Maybe you don’t like their messages or behavior, but that doesn’t mean that you can hate them personally.
8. Realize that having negative feelings will just hurt you, not them. So there is no reason for you to have any negative feeling.
9. If you make mistakes, be open to admit it.
10. If you make mistakes, remember this quote by George Bernard Shaw: “A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.”
11. If you can, listen to motivational audio program to feed positive thoughts into your mind.
12. Talk to a positive friend who can encourage you.
13. Remember your favorite quotes to give you inspiration and motivation. This is one reason why you should have quote of the day.
14. Look at the negative situations as your training sessions for real life. The higher you climb in life, the worse the negative situations would be, so you’d better be prepared for them.
15. Realize that you can’t please everyone. In fact, nobody can. Sometimes you need to just let some people go. Realizing this will relieve you from a lot of unnecessary burden so that you can focus on the people that you can positively interact with.

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