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‘Ten Steps to Release your Creative Spirit’
by Caroline Flexman and Alice Mallorie

Everybody has an inbuilt ‘blue print’ for creativity. NLP trainers, Alice and Caroline offer ways to reconnect with your Creative Spirit.

1. Remember that to be alive is to create. We are all born with an innate creative potential. Creativity is not something we are born with, or not. It is something, which can be practiced and developed in all areas of your life.

2. Fully imagine ‘what you want to create’ using all your senses. Focus on what you want rather than what you don’t want. Truly creative spirits imagine their outcomes and then ‘act as if’ they are real. ‘If you can dream it you can do it.’ Walt Disney.

3. Be silly and embrace your eccentricity! Silliness is a must for getting loosened up and recognising possibility. Wittgenstein proffered these wise words ‘Do not stay in the barren heights of cleverness but descend into the green valleys of silliness.’

4. Practice ‘not knowing’. Affect a childlike curiosity about the world. Creative Spirits avoid ‘right or wrong’ thinking because they recognise this limits solutions. They prefer to think ‘is it useful or adding to what I want to create for myself or in the world?’ If it’s not useful now it may be useful later or in another context.

5. Use peripheral vision and flow states. Creativity can be considered a ‘state of being’. Athletes call this the ‘Zone’. It’s a very focussed and yet relaxed state where ‘anything is possible’. Generally the eyes are in wide vision. Literally expanding horizons!

6. Develop a healthy respect for your ‘unconscious mind’. Creative Spirits practice being in the moment and they trust their intuition. They put themselves in touch with their dreams and fantasies and revel in symbolic thinking. They help themselves by thinking metaphorically, connecting one idea to another to create solutions.

7. Experiment with new ways of doing things. When Creative Spirits get stuck they do something different, anything different! And they have fun doing it.

8. Reframe mistakes as opportunities. Think of a mistake as an opportunity for something else or as a possibility to learn. Penicillin was a mould that everyone was trying to get rid of!

9. Practice getting different perspectives. ‘Rise above a situation; step into the shoes of your project or the thing you want to create.’ Creative Spirits like to share their ideas and to make connections with others’ points of view. They recognise that two or three minds together make for creative synergy.

10. Transform your inner critic into a wise mentor or advisor. Once you’ve fully ‘dreamed your dream’, make friends with your inner or actual critics, considering them as wise advisors who can help you manifest your dream. And remember truly Creative Spirits are also realists. They know how to make a ‘dream’ manifest itself in reality.

An expanded version of the “Ten Steps” can be found on caroline’s website

© 2002 Caroline Flexman and Alice Mallorie

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