How to Spark and Rediscover Your Creativity

Do these five key things to spark your creativity today.

[Originally published on the Happily Dwell blog.]

Creativity fires me up and fills me with passion. Anxiety drains the life right out of me. How much more wonderful to use our imaginations for beautiful thoughts. Creativity is such a gift. We all have our own unique creative imaginations and ideas. Everyone is creative. For some of us creativity is expressed through art, music, writing, crafting, how we decorate our homes or style our outfits. Creativity is not cookie cutter. For others creativity is in taking a photograph, planting a garden, cooking or baking or arranging a bouquet of flowers. Some express it boldly, others in subtly and others somewhere in the middle of those two. I do believe in each of us is a spark of creativity waiting to be expressed.

“The best use of imagination is creativity. The worst use of imagination is anxiety.” — Deepak Chopra

Do these five key things to spark your creativity

We all find ourselves facing creative burnout. To get that creative drive back I play! I pull out a bunch of trinkets and things that inspire me and take pictures. I gather up succulent clippings and throw an arrangement together. I set my table for the pure fun of it. I go on…