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[Snowie]

Hi @Peonies @Renegade @JIT @Judi9877 @paintingallday 

Looking forward to tonight.

[Renegade]

Creativity is an action that uses imagination and experimentation to bring into life something new and unique.

Being creative means embodying that element of yourself that doesn’t have the breaks on, isn’t following the rules but is allowing the unpredictable energy of the creative in the body and mind to tumble out into the world.

It requires being in a state that is open, attentive and available to creative energy with a sense of freedom, for anything to come without judgement.

The creative potential within each of us needs to be untethered for it to be given life. When we are listening to our critical mind and judge an idea/act before we’ve tried it out, we can often prevent bringing a creation into existence at all.

So to offer the energetic spirit of creativity within us the freedom to be expressed, there’s an element of acceptance of being in that energy, in that moment with your art, and an element of risk in allowing to tumble out what comes no matter what.

[paintingallday]

Creativity to me is directly linked to expression – in whatever form that comes!

For some people it’s words, written, spoken or sung. For some people its baking, for some it’s the clothes they wear.

And it doesn’t even have to be for anyone, it can simply be an outlet for self-expression, this is true particularly for me, as I find sometimes expressing myself with words doesn’t work.. they don’t seem to convey what it is I’m feeling or trying to communicate.

[Peonies]

Welcome to tonight's discussion @Snowie! 

[Shaz51]

Hello @Renegade , @paintingallday 

ohh welcome @JIT 

hello @Peonies , @Snowie 

[Judi9877]

Hi @Peonies . Great question to start off with! For me, being creative means expressing myself in some shape or form by using my imagination to act as a voice to say how I feel or what I'm thinking. That could be through words, colours or textures, such as yarn or cotton. Sometimes even music as in the form of a certain song.

[Snowie]

To me being creative means the ability to express myself through different means

[Former-Member]

I'm here, hoping to pick up some tips to get me out of this couch potato rut I'm in :face_with_rolling_eyes: Wondering if @Faith-and-Hope, @Zoe7, @outlander and @greenpea are here ?

[paintingallday]

@Judi9877 i love that! "using my imagination to act as a voice"

[Peonies]

For me creativity is about doing something new, enacting an idea that I’ve thought about but for some reason haven’t done it yet. I really like @Renegade 's idea that being creative is not so much about the end product that you create, rather it’s about the act of doing it freely. I haven't thought of this before!