by admin-eric | Jul 9, 2021 | Fine Arts America
Hello, artists, check this out! The Great Creativity Toolkit is now available! It’s got more than 50 video lessons from creativity coaches worldwide, perfect for every creative person! What does it take to live a creative life? What will help you become the writer,...
by admin-eric | Jul 2, 2021 | Fine Arts America
I often advise clients to “take a walk by the lake,” by which I mean “get out of the house” and “get out of your head.” There’s just about no better way to solve a creative problem or to incubate a new idea than to take a walk. Many of our great geniuses pencilled in...
by admin-eric | Jun 26, 2021 | Fine Arts America
Sigmund Freud had many culturally-based, biased ideas (for instance, about “hysterical women”), many weird ideas, many off-base ideas, and many brilliant ideas. One of his very smartest ideas was the notion of “defense mechanisms,” a subject that his daughter Anna...
by admin-eric | Jun 17, 2021 | Fine Arts America
Life is certainly paradoxical. We can darken our mood if, as we are engaged with a creative project, it isn’t going well. If we don’t like what we’ve just written, painted, or composed, that hardly lifts our spirits. On the other hand, when we’re in a blue mood, doing...
by admin-eric | Jun 12, 2021 | Fine Arts America
When I first started out as a family therapist, I created a very simple, quick “mindfulness meditation” that I employed between client sessions. Beginning therapists generally find their first sessions highly stressful, because they imagine that they are supposed to...
by admin-eric | Jun 4, 2021 | Fine Arts America
It is much easier to catch an idea by sitting quietly than by trying to chase it. It is easier to come up with the idea for your next novel by walking around the lake than by banging your head against a wall. It is sometimes more productive to not produce anything new...
