Message #1816

[Lauraa49]

This is interesting as I was just working on a article on this same subject. 

Creative Inspiration

Where does creative inspiration reallly come from? Is it generated from a thought,or a look,or can simply a mere word be the catalyst for it all. Is it  from our minds or a muse,or just some simple inner music at best.  What sets it off? What causes it to bubble up and spew forth like a volcano is erupting.

Is this a gift that all people have? They just haven't tapped into it's source is all. Or maybe they haven't recognized the beauty in the wit and wisdom that they hold within. Could it be buried  deep down or just laying under the skin? Waiting for that simple little thing that makes it bleed out through their skin.

For me sometimes a simple word is all it takes to cause it to erupt. When it starts flowing one thing is for sure. I need to find paper and pen pretty quick. If I don't write it down at least into crib notes, it appears to get lost. And there is no finding the same source of inspiration again. So it is then all lost, to pieces of a memory.

 To be  inspired must come from the heart, to feel it to be touched  or just to be moved by  a piece are all emotions and feelings generated from there. Then to commit them  to paper an be able touch another persons heart is witt and wisdom and the mechanics of the mind that expand it till it's worthy to note. Inspiration whether derived from love or pain, humor or anger surely starts in a little bubble locked deep inside. Then the  key to it's release is found in the mind. Whether it is  wisdom or wit or buried ancient knowledge, creative inspiration must start in the heart. Isn't that where all truly great things start?

And when it erupts what should we do with it. Is it to be created and channelled in the text of a poem, a story, a painting or a song. Or expanded immensely inside of the next medication for the benefit of us all. There is no limit to how creative inspiration can be channelled. Is it in beautiful glass or the pattern you cut into your grass? Or the sweet sauce you made to spash in droplets on my plate.

Would a person explode if creativity is not let out? Could this be the true meaning of spontaneous combusion after all.  If it is not let out does it turn into dust as it atrophies?  It does not matter if it is great or just okay. What matters most is we let our hearts and our minds channell it out  for dsiplay. Let it out, set it free, it may just be the next great piece of jewelry or pottery we see. You might be surprised when creativity starts to rise and the  masterpiece starts to appear.

And all of us sensitive souls will tell you creative expression is often the way we let out all the frustration, the anger , the bitterness, the low self esteems. We hold it all in  mostly out of fear. So when it starts to flow look out. Our expression is magnified ten fold. We create with all the love and anger we have bottled up inside. So when Our bleeding starts it is often a gusher of emotion, we have set free.

Your creative inspiration may just be buried beneath that thin layer of skin  that covers the key, that is holding the door shut on your creative energy.

So let it free!!!

L.Lanham
8/09/09