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How To Tap Back Into Your Inner Creative
From the moment we open our mouths as babies we are shushed.
When we are kids and talk too much, we are told to shut up.
In school, it was rare for a teacher to want us to produce a creative thought. Instead, we are told to memorize and repeat. But on the rare occasion that our creativity isn’t suppressed, were magically supposed to conjure up an original thought on demand.
We are born into this world curious and happy. We want to learn. We want to please. We want to laugh, dance, play sing.
Until the moment someone tells us that isn’t ok. Until a parent gives us an embarrassed look. Until we are yelled at, being told to act normal.
Life literally shuts off that tap into our inner creative.
But it’s still down there — though deeply buried under expectations, rules, and experiences. We can still dig it back up; if we are brave enough.
Because our inner child never dies; they were simply pushed away into a dark corner. And all of our creativity — the kind we had before society told us it wasn’t important — is held within that inner child.
So how do we connect with that part of us again?
