How To Increase Creativity By Celebrating Your Senses

All art in some way stimulates your senses. The more it does so, the more impact it has, and the more memorable it becomes.

This works on two levels - the direct and the indirect arousal of your senses.

Here's an example: Think about one of your favourite songs. Why do you enjoy it so much? It's likely you enjoy it on a pure sound level, you just like listening to the combination of instruments and layers. You probably also enjoy the singer's voice and how it makes you feel. These are direct stimulations of your senses.

How To Increase Creativity By Celebrating Your Senses

At a more indirect level, you absorb the lyrics - "the soft invitation in the scent of your warm skin", "the silhouette of the town we called home", or "the tears I'd swallow each time you left"...

These all describe scenes and feelings using the senses and encourage you to connect with memories you have in your own life of similar sensations and experiences. It follows then that if art is about arousing the senses, to be more creative ourselves and explore our full creative potential, we need to be in touch with our own senses as fully as we can.

In reality we often go about our business as if we were in a deep sea diving suit, almost entirely dulled to the sensations of the world around us. If we don't enjoy and appreciate our own senses, how can we possibly enrich what we create with a similar warmth and depth of sensation and feeling?

A great way to practice enhancing your senses is to fully focus on just one at a time.

Go somewhere new to you, where there's plenty of stimulation. It could be a busy city, or it could be in the depths of a forest, but make sure it's somewhere you're unfamiliar with. Take a sketchbook with you, then spend 5 minutes at least concentrating on each of your senses in turn, before writing down everything you experienced with that sense in your sketchbook after. Then move on to the next sense.

Return to a place you're far more familiar with the same plan. Spend time focusing on each sense and note down the sensations you feel. You'll be amazed at how much extra detail you're now aware of that you took for granted before. Repeat this sense arousing type of exercise regularly and it can't help but enhance your creativity.

Whatever you create, you'll be more of aware of the senses your art is stimulating, and how to make it more effective, more powerful, more sensual. Celebrate your senses today, and see the natural increase in your creativity.

How To Increase Creativity By Celebrating Your Senses
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