Monday, April 04, 2005
a healthy dose of creativity
Thought I'd share another fun article from The Kick In the Tush e-mail newsletter from Our Lady of Weight Loss (with a few extra links I found sprinkled throughout). It's all about using brain and creative power to distract yourself from food, making yourself not only a smaller person physically, but a bigger person mentally!
Creative Acts of Weight Loss
Who is creative? You! Research shows that any person of average intelligence or aptitude is capable of committing creative acts of weight loss. (When you made breakfast this morning, Did you create a healthy start to the day? Or did you create a donut-filled sugar-rush-filled morning?)
Consider Heritage Illustrated Dictionary's definition of creativity:
Create: To cause to exist, Bring into being, Originate, To give rise to (Did you ever bake a cake?) Bring about, Produce, To be first to portray and give character to a role or part (I played the part of a heavy girl for decades. I should have received an Oscar.) Creation: An original product of human invention or imagination. Creative: Characterized by originality and expressiveness, imaginative.
Your creativity is shaped by your experiences, your talent (yes, you are naturally loaded with it), your ability to think and approach subjects in new ways (looking at weight loss from a new angle, as in weight loss is fun), and your capacity to push through despite missteps, mishaps, and slip-ups (it’s not hopeless - no matter how many times you have failed; it’s just part of the process).
Be excited. You're on the Road to Sveltesville. Yahoooo! Enthusiasm will give you a creative boost and you will naturally approach weight loss with an open mind and from a more positive and creative place. Our Lady of Weight Loss is convinced that vast creative resources lie dormant within you. You can realize your potential. You can integrate the essence of who you are – your ‘thinner-core’ - into your weight loss plan.
Knock down those self-imposed “I can’t do this. This is too hard.” barriers! Be creative about your weight loss plan.
Here are some ways to help get your creative juices flowing (and to keep you out of the kitchen):
Listen to music by Johann Sebastian Bach.
Journaling – Morning pages a la Julia Cameron's The Artist’s Way.
Fresh Input – Do something new each day. (Listen to a new radio station; read a different magazine; take an alternative route to work). Note: I did not say to watch a new television show.
If you insist that you must draw to be creative, try Betty Edwards’ book – Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain. As it turns out, drawing is something anybody can do.
Do the 'happiness' exercise. Write the word Happiness in the middle of a sheet of paper, draw lines radiating out,circling around it from the word. What random thoughts about happiness come forward? Write them down. Try not to think. Just go with it. (Note: You might be surprised to see what does not enter the happiness picture.)
Adopt a Genius for Your Role Model – Read about your favorite genius. Maybe you’ll learn something about yourself!
LINKS:
Creativity Facts
Ten Steps to Boosting Your Creativity
Creativity and You, by Harry Hoover - an eye-opening e-zine article.
Creative Acts of Weight Loss
Who is creative? You! Research shows that any person of average intelligence or aptitude is capable of committing creative acts of weight loss. (When you made breakfast this morning, Did you create a healthy start to the day? Or did you create a donut-filled sugar-rush-filled morning?)
Consider Heritage Illustrated Dictionary's definition of creativity:
Create: To cause to exist, Bring into being, Originate, To give rise to (Did you ever bake a cake?) Bring about, Produce, To be first to portray and give character to a role or part (I played the part of a heavy girl for decades. I should have received an Oscar.) Creation: An original product of human invention or imagination. Creative: Characterized by originality and expressiveness, imaginative.
Your creativity is shaped by your experiences, your talent (yes, you are naturally loaded with it), your ability to think and approach subjects in new ways (looking at weight loss from a new angle, as in weight loss is fun), and your capacity to push through despite missteps, mishaps, and slip-ups (it’s not hopeless - no matter how many times you have failed; it’s just part of the process).
Be excited. You're on the Road to Sveltesville. Yahoooo! Enthusiasm will give you a creative boost and you will naturally approach weight loss with an open mind and from a more positive and creative place. Our Lady of Weight Loss is convinced that vast creative resources lie dormant within you. You can realize your potential. You can integrate the essence of who you are – your ‘thinner-core’ - into your weight loss plan.
Knock down those self-imposed “I can’t do this. This is too hard.” barriers! Be creative about your weight loss plan.
Here are some ways to help get your creative juices flowing (and to keep you out of the kitchen):
Listen to music by Johann Sebastian Bach.
Journaling – Morning pages a la Julia Cameron's The Artist’s Way.
Fresh Input – Do something new each day. (Listen to a new radio station; read a different magazine; take an alternative route to work). Note: I did not say to watch a new television show.
If you insist that you must draw to be creative, try Betty Edwards’ book – Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain. As it turns out, drawing is something anybody can do.
Do the 'happiness' exercise. Write the word Happiness in the middle of a sheet of paper, draw lines radiating out,circling around it from the word. What random thoughts about happiness come forward? Write them down. Try not to think. Just go with it. (Note: You might be surprised to see what does not enter the happiness picture.)
Adopt a Genius for Your Role Model – Read about your favorite genius. Maybe you’ll learn something about yourself!
LINKS:
Creativity Facts
Ten Steps to Boosting Your Creativity
Creativity and You, by Harry Hoover - an eye-opening e-zine article.
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