Pablo Picasso once said that of «if inspiration comes, let me find myself working«, An appointment that confirms the idea of not waiting for the muses, allowing everything to flow and inspiration to do so with our life, our movement. If you also encourage these everyday situations to take inspiration, possibly translating your ideas becomes something easier.
Public Transport
A few months ago I told you what the LaPrek literature, an Indian genre that emerged after the brilliant idea of a journalist from Delhi who began to write and draw about the people who took the subway with him every day. An example of how many times the simple contemplation of our surroundings can sow in us an idea that we can put on paper; Because, have you never secretly imagined what life would be like for the African woman who travels in front of you, that man who cries or the woman who travels with four children in tow? Think about it.
Practice meditation
Considered one of the oldest disciplines in the world, the Yoga It has become a recurrent in the West for those who seek to embrace greater balance and well-being. An activity that will always be recommended to complement with a meditation session in order to empty the mind and allow everything to flow, so that we can "reset" our psyche and allow new and creative ideas to conquer us. Best of all lies in the fact that a simple guided meditation that we listen to between incense and dim lights one evening at home can be an inexpensive and healthy way to succumb to inspiration. This is my favorite.
You are in one of those times when a good idea for a story it haunts your head but you don't know how to develop it and squeeze its full potential. It is then when you start a new book and curiously you realize how an author has been able to capture an idea beforehand difficult to get to a good port. There are also self-help books, mindfulness and many other ways to embrace inspiration, but perhaps rereading our favorite authors is the best way to reach new perspectives.
Paint mandalas
During the last years, the books to paint mandalas they have conquered adults from all over the world. Stressed people who borrow their children's Alpino pencils and begin to dwell on those mythical symbols of Hindu culture that monks fill with sand in remote temples. Paint mandalas, according to experts, relaxes the left hemisphere of the brain, that of reasoning, allowing to inhibit emotions and unleash more creativity. Have you tried it yet?
Watch the sunset
Watching the sunset should be an obligatory hobby for all of us, even if we don't think we have time to do it every day. Get out of work and decide to walk home, without setting an arrival time, take the opportunity to have tea, sit in a park and prepare to contemplate the orange sky in which so many ideas and impulses lie locked.
When I have ever told a friend that a large part of my ideas come to me washing the dishes, his face is a poem, but yes, I don't know what the Mistol or the Vileda will have, but whenever I start to wash the pots the ideas begin to flow, and obviously has an explanation. As with mandalas, scrubbing reduces stress and allows the right side of the brain to break free even more. The everyday situation that works best for me.
They say that traveling is the best way to capture inspiration, but in the middle of January, consider other alternatives like these everyday situations to take inspiration they become the best alternatives to those absent muses.
