Chasing an Inspiration

Have you experienced a creative meltdown? It's a time when you feel like writing a story, a poem or an an article, but then an inspiration has escaped your mind. If yes, let me tell you this, I feel for you guys. Yeah, I also often experience that and I hate it.

Most of the times as I experience it,  I just stare blankly on the wall wishing that an idea or topic would just pop up on my mind then the creative juices would just follow. But things didn't happen happen as I want them to be. Of course, nothing would really happen If I just continue doing that. So here's some of the things/ activities I do to help me let the creative juices flow and and something creative to come out.

• Go Online

          For me, Internet is really a big help. You can get a lot of informations from it since people upload music, videos, create articles and post illustrations onto different web sites every day. Also, on social networking sites, there are all sorts of online nooks and crannies to get inspiration from. Some of the sites I visit are: Tumblr.com, YouTube.com, and Pinterest.com. 

• Go Outside

          Sometimes our brain needs a different view or scenery to get it work again. What I do is that I stroll at the mall since it's only walking distance from our house or visit our neighborhood. For me, going outside serves as my break from all the stress I got even I'm just in our house because of over thinking, I guess. :)) With that, I'm also letting the surroundings surprise me- and from that surprise, I can now create something amazing.

• Nod Off

          I read from a magazine that a Harvard researcher said that sleep boosts your creativity by 33% and sleeping on new ideas and information will help the brain enhance creative problem solving. I admit that I often do this and I find it really helpful. I believe that we can come up with a fresher concept by taking a sleep or just a nap because our brain have reorganized itself and our brain cells had the chance to recuperate.

I believe we all have an endless supply of good and creative ideas locked in a closet in our mind and just waiting to be unleashed. Don't just lay there and wait for nothing. Pursue it! Let's chase that inspiration and creativity.