Follow me on Twitter The Creativity area (also called Creativity and Children) is about experiencing joy in your life. We can all think ‘abstractly’ about what brings us joy. The challenge as I see it, is to be devoted to experiencing joy.
The pace of life is such that for many of us, joy is the last thing on our list after all we have to do has been taken care of. What a small world we then create for ourselves! I have observed in my own life that I am often my own ‘make-work project’, but those projects that seem very important and even urgent at the time, are quickly forgotten. And I observe is that they take me away from what is truly important in life.
The effect of the Creativity area is to wake us up, for many people feel fully awake and alive when they are experiencing joy. These are the moments where we are ‘being’ instead of ‘doing’. Getting more done will not feed your soul — most of the time we can not even remember what we have done. Taking time to experience, for instance, a beautiful sunset can be an experience that stays with you forever. And experiencing joy in your life supports your health on all levels. The gift of Presence is the biggest we can give to ourselves and to each other.
~*~ When to Enhance the Creativity Area ~*~
You can enhance the Creativity area of your home according to the [tag]bagua[/tag] enhancements for this area, but better still, why not ‘be’ creativity? For many of us we will need to practice:
- putting yourself first
- avoid overbooking or creating more ‘busy’ work for yourself
- learning to delegate and say no
- identifying what brings you joy (a daily walk in nature, painting, reading a book, spending time with a friend, watching the sunset….there are endless possibilities.
- making time for joy a priority.
© Deborah Redfern, 2008. All rights reserved.
2 Responses to “The Bagua Map – The Creativity Area”
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What good advice, Deborah. It is so easy for us to get ourselves caught up in the “things we have to do” that we forget about ourselves…
Enhancing our creativity corner helps focus our minds on ourselves as well as giving our creativity the extra support it may need.
Hi Dave,
Thank you for taking the time to read our blog and comment. I too get so caught up in adminstrative details I forget to just be…
My office is in the creativity area of my abode. My desk sits between two windows and I have a view of the sky, trees and whatever birds are around. This time of year it is especially exciting and joyful. There are sparrows building nests, swallows out catching flies and many more hummingbirds around!