Artists Traits and Increasing Creativity
Artists have unique traits including being able to take two completly opposite ideas and generate a new unique ideas while being able to processes the things around them on many different layers at once. Creative people are senstive and bold, smart and navie, playful and disciplined, imaginative and logical, passionate about their work and objective at the same time. Artist can use science and imagination to create unique pieces of art. They are known to be unconventional, risk takers, and to make waves. Passionate interests run high in creative people who are often courious about everything. Artist have tolerance for uncertianity when the rules are not logical or are nonexistent.
Creative and non creative people can improve their creativity by learning to be self-accepting, to play often, to be open to ideas, to fill their visual well, to look at all the possiblities in any situation, and learn to brainstorm. People usually have an inner dialog or self-talk and what we say to ourselves will determine in part our sucess in life. One way to increase creativity is to tame the cirtic in us, so that limiting self-statments do not prevent us from being sucessful. The less power we give to our negative inner dialog the more creative we can become. In order for us to remain creative or to increase our creativity, we need to expose ourselves to many different images and ideas while being fully awake and alert to the things around us. If you don't know how to brainstorm than learn the steps, so that your ideas are increased. The brainstorming steps include defining the problem, writing down all the possiblities even if they seem odd, than chose three of these and try them out, than keep the one that works the best.
The Dystonic Writer
I am a passionate writer and artist who craves to learn new words and their meanings faster. I am a painter who paints for hours on end in an obsessive special manic stance that only writers and artist purposely generate. I am a dream sleeper who creatively solves problems, dreams up new innovative ideas, and fully paints in her sleep. I wake up with full paintings completed, in my mind, with multicolored layers of delight. My poetry comes fully formed in rhythmic layers as I move the sleepiness from my eyes. I am a Dystonic writer and I have wonderful stories to tell, articles to write, and a passion for life. I am a dreamer.
I was not prepared for this thing called Dystonia and its ugly ability to steal the love of my life. I was not ready to have my painting life end or words stop in their tracks between my mind and the paper before me. I was starving for the creative life, that I wanted filled with writers, artists, and an enthusiastic life. I set my dreams aside for years because of this dystonic life, which stole my ability to write but I painted when I could, left-handed. Only my tremors spread to my left hand too and I could not afford to lose it to the dystonic life, so I stopped painting for years, until one day when I could not stand the ache in my heart any longer; I went back to college and learned to paint with my whole body in gross movements. I found the delight of my life once more but I was a legally blind painter and printmaker for several months when I could not see due to the orbital pseudotumors. The inflammation from some strange unrelated medical condition, the steroids, the cataracts from the steroids, threaten to take my art, my vision and my life.
I moved across the county, back to the Pennsylvania and New Jersey area, because I thought I get help from the place where I was first diagnosed. I received the greatest gift, I could ever ask for, I found a doctor who could inject Botox in my arm and give me back the life I craved and missed so badly but my struggle wasn’t over. As faith would have it, I lost my job and my medical insurance. I thought I would be going back to an empty uncreative life or at least a compromised one. My friends kept me going, with their encouragement, while I tried to start my own Life Coaching business. As you probably know it takes a while for any business to be successful, so in the meantime I cannot afford the Botox. Than faith, stepped up and I applied for the Botox Advantage Program but I felt bad that I a well-educated, independent person would need such a program. After all, wasn't I supposed to make it with all this education and experience, even if my own body betrayed me? No one can pay for the cost of Botox or the injections alone. I was accepted into the Botox Advantage Program and I will receive one year of Botox and injections because my doctor was willing to help me when I could not do it all by myself. Perhaps, the Dystonic life is not so bad because now I can write, paint, dance, and encourage the dystonic community to fill their dreams and delights. I have found a purpose in my life, my delight, and some of the best friends I could ever ask for. Luckily, the psuedotumors went away with radiation. I am a Life and Creativity Coach for people with Dystonia, Artists, and Writers, and I help people over the phone. I could use a few more clients, so if you want my help in finding the passion in your life than call me at 215-853-2615 and leave a message or email me at terricreativity@yahoo.com. We will work out the fee and I will keep my lights on for you.
Terri Sterling, MA
Will Coaching help you?
Do you have unfulfilled dreams? Have you lost your motivation because you are tired of struggling? Would you like to reduce your anxiety and live the life you have been dreaming of? Than maybe coaching can help you to reduce your fears, find out what motivates you, inspire you, and help you to develop your talents. Coaching can help you nourish your soul with creativity while living a life with Essential Tremor, Dystonia, or a movement disorders.
Coaching is a way for you to become invested in your future and in your present life. It can help you learn what motivates you and how to overcome the obstacles in your way that may be preventing you from living a fulfilling satisfied life. Coaching can increase your awareness of the statements you say to yourself, which can be limiting the success you seek. People with essential tremor and movement disorders may not have complete control over their bodies but they do have the ability to decide how they will view their life. Creativity can help you to cope and solve the difficulties that keep you stuck in a rut. Do not let your disability prevent you from fulfilling your dreams, instead, take charge of your life by creating proactive goals for your future.
The results of Essential Tremor and Dystonia can create social, career, family, and relationship issues. When each person learns they have a movement disorder, it may be a relief to have a name for it, and to find a compassionate doctor who is willing to help us. Our family members have to adjust watch the pain we may be experiencing, and can be at a lost for comforting words. Our families are affected as plans are changed, social isolation sets in, and financial difficulties arise. As each family member becomes overwhelmed, communication can break down, causing relationship issues. In the meantime, your dreams are getting lost in the struggle to survive and adjust to having a life with a disability. Coaching can help you find a way to fill your dreams and lead a satisfied life.
Movement disorders and essential tremor can be difficulty to cope with. Dystonia is a rare neurological condition, which causes involuntary muscle contractions to force the body into abnormal movements and postures. Dystonics often have tremors in their hands or other places, which looks similar to Essential Tremor. Having tremors can create social issues and misunderstanding as people misinterpret your body language. Eating in public can be difficult if your tremors are bad enough that controlling a fork and knife is difficult. If you are having, difficulty living a fulfilled satisfied life than coaching can help you adjust to having a disability and can enhance your life. The coach and the therapist have an equal relationship.
Terri Sterling is the owner of Inspiration a private coaching business for people who are creative or who have movement disorders. She has a masters in psychology and 13 years of experience. Terri has generalized Dystonia, which affects her ability to physically writer. She recently started receiving Botox, so she can write like any abilded-bodied person.
Terri
