Increase Creativity – How To Erase The Negative Thought Tapes In Your Head

Whatever external limitations you feel may be hindering your creativity, the bottom line is the only the person who can control how creative you are is you.

The reason you're not more creative is because there are negative voices in your mind telling you so.

How many of these negative thought tapes are you familiar with:

"You're not a REAL artist."

"You've never created anything worthwhile before, why would it happen now?"

"You don't deserve to spend time creating, it's selfish."

"You never finish a creative project so why are you bothering to start another?"

"Who told you that you had any talent anyway?"

With these kind of tapes looping round and round, it's no wonder your creativity is suffering.

Imagine you had a close friend who was an artist, and they were just beginning work on a new project. What kind of friend would you be if you were right in their face saying the kind of things listed above, over and over again until they felt too despondent and defeated to even think of starting their new project?

Yet that's exactly the kind of "friend" you're being to yourself when these negative tapes play again and again in your own thoughts!

So what can you do to overcome this? Is there a way of erasing the negative tapes for good?

The best approach is in two stages:

1. Turn down the volume of the negative thought tapes. You can't surgically remove these tapes from your mind, so the next best thing is to turn them down so low that you barely notice them. A great way of doing this is to embrace them and accept that the reason they're playing has a positive intention behind it. The intention is to keep you safe and protected, to help you avoid potential disappointments. When you embrace this positive intention, when you say: "Thank you DJ Negativity for your well intentioned concern, I appreciate it. But, you know what, I'm going to just turn down the volume of your big old sound system and get on with creating anyway."

2. Build up a collection of positive affirmations. Now the negative tapes are turned down, the next step is to add positive affirmations, so they become your preferred daily listening instead. Write out a set of 10 affirmations making them positive, personal and in the present tense. For example: "I am a highly creative person, creative ideas flow to me easily." This has the 3 powerful components: It's positive, personal (I am, me) and in present the present tense ("I AM" rather than "I would like to be...").

Follow these two vital steps and you'll find those negative thought tapes are so inaudible they may as well not be there at all...

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