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Re: What do YOU do when creativity dries up?



Kevin, thats interesting. I wonder if concentrated focus is better for the mind & therefor the body. It would make sense that 'creative blocks' would also be due to lack of concentrated focus. 

On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 7:58 PM, Kevin Cheli-Colando <billowhead@gmail.com> wrote:
I've noticed that when I get sick (cold, flu, etc.) I tend to have at
least one night, maybe two, where I spend nearly all of my dream time
working on one VERY simple math problem over and over and over and
over and, you get the idea.  Usually I will break the fever, sickness
shortly after that night's dreaming.

Just saying...

Kevin

On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 4:39 PM, william middlemiss
<billymiddlemiss@gmail.com> wrote:
> In all seriousness- when the 'organic' element leaves my work, or when 'I'
> am not present in my composing, I do math, and I serialize variables and
> proceed forward until a form presents itself. My being a former engineering
> student with a proclivity for working with patterns gave me a history of
> where to look, and what math to do, but it has become automatic. Completely
> to the point of 'doing it in my sleep.' --
Till now you seriously considered yourself to be the body and to have a
form. That is the primal ignorance which is the root cause of all trouble.

- Ramana Maharshi (1879-1950)

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