Working With Our Emotions To Be More Creative
Douglas Eby
Writer/online publisher on emotional health, creative people, personal growth psychology, high sensitivity, giftedness, and more. M.A./Psychology. I am highly sensitive & 2E, among other facets.
How can we live and work better our strong emotions?
Creative people experience a wide range and depth of intense emotions, and use that wealth of feeling to create art.
But we may also at times feel overwhelmed.
The idea of overseeing or regulating emotions is not necessarily about suppressing or stifling, but about staying aware and in control of our feelings, to live with a higher level of well-being, in order to be more creative.
Highly sensitive people have stronger emotional inner lives
Actor and musician?Gloria Reuben?(photo), for example, has commented about experiencing emotions – especially in the intense way many artists do:
“The thing I love most about acting is that while I am doing a scene, I am allotted all of the freedom to feel.
“Sometimes, actually I find that most times in life, one is not able to fully express what one feels.
“And I am the kind of person that feels so much that if I didn’t have acting (and music), I would burst from all of the emotion inside!”
She has also said, “My sensitivity is my superpower.”
Continued, with comments by other artists and psychologists, in article Working With Our Emotions To Be More Creative.
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