As the leaves fall in a sunny autumn day, I remember childhood moments watching maple seeds turn like a helicopter and hit the ground. I do not understand why, but there is a sense of joy attached to those memories.
These moments of joy, once assembled, are printed in our memory in some way admirable — always there to be recovered when we most need to be raised. I think every time a child is one of those moments, his life will be better. The moments of joy that I remember most often associated with me or see a beautiful landscape or the sunset or the participation in creative activities – guitar, singing, drawing or paint. Creativity – Learning music or art – can make a simple joy in your heart, and a sense of accomplishment.
This question is at the heart why I'm determined to get more people to take the time to stop and "smell the roses", or participate in something creative, whether the arts and crafts, painting or music. I write these things often, because I really believe these things are more time-filling activities – that loads the soul!
So what kind of effort is needed to make happy memories? This is not really difficult, except for the first – Getting Started. When you are in a state of inertia (movement, or alteration of its usual form), it takes more energy to enter a new address. Imagine it this way – he is lying comfortably in a chair and stand on your feet have a lot of muscles that is committed to standing. Once on his feet with the necessary muscles in gait, walking takes very little effort. How to start a burst of energy, but once you move, walk, etc, seems effortless.
Thus the transition works when someone begins to learn a new skill or art form. The first part takes some serious effort. The parts of the brain are involved, which can not be used as often as others – and the new information is flooding your mind – that May has more physical coordination that must be practiced and learned, like how to hold a guitar and make your fingers press the strings to make arrangements. But when "Stand up" with new skills to learn, starting to move more easily with this past, and things start to look like a "click" into place (such as assembling jigsaw pieces in place).
And finally, can be an "aha moment – or maybe a little more practice and more (I do not understand at all the right each time) and then suddenly, it works like you I always felt he owed. This is the "eureka" moment that can make a huge sense of accomplishment and even a sense of joy. The key is to start and practice so you can be part of your life that is so easy and free as a falling leaf.
I remember a Eureka "unforgettable" moment that was where, in a kind of pastel painting. We were heating up with several drawings and paintings of pastel portrait. My painting is not right and my work was finished just does not work for nothing! So, we started to paint again (with a different model) I tried to work through my frustrations and just started focusing on the colors and mix (which certainly can be done with pastels, almost as much as oil paint), and I worked on my drawing of the object and then just started to enjoy working in the shadows.
After a few classes of work on the same portrait, I began to feel that everything I've tried in the past was coming together – I was in that magical zone, where you could not miss – was the feeling that I will not forget. And it is amazing how this feeling of accomplishment that will remove the frustration of my first attempts at low or deficient. The result is that my painting has proven to be one of the most beautiful portraits I've done. And to this day I am surprised and delighted to have had this experience (which for me is much more valuable than the actual work that I created).
If I could give everyone know that the best present ever, would be for them to have that feeling at least once in their life. But an initial effort is usually required to achieve at this point, and there is no guarantee that everything we are trying to learn or succeed.
A vehicle to begin the process is needed, whether it is through taking painting lessons, guitar lessons, cooking classes – whatever can get you enthused and excited. The only way to know for sure is to try and see – make learning new things a kind of experiment to see if it will be something you want to keep as part of your life. Learning and creating as “experiments” can make it fun, too! They let us learn about new techniques, gain new skills, but best of all, they help us gain new insights about ourselves and can create new and lasting moments of joy.
E.R. Gibson is a believer in creativity and makes a living at it as a professional graphic designer and desktop publisher. When not working on graphics and design, she is engaged in blogging on the website Guitar Lessons for Beginners.
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