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My name is Joy, and I love to write. Why poetry, here? Because poetry uplifts its writer, and if she is lucky enough, her readers, too. Around us, so many objects abound to write about. Once a poet starts with a smallest, most trivial object, he shall discover that his pen will spill out what is most delicate or most majestic hidden inside him. Since the classics sometimes dealt with lofty subjects with a lofty language, a person with poetry in his soul may incline to emulate that. That is understandable. Poetry does that to a person: it enlarges the soul and gives it wings. Yet, to really soar, a poet needs to take off from the ground. Kiya's gift. I love it!
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#857130 added August 11, 2015 at 2:14pm
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Does "Doing Nothing" Mean Really Doing Nothing?
Prompt: Several creative people, such as artists and authors, claim that relaxing and ‘doing nothing’ can be extremely beneficial for the creative process to follow. Do you believe this could work, I mean doing absolutely nothing? Has this been true for you, if ever?

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A few decades ago, I tried to do the mind-emptying meditation. It is the most difficult thing I have ever attempted. No matter how I try, I can only accomplish it only for a few seconds. Granted, if done well, this might be a soothing practice; however, to me, it showed that “doing nothing” is a myth.

On the other hand, doing something else other than the work at hand may have its benefits as it pulls the mind in a different direction, relaxes the person, and thus, opens him up to new ideas. When we are relatively inactive, that is watching or reading something or taking a walk, gardening, talking to friends, or engaging in a different hobby, we usually pay attention to our surroundings and to our own experience at hand. Doing something else that is pleasant and thinking over different things enable us to solve problems and come up with new ideas.

Doing anything without the pressure of achievement can be highly beneficial, since our potential of creativity may be blocked by that pressure and the pressure of our busy minds and lives. When we are in the relaxing mode, surprising ideas --either in pieces or in a framework and possibly from the deepest parts of our being-- may come to us suddenly on the things we need to achieve. Artists from all areas of life can attest to that.

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