Happy Emotions Boost Creativity
Research shows happiness can boost your creativity. However, it could also make you less focused on your work.
If you are doing something that requires you be creative or be in a think tank, you want to be in a place with good mood. For example, if you are having difficulty solving a problem, a typical reaction is to get angry. But that can actually make it harder to solve the problem. One prescription is to go out and play to get yourself in a good mood, and then come back to the problem.
However, if you are doing some form of task that requires focus, many details or calculation, strangely, it might be better to be in a negative mood because the negative mood can filter out everything else. For example, an accountant often needs to come up with one right answer. You don't want the accountant to be distracted by other things. So, having a cranky accountant might be okay.
Source: ABC News
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Creativity is tied in with our emotions and our spirit. Actively enjoying creative pursuits allows us an outlet for our emotions that helps with stress and also allows us to connect within. It lets our imagination flow and our emotions release leading to healing, satisfaction and learning about ourselves as well as our true view of life and the world around us.
This is one of the favourite places on Peaceful Willow with an extensive poetry section that displays poems from our inspired visitors and team members. We also have a resident artist and writer, Ian Brown, who will be sharing more of his illustrations and inspired writing over time.
We would love you to send in anything that represents your own inner creative self, including photos of artwork and projects because we'll be starting a photo gallery soon too!
To the right you'll find our Creativity & Inspiration classifications (hold the mouse over each one to get an idea of the content) and below you will see articles. poems or stories that we have chosen as this month's features.
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As you'll see when browsing the Gallery, when you click on the thumbnail images in an album you will see the full-size photo and description. We will continue to add new albums as relevant so please don't be limited to the albums already there. Oh and please ignore the text on the main gallery page. It will be removed by our website host as soon as possible - something we're willing to put up with in the meantime for the lovely Gallery theme.
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