Blog Post I: Learning to run with your ideas.

I can say without a doubt that part of the reason i love creating things so much is because it feels like giving my ideas a form; a place in existence where it can not just be an idea. And being able to create such things was not as easy as it used to be for me. Today i want to talk about running with the ideas you get, big or small. just to see where they take you. And most importantly, how running with how your mind works can help you enter a flow state of your art.

A couple years ago i was in the music education system, and even before that i was in bands and learning different kinds of instruments all the time. I had spend a lot years doing this, learning songs from various bands and genres until i was comfortable with the instrument. However, when i entered music school to be a professional artist, i quickly realized how hard it was to write on my own, and worse yet what inspired me to make music in the first place. It was a sobering first term for me needless to say, as it went on, those worrying thoughts kept sinking. I felt like my creative faucet had never really been allowed to properly open, letting out how i wanted to make my art, no matter how good i was at these instruments to play them.

When second term came around, the class that really started to show me what i was missing was a class called “The Art of Flow".” This class was designed on finding out what makes you start creating and why it lights the fire in the first place. Out Professor went on to say that everyone is creative, and that we all make creative decisions whether we think of ourselves as artists or not. The only thing that really makes an artist an artist is their ability to tap into that creativity and flow with it in a sort of bond that carries their thoughts out to the farthest it can carry them. Your individuality, your thoughts and being, they are all what makes you creative, you just need to run with it. And to me, this shaped why i wanted to continue trying my craft in the first place.

See, to me what he said was is that you yourself are the reason you are creative. That the main driving force behind why i want to make anything is because i want to show how i feel on a canvas, or in my music’s case is concerned, a song. But by not being able to tap into my own creativity for so long, learning other peoples songs and never trying to make something myself, i had simply never conditioned myself to think like that. I feel like there’s a lot of merit in the individuality we all want and have from one person to the next and yet we all have the ability to connect and interpret these feelings differently.

As time went on, i stuck with these ideals, and they helped me enter a flow state simply by understanding i’m the person that i am. I may not be the best at something, but i’m not trying to be. What’s important to me is getting my ideas to a canvas, and enjoying the different ideas I have. Because they help me not only understand and improve my art, but it helps me improve myself too.