Unleash your creativity with hypnotherapy and self-hypnosis

Submitted by sophie on Mon, 06/16/2008 - 17:33.

So I have just been browsing through one of my favourite magazines, Scientific American Mind, which has this great lead article called, 'How to Unleash Your Creativity'.

The article is an interview with three leading experts on creativity: Julia Cameron, author of 'The Artist's Way'; John Houtz, a psychologist and author of books on the educational psychology of creativity; and Robert Epstein, visiting scholar at the University of San Diego and author of several books on creativity.

What leaps out at me from all the different ideas explored in this article is the experts' agreement that everyone is creative in some way and that creativity is something that can be taught, cultivated and developed through particular exercises and techniques and by understanding certain approaches. 

In the article, Epstein says:

'One thing I like to do with people is to give them permission to have a daydream. We all just close our eyes and daydream together. It can be quite a liberating experience. Virtually everyone has amazing daydreams and dreams, and those can be used to boost creative output. In fact, when you really start letting yourself go, you can end up with too many ideas.'

Yes! And what better way to allow yourself to dream and day-dream than to use self-hypnosis. Or even Hypnotic Journaling. :-)

And, of course, you can use hypnotherapy to let go of any limiting blocks and beliefs that may have been holding you back from dreaming those dreams.

Although quite general, the article is well worth taking a look at as an introduction to some of the ideas and research in the area of the psychology of creativity.