Creativity needs space : Our mind needs creativity

It is said that Creativity needs space to breathe that inspires you and not suffocates you. Creativity needs space to reflect on. If your mind needs to be creative, it needs space. What does it mean for a mind to need space? I will embark you on the journey to a destination that I found very recently.

Exploring what I missed?

I always wanted to do so many things. But I can do 10% of what I expect myself to do. I started thinking about what can I change so I can maximize what I do. By the way, knowing that you have a problem is half battle won. I realized 3 things I missed was Discipline, Prioritization and Time management.

As Robin Sharma concisely present in his book "Who will cry when you die" that one should practice tough love. Self-discipline is tough love towards your own self. Discipline allows you to do whatever you know in your heart you should be doing that is good for you. Self-discipline helps you make clear goals and manage time effectively. Let's say you have 10 things on the plate and you want all thing to get done. You get diverted by your wandering mind or an addictive social media that manipulates you to scroll aimlessly. Flipside, if you are aware and you are disciplined, you can pull yourself to do what you are supposed to do instead of doing what you feel like doing. You may never feel like waking up early, exercise, follow the diet, meditate. But, you do it anyway because you know that's good for you. Having the guts to do it anyway is what we call discipline.

Execute the missing blocks, but...

Once I knew what I need to work on, I started to put myself together so I can channelize all my mental energy to maximize my productivity by being disciplined. However, there was something that was draining my energy exhausting it. I was very disappointed as I know what I can do off and still not being able to do. I contemplated what I missed. I tried to get views of many people and asked them questions: "How do you get so many things done?" I got great advice. I was still not able to execute until the time I realized that I had to read in between the lines to know what is the issue. I love to meditate and usually, meditation helps to know how your mind works. During one of my meditation, I got this realization that Creativity needs space. If my mind is filled with Lower Qualities like stress, anxiety and depression, it consumes space.

And I unfold the secret.

But hey wait, how to get rid of this feeling, we don't have a guarantee that we will never have pain in life. Sometimes I do give my 100% I still don't get the success that makes me anxious and depressed. So to understand that let's take a mathematical equation of Bhagwad Gits Chapter 2 Verse 47, the most famous Shloka :

कर्मण्येवाधिकारस्ते मा फलेषु कदाचन ।

मा कर्मफलहेतुर्भुर्मा ते संगोऽस्त्वकर्मणि ॥

You have a right to perform your prescribed duties, but you are not entitled to the fruits of your actions. Never consider yourself to be the cause of the results of your activities, nor be attached to inaction.

Gx + Uy  =  S

G = God/Destiny/Higher power Variable
U = You Variable
S= Success

Here, Success is the sum of the G's variable weight and U variable weight. What you can control is "U" and what you cant is "G". We can maximize U as much as we want, but there is always G which contributes to this equation. Now, do you believe that God/Destiny/Higher power/own higher self (whatever you believe in) has a better vision of what is good for you? If you don't, try to look at a time where you thought you are having worst experience in your life and as you proceed in future you realized "Thank God that happened".

What brings stress in the time of uncertainty is that we don't know what God has planned for you in future, we need to be hopeful and keep faith in it by Letting go of our worries because God knows much better and is more intelligent and wiser than what you can decide for yourself.

Wait what, but we were talking about how to maximize our productivity and you started talking about keeping faith in destiny? I did not quite catch that? Once you let go your stress anxiety by keeping faith in variable G, you get all the space and time to worry about your variable U. You can make the space by being happy and letting go of the worry. When you are the best version of yourself, you can maximize what you can achieve.

Next time pain hits you or uncertainty strikes you, you are not going to cling on it by letting your mind consume the space but tell them that :

"Hey Dear, stay with me as long as you teach me the wisdom you think its important for me to learn,"