Working With Our Emotions To Be More Creative
“Learning self-regulation allows creative people to visit those emotional extremes without getting stuck there.” Psychologist Cheryl Arutt How do you work with your strong emotions? Creative people...
View ArticleMeditation for Emotional Health and Creativity
How can meditation and mindfulness training benefit our emotional health, change the quality of our thinking and enhance our creativity? What do you think meditation is? Maybe a retreat into nature by...
View ArticleJessica Chastain and High Sensitivity
Jessica Chastain is such an emotionally powerful, dynamic and expressive actor, in films including “The Tree of Life”; “The Debt”; “Lawless,” and “The Help,” for which she was nominated for an Oscar....
View ArticleJessica Chastain: “I’m not an actor to be a personality.”
Why choose to be an actor? Or pursue any form of creative expression? The answers help define our identity as a creative person, and fuel our motivation. Actor Ciarán Hinds recalled an armourer who...
View ArticleActors coping with rejection
One of the elements in the life of many actors, and other artists, is auditioning – and getting rejected. Whether it’s feedback you have asked for, a remark from an audience or a ‘no’ at an audition,...
View ArticleEmotionally vulnerable and connected to be more creative
How can being emotionally vulnerable help you be more creative as an actor or other artist? Kerry Washington on acting and being vulnerable. “Acting was about really the escapism – it was about loving...
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