What comes in the way of your creativity

In my journey of exploration of the human potential, once I was reflecting on why am I not able to create enough? What is it that blocks my way?

Because I had read that there is a system, a responsive universal intelligence present in your mind, which gives you new thoughts, new ideas to create value, to create whatever it is that you want..

And I was like…. I do not see my mind giving me new thoughts or ideas. Instead, whenever I look, I find my mind creating judgmental or negative thoughts.

After lots of reflection, I realized my mind had formed this negative habit of judging my mother’s action… “She doesn’t understand, She is like that only” (P.S.:-I love my mother a lot). After creating such negative thoughts, when I would sit to write/ create… guess what thoughts would go on in my head? Same quality of thoughts.  To get creative thoughts, I have to be in that space of mind where creative thoughts can come.

It is like if I am in Mumbai and I have to get something from a shop in Bangalore, I have to be in Bangalore (assuming that it is not available online). So, if I want creative thoughts, then I have to be in that place in my mind where I can get creative thoughts.

If I create judgmental thoughts, I reach to that space inside,  where I will get like quality thoughts. To think judgmental/ negative thoughts is like boarding a bus/ train which will take you to slum areas. Once you are out of the bus, you might wonder why am I seeing this filthy environment around me,  instead of posh buildings… Well that’s because you have got into that bus/train that takes you to such places.

Do we even take a pause before creating such negative thoughts of anger, blame, judgement, resentment, revenge, etc. We do not realize what harm that does to our minds… Not only to our minds, but also our body, our relationships, our success. Main thing is it blocks our way and does not let us access that magical space in our minds from where anything is possible.