Emotional Health & Creative People

As highly sensitive people know, there are advantages to our trait, such as a deeper response to others and the world, and increased creativity – but there can also be emotional and mental health challenges for us.

“I do my morning meditation and then it’s like taking a shower for my brain. And I immediately feel ahead of the game and I feel charged for the day."

The Creative Mind Daily for April 30 includes:
*‘Gifted Kid Artist’ at 6 launches company
*Rose Byrne on fear and focus
*Growing Up Gifted: Male and Female
*Eckhart Tolle Teaching Presence | etc

Lady Gaga once commented about one of the common experiences of many artists: a racing mind.

She said she used prescription medicine because “I can’t control my thoughts at all. I’m tortured. But I like that.

“Lorca says it’s good to be tortured. The thoughts are unstoppable – but so is the music. It comes to me constantly.”

Coach Cheryl Richardson notes "The Tapping World Summit starts next week and I'm happy to help kick off this event with a special video interview I did with Jessica Ortner of The Tapping Solution.

"During our conversation, I tell the story of how tapping changed my life and I also share stories of how it's been successful in my work with others."

Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) or Tapping is "a healing modality that combines ancient Chinese acupressure and modern psychology." The technique involves "tapping" on the meridian points of your body while focusing on the issue you want to work on. Doctors are turning to it when nothing else works.

How do emotions and energy impact us? How do interactions with others involve energy? What does this have to do with stress, intuition, and creativity?

Jewel on practicing mindfulness -- She said “I really want to help people understand that they have self-agency. They can be an architect of a life that they choose. They just have to be willing to be self-aware.”

She is a presenter at the free Mindfulness & Meditation Summit January 22-31, 2018. http://thecreativemind.info/Mindfulness-and-Meditation-Summit

She says in the video: “I noticed that sitting in front of the computer I’d actually start to feel little bit ill. Then I started wearing the shield all the time and I feel fine… I can do longer projects on the computer.”

Many creative, sensitive, highly intelligent people may feel like misfits. One example: Lady Gaga - she says in high school “I used to get made fun of for being either too provocative or too eccentric, so I started to tone it down. I didn’t fit in, and I felt like a freak.” She was awarded with early admission, at age 17, to Tisch School of the Arts.

The Creative Mind for May 12 - Posts include:
*Inside Out and Emotional Health
*To Master Your Art, Master Your Mind
*Working with emotions
*Relationships for exceptional people | etc

Judith Orloff, M.D. is a psychiatrist, an Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at UCLA, and leads workshops on intuition, energy, and medicine.

She thinks “Fear is the biggest energy thief there is. A master seducer and gigantic source of negative energy, fear shamelessly robs of us of everything good and powerful, preys on our vulnerabilities.”

“You live with a lot of complicated emotions as an actor..." Nicole Kidman
Therapist Mihaela Ivan Holtz notes, "Your art – singing, acting, dancing, or writing – allows you to fully feel and express the depth of your inner world. At the same time, you may confuse your need to live in your inner world with getting trapped in there…"

“We also need to be cautious about how we proceed, as over-generalization and the flippant ways some people throw down the concept that they’re ‘having a panic attack’ can also minimize the severity of what’s going on.

Can practicing mindfulness increase our emotional resilience and help us deal with stress and anxiety? More and more research supports the idea.

Kelly Brogan MD writes:

Waiting sucks.

That’s why we have instant coffee, quick dry nail polish, and Amazon Prime. We have industrialized an entire culture around the premise that waiting is an unnecessary waste of time, and that quicker gratification of our impulses and desires is the whole point of technology.

There is a tacit assumption imbedded within this premise, however: that time is a commodity that, itself, can be shrunken and truncated without consequence.

Is that really true?

A number of actors and other performers talk about dealing with stage fright, or experiencing other kinds of anxiety and emotional health challenges.

Tami Simon: Let’s start right with self-acceptance as a topic that you care about – why is this an important topic to you personally

Elizabeth Gilbert: Well, I mean I’ve kind of been a student of it my whole life because I’ve had to be, because its absence – it’s moments of absence – in my life have brought me the darkest pain I’ve ever been in.

Host Mark Hyman, MD notes:
"Over 100 million Americans struggle with psychiatric disorders. 40 million have anxiety. 20 million are diagnosed with depression.
"Is it just bad luck? Or is there something deeper going on in the body that has not been addressed by most practitioners?

Are you like many talented people who experience self-limiting impostor thinking and feelings, despite your accomplishments?

It is possible to overcome impostor syndrome. Here are suggestions based on research.

Also in article is link to Crush Your Impostor Syndrome - Live Webinar Friday, January 19th Noon-2:00pm Eastern

Mark Hyman, MD writes about his online Broken Brain documentary series:

"All medicine can be simplified into a few basic principles and concepts, or natural laws, that explain all disease and suffering. These concepts affect our mood, behavior, attention, memory, and overall brain function."