Hi, it's Andy here and welcome to Radio Headspace and to the end of the week, Friday

morning.

I'd like you to take a moment today just to think about the ways that you express creativity

in your life.

Maybe it's in your work, maybe it's in your spare time, maybe it's in the way that you

present yourself to the world, there are so many different ways of expressing creativity

and it's interesting as we grow up over time, how those expressions change and maybe the

intention and purpose behind them change and how that even begins to influence the expression

itself.

So how do we get back to that real innocence, expressing creativity in a way that is without

any purpose, without any reason, without any expectation?

And it's interesting, you think maybe sort of with children that they might do that,

but I notice even with my own children that although they're willing to experiment a lot

and they're maybe not making it necessarily with the intention to get approval at the

same time, there is definitely an idea having expressed that thing, to then sort of seek

approval for it and to feel better as a consequence.

As we get older, I think often commerce comes into play and especially if it's for our

work, we feel the need, there is a very real need to actually make something that other

people like.

So all of a sudden, I think the expression starts to be manipulated in some ways.

Now of course when it comes to commerce and a work, there's no real way around that,

that's kind of as it is and we have to find a way in our own mind to be okay with that.

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