Based on the information you’ve shared in the quiz, the category that best reflects where you are on the path home to your full potential is “Creativity Adventurer".

Whether purely intuitively and/or through curious observation you have obviously developed some pretty reliable ways of tapping your creativity.

Are any of the following on your list of favourites?

• When you have a problem that you can’t solve with conscious effort you will likely know when it’s time to take a break.

You know the importance of sometimes just ‘getting out of the way’ of your brilliant new connection-making subconscious mind.

• You think it’s OK to daydream (a bit. There's life to do as well.)

• You love those ‘stop you in your tracks’ awe and wonder moments, such as a beautiful sunset, or a person performing (anything) at a transcendent level.

If so, then no surprise! Neuroscience has recently found that daydreaming, awe and wonder experiences, the flow state, and imagination all use the same brain networks.

So, if in your busy life you haven’t already done so, give yourself permission to 

Let's start with the thought that you already have more creativity in your life than most, in both amount and diversity.

• You know the calm and peace and power that's at the centre of the creative energy state.  

• You love the possibilities and delightful surprises that creativity brings. Along with the aliveness, and 

• the sense of ‘coming home’ to who you really are.

• know yourself deeply as a creative person, especially in the 'arty' sense, and

• you're easily excited (restless?) to know what more is possible. So much inspiration, so little time! Am I right?

You are a true adventurer! 

There are likely times, though, when

• you’ve been stuck or at a standstill in some area (art or non-art), feeling especially trapped and frustrated, because intuitively you know there is a way out, a way to be creative about this, but you can’t find it!

• Or in a paused moment that ‘something’s missing’ in life feeling has come up, even though life is good.

• Does the feeling of having to wait for inspiration, for the muse to visit, sometimes stymie you from getting on with a project?

• Or is it just hard sometimes to have time for you (and your precious soul!)?

But, hey, on the other hand, there are times when you’ve caught those tantalising glimpses in yourself of astonishing levels of talent and ease.

You kind of know – especially from the best flows you’ve had – that there’s much more to you and your creativity. 

Imagine that . . . in this secretly champing-at-the-bit “Creativity-In-Waiting” world of yours!

My guess is that you would deep down like this to be a case of just 

“Give me the know-how . . . and stand back!”

OK, then!

BTW, how many delightful surprises can you stand? 

It is hard to reconnect with hidden creativity, to find your way home to the whole of your potential!

The most common reason for this – and the most unknown – is on a practical brain mechanics level.

 Let me explain, though, how . . . 

AND MORE DELIBERATELY AND DEEPLY THAN YOU EVER HAVE!

Because when you know the underlying mechanism of why something works for you, you can do it more so.

It’s remarkably fast and easy to open way more possibilities!

WARNING: This is about to get nerdy!

In practical terms, from our outsider/owner’s point of view, our brain is designed with two very important functions on the subconscious level that happen to be in opposition.

ONE SUBCONSCIOUS FUNCTION is to take you safely through your day by matching incoming data against the patterning of your past experience. It very efficiently has you repeat what you already know – automatically, instantaneously, and perfectly!

So if, for example, you were a stick-man level drawer and you had a piece of paper, a pencil, and a subject to hand, your brain would know exactly what’s required . . . stick-man level drawing!

It would have you do it perfectly, and continue to do so, unless and until you find out how to intercept patterns that were holding you, hostage, at stickman level.

In fact, it repeats past patterning so well that it can leave you believing that it’s the whole picture of what’s possible, or not, for you to achieve and be.

“This provides you with the tools and brain knowledge, and the permission, to explore your own creative abilities."  ~ Murray D., schoolteacher

“Very different to other courses. Feel more potential in life, other abilities.” ~ Mina J., medical doctor

'Before & after'

Following are examples of participants unfolding hidden creativity during Extraordinary Mind Project courses.

Included are some post-course transformations people have experienced using the same brain-aware approach in non-drawing areas.

Outside-the-norm

These breakthroughs, and the outside-the-norm progress, happen in hours of working with this information, not in weeks and months, or over years.

There's something magical about this!

“I know it was me [that just drew that], because I was here!” ~ Nola O.

“I feel like I can do anything. I really do!” ~ Naomi A.

“Jan takes you from nothing to something. It’s a beautiful experience!” ~ Frank S., engineer

In a  "Creativity Adventurer" world such as yours, the biggest secret to the limitless unfolding of creativity is having ‘at will’ access to the deepest, most hidden, reaches of it.

For this to happen, more practical information about the mechanics of your brain, and how to work with it, is beyond beneficial.

Happily, there is now a practical and fast small step-by-small step – and this is the important bit – brain-aware path to take to your patiently waiting hidden creativity.

Right now, here's what you can do to start opening a deeper connection with it than is common.

TRY THIS:  No matter what level you are now at, can you stop yourself in your patterned belief tracks for a moment and stand . . . open to the thought that:

• all your accomplishments so far (art and non-art), all learning, problem-solving, and creativity have been based on subconscious new-connection-making i.e., creativity, and

• as remarkable as they are, might they still just be the tip of the iceberg?

The truth is: your creativity is limitless!!

A TIP:  Do you think of raising your creativity level as a way of

• developing and expressing more of the person you know yourself to be, who you identify as? (This approach is the norm.)

THEN TRY THIS . . .

• think busting right through your beliefs, transcending who you think you are and what you can do!

Because, as you know, the essence of the creative flow state is to lose all sense of self i.e. to transcend the self and its limiting opinions and expectations, and to come out surprised, seeing yourself and what you can do in a new light! 

Here's an example of someone changing how they see themselves and what they can do . . . from one drawing (centre) to the next (right)!   

Between the 'before' drawing (left) and the breakthrough drawing (centre) are the 20 hours of brain-aware information and exercises that make this possible.

Note: exponential unfolding is the norm. It's available to everyone, no matter what level you are currently at. 

A simple idea: creativity is a choice!

Just keep actively choosing the new, choosing to explore, choosing curiosity,

Because otherwise your subconscious brain - it's designed that way - will keep you efficiently repeating your whole life pretty much as you know it.

Including, hampering you from being as creative as you sense you deep down want to be.

Happily, we're also designed, especially made, for creativity!

But you have to choose it! Time after time.  Is there anything more fun? Preaching to the converted here, I know!

“Creativity is a central source of meaning in our lives … most of the things that are interesting, important, and human are the results of creativity… [and] when we are involved in it, we feel that we are living more fully than during the rest of life."
~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, legendary creativity researcher,  author of the book “Flow: the Psychology of Optimal Experience,” and the first to popularize the concept of “creative flow”.

The simple actions mentioned above – choosing to be open to the idea of limitless creativity within you and choosing creativity often – underlie the success of this brain-aware pathway.

By approaching drawing exercises in a brain-aware way (not right brain/ left brain – this is up to the minute ‘whole brain’) you can, in effect, re-wire your brain for direct, on-demand access to your true potential. And know how you did it! Important!

Along the way spinoffs include

• a naturally toned-down inner- critic

• comfort outside your comfort zone (and excitement!)

• a knack of ‘living in the question’ – that creativity is – rather than out of already known answers

• a quality of focus that makes magic,  

among others.

I’m excited for you and urge you – if you don’t already - to think of flourishing your creativity as part of the change that the world’s waiting for!

Best

Jan Cross.