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what is that people welcome back to Satori graphics home graph design
content right here on YouTube now I'm willing to bet that if you're a graphic
designer or a creative in general you probably stumbled across creative block
at least once in your lifetime now it can be really annoying because you might
have a project that's due soon and the more that you fight it it seems the
worse it gets now I've got some unconventional methods that deal with
creative block and I gotta help get your creative juices flowing once more
now the first tip or technique I've got for dealing with creative block has been
made famous by people like Salvador Dali Einstein and also Aristotle as well now
personally stumbled across this myself and then later learned that it's quite a
notorious technique made famous by people as Einstein and so forth I found
out that I was having dreams just before waking up where I would actually run
through a creative process and I would generate ideas almost subconsciously
without even trying and then when I actually did wake up I realized these
ideas a pretty kick-ass and they're pretty awesome so what's going on here
and why was I having these creative dreams well I looked into it and it
seems that people like Einstein and Aristotle utilized the technique that
was kind of in between a deep sleep and being awake now when you are awake and
focusing on something a hand you had me alpha brainwaves and then when you're
more relaxed beta waves but then when you're in a deep sleep you admit Delta
waves but there's actually something in his theta waves which you admit when
you're between waking up and also going to sleep it is at this precise moment
that I have been generating these ideas on before waking up
Einstein was quoted as saying and none of his breakthroughs or discoveries were
processed through logical thoughts he and many others like him utilized this
method of trying to generate ideas in between just waking up or just going to
sleep whilst the brain is admitting theta waves what you have to do is you
have to practice with bringing a conscious thought into this time period
where you want to be making ideas about something specific and also you have a
sketch pad or a notepad next to your bed so you can immediately wake up and then
jot down the ideas because you will find these ideas do escape you pretty fast
now it might sound crazy to you but I'm gonna leave some links down description
box below all about this technique of you know in
between the realms of sleeping and awake because it is effective and I do use it
myself
okay so the next tip today I'm battling your creative block you simply change
the scenery now for me this entails taking a bike ride or maybe even a run
or a walk when you get stuck on a creative block you need to find a new
avenue and you need to give your brain the time it needs to reset itself and
take a break from what you getting bogged down with changing the scenery
changes your thought processes it changes the way you mind computes things
it gives you my chance to just recoup and regenerate so for me like I said
taking a long walk or maybe a bike ride really does help with this especially on
a nice day of course if you don't want to go outside you can also just change
the scenery in your house now going to the kitchen and just do something
different you just need to take your mind away from the kind of blockage that
it's working on at the moment spending too much time on one design can
send yourself into a downward spiral where you get stuck more and more and
more and things become more frustrating so this kind of doubles up as giving
yourself some R&R and a break to come back to the fresh mind and a new outlook
on things now the third tip today on creative blocks I've never heard of
people doing this for a creative block it's something again I discovered by
accident and then it's water fasting now water fasting is where you only drink
water for a set period of time you don't need any food that you don't drink
anything else apart from water now I've experimented this in the past
for health benefits because fasting does have many health benefits for the inner
body and the immune system and so forth but I also found that water fasting for
one or two days it kind of gives me a mental clarity and it kind of clears any
brain fog as well again this was an accident and I discovered it was just
kind of a byproduct of the hot water fasting thing but yeah I try water fasts
once or twice per month for one or two days just to you know reset the body you
let the digestion do its thing and relax for a while because that's humans one of
the ways we expend the most energy is from eating food and digesting it so
again I've got some links down description box below where you can find
out everything about water fasting
and lastly today the fourth and the final tip for overcoming creative block
is meditation now going back to the theta brain waves meditation is almost
like tapping into that conscious state where you're between sleeping and waking
I'm not suggesting you become a yogi and a guru of a night
but again meditation is really good for the mind of the body in general despite
graphic design or a creative block related matters but also I found that
meditating does again clean the slate and it gives you a new fresh outlook on
things and you might even have some ideas pop into your head wash you're
meditating but that kind of goes against the whole point of meditation anyway so
out of these four methods for dealing the crater flock which one do you think
you're gonna go and try yourself when was the last time you had creative
block and how bad was it for me it's really interesting how the mind can
operate in different ways and how different states of consciousness can
actually bring ideas seemingly from nowhere so yeah check out the links to
water fasting and also the theta brainwave method of generating ideas
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