Creativity and Counselling?

There is a massive link between creativity, 

the creative pursuit and

psychotherapy or counselling.

Looking at what helps creativity -

( here are some aspects and
likely, you will have your additions too )

• Relaxedness

• Flexibility

• Feeling well

• Fulfillment

• Playfulness

• Self-awareness

..... and the connection with Psychotherapy?

In a therapy setting, the intention is to activate our

innate capacity to heal our mind - a process relying on

what neuro-scientists call

"neuroplasticity".

• This neuroplasticity means that we generate
  new neural circuits as we expand and deepen our
  self-awareness.
  
  
• This nerve-cell growth gives rise to new behaviours and new abilities.
  
  
• As we explore our self more, we get more information on how we "tick", how we operate in the world.
  
  
• As we get more familiar with our responses, those which had been experienced as unpleasant or even frightening, become
  less of a mystery to us, and thus -
  
  
• We become more at ease with ourselves.
  

• Free up our Creativity
• Become more Flexible in our thinking
  ( i.e.  "thinking outside the box" )
• Recover from setbacks more easily ( "resilience" )
• More able to listen to trust and listen for
  intuitive responses ( "gut responses" )