{"id":125,"date":"2010-07-06T19:59:33","date_gmt":"2010-07-07T00:59:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.blog.carriewrites.net\/?p=125"},"modified":"2010-07-06T19:59:33","modified_gmt":"2010-07-07T00:59:33","slug":"creative-expression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.carriewrites.net\/?p=125","title":{"rendered":"Creative Expression"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have always been very creative exploring new activities.\u00a0 Creativity is the ability or power to create through originality, expressiveness and imaginatively.\u00a0 There are many benefits to practicing creativity.\u00a0 I think the greatest benefit is to have fun and enjoy what you\u2019re doing.\u00a0 Doing a creative project can be very relaxing and great for releasing stress.\u00a0 There also some other very positive aspects of being creative, such as improving problem solving skills, exploring new ideas and expressing yourself.\u00a0 I always enjoy the challenge of finding new ways to do things and experimenting with new solutions.<\/p>\n<p>Over the years I used my creativity and curiosity to explore and try a variety of activities. \u00a0Creativity can be expressed in many ways. \u00a0A good example is playing music since it expresses how we feel on the inside.\u00a0 I have tried to play the piano, the clarinet and guitar. \u00a0Even though I found it difficult to read the sheet music and push the correct keys on the instruments I still enjoyed those experiences.\u00a0 Dancing is another good way to express your creativity.\u00a0 Whenever I hear music I always move to beat expressing the fun dancing has to offer.\u00a0 Over the years I have taken ballet classes even with my poor balance and stiff joints. Since I enjoyed ballet so much I would just repeat the beginner class.\u00a0 I also tried to be creative by doing needlepoint but had to give it up due to eye strain headaches. \u00a0Over the years I have taken art classes like stenciling and designing t-shirts to explore my creative ability.\u00a0 Today I foster my creativity through photography, drawing and journaling. So my advice is to use your creativity to find a hidden talent, take up an exciting hobby and learn something new. \u00a0More importantly have fun in life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have always been very creative exploring new activities.\u00a0 Creativity is the ability or power to create through originality, expressiveness and imaginatively.\u00a0 There are many benefits to practicing creativity.\u00a0 I think the greatest benefit is to have fun and enjoy what you\u2019re doing.\u00a0 Doing a creative project can be very relaxing and great for releasing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.carriewrites.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.carriewrites.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.carriewrites.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.carriewrites.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.carriewrites.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=125"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.carriewrites.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":126,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.carriewrites.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions\/126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.carriewrites.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.carriewrites.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.carriewrites.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}