The Creative Cure Quotes

“One of the simplest ways to unlock our natural capacity for imagination is to give ourselves some random input.”
― Jacob Nordby, The Creative Cure: How Finding and Freeing Your Inner Artist Can Heal Your Life

“Latin root imaginari, which means “to picture oneself.” Imagination is a kind of seeing, the ability to envision something that is not physically present for the eyes to see, or to put yourself in a different place than you are, using your senses in a hypothetical way.”
― Jacob Nordby, The Creative Cure: How Finding and Freeing Your Inner Artist Can Heal Your Life

“Be prepared, however, that reclaiming joy isn't always easy. Many people have shut down joy so long ago that they struggle to remember how it felt, and new joy feels squarely outside their comfort zone.”
― Jacob Nordby, The Creative Cure: How Finding and Freeing Your Inner Artist Can Heal Your Life

“Having a regular creative practice sends a powerful wake-up call to your inner creative self, which in turn begins to work its magic on every aspect of your life, imbuing everything from mundane tasks to your highest calling with curiosity and possibility.”
― Jacob Nordby, The Creative Cure: How Finding and Freeing Your Inner Artist Can Heal Your Life

“Besides being fun, creativity offers a path out of stagnation, unhappiness, self-judgment, and the kind of robotic living that leaves so many of us feeling unfulfilled. Creativity is a forgotten cure”
― Jacob Nordby, The Creative Cure: How Finding and Freeing Your Inner Artist Can Heal Your Life

“Creativity is the process by which imagination becomes reality. It exists in bountiful supply within everyone and calls on our innate gifts of curiosity, attention, and loving connection”
― Jacob Nordby, The Creative Cure: How Finding and Freeing Your Inner Artist Can Heal Your Life

“Rejection sits at the intersection of socialization and trauma.”
― Jacob Nordby, The Creative Cure: How Finding and Freeing Your Inner Artist Can Heal Your Life

“joy and creativity go together. One way to look at it is like this: Joy is your guide, and creativity is the method by which you travel.”
― Jacob Nordby, The Creative Cure: How Finding and Freeing Your Inner Artist Can Heal Your Life

“Creativity is the process by which imagination becomes reality. It exists in bountiful supply within everyone and calls on our innate gifts of curiosity, attention, and loving connection so that we can live fuller and more meaningful lives.”
― Jacob Nordby, The Creative Cure: How Finding and Freeing Your Inner Artist Can Heal Your Life

“Creativity is the process by which imagination becomes reality.”
― Jacob Nordby, The Creative Cure: How Finding and Freeing Your Inner Artist Can Heal Your Life

“I traded my pursuit of joy for what I thought was success. Sadly, many people who have achieved high levels of outward success have done the same. If this describes you, then I invite you to change your definition of success, to something more like this: Success is the ability to cultivate and
experience joy in all aspects of your life.”
― Jacob Nordby, The Creative Cure: How Finding and Freeing Your Inner Artist Can Heal Your Life

“Anything you bring forward into the world from your inner creative self will be rare, valuable, and original.”
― Jacob Nordby, The Creative Cure: How Finding and Freeing Your Inner Artist Can Heal Your Life

“ideas to help reconnect you to your intuition.”
― Jacob Nordby, The Creative Cure: How Finding and Freeing Your Inner Artist Can Heal Your Life

“neuropsychologist Chris Niebauer explains how recent studies have shown that the right brain, long thought to be the place where creativity resides, can evaluate situations and lead us to take actions that are in our own best interest before we ever make a left brain, logic-based, or rational decision.”
― Jacob Nordby, The Creative Cure: How Finding and Freeing Your Inner Artist Can Heal Your Life

“These questions set the stage for reconnecting to your inner creative self, making space for imagination to combine with self-discovery practices like the exercises in this book, which I encourage you to return to again and again. Remember, this is a process. You”
― Jacob Nordby, The Creative Cure: How Finding and Freeing Your Inner Artist Can Heal Your Life

“Creativity is the act of turning imagination into reality, so it follows that two of the most powerful creative words are “What if . . .”
― Jacob Nordby, The Creative Cure: How Finding and Freeing Your Inner Artist Can Heal Your Life

“in your chest or throat with these statements or if you feel an expansion and opening. In other words, do you feel an inner “yes” or “no”? For”
― Jacob Nordby, The Creative Cure: How Finding and Freeing Your Inner Artist Can Heal Your Life

“Check in with your body and see if you sense a tightness”
― Jacob Nordby, The Creative Cure: How Finding and Freeing Your Inner Artist Can Heal Your Life

“begin asking whether or not whatever is being suggested feels right to you.”
― Jacob Nordby, The Creative Cure: How Finding and Freeing Your Inner Artist Can Heal Your Life

“Even if you are a creative professional, it's good to set aside time for projects that you do for the pure joy of it, without the pressure associated with performance. Many”
― Jacob Nordby, The Creative Cure: How Finding and Freeing Your Inner Artist Can Heal Your Life

“Welcoming Randomness”
― Jacob Nordby, The Creative Cure: How Finding and Freeing Your Inner Artist Can Heal Your Life

“the creative process, feelings and desires are the fuel, and imagination provides the muscle—the machinery of new ideas and resources. Imagination really is a muscle we can strengthen at any time in our lives, as we practice the habit of seeing in new ways.”
― Jacob Nordby, The Creative Cure: How Finding and Freeing Your Inner Artist Can Heal Your Life

“Imagination is personal—each of us does it differently (though”
― Jacob Nordby, The Creative Cure: How Finding and Freeing Your Inner Artist Can Heal Your Life

“The difference between doing any of these activities on their own and doing them as a meditative practice centers on what's going on inside you. The intent here is to build awareness of things as they are—not as you think they should be or remember they used to be.”
― Jacob Nordby, The Creative Cure: How Finding and Freeing Your Inner Artist Can Heal Your Life

“meditation”
― Jacob Nordby, The Creative Cure: How Finding and Freeing Your Inner Artist Can Heal Your Life

“Meditation builds the awareness and self-acceptance we need to clear the signal, and journaling boosts the power and turns up the volume, so that creativity can flow out of us without judgment.”
― Jacob Nordby, The Creative Cure: How Finding and Freeing Your Inner Artist Can Heal Your Life

“Two key tools will help us throughout this process of finding and developing this weakened connection to our inner creative self: meditation and journaling.”
― Jacob Nordby, The Creative Cure: How Finding and Freeing Your Inner Artist Can Heal Your Life

“The biggest threat that rejection poses to our creativity is a learned resistance to making mistakes and failing. Failure is an essential element of experimentation, growth, and creative expression. We have to be able to try new things. Rejection tells us that there is a “right” way, and that your value is tied to your ability to get it right. Yet”
― Jacob Nordby, The Creative Cure: How Finding and Freeing Your Inner Artist Can Heal Your Life

“If we experience trauma, especially in our formative years, it can lead to patterns of anxiety, destructive self-talk, inner criticism, procrastination, perfectionism, addictive behaviors, self-doubt, or feelings of being not valuable or lacking a purpose.”
― Jacob Nordby, The Creative Cure: How Finding and Freeing Your Inner Artist Can Heal Your Life

“This book is an invitation to come back home to yourself in two ways. First, by building a creative practice that revitalizes your creative birthright. And second, by teaching you to channel this creative power into other areas of your life, such as your job, your home, your relationships with others,”
― Jacob Nordby, The Creative Cure: How Finding and Freeing Your Inner Artist Can Heal Your Life