Everyday Creativity and Healing

Healing is a creative response of our bodies to injury.
by Alison Bonds Shapiro, M.B.A. in Healing Into Possibility
Originally published online by Psychology Today

My friend and teacher, Dr. Ruth Richards, who lectures throughout the country on creativity is fond of reminding me that creativity is our birthright. It is a not a special talent limited to famous artists and writers and musicians. We are all creative. We are built to be. Being human requires us to adapt to the changing circumstances of our lives. This is what Ruth calls "everyday creativity" and describes in the book she edited: Everyday Creativity and New Views of Human Nature: Psychological, Social and Spiritual Perspectives.

When I go for a hike on the mountain, even if I use the same trail it, is always different. There are rocks in new places, grass and thistles that have overgrown the path in new ways, different lizards run away from my feet in their erratic zig-zags. Every walk down that trail asks for a new response - one I have never given before in quite the same way. We are all, moment after moment, responding to our lives in creative ways.

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