{"id":93,"date":"2020-02-19T01:02:58","date_gmt":"2020-02-19T01:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jonisensel.com\/wordpress1\/wordpress1\/?page_id=93"},"modified":"2025-09-20T14:53:31","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T14:53:31","slug":"find-joy","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.jonisensel.com\/wordpress1\/find-joy\/","title":{"rendered":"Find more joy"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Connect with life, free your spirit\u2014and disconnect from the daily grind. By diving into a creative pursuit\u2014from a knitting project to expressive dance\u2014you can transcend a mundane existence and experience that timeless, focused feeling of \u201cflow.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cBut I\u2019m not creative!\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Sure you are; you may simply discount your unique creative expression as one that \u201cdoesn\u2019t count.\u201d Under-appreciated creative impulses in people I know:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  • Building yard and garden fences<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Home remodeling<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Baking<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Woodworking<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Gardening or landscaping<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Planning a day out with a child<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n

    Creativity has less to do with \u201cart\u201d and more to do with an active focus on creating something, including an experience or event, that doesn\u2019t already exist. Or improving something that does. <\/p>\n\n\n

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    Get started now<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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    • Find inspiration.\u00a0<\/strong>Wander a craft, art supply, wood-working, or gardening store and pick up something inexpensive to play with. It\u2019s cheap therapy.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • Take a class.<\/strong>\u00a0Community college Continuing Ed classes, which range from coding to photography, are usually a bargain.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • Join a creative community.<\/strong>\u00a0Few things are more nurturing than surrounding yourself with a like-minded group, whether that\u2019s fellow writers or gardening buddies who swap seeds and cuttings.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • Try something easy.\u00a0<\/strong>Doodling or coloring a mandala are easy places to start. The end result doesn\u2019t matter; the point is to play with colors, lines, and shapes.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • Read.<\/strong>\u00a0Dip a toe into my article on spirituality and the imagination.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • Have some fish.<\/strong>\u00a0Even the ocean is full of wild designs. So are you. Let loose!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
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      Parrotfish<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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      Scrawled filefish<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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      Orange triggerfish<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
      Parrotfish, scrawled filefish, and orange triggerfish \u2014now that’s creative!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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      Connect with life, free your spirit\u2014and disconnect from the daily grind. By diving into a creative pursuit\u2014from a knitting project to expressive dance\u2014you can transcend a mundane existence and experience that timeless, focused feeling of \u201cflow.\u201d \u201cBut I\u2019m not creative!\u201d Sure you are; you may simply discount your unique creative expression as one that \u201cdoesn\u2019t count.\u201d Under-appreciated creative impulses in people I know: Creativity has less to do with \u201cart\u201d and more to do with an active focus on creating something, including an experience or event, that doesn\u2019t already exist. Or improving something that does.  Get started now<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-93","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonisensel.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/93","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonisensel.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonisensel.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonisensel.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonisensel.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonisensel.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/93\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":624,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonisensel.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/93\/revisions\/624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonisensel.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}