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Waking up your Creative Giant workshop with Mr. Mehul Upadhyay- Day 2

The second day saw a wave of H.O.T. activities to wake up our sub conscious mind. Although the name of our workshop was ‘waking up your creative giant’, most of the activities we did were with our eyes closed. We explored different domains, perceptions and connections with different domains and how they form patterns in our mind.
Before you say let me try this/that first believe in it was something that taught us the importance of faith in the act.
Creativity sprouts out in a better way if you put yourself of your comfort zone and try and adjust and find your tuning in different backgrounds is also a concept we discussed at length.

H.O.T
What is your graffiti?

An activity, conducted to make the negativity evaporate from our minds, and souls, which would lead to greater creative expression. Unknowingly these negative factors curb our creativity and hamper us from growing and this activity was precisely done to ‘learn to let go.’

Music and lines.

An activity conducted with the eyes closed to experience the mind pattern with the vibration of music yielded a plethora of various lines on each one’s paper.

Blindfolded painting

This experience was by far the most uplifting and surrealistic one in the workshop we all experienced. Creations were painted on paper using watercolors with each one’s eyes blindfolded, not knowing what colors they were dipping into or what shapes were being formed. The results were quite spectacular considering the fact everyone was doing it without the physical ‘vision.’ But it was this process, which introduced us to the tip of the power station that lies in our sub conscious level. One as led to think that if we wanted to achieve this result with our eyes open what kind of thought process would we actually have to follow?? J J

It was as if creativity was bursting to come out of all of us and finally we were able to take a peek at our creative subconscious giant.

Hypnosis and creativity

Inhaling, exhaling and believing in the act that was given to us made some participants explore the realms of belief and the power of Chi…the energy flow in the body strengthening our inner consciousness enabling these activities.

Mr. Mehul put before us some interesting points to ponder upon-

· What we believe right now become our future cobwebs.
· Creativity is an illusion, if you know how to create an illusion you can ‘create’ as well.
· It is immaterial whether you ultimately reach success/failure for its just a state of mind after all.

Overall a truly awakening session which succeeded in breaking quite a few mental locks of the participants, and touching upon their subconscious level to wake up the creative giant!!

Waking up your Creative Giant Workshop with Mr. Mehul Upadhyay- Day 1

Switch off your shyness, doubts; hesitations like you would ‘switch off ‘ your mobile and believe me for these three hours like you would believe your ‘breath’.

This striking sentence jolted everyone for the first minute or two and left each one of us quite baffled as to how they could do this. Breaking of mental locks was what this two-day workshop was heading towards and it had started off with trying to eradicate the rust off these locks before the attempt to unlock them.

To break the regional proximity, a variety of actions, like ‘Go stand facing the wall’ or go and ‘Drink a half bottle of water’ etc. were assigned to the members, by the members before their being acquainted to each other. Then came a list of mental blocks the participants began voicing out like ‘I can’t dance’ or ‘I can’t sing’ and Mr. Mehul, the speaker instantly brought a halt to these fears and in a way evaporated them by the classic solution- Do it now. The action of ‘dancing’ then just transformed into an action, rather than a ‘fear’ or ‘blockage.’

As the workshop proceeded we were exposed to the difference between ‘confidence’, ‘belief’, ‘creativity killers’, ‘programming structures’ of our brain through various activities and clips. A particular clip from Matrix was repeatedly shown and it did make me wonder why and later I realized the essence was in the meaning of it and not the visuals.

We were realizing gradually how he was circling around the psyche of the human brain and trying to break mental locks of diffidence, disbelief and it making us realize how easy it is to say ‘YES’

We were also exposed to a different school of thought of domains where Mr. Mehul explained to us how an idea is generated through a very interesting method.

Delving deeper into the domains he spoke about dissolving our matters, desires, filters and opening mental locks, exploring different domains. Dissolving the ‘I’, one begins to think in many other domains rather than just doing what he/she has been doing or what he is expected to do, can enhance creativity.

He ended the 1^st day with the sentence- ‘you can’t defend what you can’t predict’…which left us all thinking for what was next. J