The Personal Creative Process: Recent Episodes
Wesley Tilford
The Personal Creative Process is a series of meditations that center around mindfulness and creativity. A new meditation will come out every Monday. Enjoy the PCP, it'll make your day a little easier! Sessions are guided by Wesley Tilford. Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/wesleytilford/support
In this bonus conversation of The Personal Creative Process, Tommy Howie explains his journey through acting and his process when it comes to creating music and poetry. Wes and Tommy also get into their own meditation practices and how they differ from each other. Tommy explains what deep listening is and how it helps him with his creative process. His band is called Booth Blues (Formerly Jake Fava, Booth Blues). Check them out on Spotify or Bandcamp! These bonus conversations will happen approximately once a month as another series of guided meditations is being developed. Make sure to follow the feed to get notified of new sessions or conversations.
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What does your future self have to say to you? What will your creative projects looks like in their completion? Join Wesley as he guides the final meditation in the Personal Creative Process. There will be bonus content coming in the future, including conversations with other creative minded people and eventually more meditations that will feature guest contributions. If you'd like to help keep these going, please consider donating by going to the link below. Thanks for listening!
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Look for the artist, the meditator, or the self. Is there anything to find? What lies beyond the artist?
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The first thing a lot of us put down if we're going through a hard time is our meditation practice or creative pursuits. But what if those were the best things to do for us to cope?
This week's meditation uses a combination of negative visualization and loving-kindness. Helpful practices to go back and listen to for further clarification on some of these practices are week #1 and #8. You can also catch up on past meditations anytime. Thanks for listening, and please consider donating at the link below to keep these meditations going. Thank you!
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In the first 20 minute meditation of the Personal Creative Process, we'll be using techniques from most of the previous sessions that include following the breath, paying attention to sounds, and looking for who is at the center of meditating. This will help bridge the gap into the longer meditations that will round out this twelve part series.
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Metta, or loving-kindness is a fruitful practice on its own, but what if we applied it to a creative project?
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Everyone has had a creative block, but how do you push past them? Pay careful attention the next time you get stuck, what is that feeling like?
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Inspiration is a lot like trying to light a match. Sometimes it doesn't light right away, but that doesn't mean you just give up. Conjure up that image of lighting a match and see what it does to your creative energy.
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Breathe the world in, and then breathe it out. What does that do to creativity? This session bridges the gap between mindfulness and creativity even more than in previous meditations. After the session, there will be a brief explanation of some of the practices done in the meditations so far. Hopefully it will clarify points of confusion about the practice and what to expect from the rest of The Personal Creative Process.
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This meditation is a continuation of the "Look for the Artist" meditation we did back in week 2, so go back and listen to that one if you haven't yet. You'll get more out of it this way! Thanks for listening and make sure to subscribe for more meditations every Monday.
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This week's meditation focuses on looking at the darkness behind your closed eyes and searching for inspiration there. How is the creative process related to the black screen of your mind?
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Welcome to Week 2 of the Personal Creative Process! We start off this session with a traditional mindfulness meditation and begin to incorporate a creative project that you're working on. For next week, try to look for the artist at the center of creation as you're working on a project and see what that does to your attitude.
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In this first meditation centered around creativity, Wes guides you through a traditional mindfulness meditation that focuses on the breath, sounds, and thoughts. By the end, hopefully you'll begin to see the connection between this and creativity.
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