The creative impulse is what moves you and powers the design process. It is an energy that causes you to say yes or no to a thought, feeling, image or pair of shoes. It may call you to go jogging or to play the harmonica. It may come from running with dogs or working in the garden. It may even come from choosing what clothes to wear.
Whatever is calling you?whether you hear, see, feel, sense or think it?you have been summoned. The great question is then whether you will respond to the call. Warning: you may not hear trumpets. There may be no twenty-one-gun salute.
You may hear only whispers or feel subtle tremors.
You may need to be really listening inwardly. What brings the creative impulse may be a book that speaks to you. It may be a feeling of delight in your belly. There is no single description of how each person experiences the creative impulse. For me it is a force. I always feel good when ?I say yes to it and often feel unsettled when I ignore it. The beauty of this call is that over time you can learn to recognize it?to be receptive to your own particular inner call of creative communication. As you get more and more practised at identifying the creative impulse, you can learn ?to trust it, act on it and share it. It is the subjective point of view that connects us to our personal needs and desires and ultimately to our creative instincts. When this connection is severed, vitality, the lifeblood, quickly drains from the system. No blood means no fire and no fire m...