Creative Well Being

When I say the words 'Creativity', 'Innovation' and 'Well Being', what is the first thing that comes to your mind? If you are anything like me, your first thought would be "How can these three be related?" And that's the exact thought I had in my mind when I went to attend a workshop on the same subject. And boy did I learn.

So this wasn't your run-of-the-mill session where the speaker comes, speaks for an hour or 2, takes a break, then speaks some more and goes home. Nope! This was a full-fledged interaction where the biggest lessons of life were taught by the blowing and bursting of balloons. 

Our speaker Dr. Sandeep Kumar, a well known psychologist, asked us to blow up some balloons and after that he declared that whoever is left with the most number of balloons would win the game. Our immediate reaction on hearing this was not to protect our balloons but to burst the ones held by our companions. This simple activity made me realise how deeply ingrained our values of sabotaging our competitors are. There was no hint or mention of bursting balloons in the instructions and yet, instead of self preservation, we chose destruction. 

This is the beauty of the human mind. Every minute of every day, we are bombarded with thousands of ideas to deal with the  number of situations and resolve the issues we face. Some of these thoughts are positive and constructive while others are outright destructive. It is upon us as to how we use our creativity and perceptive powers to make the best of this life. 

In life, you will come across a million problems, big or small, and many a times, you will feel that there is no way out of the fix. But it won't be so. For every problem in this world, there's not one but a million solutions. All you gotta do is choose to find them or create them your own. I know it is easy to go with the flow of the negativity of the world but just remember, the universe is full of goodness and it all begins within your heart.