Creativity & Intuition Lead to Individual & organizational Health

Happy, healthy people are the most productive people. Many statistics support this. Creativity and intuition lead to individual and organizational health; joy; enthusiasm; stress-reduction; play and profits. Creative work and expression enhances a person’s over-all functioning, self-esteem, sense of trust in their own abilities. Creative expressions also are the natural activities of the human being who is able to release, at least temporarily, the inhibitions of habituation and culture. Addictions are many and varied. They range all the way from alcohol and drugs, through co-dependant relationships, through re-enacting habitual and self-destructive life responses, as well as harbouring perpetual negative thought patterns.

“Art is an antidote for violence. It gives the ecstasy, the self-transcendence that otherwise take the form of drug addiction, terrorism, suicide or warfare.” — Rollo May

Anyone can be an “artist” in their field. A scientist can approach his craft creatively. As Albert Einstein said: “Imagination is everything”. It is a well known fact that artists, poets and mystics view the world as being joyful, abundant and vividly rich, the same world others perceive as being dreary and drab. The heightened perception of artistic or creative processes has survival value, both at an individual and community level. It allows individuals, groups and organizations to drop outmoded thinking and adopt fresh perception; to become open to exploring possibilities, the imagination and playfulness that characterize the artistic response to life. Many business corporations are fully aware of this and have already created special rooms in their work places that allows people to go…