How does one nurture spontaneous artistic creativity inside themselves?

How does one maintain awareness of the present moment?

Start with http://www.rosinecaplot.com/2010/01/how-to-maintain-present-moment-awareness/ read the links, then read Many Lives Many Masters - Dr. Brian Weiss, and then deviate by indulging in The Black Swan Nassim Nicholas Taleb.

Eckart Tolle delves into the 'how' in the Power of Now; Also read the Power of Positive Thinking - Norman Vincent Peale (then reread it).

Then start formulating your own opinions based on being absorbed to the point that you forget the abstract and focus on the present, good luck.

.. I just keep blowing into my positive bubble everyday..hmm.. seems to work.. oh and only listen to positivity.. no negative stuff.. no negative images... just positive.. that's what I do..

Practice Mindfulness

Relax. Quieten your mind. Practise humility. Appreciate yourself by observation, without justification. Appreciate your world around you with care and not concern. Gather your biological self. Stop and start again with fresh eyes. Show small animals kindness. Care for some plants. Appreciate oxygen and air. Let yourself cry and make yourself smile warmly. Say hello to some relatives. Give some good friends and decent people a nice thought. Stop and start again. Just breathe, gather your biological self again. Appreciate the spirit of your feelings in tune with your surroundings.

Now. What is it you'd like to say? Say it in the way you would like to artistically express. Start with a colour, or a single thought or a latent feeling. Hold it like a bird, too tight you crush it, too loose it flies away.

And FYI never follow the visual example of other "artists". Half of them are industrial constructs created by marketing gurus, and it's not artistic expression at all. Most singers don't write their own material, actors are chosen by their look and are professional liars, etc. That's industry.

The artists are the screenwriters and songwriters you never hear about, that get incomes from the faces the entertainment companies place upon their produce. Very few are actually artists, most are just secretaries and salesmen pretending to be artists.

Making it as an artist is even rarer than it looks to common folk, because salesmen lie and business is about sales.

eg. George Clooney isn't an artist. The guy who wrote his script in the film you liked is. Clooney is the salesman for the script. He's a cool guy because of which ones he backs and which ones he turns down, are the right ones for each towards good folks. So I like Clooney, but talk art and he'll agree it was the script.

Another FYI, maintained awareness of the present moment can also be achieved simply by tapping your primordeal eyes.

It's a very very bad idea, but it works.
Do that like, only when in an extremely potent, dangerous immediate environment. And some professional combat training is fairly important here if you'd like to survive it, considering where that angle on whom we all really are deep inside, will absolutely lead anyone everytime.




dancing to music, an excellent element of professional combat training, just can't stop the FYI's today I guess.

been there, done that, it's a gift O_o

Isha Yoga

Has helped me

start by yelling "SPOON" before you do anything great....

and get yourself a pet capybara also...

If you mean inspiration then watch this.
Truly amazing. 'Look at yourself after watching this'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gc4HGQHgeFE

I agree with Amoscarine. Yoga will definitely do...and try to interact more with nature and find more time to talks to yourself and try to find out how things work the way they do.
*sorry for poking your profile by mistake you highness (funkyfranky).