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art, Celebration, Connectivity, Creativity, Culture, memoir, memories, Mental Health, Mind, Psychiatry, Psychology, Reflection, Self, Story, Therapy
Creativity is one of my favorite topics for exploration, reflection, and conversation. In reflecting on my own journey as a human being, creativity has played a critical role in my own ‘self-making’—autopoiesis—the complex bio-psycho-social process of building an identity.
We human beings are endowed with the mysterious quality of consciousness, or mind, and we are embodied in an impermanent sense of self. Our brain is a creativity machine—a highly complex organ that is critical to our consciousness.
As our body grows, our brain accrues information that informs our sense-of-self by shaping the neural architecture through genes, through experience, and through memory. This marvelous process is critically linked to our awareness of life, our emotional and cognitive experiences, our attachments, and even our sense of meaning.
In this series of blogs, ‘Creativity and ‘Self-Making’, I reflect on the different phases of brain-mind-creativity that include stories from my own childhood, adolescence, early adulthood, mature adulthood, the ‘golden’ years.
Featured Photo by The Creative Exchange on Unsplash
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