Creativity is defined as the tendency to generate or recognize ideas, alternatives, or possibilities that may be useful in solving problems, communicating with others, and entertaining others and ourselves. There are three reasons for why people are motivated to be creative; people need for novel, varied and complex stimulation, they need to communicate ideas and values, they need to solve problems.

In order to be creative, you need to be able to view things in new ways or from a different perspective. Among other things, you need to be able to generate new possibilities or new alternatives. Test of creativity measures not only the number of alternatives that people can generate, but also the uniqueness of those alternatives, the ability to generate alternatives or to see things uniquely does not occur by change, it is linked to other, more fundamental qualities of thinking, such as flexibility, tolerance of haziness or unpredictability, and the enjoyment of the things heretofore unknown.

There are many ways for how to be creative. Some are as follows:

1. Get relaxed – Take a moment to do something that makes you happy; that brings you joy; that you love; that centers you. Meditate, take a walk, go for a swim, read something that puts you in a good mood, write a diary – writing down your thoughts.
2. Give Gratitude – thinking about all the things you are grateful for produces a positive energy flow and vibration. As you feel the love in your heart for the wonderful blessings and gifts in your life, you will instantly relax and feel all warm and fuzzy inside. In that moment of warmth love, you are open to creative energy.
3. Tickle you imagination – Imagination is highly visual, try closing your eyes and imagine, that you are in a scene, any scene. Pick your ideal scene, practice seeing the details of your environment in this scene. See the colors, the texture and try to touch something. This makes you more relaxed and gives you gratitude.
4. Be in the moment – every outstanding musician or artist will tell you that when they are creating great music or art, there are no thoughts; they are completely in the moment and experiencing flow. Athletes call it “being in the zone”. You can practice present moment awareness by giving full attention to whatever you are doing; eating, washing dishes, making your bed etc. Meditation helps tremendously.
5. Be inspired – practice seeing beautiful things that moves you emotionally. Flip through a book containing thought provoking images, go to art gallery, read something inspirational, and talk to someone who clams you.
6. Draws – this may sounds funny but one of the effective ways to practice getting in touch with your creative side is to start drawing.
7. See alternatives – Be curious. Practice asking yourself how to do something differently. When seeing a solution to the problem ask yourself, “What are the alternative ways to doing this?” develop the mental attitude that “there is always another way”. This way, you encourage more creative ideas to surface from your being.