EPISODE · Sep 12, 2025 · 21 MIN
The Role of Appreciation in Creative Practice
from Creative Overflow with Jenny Kiehn · host Jennykiehn
In this episode, I start off telling you about what inspired me from the book "Sarah, Book 1" in The Sarah Series by Jerry and Esther Hicks. (I read the whole thing this morning!)I was really inspired by the Idea that there is a flow of good energy and well-being flowing through everything all the time. What I really liked was this book said that we each have a valve where this can flow into us. It's our choice whether to keep the valve open or closed. It amazed me to think I could have the valve open on some subjects and not on others. What if the way to have a better time with those subjects was to just switch the valve on? Challenging subjects like money or relationships - could it just be a matter of opening the valve? When you open the valve, you feel good, you notice all the good parts of everything you look at, and if something is negative, you move onto the next good thing. When you have the valve closed, you get stuck on the bad, annoying, or frustrating things and stay there. One of the best ways to keep the valve open is to appreciate everything you can. Then I broke down the Creative Process into different stages. It starts with Appreciation, then Play, then shifts into Development (the slower version of appreciation and play), then gets to the end where things start coming together and you can see how far you've come. I talk about the role of Divine Dissatisfaction as referenced in Martha Graham's Letter to Agnes DeMille.I enjoyed creating this podcast and really appreciate you being here. If you enjoyed this episode, definitely tune in every Friday because I will be releasing a new episode each week. If you're interested in a conversation on how you can bring more abundance into your creative life, leave a review of this podcast, take a screenshot of it and email it to [email protected]. I'll invite you to a free group coaching class about exactly that!
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In this episode, I start off telling you about what inspired me from the book "Sarah, Book 1" in The Sarah Series by Jerry and Esther Hicks. (I read the whole thing this morning!)I was really inspired by the Idea that there is a flow of good energy and well-being flowing through everything all the time. What I really liked was this book said that we each have a valve where this can flow into us. It's our choice whether to keep the valve open or closed. It amazed me to think I could have the valve open on some subjects and not on others. What if the way to have a better time with those subjects was to just switch the valve on? Challenging subjects like money or relationships - could it just be a matter of opening the valve? When you open the valve, you feel good, you notice all the good parts of everything you look at, and if something is negative, you move onto the next good thing. When you have the valve closed, you get stuck on the bad, annoying, or frustrating things and stay there. One of the best ways to keep the valve open is to appreciate everything you can. Then I broke down the Creative Process into different stages. It starts with Appreciation, then Play, then shifts into Development (the slower version of appreciation and play), then gets to the end where things start coming together and you can see how far you've come. I talk about the role of Divine Dissatisfaction as referenced in Martha Graham's Letter to Agnes DeMille.I enjoyed creating this podcast and really appreciate you being here. If you enjoyed this episode, definitely tune in every Friday because I will be releasing a new episode each week. If you're interested in a conversation on how you can bring more abundance into your creative life, leave a review of this podcast, take a screenshot of it and email it to [email protected]. I'll invite you to a free group coaching class about exactly that!
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