Gratitude and creativity are deeply connected. When you are grateful, you see beauty more easily. You notice details. You appreciate the raw materials of life that become the raw materials of art.
The Gratitude-Creativity Connection
Research shows that gratitude literally changes your brain. It increases activity in the medial prefrontal cortex, the area associated with learning and decision-making. Grateful people are more creative, more resilient, and more productive.
A Simple Practice
Each morning before I start creating, I write down three things I am grateful for. They can be simple: the quality of morning light, a good cup of coffee, a new fabric that arrived. This practice shifts my mind from scarcity to abundance, and abundance is where creativity lives.
Give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God will for you in Christ Jesus.
— 1 Thessalonians 5:18
Gratitude is not just good for your soul. It is good for your art.