Where does an idea begin?
This morning i was travelling to work. It is something that I do every morning, the same road, the same distance, the same place I reach. It could be boring, very boring… but every day for me is different, I usually drive through the country, passing for a characteristic bridge on the Oglio river, which has been built with boards put on floating cement boats. The car makes a thunder noise all the way through. Every day the light is different, the atmosphere is different, some mornings a light fog lies on the water of the river, and a cheerful orange light peeps through poplar plantations. While running on the twists and turns of the tiny road that follows the river i take a fast glance among the trees and they seem to create natural corridors made up of straight columns running one after the other.
Colours, shapes silently speak to my heart, they seem to whisper many things, they soothe heart and mind and you find out you are prone to inspiration.
What is inspiration? where does an idea begin? Is it a difficult question? All of us have a special gift, something to treasure and to express at the same time. I am sure that inspiration can reveal in different ways, depending on our natural bents. Mine is always there even when i cannot focus a shape properly, I wait till I feel I am reaching it, then it inspires my imagination and becomes a perfect almost palpable item in my head…
Anything could be the origin of inspiration: colours, textures, shapes all around, the air that you breathe, the heart that beats, the smile on other people’s faces, a smell in the air….
But another source of inspiration is music, an inspiring sound that can bring you away even if you are just here.
May we try a little experiment?
Why don’t you try to read this passage about nature in silence and then read it again listening to this music?
I usually feel into my heart a different experience, something that through silence cannot be achieved. Music is a great component of my interior world, you can be inspired as well, you can find out perceptions you’ve never guessed. So in this mood, close your eyes, imagine shapes and colors, imagine textures and tactile softness.
Imagine a world of your own, a world you like, a world in which you realise you can create, you can invent, you can simply make. Plunge into it without reasoning.
When you decide what you want to achieve then think how to develop your idea, to get into the concrete step. From here the reasoning begins, from here your perfect wish is to make, to compose your dream. And the result is in your hands and your head.
This is inspiration, it is an idea that comes out of your mind effortlessly, and while coming out from you, it touches your heart. Only in the end it becomes concrete into your hands!
Why don’t you try? Test your heart, test your soul and you’ll be amazed of yourself!