Marsia
I have genuinely never ever felt creative in anything I do not in the past not now not ever . I enjoy activities such as reading walking movies pottering in the garden but I don’t feel like I have any passions for say art music writing sewing etc etc etc . I think if I did I might be more not so focused on food etc . I never felt good enough at anything tbh and always prettt talentless . They say everyone has a creative side perhaps I just need to find mine .
When I crave something recently I turn to exercise or a little housework
I think western modern culture doesn't generally promote creativity. When I taught English in South Korea, elementary school students went on field trips to cultural heritage sites (which were highly valued as national treasures) and sketched the old temples and things. Their drawings were amazingly good, and they really valued drawing. Their drawing didn't need to be compared to the person's next to them to see who was more talented like is done in our culture. They come from an art tradition of there being certain cultural themes or motifs that are drawn and painted throughout the centuries, and each person who draws the same subject matter adds a tiny bit to that cultural tradition. The past is honored and each person's interpretation of a cultural theme, no matter how it is drawn, is added to the cumulative cultural history. Each person connects with their heritage each time they sit and sketch. Primitive cultures have similar traditions, and the arts and crafts traditions are similar in our culture.
But I don't think you need to take part in a craft to learn to exercise your creative muscles. Just thinking about things in new ways is creative, or the way you plant plants in the garden in a pleasing clump of color can be creative. Talent is something that is nurtured slowly over time. You see an accomplished pianist on tv, and think you could never be good at piano, but you don't see the years of intense practice and the months of just practicing that one piece they performed. And maybe you are naturally talented at something completely different, like raising kids, and that pianist isn't naturally so.
Also what you focus on tends to show up more in your life, like if you start to write down your dreams, you begin to remember them more because a part of you sees the dreams as important if you focus on them, and you tend to remember what you consider important. So if you start doing things like looking at shadows and finding the most interesting shadow of the day, you start to see things in a whole new light, literally. When you are out walking in nature, look at the colors and see what colors are soothing, what colors really catch your eye, what the mood of the landscape is, and what the colors evoke in you emotionally. That type of thinking is what a landscape painter generally does. It isn't much different from what a non-landscape-artist does when they walk in nature, it's just that you weren't taught to notice things in this particular way. But you can learn to do that sort of thing easily if it interests you.
I think maybe Julia Cameron is thinking that the urge to reach for alcohol or calories our bodies don't need is an urge to be stimulated, to connect with something that wakes up the senses and engages us - she may be equating that with wanting to see things in a new interesting way, to experience things creatively. In that way, maybe it is like the creative urge where you notice things more closely and it sparks a new way of looking at things or a feeling of wanting to capture what you experienced in words or photos or music or whatever. I think she may be stretching it a little, but I do agree that everyone can be taught to think creatively just as we were all taught to think similarly. Just jotting down something like random words is thinking non-traditionally, so can be a creative process, like arranging refrigerator magnet words into poems.
Whatever you do , just don't judge it as good or bad. Use your first attempts at creativity to spur more adventures, to try even more new things. Creativity is just a form of play that becomes important to you as an outlet for expression.
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