Exercising the Creative Mind One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star. Friedrich Nietzsche The creative mind is truly unique. There is no beginning or end to the possibilities that it can provide. Images, stories, ideas, concepts, thoughts, are borne from this mind and it can exhaust itself to the point of collapse. Stands to reason when there is so much of a thought process going on; a bombardment of everything, constantly. Nietzsche describes it as chaos. I'm going to have to agree. For the creative mind there may never be rest and while it is a precious thing to have, it can be also be destructive. Withdrawal into this world, all alone can be a common escape, for it is the world that is ours, one that we can only see and one that we can only understand. This though, is not conducive to long term productivity of the art form and in looking at successful creatives there is one stand alone act that they all employ to serve the