So how does David unlock and harness the creativity required to make over 100 tracks? Here at 5 tips to supercharge your creativity. 

Any Weakness can Become a Strength. For David, his success in his musical career required constant determination and deep self-inquiry. For 13 years of his life, he was medicated due to having displayed qualities of a behavioral disorder. Coping with his overactive brain, mixed with medications was a difficult time of his life, he has now learned how to utilize and leverage this perceived weakness into an expression of art.

Any weakness can be an overwhelming strength. In fact, one’s weaknesses are often the most powerful untapped strengths but have been seen with a diminishing perspective. What perceived weakness could you shine a light on in your life, and like David, use to your advantage?

Balance Between Thought and Flow. David calls it “Equanimity Between the Mind and No Mind” which essentially means, “If you have no mind then you have super nebulous ideas that aren’t functional or accessible.” Practicing mediums such as “meditation, making love, dancing” allows one to get out of the head but still stay grounded in the body.

The mind has to be kept sharp and in tune. If you want to be able to play instruments you have to dedicate time to practice. Once you “train the faculty to do the things that you want them to do”, you can let go, explore and find the balance between mind and no mind.

Once these two elements are brought into harmony, you become the channel for the music to flow through freely.

Creative Exploration. Creativity and art have no borders, he says. Most of the time he has no set direction on where he is going but is simply exploring, discovering new pathways and trying on different mediums that could be incorporated.

When was the last time you experienced unfiltered exploration? Do you believe that creativity is a prerequisite for exploration? The “Do Something Principle” states that we just need to start and inspiration will be stimulated.

Practice Self- Inquiry. David is an avid practitioner of Vipassana meditation, which is the practice of observing things exactly as they are, ever-changing and flowing moment to moment. The practice of Vipassana helps him to remain equanimous throughout life’s inevitable shifts while remaining centered and focused. David has found that  “Making art has been parallel with meditation.”  

He encourages us to “be vulnerable and authentic and dive deep to excavate the emotions that are in your body to alchemize them into real art.”

When you listen to a sad song, how do you feel? Sure, there is emotion, but would you label it as “negative” or “positive”? This sadness allows you to feel deeply, to open into your full spectrum of emotions. Artists and composers who create art that instills this emotion often create it when they are in a similar state. Through sadness and anger, we are able to open up into a spectrum of emotion that is not always available and transmute that emotion into art.

Constant Evolution. His manifestation board says “I collaborate with artists and creators that push my boundaries.”  He believes there is no easy route and constant evolution is necessary.  

Problems are happily neverending, and finding problems that you enjoy solving is what keeps the cycle of advancement going. Life never stops and waits for you to catch up, you just get better at utilizing your skillset and evolving.

“My music is parallel with my spiritual journey and therefore people connect with it in a really deep way.”

David received a message from a friend sharing a recent experience. She was having a panic attack and even considered taking her own life… suddenly she had the instinct to play his music and found herself calming down.

Listening to music releases a chemical in our brains called dopamine, it changes our cell structure and our cells can be healed when harmonized with sound. Being very aware of the shifts music has on the human body, lyrics in David’s newest project Gone, Gone Beyond such as  “It all comes down to us”, “you can’t go wrong” and “ain’t givin’ up on love” are catalysts to heal the human race.

Receiving impact of how music aided someone in a drastic time gave David the fuel to keep making music, to continue to meditate and to dive deeper into himself so that he can be a  vessel for art to be expressed.

• The Newest album by Gone Gone Beyond will be released on March 29th, 2019
• You can find His music on SoundCloud, Spotify, Amazon, Bandcamp & Apple Music
• Follow The Human Experience on Instagram or Facebook
• Follow Gone, Gone Beyond on Instagram or Facebook 

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Try Out These Transformative Tips from Adam:

Look Inside. Once someone who believed he was purely a logical mind that lacked the creative pulse, Adam awakened his artistic potential and began sharing his wisdom to millions around the world.  A modern day renaissance man, Adam realized at a young age that no amount of achievement would fill the hole he felt internally and went on a quest to question everything he’d been told about how life was and wasn’t.  The longing for wholeness called him to turn his focus inwards and befriend the uncomfortable, vulnerable places within him that he’d once deemed unsafe or too scary. With fierce commitment to willingly look at these parts of himself, Adam is a powerful example of what is possible when you choose to step into the transformative fires to truly love yourself and live your own personal truth.    

What parts of yourself have you labeled too damaged, wrong, impossible to be with?  What ways of being have you subscribed to unwillingly or unconsciously? Is there a nagging voice inside that begs for something different than your current reality? From his own experience, Adam shares, “the only way to fill up that desire to feel loved, worthy, fulfilled is to go inwards, go inside ourselves and look at the places we don’t feel enough.”  

Faceoff with the discomfort and sit with the things that don’t feel good.  By choosing to address the aspects of yourself you don’t like, you will discover what lies on the other side of your fears.  What will you uncover? What would be possible if your fears didn’t phase you in the way they once did before you faced them?

Breathe. In choosing to sit in the discomfort and give himself permission to feel, Adam continued to see how vital the awareness of breath was for his life.  When you take a deep breath, your body begins to signal the parasympathetic nervous system which calms your nerves and shifts you into rest and relaxation.  Often people are in a constant stress response, or fight or flight mode because they are taking shorter breaths which activates the sympathetic nervous system.  

Next time you feel overwhelmed or nervous, start to focus on your breath.  Whether you don’t know what to say in response to someone or you’re moving through an uncomfortable sensation, allowing yourself to have a few deep breaths will provide the space to come back to the present moment and calm your system. Deep breathing lets your body know it’s ok to feel and to be with yourself.  

The invitation is to cultivate this awareness in your life and watch the shifts that start to occur.

Be. Adam believes that the greatest gifts arise out of our darkest shadows, and illustrates this statement through his journey of radical self-love and healing after painful, traumatic experiences.  The Art of Choosing Love episodes are one of many ways Adam shares his realizations and reconciliations after his loving partnership of 9 and ½ years ended.  It is an emotionally all-encompassing story of his healing journey – highs, lows, and everything in between. By being fully himself and modeling authentic and raw vulnerability, Adam illuminates the path to powerfully choose and discover what it means to truly love.

If you look back on your journey, where have you felt the most pain, suffering, sadness, or loss?  Where have you perceived weakness or confusion? By giving yourself permission to share all parts of you, you are bringing awareness to those darker places to create different choices and honoring yourself in the process.  

You are the Priority. Social media tends to only show the snapshot seconds of our joyous moments and paints a false picture of the full spectrum of the human experience.  Adam saw how confusing and overwhelming the saturated messages from social media were, and chose to model the behaviors he wished to see in the world instead of just telling people what to do and how to live.

He prioritizes self-love by choosing not run from himself anymore.  Personal development is not always a path of sunshine and rainbows and will likely bring up the scariest parts of you, all the places you’ve pushed away or numbed out.  By prioritizing experiences with safe containers to express yourself, you are respecting your unique process and letting the misaligned aspects of your life fall away. When you love yourself enough to say “no more” to anything that dampens your creative expression, you are on track to deeper alignment and love.  

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Amelia Broughton is a relational facilitator, writer, and purveyor of connection, pioneering a more connected, communication-savvy, and emotionally intelligent planet. She facilitates Authentic Relating and Relational Leadership in various settings and communities. Her expertise is in team dynamics and interpersonal relations. With over 10 years of experience on teams and in communities, Amelia’s vision for the world is one of beautiful interconnection, a place where we put down the distractions and to-do lists to bask in the miracles that surround us. The type of connection that nourishes us internally, externally and has every one of us feel seen, heard and loved with a true sense of belonging.  An active Unconventional Life member, Amelia consistently contributes her writing.