Photo by Kelly Sikkema on Unsplash When we are in flow and the writing is pouring out of us we seem to act on automatic. But at other times we feel dry and the writing seems forced. What do we do to find the inspiration again? How do we find the rush of words, images, associations…
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How to cultivate the powerful mindset of a writer
Photo by Tom Holmes on Unsplash Beyond imagination, my most basic tool as a writer is my journal. As I mentioned in the last post my journal contains everything – my big quests and the steps towards them to do lists book notes ideas for stories snatches of poems in progress dreams and what they might…
How to boost your days with play, love, imagination & ritual
Photo by NeONBRAND on Unsplash In his book The Biology of Belief, Bruce Lipton talks about the power of epigenetics or how environment influences genetic expression. Everything from nutrition to stress, emotions to thoughts effect our genes. Lipton’s views are the opposite of genetic determinism. In short, he argues that we can effect profound changes on…
But I have promises to keep
Photo by Morgan Jones on Unsplash There are so many choices in life, so much to do. We can do anything, but we can’t do everything. If we don’t make decisions, others will make them for us. We’ll find ourselves not looking forward with nostalgia for the future, but looking backwards wondering what happened. The only…
How to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves
Photo by Bonnie Kittle on Unsplash Writers can be cerebral creatures. By its nature, writing is sedentary and we spend a lot of time in our heads. But when the writing loses all sense of embodiment it becomes remote and ineffective. Writing in the Journal of Transpersonal Psychology Rosemarie Anderson notes: Embodied writing seeks to reveal…
10 powerful reasons why change begins with the magic of story
Stories are powerful. We don’t simply tell stories, we inhabit them. Since language began, we’ve been storytelling animals. Every time and culture has dominant stories that shape us, whether they are stories from religion, ideology or the market-place. Sometimes these stories have such a grip that it’s hard to see beyond them, yet alternative stories…