During the many years that I led creative writing workshops, I noticed something interesting about the thing invited deep writing. Some writing prompts–often involving words or newspaper headlines–kept people entrenched in analytical thinking and… their subsequent writing was heady and dry. Their writing might have been slick and witty, but it was rarely deep or [ Read more … ]
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Writing a fairy tale will uncover what lies beyond your ordinary ways of looking
Creative breakthroughs happen when we perceive what lies beyond our ordinary ways of looking…. writing a fairy tale will give you that shift of perception. Fairy tales offer insightful, surprising answers that we can’t get any other way. 💡 In this youtube video, I guide you in writing your own fairy tale…a quick way to [ Read more … ]
my new article in Spirituality + Health magazine
“Most of us typically associate metaphor with the flowery language that poets use or with things that are made up: ‘That’s just a metaphor.’ In other words, we typically treat metaphors as outside of ourselves, when in fact they are the deep, sensory, intuitive language of the feeling center of our brain. To say that metaphor is [ Read more … ]
It’s impossible to learn if we already believe we know.
The ancient Greek philosopher Epictetus said, “It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.” When you know something in your mind to be true, is there open space in your mind for another view? Not likely. When we’re certain that we “know,” we’re at risk of trouble, because we [ Read more … ]
Tapping creative powers that are only accessible when we move beyond our thinking
Creative power is Godlike. When we’re on fire, nothing can stop us. Can a boulder block a stream? No. The stream is going to go somewhere whether the boulder is there or not. A boulder can’t stop it. The Deep Creative is the power of that stream and it’s possible for us to harness it. [ Read more … ]