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 … ]
imagination
Six ways to break your creative blocks
Six Ways to Break Your Creative Blocks. Give yourself both internal and external space. Creativity needs space. Pursue what’s important to YOU. Creativity is intrinsically motivated. Embrace your full vision. For your creativity to flourish, it wants your biggest vision. Weed out the things and situations that you find draining or dull, and instead feed [ Read more … ]
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 … ]
We humans are blessed with the ability to imagine a world beyond the ordinary
Albert Einstein said that imagination is the “highest form of research.” The Australian animal pathologist William Ian Beardmore Beveridge (1908-2006), said that facts and ideas are “dead in themselves. It is the imagination that gives them life.” We humans are blessed with the ability to imagine a world beyond the ordinary. Let’s make good use [ Read more … ]