The desire to create certain outcomes hampers transformation. No matter how much we push, intend and effort, it’s clear that we don’t often have all the answers that we seek. But Something else does. We humans are brilliant when we align with Something greater than ourselves. When we loosen our fixation on what we think,…
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…
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…
“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…
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…
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