by Lynn A. Thomas
SoulPoweredLife.com
Freeing My Writer
After a week of battling my mind to allow the creative to come in, I am speaking with my dear friend, Andrea on the phone.
She senses my hesitation about my writing resistance and asks what is going on. “This is so simple,” she says, “You are simply doing what you have been doing for years — writing intuitively. Only now you have this wonderful blog to post to. Why the resistance?”
I hesitate. I’m not really sure myself – but the resistance is there – I can feel it.
“Well, does it have to be intuitive writing?” I blurt out, “Can’t it just be writing?”
Andrea laughs, is quiet a moment, then says, “Isn’t all creative writing – intuitive writing?”
I’m stunned by the clarity of her remark. Indeed this is true – for creativity comes from only one source – there is only one well in which to dip our pens, so to speak. I shake my head at my foolish resistance.
“I guess I fear – on one hand – of being too woo-woo. On the other hand, I’ve got some good woo-woo stuff to write about.” I laugh now as well.
“Well, when your mind starts protesting – don’t push it down. Tell it, ‘thank you for sharing’, and then do what it was you intended to do all along.”
“You are so right, and thank you for reminding me. I remember Louise Hay saying something similar to that years ago. I guess I had forgotten.”
“Yup. What we resist — persists,” Andrea says.
“And sometimes grows stronger,” I add.
“Why don’t you become more patient and kind to yourself. Just allow yourself to do this.”
Freeing my Muse
Talking to Andrea helps me free my Writer from the shackles I had placed on her.
It’s time to let her play and have some fun. It’s time to give her expression, and to honor this time and treat it with reverence.
After all, where does all inspiration come from?
I believe that when we honor and create from our inspiration, we are offering God a venue in which to play.
“The good writer seems to be writing about himself, but has his eye always on that thread of the Universe which runs through himself and all things.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
“I write to discover what I think.” ~ Joan Didion
“It is a paradox of creativity that the very way to move beyond the conventional stage [of writing] is not to try harder, but to take a seeming step backward: to reawaken and cultivate in ourselves some of the ways we had of perceiving and expressing when we were children.” ~Gabrielle Lusser Rico
“What is The Subconscious to every other man, in its creative aspect becomes, for writers, The Muse.” ~ Ray Bradbury
