by Lynn A. Thomas
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Guilt is such a cruel weapon.
I had someone knock on my door and ask me to do something. I hemmed and hawed… I really did not have the time to do it. She persisted, pushing the right buttons and I relented, “Okay.”
The day of the task, I awoke with a heavy foreboding. I did not want to meet with her that afternoon. I had already made plans for my day, and I felt like I had undervalued my own time by allowing her to manipulate me. I’m learning, but I still have a hard time saying “No.”
I wrote about the conflict in my morning journal. I just let the words fly about how I felt her pressuring me, how I felt like such a wimp for not saying no, how my energy now felt off. I was not feeling happy or good about my day.
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by Lynn A. Thomas
SoulPoweredLife.com
Writing to Clear the Mind to get to the Heart
If I force my writing, it feels heavy, weighted and restrictive. That is when I know it is coming from the mind, which is like a task master standing ready to strike my fingers with its ruler.
The writing needs to come from my heart. It is then that the writing is light and easy. If, as I am writing I lose track of time and space, then I know that I am writing from within the slipstream.
How do we get from the head to the heart?
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Julia Cameron is one of my absolute favorite writing / spiritual teachers.
In the Artist’s Way Cameron instructs how to break free of mind-babble with a ritual – tool she calls the Morning Pages.
Simply start your day writing three 8 1/2″ x 11″ pages of whatever is on your mind. This can be a release of your inner critique “What are you wasting your time doing this for?”, or a dialogue about upcoming events “I have to go to the bank today” or your inner thoughts “last night I had the strangest dream about…” or “I don’t feel like writing this today”.
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