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Return to Presence with the RAIN of Self-Compassion Practice

23 January Leave a Comment

If you are finding the weight of the world a touch too weighty, and your thoughts are echoing such, if feeling a little displaced, vulnerable, uncertain or insecure, try this potent practice, complete with its easy to remember acronym, to help you return to calm presence. Sharing as part of a new series of humble healing posts for conscious creatives to heal your writing, life and art, for it truly is a potent practice.

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Acupressure to Ease Creative Doubt

7 August 7 Comments

A woman standing in the mountain yoga asana, showing the acupressure points stomach 36 (ST 36), spleen 16 SP6), Sea of Tranquility point (CV 17).

Doubt can affect every aspect of the creative process, from confidence in your craft to your passion for a project, even thwarting the act itself. Try these acupressure points for easing creative doubt, no matter the medium of your art. As a prequel to the post on overcoming writing doubt, these acupressure points to help alleviate creative doubt, are potent healing tools, bringing […]

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Find Your Motivation & Increase Energy with These Ancient Techniques

23 March 8 Comments

Find your motivation and boost your energy levels with these ancient tools and techniques. Every writer and artist has days where their drive dips or motivation flags a little, when instead of being filled with creative splendour, they find themselves creatively stuck, unable to express much less motivate that expression. If struggling to find that discipline or drive, attending […]

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Filed Under: Filed Under: Acupressure, Awaken, Create, Empower, Evolve, The Beach, The Boat, The Temple 8 Comments

Find Clarity & Presence with a Swift Meditation for Busy Creatives

23 November 6 Comments

If you’re feeling a little mentally clouded, a touch hazy in the head, and want to liberate yourself from this place, so you can get on with the work — with writing, creating, and making your art — one swift means to clarity and calm is to practice this simple meditation technique each time you feel overwhelmed, stressed-out or in […]

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Filed Under: Filed Under: Acupressure, Awaken, Empower, Evolve, Humble Healings, Meditate, The Beach, The Temple 6 Comments

Rainer Maria Rilke on Trusting in Nature, Loving Small Things & Living Questions

23 September Leave a Comment

In the great silence of these distances, I am touched by your beautiful anxiety about life, …even more than I was in Paris, where everything echoes and fades away differently because of the excessive noise that makes Things tremble. Here, where I am surrounded by an enormous landscape, which the winds move across as they […]

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15 Tools Inspired by Eastern Wisdom to Find Stillness in a Storm Part II

23 October 1 Comment

“Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realise it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate, or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become asource of beauty, joy, and strength, […]

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6 Liberating Ways to Let Go—Skin Shedding—An Essay by Louise Moulin

13 July 1 Comment

Delighted to welcome essayist, novelist, lyricist, and poetess, Louise Moulin, with her personal essay, Skin Shedding. When we are born we do not know ourselves. We discover what we are made of on the road.  We endure ordeals and roll in blissful fields in a spiritual process of culmination and release, of construction and deconstruction, of metamorphosis […]

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When Things Go Wrong—15 Tools Inspired By Eastern Wisdom to Find Stillness in a Storm Part I

23 May 6 Comments

 During life’s inevitable shifts, these tools & teachings help you find calm in chaos, ground & centre you, giving you a little control in how to respond—in even the trickiest of circumstances. Read Part II for 8 more practices, here. “I feel like an inadequate machine, a machine that breaks down at crucial moments, and grinds to a dreadful halt,” wrote poet, novelist and memoirist, May Sarton in […]

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Pema Chödrön on Why to Meditate

25 November 2 Comments

We do not meditate in order to be comfortable. In other words, we don’t meditate in order to always, all the time, feel good. Meditation gives us the opportunity to have an open, compassionate attentiveness to whatever is going on. The meditative space is like the big sky— spacious, vast enough to accommodate anything that […]

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Filed Under: Filed Under: Awaken, Inspire, Meditate, Sages & Seekers, The Island, The Temple, Thinkers 2 Comments

Diane Ackerman on Truly Living Our Lives

20 October

“The great affair, the love affair with life, is to live as variously as possible, to groom one’s curiosity like a high-spirited thoroughbred, climb aboard, and gallop over the thick, sun-struck hills every day. Where there is no risk, the emotional terrain is flat an unyielding, and, despite all its dimensions, valleys, pinnacles, and detours, […]

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