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2 Minutes of Stillness | Meditation

23 September 1 Comment

Just a couple of minutes of soothing visualisation can calm you in body and mind, silencing your internal chatter, reduce creative anxiety, and refresh your passion and inspiration too. As our inner voice can be so easily drowned out by our busy world, it makes it all the more essential — for you, and your creativity — to find stillness and connect to your inner being. […]

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10 Ancient Healing Tools to Relax, Ease Stress & Keep Your Creative Cool

23 July 5 Comments

Soothe your spirit, calm your mind, ease stress, and let your body chill with these techniques If you’re feeling a little over-heated, overwhelmed or stressed, finding the inspiration to write and create may be far more difficult, motivation too, all the more slender. In the spirit of chilling out and keeping your cool — creative and otherwise — […]

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Filed Under: Filed Under: Acupressure, Awaken, Empower, Evolve, Nourish, The Beach, The Juice Bar 5 Comments

Pema Chödrön on Tigers, Strawberries and the Preciousness of the Moment

11 June 1 Comment

“There is a story of a woman running away from tigers. She runs and runs and the tigers are getting closer and closer. When she comes to the edge of a cliff, she sees some vines there, so she climbs down and holds on to the vines. Looking down, she sees that there are tigers […]

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Poetry | Remember By Joy Harjo

4 June Leave a Comment

Remember By Joy Harjo Remember the sky that you were born under, know each of the star’s stories. Remember the moon, know who she is. I met her in a bar once in Iowa City. Remember the sun’s birth at dawn, that is the strongest point of time. Remember sundown and the giving away to night. Remember your birth, how your mother struggled to give you form and […]

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Sharon Saltzberg on Connection, Compassion and Loving Kindness

28 May 3 Comments

“As we go about our ordinary day it’s easy to overlook how vulnerable we all are to change. In some ways I think our society is built around the notion that if we accumulate enough, or get that one, special experience, relationship or object, it will serve as a totem against change. It’s a powerful […]

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7 Ways to Embrace Vulnerability and Write Truth

12 March 12 Comments

When you create with openness, with a willingness to trust and be vulnerable for your art, your writing is all the more authentic and true because it is uncensored, drawn from the deepest part of yourself — pure feeling articulated on the page — but it can be hard to share our truths, to write without censor, especially when the […]

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Pema Chödrön on the Moment, Not Taking Things Personally and Liberation

5 March Leave a Comment

How to taste the quality of the moment by Pema Chödrön It could be the main koan of your life. How to taste the quality of the moment, of the week, without the labels of good and bad, or succeeding and failing. But really just get used to tasting or knowing or experiencing the quality […]

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Release Creative Anxiety and Stress with Acupressure

14 December 12 Comments

Release Creative Anxiety and Stress with Acupressure Our creative expression is so intrinsically linked to our self-worth that when we create — no matter the medium — it is far from rare for creative souls to become a little anxious about our work. “Anxiety is part of creativity, the need to get something out, the need to be rid […]

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15 Liberating Ways to Live an Inspired Life [Part 2]

2 December 2 Comments

Here’s the second part of 15 Liberating Ways to Live an Inspired Life [Part 1], read part one of this post here.  Be Present, Be Aware We are each the author of our own life, the artist of our unique masterpiece. In the whirl of our frantic modern lives, taking a moment to step back and […]

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Powerful Acupressure Points to Increase Your Focus, Memory and Concentration

20 October 21 Comments

If you find yourself unable to focus on your work or distracted by your thoughts, both your enjoyment of and the creative process itself can become a muddled affair. This can cause your motivation and therefore dedication for your creative projects to plummet, perhaps in turn affecting your creative confidence. Yet when your mind is balanced by attending […]

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