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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

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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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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Joseph Conrad on Fiction, Art and the Power of the Written Word

23 April 4 Comments

Fiction — if it at all aspires to be art — appeals to temperament. And in truth it must be, like painting, like music, like all art, the appeal of one temperament to all the other innumerable temperaments whose subtle and resistless power endows passing events with their true meaning, and creates the moral, the […]

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Creative Overwhelm: Slowing Down and Finding Stillness in a Busy World

5 February 18 Comments

Finding stillness in our busy world is crucial not only for our ability to live in such a world, physically, and neurologically, but also for our inner landscape. In stillness we are able to reconnect with our centre, our true, authentic self. To silence the endless clamour of our planet of bleeps and busyness, and disconnect from the demands […]

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Anne Lamott on Perfectionism, People-Pleasing and Shooting for the Moon

15 January Leave a Comment

“…Oh my God, what if you wake up some day, and you’re 65, or 75, and you never got your memoir or novel written; or you didn’t go swimming in warm pools and oceans all those years because your thighs were jiggly and you had a nice big comfortable tummy; or you were just so […]

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Hunsani Meditation to Sleep Well and Wake Full of Creativity

3 July 5 Comments

Everything becomes more difficult if you are exhausted. An unrested writer may find connecting to that elusive flow all the more tricky. Ensuring you sleep well is one of the finest health tips that exist and crucial for your creativity. Yet so many people find that their evenings are swallowed up before they’ve truly relaxed or find […]

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Thich Nhat Hanh on Clouds, Paper and Poets

18 June 1 Comment

“If you are a poet, you will see clearly that there is a cloud floating in this sheet of paper. Without a cloud, there will be no water; without water, the trees cannot grow; and without trees, you cannot make paper. So the cloud is in here. The existence of this page is dependent on the […]

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