Often we need to get away from ourselves. Away involves a diversion and cleansing that help us regain our creativity and channel into fun.
Are you ready to go?
You will need to find a pen and paper.
Then unfocus and listen.
Unfocused listening means attention to colors, shapes, sounds, scents, memories, primal movements, tensions, auras, vibrancy, temperature, weight, prisms, kaleidoscopes, reverie.
Practice handwriting. Begin with your name.
Write it several times and in different styles. writing connects directly to the heart. See how your words follow.
Think about an act of revelation. What comes next and then what?
Create a garden. Weed, trim, fertilize, plant. Stay with how you accomplish the process. Emphasize the doing.
Become a vagabond in your own mind - a thought catcher. Catch transient thoughts for ten minute in writing.
Take a mind walk. Discover three trees, fields of flowers. Find an insect or two. Describe your finds.
Choose an animal. Just follow its tracts through the snow, mud, a pasture or desert, over a mountain.
Describe the wonder of a first time experience.
Dive into absurdity. Oh you can do it. A rabbit fixes a casserole with geraniums and puts clouds in the soup. Gardenias are doing yoga.
Describe food you must unwrap to eat. artichoke, banana . . . what else? How were these discovered?
If life isn't black and white, gray and blue, what color is it?
Write a message to put in a bottle for a l00 years from now. Describe your island. What wish will you send?
Write as if you are the weather. What is your drama, form a force that shapes a single day. Just as the rain clears the air, writing clears the mind.
Choose a word. Find one that is pleasing to you for the way it looks on the page and for its meaning. Notice the word right before and after it. Create an interplay at sense words.
Example. Opportunity is a tightly coiled spring nestled between opponent and opposition.
Whew. Have you stuck it out this far?
If so . . . You've cleared the mind! Hurrah.
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