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- ***The Cycles of Creativity A Guide for Inner Healing and Growth - by Submitted on Feb 19, 2010 from Emily HanlonWe are creative beings. We live in a creative universe. Creativity surrounds us, and is in us – in all of us, not just the gifted few. Although at its core, creativity is a mystery, the creative process is knowable, and we can use it as a template for living a more fulfilling, aware, meaningful ...
Views: 1515(8 votes) - Lilies and Roses in the House of the Dark Moon - by Submitted on Dec 30, 2009 from Emily HanlonI was in the garden, taking in its early August glory as I went about aimlessly pinching off the dead daylilies. Although I love all flowers, daylilies hold my heart. I have perhaps thirty different colors, sizes and shapes. I wait for their blooming each year and wander most mornings to see ...
Views: 1466(2 votes) - *** Creativity as Mediator Between the Worlds or Wild Dog's Kingdom - by Submitted on Jan 04, 2010 from Emily HanlonCreativity is a mysterious journey that connects us to the unseen worlds. There was a time when all people had access to the unseen worlds, although it was shaman, story tellers and healers who mediated between the worlds as they journeyed into the Mystery and interpreted the images found there. ...
Views: 1587(3 votes) - Ten Tips on Writing and Creativity - by Submitted on Dec 30, 2009 from Emily Hanlon1. Don’t think. Creating a story or book has little to do with the intellect or language when we first begin. Our best ideas will emerge as a spark or image. Like dreams, they will make little sense. Followed, they will hold the key to the creative unconscious. 2. Creativity is cyclical. You ...
Views: 1471(1 vote) - The Creative Process, How And Why It Works - by Submitted on Oct 28, 2009 from Emily HanlonCreativity is a subtle and magnificent dance between the rational and the intuitive, between the left and right parts of the brains, between technique and imagination. Both partners in this dance are absolutely necessary and are needed in equal proportion, which means that imagination is not ...
Views: 1545 - The Happy Ending - Love Conquers All Or Thoughts On Fiction Writing After Dialoguing With My Dog - by Submitted on Dec 30, 2009 from Emily HanlonRecently, I was considering the question of peace, which doesn't happen often while writing fiction. There's all that drama, love, hate, desire, envy and so on. Peace, with any luck, comes at the end of the novel. I was considering this aimlessly as I lay with my head on Phoebe's warm flank. ...
Views: 1580(1 vote) - Writing And The Cosmic Shopping Mall - by Submitted on Jan 04, 2010 from Emily HanlonThis thought recently occurred to me: writing from the creative unconscious -- whether if be fiction, poetry, journaling, memoir or doodling -- is like walking into a cosmic shopping mall where each shop offers a different persona for us to try on, actually a different way of being in ...
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