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Sto caricando le informazioni... Writing as a Path to Awakening: A Year to Becoming an Excellent Writer and Living an Awakened Lifedi Albert Flynn Desilver
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. ***This book was reviewed for San Francisco Book Review and Sounds True Publishing Via Netgalley DeSilver’s Writing as a Path to Awakening elicits a beautiful dialogue with the soul. Writing can help you find who you truly are. Combined with techniques of mindfulness and meditation, it can be a powerful catalyst. This book will teach you how to combine those things to spark your own internal growth and transformation. The book is divided by month, though it is more important to follow one chapter after another, than it is to match to the literal month. Each builds upon the previous chapters. The choice of month as chapter title follows the magickal dormancy of winter, through spring’s burgeoning, summer’s bounty, and fall’s reflection back to winter’s slumber to process the lessons learned. The chapters have meditation tasks and writing tasks to put the lessons to practical use. I was slow reading this book because, of course, I had to do the tasks. Many were familiar to me, in terms of meditation. The writing tasks were helpful in getting me to let go of some of the resistance I've been feeling in my own writing life. April is my birth month, and this was one of my favourite chapters. April’s Blossoming dealt with poetry. I have a much greater appreciation for the power of poetry in my greater age than I did in college. I ended up adding several more poetry books to my Kindle thanks to this chapter! I loved the poem DeSilver shared by nine year old Caroline Calhoun. The creative power of children is never to be underestimated, and always to be learned from. May’s Imagination builds on April’s tasks, and several of the May tasks were quite similar to those I would give my own students, when I still taught. June’s Amusement recalled me to the lessons for my Patron, Loki. Oft reviled as a deity of lies and deceit, one of Loki’s earliest, and most appropriate, epitaphs is Lord of Laughter, and His lessons include how to laugh with life, and find amusement no matter the circumstances, for laughter is healing. July’s Audacity is another Loki oriented month! These spring and summer chapters were my favourites, but each of them have pertinent and useful lessons. A healthy and full writing path is by default a spirit-laden one. Any true spiritual path exudes creativity for it is our birthright as humans. Sometimes we just need a jumpstart to jog us out of our stupor. Writing as a Path to Awakening offers just such a jolt. 📚📚📚📚📚 A definite must for any writingcraft collection! nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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The best writers say their work seems to come from a source beyond the thinking mind. But how do we access that source? "We must first look inside ourselves and be willing to touch that raw emotional core at the heart of a deeper creativity," writes Albert Flynn DeSilver. In Writing as a Path to Awakening, this renowned poet, writer, and teacher shows you how to use meditation to cultivate true depth in your own writing -- so your words reveal layers of profound insight that inspire and move your readers. Constructed as a year-long exploration with a new focus for each month and season, Writing as a Path to Awakening includes: how to approach writing and reading with a greater level of presence and immersion; engaging curiosity, playfulness, and spontaneity to keep your regular practice fresh; meditating with poetry to deeply embody the power of language; how you can spark your imagination by connecting to the groundless source of creation; the meditative approach to storytelling -- how not being trapped in your story liberates your capacity to create; editing, rewriting, and the path of spiritual transformation. "Writing and meditation practice are a powerful pair, a dynamic duo," Albert Flynn DeSilver teaches. "Together they nourish and push, trigger and define, inform and inspire, enable, and energize. To engage in both practices fully is to activate a more complete, creative, and spiritual self." With a mixture of engaging storytelling and practical exercises, Writing as a Path to Awakening invites you on a yearlong journey of growth and discovery -- to enhance your writing through the practice of meditation while using the creative process to accelerate your spiritual evolution. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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I enjoyed the structure of the book -- using each month of the year to connect to a different literary theme and writing idea was a fresh take I hadn't come across before. But some of the chapters dragged on, and the meditations did nothing for me. (Besides, it's damn hard to both meditate and read along with a meditation; and since I wasn't listening to the audio book, it would have taken too much effort to record myself reading the meditation and then go through it on my own.) I've been meditating for years, and I have a solid practice in place. Unfortunately, neither the meditations nor the writing exercises interested me enough to actually do anything with them.
Ultimately, this is an original take on a subject that's been approached from many angles over the years. Unfortunately, it's also utterly forgettable. ( )