I too have a book of curiosities! I always find myself going back to things, pondering further. Sometimes we need to sit with things before they are ready to be shared. Like they need to live a little more on the page and within ourselves first. In that way, creativity is as much in the living as it is in the creating.
Jane, this is so so great! Full of goodness, plain speak and woven with the magic and mysteriousness of the creative process! I LOVED the practice, your beautiful and soothing voice combined with the actual practice were exactly what I needed - so big thanks for that. I actually sat down to write a chapter on the topic of 'Play' in relation to motherhood and healing from trauma but felt so frustrated and despondent - the world is heavy right now and sometimes the words feel so hard to reach. Reading and listening to this has been so useful for stepping into the flow. Wishing you a safe trip. Kelly x
This makes me so happy to hear, thank you Kelly! And I completely relate to that feeling of the words being hard to reach- I'm glad it helped with loosening the flow. AND I can't wait to read your book xx
I love this post Jane so generous and generative in ways you have extended what we started last Sunday which I have continued to play with over the week. Looking forward to doing practice you share here before writing today and playing with first and second body perceptions. Thank you. Hope your travels are feeding all your bodies !
Thank you for sharing such understandings which reflect both wisdom and compassion on the human lived experience. Such a beautiful inter weaving of threads of various understandings and at the same time a distillation of the interplay of these two ‘systems’. Thank you again - so very thoughtful and a lovely catalyst for generating more creativity!
This is fascinating Jane. Thank you. So many thoughts about this - especially the following two:
1. I was just in Bali - where I thought I would end up doing some writing, but mostly I did some staring and life contemplating - as I rested. It was needed. These contemplations led to me think about the ways I was hurting my body with the stresses of my work and ways I could support my nervous system to manage my hormones and stress better. I keep seeing the words nervous system and hormones pop up everywhere in the past two weeks.
2. When I received the idea for my novel, it was based on something I read, which opened my mind very slightly about a short story I had written, about a real-life experience which had happened about 10 years before. The way this idea, which became a novel, unfolded made me see how much this process was about openness to receive it. Because all the dots were already there, they had been for years - the difference was, I was ready to receive them - and had also in the meantime, strengthened my writing skillset to be able to play with and develop this idea when it arrived.
I love all of this. I’ve been going through a similar unravelling process and looking at the ways I have been working basically feed into the same system my work aims to liberate others from. A strange paradox that I’m still unpicking now.
I’m really glad you got that time in Bali. It sounds like it fed you on many different levels and was much deserved and needed.
And I also really appreciate your second point. It’s so true. If I find myself getting ‘tight’ around my writing, I realise I’ve gone to a place of mining the past rather than being responsive to what presents and what might come of that.
Jane, this is wonderful; thank you! It has been sitting in my inbox for a while waiting to be read at a time when I felt as if I could sit and fully engage with it, and I am glad that I waited. As it turns out, that was what was called for all along, and in and of itself, gives me much to think about. XO
I too have a book of curiosities! I always find myself going back to things, pondering further. Sometimes we need to sit with things before they are ready to be shared. Like they need to live a little more on the page and within ourselves first. In that way, creativity is as much in the living as it is in the creating.
"In that way, creativity is as much in the living as it is in the creating."
So true! Thank you so much. And I love that you have a book of curiosities xx
Jane, this is so so great! Full of goodness, plain speak and woven with the magic and mysteriousness of the creative process! I LOVED the practice, your beautiful and soothing voice combined with the actual practice were exactly what I needed - so big thanks for that. I actually sat down to write a chapter on the topic of 'Play' in relation to motherhood and healing from trauma but felt so frustrated and despondent - the world is heavy right now and sometimes the words feel so hard to reach. Reading and listening to this has been so useful for stepping into the flow. Wishing you a safe trip. Kelly x
This makes me so happy to hear, thank you Kelly! And I completely relate to that feeling of the words being hard to reach- I'm glad it helped with loosening the flow. AND I can't wait to read your book xx
Right on! Thanks for sharing this with all of us creatives.
You are so welcome Christy, thank you for taking the time to read xx
I love this post Jane so generous and generative in ways you have extended what we started last Sunday which I have continued to play with over the week. Looking forward to doing practice you share here before writing today and playing with first and second body perceptions. Thank you. Hope your travels are feeding all your bodies !
Yay! I am so happy to hear- thank you so much xx
Thank you for sharing such understandings which reflect both wisdom and compassion on the human lived experience. Such a beautiful inter weaving of threads of various understandings and at the same time a distillation of the interplay of these two ‘systems’. Thank you again - so very thoughtful and a lovely catalyst for generating more creativity!
You are so welcome, Eliza. I am so happy that you found it useful 💛 Happy creating! xx
This is fascinating Jane. Thank you. So many thoughts about this - especially the following two:
1. I was just in Bali - where I thought I would end up doing some writing, but mostly I did some staring and life contemplating - as I rested. It was needed. These contemplations led to me think about the ways I was hurting my body with the stresses of my work and ways I could support my nervous system to manage my hormones and stress better. I keep seeing the words nervous system and hormones pop up everywhere in the past two weeks.
2. When I received the idea for my novel, it was based on something I read, which opened my mind very slightly about a short story I had written, about a real-life experience which had happened about 10 years before. The way this idea, which became a novel, unfolded made me see how much this process was about openness to receive it. Because all the dots were already there, they had been for years - the difference was, I was ready to receive them - and had also in the meantime, strengthened my writing skillset to be able to play with and develop this idea when it arrived.
I love all of this. I’ve been going through a similar unravelling process and looking at the ways I have been working basically feed into the same system my work aims to liberate others from. A strange paradox that I’m still unpicking now.
I’m really glad you got that time in Bali. It sounds like it fed you on many different levels and was much deserved and needed.
And I also really appreciate your second point. It’s so true. If I find myself getting ‘tight’ around my writing, I realise I’ve gone to a place of mining the past rather than being responsive to what presents and what might come of that.
Thank you so much for this xx
Thank you.
You are so welcome xx
‘Letting go of what creative looks like…’. So perfect xx
Thank you 💛
Curiosity is my favorite way. Jane, you are brilliant as usual. Joann
Thank you so much Joann- my favourite way also! xx
Jane, this is wonderful; thank you! It has been sitting in my inbox for a while waiting to be read at a time when I felt as if I could sit and fully engage with it, and I am glad that I waited. As it turns out, that was what was called for all along, and in and of itself, gives me much to think about. XO
The sensing practice with the feet was magical & very very interesting - I would really
Ii ke to make this a regular practice. Does it work with any body parts or are feet the best?