What is the practice you use to connect you with your authentic inner wisdom and direction? How do you integrate your experience, or explore new ideas? What works every time? We’re all different and each of us has our own favourite modalities – for some walking in nature is the key, for others it’s making music, having a great conversation, doing ritual, or a yoga or bodywork practice. For me, it’s always been writing. I’m passionate about writing and writing has been my passion now for more than thirty years. This message is motivated by a desire to reach out and connect with those of you who want to write more often, with more focus, clarity, joy and fulfilment.
I’m sure, like me, you’ve had plenty of people telling you couldn’t or shouldn’t do what you long to do. In my early thirties my boyfriend scoffed when I said I wanted to write a book; my mother was impatient with my “silly ideas”; my friends told me I was unrealistic to think I could do what I wanted and anyway I’d never finish anything.
Well, I proved them all wrong. Over the last 30 years I’ve built a body of work including several full length transformational books, many e-books, 100s of blog posts, four volumes of poetry and several training manuals. The first thing I wrote was a thinly disguised autobiographical novel which I sent away to an agent. It really wasn’t good but the point is that I finished it and believed in it enough to take action. Since then, I’ve learned to write by writing. It’s the only way. Inspiration kick starts the process and keeps it juicy but to find fulfilment as a writer it’s essential to combine inspiration with dedication. And that means regular practice.
I’ve come to love all the stages of the writing process. Nothing beats the inspiration phase where I’m setting off on a new adventure, ideas are flowing and I feel held and carried by a bigger energy. Finding the right words to express complex intuitive feelings and ideas is a challenge that stretches and grows me. When it comes to editing, tweaking and refining, I love the feeling of being a sculptor and seeing the shape emerging from the rough stone; letting the book find its own true shape. Designing the final product is also lots of fun, especially when it’s an ebook and I add photos and art work.
What I am most grateful for is how writing has given me a very strong sense of purpose and meaning. I honestly can’t imagine what my life would have been without it. It is the main vehicle for my soul work. Writing for me is a practice of deep attentive listening; it reveals me to myself and it opens up the mystery of life. It teaches me what it really means to be a spiritual being having a human experience; it shows me more of the human condition; it connects me with universal intelligence and with the intelligence of the Earth. It enables me to exercise my brain and play. It gives me the sense of being sovereign in my own domain in a crazy world. Even if nobody ever reads my words I know the process of writing is making a difference. I am so, so grateful for this gift.
And so now, one of my biggest desires is to ignite this joy and passion in others. I meet so many people who talk about writing a book one day but who never get around to it. I meet many others who long for a deeper connection with self and a clearer sense of purpose and who flit from one flower to another, unsure how to release the nectar of personal fulfilment.
If this is you, please take a look at my Do You Want to Write a Book programme and see if it tempts you. I have a group starting on February 22nd and two places left. You will get weekly assignments to work on alone, and in the small group and 1-1 coaching sessions, you will get plenty of my attention as well as sharing in the group wisdom and the expanded intentional energy field we’ll create together. Please write to me this week if you are interested.
If you want to write a book because you think it will make you rich and famous this probably isn’t the right course for you – although you will certainly enrich yourself and this may well lead to outer riches and fame. This programme is about YOU – it’s about you finding more joy, passion, fulfilment, purpose, direction and meaning. It’s about developing a writing practice that will connect you every time with your intuition, your authentic wisdom, your own magic and power. It’s about setting out on the amazing adventure of writing a book and giving yourself the chance to see it through all the way to the end.
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Namaste,
