Live the Question: How are "blessings" related to gratitude?
Stay Unstuck:
A practical way to stay unstuck with your blogging, writing and creativity as well as "out of the box" thinking.
Each day, a quote, an image, several questions and a writing prompt are offered to you to use for Your Blogging, Writing & Creative Inspiration in order to increase your creative thinking as well as your personal and soulful development.
Todays's Quote:
“Hear blessings dropping their blossoms around you.”
Rumi
Questions:
How often do you focus on your blessings in a conscious, focused manner?
What are some actions you may take in order to “listen” for blessings everywhere?
In what ways has your life work/business been blessed and/or is your life work/business a blessing to others?
Lists:
Make a list of 5 - 10 Audacious Lifetime Blessings (What might be considered a wild blessing for you)
Make a list of 5 – 10 Blessings you have “heard” this week.
Make a list of 5 – 10 Blessings you have noticed in others.
Bonus: Share your witness of blessings with others.
Take the items on the list that most resonate and write about them starting with the simple (and effective) prompt, “I remember….”
Traditional Writing Prompts (write in a stream of consciousness style for 5 to 10 minutes without stopping. If your words stop flowing, simply restate the prompt or add the next one to your writing.)
If I was asked to describe the blessings I see, I would say…. (be specific about what you see using concrete words rather than concepts.
Blessings may also be referred to as ______ because……
I will be more aware of blessings when I…..
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One helpful creative thinking strategy is to read the quote, questions, prompt and list and not to "take them on" all at once, but to allow them to simmer in the back of your mind throughout the day. Sure, you may "write" one immediately, but don't call it "done" until you have allowed your powerful subconscious mind to bring up some unexpected responses for your conscious mind to create within.
Remember, though - there are no rights and wrongs, there is only showing up for your life and your creativity. Brava for being here!!
This Blog Series was created to increase your creative thinking process as well as inspire writing and ideas to take form that may not have taken form without these specific quotes, questions and prompts. If you find them helpful, I hope you will pass them along to friends as well.
I’m so glad you are here, reading and creating.
Julie Jordan Scott is a writer, performance poet, Mommy and mixed-media artist. Her word-love themed art will be for sale at First Friday each month in Downtown Bakersfield. Check out the links below to follow her on a bunch of different social media channels, especially if you find the idea of a Word-Love Party bus particularly enticing.
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