You will want to hear this: I have discovered the power in writing briefly, in short chunks, to make discoveries just underneath the surface of ordinarry thought using a practice I call #5for5BrainDump. You may do this, too. It is so easy!
Writing for 5 minutes a day for 5 consecutive days (and beyond) brings miracles when you are open to them. The simple act of writing alone manages, like meditation, to cause immediate shifts.
Read on for an example of the writing I did this morning.
"You cannot find peace by avoiding life."
Virginia Woolf
I wrote for five minutes, without editing. Except for when my brain made up a new word "fadight" when the words "faded" and "bright" fought for temporary sovereignty over my pencil.
Here is what was born -
Unfinished business.
I wear a robe made of unfinished business. It is tattered and faded and bright and holy and a blur of unpleasant and fabulous exhilaration.
No wonder I am addicted to not finishing.
My neighbor pulls his oversized pick up to the front of his home, his argument with his parolee girlfriend more than likely unfinished and I wonder if he has his gun in his glove compartment, ready if any of his drug addicted customers arrive unexpected at the Wal-mart parking lot may cause him to point click and kill rather than measure, serve and kill like is his other practice.
People like this in oversized without a purpose red trucks like this should be enough to make me complete a ton of work, like Virginia – like Virginia.
I am slightly nutty but I more than likely will not meet an end like she or like Charlotte did.
I cannot find peace by avoiding life.
I need to leap into the thick of it.
The thicket of life, with all the scratchy thorns and unseen bugs ready to pounce on my getting more wrinkly by the day flesh. I invite myself, I choose to, I step into this thicket that smells like lavender at times and mint sometimes and often like water left standing too long or “gerbil cage” as Katherine labels it or beloved decomposing leaves of last year that I love, how I love that smell of life.
And people. Today, I need to meet up with someone I don’t want to meet up with because I cannot find peace by avoiding life.
I cannot find peace by avoiding life.
I cannot find peace by avoiding life.
Risks are the balm. Leaping into the thicket bare legged might feel like pain, but only if I label it so.
Five minutes. Five minutes of leaping into these words. Feels so good.
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Julie Jordan Scott is the Founder of #5for5BrainDump, a writing experience you may find on the PeriWriters Facebook group (please join us there for plentiful writing inspiration in community) as well as via live streaming on Periscope and Facebook Live and sometimes even on SnapChat!
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Julie Jordan Scott inspires people to experience artistic rebirth via her programs, playshops, books, performances and simply being herself out in the world. She is a writer, creative life coach, speaker, performance poet, Mommy-extraordinaire and mixed-mediaartist whose Writing Camps and Writing Playgrounds permanently transform people's creative lives. Watch for the announcement of new programs coming through the end of 2016.
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