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Writing as a Path to Awakening

A Year to Becoming an Excellent Writer and Living an Awakened Life

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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.

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      • Publisher's Weekly

        September 4, 2017
        You are a creative genius, says poet and writing workshop instructor DeSilver (Beamish Boy) in this guide to using meditation practice as a source of inspiration and guidance. DeSilver separates the book into 12 chapters corresponding to the months of the year, with each considering a different step in the creative process: rebirth, emergence, imagination, amusement, revelation, and so on. As with many books on writing instruction, he includes practical exercises. “Schedule times for your writing practice. Calendar it now... like you would an appointment with your dentist,” he suggests. DeSilver’s key to unlocking creative genius is the use of meditation as a tool to develop mindfulness and internal awareness, and he includes exercises in each chapter for learning to meditate in both creative and spiritual capacities. DeSilver also shares stories from his life, such as the day he demonstrated to elementary school students how brilliant and natural they were at tapping into their imaginations. Spiritually curious types looking for creative inspiration will want to give his methods a try.

      • Library Journal

        July 1, 2017

        As their titles state, both of these books focus on writing as a tool to exploring and stimulating one's way of interacting in the world. Author DeSilver (Beamish Boy) claims that "a writer is someone who writes, not someone who is published," and that practice, repetition, and consistency are essential to creative expression on the page. He encourages readers to master these principles by offering stories, meditations, and writing exercises within the framework of the months of the year. For example, the theme for April is "blossoming," while October is "abundance." The goal is to encourage the practice of meditation and use art to accelerate a personal spiritual revolution.,

        Similarly, Matousek (Ethical Wisdom) inspires readers to explore their own narrative through writing. He outlines weekly prompts intended to spur readers to write honestly about topics such as their deepest wounds, greatest challenges, and hidden gifts in order to move more closely toward a liberated life. Each exercise offers a tidbit of the author's experience, core insights, a series of questions through which one can dive deeper, and an analysis of the topic under discussion. VERDICT Both volumes will help readers understand themselves better. DeSilver's concentrates more on the craft of writing, while Matousek's centers on self-revelation.

        Copyright 2017 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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