Daily Nourishment for November 20, 2024: A Creative Life Is an Amplified Life with Guidance from Tanya Davis
Daily Nourishment Read Time: 40 seconds
Pause/Prompt/Practice Time: 10-15 minutes
“A creative life is an amplified life. Its a bigger life, a happier life, an expanded life, and a hell of a lot more interesting life."
—Elizabeth Gilbert
Pause.
As a meditative practice, take a piece of paper and use a crayon, a pencil, or a marker, and doodle for five minutes.
Prompt.
Pick out an object, inside or outside.
Begin writing a creative story for five minutes about what that object could be saying or doing. Use your imagination and have fun with it!
Practice.
Make plans to do something creative and playful that you don’t typically do. Color in an adult coloring book or mandala book. Paint using a paint by number for adults. Do some reflective/narrative writing. Turn on some music dance like no one is watching. Pick out a day and time and add it to your calendar. Or do it now!
Want More?
Read the chapter on Creativeness in the book Urban Monks and Mystics: Find Inner Peace without joining a Monastery.
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