Daily Nourishment for September 24, 2024: Drop Down into the Core of Your Being with Guidance from Rev. Nhien Vuong
Daily Nourishment Read Time: 50 seconds
Pause/Prompt/Practice Time: 15 minutes
“Creativity is a natural spontaneous expression of your authenticity. Nothing more to effort toward, but actually something to drop into at the core of your being.” - Rev. Nhien Vuong
Pause.
Take six deep breaths with a six-count inhale and a six-count exhale while meditating on the quote above.
Prompt.
Read the excerpt below from a recent IG Live I did with Rev. Nhien Vuong about the Spiritual Direction for Writers + Enneagram for Creativity Gathering:
“There is an ongoing lived creative expression that we are intimately connected to. It's happening anyway. And so we recognize it as a creative act when we're actually connected to what's already happening, the effortlessness of the flow of your own personal being that is expressing in a unique way…
To me, there's a distinct you that is unique that you don't have to try to be. And in that creative movement, I would say, or expression in the world, everything in the world is different because you exist.
So then again, then we don't have to be like, ‘how do I make something unique? How do I design something genius?’ It's sort of like genius is embedded in who you are, that it's a dropping again, that dropping into the soul, not up and out. It's not out there. It's not in the comparison world, but something so natural that most people, it's almost like, ‘really? Can it be that easy?’”
Practice.
Set a timer for 10 minutes and journal or take notes in response to the Pause and Prompt above and/or the questions below.
—What would it look like to create from dropping down into your soul instead of worrying about the world, voices, distractions, around you?
—How is your creative process happening anyway? Even when you aren’t sitting down and actively writing or creating?
—How can these ideas give you more rest and freedom and less anxiety and stress in your creative practice?
Want More?
—Watch the entire IG Live with Rev. Nhien Vuong and me
—Register for Spiritual Direction for Writers + Enneagram for Creativity Gathering on Sept 27-28.
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Workshops, Gatherings, & Resources
—New Resource: Parenting with Art® Lectio Divina Cards Information about ordering these cards can be found in my Books + Spiritual Direction + Retreats & Gatherings email newsletter that went out last night. To stay in the loop on all of my work, writing, book recs, and more, subscribe to that weekly newsletter at charlottedonlon.com/subscribe.
—The September Co-Writing calendar is live.
—Spiritual Direction for Writers® + Enneagram for Creativity Gathering will take place on Friday, September 27th and Saturday, September 28th. You can register here. All registered participants will have access to recordings.
—The Great Belonging Project is live here and The Great Belonging Project October Refresh will take place Oct 1-Oct 31.
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