What an extraordinary time it has been lately.
Over the last couple of months, it seems that many people have gone through – or are still going through – major change within themselves and in their lives.
This appears to be a time of old patterns coming to the surface to be released once and for all in preparation for moving on to a new phase.
It often seems to get worse just before there is a major breakthrough in understanding about what is really going on which leads to being able to ‘let go’ of what is no longer needed.
This principle can be applied to all aspects of your writing and to your life.
A Challenging Process
Letting go can be quite a challenging process at every level; physical, emotional and mental.
The upside is that when you emerge from the challenge you feel totally liberated because you are no longer ‘holding on’ to ’baggage’ which you don’t actually need any more!
Letting go and being able to let go is very much part of the creative process generally, and most definitely part of the Writer’s Journey.
There are many stages at which you have to let go of your writing, from accepting that ‘a first draft is a first draft’ and letting go of the need for it to be ‘perfect’ through to sending your material out to publishing professionals or releasing it to your readers for the first time.
That’s not to say that early ideas and first drafts should not be nurtured and often this means keeping your work to yourself until the time is ‘right’ to share it with others.
Yet if you want your writing to be read, there always comes a point when you have to let go and send it on its way out to the world (in whatever form ends up being the right one for you and that particular project).
Release
Generally speaking, I would say that is is good to practice letting go of your writing at quite an early stage so that you become used to the feeling of release it brings.
You may even find that you enjoy the transition of moving onto the next phase on your creative journey.
Once you’re into the swing of this with your writing, you can apply the same principle to other areas of your life and see how much ‘lighter’ you’ll feel as a result.
Enjoy!
Tags: breakthrough, change, creative process, Publishing, readers, transition, Writing
So much change going on around us, individuals for sure and also how the financial and government sectors are having to transform themselves. As things around us become less certain and predictable it is easy for us to cling on to what we do know – even if it not good for us.
The transition you speak of, the storm before the clarity, it shakes us up and the world that we know but gives us the greatest opportunity for change of a conscious nature.
Go with the flow and relinquish the need for control and you will soon be achieving the seemingly impossible!
A great article thank you!
Hi Michelle
Yes indeed. Thank you for sharing your thoughts and I completely agree.
These transitions are all about ’shaking up’ the world as we know it so that we are ‘nudged’ into letting go, sometimes more gently than others! Relinquishing the need for control is one of the aspects that many people find the most challenging and yet it can be the most liberating …
Onwards and upwards to the seemingly impossible then!
Julia
The vision!
I started to write my lifestory on the request of my shamanic teacher actually.
I have continued on from being a profesional Spanish dancer to teacher in consiciousness training to shamanic practioner and healer.
All of this is acutally an art form, the only difference is the forms. I like to express that everything is possible, it is possilbe to change track anytime during life.
It is never too late.
The story is that I am Swedish and went to Spain to study the flamenco and the Spanish dance in general and to follow my dream to become a profesional Spanish dancer, which I did for many years and continued by creating my own visual-muscial attraction number, all in all 23 years of performing in Spain and around the world.
My vision is to tell those incredible stories you live being an artist as you follow your call and dream. It is a message to never give up and learn to listen to your inner call and beleive in it. It is about to walk the walk and not talk the walk. It requieres a lot of study, hard work and a great sense of humour, sensiblity and a strong psyche.
It is a message with hope, inspiration, passion and not least a strong will. Also the fact that when I returned to my country of origin after more than 20 years I was a foreigner and it took the same effort to get used to my country again as it did when I started to live abroad.
So many people stop before they even dare to try becuase the effort seem to big and because we nowadays live much more superficial and often the dream is only to become famous without to much work. The fame has a backside few people know about. It is all an illusion
The internet have moved everything much closer and it seems that nothing is far away anymore.
I like to tell those stories even if it happened many years ago. But the the stories still live in me and now they need to be expressed with the love to the different art forms and the gratitude to life itself, to the people I’ve met and how fun it is when you actually reach your dream.
Monica
Hi Monica
Thanx for sharing your vision – you obviously have quite a story to tell and there are many valuable lessons which others can benefit from also. Enjoy the journey of taking your writing out to the world …
Julia