Ever feel like your head is going to explode? That’s how I feel this morning.
I am well rested from my recent trip to Austin and hanging out with Barbara Winter and now I can’t stop thinking.
It started on the plane ride home. The flight was way too bumpy to read my Kindle.
(I get motion sickness very easily.) So, at 10,000 feet I pulled out my iPod
and closed my eyes. That’s when it started. Between resting and listening, the ideas started to pop like warm popcorn kernels. I kept jotting half formed ideas down. Ideas about everything. I started to see a glimmer of clarity for 2010, something I’ve been missing.
This morning, after a great nights sleep, I was able to pick up where I left off with one big difference…since I was no longer tired, the ideas were coming faster and more furious than I could write. Pen to paper, fingers to keyboard, whatever was handy at the moment, I was jotting ideas and full page outlines down. Some half formed, some fully formed ideas.
I haven’t had this ‘my head is going to explode’ feeling in awhile. I’ve missed it. It is such a high, when I feel all is right in the world, time seems to stand still while at the same time passing without me even noticing it, when I feel like ‘yes, I can do this!”, and when at my core I know I am one with the creative universe.
During a brain break to make a pot of mid-morning java, I realized why this feeling has been missing and how I can get it back more often. Other than my trip to Minnesota in November right after I resigned from my day job, and one breakfast, business meeting, all I do is sit in my home office and work. That’s not really cutting in, if you know what I mean. What will work, has worked, and will always work is to get out of the house, engage with people, especially people on the same wavelength, change my environment, take a trip with purpose, take a class, go to the library, attend a meeting – whatever – just get out of the house!
It’s kind of like Julia Cameron’s
Artist Dates. To be creative you have to change your environment once in a while and engage the world on a different level. I’ve known this for a long time. I don’t know how I could have forgotten it.
But, whatever I call it, I know one thing, I’m getting out of the house more often! A brain is a terrible thing to waste.
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Amazon Kindle Review – An Overlooked Benefit
I have had my Kindle for almost two years and I still use it. I actually used it last night and bought three new books and finished reading one of them.
The three big benefits I always share with people are:
1. It is great for traveling. It is like having a small library in my pocket. No more trying to decide what to take with me to read on vacation or paying for overweight luggage.
2. Ease of shopping. I can search for books by keyword or by subject. And, of course Amazon always has a list of recommendations for me to peruse. With a single click I can download a few sample chapters or buy a book.
3. Easy on the eyes. The technology is based on liquid paper and there is no backlight like there is on a computer screen. The text is easy to read and very similar to reading the text in a real book. But, there is one advantage over a real book, when my eyes are tired I can just change the font size and make in bigger.
These are great benefits and I have a lot of fun with my Kindle, both at home and while traveling.
Last night I used my Kindle for the first time in about two months. I shopped and I read and I realized something. I recognized a huge benefit that I have taken advantage of and one I have not heard anyone mention before.
That benefit is anonymity. Meaning that you can you read whatever you want, wherever you want, whenever you want without anyone else knowing what you are reading or why.
This is an incredible benefit if you are on a path of self-discovery, personal growth and/or inner healing.
I recognized last night that many of the books I have read on my Kindle are books I may not have purchased at a bookstore or felt comfortable reading in front of anyone else. My Kindle gave me the opportunity to read and explore privately, to go deeper and begin the inner work I needed to do so that I could heal and move forward.
The benefit of the Amazon Kindle used as a therapeutic tool for people working on their own, with a therapist, or recovery group is tremendous.
Most of us have some inner work to do before we can move forward, go after the life we were born to live and to live healthy, loving, fulfilled lives. We need to heal, forgive, and let go of dependencies on people, relationships, drugs, alcohol, or food. This inner work is best done privately, and/or with a trained professional. And, reading books is a part of this process for me and for many others.
Reading and exploring books on personal growth, family of origin and inner child work, co-dependency, depression, anxiety, and addictions are topics you may want to explore privately, without judgment and without fear of rejection or ridicule. Amazon’s Kindle gives you this opportunity.
There are also times when we begin to grow beyond our old beliefs and habits and want to reach out and explore new ideas and concepts. Oftentimes these interests are too new to share with others. This could mean reading and exploring books about changing careers, discovering and going after your dreams, spiritual and religious books, health and diet or just about any other subject you want to explore privately.
The Amazon Kindle could be the answer many people seek and the key first step in the creative journey to self-discovery, healing and dream building.
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