Knocking off the Writer's Block

Creative visualization is used for everything from fighting cancer (patients visualize their body's defenses defeating cancer cells in battle) to practicing a physical skill (basketball players have imporved their accuracy by visualizing shot after shot) to gaining wealth. 
The theory is that our brains don't know the difference between real experience and imagined experience, so if we picture ourselves doing something, and use all our senses to make the picture seem real, that the "experience" will become part of your mental landscape.
Suggestion:

• Visualize yourself writing.  You fingers fly, and page after page of brilliant prose follow.
• Picture that big ugly Writer's Block in front of your door.  Now in great detail, visualize its removal.

You can do whatever you like to it.  Have an elephant shove it out of the way and over a cliff.  Drill holes in it, insert plastique, and blow it to cosmic dust.  Chisel it into a winged muse.  Imagine in great detail -- the smells, the sounds, the feel of the stone or the elephant's trunk.  Just get that clunky thing out of your way.
By Sheila Boneham
www.sheilaboneham.com

The Voice of Possiblity

by Jennifer Paros

I read an article about an Australian woman who gave birth to twins prematurely;  they were born at 27 weeks. The girl was fine but the boy was declared dead by  the doctor after twenty minutes of attempted resuscitation.  The mother unwrapped  the baby and laid him against her skin, held him and talked to him for two hours  until he began showing signs of life.  He seemed to gasp for air; the doctor  dismissed it as a reflex action, but when the mother fed the baby breast milk  from her finger his breathing normalized.  Soon he opened his eyes.   And what  seemed to be The Impossible became Possible.  Each of us has dreams, thoughts, and ideas – some of which are shared and  some of which remain purely our own.  And part of that stream of thought is  one that flies in the face of realism, common sense, or proof.  It is the thought  of pure possibility that can help determine and define our path, and help us find  the opportunity to offer our greatest good to others.  more...

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