Liberate yourself — and reach your goals!
Give yourself permission to be free
Lately I have been exploring the mental side of writing and creativity. What kind of environment helps us to be more creative? How can we work through self-limiting thoughts to achieve our writing goals?
I’ve realized that it’s about giving ourselves permission to love our work fully. To be creative, to write, we need to be free of negative thoughts from ourselves and others.
So here is a fun exercise I just made up. It may seem a little silly but try it … it is kind of liberating.
1. Look at the photo of the Statue of Liberty. Isn’t that a great symbol? — of this country, of an international friendship, of immigration and humanity. Think about all this for a minute or two.
2. Stand up and pretend to be the Statue of Liberty. Raise that right hand toward the sky.
3. Say out loud: I give myself permission to be free. I give myself permission to be creative. I give myself permission to write today.
4. Hug yourself — you’re on your way to be the creative artist you were meant to be!
Let me know if you liked this exercise. Or maybe you can suggest an alternative inspirational script!
– Kelly D. Palmer
I hope the positive affirmations are working for you and that your writing is going well!
I like this quote from Brenda Ueland: “I learned that you should feel when writing, not like Lord Byron on a mountain top, but like child stringing beads in kindergarten, – happy, absorbed and quietly putting one bead on after another.”
gypsyscarlett
May 25, 2010 at 5:24 pm