Speaker 1: Creativity is an addiction, unplugged because we will always say
yes to creativity, totally uncut because we all make mistakes.
So turn it into a tool. This is arrow unplugged
stream thinking. It's learning how to trust what is in
your present place of right now now. To get there
is going to take some practice. I usually do one
sheet a day, ten minutes write about whatever is moving
through your moment of right now, with absolutely no judgment.
Stream thinking sharpens your skills as a listener, as a communicator,
and as an activator. Learning how to trust what is
right now. This is stream thinking today. We're reading from
July second, twenty twenty three. Planting thoughts on a page
on days when you don't know what you're really going
to say, but as you write, the body begins to receive.
This is where most creative people step away from the
page because they begin to question the physical act of
participating with an idea that has nothing to do with
their self image. This is who I am, Therefore I
must act and react in that way. It takes everything
to create how we live and how we think. We
must accept that everything we are is a sliver of
all things around us. How we choose to receive is
sort of a game we think we can control, only
to learn that we're nothing but a stone in a
creek where water is the constant flow. Our greatest thoughts
and experiences are so easily missed because living in the
moment of now isn't how we think. But we've got
to learn to listen to it being in the presence
of now. The greatest ideas are probably sitting in a
box somewhere beneath your bed, in the attic or in
the garage, or you threw it away because you felt
it wasn't good enough to set it free. I've always
believed that creative people don't let it go because they
don't have that art of relinquishing. And it is an
art because you've got to figure out how to let
it go without listening to the judge on the other
side of the stage. And when you accept the fact
that there's always going to be somebody with an opinion,
what happens is it toughens you up just a little
bit more, a little bit more, and a little bit more.
Julia Cameron teaches in the artist way for you to
color in a picture, draw something up, and then put
it on display where people can look at it, because
what it does is it teaches you to let things go.
And no matter what other people say, it doesn't matter.
It's your art and it's out there where it began
in the universe. So planting thoughts on a page, even
though you're not in the mood to write, you have
still put yourself in a position of receiving. I think
we do it on a daily basis when we go
to social media. We'll put something out there in the
form of a picture and or just a thought, and
what we're doing is as we release it, coming back
is the energy. And of course we all want to
be liked and accepted and we want to get new
friends and blah blah blah. But the thing is is
that you can do the same thing with your own
realistic thinking. And that's why I believe so much in
stream thinking, because if you teach yourself and you allow
yourself to receive and then to set free, the journey
now has a purpose. And isn't that what everybody is
searching for. I'm Marril and that's stream thinking.