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Series | Daily Zen Practices: Day Four

🌿 Zen in Motion — Walking as Meditation (Yes, Really!) 🌿 Okay, let’s talk about something you do every day but never think about: walking. Y’know, that thing where you put one foot in front of the other? Turns out, it’s not just for getting from Point A to B. Today, we’re flipping the script on how you move—because Zen isn’t just for monks on mountaintops. It’s for anyone with two feet and five…

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shedding old skin daily

staying prayed up daily

moving my body daily

giving all praises daily

coming to new realizations daily

renewing and transforming my mind daily

feeding my soul daily

feeding my spirit daily

starving my flesh daily

co-creating with the creator daily

receiving gifts and blessings daily

reminded of the goodness daily

quieting my mind daily

feeling loved daily

feeling full daily

feeling nurtured daily

learning daily

listening daily

apologizing daily

forgiving daily

giving thanks daily

pursuing more life daily

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Art Lesson: Here’s a wild thought, neither pleasant nor unpleasant...

Because it has a fair amount of work involved, but it is a way out from a slog.

Some artists seem to just be more creative, and that’s really upsetting sometimes. Artists are commercially prized for a handful of things: they’re prolific, they’re skilled, or they’re creative. And sometimes it’s hard to hit any one of those points.

I struggle with being prolific and creative a lot; I can always seek out improvement, I know the steps for that. I’ve trained myself to seek out that kind of failure and learning, and though I could also be better at that, I can do it.

Making more things and making more interesting things stem from overcoming this same fear of failure, but the creative one... that one has the unique issue of having ideas to begin with, and I frequently feel like I just don’t have ideas. A lot of us struggle with that.

But, I’ve heard there’s a solution, if you’re willing to put in a little work. It’s as simple as writing down ten ideas of something to draw every day, whether you draw them or not. The quality of the idea doesn’t really matter, it’s waking up your brain to make it know it’s okay to generate ideas, to teach it that it can.

Example list:

Apple on a plate

Perfume bottle

Happy dog

Elk in a hat

Scattered leaves

Little witch carrying a baseball bat

ect.

These aren’t brilliant, show stopping ideas by any means. But! They’re ideas. And the more you generate them, the more interesting they become over time. Like with being prolific, it matters that you just put the content out there, not that it has to be public, just that you need to SEE that you’re doing it, to KNOW that it’s okay to have “silly” or “shallow” or “dumb” ideas because they’re just stepping stones to greater ideas in time. (There really aren’t any dumb ideas in this context, but I know it’s hard sometimes to separate ourselves from the creation, and it’s a good first step to know it’s okay at all).

AND, when you start doing this, you unlock how to become a prolific artist if the problem has always been that you don’t have any “good ideas”. You have a list of ten new things everyday to maybe draw, though there’s no compulsion to.

This is a practice I’m currently adopting, and so far it’s been really helpful. I can make no guarantees because this crazy field is vast and varied with what works for everyone, but I urge you to give it a shot if you’re always kicking yourself for not “being creative”. Everyone has the capacity to be creative, most have a completely different sense and feel for creativity anyway which makes it hard to compare your creative work to your peers. Don’t give up. You’re just not there yet, and neither am I. The great thing about not being there yet, is we can still get there with time.

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