Article Title: Write from Gratitude Author Name: Julie Jordan Scott Contact Email Address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Word Count: 516 Category: Writing, Creativity, Personal Growth Copyright Date: 2005 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Publishing Guidelines: Thank you for publishing this article in its entirety including the resource box. When possible, please notify me of publication by sending either a website link or a copy of your ezine upon publication via email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] THANKS! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Write from Gratitude Grow Your Art and Your Life © 2005 Julie Jordan Scott This is what happens when you write from your gratitude list. I hear variations of this theme from people, "I can't write morning pages, they are a downer and they get me upset.. " Morning pages, like anything else, go in the direction your consciousness points them. I keep my gratitude lists handy and when my intellect says "I have nothing to write about" I simply take one of my lists and use the items on my list as my prompts. The words, my energy, my heart - my writing - then follows the path I have intentionally created. It feels good - and it paves the way for more abundance, for more gratitude, for more wonder - and for better writing as well. Here is what I wrote today, directly from my cheapo, morning pages notebook: = + = + = + "I am proud of me. As sporadic as my morning pages have been for the last week or so, I have been present to them at least in small ways. I haven't given them up in a tirade of disgust like I might have done in the past. It is all good. A single scented candle sits on the table in front of me. It is lovely in its simplicity. It's light, gentle and true, reminds me of sunrise and Thoreau's commentary on the sun being a morning star. I feel blessed. I hear my coffee, celebrating its last drop by giving itself a bubbling, crackling ovation in the coffee maker. "We're ready for drinking!" they call to me, the luscious aroma mingled with the simmering cinnamon apples on the stove which remind me of Mission Viego Mall, the second floor, at Christmas time. I think that mall has a new, glitzier, ore "OC-esque" name now. I wonder if that coffee store is still there? I wonder. I look across the front entry to my living room and I see the morning fire dancing beneath what Sam calls "Christmas Socks". I can't feel the physical warmth from 2 rooms away, but its presence says "peace" and for unknown reasons contentment washes over me, just like it felt last night when I pulled my comforter up and under my chin and snuggled into my pillows. The stillness of the night said, "All is well," accompanied only by my children's breath. in and out and in and it was all I could do not to cry from sheer joy." = + = + = + You can see in my writing the path wasn't straight or narrow. I wandered into stream of consciousness and yet I always stayed in gratitude, Yes. That is what happens when you choose to write from your gratitude list. Try it. = + = + = + Julie Jordan Scott is a Writer, Speaker, Actor, Director and Creativity Coach who created the 42 Days of Writing Passionately Program - the Fr*e*e International Writing Workshop which begins again on January 10, 2006. Check it our and register now: http://www.PassionWriteNow.com or http://www.5passions.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> AIDS in India: A "lurking bomb." Click and help stop AIDS now. http://us.click.yahoo.com/VpTY2A/lzNLAA/yQLSAA/AZzolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> THINGS TO KEEP IN MIND WHILE USING ARTICLES POSTED ON THE GROUP: 1. Print the article in its entirety. Don't make any changes in the article . 2. Print the resource box with all articles in their entirety. 3. Send the Author a copy of the reprinted article or the URL where the articles was posted. Anything short of following these three rules is a violation of the Authors Copyright. Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ReprintArticles-Paradise/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
