Rejuvenating One's Life Thru Writing and Creativity Otherwise.

We are into spring; vernal, green ('verde" is Spanish for "green.") Verde, vernal, green, new, rebirth, generating, regenerating, annuals, perennials. Do you have the fever? Now (If not now, when?) is the moment. To be honest I have unfortunately listened to my "inner pathological critic" refusing many opportunities this week to write. I know that is when I need to write so I am in the right environment to write and especially be in the mood to write while I am indeed writing. I feel young in a way, my own sense of young, all those days of my own elementary school times, dreaming up what I was going to do w/ my life. Writer was definitely one of them. Word was that the money is in the publishing. That was the sixties and of course decisions were made by me as well on the basis of love, not money. David Byrne, "Always for love, never for money." That phrase is like a mind, the "refreshing fountain" Neil Young. Fountain equals newness, spring, rebirth even and perhaps. Writing like any creativity, any meaningful activity, creating a strong move does this,; Here is a model to guide decisions as a take it/leave it model. It is an opportunity to create using old materials, the alphabet, words, et cetera and put them in another form, making, say, fabricating (Man the Maker, Homo Faber; see Vonnegut.) Of course Man "capital m" means both genders. So the model like the Noam Chimsky perhaps. Sit a primate at the keyboard for an unbounded, infinite time to generate work. (Work is a tonic. Life is short. Work is long.) Eventually any and everything happens. As a human being, we want our response, our will who ever guides that; muse, mentor, thou sall/shall nots rules, editor, market, "heart, hand, head," (B. Dylan-quote from the tune, Fare Thee Well.) Well okay, maybe you have additional tools now. Spring is the focus. Lets agree on rejuvenation as the power word today. An old trick of mine for rejuvenation, say rather the pits of exhaustion is to bathe, rest, and eat. It works. Another is a tool called "tapping," tapping about the inner brow, outside of eye, below the nose, below the lip (chin) center, and clavicle. Another is alternating showers, cold, hot, cold, hot, at least five times. The resolution of the tension, stressors, resistance, hindrance put a new perspective on things, events, a new paradigm. These are again suggestions, as the opposite might as well work for you. Here change is created by change, the change being the change from not writing to not writing after the use of a tool, new and/or in a new way. All in all; bloom where you are planted! As a neat-o art tool, I was taught to try bringing three discreet, non-relating images, sources, say to one canvas and making it one holistic expression. This works w/ writing too. A new scene, a character, event, background, theme, thread, route of the storyline, a description of the path of hero/villain. The path to resolution. (When parents argue in front of children, the children do much better seeing resolution betw/ their parent figures.) American writing/movies, sketches generally, meaning loosely generally have a happy ending while say Australian works tend toward a gloomier side. Dare to break cultural barriers. It is the dawning of cultural diversification; well, being around for at least the last twenty years. One's other perspectives are that it is now minimally an appropriate model to make relative decisions; From other views, a new, newer views, solutions abound. Resolution is, w/ an open-minded path, bring completeness, wholeness, comfort, and finally a sense of rejuvenation, ... while still progressing. While on the ingenuity of refreshing one's mind, working conflict on the monitor screen, venting, using the above tools and many others, one's own experiences, solutions flourish. Resolution brings comfort like the coffee pot sounds first thing in the morning, a sunset and a sense of wholeness and almost holiness, happiness, .. and a feeling of rejuvenating, rejuvenation a destination on the path of progress, awareness that is. All else fails, do some yoga, walk outside, change your musical tastes, be expanding the open-mindedness. Deep breathing exercises, anyone? Transcendental meditation (TM), raja yoga at that. Listening to music all the time as default? Try an art book? Try painting, okay doodling, sketching, breaking the barriers. Remember the creatures outside the reef are bold and brightly colored- while inside is the contrast, it is dull and "beige," neutral, colorless. What do want to be? Again take what you want, and leave the rest. Expand the mind, expand the creative mind!!! Think for yourself. Make a game of this, the small "etudes." Small studies. Success is really the progress of a sequence of a bunch of small steps. "Easy does it" does it!!! Thanks for the oportunity. Tell a friend(s) and happy holiday!!! Good day. Advance writers! T.E.