Three ways into the receptive state from which deep writing comes

Ease with deep writing is really a matter of shifting consciousness — of settling out of the effortful, surface mind and into the quiet, receptive place where the writing that wants to come through you can finally be heard. There are many ways through that one doorway. Here are three I love and return to again and again: through sound, through meditation, and through listening. Each quiets the surface and makes room for what's waiting underneath. Take whichever one calls to you today, and come back for the others another time.

SOUND
Healing sounds for a harmonious writing experience

Sound moves through the body and shifts something in us, gently, almost without our trying. Here you can listen to a short overtone-chanting meditation, and discover how making healing sounds of your own can open the way into your writing.

MEDITATION
Meditations to shift consciousness and enter deeper writing

These guided meditations — some to read and follow, some to listen to — help quiet the frightened ego and make room for the writing that is seeking you. Use them to enter your writing time, and to come gently out of it again.

LISTENING
The key to receiving and creating

Beneath sound and meditation lies the practice they both point toward: listening. When you can listen — to yourself, to the silence, to what is quietly here for you — you can receive what wants to be written. These practices help you cultivate that sacred attentiveness and move them organically into written expression.