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SHIFTING CONSCIOUSNESS

The Secret of Writing a Book

Entering into an inspired place to write from often is helped by something prior to the words

A primary secret of writing from the deeper Self is the ability to shift consciousness to the place within where deep guidance, your infallible compass, resides. Then your experience of writing shifts into gratitude mode; it becomes as simple, as inspired, as natural as breathing.

Writing from the Deeper Self is not about “producing.” It’s about creating an inner atmosphere in which what truly wants to come forth, can.

Making this shift in consciousness may be the most valuable thing you can do for your writing, because when the inner environment is in place, you basically have everything you need to ease into yourself and bring forth the infinite treasures that await within.

There are many ways to do this. And although words may play a part (e.g., inspiring yourself with a poem, an affirmation, a treasured line written by someone else or even you), it’s the nonverbal portals that are more likely to bring you through the door. 

One such way is sound. Making your own sound, letting the cadence and breath of sound move through your soul and your body to open up resonances and revelations that your executive-function brain couldn’t think up on its own.

The audio that follows gives you a sonic taste of this. (You might place some paper and a pen nearby in case you’re moved to write something afterwards.) When you’re done, see what’s humming inside you from within. Once you’ve listened to this brief audio of me speaking and sounding, you might be drawn to let a sound flow through your being and hum inside you from within. And if you feel so moved, write what comes.

Much of a book or shorter work can be written in this way. Not, perhaps, the bones of the book, the structure — for that, you can use  my book, An Organic Way to Structure Your Book: An Alternative to Outlines (Workbook Included) — but the nervous system that connects and runs through your book can be sounded into form through you.

This is just one of many ways of shifting consciousness that can flow you into writing a book from your heart that speaks to you and your readers.  

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INSPIRED TO WRITE YOUR BOOK?
BUT DON’T WANT TO DO IT ALL ALONE?

NAOMI ROSE, BOOK DEVELOPER & CREATIVE MIDWIFE. HELPING YOU WRITE THE BOOK OF YOUR HEART.

I help people who value the inner life write the book of their heart. Together, we listen out what's there wanting to be written. And we discover your natural ways of creating, so you can be even more of yourself) in the process. Because you are essential to the writing of your book. And only you can do it.

As the creator of the "Writing from the Deeper Self" process, with over 30 years in the publications field, I have worked with many wonderful authors (often, first-time authors) whose books are now in print. I also provide help with self-publishing.

Contact me to explore how we can do this important work of birthing your book together.

Naomi Rose

Book Developer & Creative Midwife
(510) 465-3935 Pacific Time
naomirosedeepwrite@yahoo.com
www.naomirose.net

The book of your heart awaits you.

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