The creative process teaches you to fully engage your senses....to pay attention. The details of life suddenly are noticed...the way the light strikes your morning cup of coffee, the way the curve of an orange peel drops off the knife, or the way the sunlight streaks across the top of the hill for just a few seconds. Artists talk about losing track of time or getting in the zone and it is nothing more than becoming fully engaged in noticing the details. The senses, mind and emotions are completely occupied with the task at hand. The regular practice of creating leads you to a joyous engagement in life and opens up extraordinary scenes that you may have never noticed before. Your creative work will bring you closer and in more frequent contact with those parts of your spirit that you may not have paid a great deal of attention....dreams, memories, hunches, intuitions and your imagination. And as you follow them you will find the miracle of knowing that the Universe is bigger and deeper than your previous perception....that God has many ways of speaking to your soul that you simply were not hearing before.
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