In this blog I want to emphasize that the heart of the creative process involves a kind of deep unlearning. What does this mean? It means that we have to be willing to question the way that we think, the way that we observe, the way we take all sorts of things for granted. We need to get back to our ‘pre-conventional’ mind, the awareness within us that sees the world freshly, for the first time, with curiosity and wonder.

You can look out your window, and call what you see ‘a tree.’ But it’s actually so much more than that tiny little sound ‘tree.’ What is your actual experience of that tree, that person, that moment, when you let go of the words, the ideas, and just open up to it with your whole being?

If we drop back into the openness, the silence, the deep receptivity of our unconditioned awareness, we contact something very alive and true. When we write from that place, then our words have a vibrancy and power to them that wakes us up and invites us to be right here, in this moment, without our judgments, opinions and beliefs. That’s what it means to be naked.

For more information and inspiration on this topic, please visit my website at http://www.barefootjourneys.net

with love
Shayla