How to Unlock Your Creative Potential Through Writing with Natalie Goldberg
The One You Feed
Eric Zimmer
4.6 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 6 August 2024
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Natalie Goldberg explores how to unlock your creative potential through writing. She highlights the integration of Zen principles into her writing practice and emphasizes the importance of being present and connected with one’s surroundings. She discusses the ongoing practice of writing and how it can free the mind and connect you with experiences and the world more deeply.
In this episode, you will be able to:
- Discover the art of Zen practice to unlock your creative potential and find inner peace through writing
- Explore how the pandemic has reshaped the creative process and learn to adapt and thrive in the face of challenges
- Uncover the transformative benefits of silent retreats and how it can rejuvenate your mind and inspire your writing
- Learn practical ways to integrate Zen principles into your daily life for enhanced mindfulness and creativity
- Embrace the profound journey of facing mortality through writing and how it can bring meaning to your creative expression
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| 0:00.0 | Well, when you're writing and you're really writing, you're not alone. |
| 0:04.0 | You're with all sentient beings, really. |
| 0:07.0 | You're just speaking of your time, your generation, |
| 0:11.6 | your moment on the earth. |
| 0:13.4 | But yeah, you're not alone. |
| 0:15.2 | You're never alone. Welcome to the one you feed. |
| 0:25.0 | Throughout time great thinkers have recognized the importance of the thoughts |
| 0:30.0 | we have, quotes like garbage in, garbage out, or you are what you think, ring true. |
| 0:36.7 | And yet, for many of us, our thoughts don't strengthen or empower us. |
| 0:40.9 | We tend toward negativity, self-pity, jealousy, or fear. We see what we don't have |
| 0:46.7 | instead of what we do. We think things that hold us back and dampen our spirit. |
| 0:51.3 | But it's not just about thinking. Our actions matter. It takes |
| 0:55.7 | conscious, consistent, and creative effort to make a life worth living. This |
| 1:00.4 | podcast is about how other people keep themselves moving in the right direction, |
| 1:04.3 | how they feed their good wolf. Back in 96, |
| 1:23.0 | in 96, Atlanta was booming with excitement |
| 1:25.0 | around hosting the Centennial Olympic Games. |
| 1:28.0 | And then, a deranged zealot, willing to kill for a cause, |
| 1:32.0 | lit a fuse that would change my life and so many others, |
| 1:35.8 | forever, rippling out for generations. |
| 1:41.3 | Listen to Flashpoint on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your |
| 1:46.0 | podcasts. |
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