Mindfulness Mode. I think you need to take chances. Hey, Mindful Tribe, welcome back to another episode

of Mindfulness Mode. Today, I'm with a woman who can help you unleash your creative spirit. And we've

talked about creativity a lot on the show because you know it's very closely tied to mindfulness

this lady has spent her life inventing and reinventing herself she's a writer an award-winning

writer she's a producer she's a screenwriting professor at the university of southern california

she's a painter and a creator of

storytelling lab. So let's just get right on with it. I'm so excited to talk to Bonnie Garvin

today. Bonnie, are you in mindfulness mode today? Yes, I am. And I loved hearing that

introduction because it sounded so good. Well, it's impressive. I haven't done much and then when you read it, I go, oh, okay. Because everybody feels like that, I guess. You've always think that, you know, you got to do more. Yeah, I know what you mean. I know what you mean, but it sure looks like you've done a lot of amazing things and I'm just so really looking forward to this conversation.

But what does mindfulness mean to you anyway, Bonnie?

I think that mindfulness is really being conscious of what you do and why you're doing

it.

I think that most of us just kind of run around on automatic pilot

and they're not necessarily really conscious of what you're doing and why you're doing it.

So one of the things I think about creativity is it's really connected to mindfulness.

Because if you're not connected to that, you're not really going to be

able to create because you're too much in your head.

And I believe that mindfulness is also tapping into your unconscious so that you can really

allow what's inside of you to come out, the kind of

that stuff that we're always trying to prevent.

You know, you're always trying to be polite and we're always trying to be this and all

of those things.

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