As an author, one of my mantras is this: Write from your heart. Edit from your head. One of the messages of my first YA novel, "The Stelladaur: Finding Tir Na Nog" is figuring out how to go beyond the menacing thoughts in your head so you can live and experience life from the heart. Not an easy thing to do. As children we did it naturally, but as we got older, we slowly forgot how. We may be left with a painful realization that our heart is buried under mindless layers of "stuff". People often say that stuff is "just life." Maybe so, but it's no way to truly live. Here's the paradox: It's in the going through of all the stuff that we learn to trust our inner voice.
Learning to trust our own inner voice is a slow process that requires honesty, courage and intuitiveness. These qualities rarely come naturally to teens or adults, so we need to create opportunities to allow them to emerge from within us. It can be as simple as taking some very deep breaths, walking a dog, digging in the garden, holding a baby, or watching the sun set. Spending time in nature always soothes the soul and calms the mind. If you can hear your inner voice during these simple pleasures, take it a step further and see what you can create in that space you've discovered. Creativity is the expression of our divinest self...Creativity is the language of our own inner voice. It's not a language you can learn from a blog post, in a class, or from anyone else. You're the teacher and the creator. Once you know that, then you'll trust your inner voice and live from the heart.
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