by Sarah Chauncey | Jan 25, 2017 | Counterintuitive Guide to Life, Creativity, LOIF, Memoir, Mindfulness, Nonfiction, Resonant Storytelling
One of the foundations of inner peace for me is realizing that I am not my thoughts. In order to do that, though—and this is pretty much the core of everything I practice and write about—I had to learn to observe my thoughts, to recognize that the thoughts exist on...
by Sarah Chauncey | Jan 9, 2015 | Creativity, Mindfulness, Resonant Storytelling
Novels, J.D. Salinger wrote, grow in the dark. By that, he meant that true creativity comes from the subconscious mind, from allowing ideas time to percolate below our conscious awareness. It’s not just novels, though, that spring forth from the subconscious mind. So...
by Sarah | Aug 4, 2014 | Creativity, Mindfulness, Resonant Storytelling, Writing
We’re all familiar with the law of diminishing returns: After a certain amount of time, the effort expended on a task yields fewer and fewer results. This is as true of creative work as it is of physical labor. And if you keep pushing, eventually both brain and body...