Archive | February, 2010

You Should Blog Every Day

You know when you want to learn something, you should tell others that you want to do it. It’s kind of like an affirmation.

So, here I sit on this rainy-sunny-rainy-sunny Saturday in Los Angeles, reading a little admonition that I thought I’d share with YOU today, but it’s really ME telling ME to do it… and why.

Click here: You Should Blog Every Day.

Photo below is from the NSAI Songposium (Nashville Songwriters Assn. International), which takes place every September in Nashville, Tennessee. It’s a week-long educational marathon… teachers from everywhere, classes/workshops on every topic you’d ever want that concerns music & the business. Great fun, and a great opportunity to mingle too! (Remember these big records with the little holes?)

Me teaching Creativity classes at Warner Bros. Records, Nashville, Sept. 2009.

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The Pursuit of Flow

I’m having a good day… this article, by Bruna Matinuzzi  is definitely worth checking out and passing along.

Maybe some of you will remember the wonderful book, Flow, by Mihali Csikszentmihalyi. (cheek-sent-me-high-ee)  so, this will be a continuation for you…

Monkey in State of Bliss, Calabasas, California, 2010

Frog & Kitty in State of Bliss, Calabasas, California 2010

Click here: Ten Tips for Harnessing This Psychic Energy





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What Meditation Can Do for Your Creativity

Below is an excerpt from the kind of article we’ve all seen before, but need to pay more attention to (says “Mama JoAnn”). It’s posted by: Mark McGuinness.

Click here: What Daily Meditation Can Do for Your Creativity.

The Benefits of Meditation Practice for Creatives

It’s important to note that there’s a lot more to meditation practice than simply “boosting your creativity.” If I were to promote meditation as some kind of creative thinking technique, the monks would be rightly appalled — or amused. So the benefits I’m going to describe, while very real, are really side effects of meditation — if you approach meditation looking to “get” any of these things, you’ll probably be disappointed. On the other hand, if you just practice it for its own sake, you may be pleasantly surprised…

http://the99percent.com/tips/6314/what-daily-meditation-can-do-for-your-creativity

Ohmmm, in Sedona, Arizona, Feb. 2010.

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