Why Not Share My Heart-Write?

That's a good question. I'm so glad you asked! First, I have some questions for you...

Why did you choose to participate in BETTER BOUNDARIES?

Was it to dive into your heart, explore and discover your deepest, most authentic self? Or at least the next step in that never-ending series of discoveries?

Does anything clamp down on authenticity faster than fear of criticism?

Is it possible to start something new — or for you writers, something familiar in a new way — without feeling vulnerable?

Keeping your writing to yourself keeps you in a safe zone, a cocoon where you might feel comfortable enough to move into your vulnerability. If you've spent a lot of time maximizing control and avoiding vulnerability — and what human hasn't? — you might be wondering, "Why would I want to feel vulnerable?"

Cosmic secret revealed: Because that's where your authenticity and creativity await.

Sigh of relief (I hope).

It's natural.

Everything young needs nurturance and protection.

The acorns that grow into great oaks start as tender shoots under the shade of the mother tree. Full sun is too strong for new growth. Yes, the same exposure so needed for the growth of a sapling is overwhelming when it first breaks ground.

And so it is with the heart-write sprout you are growing here. Heart-writing is a direct access to your inspiration, your creativity.

From creative sprout to creative spout

To be human is to be creative. Your creativity existed even before the you that you know existed. How do you think you got here?

Creativity is an innate and natural part of us, the spectrum in which we play. Yet many choose conformity over creativity from a rather young age. Even as children, when we are still so close to our creativity, we might have felt shy to express it, or to explore it through a new medium.

Creativity and performance

Creative self-expression at any age, in any form, takes courage.

Performers deserve applause just for getting on stage — and, understandably, even more applause if you enjoy the performance. But the act of creative self-expression exists before the performance.

Heart-writing is an effective — and I hope you are finding, enjoyable and exciting — way to align with the spout of your creative self-expression, and to separate it from performance.

You don't have to get on stage to write. You can write in the privacy and safety of your own home.

The safer you feel, the more likely you will dare to express yourself freely enough to discover the nuances of your Reiki experience, and give voice to your insights.

Heart-writing is a vehicle for you to connect with your creativity, and let it rip — I mean, write.

Keep it to yourself

So please don't share your heart-writing at this point.

Savor your privacy. Go deeply into yourself and your own experience so you can find your content. And know you are supported by a community of Reiki practitioners who are doing the same thing, each in their own way.

Many of you are here because you want to communicate better about Reiki. Before you can communicate, you need to heart-write to find ease in the writing process, and find your unique content, what I call your golden content, because like gold, it needs to be mined.

Feedback-free Zone

Truly, at this point, you don't need feedback on your heart-writing. You need to heart-write with ease and abandon.

Heart-writing is about content, not presentation. Unabashedly diving into the process is how you will go beyond the usual and discover your deeper heart.

Let's not let our enthusiasm and — ahem — spiritual ambition lead us to put the cart before the horse.

Let's not bring anything into our Writers' Haven that will take you out of yourself. Your very own self. The home of your authentic heart-voice and your unique experience.

Please share your experience and discoveries

Once you've finished your heart-write session, please visit that day's page here in our Writers Haven to share your experience and insights, and if needed, to ask me for help with your heart-writing process. There is a link in your daily email, or at the top of the sidebar to the right.

Reading what your co-participants share about their experience will enrich your own experience. You'll see that everyone's experience is different, and yet somehow the same. In that way, sharing will accelerate your growth.

And as you write to share your experience with your co-HeartWriters, you will flex your writing muscles in a new way. When you share, you move from heart-writing for content and pure self-expression toward writing to communicate.

How far into that transition can you bring the ease of heart-writing?

Dive in. Write on!