Posts Tagged ‘surrender’

Over the past couple of days I’ve had the thought to do autonomic writing.  Then last night during another 3:30am Power Ponder the idea came to me to do the writing for (at least) 30 days and post the results here on the blog.  continue →

I first saw Jennifer Lin on Oprah in April of 2006 when she was 16 years old.   Not only is she an amazingly talented pianist, she is an equally incredible composer.  I was blown away – and get taken away every time I see it – by her improvisational compositions.

I call it divine inspiration and being in the flow.  No rehearsals, no polish, no do-overs.

This is what Jennifer had to say about flow … or not … prior to her improvisation performance at TED [watch below @ time point 13:36 ] in 2004 – at the age of 14.  continue →

Jane, a good friend of mine, shared with me a most brilliant observation yesterday.  For some time now she has been living in the vortex of change, trying to both listen and understand what she is being shown, what she is being drawn to do.  Jane said she had reached that all too familiar point of surrender.  She was ready to cry “uncle”, throw up her hands in resignation and exclaim “I give!”.  And then she realized that was exactly what was driving force of her change. continue →