606 thoughts on “My Relationship with Writing”

1. A simple and beautiful intention to bring into our day, ‘my connection with the delicateness and beauty of me is my first and foremost priority.’

2. This blog could not have come at perfect timing, writing has become an issue or I’ve made it into an issue. I very much understand that there is a drive, a push, an expected outcome of it needing to look a certain way and it is a no wonder zilch wants to come through or when it does, it comes in dribs and drabs.

   Recently I have observed certain letters are being typed double, such as ‘aa’ instead of an ‘a’, so as I write this comment I have been observing which finger is typing the letter and it certainly isn’t the little finger. So it isn’t the key board it is the operator! I haven’t been able to touch type – yet, so it would be amazing to feel this coming from my body.

   Once, I didn’t think about the typing and with the connection with my body, I experienced typing from within my body, and I had written a paragraph, without a thought going into it, and the pearls of wisdom that flowed out was out of this world.

   I know I am capable of doing this and I have a marker within my body, and it is a matter of time and space for it to be nurtured, appreciated for it come through even more, so that one day, I will have blogs/articles to share.

3. How can we deny our connection and as you have shared Susan it makes such s difference not only to the way we write but the way we do everything there after, so being connected to our Essences, Inner-most-heart / Soul is super important.

4. Appreciation is gold in feeling the steps we are taking to prepare our body to allow true wisdom to flow through our writing.

   1. Mary I am realising how appreciation is so so important for us to expand, side ways and up ways. I find that we spend the majority of our lives annihilating ourselves, so its a no wonder we find it challenging to receive or accepting appreciation. Its pointless wanting appreciation from others when it needs to first begin from within, then appreciation can truly do its magic.

   2. Appreciation is foundational in our lives. Is it part of your daily rhythm?

5. “my connection with the delicateness and beauty of me is my first and foremost priority.” Thank you Susan for everything you’ve shared, it makes sense that without that inner connection and focus on our quality so many other thoughts and desires can come in like rushing, hardening our body with stress, and the push to finish or gain a certain outcome. The irony is when we are with our quality there is nothing greater and nothing outside of us that is needed, in fact it is our quality that changes the world.

6. Simple physics where every action has an equal but opposite action, hence if you force writing then you will encounter a backward ‘force’ but if you allow the flow then there is so much more where it can go.

   1. And the power of the flow in expression is strong for consider how water flowing over rock can over time wear a path in the stone.

7. I too can relate to a ‘writer’s block’ when expression is not flowing and the ink seems to have dried out or is difficult to get flowing, but usually this is because of having a particular picture of how something needs to be instead of just expressing without perfection or it needing to be a particular way. As soon as I let go and just allow it is like the pressure is off and ink is free to do as it needs to.

   1. Getting ourselves out of the way, connecting to the Divine and allowing that to flow through us makes such sense.

8. Susan, this is a fun tip to take glasses off when you are writing so as not to get distracted by correcting words or spelling and instead allow a natural flow to take place.

9. A simple change in focus can have a really profound affect. When we lace what we are doing with ideals, beliefs and pictures we bring in a hardness and expectation. Allow ourselves to feel what is there to be felt without judgment and an openness to what is there, a much freer and true and expression can begin to emerge.

10. It is ridiculous that we have difficulties in expressing what we are feeling and bringing it into written word, as expression is something natural to us.

11. When ever I am given something to write that is short and to the point, I invariably find myself embellishing and wanting to explain what I have just written, rather than just trusting that what has been given is enough.

    1. Yes, I can relate to that Alison and I am practicing to leave it as it is, which I have found is not so hard and actually very refreshing. Simply on to the next thing.

       1. Yes I have been practicing it today too Esther, and it is so much simpler to accept that what I have written is absolutely fine and it doesn’t have to be perfect or impressive because it is exactly what is needed at the time, no more no less.

    2. Spot on Alison and by embellishing the simplicity we inevitably lose the simplicity and often the true meaning of the sentence.

12. If we need an outcome in order to gain recognition, acceptance or approval we can start looking for the right way to produce something rather than connecting and allowing the flow to occur.

13. What a beautiful confirmation Susan, a contentment which feels as a completion to expand on and so on.

14. From the simplicity of connecting to the body, much can unfold – with ease and joy.

15. Reading this what came to me is the old beliefs we may have taken on with regards to writing at school and seen it as a chore or something we have to do. We are not currently taught, very much, to write from the connection we have with ourselves (or taught to connect or re-connect with ourselves!) but more remembering things mentally or how they ‘should’ sound/read.

    1. We are not taught to connect to ourselves and to write from this connection when we are young; I imagine our writing would be a whole different dimension if we did.

16. Thank You! I have not done much writing in my life, but I realize that I have much to say. When I get by the anxiety of , “I can not type” Or ” I do not speak well” and just trust that I have something important to say and just let go and It really does not matter what other people think of it. The writing just happens.
    And the more I write the easier it gets!

    1. Imposing ideals and beliefs on ourselves like being attached to the outcome, or ‘I was needing my writing to be completed as soon as possible.
       I was not stopping to feel me and honour my body first and foremost, ‘really cap us and what is true from just flowing through our body.

17. This is beautiful and reminds me that I am a vehicle and I am not the one that is generating what comes out as expression, and I don’t’ actually own it, and my responsibility is in having the body positioned and in a quality that is able to let it flow.

18. As with all expression… When we simply take that step to reconnect with our whole body intelligence, everything has the potential and the possibility to flow with grace and elegance.

    1. Yes and it is not about being perfect with this as I feel this is a process we are forever learning with .. our expression in all forms.

19. Having expectations of anything in life simply limits the depths that is available to be reached.

    1. The expectation of a certain outcome makes everything linear and curbs what is otherwise possible and ready to unfold.

20. I used to write a journal where I would actually hold back or write things in a way which protect myself if others were to read it. So I really wasn’t expressing how I felt. I cared more about what others might think, even in a private journal. This took place in my life in general (and still does from time to time), but I am now more comfortable in my own skin and with my own expression.

21. “I have decided I do not want to feel hardness in my body as I type and that my connection with the delicateness and beauty of me is my first and foremost priority.” I have a job to do today and I often bring in hardness and the complication and this feels inspiring to say no to that and that my connection with my delicateness and beauty of me is my priority. Thank you.

    1. Thank you Sarah, this was a great reminder for me to come back to today too and to allow this choice in all aspects of life.

22. When our body is not in any form of tension and we are connected within, we automatically know what to write, as soon as we start to try to control what or how it is written, it no longer comes from heaven.

23. Having a rigid preconceived idea of how long something should take leads to haste and contraction in the body and damages our health, physical and mental.

    1. Having any ideals, pictures or beliefs are not conducive to our well-being.

24. Not only we can develop a relationship with writing. Through writing we can develop and deepen a relationship with us and with any theme that is relevant to us.

25. This blog really brings home how our expression is stunted, after all, how many articles are produced every day that have an expected outcome attached to them. Either to get some monetary reward, recognition for our efforts, hooking people in to follow our series either in writing or on the tv – the list is endless.

26. This is super interesting – I often feel I’d like to write a blog or whatever and I get a sense of what I need to say or what I’d like to convey and then I sit down and…. nothing. Your blog has me wondering if this stuntedness is simply an extended reflection of a lack of expression more widely spread in my life.

27. Often I am not sitting in a way that the chair can support my back, I started to read your blog and felt to sit properly in my chair, so I changed my posture and used the whole chair so my upper legs and back are supported by my seat and both feet are on the ground, what a difference. My body clearly gives me a message that it feels honoured by me taking the time to adjust and feel what is of true support to sit and work at my desk.

28. When I connect to purpose everything I do in life takes on a different quality and I can feel the flow, but when I am in drive I am pushing to get things done and there is an attachment to the outcome.

    1. That is so key, bring purpose into everything we do.

29. Appreciation is one of the most solid foundations to initiate our growth and development from.

    1. There are so many things to appreciate, we are all so unique, ‘I was not appreciating myself and all I have to offer.’

30. I can see how when we have an attachment to something flowing in a certain way – as in having a picture of what we think that flow should look like, rather than it being a sense of a certain quality of flow from within us that we are staying with, then we can actually get in the way of our true flow!

31. Beautiful as our relationship with truth is based on the level of truth lived: a strength in us, we choose to walk and hold dear as our value in life. There is no tainted version of truth.

32. Thanks for sharing your experience of developing your relationship with writing. It is great to read how this has changed for you and how you are able to write from where your body is at.

33. To know who we are and live each moment with consistency, feeling complete and enough is huge in today’s world. To feel enough before any doing sets the foundation so that I take all of me first, into what is being asked.

    1. I think that’s a great point Caroline and well said, it makes a significant difference on the quality of our expression if we are trying to make up for not feeling ‘good enough’, to seek recognition/ identification or if it is truly coming from a place of settlement and connection…

34. When we write just like any form of expression the reality of what we are bringing through is all-ways open to what we have aligned to because of the energy we have aligned to and it will all-ways prevail and control our thoughts. And could it be a way to not be aligned to the ill energy is to not like it to the point of hating it? Then if we bring Love into the equation, it makes life a lot simple to feel that true Love or Truth.

    1. Yes Greg, a very valid point. While we invest in what is not true, it is not until we feel how awful this is that we can surrender and evolve to love and truth. This is with no judgement of what feels ugly in our lives and world – we just simply feel it as it is and know there is another way to return to. Not feeling it leaves us blind.

       1. And may I add Susan, that it can also be a life threatening illness, which will let us throw the anchor out and start to look for any level of truth.

35. I’m reminded here that it’s as simple as how do I feel in my body as I type this, how delicate am I being with me and how am I appreciating this awareness as I type. It’s those simple things that make all the difference.

36. This means there is no such thing as writer’s block when we connect to our body and allow our divine expression to flow through, because we have constant access to divine wisdom to write and express truth.

37. I am so aware that when we lose a sense or take focus away from the most obvious sense like sight, the other senses become more acute. I will give it a go tomorrow. Perhaps you will start a ‘thing’ in blog writing without glasses!

38. Writing in essence is about First feeling the energy that wants to come through rather than what appears on the paper, it comes from within First and foremost.

39. Thank you Susan, this is a very supportive read to remind myself that there is nothing asked of me that I already am and know and thus simply can express.

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41. Recently I have become aware of how I am typing. I noticed I would start and then my fingers would go into a blur going all over the place resulting in a lot of letters in the wrong place. I have focussed on slowing down my typing and being conscious of how my fingers are moving. Now they seem to flow together much more and there is a rhythmical flow to how I write and how the words come to me.

42. When we are moved by our drive to achieve, we dishonour our body and what it is teaching us.

43. I can say an absolute yes to the opening question. I have felt the agitation and disappointment of not being able to get down on paper what I have felt to express. I have also felt the opposite where the words flow out without effort, as though it writes itself.

44. We can always feel when we read someone’s writing whether they are truly sharing themselves or whether they are holding back. When we are honest about our own writing we can feel the same thing and this is why when we write something it is such a great reflection for us.

45. Your comment also about the posture Susan is noted… And this can be so useful… Just by simply slightly changing the way we are sitting or moving can change the flow of energy noticeably.

46. There is whole-body-mindedness and then there is whole-body-writing, from within out and without expectations of how and what it should or must be. An honouring of our delicateness and of our power to express in truth.

47. I have an age old thing with writing and I suppose I have carried it over from my school days and that is that I want it done as soon as possible so I can go out and play, so it was great to read this blog and get an understanding that there are many factors in being able to write so it is not loaded with a lot of energy that doesn’t need to be there.

    1. I understand what you are saying Kevmchardy. I have the opposite thing with writing where it is one of my favourite things to do and it is my play! So what I have been finding lately since my house-move is that work, housework, shopping for food (and at the moment house renovating) among other things, seem to occupy so much space that I can’t get to the thing I really love. I have to keep watching the reaction of frustration that comes up and surrender to the knowing that all things have their season and the space will arise again for me to write. I also have to keep vigilant that I live every task as the ‘one life’ and don’t treat writing as a ‘favourite’.

       1. ‘I have to keep watching the reaction of frustration that comes up and surrender to the knowing that all things have their season and the space will arise again for me to write.’ Thank you for sharing Lyndy, for the first time I felt that I do love writing but that I choose to delay by doing all the other things, that are needed too but I make no space to even start with writing, for me it is a holding back of the wisdom I feel there is to share.

48. Attaching to outcomes stifles our natural and innate expression… whether that be writing, speaking, or the quality and way we move – all are ways of expressing.

    1. So true Paula, I have noticed this as well and also when I go into judgement or comparison, nothing flows. I get very stuck because the energy of judgement and comparison is stifling, it cripples my expression and poisons my body. There are many ways we can stunt our expression and it is great to expose them.

49. When we learn to write at school we are given so little time to complete each task before we are rushed onto the next task. I remember clearly a friend of mine who always finished her work first and the teachers loved. I remember trying to be like her, to rush and to race to complete what I was doing leaving me behind. It is no wonder that I found it hard to find the words I needed and found the process stressful as I was focusing on someone else without any awareness of what I was feeling. What I learnt at school has stuck with me and it is only with constant reminding of feeling from my body first that I am re-learning to feel what is there to be expressed which has made such a difference not only to the quality but also to how much I get done.

50. When we hold ourselves with judgement we close the door on an opportunity to heal and as I read the first couple of paragraphs how I could feel I was already judging myself about how long it takes me to do things and that time is ticking by and I still haven’t….., this pressure we put on ourselves to achieve stops the flow. I love how you bring it back to feeling your quality first and then allowing what is there to be said to be said. Interestingly whenever I type after reading this blog my focus is on the quality of my typing rather than the words, which allow the words just to flow.

    1. The pressure we out on ourselves and how it stops the flow is something to get on top of because it can distract us from the full expression of each and every one of us that is so needed in this world.

51. ‘I judged myself harshly and this left me feeling deflated and exhausted!’ What we forget is that when we do this we are actually creating a low grade misery that ripples out to all around. Letting go of judgement frees us up to enjoy each other and allows light ripples to venture out and return.

52. Just what you mention in passing about posture is very important… it can always evolve our expression writing speaking or singing.

53. When reading this writings a phrase came to mind.
    ” Its not what you do its how you do it ”
    Thank you,

54. Beautifully shared Susan. In being attached to outcomes we instantly negate our appreciation of our innate connection to our truth, and our unique expression of it. For where does the picture we hold of the outcome we are supposed to achieve come from? Clearly not from us, from the essence of who we are, but rather created from the image of man and the world man lives in. Who we are within and what we are innately connected to is what guides us to express what is needed at any time in order for us to reflect the truth of who we are at every point.

55. I love this blog Susan and often think of it whenever I feel stuck. You show no matter what the obstacle, if you honour what you feel – there is a way.

56. ‘…it has been very beautiful to write, and a pleasure to not merely share words, but to share me as I write.’ A great point to remember that we are sharing everything we are, in everything that we do.

57. I have observed that there is a huge force to curtail true expression. That affects us all in different ways for some it may be difficulty in writing and for others it may be in speaking for others they might over speak and not listen – whatever it takes there is an energy that does not want truth expressed hence the king has got no clothes on story.

58. I’ve noticed on the rare occasion I allow myself to write freely that it is a lovely feeling just to write, to allow the flow and not get caught up in the semantics, polishing, grammar. That all comes with a second edit, but just to allow myself to write what I feel unrestricted… that is expression, and not something I naturally do when writing email or as part of my work.

59. How lovely it is to feel our whole bodies in all activities we do and all ways in which we move within our lives as it only strengthens our connection to who we are and allows us to express in full appreciation of this grand vehicle in which we are residing in.

60. Our written expression is super important, its part of the whole package of expression. Hold back on one part and we are holding back on our whole expression.

61. A simple walk with appreciation in your pocket speaks volumes to others if we choose to observe!

62. Taking cake of ourselves while we do anything brings us into whatever the end result is. A great reminder of how lovely that feels rather than doing something at the expense of my body to fit a picture I may have.

63. The energy running through my body to perform has felt so intense… cheeks are red, I feel hot, there’s a force or an all consuming trying and I feel very impatient wanting to get the writing done, a horrible feeling in my body which I thought at one time was ok and that was how it was – you could say a wonderful marker to call out and expose in my body of that which is nothing but from the individual/self in separation to my soul and hence not for the all.

64. Very cool – so much interferes when we try and write, for me I feel a pressure to perform, and I always question if I can capture the magic I know with words? But it’s amazing if I just let all that go and surrender knowing that everything I need to say is already there.

    1. I am finding this amazing too Meg that I can sense in a split second that it is all there inside me, what needs to said is all there. I simply know and all I have to do is let go of any doubt that may want to creep in and align 100% to saying yes to connecting to me and allowing the divine expression, my essence to come through.

65. Being aware of my whole body whilst I’m doing something gives me a true marker for the quality that I’m expressing with.

66. ‘In honouring me, it has been very beautiful to write, and a pleasure to not merely share words, but to share me as I write.’ This is very much felt , thank you Susan.

67. Thank you Susan for sharing what I can very much relate to in my past. Losing myself to an expectation I was holding in the future put me off writing. I knew on a particular occasion what I had written was not from love and so did not deliver it. I also expressed how I felt but left it at that. This blog supports and confirms me in the knowing what I sense and have sensed is true. It is also a reflection in my daily living in that I know in my absoluteness, truth ‘good or bad’ in my body and to not jeopardise it in any way, shape or form but to accept it as it is and either confirm it within me or/and change my movements to be and express love and make love in the knowing of who I am as my priority.

68. The key is in sharing, that it comes from and through one´s body and thus is real and relatable and not just writing about something.

69. The age-old trick of anticipating the outcome, response or reaction from others, what may be accepted or judged, basically who and how we need to be so that we are okay takes away from us the natural and full expression that otherwise would simply occur.

70. There is a lot of good advice in this blog and I feel that if the appreciation of ourselves is there and is real and we are not invested in the outcome the words will just flow. If I was to think too much about people reading what I write, which is a kind of attachment, the words wouldn’t flow either.

71. This is beautiful Susan, ‘my heart feels an opening and celebration for allowing me to bring me to typing in a way that I have not before.’

72. The more I write and trust in myself to do so the more it flows naturally.

73. Writing has been something I hated and struggled with from the moment I learned how to do it. Through the studies of Universal Medicine, I have healed so much in regard to my relationship with writing. I was reflecting this morning that because I write every day, sometimes I read what I have written and think, wow, who wrote that, that’s amazing. I find it an effortless and enjoyable integral part of my day now.

    1. I was told at school that I wasn’t good at creative writing and my grammar / spelling was no good too and I still carry much if this with me, although as you say through writing on a daily basis the way I write is changing and there are times when I think where did those words come from as what I’ve wanted to say has just flowed with words that I’m not that familiar with.

74. I find the way I am with myself affects the quality of my expression.

75. Reading your blog Susan has caused me to pause and re-evaluate my approach to how I write and lo and behold – I found I could tick quite a few of the things you have nominated at the start. Thank you – I have now steadied myself and I can feel the tension drain from my body. Of course the beautiful thing is the flow on effect and I sense that I will take a different quality to the next thing I move onto.

76. Writing can be a very powerful tool for evolution. If we use it as such is an immense gift to ourselves and to others. There is so much to tap into, become aware and share.

    1. Very well said Eduardo, we can record pearls of wisdom through writing down the divine expression that comes through us.

77. I like how you took a moment to connect with your quality, and then, your intention was when typing to do so with ‘ my connection with the delicateness and beauty of me is my first and foremost priority.’

78. I’ve noticed that sometimes when we haven’t done something for a while – such as express – that when we begin to do it again, whilst it is all there within us, we have to feel the momentum of not having done it.

79. We can say Susan from your post that, “My Relationship with Writing”… is simply [reflective of] the relationship with oneself. We write and express in accordance to how we are relating with ourselves transferring that quality to our writing.

80. The moment we more consciously include the body in what we do (it is anyway but it suits us to forget!), we become aware of the tension and can work on releasing it.

81. I love how you have evolved in your expression and your love of yourself and your body in your writing. If this is the end result of taking simple love and care and giving voice to our body in writing imagine what is possible when we take this elsewhere to our work, family life, cooking and living in general?

82. Beautiful Susan, what is of far greater importance is how we express rather than focusing on the end result because it’s in the ‘how’ that we determine and ensure it’s quality.

83. Susan it is great how you have overcome so many of the obstacles so many of us have towards writing and ultimately expressing the truth we all know and feel within. At school so much of our spontaneity and creativity is taken out of our essays or stories gaining reward for using sentence structure and adjectives etc. Trying to capture and entice the reader rather than simply presenting truth. I know I mastered how to manipulate essays to gain top marks at school and so it is almost like we have to unwire ourselves back to our true selves so the jargon and what we have been told to write does not come before the truth we know.

    1. I found it echoed into all aspects and areas of my life always wanting to please or gain favour with others rather than simply being and saying what I felt at the time. So often we think we know what another will say so we alter our speach or writting so as not to get a reaction instead of being us – so all we do is set up situations to stay the same which frustrates us and nothing changes!

84. I love this Susan, as I recognise a lot in what you share. And your shift can be felt from the quality of your blog which feels tender, open and loving. What a great example of the fact that everything is energy and all we do leaves an imprint of that quality.

85. Supremely simple Susan but a very different approach, one that shows all to be how each moment is and that it’s not about the outcome, it’s in each detail and each move, and in taking care of that the wider details are addressed.

86. Any form of expression can either evolve us or be in-volutionary.

87. With all that you have changed in how you go about writing Susan, I look forward to what you will have on offer in the future. For me if we are invested in the outcome, it is starting off on the wrong foot from the very start.

88. ‘I was not appreciating myself and all I have to offer.’ how powerful appreciation is in opening the door to expressing more of who we are in all we do.

89. Bringing myself back to the way I’m moving or holding my body – the kind of posture that I’m in makes a huge difference to the quality of thoughts that I have and how I feel inside and so it makes complete sense to me that to have an awareness and care for our whole body whilst writing will make a difference to the way the writing flows and the quality of the output!

90. Susan, this is such a beautiful elegy to movement and the fact that how we move in each thing we go, and not just physically is key for if we take care of those details, little and large we create space for us to express without an outcome and just be who we are.

91. When we are in school we are taught what we need to do, Maths, English, Science etc… but we are not taught about the quality in which we produce this work.
    If a friend or potential boyfriend perhaps, is really drunk and decides to text’s you, you can feel it. This is proof that the quality and state we are in when we write then affects the reader. But you do not have to be drunk to change your quality, you could be frustrated, angry, cold, uncomfortable and without even realising it you have affect the energetic quality of your writing. What you are offering is create a space that is supportive and the writing will flow, plus you know what you are putting out is clear for the reader.

    1. Same goes with when we work, how we are gets transferred to what we then produce and yet we can rationalise that we’ve done our job, ticked the boxes, got out what was required and got paid but not reflect on how our emotions are then felt by others. Dealing with what comes up for us the best way we can and asking for support when needed makes a massive difference to the quality in which we live and consequently put out.

92. The quality with which we write, type, paint, draw or speak is the quality that then emanates in the end for all to feel.

93. ‘I have paused as I write to feel the power and simplicity of my words. And I have acknowledged that there is always more to express, yet in this moment it is to feel what is called for now.’ Awesome Susan.

    1. Yes this was a simple and very precious moment indeed to pause and feel the quality of me without any need to rush into or out expectations on what was to be next.

94. How often do we intellectualise impulses and then action something, a conversation, project or activity that is so close to what we initially felt was true yet so far from the quality as it has become complicated or expectation based..

    1. How easy is it for us to complicate what was once a divinely beautiful (and simple) impulse!

95. I can feel how much I carry over from school in relationship to writing and how prohibitive this belief is, it’s like a heavy burden that I carry with me that is slowly starting to shift as I express more.

96. Being able to express in writing is a gift for self and for others is we are able to share the wisdom that sits in the heart.

97. I find it interesting that you typed without your glasses to trust more what you feel. I have taken to walking on a treadmill each morning with an eye mask on for ten minutes and it is amazing the opportunity that is there to feel the body without the distraction of the eyes.

98. In July 2014 at the age of 60, I stood up and put my words on the WEB, in a place for the world to see, that are now like cave paintings that will always be there. Shopping lists had been my most significant venture to put anything I had written out there. Other than courses that required regurgitation of stored information, writing had become a lost communication option. Today, writing it is a vital part of my expression.

99. When we are not driven by outcomes and output, writing and everything else we might do can unfold naturally and with grace.

100. Writing is a form of expressing yourself — however you see or feel things you can write from. This is very powerful when we do express from our truth (heart). We also know that when we write and or expres in a way that actually holds no truth (lacking connection to our heart) that it now comes with force. A beautiful lesson in the science of energy, that is what Serge Benhayon teachings are always based (prior) on.

101. As people, we can pull out a load of excuses to not commit to something, but when we do actually look at what is needed to support us then we set up a foundation through which we allow a flow. Such is this example which is great to read and appreciate how simple it is to change an environment and connect to what is there to be shared.

102. Connecting to the joy and essence of who we truly are – we cannot help but express and take that out to the world, it’s natural.

103. When I sit down to write I often don’t know what will come out. If I allow the unfolding of the words it is a beautiful experience. If I have an agenda and something I think needs to be said then my mind gets in the way of the natural flow. It feels amazing to just let go and allow the unfolding.

104. Thanks, Susan. I love how you have made it about the quality rather than the output when it comes to writing, being able to feel the gentle touch of the keys and hold the body in a supportive posture, while connecting deeply to what is there to be shared.

105. It has only been three years since I started writing to express what I have felt. My whole life I have avoided writing anything. I did not like spelling in school from an early age. I don’t think the word dyslexia had even been created yet when I was growing up and bad spelling was attributed to being dumb, lazy or just not trying hard enough. I just did not like all the rules! Or, had I been hit in the head so many times that my hippocampus was damaged (is that a university for zoo animals?) I am finding that writing without rules is fun, and what is wrong with passive sentences?

106. When we stop running with all our ideals and beliefs, all the pictures, outcomes and expectations… we allow ourselves the space to freely express.

107. When i’m on the money I read something i’ve written or listen to something i’ve said and i’m just like “wow…. did I really just say that??”. A challenging yet ultra rewarding journey i’ve been on is to detach myself from what i’ve expressed in the sense that I have chosen to bring that quality, but the words are all from the Universe.

     1. Well said, Michael. One of our greatest challenges can be to truly accept what we are a part of and can come through us to be shared.

        1. To me there is no challenge in this, if we speak honestly we will admit we are simply not willing to accept it (what we are a part of). I am reminded of the words “we are never given something we are not fully equipped to deal with”.

108. Every True form of expression has to have a connection to our Inner-Most. So when our day starts what we do will be felt, which allows us to express openly and freely in everything we are doing. Then is it possible that everything we do is a form of expression? Therefore to express the Truth in everything we do we have to be connected to our Inner-Most!

109. ‘When I was commencing writing, I was attached to the outcome and what the words looked like.’ – Going to school we learn that it is all based on competition and comparison and getting the highest score, and it is a whole different thing to trust that once we let go of the control the words will naturally flow.

110. When we are willing to connect to our stillness and live from there, we can apply this to anything that we do to support us to be in the flow of life.

111. I love this appreciation of what it is to feel what we write rather than just see the words on the page. This adds such a depth and richness to our expression that we otherwise miss.

112. This awareness and quality applies to everything, shifting the focus from doing to being.

     1. How true – if we don’t truly honour ourselves and our being, the quality of what we are doing will reflect that.

        1. And the not so loving flow on is someone else gets the impact of this – no matter if they know it/see it or not quality is always felt.

113. Yes, Susan, I couldn’t agree more. I have only recently begun to appreciate that there is a huge amount to come through for me to share with the world in my writing, and it feels like the beginning of an exciting new level of commitment to expressing in full.

114. The more I connect with the stillness within the more my writing flows and reflects clarity.

115. There is a part of me that likes to make life about theory, about stitching together pretty words that sound nice and like they might be ‘right’. But what if we consider them more like stepping stones, buckets of energy that emanate out for us all to feel, this is totally different to me. Your words here Susan inspire me to make it all about energy and my body first.

116. What’s interesting to take notice of here is… Are the observations of ourselves about how our body changes (body hardens, tension, disconnect from feeling) when we stop, sit down and try to write, are they reflective or similar responses we also ‘go into’ with our relationship and interaction with life and people?

117. Susan you beautifully illustrate how writing is a process of surrender. It’s about letting what is there to be expressed in that moment flow through – or perhaps how I should put it, it is very much about us not getting in the way of that which is asking to come though. Expression is always moving and expanding, and so what we write will evolve and transform as we do.

118. What a beautiful appreciation of the importance of writing and expressing oneself and the power and the joy that comes from this . Your sharing is a real inspiration to heal the childhood hurts that stop and inhibit our natural flow and expression of this in the world.

119. I have been experimenting recently with just connecting to my body and my breath and simply starting to write without thinking or planning what I am going to write – it feels completely different to the intellectual method of writing and what comes out also carries a very different quality.

120. Whenever we write we can let out what is in us or hold back. From holding back we can get very sick in many ways, and this does not feed love back to the body. So we are asked to be with ourselves in the present and share all we got.

121. I love how you shifted your writing into quality instead of quantity or ideals and beliefs. How much more of a worth is a piece of writing, if someone wrote it from the body instead of the head following a picture how it should be. Receiving the words instead of looking for the right expression. Because of that everyone can relate to your blog and feel it equally in their body.

122. I can feel that too, there is so much in me to express, either by speaking or by writing, no matter if this is on paper or on the computer screen but then when t comes to put it on paper or in the computer the obstruction in me start to come up. Such as, I am not good in writing, spelling or any negative thought like that or indeed self judgement about my expertise on the subject I want to write about etc. The list goes on and will be detrimental to my writing if I do not stop this self criticism and start to honour my unique expression and the endless wisdom I have access to when I connect to the delicateness of my body instead.

123. Writing is a way of sharing myself transparently through words. When I struggle with it, there is something I want to hide or something that I don’t accept in myself for it to be shared. Being honest in any case is key for me to allow the flow in my expression.

124. I used to get very stuck when it comes to writing because I had this image that I was not good at it. So, when I sat down to write I already felt anxious, not good enough and in comparison. Once I let go of these thoughts and images, and choose to appreciate that everything I want to express, the words and wisdom is already there which allows my writing to flow. I also notice the quality of what I write is affected by the quality of the way I live every day.

125. Taking the Time to connect and express when there is so much happening around us that has become all about pushing a barrow, which leaves us open to disconnection and therefore open to cussing and cursing.
     True expression comes from love and would never come from words that disempower us. Then to express in a way that is all about our connection makes expressing an expression that can be healing for when connected we all evolve.

126. I never had a problem with expressing through writing until I went to see a psychiatrist and over time I just could not express by writing any more something seemed to dry up within me. And it has taken me years to even start to try to write something down on paper other than a shopping list. People have told me I get myself in the way of writing but it’s as though the flow from what I want to say is blocked everything is blank.
     Things are starting to shift but there’s plenty room to expand my expression via writing.

127. If one looked at my comments now compared to a year ago they’d be amazed at the transformation even in this short space of time.

     1. That is true Michael, when we appreciate what we feel is our purpose in life, i.e. to express that what comes through us from the divine, then there is only a deepening and expansion happening; in fact it is something we have to learn in this life to become the vessels of expression for the divine once again.

     2. For me it has to do with authority in expression. How much do I claim, that what I can offer is from worth and that the world needs to hear this. That actually it is very necessary that the world gets access to the truth I live, because I feel the urgency of making a change in this world.

128. When I push for things to occur with my writing the words can be difficult to find and there often is no flow or ease to the process.

129. The permission granted by you to you and as an inspiration to all that read this article is properly beautiful; to simply be… free of all the rules we have absorbed over our lives, open to this moment and what is on offer, no more, no less. Super cute and inspiring actually. Thank you, Susan.

130. I have observed how the slightest adjustment in the way we sit, arrange our desk, or generally hold ourselves makes a massive difference to what we can express in word. It’s all there’s in our body and the way to access it is not from our head but through flow and movement which either allows it out or not.

     1. Yes, what you’ve shared Joshua is so true. I noticed yesterday, how I held my body affected the quality of my expression.

131. “Just sitting down with this intention has resulted in an incredible shift, enabling me to feel that I am already complete and enough without the words I am about to express needing to define me.”
     When i was at Art school we would do weekly life drawings of a nude model, I used to feel quite paralysed by this huge piece of white paper in front of me, the pressure and expectation for each line to be correct, for the proportions and perspective to read perfectly. It was only as i worked on the paper, rubbed areas out and made marks that i felt greater freedom to express myself. So i decided each lesson to take in a piece of paper that was not perfectly crisp and white but to pre, tint and mark the paper and in turn this allowed me greater flow and above all greater enjoyment. Its amazing to clock the pressures and expectations we put ourselves under and how un-joyful this way of being is.

132. There’s no point in criticising ourselves over and over again about not being able to do something, write, focus or ‘fix’ our behaviour, because a) this is throwing understanding out the window and often makes us feel so much worse about that particular thing, thus causing us to struggle more, and b) there are so many things we can do to support change and get to the bottom of ‘why’, such as talking to another person, adjusting the configuration of our office and so forth.

     1. So True Susie we would end up in the “bottom” of “a” forever-deepening-pit that would be like a festering sore niggling at us all the time! or accept our connection and “b” True to who we all are as Sons of God through our Inner-Most, which is connecting to the Soul.

133. There have been moments when I have been inspired to write, only to find that my critical hat comes on and I want to rewrite or change what I have just written, and in the process lose the essence of what was first felt. I do this a lot less, and commenting everyday on blogs like this has helped me let go of the need to have every word perfectly formed and in its right place and allow the flow of my fingers on the keyboard to write what it is I have felt in my body to say.

134. I can really relate to the 5 bullet points that you listed and this gives me more awareness of how I am when I am writing and what I am looking to ‘achieve.’

135. I used to write and feel inspired and then was too scared to touch it, edit it or work on it, with this idea that I would ruin what came through naturally. This was a big handicap for me, and I have been reacting and not trusting that how I live with consistency, will enable me to work on what needs to be worked on regarding writing and (this applies for all areas of life) with out ruining anything, but instead developing, refining and celebrating what is there as pure inspiration.

136. I love the stopping, allowing, and appreciating you explain Susan, there is no need to try and do anything, but simply let it all flow from within.

137. I think our posture and the way we move and do things such as the way we type and press keys on our computer or hold a pen and write do make a big difference to the kind of thoughts we have and the quality of what we express as our mind isn’t contained within our brain alone but held throughout our whole body…

138. From the list of what can happen in the writing process, I would say time pressures, ideas about how it needs to turn out and not staying connected to your body (and aware of your movements) have a big negative impact on the creative flow.

139. “I have also been very aware of my posture and how my workstation is set up to support me. .” I have been very aware of this this week and need to raise my screen so I don’t slump. In fact I’ll do it now!

140. What a beautiful inspiration to write and the appreciation from this that comes is very lovely to feel. “In honouring me, it has been very beautiful to write, and a pleasure to not merely share words, but to share me as I write. Inspirational thank you.

141. Lovely to read this again Susan and I particularly appreciated your dot points, very practical and a great foundation of checkpoints to begin with. It’s true for me too, that when I am truly with me it’s all about enjoying what comes through and it flows quite magically, but if the mind comes in, if the body is compromised (hard, etc), and if I’m not appreciating enjoying me it doesn’t go too well!

142. Beautiful Susan… the idea of sharing ‘you’ in what you do, whether it be writing or any other task, is a complete turn around from the focus we normally have on what it is we get done.

     1. Beautifully shared Jennifer, and so simple, the “idea of sharing ‘you’ in what you do” when our usual focus is on what we have to get done. It shows how much we have squeezed out the being in life to focus on the “doing”.

        1. Yes exactly Melinda, there is no focus on who we are as the being in the body. One of the current buzz words being thrown around in across a number of industries and organisations at the moment is WELLBEING… and yet we still don’t get that it is our BEING that needs to be WELL… the body just follows suit.

143. I was just reading another blog on this site (https://truthaboutsergebenhayon.com/2015/11/09/control-or-connection-its-a-choice/) about letting go of control. It feels like there is a similar process that can be undertaken in the case of writing – if we surrender, we can go with the flow. I made a comment there about the link between tight forearms and control: given the arms and hands are very much engaged in writing, there’s a lot we could do around building our awareness of how we tense up and grip in this part of our body when we write.

144. I used to love putting pen to paper and would always be jotting something down. But after years of psychotherapy this ability has left me and I now find it quite difficult to write and as soon as I feel I’m trying to write something I stop. So you can imagine I have loads of half finished blogs. so still a blockage there somewhere.

145. My relationship with writing reflects everything I am in my expression.If I am holding back, getting myself in the way, then I am controlling and shutting down my natural evolutionary flow with life.

146. Writing to a timeframe or deadline is a complete killer to productivity as it puts you in a state of pressure right from the off. The body tenses up, you’re not in the flow, the emotion magnifies and you either write drivel or nothing springs forth. Great that you recommend ‘stopping to feel me and my body first’ so that as a form of preparation, you make the necessary space for the impulse of your writing to flow freely.

147. ‘…years of university study and working in an engineering discipline where writing is often subject to intellectual criticism.’ Growing up I desperately wanted to fit in but I was deeply puzzled at school when what I had to say didn’t fit in anywhere or wasn’t acknowledged. I started to feel I had no place, what I brought seemed of no consequence, invisible even so I felt invisible. And I tried so hard to understand what was wanted, so hard but never really got it or saw its limitations and wasn’t inspired.

     This situation has arisen again now I’m back studying, a wonderful opportunity to not go down the I must be rubbish, I don’t get it, what I have to bring is inconsequential. Instead I can appreciate what I bring by staying present and feeling what I bring. I can claim with authority the knowing I have and fully commit to the whole process, to feeling whatever hurts that come up, the fears, the challenges, and not step back into self-doubt and apology.

148. Could it be that there is a difference in what I want to or think I should write and what it is that is given to me to write? In the case that it is given to me it would be all about not standing in the way but let it come through hence writers block would be dissolved by getting me out of the way which includes not investing in or trying to control any outcome.

     1. ‘Could it be that there is a difference in what I want to or think I should write and what it is that is given to me to write?’ – I feel this is a key point, when our mind wants to run the show and control the outcome, what is naturally flowing through us gets shut down.

149. ‘In honouring me, it has been very beautiful to write, and a pleasure to not merely share words, but to share me as I write.’ – And what a difference the end result is.

     1. I agree, Eva, the lightness of Susan’s touch and her embracing, understanding quality is definitely felt in her writing.

150. It really is a different way to approach life and writing. Connect to our bodies and innermost and allow.

151. What a beautiful inspiration to write Susan “I have paused as I write to feel the power and simplicity of my words. And I have acknowledged that there is always more to express, yet in this moment it is to feel what is called for now.” With the magic of the universe through ones fingertips.

152. My relationship with writing has also changed as I have deepened the relationship with myself, my writing just flows as I have let go of the ‘trying’ and the, ‘writing for an outcome’. If we get ourselves out of the way, the words just flow.

153. ‘I have paused as I write to feel the power and simplicity of my words.’ – I love this simple gesture towards yourself.

154. Expression is most certainly a gift to the world that should not be held back. One of my main focuses is ensuring that I express as much as possible and when I don’t – how does that happen?

155. I have definately been one to holdback on my expression and it is such a shame as we each have so much to share, but the more we step up and into life the realisation of why we have held back for so long gets exposed… being bullied at school, feeling jealousy from another, just feeling another become she and reserved and then taking that on to support them ~ so many reason why this could take place and be.

156. We are the ‘pens of God’ when we allow ourselves to write from the deep pool of Stillness that lives within us all.

     1. Absolutely Liane. What we write is already there waiting for us to pick up our pen. I am feeling so strongly with the articles on Shakespeare and the Ageless wisdom that I am writing at the moment, that I have very little to do with it – Shakespeare has written the plays already, Serge Benhayon has re-ignited the Ageless wisdom in us all, and all I have to do is pick up my laptop and out the two together, like a carpenter doing a piece of joinery on a bookshelf. Very simple.

        1. Beautiful Lyndy – the delicate art of Oneness is no mystery to us all.

     2. Beautiful Liane – love your sharing, so my fingertips are the touch of God as I type and as I write…leaving God’s loving imprint.

     3. How true Liane, from stillness the words are given effortlessly.

157. I often find myself creating a gap or threshold when I approach or anticipate going to write as in it being something different or more difficult or demanding than whatever I am just doing. No wonder that I am not at ease then by putting an expectation on what it is going to be. How about not switching to but flowing towards writing just like with every other activity, a change of what I am practically doing but no change of who I am when I do what I do.

     1. I often find this also, and then what occurs is an intensity comes in that was not there originally, and then all of a sudden everything feels too serious and not at all joyful.

158. Susan, I can feel how important appreciating ourselves is; ‘I was not appreciating myself and all I have to offer.’ I woke up this morning feeling a little anxious about work but then allowed myself to appreciate me and what was ahead and the anxiousness went and instead I felt a joy for me and for the day ahead, appreciating ourselves and all that we bring and appreciating our lives feels key.

159. My impulse to write something always happens in the middle of a shower, what I need to invest in is some sort of Dictaphone so that I can express what is there as I have found by the time I’m out of the shower what was there to express has gone the moment has passed as it where and I cannot remember what it was I wanted to say. Or, if I can it is then stilted and has no flow to it.

     1. …a waterproof dictaphone I hope! Haha – this happens to me also but I find that I am able to retrieve the words simply but not blocking ‘the flow’ when the shower ends.

160. You clearly show how important it is that we regard our body in every moment as it supports us tremendously in whatever we do or bring, may it be writing or any other situation we are in.

161. When I write, I know I am on track when I feel more expansion in my body. I am now able to feel a difference from being in my head and trying to write clever words, or letting my fingers simply follow the keys on the keyboard. And then I can also read it and sabotage it by criticism, it’s not good enough, it’s not deep enough, it’s not long enough.. what a game to stop my true expression! There is a profound difference when we allow the flow of writing to happen with the connection to our bodies and accept that what has been expressed so far is from how we are living right now.

162. I think our approach to writing very much mirrors our approach or control of life. For me if I sit down to write it’s a direct reflection of my approach to life or the quality my day has been until that point, so I fix it not in my approach to writing, but in my approach to my day.

     1. This is a point of great inspiration. If we can accept and live the fact that everything is a reflection and one moment affects the next, then we are open to the learning on offer and the blessing of the responsibility we have.

        1. True, if we acknowledge that one moment effects the next we naturally begin to be more responsible in the first moment knowing it’s far-reaching effects.

163. ‘I was not appreciating myself and all I have to offer.’ I am really procrastinating over writing an assignment for college, caught up in ‘will it be to the liking of the tutors, will it be clever enough to pass or even impress, so attached to the outcome am I. What I’m realising is that what I write will never be the finale of what there is to say about the subject so why put pressure on myself to provide an definitive, end result. What there is to say is constantly deepening and evolving if I am choosing to surrender more to what there is to connect to. By trying to deliver an end point I am denying this process, trying to stand on top of the mountain when there is no mountain. So why not let myself start the walk, the writing process and see what unfolds.

164. It will be interesting to explore and experience the process of writing one day not as an effort of putting words to something that needs to be expressed but receiving and allowing the words to come through and thus being a vessel for the expression to be manifested, ie literally to be a scribe.

165. I remember as a child, while I wasn’t good at spelling I loved to write – poems, songs, short and long stories, all the time I was writing, but at school they never let you write, everything was boring and about how to spell and fit into a box and it was years before we were actually allowed to write something of our own. There is power and confidence building in being given the space to express ourselves through writing that we should foster as early as possible – the freedom to express

166. Reconnecting with the truth in these blogs and then making a comment is a process of appreciation of the innate wisdom that is within all our inner hearts.

167. Please excuse me if it’s a little graphic, but not being able to write feels a bit like finding it hard to go to the toilet. Your whole body knows it’s great and just what it needs but no matter how hard you try it just won’t materialise. Sometimes with words they can seem a million miles from what you wanted to say deep inside. This frustrating mismatch can put you off. But from what you say and the way that you write Susan, what I get is all we need to do is put our pictures aside and make a start with all of our heart.

168. I have noticed this same pattern or process with speaking. I often feel an impulse to say something based on what I can sense is happening in situations but when I go to say it my body can tighten up sometimes and go hard and it comes out not the way I intended!… and consequently does have a different result or impact on everyone around me.

     1. I often experience a holding back when I am not fully with myself, and am worried about speaking – choosing to be small over valuing the worth of what it is I have been given to say. Often the words disappear or, even if I have said what there was to say, I’ve delivered it laced with apology, my holding back. Making it about me detracts from what’s been said. Perhaps knowing this is what make this scenario so uncomfortable and not the embarrassment – I know I am wanting a piece of the limelight at the expense of what there is to express.

169. “In honouring me, it has been very beautiful to write, and a pleasure to not merely share words, but to share me as I write.” . . .thank you Susan for taking the time and making the space so that we can feel you in full.

170. There is such a difference between writing for school or work where we have to adhere to many rules and how to produce something that others approve with or to write about what we have experienced in life and how we view life. I found the former always hard and though I could not write but through writing more blogs about my experiences and insights I know I can write and feel confident to write in the other sector as well. Knowing our own way first is very important in this.

171. Wow, Susan – I can definitely relate to what you have written here in regards to the points you have raised which have previously blocked the flow of your writing. It led me to consider further how much formal writing, especially in the academic sense, places such a high value on using fancy words and sounding clever/smart. There is a real competitive and status driven edge to it that I can feel I have gotten caught in over the years. Yet the real damage has been that it has diminished the actual quality of a lot of what I have written over time as it hasn’t come from inside me, but rather has been a mental construct designed to impress others and/or withstand scrutiny of peers and management. YUCK! Definitely time for me to bring my writing capabilities back to ‘earth’ and write with genuine appreciation of ‘me’ and what I have to offer.

172. Susan this certainly takes the ‘me’ out of writing and allows us to be a vessel through which the writing can come. This is a way of writing where we don’t have an attachment or investment, we just connect with the joy of writing and allow it to be simple and easy.

173. I feel this is key Shirley-Ann – if we ourselves know and appreciate that we have delivered our all, we do not need the confirmation or anyone telling us it was ‘good enough’.

     1. The question for me then comes up is do I know that I was delivering what I was delivering from my all, this has given me something to consider as there are many times in my working day where my quality does not come first and I am wondering how it would feel if I put the quality I feel before what I was doing.

174. “I was not appreciating myself and all I have to offer. I am already complete and enough without the words I am about to express needing to define me.I have paused as I write to feel the power and simplicity of my words. In honouring me, it has been very beautiful to write, and a pleasure to not merely share words, but to share me as I write.” Thank you Susan for a very important sharing for me today, I am inspired by your above words as I am called upon to write on a topic and I was feeling somewhat daunted by it.

175. ‘I was not appreciating myself and all I have to offer.’ – I can only speak for myself, but I feel this as a huge reason why so many of us resist writing.

176. We all have so much to offer and our expressions are all slightly different, so knowing this helps us to appreciate simply feeling what it is we want to write, and I am finding that it flows. It feels like we have to undo a lot of school years here, of getting homework back with lots of red corrections all over the pages from the teacher.. and the constant remarks of ‘could do better’. When we let that go, all our expression is very powerful.

177. ‘ I have paused as I write to feel the power and simplicity of my words. And I have acknowledged that there is always more to express, yet in this moment it is to feel what is called for now.’ I too have felt the importance of appreciating what I write as I take it for granted and not see the power in my expression whether that be written or verbal.

     1. Love what you have shared Mary-Louise, writing and verbal expression is so empowering as it forms true relationships as we all are re-turning to the Love we all come from.

178. No dissection, no analysis, no critique, you just let everything out. Like a river your expression flows, unhindered and unsensored from its natural source. Thank you Susan for switching off control and letting your writing out. You inspire me to see that when we just share openly without preconceived outcomes or agendas the magic of God is able to be there too. Then magnificent events take place beyond anything we can think of.

179. What you describe here very clearly is how it all comes back to how we are and move with our bodies and thus how much we can change simply by focusing on our bodies and how they feel.

180. In the beginning I found writing difficult but over time it became easier and then easy. It seemed to be less about practising (though that helps) but more about a knack about where the writing comes from and then it can flow very easily.

     1. Super supportive comments, thank you. The more we get all our created complications out of the way the freer we are to go with the flow and express very naturally.

     2. Ditto! Writers block is only ever about the energy we connect to and it is that simple. Love what you have shared Christoph and Elizabeth as I agree.

181. I am enjoying my developing relationship with writing and the magic of words, not as a performance or display of cleverness, but as an amazing opportunity to express myself in the world alongside others.

     1. Yes and being offered the opportunity to feel how expansive this feels in the body,

        1. Wow! Love the wisdom that comes from reading blogs, comments and expressing through writing, which has definitely open a deepening chapter in my life!!

182. I could not spell at school, this lack of spelling lead me to think that I could not write….spelling is not what indicates the quality of writing, I also struggled with grammar, but again this does not make the quality of the writing, content, intention, wisdom is what fills out a piece of writing, not the rules on correct English etc. I am learning to write first and correct after, be free and express…of course it needs to be understood, but needs to be said does not come in the same shape and sizes, we all have our own way with words.

     1. I knew a very good legal editor with vast knowledge and experience who was hopeless at spelling. Spell-checkers help but there is often somebody around who can help.

     2. Samantha, I can appreciate everything you have presented. I have never liked or used writing as a means of expression for 40 + years, with maybe the exception of the time I tagged the top of a water tower in my youth. Could it have been the rebel in me that did not like all the rules? I have also found how words have power when they come with purpose and rules are just the seasoning you lightly sprinkle on just before serving that helps the words flow.

        1. What a blessing it is to read what Susan, and others share on this page, as I can relate to all of the above as I would get 2/10 with the read lines every where almost covering the page.

        2. How well you describe the qualities in the delivery of words Steve- true power and purpose.
           “I have also found how words have power when they come with purpose and rules are just the seasoning you lightly sprinkle on just before serving that helps the words flow”.

183. The list of 5 points you have shared that sabotaged your relationship to writing are so very significant for me. I have been looking at every one of these areas in one way or another and have found that each of them is enough to completely throw my natural sense of harmony, confidence and flow. This seems a list of ‘what not to do’ in every aspect of life

184. So often i will listen to people telling me something about their life, an experience or something they have seen, and think that they should write it down, be it as a blog or a book or something – every person has a view of the world and experiences. If we can write without the dramas, emotions, scandals and lies we see creating so much mess in the media, we could have a library of resources of real life lived wisdom on offer – and this is a realised potential in the Universal Medicine student body through the blog sites full of incredible pieces

185. “I have decided I do not want to feel hardness in my body as I type and that my connection with the delicateness and beauty of me is my first and foremost priority.” what a great reflection this morning to me on how I approach my emails, writings and way that I express. I can easily find I got into the hardness of needing to get things done and in that miss the quality, it then feels amazing to re-connect in the gentleness and appreciate the difference in what writing in connection feels like.

186. It is interesting to notice, when writing feels difficult, to take a moment to feel what disruptive activity is going on around your body, such as the distracting thoughts or tension held in the body … It highlights the momentum we may be running and living in, or imposed upon from outside influences.

187. Reading this blog, I feel it brings an openness to ones expression as the words just seem to flow after reading it, now all I would like to do is learn to touch type like you Susan.

188. An inspirational blog Susan. I will re read and take more from it I am sure.

189. The list of things which you were doing and not doing before writing before you took a different approach are very familiar to me – inspiring to feel how this has unfolded for you due to your choice to be aware and to allow space for another way to open up.

190. Surrendering to our true essence is all it takes, very beautiful Susan.

191. ‘I have decided I do not want to feel hardness in my body as I type and that my connection with the delicateness and beauty of me is my first and foremost priority.’ That’s a good one Susan as my body can get quite tense when I start typing and that has a lot to do with getting caught in my mind to make the text perfect and I feel when I stay connected it does not matter how it comes out because there is no ownership but only the impulse to share what I feel to express.

192. Maybe it is when we don´t allow ourselves to be fully seen for who we are and hence will not express in full that we also cannot write in full or have a writer´s block. Blocking to be who we are, inevitably will block our expression.

193. Susan I need to read your Blog over and over again. Thank You for your inspiration 😘

194. We will never express freely whilst we do not deeply appreciate all that we are and have to offer.

195. I sometimes have this experience of feeling a clear and strong impulse but when I go to write it down I get in the way. I have often wondered if this happens with drawing or designing something, when it doesn’t come out nearly as good as I saw it in my head. I don’t feel this is all about talent. It seems more like the desire to get something right or perfect gets in the way.

196. Your last point Susan about not appreciating what we have to offer is one that I have run with for such a long time. Because my skills in writing and english were not great that determined that what I had to offer was a lot less. How I have come to see that this is not true and also how I had created and played along with this quite willingly. Having been inspired by Serge Benhayon I started to re-connect to my essence and express from here things simply flow. Being honest about what is really going on and our investments in situations that we have created is deeply healing.

197. It feels very cool to be having this conversation, busting myths and taking down the scaffolding of academic performance in our writing. We are then left with the gorgeous simplicity of writing being another form of our expression in the world… just us sharing us, honestly so.

198. This blog has been a bit of a revelation for me as I’ve noticed that the more present and aware I am of my fingers tapping away on the keyboard the more easily words flow without any trying.

199. If we think that our thoughts and intelligence come just from our brain then we can negate our body and disconnect from it but in my experience too when we bring our awareness to our whole body and the way we hold ourselves and move in what we’re doing, even as simple as typing, it makes a real difference to the kind of thoughts we have.

200. All the ‘world’ can happen in a moment and so there is always so much that can be written. What you are sharing here Susan exposes what happens when we sit to write and the loss of all the words that could be written to bring more understanding, healing and love into the world and connect us all.

201. It is so true that we reduce our view when we over analyse and mentalize the original impulse from the body, often losing a flow of expression which is effortless.

202. Today I was writing a new document at work to support one area of the service we offer. Usually I find that I got caught in a process of trying to move from front to back and this can feel painstaking. Without really thinking about it today I found that I had written some headers under which I wanted to include content and instead of trying to plough through it in the same way I normally do from the top down I allowed myself to move between the headers writing what I felt as I went along. It was amazing how quickly the document filled out and how enjoyable the process was. realised just how much we can get caught in patterns of trying harder and harder to do things a certain way when we really need to just let go and allow things to unfold.

203. Writing was not something I had ever thought to do, but with the support of Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine, I find myself loving writing, and knowing that what I write can be of immense value to others as well.

204. Going into stiffness and doubt about writing is something I can relate to and I love how you have pin pointed some of the observations you have made when you are in the middle of it. When we start to call things out, they do not own us anymore and true change can happen.

205. I love paying attention to the quality with which my fingertips move around the keyboard and when I do this I am in my body expressing myself rather than in my head trying to perform.

206. So beautiful to connect and drop into our body and observe, and then feel the expansion and unfolding within.

207. Yes, I have definitely sat down with the intention of writing something and then having a complete block, going into shut down mode and then giving up. I’ve had similar experiences when I have gone to paint also…particularly on a canvas. This fear of messing it up, getting it wrong has come in to take over. It’s so interesting how the thoughts come through to throw us off guard and make us doubt ourselves.

208. Its great to read your appreciation in how your writing has changed. Its got me to stop and appreciate how so much of my own connection with my writing has changed as my expression has gone deeper. We forgot to stop to appreciate these moments of change which has supported us in deepening our expression.

209. The drama is what prevents the simplicity and gold that is on offer for others to read and truly feel the healing in the words for humanity through writing. Simple, clear and to the point is what delivers truth and an abundance of love and understanding for all.

210. “As I write now, I have taken a completely different approach. I have decided I do not want to feel hardness in my body as I type and that my connection with the delicateness and beauty of me is my first and foremost priority. Just sitting down with this intention has resulted in an incredible shift, enabling me to feel that I am already complete and enough without the words I am about to express needing to define me.” – How we are in everyday is what determines our expression in a given moment in time. And so this is a large responsibility if we allow ourselves to see it as such, as it means we need to look at how we are every single moment of the day as this quality will determine the quality of our expression.

211. Writing is another means for expression, another way for us to show the world who we are and to be intimate with everyone – this can be a scary thing to do to reveal oneself to the world, no holes barred – like standing up in front of everyone naked! And so could it be that the so called writers block is never about a lack of material to present to people, but rather a fear of going there and sharing what is to be shared?

     1. Really well observed and said Henrietta! If you know what you want to express and it feels to be true and divine expression then it comes through and you cannot be hurt no matter what anyone else thinks about it – they are free to think whatever they like. You know the quality of what you have expressed and there need to no fear, in fact there is no fear.

     2. I had never stopped to consider writing as a way of being intimate with everyone; as revealing oneself to the world, no holds barred. That so makes sense as to what is lurking in the background when it comes to writer’s block.

212. Our words are carved into the air by the movements we make, long before they sound from our mouth or are recorded in type.

     1. Beautifully said Liane.

213. I can judge myself much more harshly than anyone else, with the demands and expectations I put on myself. It feels a long road to go to completely stop doing this, but recently I have given myself more space and it feels very loving. All the self criticism melts away when we are given gentle support when writing, it is a very lovely process.

214. I have always had an issue with writing – trying to meet expectation in doing so is crippling. Allowing what is there to be said to flow feels amazing as opposed to trying to work it all out in my head.

     1. True – the moment my head get’s involved I’m sold. It then all becomes about what is right and wrong as opposed to what is truth.

215. What a beautiful relationship with your body and writing and the simplicity and flow shared in expressing is very inspiring and a joy to read.

216. What I read in rereading this blog today is that my mind tries to control each and every word that is typed and is actually every time stopping that natural flow and rhythm of words that naturally is there to be expressed from my inner heart. Letting go of that control is to me important to become aware of as when I don’t every word that I type will be a reinterpretation and therefore a bastardisation of what I felt within.

217. Yes, quite often I catch how the body is in a tense rigid posture when in a writing position. It does show how automatic and ingrained the body goes into the posture when writing, (perhaps this is muscle memory from doing school or university exams) as well as a reflection to how the body has been moving up until the point of sitting down to put pen to paper. It also gives opportunity to adjust, and reconnect back to the body to bring an ease and flow back.

218. When ever I sit down to write my comments with the attitude that I just want them done my expression never flows and I take twice as long to complete them. When I an doing them from appreciation of the opportunity they are affording me to develop my expression they flow with ease and joy.

219. Appreciation is very important in writing. Really appreciating what we have been able to align to and write, not just see it as a one of event of being able to write but appreciating that the way we are living allows us to write in the way we do.

     1. Thank you Lieke from writing this comment as it makes me aware that it is all from the alignment to the source of energy we are originally from and which is love. And indeed from that place it infiltrates into our livingness and the quality of our livingness determines the quality of our expression and appreciation is really needed to deepen and build that natural connection with the love we are from.

220. This piece of writing is a great reminder that writing is all about connection. So how I sit at my desk, how i approach my desk to write, my posture, what I’ve eaten or not eaten are all to be considered because they will either allow the flow and connection to be there, or not. As many have beautifully written in the comment, God is always there with us – it is up to us to connect or not. When we do, and express in the written word, what flows can be straight from heaven – a huge healing for the writer and everyone who comes across what’s written in years to come.

221. Sharing you as you write Susan, makes it very simple to do. We can put heavy expectations on ourselves with what we think we need to produce but when we share ourselves, there is no extra effort required.

222. The process of sitting down to write can be scary in itself, because with more and more things to keep us constantly moving and in motion throughout the day, e.g. social media, music, technology and even things like crisps, chewing gum etc, to commit to typing on a keyboard and looking at a blank screen can seem very daunting when we’re not used to it.

     1. That’s so true Susie, when we are not used to writing it can feel like a hard slog, we lack confidence in what we are saying and the way we may or may not be coming across. The more we write, the more freely words come to us and writing happens with so much more ease.

223. Our body always offers a wonderful tell-tale insight into how we are in the moment. It is always a wise move to observe and if required reassess our relationship with the situation based on what is being reflected.

224. Expression is everything as Serge has shared so often and therefore everything is because of energy it makes perfect sense therefore that the way you sit to express is crucial to the quality of the expression. There are no short cuts.

225. This is great Susan, as it like the “Hitch Hikers Guild to Intergalactic Writing. If we just take out all the highlights (Stars) it is the most illuminating learning!

226. Our minds make writing complicated; express from the wisdom of our bodies and there is a natural flow, rhythm and harmony, not only in the writing, but in the quality that is offered the reader.

227. This is such a beautiful blog to read Susan… the honouring of yourself can so clearly be felt in your writing which is very inspiring.

     1. Yes and it is a transformative moment when we realise that we cannot honour another unless we have that relationship with ourselves first.

228. Susan this is beautiful what you share, as I have got caught in this, and I can relate to you sharing feeling the tension when sitting down to write, setting yourselves so expectations before you start. It really is about true connection and letting go of the outcome.Just know what will be delivered is what is required.

229. This feels gorgeous and I love the attention to detail in realising that what may work one day may not the next and therefore require adjustment as in the case of the keyboard.

230. Being aware of our body gives us a marker on the way in which we are approaching something energetically – helping us see if we are overly driven or attached to what we’re writing being received a certain way or simply expressing what we genuinely feel to say…

231. I have always believed that ‘I can’t write’ or ‘writing is just not my thing’ and yet I have always had times in my life and loved it when my writing has just flowed from me with so much ease and no trying at all. Typing with my eyes shut and trusting what I feel from my fingers is completely revolutionary to me. It brings a focus to what I am doing and a level of presence, I’m so going to do this more often, it seems to wake me up and the words just flow.

232. This is very important I feel – “I was not appreciating myself and all I have to offer.” I can relate to that in things too where I have not appreciated myself what I have to offer in situations and expressions and just in life at times. Sometimes it come as quite a surprise when someone expresses their appreciation of my self and what I brought and for me it is a great reflection that I can do this for my self all of the time too as well as in connection with others.

233. Allowing myself the time to write is a big one for me. It can take me a long time to fully express in writing and therefore takes time and space, but I will often feel this sense of agitation around this and try to get it finished as quickly as possible. There are thoughts around getting it finished so I can get on with life, and as i write this I can feel how it’s all tied up with school. I would try to do my homework as quickly as possible to then have the reward of being able to do what i wanted – either watch TV or go and play with my friends. It makes sense to me now why I still have an unhealthy relationship with writing – I still see it as a chore, that I’m being asked to prove myself and that I’ll be judged on what I write, so if I have to do it, I try to get it done so it interrupts my life as little as possible and then reward myself for doing it. Just calling it out and seeing it so clearly is awesome.

     1. This is an awesome realisation, Lucy. One that will serve many to free themselves of this pattern of behaviour that was set up while attending school. I so understand the ‘complete the set task and reward oneself with “freedom” afterwards’ one. Could it be we realised even back then that this way of working at school, proving ourselves and then being judged on our efforts, was an entrapment of our natural expression and way of learning? Is this why we have come regard writing a chore in the first place?

234. Great point here Susan – “I was caught in a drive to get it done that did not feel very nice.” I know this feeling also to ‘get it done’ and have experienced too how unloving that feels as this way of doing things is not in the all that it could be, and therefore diminishing the otherwise awesomeness that could have come through, had we allowed ourselves to be fully present to the task at hand.

235. Getting into a flow and having no pressure to perform is an essential starting point for writing I find…

236. Invited to design a workshop recently to match a brief, I did something different. I didn’t automatically do what I was asked to do (as I’ve done in the past), as I didn’t connect to the brief. Instead, I asked for guidance on how to approach the brief. The answer came quickly. Once I followed my inner guide, writing was easy and flowed. The significance? I stayed true to myself and detached from the outcome of needing to get or not get the contract. Tremendously freeing to express from my heart, send and move on.

237. So often we are caught in the product or outcome of something rather than in the enjoyment and flow of what energy is producing it. We miss out on a lot when we rush through life from one outcome to the next.

     1. So true outcome is such a distraction, we miss out on life when we get caught in the outcome.

238. Having no attachment to the outcome can be a huge hurdle to overcome, huge but necessary to express in a true manner. I really loved the bit where you said something about knowing you are enough before you start, instead of having to be defined by what you write.

     1. I love what you say here Kev, and the understanding you bring. More often than not the thing I put in the way of just writing is the need/attachment to it being right/good/perfect. It’s an instant block. And yet when I just let myself express, like now, I have no concern or attachment to what I write or how it will be perceived by another.

     2. Great point reiterated here – ‘…knowing you are enough before you start’ – with this knowing there does not need to be any more struggles but to just let flow what wants to come…

     3. I agree Kev – ‘knowing you are enough before you start’ is a great basis to sit down and write from. We are not defined by what we write but rather it can be an expression of all we are.

239. Thank you Susan for sharing this amazing wisdom in the simplicity of writing from within without any outcomes or expectations of self. You can feel the power in every word expressed by allowing self out of the way and bringing all that is needed to feel how beautiful writing can be when we connect to our body and soul.

240. I will try that to to write without my glasses and see what then happens. Indeed, there is always the need to be in in a certain way, a controlling need that kills the flow in which the words will be put on paper or on the screen and with that interferes with the natural flow of life. Looking to writing from this perspective for me is opening new a new view about the nature of human life as the controlling mind is very manipulative and knows many ways to distract us from our true purpose.

241. Getting attached to outcomes is a sure fire way to kibosh the process of achieving them. When we engage in project with purpose but no personal agenda, it enables us to cherish the journey and then appreciate the consequence without having to battle with the pre-conceived picture in our head. The beauty of what has been accomplished can be seen in its true glory.

242. It is easy to forget that writing, whether using a keyboard or a pen, is a physical activity as well and thus, involving the body and writing in conscious presence makes so much sense. Our body doesn’t have to suffer and the writing flows more easily as well.

     1. Conscious presence is the key for everything we think say and do and writing belongs to that too, just like any other activity. In conscious presence everything becomes a flow and a rhythm – lovely.

     2. So true Gabriel writing is a physical action therefore writing with conscious presence makes such a difference.

243. My English Grammar training from school (Grammar School ha ha) means that when I read anybody’s writing the first thing I see are spelling and punctuation mistakes – which means I miss out on the beautiful essence of what has been written there. There is much that can be felt from the written word regardless of spelling and grammar.

     1. This comment had me reflecting on the history of writing and how originally it was only members of the church and aristocracy who learned how to read and write. The rules of grammar and punctuation, put in place at the time, then saw writing which had these rules down pat, judged as superior to the writing of the rest of the population. The general populace didn’t have this knowledge of the basics of learning so were considered ‘lower class’.
        Nothing has really changed. We are still feeling the effects of the fallout from this expectation that only correctly written expression is worthy, which then increases the possibility that the beautiful essence of what has been expressed will be overlooked.

244. I have begun to write more, I had a brick wall in front of me for a long time, it was self imposed writers block, it came from hiding. Since I have not wanted to hide so much the words are coming if they do not, I bring my awareness to how I am breathing and I have another go…

245. I have noticed how the lovely flow of my expression , particularly in writing can be blocked when I haven’t been living in connection and harmony with myself and others. This is also linked to the type of food I choose to eat, the way I interact with people and the quality of energy I move in affects my quality of expression. Everything affects everything and one choice affects the next.

246. I have also noticed that if I get an impulse to write something or act on something, if I delay on it then by the time I get around to acting on it, it has already changed into something else which feels very different to the original impulse in my body.

247. This decision is super inspiring for me, to take into all areas of my life , “I have decided I do not want to feel hardness in my body as I type (or do anything) and that my connection with the delicateness and beauty of me is my first and foremost priority. Just sitting down with this intention has resulted in an incredible shift, enabling me to feel that I am already complete and enough without the words I am about to express needing to define me”

248. “As I write now, I have taken a completely different approach. I have decided I do not want to feel hardness in my body as I type and that my connection with the delicateness and beauty of me is my first and foremost priority. Just sitting down with this intention has resulted in an incredible shift, enabling me to feel that I am already complete and enough without the words I am about to express needing to define me.” It goes without saying really, however I feel to add here to this wonderful blog that this feels pertinent for anything we embark on in our daily lives and not only subject to writing. Connecting first within and then the movements resonate love no matter what we are doing.

249. In my experience writing was quite difficult in the beginning but over time it gets easier and easier until it becomes a quite natural expression.

     1. I found that too Christoph – and the more I do it now, the more I also enjoy being in expression and expanding within it as well.

250. I have never had a very good relationship with writing and maybe for a start I have never looked at it as being a relationship, just something I had to do so looking at it in a different light who knows what may flow out.

     1. I feel our schooling and the competition to be perfect puts us off from this deeply intimate self-expression. There are so many grammar rules and regulations and hurdles and hoops before it’s a ‘worthy’ piece of work. It put me off.

251. To express in full means to let go of what has been expressed as it is now ‘free’ to stand on its own in a world that will respond in various unpredictable ways; no longer do we have control over the spoken or written word or any other expression once released but we are still the recipients of what will come back at us. The moment we try to calculate the response we are no longer in the flow of our natural expression.

252. When i’m on the ball and taking every opportunity that comes my way my writing turns from contemplative analytical heavily edited pieces to one-time-wonders with a honesty and a down to earth perspective.

253. Agreed. I have been observing my son with his homework – the moment he feels pressured by it the game is over – he feels compelled and there is no joy in it and a lot of procrastination and heaviness. However, we can’t help the deadlines so the difference must be within ourselves in terms of how we approach it. If I have a deadline then the commitment to meet it must come from myself and I have to be responsible in how I approach it and know myself well enough to know how much to tackle and when so that the job gets done on time.

     1. Thank you Michelle for sharing how you approach a deadline and that the commitment to meet the deadline must come from ourselves. I notice in myself how my resistance to deadlines brings in complication and procrastination. The way you’ve described it feels clear and simple.

        1. It is surprising how clear and simple things can be when we work on our self nurture and rhythm. Before I came across Universal Medicine I would easily slip into overwhelm feeling heavy and that things were too much. I would get things done but often in resentment and hardness. Now because I have more commitment to myself I find that I have more commitment to life and it is quite rare for me to resent doing anything at all that needs to get done. Now that is something I really need to stop and appreciate!

254. I love the idea of when sitting down to write that you don’t put your glasses on and touch type what it is your feel is to shared. I am so going to try this seems to be like a great way to start any writing and then take it from there. Thanks for sharing Susan really appreciate it.

255. I love the experience of writing, when you have something you want to say and you get it all down, it is a very freeing and expansive moment because what was sitting in your body like a little parcel has been unpacked and put out into the world.

     1. Great description Rebecca, feels just like that.

     2. Beautiful analogy – “… what was sitting in your body like a little parcel has been unpacked and put out into the world.” Very gorgeous and deeply inspiring to take this on board, thank you .

256. When I allow myself the space to write it feels amazing and supports my vocabulary tremendously, yet similar to yourself I find I rarely seem to allow the space for this to happen and unfold.

257. How much does what we are told as children impact us in later life? Do we appreciate that we have our own way of saying things that is unique and worth saying? And what would happen if children were raised to say what they felt without worrying if they are getting it right or wrong?

258. ‘I was being narrow in my view, taking an initial impulse from my body but then intellectualising it and wanting to make it sound clever’ this is what traps so many of us, paying more attention to what outside parties might think about what we write rather than allowing the simple impulse to lead and allowing what is there to come through with no judgement just knowing that that is what needs to be written.

259. I love all the details you are aware of to be present and moving ‘with you’ in your preparation to write and thus following on naturally to ‘be with you’ in your writing. This is connecting to a harmonious way of being, that is then with us for this quality to be brought to every situation throughout every day.
     “In honouring me, it has been very beautiful to write, and a pleasure to not merely share words, but to share me as I write”.

260. This blog has touched on such a simple subject and yet the offering has such a potential ripple effect.

261. When I was commencing writing, I was attached to the outcome and what the words looked like. I know this so well which always put me into having to ‘try’, and of having to get it right…. Having let this shackle go, my writing and the words just flow and writing has become a joy – expressing all that is there to express.

262. Gorgeous to feel how your expression with writing has changed and this in turn has supported me to appreciate how my expression with writing and expressing myself has changed. It is crazy to think that we feel/think we cannot express when this ability is innately within us. From experience what I have found is even though at first I found it really hard and judged myself on what I was writing and that it was not ‘good’ the more I did this the easier it became and the deeper the connection with me became.

     1. Judgement on one’s writing is a real stumbling block, yet is understandable on many levels as most of us have been brought up through the education system being judged on the what we write and how we express it. Consequently, it’s no wonder is a bit of a hiccup, or hurdle, depending on how much one was affected by this, to return to writing from the depths of the innate wisdom we all hold within our being.

263. There is so much to appreciate in what we bring rather than what we do and yet the focus is usually on the outcome rather than the quality that is brought forth.

     1. Interestingly, when we focus on the quality we then can find out what stops us from bringing forth something with quality and we can then deal with this obstacle.

264. The education system has taught us that we need to know what to say or write and it must come from our mental acuity. When we express this way though we contract ourselves and it locks us up as we seek security. When we express from our heart and more openly express from our body there is no need to seek answers as what to say is already right there! It is natural and this is where true confidence comes from.

     1. Spot on, Joshua. The education systems around the world have people of all ages spending heaps of time learning how to shape their speaking and writing to comply with set ‘recipes’ that particular forms of writing and communication are expected to take. The fallout from this is that, because our natural expression has been controlled this way for so many years, it can be a bit of a challenge reconnecting to one’s natural way of expressing again.

265. Brilliant to undress the blocks that prevent us from free flowing expression.
     At school I often witness that my children are asked to put tidy handwriting over their own expression and in turn I see how this suffocates their natural ability to express.
     I can relate to much of what you relay here Susan, this agitated annoyance with myself as I sit to write, its like a demand that i make upon myself, that owns my whole body.
     Appreciation is so key here in supporting us to undo the configurations of a massive educational consciousness.

266. There is almost a melody and serenity in the ‘click click’ sound of the keyboard…’ I love this. It is so true. There is rhythm in our expression when we allow it to flow from our hearts, like the song of our hearts – a song that is constantly being sung to us and through us. Beautifully expressed Susan.

267. We are very good and adept at creating ‘pictures’ of what we ‘think’ something should look like or how we ‘want’ it to look from our own needs and wants. But if we let go of any pictures we may have and just allow life to unfold in front of us, it is quite astounding as to what can happen and what we are capable of. And writing is no exception. We may make mistakes along the way but these are always a great opportunity to learn something from. We all have a wealth of wisdom inside us, we just have to be willing to connect to it and then it can begin to flow freely.

268. “I was not appreciating myself and all I have to offer.” A simple sentence…but there is a whole conversation to be had from this, as appreciation of ourselves is such a key but often overlooked ingredient in life.

     1. So true Janet, there is a big difference in my writing since I appreciate all of my lived experience, all of my self-loving choices that has brought me back to connecting with my body and my inner wisdom, and in the knowing that I have so much to bring…

269. Whenever we have expectations of how and what we should be doing and what the results should look like, we simply set our selves a booby trap that results in a lot of self criticism because we cannot match the pictures in our heads. When we let go of the pictures and come back to the quality of our bodies, we allow what needs to be said and done free passage and with no pictures to compare to, the results can be quite stunning.

270. I love how you call it a ‘relationship with writing’. It speaks of the fact that we have a relationship with anything that we do, and that what is required is a curiosity and an openness to become more aware through taking notice of what is going on and being willing to change. We have the power to do this with anything in life.

     1. Under each relationship that we have with any-thing lies our relationship with God.

        1. Alexis, your comment has opened up so much for me. Since reading your comment in response to mine my perspective is changing from one of placing importance on relationship with everyone / everything, to one of placing the importance of my relationship with God first. And then I can bring this into all my relationships. Thank you for the reminder. It has been priceless.

     2. Exactly Rebecca. I experienced that too and I related this blog to some tasks I have been completing recently. It is indeed a relationship and one that is always changing, always teaching me something – an endless relationship.

271. Initially I read those first feelings negatively, seeing everything that was wrong with the process… but then realised that this is an essential part to unlocking our natural potential. We need to feel first what is blocking us, observe that, be playful and experiment around it… and then things shift and we find a totally different relationship with what was troubling us.

272. What a beautiful approach to writing. To let go of being perfect and expectation is very freeing.

     1. I wonder if, in the future we will come to take the word ‘perfect’ out of our language, because in truth I’m not sure that it even exists.

        1. Yep great idea and it will change how all of us and the generations to come go about their lives.

273. Our expression is like the perfume of an exquisite flower, the more we can get ourselves out of the way and share openly and honestly, the more powerful and captivating our perfume becomes.

     1. Beautifully said Alison, I love what you shared. Our expression is like a flower, the more we nourish it the brighter it blossoms.

        1. Oh yes so beautifully expressed Alison and thank you for reiterating it again Chan Ly – how can we not be fully present now knowing that our expressions are blossoming and blooming flowers…

        2. Yes and with the nourishment comes the call to bring more of who we are in our writing so that our audience can take stock and appreciate what have been offered.

274. ‘In honouring me, it has been very beautiful to write, and a pleasure to not merely share words, but to share me as I write.’ – this is exactly what is so precious, the sharing of ourselves, in what we are saying, writing, doing, this truth is deeply felt by others, from our words, actions, movements … the essence of who we truly are.

275. Beautiful sharing in the process of writing Susan and to feel you. It is an art and like anything the quality is supported by consistency in the many ways you have shared – inspiring. That is what it is all about.

276. Susan what you have shared here is a revelation! Thank you so much for expressing so clearly the difference between writing ‘with you’ and without, or rather at the expense of you. Inspirational and this is a blog that I will keep with me as I do a lot of writing in my day.

     1. Me too Cherise, I write quite a lot too and Susan’s blog has just reiterated so lovingly how important it is to connect and be present to it.

277. The only real relationship that any of us have is with God.

278. It is interesting when we get a clear impulse to do something, then we bring in all this other stuff to make it a challenge or to make it difficult, I do this often and it is this later part that exhausts us, rather than just getting myself out of the way and getting on with it- a much simpler approach.

279. When we get our minds out of the way, our bodies have so much wisdom to express.

280. Beautiful sharing, when we appreciated and honor ourselves all that we live is offered in our words.

281. Beautiful Susan . . this short blog has imparted so, so much in very few words as it is is precise and to the point and doesn’t waste words.

282. Reading this article and man of these comments highlights to me that we all have much to say and express and how important it is, not just for ourselves but for those who are reading what has been written. We never know who may be touched in some way.

283. This is great what you have shared Ariana, but may I add that it is possible that gold has a value and that True Expression is priceless in the profound wisdom it delivers.

284. This is great Susan, and cast a broad net as you have also cover and illuminates the illusion of writers block, so the “simplicity of our divine connection” makes anything possible especially when writing.

285. I’m realising more and more how important movement is with the flow of writing – or the lack of it. If I start to feel the flow stop, it’s more than likely that I’ve gone into a subtle or not so subtle slouch, crossed my legs in such a way that literally blocks the flow – and bam! Gone…. This awareness has been golden – because as one beautiful writer once said – ‘change your posture, and you can change the world’. Change your posture and let your beauty flow.

286. To feel what to write without the critical constant checking is a wonderful offering, I’ll look out for this and explore further – thanks Susan

287. One challenge I meet with writing is that it is definite, it is black on white, no way to twist or correct it as easily as the spoken word, ie I am faced with the responsibility and accountability that comes from taking a stance. In that sense it is not just the writing as such but the readyness to stick to one´s ‘word’ or oneself.

288. Susan, a timely reminder to never stop appreciating ourselves at every moment and in every activity.

289. My relationship with writing has changed so much since I was introduced to the teaching of Universal Medicine. It’s no longer an activity I can avoid or say I can’t do because I was diagnosed as dyslexic. It’s a great opportunity to let go of patterns that I used to hold me back and re-master command of my expression. There are still areas I find tricky like writing assignments but reading this I am reminded I can be light and have fun.

290. Our movements support our expression. When we align to the true energy our expression naturally flows from this alignment and the quality of our expression is noticeably different from when we are aligned to the non true source.

291. “In honouring me, it has been very beautiful to write, and a pleasure to not merely share words, but to share me as I write.” I feel what you say here is Susan is a key point, when we write it is not about putting words on a page, but being open and honest in the way we share ourselves. I am learning we all have something to share when we become open and transparent.

292. The openness, care and surrender described here is gorgeous. We could apply it to any activity we engage in.

293. ‘…as I type and that my connection with the delicateness and beauty of me is my first and foremost priority.’ Imagine if we taught this to children as their 1st priority, in school as they work, how differently they might feel about learning?

294. I love that when I’m on fire my writing just comes out of me without an ounce of thought and consideration. I often read it back and can’t believe I’ve written it!

     1. I love this to Michael, it offers a glimpse of the wisdom we hold when we get our ‘self’ out of the way.

295. There is so much in our words when they are accompanied by our divine essence, as in that moment, heaven is inspiring us.

296. I love taking the time to explore topics, what the words mean and how it all relates to how we live. It is this that inspires me to connect to not only the topic at hand but those that will be one day reading the article.

     1. Hear! Hear! Vicky I relate and also like to explore the True meaning of words and the energy they come with.

297. Whenever I want things to get done in ‘my time’ it goes the complete opposite! Clocking the irritability/frustration, surrendering and letting go of me and what I want brings about the magic of flow and expression from soul.

     1. If we are feeling tight and shut down, how are we expecting ourselves to tap into the deep river of wisdom that flows so naturally underneath?

298. I have often experienced a lot of tension around my signature, from the time when, as a young adult, I was required to develop one, to recent times, where I’ve felt self-conscious about it. It offers us an interesting reflection, probably of our relationship to ourselves and our expression.

     1. I remember, like every young person I am sure, practising different signatures. For me it was a statement of who I wanted to be and I knew it would be seen daily by many – not so much now with pins instead of signatures – and would be with me for life. In the end I opted for just writing my name quickly! It felt a pretense for me to do lots of swirly stuff, though I love it in others’ signatures. My relationship with my signature is definitely my relationship with me. I know I still feel that my signature is lacking in flare so everytime I write it I come back to me and feel that I am enough just as I am.

299. I’m finding appreciation is key in holding us steady and claimed in what we know. Even if things are challenging, it’s always possible to appreciate – that deepening appreciation turns everything around.

     1. I too have this experience, if we have built a platform of appreciation then when life gets challenging we have this foundation to fall back onto, which supports us to face life’s challenges with greater ease and understanding

300. At school Maths and Science subjects were my favourite – there wasn’t much writing there and I can’t remember writing essays until years later when I was studying for a post graduate qualification in management. I struggled to write. After that when I applied for counselling accreditation I had to write pages showing how I used the theory in my practise – I struggled with that and failed to get the accreditation. More recently since embarking on an expression programme writing brief comments on blogs such as this one I have found it easier to allow my thoughts to flow into my fingers as I type and can now write longer articles. The Book may take a little longer, but the impulse is there…

301. The little details you share here Susan are so important. Everything matters, how we sit, what we are thinking, how we support ourselves in any part of the process will affect the whole.

302. Such a simple approach to writing and in fact to life as such.

303. I love this sharing Susan, and your inspirational writing.

304. Susan, this is great to read; I can feel that this is how I usually write and that I do not feel surrendered in my body and I don’t feel my natural delicate touch when I write, which often results in my writing looking rushed and scruffy; ‘once sitting at the table or desk to commence writing I quickly observed that my shoulders were tight, my hands were hard and I was caught in a drive to get it done’, it’s great for me to be aware of this and to practice writing with delicateness and care.

305. Writing is a beautiful way to confirm and appreciate what it is we feel. I find when I write about something naturally I understand it more.

306. I love your observations of your personal relationship with writing. This would be an interesting exercise for anyone of us to do – imagine if we all took this approach to how we write. I wonder how differently our news papers and glossy magazine would read? Very differently I suspect.

307. Yes, in the past I have felt crippled by the pressure I have put on myself to achieve a particular outcome, whereas now it is more about going with the flow and expressing what is there to be shared.

308. When we open up to share what is coming through us to be shared the words flow and there is no outcome to reach just a beautiful unfolding.

309. When I reflect on my own relationship with writing it has been a positive one. When I was at school I loved nothing more than to write stories and although later on, I adopted an academic style in my school work I have found that really the deeper and more loving I am with myself the easier it is to express not just in writing, but verbally too. However, if I am struggling with something then I find the written expression of it supports me with the verbal one. There is something for me very clarifying and healing about putting any confused feelings down on paper because it supports me to get in touch with what is really going on for me in a way that makes things undeniably real, tangible and understandable.

310. I have always loved writing. As someone who has historically found it difficult to express verbally, the written word has allowed much expression. It allows me to sit and ponder before I write, and to express what is truly there to say without getting caught up in the anxiety of having to express it verbally.

311. I started commenting on these sites from the day they started, to do something I had never done in 50+ years, expressing through writing. In over 3+ years I have not missed a day in writing, and it has crept into every aspect of my life. I am like you Susan; I am sharing me as I write.

312. I don’t struggle with writing per se or with writing in any context – except where I feel the pressure of a deadline or impending criticism – and that usually relates to university work! If academia relaxed the pressure to sound smart and allowed students and scholars to express naturally and in the flow of their own timing (within reason), academic work would be the richer for it and academics a whole lot healthier.

313. Being attached to an outcome is an absolute killer, when it comes to getting down an expression on paper or into a song.

314. Susan your relationship with writing reflects your relationship with yourself, which in turn reflects your relationship with God. The word ‘writing’ for all of us can be replaced with any word and the sequence will remain the same.

315. I find it very inspirational what you have shared about writing Susan: “And I have acknowledged that there is always more to express, yet in this moment it is to feel what is called for now.” That is simply gold for me as it showed me that appreciating what is there is the best way to express and not to look mentally at how I write it more cleverly.

316. Your observations of having difficulty in writing could also be a reflection of actually what dictates and holds back a person in their everyday activities… like wanting something to be done quickly, being in a hurry, concerned about the outcome expectations, body posture etc … These observations are quite the magnification of what is unconsciously going on in the background but we become too ‘busy’ or distracted to consider we are being ‘run’ by a particular ‘program’ / ideal/ belief… The fact of sitting down to put pen to paper is quite a ‘stop’ moment to feel these momentums.

317. It may be initially uncomfortable to walk where we have not walked for some time, but when we take the steps, it becomes apparent that we have here trod before.

318. Having an outcome in sight immediately brings our focus outward and away from our inner-connection.

319. What I love so much about this blog is not only can I deeply relate to everything you share, Susan, it lovingly confirms that we all have much to share. Feeling the dis-service in holding back my expression far outweighs any self-doubt – it’s not about me as an individual, it’s about sharing what is there for me to share in any given moment. There is no ownership, it’s there for everyone.

320. I used to find it very difficult to write messages, essays and emails. I realised this was because I had held back expressing myself and expressing truth for most of my life. This was impacting on all forms of expression. But once I started to work on expanding my expression, words just flow easily and clearly, with confidence and authority.

321. This is just lovely and very inspiring “In honouring me, it has been very beautiful to write, and a pleasure to not merely share words, but to share me as I write.” I know this for myself in many ways that I have used a medium to express myself, whether its writing, drawing or painting. It is gorgeous to allow what is there to be expressed just flow out of you with such ease and then it is there to be shared with others.

322. A very beautiful sharing Susan, the stand-out for me was appreciation ‘I was not appreciating myself and all I have to offer.’ and in this I can feel how appreciation gives both a foundation and space to be with what is needed in each given moment. Thank you.

323. One of the most frustrating things I experience is “writers block”.

324. Thank you for sharing Susan. You show that expression can be unlocked through a relationship with our body and movements. I also love the bit about not being able to see what you have written. I may experiment by not looking at the words I write or at least not editing them as I go.

325. Yes, this is quite an amazing blog. How do we write something which we deeply feel inside to share, and have it come out sounding like we pictured? The things we intend to express don’t always come out as planned, but what’s beautiful about the process is allowing to to unfold, and connecting to the flow of something. So, how do we write a blog, live a day, make a painting? The first step is not having any picture of the end result.

     1. You bring a very important point here Harry that ” things we intend to express don’t always come out as planned”. To be aware of this allows us to actually let out the things that are there to express but not in the pre-formed/pre-thought way we expected them to be. For me it sparks curiosity how it will come out, so it is a bit of an adventure.

326. I can so relate with what you’ve described here. I’d have a feeling that there was so much to express but when I sat down to write I couldn’t get it all out at once or it became confused in my excitement at having something to say. I’d made my writing difficult by putting the condition on that I had to get it all out in a short time, a fear that it would disappear and the genius gone. I wanted to be recognised for being brilliant, clever; I wanted to be known as a good writer and someone who came up with original ideas, I wanted to persuade people and was invested in them getting what I had to say. I oscillated between thinking what I was to write was fantastic and then thinking I was rubbish and what I had to say wouldn’t be understood.

     Now I am giving myself space, enjoying what comes through knowing these words, the ideas aren’t mine, they’re not there to make me look good, they’re there because perhaps someone else needs to hear them – perhaps I need to hear them and confirm what I hadn’t fully registered. As soon as I worry about what the audience thinks – whether I’m speaking or writing, I’m gone. Clarity is lost and I am unable to finish sentences. Writing, honouring what is there to be expressed that comes from my connection to my essence, is very beautiful.

327. It is so gorgeous to feel the expansiveness that you allowed by writing from your body and I will definitely try typing without my glasses next time my expression is feeling blocked.

328. Each one of us have an endless amount of blogs or books that could be expressed from what we have lived and experienced. I’ve noticed that when I have expectations of the end result of something that I write or express there is completely no joy, it is purely functionary and from my head. It reminds me of when I would need to write a story or essay for school, and knowing I would be critiqued on how well it was written, and would go into anxiousness to get it done instead of enjoying the process.

329. Susan you can feel the flow you have connected to. I have also had the experience of hearing and feeling the rhythm and tone in the ‘tap tap’ on the keys as i write. How lovely it is to feel when we allow our bodies to express from the connection we hold. “There is almost a melody and serenity in the ‘click click’ sound of the keyboard as I type under this impress.”

330. “that my connection with the delicateness and beauty of me is my first and foremost priority”. I will take that into my day, thank you.

331. This is great Susan, as we can all deepen our connection in everything we do including writing, so the words just flow. And may we also consider when writing, that it is also important to get up and walk, stretch or exercise every hour or so, to honour our physicality!

332. Thank you for this beauty-full reminder Susan…”…my connection with the delicateness and beauty of me is my first and foremost priority.” And it is who we naturally are.

333. Appreciation of ourselves is so important… it brings us back to the truth of who we are.

334. “I have also been very aware of my posture and how my workstation is set up to support me.” ditto, I know that depending on what I am writing or doing that my position, posture and even when I carry out that work happens in a different place at home or work. Also how I’ve been living and going about my day has a huge impact on my ability to express fully what I feel or not.

335. Thank you, Susan, I have avoided sitting down and writing for most of my adult life because in the past it has been an uncomfortable experience, for all the reasons you listed above. It is not really writing that is the problem because I write really long and engaging comments without issue, it is the concept that I will publish and author something, it seems so daunting and final. It might sound strange but the idea of writing a blog feels trapping, every day I change so much and evolve, I get scared that it will date so quickly and I will no longer feel the way I did when I wrote it and yet it will sit there, as if it is what I still feel. What you offer in this article is writing from a quality and then, it does not matter what you write, as the quality is what sits out there for people to choose to read or not. This, is a game changer, as it becomes more about energy and less about correct content.

336. “…I am already complete and enough without the words I am about to express needing to define me.” – That’s beautiful and how refreshing to not feel like or think we need to express in a way to garner attention or recognition but genuinely allow ourselves to express what is there to be said no more or less and without imposition on ourself or any other…

337. This is beautiful. Once we have an impulse to write for perhaps the first time in our life it then takes a little to deal with our past momentum and our lack of familiarity. But that is a limited process – eventually we will get past the difficulties.

338. You show the power and simplicity that calling things what they are brings. There is no need of thinking things through, an honest and observant eye is all that it takes to let go of what we know is so obviously not working.

339. ‘The end result is a simple expansion of everything I am already and a simplicity in knowing I can bring this to the next expression, and then the next, without any drive, push or struggle within to do so.’ Beautifully said Susan, expression is everything we are, and naturally expanding.

340. Delicious reading your words and expression Susan. Your observations of writing can so well be applied to many other activities in life. I love it and felt it very very inspiring.

341. Most of my life I assumed that it is just one of those things that when engaging in certain tasks: “my shoulders were tight, my hands were hard and I was caught in a drive to get it done that did not feel very nice.” This blog is a great reflection that this is not our innate expression and relationship with life, so when we feel this, it is a prompt for us to pay attention and ask what is going on.

     1. Yes, and once we do ask we are not far away from resolving this issue of tension.

342. Bringing our focus to the quality of movement allows us to set a foundation from which our expression flows as a natural part of life, there is no thinking and trying just simply a surrendering to our bodies of that which has already been lived.

343. Everything you share makes so much sense.

344. There is a lot of thoughts around writing and many people think that you can write or can’t write and that it is a gift but I feel from my own experience (also thinking I could not write) that it is more about appreciating our own style of writing and writing with a purpose, really sharing something with there world we feel is needed and supportive.

345. I love this blog and will re-visit it many times. Love this line – “In honouring me, it has been very beautiful to write, and a pleasure to not merely share words, but to share me as I write.” Sharing ourselves is the key to enjoying writing

     1. Yes, sharing ourselves is key to enjoying every expression in life.

346. It is interesting how stepping into areas of our life we have been resisting always feel uplifting and full of purpose even when it is drudgeous at first..

347. I recently had an experience where I wanted to get a piece of writing I needed to do done and submitted sooner rather than later because I didn’t want to fall to the bottom of my list and stay there for weeks until I needed to be reminded to do it – but this came with a little bit of anxiety and trying to show I was doing it well because it was handed in on time or even early, and then with that was the ideas I had around what I needed to be writing, the length, what I said and how good it sounded. Safe to say I got stumped around the 3rd paragraph and rereading my work it was lifeless and dull. I decided to do something I don’t normally do, and that was to delete the whole thing and start totally from scratch and from a completely different angle, one that felt so much freer and easier to write about because it wasn’t trying to sound good and was about more than just me.

348. Thank you for the encouraging blog Susan. You share how you have been able to express in the truth of who you are and without pressure on yourself and it has allowed your words and wisdom to flow.

349. Writing, expressing with words on paper or internet, easily brings up issues when we make it about us doing the writing and having to perform, whereas it is energy that comes through that provides the words. We have the responsibility to be connected to ourselves and to our soul.

350. The self judgements we can do is exhausting. Having an acceptance of who we are, and letting it flow, our expression is our expression, no-one else’s. There is a great joy in simply allowing that to be.

351. When we ‘try’ to do anything, we are already capping ourselves, limiting our actions to an expected outcome. As opposed to ‘letting go’ of our need for control and expected results and allowing universal wisdom to flow through us, to support and inspire all of mankind.

352. ‘I am already complete and enough without the words I am about to express needing to define me.’ ….. so true, Susan. When we write or speak, in connection with our soul, we are sharing Universal wisdom for everyone to benefit from with our own exquisite and unique expression. We are all at different stages in our lives and everything we share supports, whether by reflection, confirmation, inspiration. It all counts, not only for those who read or hear the words, everyone is blessed by the energetic impress from the sharing of Universal Truth.

353. Apart from being impressed, Susan, that you can type with your eyes closed (!), I am inspired by the difference in your experience of writing once you deepened in connection to and honouring of yourself.

354. I particularly appreciate and connect to what you say about posture and the movements before the writing even starts. I went to a specialist back shop in London recently and was amazed at what I learnt; to be able to feel, through trying all sorts of different chairs and desk heights what a difference it makes. I now have a very futuristic looking desk chair and my desk is raised about 6 inches on simple plastic pedestals! I also bought a monitor for my laptop so that my neck can be straighter with my eyes looking forward rather than down at the laptop screen.

     1. The other day I went shopping with a friend for a dining room table and chairs for our new house. We went into a fairly pedestrian store (as there aren’t any ‘good’ stores around here) and found a gorgeous table. Then I spotted some chairs (covered with some kind of linen fabric) and brought one over to sit at the table. It was the most brilliant position to be sitting at the table when on this chair – never have I felt so held, nor at exactly the right level at a table. The first thing I thought was ‘I could write from here’ ( not that I don’t write all the time!) So if my friend will agree to this dining set I will be so joyful. The old ritual of writing at the dining room table will be coming back in our house and i love the idea of it.

355. Simple words that prove how simple words can be. Simply beautiful.

356. I have always found writing easy when I feel inspired to write about a specific topic. For a while I really moved my focus away from truly taking care of myself. My senses have been restored….. and my focus is now back on care, the impulse to write has not yet returned, although I feel it is only a matter of time, as there is always plenty for anyone of us to write about and share.

357. It’s amazing how you’ve prepared yourself to bring through the writing and works you know that you’re capable of; instead of focusing on our ‘writers block’ or frustrating inability to do a task it’s so important to see that this is always a result of how we are throughout the entire day, something that can be shifted and nothing to do with incompetence.

     1. Love this Susie, and may I add that when our “entire day” naturally flows we are then walking and expressing in a way that keeps us open to deliver what is required in a true way no matter what is presented in that moment.

358. Beautifully shared Susan, our connection comes first and then the enjoyment of whatever it might be we are doing.

359. Returning to re-connect with our true and natural quality of being-ness, is to let go of all the control and grip of the mind/intellect and its relentless push and drive of ‘doing’.

360. When we have a picture or an expectation of how we want something to be, it rarely ends up that way. If we focus on the now and take care of ourselves first, I am often amazed at the outcome – and this is because I don’t have a previous investment in it.

361. Reading this makes me wonder if all creativity comes through our bodies from a source of energy rather than from our bodies or from us and that how we are in our bodies determines which quality can come through?

     1. A good question Andrew. I am aware that the quality of posture and ease of physical movement seems to allow a flow that is definitely not there when my body becomes stressed and tight. It makes sense to me that if I focus on the quality of these two things, what is produced seems to come from a source greater than just me.

362. It seems to me that there is joy in feeling and sensing our way through life rather than thinking and analysing everything we do. When we are over-dependant on our eyes, we miss the richness that our feelings and senses bring.

     1. And boy how we miss that richness, – in both senses!

363. I can remember at school anything I wrote whether an essay or a few lines was to please the teacher and to get it right, and so writing became a tick box exercise and did not come from an impulse and from my own natural expression.

     1. It is true that this will be the experience and foundation for most – for our education system to date is not concerned with true expression but is founded on competition, outcomes and boxing us in with the same mould.

364. Being able to express what we feel, whether in spoken words or written is so important, I find the posture I sit in has a big impact in my ability to express and the quality I express in, and also my movements just before I sit down to write, so how I’ve been walking, and how I’ve been eating and thinking and living my day.

     1. Great point Meg, I observe this too with myself. And these observations of how I am when writing or doing another task are very powerful as self-reflections to look back and also to make adjustments going forward.

365. Susan, this article is really helpful to read; ‘I was not appreciating myself and all I have to offer.’ I can feel how I have wanted to write in the past but have stopped myself from doing this thinking that what I have to share was not important, reading your article I can feel how I have much to share and that going into competition about what others have written and thinking mine is less is not true, we all have much to share and I love how you made it about honouring you and sharing you as you write.

     1. Best of all, Rebecca, no one else can or ever will express in the exact flavour you do. I feel that is something each and every writer could take a moment and deeply appreciate – everyone’s true expression counts and adds to the whole.

366. What I love about this blog is that we might apply this learning to any activity where we feel a reluctance to engage. I know so often that I can build things up to be much harder than they actually are and find that when I bring my whole attention to the quality of my body and how I move, everything falls into place with a graceful ease. Staying with our bodies and valuing our contribution are essential ingredients in every successful project.

     1. This is a pertinent comment. I have found also that it is easy to feel overwhelmed by something but when we commit to doing it from a point of connection from the body it generally is much easier to complete than what was thought. I have often asked myself in these circumstances what all the fuss was about!

     2. I can relate to this Rowena – ‘getting over myself’ is key to simply choosing being with me in full and enjoying the graceful ease that follows this.
        “I know so often that I can build things up to be much harder than they actually are and find that when I bring my whole attention to the quality of my body and how I move, everything falls into place with a graceful ease”.

367. Expression is everything! (to quote a wise man)

     1. Feeling these three wise words Lyndy – we realise how precious life is.

368. As a child, I loved to write stories and remember how it felt when words flowed naturally and with ease. As I grew older with school and academic writing, I lost this flow and trust in my own ability and conformed to expectations set my others. Now, I’ve returned back to my true way of expressing and love writing again.

     1. School and academic writing seem to have affected so many people. It’s awesome to read you have now returned back to your true way of expressing and love writing, again, Kehinde.

369. When connected with ourselves and writing, words take care of themselves. We don’t have to do anything, or force, simply allow what is there to be felt and flow.

370. Being too invested in the end result or having a picture of what a piece of writing should look like can often cripple us in our expression, and often the result will feel watered down or incomplete.

371. Having been a reader of many of these blogs over the years, there is something wonderful about the super simple blogs that just highlight a small part of life, or show a slightly different way of doing things that can bring a bit more connection. Loving the simplicity in this one Susan.

372. Being able to touch type and write without your glasses, is cool trick number 1 to unlock writers block! Letting go of expectation and outcome is cool trick number 2. And appreciating you have something of value to share is definitely cool trick number 3!

     1. Letting go of expectation and outcome allows us to just be.

373. Susan on reading your sharing again today, I once more got to feel the expansiveness of your being as opposed to the contraction that comes from doing. If we were all to switch from ‘doing’ to ‘being’ then our world would change quicker than a kaleidoscope.

     1. A powerful reminder Alexis to continue to observe the body to know when ‘being’ with ourselves in full or choosing ‘doing’ to be running the show.
        “If we were all to switch from ‘doing’ to ‘being’ then our world would change quicker than a kaleidoscope”.

374. God is forever there, it’s just that we continually keep putting what we see as ‘ourselves’ in the way. We then proclaim and bemoan that either He doesn’t exist or that He’s let us down.

375. I just love Susan that you took the source of your troubles and used it to break through . It shows so beautifully that where we are committed there will be a way to find the truth. You are a great example of willingness and commitment in action – so very inspiring. We don’t need to bow down to any limitation we perceive.

376. There is something in being persistent and consistent but not driving ourselves to achieve. In that state of consistent, persistent, willingness without need to get it right, there is the space to produce amazing quality.

377. I love writing – often as I sit at the keyboard it just comes and I write it and then afterwards I read what was written and at times it is awesome or I learn something from it and I can appreciate what is there as if someone else has written it.

     1. Sometimes I even laugh out aloud reading what was written that came from and through me and there is a lot of joy in the process 🙂

378. “My Relationship with Writing” — is relationship with (one’s own) expression.

379. A beautiful demonstration of the ease and spaciousness that are available when we don’t go into push, drive and overload.

380. When we connect to ourselves, expression is easy for we are in harmony with our natural expression.

381. Sometimes I write and it just flows and then my thoughts cut in and I try to write more but that often doesn’t feel right and what I originally had was truth, the rest was my mind playing tricks and muddying the true message.

     1. When this happens to me I can allow doubt to creep in and I tell myself that I don’t really know, but in connection it all feels very simple and clear, so when the waters seem muddy it is simply an indication that a deeper connection is needed.

382. Appreciation of us realizing that there is so much to share with the world and when this appreciation of movement is expressed out, we have nothing but pure divinity delivered. Thank you for sharing.

383. I love the detail you have shared about the way you position your body and touch the keys on the computer. This all adds up to affect the way we write and what can come through us when we write. I also realised when I read that ‘we can always go deeper’ that this is also the case for what we can express. Sometimes I get frustrated that I can feel there is more. But I am slowly realising that I need to appreciate what is there to write in that moment, so it creates space and a home for the more to come in the next writing or words.

384. I feel this is a huge one in many people and many things in life not just in writing/expression ‘attached to the outcome’ and recently have felt within my body how I have an attachment to outcome with things and just how debilitating this is when we have it. Also it does not allow the true truth to flow if we are attached to something that is not part of that, it is like building a dam in a river.

385. This blog reminds me that life is about quality, not the drive to get things done. When we commit to doing everything with the maximum level of quality, the whole process becomes enjoyable so that the end result is much more likely to be beautiful and enjoyed, because of the quality that it’s been produced in. Every moment is an opportunity to bring more quality, more of who we are, and more depth, more awareness, to what it is that we’re doing.

386. Susan, you might just have unlocked to the key to the ‘ol writers block.

387. I can remember from young a tension between what I thought should be written and how it should read and what was actually written. This just goes to show how important it is to get out of the way and fully appreciate our natural expression, without the need to control or change it to make it something that it is not.

388. How we set up our ‘space’ to live, express and work in, e.g. our bedrooms, offices, homes and cars absolutely needs to be refined as we take our activity to the next level and change the way we approach tasks at hand… Clearing out our space and reorganising can be an amazing way to find a new chapter, so to speak.

389. How beautifully expressed – and just gives the freedom to write without any expectations or impositions: “Just sitting down with this intention has resulted in an incredible shift, enabling me to feel that I am already complete and enough without the words I am about to express needing to define me.”

     1. How important this is to hold no pictures of limitation – to allow our expression a fresh canvas to speak in each and every moment.

390. Susan, this is just what I needed to read this morning! It is so important to keep connecting to the body and using this as our marker for truth of all our expressions.

391. What you are so beautifully reminding us of Susan is that everything is energy and everything matters right down to the finest detail and everything that we do is asking for us to grace the moment with our absolute love and that that is truly enough.

     1. And there is so much to be felt and shared in that detail if we just pay attention to it.

392. I’ve had this a lot too, and discovered that for me it is a lot to do with my expectations of what I should be writing and how it should sound. If I let go of all of that and just write for the love of expressing, my writing is magical.

393. This is so simply gorgeous, the delicateness it was written in. As you share when we connect to the ‘delicateness and beauty of me’ this is the quality that allows our expression to come through in writing. Our writing is the vehicle for the expression. It is ALL there for us, it’s us that gets in the way – our ideas and outcome based thinking etc as you have so clearly expressed.

     Being delicate opens us up and allows the depth of our expression to come through.

394. Makes it all very simple doesnt it! Essentially it’s about loving yourself so much that nothing is in front of that love.

395. I can very much relate to your blog Susan. I used to feel exactly the same stress and agitation but now, I have learnt to let the words flow without expecting it to be a certain way. Learning to express more has been amazingly supportive in my day to day life. I didn’t realise how much tension I held in my body from lack of expression until I start to let it go.

396. Thank you Susan, it is very sweet to read your words as you explore what it is to write with careful attention to the details of your body.

397. Thanks for sharing and the inspiration of how to overcome the ‘writer’s block syndrome’ I know so well. You really put a finger on what is getting in the way between the original impress and the moment of sitting down and writing.

     1. Ah yes the writer’s block…really is no true writer’s block, but in fact is a block from ourselves to stop the writer within in expressing what is needed. How important is it to get oneself out of the way and let it flow through us rather than from us. Alex, I too love and appreciate what Susan has shared here on how simple this can be to shift, and the beauty is that it can be applied to so many things in life when we have ‘living block’ happening 😉

        1. Love the term ‘living block’ – that´s the real issue we need to deal with.

398. Sometimes when I write a comment I have no idea what I’m going to say, but as I write the words just flow out of me. it’s beautiful to surrender to this process.

399. Expressing and being connected go hand in hand or as you describe Susan, full body connection to fingers!

400. So gorgeous that you can ‘share you as you write’ – that is just beautiful and so simple. And these observations are so great for people to consider as they write – are they delivering this from a body that is at ease.

401. I have experienced the feeling of sitting at a keyboard and being more then uncomfortable and at times needing to walk away for a break before coming back to complete whatever is being written. In my case I found there can be what is described in the article and also when you are either writing about something that you had held onto for a while or you are writing into something that is bringing more awareness of what is truly going to it then this can also bring with it a very physical whole body experience. It is like what you are writing is pulling things from your body, clearing them in a way so you can write more. Not very often have a sat down to write a whole piece in one go, even an email may need an edit or a reread or adjustment. It’s always a lesson for acceptance and allowing myself the space and time to feel. I never really considered myself a writer or even liked writing at school but now I write a lot as I find it not only very powerful in this day and age but incredibly healing if you allow it.

402. There is quite a bit of mental conditioning that can go with writing what is true for us. Unraveling this is one the greatest opportunities to re-learn how to express in written words, simultaneously supporting expansion of spoken expressing as well. It is never too late to connect to our true expression and unique style of sharing this.

     1. It is actually quite tragic how we are taught to write and the emphasis on technicality and grammar etc. To my end I believe it inhibits and is designed to do so. Imagine if all our children could express without reservation … the world would change in a generation. That isn’t in the interest of those who are invested in the status quo.

        1. Well highlighted Vanessa, the technicality which doesn’t come naturally to some/many of us has been used as a sword against our innate expression. Hence discovering the joy in re-learning and re-imprinting to express in our own unique way. There is no one model fits all, and it will be a very joy-full day when the status quo of the education system catches up with this truth.

403. Lovely Susan. This is a great example of allowing what is there to be shared and ensuring we have a body though which expression can flow; and wanting to own what we write or express and making it about how clever we are. Such a clear difference.

404. It has been a while since I felt the lightness and fluency of writing, although I often have that initial impulse which you shared and have a strong feel in my body that there is something ready to be expressed. Your observations and insights have inspired me to make another start. Thank you Susan.

405. I have really noticed the difference too in my body during and after writing or typing depending on whether I am trying hard to come up with something special or just connecting to my body and allowing it to flow out.

     1. I notice the same thing Andrew. Also, I have found during the early hours in the morning is the time when my ability to write flows much more easily.

406. Any attachment to an outcome creates a push or drive that prohibits the natural flow of expressing.
     Quality first, outcome follows.

407. “… as I type and that my connection with the delicateness and beauty of me is my first and foremost priority…” This is a great example of surrendering to allow union between body and soul and then this quality is expressed in words.

     1. So True Johanne, as a vessel for our Soul expression is everything.

408. Thank you Susan for your support and inspiration. Writing is something I can do easily but with the pressure I have been putting on myself to make it perfect writing has become a very tiring exercise I try to avoid most of the times and I know how joyful this process of putting in words what I feel to express, can be.

409. This is very beautiful and really exposes how we tend to focus on mind as if to wring out any drop of thought worthy of expression and makes it all so complicated. Your sharing has really inspired me, Susan. It’s very beautiful to feel the potential of what we open ourselves to when we connect with ourselves through body and its movement.

410. ‘I was being narrow in my view, taking an initial impulse from my body but then intellectualising it and wanting to make it sound clever..’ So important not to be hard on ourselves and to understand where this comes from. When we start school we are very good at obeying impulses from the body but school very quickly reduces us to a linear form of thinking and behaving, It very quickly becomes about what is achieved in a very measured way rather than celebrating the wisdom of these natural impulses and the expression that flows naturally from this. It is no wonder that we start to go hard because we feel we have to produce something and are not good enough to simply let something just come out with naturalness – no matter what it is. We are reduced to right and wrong – forever fearful of the latter.

     1. Spot on, Michelle, so it’s super awesome to read there is another way of writing available to everyone, as Susan and many of the people who have written comments have so beautifully outlined from their own personal experience of freeing themselves of this restrictive belief.

        1. Totally cool that they have! Speaking for myself I am not sure I have totally ridden myself of this belief as it can often pop up when I least expect it – the concept of right and wrong I have held very deeply in my body and I know that when I am hard on myself it is because of this belief I have taken on. A good marker therefore for me to go ‘oops there it is again’ and to catch it before I get too bogged down in self-chastisement!

411. Our expression is so important and not just for ourselves. We all have something to offer and something to say and writing is one of the ways we can communicate this. For me it happens in fits and starts. So its about building consistency here. Appreciating all that we are in all we do is super important and certainly help us along the road of expression, for we may never know who may read what we write.

412. Great to see how you cracked through your blockage to writing – this is what life is all about stepping into those areas we would otherwise avoid.

413. Reading this has given me a moment to ponder just why it is that many learn more from doing the process as they are learning it, could this be because it is then a lived experience in the body? Does this then completely smash the belief that university study is better than hands on learning? Are there professions that would greatly benefit from more experience based learning, than the way learning is delivered today?

414. This is very beautiful to read, the awareness Susan brings to the body brings with it a change in paradigm of how writing needs to be. The thing to take away from this article is that the connection with the body brings an authority in our writing, an authority of having lived what one writes of. How often is writing made to be about what one is learning, or has learned intellectually, with out there being any lived experience to support the knowledge?

415. Thank you for sharing this Susan. I know exactly what you mean about trying to make what you write ´clever.´the pressure of trying to get it right can lead me to question what I express in writing and doubt myself which is an old pattern. I enjoy writing songs and poems and sometimes I feel like I´m still trying to impress my old English teacher at school! I felt refreshed and gentle after reading this blog and I could feel the truth in what you have shared and the delightful flow of the rhythm of the words. You have called my attention to something that I wasn´t paying attention to and I truly appreciate that.

416. What a beautiful turn around with your writing. The Education consciousness can leave us feeling stumped when it comes to writing, with feelings of not being good enough or feelings of being attached to how it will be received. But writing because there is something that needs expressing or sharing, done in a quality that is self-honouring, is an entirely different angle to approach writing from.

417. Fabulous Susan. I can relate. So often I have an impulse to write but I let so much get in the way. But at times I have felt the impulse, felt the words ready to be written and have sat down and expressed them within 30 minutes. They just fall out! It is a beautiful process if we can get out of the way.

     1. Yes, I agree Rebecca, the key is to ‘get ourselves out of the way’ by being in conscious presence with ourselves and not stuck in the mind chatter and external distractions.

418. I love your description of the simplicity of connecting with our bodies. Bringing conscious presence to what we are doing, in other words, thinking only about what we are doing, releases our full expression.

419. Perfect timing to read this, Susan, as I am in the middle of writing an assignment for uni. I too find that every little detail matters, and can support the flow of writing which comes from a steady connection with myself.

420. Thanks Susan , its interesting typing with out seeing the words , its a bit like talking to the world, while writing.

421. A super blog to read this morning and I can so relate to focusing on the outcome and then the words do not flow which takes all the joy out of writing and sharing. Ultimately, our relationship with writing is a reflection of the relationship with ourselves and how deeply or not we are honouring ourselves in all our movements, decisions and relationships with others and do we fully express in each moment.

422. This is a whole new take on writers block. A loving connection to ourselves is the key to unlocking our expression.

423. Thank you Susan for sharing your wise words from being re-connected to the presence within you. The way we connect with and use our fingertips on the keyboard is a great reflection of what quality we are bringing to our movement. In my experience there is a release of tension in the fingers,through the whole arm, shoulders and upper chest when typing with gentleness or delicateness.

424. As ease-full to read as it clearly was to write thank you Susan. A beautiful experience of the energetic imprint that comes with everything.

     1. Yes you can really sense that this Blog was written in the flow that the writer describes.

        1. Yes Andrew, quite a tangible difference to the usual experience of reading something

425. And when we do write from our inner most connection, it’s God Himself that is poured on the page. It offers a profound healing to both the writer and anyone who reads what has been written.

     1. This is True Katerina, as we open to our divine connection the words flow and the healing starts. And may I add that God is always with us, it is up to us all to maintain that connection.

426. I love what you’ve written here Susan because it debunks the false yet widely accepted notion that writing is a skill some people have and some don’t. Writing in a manner that inspires and supports the reader to deepen in themselves can only come from an author who is connected with themselves. Writing – in truth that is – and connection come hand in hand.

     1. Great point Katerina, and this is one of the blocks we put in place so we don’t have to deepen our connection, believing that some people have the skills to write and some don’t. I have held back from expressing for most of my life and this has been reflected back to me when it comes to the written word.

427. The love in our writing is so powerful when we let it out.. It is a matter of surrender and daring ourselves to break through cycles of holding back — claiming the true voice we have and with that comes writing. Writing is one way in which we can express and allow ourselves to speak up and claim the strenght and authority on what ever level we feel to speak about.

428. This blog has arrived just at the perfect time as I have at least three writing ‘assignments’ to begin. I do have the titles and a vague idea of the content waiting to be expressed, so now to apply what you have so wisely shared. I can feel that taking any expectations out of the equation and bringing in connection, trust and simplicity removes all the complication and confusion I often have a habit of bringing to my writing. So, thank you Susan.

429. I always love reading about experiences like this because they are beautiful reminders that the outer reality of life can only truly change if we renounce the energy behind it.

430. I can feel the flow of your writing simply coming off your fingers without the expectations of any literary accomplishments but with a purpose to be all that it needs to be for this writing to flourish.

431. Very true Susan – without ‘you’, the true you, as the quality of the writing, the writing is pointless and useless, and even harming even though seemingly harmless in topic.

432. Thank you Susan for a beautiful sharing on the importance of our relationship with writing and the patterns we have to not do it. Very inspiring honouring and a joy to read and be blessed by your openness and experiences and the honouring of yourself with appreciation and the realisation of the importance of this.

433. When we try to force an outcome our bodies harden. Reading this reminds me of how lovely it is when we go with and express what we feel rather than working towards a mental picture that we have to carve a path out towards.

434. Thank you Susan, another beautiful blog from you. This line was highlighted for me “I have decided I do not want to feel hardness in my body as I type and that my connection with the delicateness and beauty of me is my first and foremost priority.” I can relate to this but I can’t always stem the way I veer back into old grooves of drive as I work, however it’s a beautiful and inspiring line that will stay with me.

435. Beautiful to write from within and let it flow without inhibitions and ‘shoulds’ getting in the way. Susan, you show that writing is a whole body experience, where we simply express who we are in a given moment.

436. “Just sitting down with this intention has resulted in an incredible shift, enabling me to feel that I am already complete and enough without the words I am about to express needing to define me.” This is inspiring Susan. I can relate to many of your earlier takes on writing – focussing on outcome, wanting it to be perfect, insufficient appreciation…. I look forward to a shift in me also – just being all of me and then writing – without any pressure of outcome.

437. Susan I relate to this so much from a kid when I felt to write or draw something but would get frustrated as it would never meet my ‘picture’. What stood our strongly is how I lacked appreciation for me and would stop expressing what I felt in this moment and instead end up trying to create something that others would like or recognise me from. The fight I feel was with myself and my value as now I feel far more free to express what I feel to without judgement on the outcome.

438. I love this idea of typing without glasses on. I have done a similar thing with playing the keyboard without looking at the keys, to get a true feeling of what I am playing. Great sharing Susan, thank you.

439. Thank you for sharing Susan I can relate to all your bullet points and how this stops the flow in my writing. I either struggle to get the words on the page or I write too much and the words become complicated and difficult to read because I have lost the flow. As I write now I can feel a little anxiousness and a drive to complete the task so I will sit with this and feel your words here…. “And I have acknowledged that there is always more to express, yet in this moment it is to feel what is called for now.” I can feel this is what I do I feel I should write more than what is in my body to write at that moment and this creates the tension and anxiousness.

440. You have simply turned a chore into a pleasure and thanks for sharing all these great tips for getting down in words what is inside us.

441. Ahh, when we sometimes are so driven by a picture or end result it can be hard to fully realise just how far away from ourselves we have become, and in that finding it difficult to let go when we realise our efforts aren’t working.

442. I recognise from reading your blog a similar pattern in the way I can set myself up to have a hard time before I’ve even started a task. Expectations put us under enormous pressure and prevent a natural flow. Thanks for sharing how you have broken down an old pattern with some very practical tips.

443. I can relate to what you have shared, and I like the idea of typing without glasses that might help as I always want to fix a spelling mistake straight away rather than just letting go and see what happens. And interestingly enough this is what is happening in life. The urge to just let go and just see what transpires is so strong in me at the moment.

444. Susan, as someone who enjoys writing, this was a pleasure to read. I particularly liked all the detail you attended to before you actually started writing, and also during. The idea of not focusing on the words as you go but how you feel is interesting and something I might play with.

445. “In honouring me, it has been very beautiful to write, and a pleasure to not merely share words, but to share me as I write.” Thank you Susan, a gorgeous example of how when we take a few moments to honour our body, connect to our inner delicacy, it imbues everything with a delicate quality that touches everyone.

446. Susan, this feels like a very beautiful and simple way to stay present in your body and connected; ‘I am much more aware of my fingertips on each pad of the keyboard and how I am pressing down – and that I can choose to do this in the lightness and delicateness of who I am.’

447. This reminds me that when we do anything in drive it takes out the fun and the beautiful flow from it. Our body is mastered to flow if we only get out of our own way.

448. Thank you, so totally inspiring. I am instantly more tender with myself and more with me just from reading your blog.

449. Great sharing thank you. I find writing a paper for university very challenging just because of what you shared above, it is intellectually evaluated from every angle and asks for everything that is said to be referenced to an evidence based article which I find interrupts the flow of natural expression of what I feel. Yet I am sure there is a way with this and I am continuing to experiment with this.

450. Thank you for the inspiration to post a comment in an equal delicateness of touch.

451. I had never enjoyed writing for it exposed my spelling deficiency. With the age of software that now allows me now to express in writing, that helps me to communicate in a way that is understandable to others. I could have when young not liked all the rules of writing and refused to learn this complicated skill. I have a grammar checker to teach this old dog new tricks. But, I still like not to follow the rules, maybe I like passive sentences!

452. Letting go of the ideals and or drive to get something done, allows our movements to speak and express exactly as they feel to. This is then reflected in our every movement thereafter creating a rhythm and effortless flow for what we feel to express in any given moment making life a smooth journey rather than a bumpy ride.

453. Your observations describe ‘writer’s block’ very well – they are such an imposition to the multidimensionality that can flow through the writers hand, through the pen on to the paper. They are great observations to be aware of.

454. Reading this blog was quite liberating for me in that it exposed how much I too tend to focus on outcomes of my writing (how it will appear to others or how it will be received/liked/disliked,etc) and how this method of controlling what is asking to be expressed makes the final writing come out in a disjointed way without a flow or ease that it could if I just let it out without expectations. Also, all too often we can look at a project from the standpoint of focusing so much on just forcing things to get an end result and not appreciating how the quality that we do it in throughout the process is what really counts and will have the greatest impact in the end. Thank you Susan for raising this great issue!

455. Thank you Susan for sharing this, this is indeed very helpful and such a simple tool and what a simple process that has brought you there, simply observing what is going on within your body and then unraveling it form there.

456. This is beautiful Susan, especially to honour how your body needs to move as you type. I have a laptop with a keyboard that is not always comfortable to reach if the table I am at is high, so I find that using a wireless keyboard makes all the difference. We do tend to self criticise as we write and it is such simpler to let it flow knowing that you can always go back and edit afterwards.

457. Susan by connecting to yourself in the way that you have described, you have become a portal through which the Divine has flowed. Your sharing has then become an active portal through which your readers are able to feel God. This is nothing short of extraordinary and should be not only appreciated but celebrated as well.

458. All that you share, Susan, speaks to where I am and all that I have been feeling with regards to expressing myself in writing. I have ‘tried’ on numerous occasions to write a blog, to share what I am feeling about a certain topic, but I put such an expectation on myself before I even begin, and yes, I question and critic what I am writing before I’ve even finished, feeling it isn’t enough, that there is so much more ….. yet, it is enough, but I am using self-doubt to self-sabotage, preventing my gorgeous expression from being shared. Your blog has been so deeply inspiring, thank you.

459. Oh my, I have tears in my eyes as I read your blog, Susan, what an incredible honouring of you and all that you have to offer and in turn such a gift for everyone else to feel the expansion in what you are offering.

460. I love the detail you bring here Susan… it is often in the details that the most profound revelations and or changes can transform our lives.

461. A beautiful way of honouring yourself Susan… and very inspiring – thank you for sharing you.

462. Before the first word was sounded there was a movement that breathed it forth.

     Susan you have given us a gorgeous example of the movements that need to be in place before they can be followed through with words that can express the same quality from deep within.

     1. That’s it Liane. Depth and truth in writing requires depth and truth in movement.

463. Appreciating our own unique way we write is key, otherwise we tend to compare with other’s writing and through lack of valuing our own we diminish our expression.

     1. Agree Elizabeth as when we do not appreciate in full we do not express in full. For me appreciation builds inspiration, which supports a deeper expression.

464. Beautifully written and expressed Susan… lovely to feel that in the joy of yourself you feel the joy of writing.

465. Susan what a brilliant experiment, taking your glasses off. The ‘…opportunity to feel what I am writing and not critically refine it as I write…’ is a great way to get out of the trap of intellectually-driven writing. I’m wishing I could touch type.

     1. I’m now wondering how many other things we could do by shutting off one of our senses and bringing more awareness to what we are feeling rather than what we are doing?

        1. I can touch type and it really does feel lovely to be typing this with my eyes closed and feeling the quality of my touch on the key board rather than be too concerned with what I am saying. It feels like there is more flow an I have to allow myself the grace of it not being perfect and making mistakes when I feel like I have missed a key. Wow and by doing so I can feel that there is more of a flow to what I am dying and amazingly when I opened my eyes there were in fact no typos!

466. Stunning Susan, what a way to work through this stuff. It’s true and I can relate, that when we receive an impulse about what’s next we can bring in pictures about what it will be like, expectations about the preferred outcome, a million different things that we use to try to control the result. We think if we practice a lot this will make what we do ‘perfect’. But the true power and beauty comes by us consistently surrendering and getting out of the way and letting God come through. Thank you for the inspiration.

467. Doing things anything and everything – without push, struggle or drive makes a huge difference to our quality of life and lets us be part of what is going on and what we are doing, in every moment.

     1. I agree, Gabriele, and I would add to ‘lets us be part of what is going on and what we are doing, in every moment’ in the whole. Push, struggle or drive prevents us from feeling the whole and the multidimensionality.

468. I often finds words come to me when I walk, and then when I sit down they are gone or do not flow as easily. It is a great experiment to feel what is blocking me from sharing how I wish it to come across, but what I do notice is that practicing putting words down makes a big difference to the development of saying what is there to say. I like what you share Susan about letting the words flow from feel and not getting caught up in clever language.

     1. Yes I do too Stephen and I also appreciate what you say about practice. Sometimes taking a chance, just having a go is where our education lies, not trying to be clever or smart, just sharing what is there to be shared from where we stand.

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