WRITE: My 8 Week Writing Retreat With Natalie Goldberg

Viral Mindfulness the Podcast

I'm in an 8 week online writing retreat with Natalie Goldberg and it's awesome.⁣ ⁣ I'd love to share what I'm learning with you.⁣ ⁣ Have you read WRITING DOWN THE BONES by Natalie Goldberg? She inspired the connection between my writing practice and sitting meditation.⁣ ⁣ What make a writer? They write, and write, and write, and read literature, and listen to others read their words.⁣ ⁣ Be the verb, not the pronoun! Writer's write.⁣ ⁣ Today's episode will inspire your writing practice.⁣ ⁣ Natalie’s book, ‘Writing Down the Bones,’ was gifted to me in my late twenties. My Aunt wrote a few words in the cover: “Find your passion: enter the flow.”⁣ ⁣ Years later, with a different virus as my intimate teacher (HIV-positive since March 17, 2003)— I know my passion and consistently put myself in the flow one-day-at-a-time.⁣ ⁣ I obsess less over what I’m creating these days, with words, paints, notes, and podcast episodes; and focus on the space that opens within me through the process of creating.⁣ ⁣ Natalie’s words and essence have inspired my path for decades.⁣ ⁣ I’ve read all but two of her 15 books. She connects writing practice to sitting meditation in a brilliant manner.⁣ ⁣ I cannot tell you how wonderful it is to sit and write, and learn and listen, and observe the nature and quality of MIND with my beloved Natalie.