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Jumpstart your Book Excerpt from Jumpstart your Book: Questions, tips and techniques to start and finish your book or ebook.
By Maria Mar©
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SummaryHave you been procrastinating your writing? If you want, need or have to write a book and you find yourself avoiding the task, here are four questions that are Psychic Keys to unlock the Muse and help you start up. Book writing coach and shaman Maria Mar dives into the hidden feelings and resistance that may be sabotaging your book, visibility and prosperity. Read article.
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Jumpstart your Book Excerpt from Jumpstart your Book: Questions, tips and techniques to start and finish your book or ebook.
By Maria Mar© If you are watching re-runs instead of writing your book, and every single attempt to start writing ends up in a new snack, it's time for radical action.
Here are four questions to help you tap into your Soul and understand your internal resistance. Ask these questions to yourself, and really listen to the answers. You can record your inner conversation or jot down the most compelling elements in your journal. Why do I want to write this book? Take a quiet time to reflect and listen to your soul. It holds the key as to the deepest, most mysterious purpose that animates that haunting desire to write a book. Summon your Poet or Wise Woman, and dive into your Soul. Set aside some silent, quiet time. Get comfortable and practice slow, deep breathing until your heart slows down and your body relaxes. Ignore any thought, releasing it to return to an empty mind, and receive the gentle whispers and feelings of your beautiful Soul. What is it yearning for? Is it to become your fullest potential? Is it to shine in the world with your radiant essence being visible? Is it to have a beautiful home and space to create with a large garden and ancient trees all around the house? How does writing this book connect to this dream? Through your Soul's truth you can find the path that leads to your book. This book, in turn, will be a book with a heart that will touch the readers' Soul. Love has come full circle.
Why do I need to write this book? Wanting and needing are two different things. You Soul should be your compass because it holds the knowledge of the mystery of your existence. Yet, your mind often knows things that are important in the creation of your prosperity structure. To understand your mind, however, you sometimes need some information, training or coaching that illuminates the reason behind its apparent obsession. If your book is haunting you, then get more information about the role of a book in the advancement of your career or business. It may be that your Soul longs for an abundant life, visiting beautiful places, a home in the mountains, a change in career that allows you to live more meaningfully, or a new lifestyle. Your Wise One, who is connected to All that Is, may be trying to tell you that writing a book is the road to manifest this Dream. In this case, your Act of Power is to find out why, how and when your book needs to be written as part of your career or business strategy. It may be, however, that your conscious mind or Ego-mind, much smaller and limited than your Vast Mind, doesn't have a clue as to how your book can help you make your Dream come true. To top it all, your unconscious may be plagued with fear, False Beliefs, feelings of inadequacy and other issues that create the resistance. In this case, you have an Inner War. To obtain emotional peace and release the blockage, you need to:
When your soul, emotions and mind are aligned, you will begin to write your book easily.
In what place within my Service Strategy does this book show up? "Why me? Why now?" You may have asked more than once as you faced the blank page. On the other hand, if you've done the Soul searching, you may know why you want to write the book, but why does it have to be now? You are not ready. It's too hard. You are too busy. You don't have time. If this sounds like your Inner Dialogue, consider that the Wise One in you may be working in the Time-Space Continuum to get you ready for your next great opportunity. If you have a clear vision of the life your Soul longs to live, you need to create a strategy that allows you to achieve this lifestyle. This is what I call your Service Strategy. In the Assume Your Inner Expertä Coaching Program, using the Write to Dreamä System, I help women create a Service Strategy that gives shape and movement to their Service Vision, the vision of theri service to the world. The Service Strategy includes your growth chart, Profit Path, Product lineup, Business Structure and Professional Branding and Presence. Knowing where you are going and creating a basic map to get there allows you to understand the role of book writing in your life right now. You may be much more motivated to write your book if you realize that if you have your book ready within six months to a year, you can:
What do I need to clear up within myself to own this book and get on with it? No matter how much you know, it is what you feel that counts. You may know that you need to write a book to position yourself as an expert, to gain credibility and visibility or to promote your cause or message. Yet, if there is an Emotional Undertow pulling you back, you will unconsciously create obstacles to your writing. In my female-wisdom based life support systems, I refer to the Emotional Undertow as an emotional swamp made of accumulated toxic beliefs, scripts and old emotions charged with survival intensity. These emotions may be opposed to what you consciously desire. You need to dive into the depths of your being to find these inner obstacles. The challenge consists, however, in that you can’t see what you have been trained NOT to see. You need help from a therapist, coach or mentor to expand your Field of Perception and demolish your Wall of Expectation. Lack of trust, guilt and the deep sense of not being enough are three Inner Enemies that keep women and minorities hiding under an Invisibility Cloak. A book pulls them into the light, and therefore, if you have visibility issues, you need to discover them and make a commitment to heal them in order to clear your intent of writing a book. Take time to self-mother yourself. Find out what your Inner Child fears about book writing. Perhaps she was mocked by her classmates when she came to this country as an immigrant and did not know English that well. Perhaps she still believes that she cannot write as "perfectly" as a writer should. It may be that she was told not to be ambitious. Or that she reached the conclusion that if she became powerful, she would lose the love and acceptance of her loved ones. Whatever hidden emotions and fears are pulling you back, a little quiet time and self-mothering may show you what the resistance is all about. Then you can find the help, support and healthy mindset to heal these emotions and embrace your full potential. These processes may seem difficult or intimidating. But all you need to do is give yourself the time and space to listen to your Soul and mother your self. That, combined with solid research, will clear up any resistance and get you going. See you soon in the bestseller list! The End
Reprint Permission: You are welcome to reprint this article as long as you keep all links within it and the copyright and biographical paragraph below, with all links intact, and you send us a link to the page where you published the article. Maria Mar(c) The Dream Alchemist
Maria Mar is known as the Dream Alchemist for the power of her writing and her art to help women stay true to their dreams and potential. She is living evidence that you can realize all your potential. A true renaissance woman, she is a PBS-featured performer, published author, poet, shaman, visual artist, life coach, book-writing coach, speaker, storyteller and spiritual teacher. If you want Maria to help you release the obstacles to your dream, visit www.catchthedreamexpress.com. For help writing to heal, to transform your life or to achieve success in your field, visit: http://www.writetodream.com. Meet Maria and enjoy experts and writers' advice at Write to Dream Radio Show.
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Maria Mar The Dream Alchemist
I inspire and guide passionate women who are determined to make their dreams come true to use writing, creativity and conscious living in order to break through barriers and attract the life of their dreams.
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Your resistance has a
source, and you are not going to find it skimming the surface. Every single
activity you do to procrastinate your book is feeding your fear,
until it becomes a monster that swallows you. Summon your Warrioress to stop
running away. 
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