{"id":216,"date":"2015-07-28T17:57:12","date_gmt":"2015-07-28T17:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.juliebaldwin.com\/?p=216"},"modified":"2017-01-02T02:57:12","modified_gmt":"2017-01-02T02:57:12","slug":"calling-the-muse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juliebaldwin.com\/?p=216","title":{"rendered":"Calling the Muse"},"content":{"rendered":"

Behind all the noise, the world holds its breath, waiting. The space within quietness wants to hold the sound of your voice, the vision of your painting, the words of your story, the song of your spirit.<\/p>\n

Silence doesn’t want to be filled, it wants to listen<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Too much noise\u2014sound, thoughts, busy-ness\u2014crowds out insight, and leaves little room for creativity. It becomes hard to take a deep breath, even.<\/p>\n

Yet silence can be intimidating, like the stare of a blank page when no ideas come. But if you wait, and still yourself in the center of your own anxiety, what do you experience?<\/p>\n

\"Wind<\/p>\n

The faint sound of wind chimes moving in a breeze. A sigh. The color of a thought. The texture of a feeling. The gesture of what you long to express, and longs to be expressed by you.<\/p>\n

Behind the silence, there is a consciousness that holds us suspended in eternity. It is germinating, appreciating\u2014needing<\/em>\u2014what you are here to do in your precious life, now.<\/p>\n

A sun shines. A moon reflects. A flower blooms. What do you<\/em> do?<\/p>\n

When you feel frazzled, burnt-out, or overwhelmed, stop<\/span>. Take 20 minutes for yourself, alone, away from the inner and outer noise, and just listen<\/em>. What do you hear?<\/p>\n

What is waiting to be brought into the world, by you?<\/strong><\/p>\n

How will you be different after you express it?<\/strong><\/p>\n

And what else<\/em> is possible?<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Behind all the noise, the world holds its breath, waiting. The space within quietness wants to hold the sound of your voice, the vision of your painting, the words of your story, the song of your spirit. Silence doesn’t want to be filled, it wants to listen. Too much noise\u2014sound, thoughts, busy-ness\u2014crowds out insight, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-insight","category-inspiration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juliebaldwin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juliebaldwin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juliebaldwin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juliebaldwin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juliebaldwin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=216"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.juliebaldwin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":217,"href":"https:\/\/www.juliebaldwin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions\/217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juliebaldwin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juliebaldwin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juliebaldwin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}