Cinyee Chiu

Hello! I’m Cinyee Chiu.

I’m an illustrator & author helping people find their inner strength,

and inspiring people to take good care of themselves and the earth.

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This is how I think about inspiration: In the sea

This is how I think about inspiration: In the sea of inspiration, there are various kinds of ideas. Those that resonate with you will connect with you. On the other hand, a single inspiration won't only connect with one person. Inspirations all hope to be realized. If you are a great partner in their eyes - good at execution, matching abilities, and a high realization rate - inspirations will be happy to bring their friends to you. But if your reputation among inspirations is "It's no use relying on him" or "He doesn't do anything," then over time, not many inspirations will come knocking on your door.

This is just a romantic personification base on nothing, but I think it can explain why some people can continuously create without running out of inspiration, while others who haven't created anything find themselves stuck in the creator's block for a longer time.
How do you understand how inspiration works?

我對靈感是這樣想的：在靈感之海中有許多各式各樣的靈感，與你頻率相近的會跟你接通，反過來說，一個靈感也不會只跟一個人接通。靈感都是希望被實現的，如果你在靈感的眼中是個很棒的合作夥伴：執行度好、能力相符、實現率高，那靈感們就會很樂意呼朋引伴的來找你。但如果你在靈感間的口碑就是「找他也沒用」、「他都不動」，那久而久之應該也沒什麼靈感想上門了。

這只是一個沒啥根據的浪漫的擬人化想法，但我覺得可以解釋為什麼有些人可以靈感源源不絕不斷創作，有些人卡住越久就越做不出東西。
你是怎麼理解靈感如何運作的呢？

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How is your working relationship with Inspiration?

How is your working relationship with Inspiration? Do you often experience a surge of inspiration, or do you more frequently experience a creative block?

你跟靈感的合作關係如何呢？你比較常靈感泉湧還是靈感枯竭呢？之前podcast第一季有錄過一集講靈感，後來第一季被我下架了，但靈感來源這個概念還是挺有趣的，或許之後我再錄一次。

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New Project: Life story portrait! 💛 Join my me

New Project: Life story portrait!
💛 Join my membership club and submit your life story, I will make character illustrations regularly. 💛
👉 To know more, check my story highlight or link in bio.
I name this sheep lady Sandra. Her father was absent since she was a child. The first boyfriend she dated in her teenage years was eight years older than her. She was hoping that the boyfriend can fill her lack of fatherly love. Sandra, who used to have low self-worth, didn't believe that she deserved to be treated well. She felt that people around her would leave her sooner or later. She kept pushing those who loved her away but at the same time was afraid of losing, which was very contradictory.

For a long time, Sandra had severe appearance anxiety because she tied her self-worth to her appearance, thinking that if she was no longer young and beautiful, no one would want her. Until she learned spiritual knowledge and healed her inner wounds, she understood her soul journey and lessons. Sandra understood that she needs to learn to love herself, and that's the base of everything. Now she already knows how to enjoy being alone and love herself.

Welcome to leave a message to Sandra, she can see it.

新企劃：生命故事肖像！
💛 加入會員訂閱，投稿你的生命故事，我會定期抽選繪製角色插畫 💛
👉 了解更多請看限動精選或首頁連結

這位羊小姐我取名為珊卓拉，從小父親缺席，懞懂的青少年時期交往的第一任男友就大了她八歲，期望男友能填補她缺乏父愛的空缺感。自我價值低落的珊卓拉不相信自己配得好的對待，覺得身邊的人遲早會離開她，一直把愛她的人往外推但同時又害怕失去，十分矛盾。
有很長一段時間，珊卓拉有嚴重的外貌焦慮，因為她把自我價值綁在外貌上，覺得如果哪天不再年輕漂亮就沒人要了。直到她開始接觸了靈性知識並透過各種工具療癒內心創傷，明白自己的靈魂旅程與功課，珊卓拉明白前半生的功課就是要學會愛自己，現在的她已經懂得享受獨處與愛自己。

以下開放留言給珊卓拉，她看得到。

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"Sky" is a metaphor I read in a book and I think i

"Sky" is a metaphor I read in a book and I think it's easy to understand. If you let yourself be kidnapped by emotions, you are letting emotions control you. You don't make any choice between emotions and actions (you don't realize you have a choice), and just respond reflexively. If you know that you are not your emotions, that you are the void that allows all possibilities to happen, then you don't need to bind yourself to a certain emotion. You know that they will come, and they will go. They are just passing by.

天空是我在一本書中讀到的比喻，我覺得很好理解。所謂「被情緒綁架」的情況，就是任由情緒左右你，在情緒與行動反應之間你不做任何選擇（你沒意識到你可以有選擇），直接反射性回應。如果你知道你不是你的情緒，你是那一片讓所有可能性發生的「空」，不論它們來去生滅，你的本質依然是那個「空」，那你便不需要將自己與某種情緒捆綁在一起。例如憂鬱，原本你可能說「我很憂鬱」，現在請試試看「我正在感覺憂鬱」，而你知道它既然會來，它也會去。它只是經過而已。

目前三月催眠正在開放預約中，可預約日期請看限動／限動精選，歡迎直接私訊預約喔！

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Those who have practiced meditation must be famili

Those who have practiced meditation must be familiar with this: step back and observe emotions and thoughts. I will visualize as if I see from behind the back of my head, watching feelings and thoughts pass by. Any feelings that go through are not me, I am not my emotions, they are just passing by.

有練習過冥想的人一定清楚這個感覺：旁觀自己的情緒與念頭。我會觀想彷彿自己的視角向後退一步，在後腦勺之後，旁觀感受與念頭經過。這些經過的任何感受都不是我，我不是我的情緒，它們只是經過此處。

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I once read it in a zen book somewhere but I forgo

I once read it in a zen book somewhere but I forgot the details (I think it might be a book about Vipassana), about the impermanence of mental state and feelings. When you observe each feeling, you will find that they are constantly arising and passing away every moment. When the lens is pulled to this ultra-microscopic distance, the awareness is also pulled to the present, this moment. If there is an opportunity to replace the old with the new at every moment, a "new start" can happen anytime, anywhere, as long as you wish.

我在某一本充滿禪意但我忘記細節的書裡讀到過（我想可能是關於內觀的書），關於心理變化的無常，當你關照每一個感受，會發現每個瞬間它們都不斷地生起又滅去。這樣的鏡頭拉到了超微觀的瞬息間，覺知也被拉到了當下，此時此刻。如果每個瞬間都有一個汰舊換新的機會，「新的開始」便可以在隨時隨地發生，只要你願意。

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