• GIVE YOURSELF TIME

    Set a timer for 8 to 10 minutes a day and fill that time with meditative freewriting. First imagine earth energy moving up through your feet and body, and cosmic energy coming in from the crown of your head. Allow those energies to clear you of worries, of other people’s stuff, of old concerns and nagging “to do” lists. You deserve this time with your own mind. Then begin to write. You can respond to a prompt or just write what you need to for that day.

  • move your hand

    Get your hand moving, ideally at the rhythm of your body and breath. Allow your thoughts to meander, remember, and surprise you. Describe scenes, list observations from the present, or access memories you did not even know you had. No detail is too small or insignificant. No freewrite is without worth. Many will become starts for later writing. Some will provide healing and new psychological realizations. All will help you to clear energy and bring meaning to your experience.

  • Practice Radical Acceptance

    One of the most difficult aspects of writing is seeing ourselves on the page, and accepting what we see there. Meditative freewriting allows us to practice non-judgement of ourselves in manageable time chunks. When you freewrite, do not slip into the evaluating mind, the part of the mind that says something is silly or problematic or not original. Allow everything to simply be observed and come onto the page. This daily practice helps us to accept ourselves, our experiences, our truths.

This one lifetime, this one body are the SPACEs THROUGH which we GET TO learn what it means to be HUman among others.

when we give our THOUGHTS a body in writing, then OUR insights, imaginative leaps, and experience of being can EXPAND and surprise US.

The writing is working BEST When it takes US where WE did not know WE were going.

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YOU ARE EXPANSIVE

On its most basic level, the act of meditating, and of meditative writing, is an act of acknowledging the flux and fracture of our selfhood, and the spaciousness of our potential. We realize that we are always unfinished, always in process, that those stories we identify as our own are constructions that we lived or imagined, and that we can now use for greater awareness.

YOU ARE MORE THAN YOURSELF

The creative person uses the experiences and material of selfhood to encounter what is not the self. This transformation is at the heart of why creative work becomes so compelling to those of us who do it. Ideally, writing will lead us to contemplate how our own lives converse with others, with history, with contexts much greater than that of any imagined individuality.

YOU ARE SAFE

You are safe as you freewrite. Even though writing into the unknown can feel scary, there is an integrative structure of the mind that will support you. Do meditative freewriting regularly, and you will experience your mind’s specificity. You will see images, ideas and stories that begin to repeat, like threads in a net. This net will hold you and will also introduce you to the subjects and themes that are yours to explore. If you feel you are repeating yourself, writing the same poem or story, don’t worry! This means you are entering the field of your essential subject matter.

You are BOTH original & COMMON

Remember the great paradox of creative writing: that we can only touch the universal by going into the specific. By using the tiny, ordinary details of your life, you will connect to other lives.