Hello,
My name is Carolyn Zeal.
Welcome to this short meditation and journaling practice.
You may want to have your journal by your side as I will end this meditation with a journal prompt.
Lao Tzu wrote,
Not knowing is true knowledge.
Presuming to know is a disease.
First,
Realize you are sick.
Then you can move toward health.
I've been thinking a lot about what it means to sit in that place,
To just be in the place of unknowing,
Of not knowing,
Especially when it comes to my creative process.
There is a myth,
An idea,
That we're supposed to know what we're going to write,
What we're going to paint,
What we're going to sculpt.
Whatever it is we're creating,
There's this idea that we have to know at the beginning,
But that's not necessarily true.
Instead,
What would happen if we allowed ourselves to just be in the space of not knowing how it's going to turn out,
Not knowing where or when or how the end is going to come?
If we think about our genius,
Our creative genius,
Residing within us and what we know already,
Maybe our habits,
Maybe the way we always do things creatively,
What if they were walls?
What if they created a box around our creative genius,
Around that little seed or kernel of creative genius that resides within us?
And if we always do the same thing,
We will always get the same result.
We will miss that creative beauty genius that resides within.
So I thought today we could practice tapping into the space within,
The space where we don't know,
The space where we allow.
Find yourself in a comfortable position,
Ideally seated with your journal by your side,
And gently close your eyes.
And just settle in.
Take in a deep breath through your nose,
Holding it at the top,
And as you release,
Release anything that does not serve you in this moment.
Any judgment,
Any preconceived ideas of how you're supposed to be in this moment,
Just let them go.
Again,
Breathing in,
Holding it at the top,
And sighing out anything that does not serve you in this moment.
One more breath,
Your deepest breath of the day,
Holding it at the top,
And as you exhale with the loudest sigh you feel comfortable with,
Exhale and release everything that does not serve you in this moment.
And now just allow your breath to be.
Any thoughts,
Let them float by.
Without attaching,
Without judging,
You are giving yourself the gift of this moment,
The gift of just being.
I invite you now to travel deep within yourself to the space where you can just be,
To a place without thoughts,
A place without judgment,
To a place where there is only breath,
A place within you that is rich and ripe with creativity.
This is the space within you where there is room for not knowing.
A space that allows questions without answers.
You're breathing into this space where there is so much possibility,
A space where you can begin from,
Where you can start and not know where you're going,
A place where you can begin and not know where you will end,
And the freedom that resides within this beautiful deep space within you.
And when you feel called to turn toward your journal,
I invite you to do so and to write these words,
I don't know,
And then see what comes after them.
Without trying,
Without knowing what you're going to write,
Just write I don't know and see what happens.
I invite you to do so and to write I don't know and to write I don't know and to write I don't know and to write I don't know and to write I don't know and to write I don't know and to write I don't know and to write I don't know and to write I don't know and to write I don't know and to write I don't know and to write I don't know and to write I don't know and to write I don't know and to write I don't know and to write I don't know.
If you're in the flow,
Then definitely keep writing.
This prompt I don't know is something you can explore daily.
Think of the possibilities of starting your day from this space.
It could be a really fun experiment.
Thank you so much for spending some time with me meditating and journaling today,
Diving into that beautiful rich space of your genius within and allowing yourself the beauty and the freedom of not knowing.
Namaste.
