Good morning and welcome to the Artist Morning Writers Club.
Let's begin our practice.
If your eyes are open,
I'd like to invite you to close them now.
Nice and slow Beginning to take deeper,
Longer breaths.
Bringing new energy into your system with your inhales,
New,
Clear,
Fresh creative energy.
Allowing old,
Unwanted,
Unneeded energy out with your exhales.
Taking a moment to feel your feet beneath you.
The stability.
The consistency.
Ground the earth.
Can hold you,
Can hold us.
Tall,
Gentle spine heart open.
Voice opened.
Your crown,
The top of your head,
Tall,
Open,
Ready to receive.
If you are here,
It's because you are a writer.
You might be at the very beginning of your writing journey.
You might be several decades in.
Either way.
You.
Are a writer.
Play with me.
Explore with me if you will.
Repeat.
That affirmation for yourself and just notice how you feel.
I am a writer.
I am a writer.
How does your heart react to that statement?
For some people,
Their heart will get excited and start to expand.
For some people,
Your breath will become shallow and your heart will begin to close.
All of it.
Is valid,
All of it is useful.
Just notice.
I am a writer.
If you'd like your heart to remain open.
Continue breathing into your heart.
I am a writer.
Let your heart know it's safe here.
You are allowed to take up space.
You are allowed to explore and experiment.
You are a writer,
That means you are an artist.
Even if you are an artist.
All of your feelings.
Are helpful.
All of your feelings.
Will help you express and tell stories.
As Michael Brown shared.
It's not about feeling better.
It's about getting better at feeling.
That means your pain,
Your grief,
Your sadness.
Are colors that if you choose to,
You can create with.
I am not my feelings.
I am the spirit,
The human,
The being.
That is experiencing the feelings.
All of your feelings,
Your joy,
Your excitement,
Your anger,
Your rage.
All of them.
Buckets of paint in front of you.
You dear artists get to choose.
Which you create with.
This is our last song.
I'm gonna stay quiet.
And allow you to connect.
With your glorious heart.
Connect with your writer self.
Connect.
With that eternal artist inside you.
Bravo,
Dear artist.
Bravo,
Dear writer.
Bravo.
Dear Creative Spirit,
I want to say,
I know there's a lot happening in the world right now.
And can be easy.
To close our hearts and numb out and ignore and over consume to the point of exhaustion,
Both extremes.
Can be easy to get to if we're not careful.
And I wanna offer up that in these difficult moments in the world,
What we really could use is open hearts,
Courageous voices,
Humans that can stay with themselves,
Stay resourced,
And tell important,
Honest,
Meaningful stories.
And so,
That's why I wanted to make this meditation to bring you back to that righter self.
And to remind you.
That if you choose,
If you choose,
There is a path forward where we can take our pain,
Our grief,
Our sadness,
And create something honest,
Something meaningful,
Something beautiful through our words,
Through our art,
Thank you for meditating with me.
Thank you for being a part of this community.
For those that are joining us live at the Artist Morning Writers Club,
I'm gonna share our writing exercise on our theme and open up the space to 66 minutes of dedicated writing time.
Thank you once again for joining me.
My name is Darius,
And I will see you next time.
