Hello and welcome to the Artist Mornings Writers Club.
My name is Darius,
And I'm so grateful that you and I get this time together.
Before we begin our practice,
I want to invite you to find a book.
Find a book.
Any book and hold it in your hand.
And if your eyes are open,
I'd like to invite you to close them now,
Holding this book in your hand.
We take a few deep breaths here.
Move from your headspace into your body by touching the book,
Squeezing the book,
Maybe even smelling the book.
This book is an example.
Of an idea that existed.
An idea that was believed.
A creator,
An artist,
A writer.
That stayed with this idea and brought it into the world.
Take a few deep breaths in the energy.
Of sharing ideas,
Stories,
Art.
From your heart into the world.
And maybe you have no interest in ever writing a book.
And that's okay.
And maybe you really do.
That is also okay.
Even if you have no interest in writing a book,
Just play with me.
Explore.
Experiment.
Just play in the energy of WOW!
I wrote a book.
Wow,
I wrote a book.
Take a few deep breaths,
Allow the energy of that statement to impact your body.
If you'd like,
You can say it with me,
Say it after me,
Say it now.
With your heart,
Say it with your mind,
Say it while smiling,
Not say it at all,
Remember we are just playing here.
Squeeze that book in your hands.
Here we go.
Wow,
I wrote a book.
How wonderful,
How cool,
How interesting.
I wrote a book.
And don't hold back your smile.
Don't hold back your joy.
If your mind is jumping in here saying,
Impossible,
How could you have written a book?
Say,
Thank you,
Mind.
Good morning,
Hello,
Nice to see you here.
Hey,
Mine!
We wrote a book.
We wrote.
Bark.
Continue taking deep breaths,
Allowing the energy.
Taking an idea.
And bringing it to life.
I feel goosebumps all over my body.
Something incredible is happening.
We have opened a portal.
Into the infinite.
All your wildest dreams are right here.
It's okay if you have no desire to write a book,
Just play with me.
Wow,
I wrote a book.
What a blessing,
What a privilege,
What a joy.
I wrote a book.
Feel the book.
Smell the book.
Touch the book.
Maybe you can start to imagine what the cover looks like.
Maybe you can't,
That's okay.
Maybe you can start to see your picture on the inside cover.
Maybe you can't.
That's okay.
Whatever is available to you,
At the very minimum,
Your fingers can feel a book.
You get stuck in your head,
Just come back to feeling this book.
Giving yourself permission to be in the excitement,
Be in the joy.
Every once in a while repeating.
Wow.
I wrote a book.
This is our last song.
Just going to leave a little space for you to connect with the energy of this book.
And let's take a nice deep breath to bring our practice to an end.
Breathing in.
Big exhale out.
Bravo,
Dear artist.
Bravo,
Dear writer.
Thank you for playing with me.
Gentle reminder that you can come back to this meditation with a different book in your hand.
With a different imagining of this book.
There's no right or wrong way of doing this.
We are just playing.
We're just having fun.
Allow yourself.
Play to be excited.
And for those that are joining us live at the Writers Club,
I'm going to put a writing exercise up and give us 66 minutes to continue exploring.
Of course,
If you're catching us on a replay,
Perhaps on Insight Timer,
You can do the same.
Thank you once again for meditating with me.
My name is Darius,
And I will see you next time.
