Renewing Creativity

Feeling creatively stymied?! Your body is being renewed every day! So is the world around you. In this guided visualization, we explore how our cells are constantly refreshed and renewed. And, we'll transition back-and-forth to the world around us, taking gratitude in the water cycle, the rise and fall of mountains, even the seasons. Feel refreshed when you consider the grace of all creation getting renewed continually.

Transcript

So find yourself in a comfortable seat or lying down.

Put yourself at ease.

Begin to take stock of your body and your environment,

Where you find yourself,

Where you are sore,

Where you might be stiff,

Where you might feel joy or lightness.

Notice the joints and sinews.

Draw your attention to the world around you,

Listening,

Smelling,

Touching and feeling.

Notice the you inside your skin,

Your breath and your pulse,

And the world beyond the boundary of your skin,

Its noises and breezes.

Let's together think about creation,

Creativity and renewal.

The world is renewing itself at every moment.

Imagine a single cell in your body,

Could be your stomach,

A muscle cell in your leg,

A skin cell on your back,

A blood vessel.

As you sit here conscious,

Below your consciousness,

Your cells are living,

Some dying,

Some repairing,

Some dividing and giving birth.

Skin cells are sloughing off others in their place.

Energy is being consumed in your body and put out as carbon dioxide and water vapor.

Imagine those small and busy,

Constant processes of renewal in you at all times.

Take note of them,

Even if you can't see or directly feel them.

Be grateful to them.

Now direct your attention to your surroundings,

Always and ever being renewed and recycled.

Grasses and flowers from seed into a bud,

A stem falling and beginning again.

Water evaporating from your glass.

A lake or a river rising out and up to become mist and cloud and then rain.

And then falling back down to some new place,

Renewing the earth.

Of course,

The earth itself coming up from below the mantle of the earth's crust.

Becoming hills and buttes and mountains.

And with the embrace of wind and water,

Coming back down again and returning.

Renewing always,

Constantly and nearly forever.

Take gratitude.

Draw yourself back inside the boundary of your skin.

Now imagine something a little harder.

Imagine that you could yourself actively renew your body.

Through your thought and your breath and your pulse,

Bring healing to your cells and tissues.

Outside your body once again.

Imagine giving from your strength and your breath and your mind to heal,

Refresh and renew the world outside.

As trees and grasses and lakes,

Clean and polish them in your mind.

Continue to clean and renew yourself and your world.