This is your Book Year Clarity meditation.
If you have been craving to get clear on the book that you're called to write,
Then this meditation is for you.
So before we get started,
Make sure that you have pen and paper close by something that you can write on and jot down all the thoughts and images and visuals and words that arise from this meditation.
Let's begin.
Beginning to settle into your body.
Having a nice comfortable place to sit or lay down.
Allowing your whole body here to be supported and comfortable.
Begin to settle into your breath.
Breathing in and breathing out.
Breathing in and breathing out.
Feeling that flow and rhythm of your breath.
Writing it in like a wave.
And writing that exhale out like water as it rushes up to the sand.
As you breathe here,
Allowing any place of tension that you're holding in your body to gently be released.
Relaxing the eyes,
The eyebrows,
The jaw,
The cheeks,
The shoulders,
The hips,
The hands.
Breathing into the fullness of your entire being.
And allowing with each breath,
Each inhale,
Each exhale for more space to develop within you.
To allow each breath to expand and open you up to all the possibility,
To all the clarity,
To all the seeing of what this book will be.
Release all expectation,
All shoulds,
All pressures and allow yourself to receive the book you are meant to create now.
What story comes to you?
What stories come to you?
What characters show themselves?
What do they look like?
Sound like?
Speak like?
What themes are in this book?
What words,
What phrases?
There is no wrong word or phrase or image or idea.
Let them all show up now.
Breathe in and expand the creative possibility about what this book will be,
What this book will become.
Now imagine what experience you want the reader to have when they open your book.
When they flip to the very last page.
How will they be changed by this book?
How will your words impact them?
See them,
See your reader.
See them holding your book in their hands.
Breathe in,
Breathe out.
Expand with creative possibility.
Believe all that you are meant to offer.
Breathe in,
Breathe out.
Receive,
Release.
Receive,
Release.
Breathe in,
Breathe out.
Breathe out and allow the next few moments for any words,
Images,
Stories,
Characters,
Ideas,
Themes to flood you.
Open your heart,
Open your mind to see all that you need to see.
Breathe in,
Breathe out.
Breathe out.
Breathe in.
Breathe out.
Breathe out.
Breathe in.
Breathe out.
Breathe out.
Breathe out.
Gently coming back to your breath.
Taking a deep breath in and a deep breath out,
Drawing sensation back into your body.
Winking your eyes open,
Allowing yourself to take in all that's around you.
And when you're ready,
Taking that pen and paper next to you and writing down all that appeared to you,
All the visuals,
The themes,
The words,
The phrases,
The characters,
The ideas,
The stories.
Let yourself spill out onto the page in a free writing format.
There's no rules here.
Just let it go and see what book is in you,
What story is calling from you now.
When you're finished with this exercise,
Take your time to read over all that showed up on the page.
Circle,
Underline,
Identify any common threads between the stories,
The images,
The phrases,
The words,
The characters.
Your book is here.
Breathe it in.
Breathe it out.
