Guided Poetic Journaling For Beginners: Your Heart As A Rose

This beautiful track invites you to craft small poetic sentences through a step-by-step process to bring presence, inspiration, and attention to your heart. You will explore the poetic image of the Heart through the metaphor of a Rose.

Afterward, you might feel the inspiration to expand your words into an entire poem of yours. Also, feel free to share your poetic words with others as a comment on this track.

Image from Unsplash by Tiffany Chan.

Transcript

Welcome to this opportunity for journaling.

I'm Niklas and in this session I will guide you step-by-step through a journey where you will be crafting small poetic sentences exploring the connection between your own heart and the image of a rose.

The guidance is in English but feel free to write in any language of your choice.

Also you are welcome to pause the track anytime in case you need more time.

I invite you to begin by closing your eyes taking a deep breath in.

Now imagine that you are surrounded by a garden where you notice a beautiful rose blooming in the sun.

Its shape and colors appear in front of you.

By breathing in through your nose you can smell its fragments.

Stay with this rose for a moment and when you feel ready open your eyes and begin by writing the following words in your journal.

My heart is a rose.

And underneath I invite you to add the following words.

Bloom,

Open,

Beautify.

These words bloom,

Open,

Beautify.

Describe what a rose can do.

Can you think of more words to describe what a rose can do?

I invite you to be creative and add these to your list.

I wonder what words come to your mind.

Beautiful.

Now take a moment and review your words.

I'm curious how these words of yours can be combined with the first sentence.

My heart is a rose.

Find out how you can combine these into small poetic phrases such as my heart is a rose that blooms.

My heart is a rose that opens.

I wonder which words you combine.

I wonder which sentences come to life.

Now take a moment to review your words again and underline one sentence that you resonate with.

Could you give this sentence more detail?

Could you extend this sentence in any way?

In case you need it here is an example.

My heart is a tender rose that blooms fully through your radiance and light.

I wonder what's unfolding.

I wonder how you bring the rose to life.

Now when you're ready I invite you to close your eyes again and visualize the rose in front of you.

Take a deep breath in and possibly repeat some of your poetic words for yourself.

Thank yourself for having taken this time to connect with yourself,

Crafting small poetic sentences and exploring the connection between your own heart and the image of a rose.

I welcome you to open your eyes and share your favorite words with us by leaving a comment on this track.

Perhaps you can later expand these words into an entire poem of yours.

I'm Niklas.

Thank you for journaling with me.

Reviews

A unique and beautiful mindfulness practice. Thank you 💗 🙏

Rose
My heart ever so beautiful. Fresh and full of love , joy and empathy. It's an open Rosy space of tenderness, compassion, and forgiveness. I find calm in giving , seeing the beauty of this World unfold through others feeling happy. My heart is a fragrant Rose and scents of exploration and deep self love ♡ 🌹

my heart is a rose
a bud tightly furled
slow and gentle to bloom
persistent
resistant
my heart is a rose
in bloom.

Thank you for that 🙏 I needed this poetry today.

This was a wonderful way to meditate. It felt as though in writing a few poetic lines I gave my heart a little gift. I loved this track and hope that you create additional ones! Thank you!

Beautiful and inspiring, with lovely imagery. Really enjoyed this, thank you Niklas! 💖