Meditation For Journal Writers

This talk is created just to highlight how meditation can be used for journal writing. Learn ways you can incorporate mindfulness, meditation, and specifically designed visualization to tap into deeper insights when journaling. An entrance meditation before journaling combines the mindfulness benefits of meditating with the insight and personal growth benefits of journaling.

Transcript

Hi,

I'm Laura Stuckel from Team SAGE.

As a teacher,

My goal is always to help students understand the wisdom within.

It's possible to tap this wisdom through the practice of journal writing.

One amazing suggestion to empower your journal writing is by using an entrance meditation.

An entrance meditation before journaling combines the mindfulness benefits of meditating with the insight and personal growth benefits of journaling.

An entrance meditation is anything that works for you to quiet yourself before you begin writing.

This process of settling the day-to-day busyness of our brain then engages the more intuitive,

Creative,

Symbol-oriented part of our brain to inspire our writing.

For some,

A long walk,

Time in the garden,

Or a warm bath is helpful.

For others,

A beautiful quote or a lyric from a song works.

Even a few deep breaths can be magical.

For those who want to try a more focused quieting,

Yoga,

Listening to calming music,

Or mindfulness meditation can be very effective.

Just make sure your journal is handy so you can begin writing when your meditation practice concludes.

Listening to a focused meditation designed specifically to inspire your journal writing can be particularly powerful.

These meditations often use a visualization activity,

Taking your mind on a journey and guiding you to write based on the inspiration you glimpsed.

Such visualizations can take you backward or forward in time to see things from a different perspective,

Help you call forward the people present in your life today or influencers from the past to inspire new lessons in your life.

Or these journal meditations use vivid imagery to help your brain see the bigger themes,

Symbols and insights that were sometimes too busy to take in.

Until then,

Give yourself at least three deep breaths each time you interact with your journal.

You'll see the insights in your writing.

Reviews

Very helpful, Namaste

Helpful practices. Thank you.

Thank you Laura, for these good ideas for calming the mind and connecting with ourselves before writing.

Outstanding talk. I really appreciated the discussion of various types and forms that a pre-journaling meditation can take. I was especially grateful that an easily-achieved interim method was provided, for the time while seeing which of the more formal and/or specific is most effective for you.

Thank you so much for sharing this with us here in the Insight Timer community. I see the light within you. 🤲🏻❤️🤲🏻

Good advice, will try this. 💐

A concise introduction to how a meditation can help before writing.