Journaling for resilience is a practice that we can use to increase emotional adaptability and resilience in difficult times. Our brains are wired for survival. Our nervous systems are designed to perceive and respond to potential threats, but they aren’t very sophisticated in their ability to discern the difference between a real or perceived threat. […]
When we practice writing as meditation, the writing is the meditation practice. It’s a meditation practice in which you use writing about sensations, feelings, and thoughts as the anchor for your attention. The practice involves writing and simply allowing the words to flow without censoring, without judgment, without worry over grammar or punctuation or getting […]
Focused writing. It’s what all writers long for. I know from personal experience that writing can be fun and focused and flow with ease. Whoever said writing is difficult wasn’t practicing writing meditation! To help you begin to access focused writing, I’d love to teach you a quick breathing meditation practice to help you calm […]
Meditation is the language of the soul. Writing meditation helps us to become still and quiet long enough to practice mindful listening and allow our soul to speak. In the focused and attentive moments of our practice, if we pay attention, we will hear the quiet whisperings of what matters most, the longings of our […]
Mindful Writing for Healing can help to bring a sense of order from chaos and help us to heal from life’s inevitable difficult times.
Mindful writing practice as meditation involves the art of writing as mindfulness practice. It is a powerful undertaking for writers and nonwriters alike that can help us become less reactive to thoughts. Think of it as a mindful journaling practice. When we practice mindful writing, we allow whatever thoughts arise to come and go as […]
Finding your voice empowers you to embrace your uniqueness and to be your most authentic self. Some of us learned as children to sit still and be quiet. Finding your voice is a beautiful journey of self-awareness and self-discovery. The journey of finding your voice begins with the body, with paying attention to how our […]
Naturally, I was thrilled when Dinty W. Moore contacted me and asked if he could send me an advance copy of his latest book, The Mindful Writer, for review. Mindfulness and writing are two of my favorite endeavors. Asked repeatedly to explain how Buddhism has influenced his writing, Moore, also author of The Accidental […]
Originally published at Wilmington Faith and Values on March 8, 2012. I developed a practice of mindful writing when began an in depth exploration of various writing practices years ago following a family tragedy. I had studied a number of writing practices, but I hadn’t found one in which I could find an ease, a […]
I’m in Bogota, Colombia this week. As I struggle to learn words in Spanish, my latest Writing Mindfully for Transformation online workshop has just begun, and the workshop participants are bravely finding words to tell their life stories. As the weeks go by, they will begin to discover how the expression of words holds the […]