Meditate to create
Posted on July 26, 2007, by dazzer67, under creative exercises, inspiration, quick tips.
Stuck? Need some inspiration? Here’s a quick tip to release the creative juices.
Silence, space, solitude.
At times we can crave these things, our minds need time to relax, to settle and then move forward. The same process is helpful for creativity. One way to achieve this is through meditation, so here’s a little guided meditation that you could use.
- Turn everything off, so there are no distractions, no radio, no TV, no net.
- Find a comfortable place to sit down and close your eyes.
- Place your hands on your lap.
- Imagine a bright, white room. You are there sitting in it. The room has no furniture, no windows and no distinguishing features, it is pure white. Even with open eyes it contains no distractions.
- Focus on one wall of the room. It is featureless, there is nothing there.
- Let yourself ‘fall’ into the wall and become part of it.
- Imagine that you are the white wall, a blank canvas.
- Imagine that the ends of your fingers are the end of the canvas, they begin to tingle. You notice your toes are tingling too.
- The tingling spreads up your arms and legs toward your centre.
- Your whole body is now tingling, the whole canvas is tingling.
- The canvas explodes into colour, images pour from it and sound fills the room
- Capture the colours, images and sounds.
- Open your eyes and create
You can use lots of similar ideas, but the process is the same:
- Empty your mind
- Capture what comes out
Have fun
In the next couple of weeks I’ll try and pull together some audio files that you can use to help your imagination run free.
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