Body Awareness Meditation for Writers (Improve Focus & Enhance Creativity with this Grounding Meditative Exercise)

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[00:00:00] Introduction to Body Awareness Meditation

[00:00:00] Hi. It's Jen from mom writes first. I'm here today to provide you with a special episode, a body awareness meditation that you can use whenever you're really trying to. Just sort of like drop into and ground your body. 

[00:00:16] The Importance of Grounding for Writers

[00:00:16] I referenced this kind of a meditation in particular body awareness meditation, pretty frequently in my podcasts and in my coaching. As writers, it is often easy to really be in our mind, or maybe even just like completely disconnected and often a story in another land and not really be at all connected. To our body. However, there is so much. Intelligence. And creativity. In our body. And therefore, truly being grounded in your body can be very helpful when writing. 

[00:00:53] Preparing for the Meditation

[00:00:53] Use this as a small mini meditative exercise to ground yourself in your body [00:01:00] ahead of doing any of the coaching exercises that I teach you on this podcast.

[00:01:06] Put yourself in an uncomfortable position. Close your eyes. If you want. Ready, here we go. 

[00:01:15] Starting the Meditation: Breathing Exercises

[00:01:15] Take a breath in. 

[00:01:18] And release it through your mouth. 

[00:01:21] Feel that exhale, leaving your body. One more time. Inhale through the nose. Hold. 

[00:01:34] And release through your mouth. 

[00:01:38] Emptying your lungs. Pushing the air out with your abdomen. 

[00:01:44] Focusing on the Sense of Touch

[00:01:44] All right now, let's proceed by focusing on one of our senses, specifically, the sense of touch. 

[00:01:53] [00:02:00] Take a breath in. Close your eyes. If that feels comfortable to you. And bring your attention to your hands. Clench each of your hands into a fist. Hold that fist. Noticing how it feels. Feel the tension feel the strength. Feel your fingernails. Digging into your Palm. Can you notice? Each single fingernail. 

[00:02:37] Release the fist. 

[00:02:40] Allow your fingers to stretch from your hands. Reaching your fingertips as far as possible. 

[00:02:50] Continue to gently breathe in. An out. 

[00:02:58] Detailed Finger Awareness

[00:02:58] We focused on the [00:03:00] hand. Now let's bring our attention. To just our index fingers and our thumbs. Rub. The top of each finger. Uh, against the top of each thumb. 

[00:03:14] Focus closely on this movement. Noticed. With such attention to detail. That you can actually feel the ridges. On your fingers as you rubbed them together. 

[00:03:32] What else do you notice? Uh, roughness. Smoothness. Heat. 

[00:03:40] rubbing each index finger. Against the thumb. Three. More. Times. Noticing that you can feel the ridges on the tips of your fingers. 

[00:03:55] Now move from the index finger to the middle finger. Rubbed the [00:04:00] top of the middle finger. Against the top of the thumb. Noticing again that you can focus. With such attention to detail. That you can actually feel the ridges on your fingers. 

[00:04:18] Let's do that three more times. One. Two. Three. 

[00:04:25] Let's move on to the ring finger. Rubbed the top of the finger against the top of the thumb. Focus your mind on how it feels. Noticing again, that you can feel the ridges on your ring, finger and thumb. Three more times. One two. Three.

[00:04:50] And lastly our pinky. Rub the top of the pinky finger. Against the top of the thumb. [00:05:00] Notice again, how you can feel those ridges on your fingers and thumbs. You may never have noticed this before. Those arrearages that you're feeling. Those are unique to you. 

[00:05:13] No one else, anywhere in the world has the same pattern of finger ridges as you. 

[00:05:21] Let's rub the pinky. And thumb together. Three more times one. Too. Three. 

[00:05:33] Concluding the Meditation

[00:05:33] Allow us to conclude. Our body awareness meditation. With the one more breath together. Inhale together. Filling our hearts with gratitude. Just as we fill our lungs with air. 

[00:05:50] And now exhale. 

[00:05:53] Releasing what no longer serves us. [00:06:00]