Savoring & Releasing: A Guided Meditation
Creative Self-Expression to close August's themes
Hello friends!
Happy final Sunday of August to you. What does today hold for you—what dreams & expectations, chores & challenges?
Thank you for dropping in here, taking 5 or 10 minutes for creative self-expression.
Here’s a secret (well, not a secret/you already know it): a small amount of time to nurture your creativity, your connection to you inner and outer landscape, can transform everything. Your energy, Your perspective. The way that you enter the day.
So jump in here, close the door to the demands that are calling and listen in to your heart.
On the last Sunday of the month, I share a guided meditation prompt. Guided meditation is another way to access your intuition—but if it doesn’t vibe with you, go right to the writing prompt. No pressure, no cares.
Today’s meditation + prompt is about savoring and releasing. The paradox of letting go of what we love. Knowing everything is a cycle. The beauty of summer transforms to autumn’s magic. The yearnings inside us shift and give birth to new dreams.
Waves roll in, return, roll in, return. We can love and release, love and release, too.
Listen to today’s Guided Meditation by pushing the arrow at the top of this post, then return to to the writing prompt below.
Writing Practice: Set aside 5-7 minutes for this practice. Write in a journal or open a ‘Journey with The Season’ document where you can return each Sunday.
Prompt: After your listen to the Guided Meditation* at the top of the page, jot down the images, memories, ideas that came to you about moments you’ve savored:
Summer’s tastes
Summer’s scents
Summer’s companions
Summer’s dreams & yearnings
After you capture them, write a thank you letter to what you’ve savored. Express your gratitude for these experiences & encounters, for ways you may have grown and changed through the summer, for anything that you’ve learned.
*If you didn’t listen to the meditation, you can use the list as a brainstorm.
I’d love to read your expressions! Leave a comment or email me your response at gabriellekm@gmail.com.
Deepening Practice: Create a summer 2023 collage using fragments or excerpts of the words you’ve written, photos you’ve taken, images you draw or cut from magazines. Place the collage in place where you can see it and savor it in the next few weeks as summer transforms into autumn. So often, we move from one season to the next without taking time to anticipate and experience the change happening inside and around us. Let me know how you experience the collage practice.
Hope you can join us for Autumn Expression Writing Circle! An amazing group is forming.
Writing With The Seasons: Autumn Expression is a place to explore the cycle of change and how autumn’s rich metaphors offer meaning for our own lives.
Because you’re a Journey With The Seasons subscriber, I’m offering a discount code of $7 off when you register: EFYY8GNA