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Writing Yourself Awake: Meditation & Creativity
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A unique method for enhancing creativity, increasing spontaneity and gaining insight through integrating writing and meditation. Buy Now on Kindle Excerpts: |
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Writing Yourself Awake: Meditation & Creativity “By combining authentic Buddhist sources of wisdom with her own extensive experience as a writer and writing teacher, long-time practitioner, Kimberley Snow has created a unique book that will be of benefit to many. For all that she writes with authority and from a platform of broad knowledge and understanding, her tone remains that of a spiritual friend, grounded in compassion, always encouraging the readers to uncover their own innate wisdom.” ~Tulku Orgyen Phuntsok, Vairotsana Foundation. From Amazon: Writing Yourself Awake creates a simple approach for enhancing creativity, integrating the emotions, gaining insight, and increasing spontaneity by integrating writing and meditation. Drawing from both Eastern and Western sources of wisdom, author Kimberley Snow, Ph.D., uses short teachings, writing suggestions, meditation techniques, and active imagination to lead the reader toward deeper awareness. What are we waking up from? Let’s call it the daze of the isolated, reactive, limited self. What are we waking into? A larger, more easeful world, where things are not fixed, but flow. It’s natural that both writing and meditating work so well in tandem. Both are seeking what’s real, what’s authentic. Both allow us to gain insight and wisdom as we learn to witness our lives – both past and present—not merely to react to them. Both are grounded in the body through mindful breathing or through the moving hand, allowing us to go deeper, allowing the conscious and unconscious to unite and integrate. Through meditation we come to see reality as it is; through writing we learn to find ways to live comfortably with things as they are. Table of Contents: Introduction 1 Writing And Meditation 3 Writing 5 Meditation 6 Why Combine Writing & Meditation? 7 Awakening 8 Similarities Of Writing & Meditation 10 Writing From Deep Mind 13 Engaging The Imagination 14 Writing To Prompts 15 Enhancing Creativity 17 See Things Just As They Are 19 Calm Down And Relax The Mind 20 Learn To Deal With Fear 21 Open The Heart 22 Read More Poetry 23 Use Your Senses 24 Lighten Up 26 Trust Your Intuition 27 Write A Poem 28 Don’t Resist Whatever Comes Up 31 Write Another Poem 32 One Word Contemplation 33 Write A Play 34 Relax The Mind 36 Write Badly 37 Explore Flash Fiction 38 Free The Body 40 Breathe In The World 41 Be Present 42 Meditation, Mindfulness & Contemplation Types Of Meditation Practice 45 How To Meditate 46 So What Does Meditation Train The Mind To Do?48 Mindfulness 50 Contemplation 51 Becoming More Emotionally Aware 51 Background Note 55 About Emotions 56 Cognitive Fusion 59 Developing Emotional Awareness 60 Emotional Mindfulness 62 Understanding The Story Line 63 Anger 65 Fear 68 The Hut Of Hope And Fear 71 Grief 73 Joy And Happiness 74 Blessings Journal 75 Opposites Journal 76 Love 77 Writing About Love 80 Ayya Khema On Love 81 Compassion 82 Expanding Our Emotional Range 85 All Purpose Advice For Writers 87 Planning To Write 89 Writing 90 Editing And Revision 91 On Having Written 93 Prompts For Overcoming The Fear Of Writing. 94 Forming A Writing Group 96 Journaling, The Self & The Story Line 101 Journaling 103 From Journal To Memoir And Back Again 104 Six Word Memoir 106 Still Unspoken 107 The Self/ No Self/ Reified Self 108 Formation Of The Self109 Our Selves 112 Getting The Lead Out 113 Our Storyline And The Reified Self 114 Invent A Persona 116 Other People 117 Going Deeper 119 Taking Care Of Yourself 121 Learn How Your Mind Works 122 Be Aware Of Dualistic Mind 124 Pay Attention To Language 127 Find A Modern Mantra 128 Love More 130 Seek Core Happiness 131 Be Helpful 132 Understanding Obstacles And Obscurations 133 Working With The Messy Stuff 135 Integrating Insights From The Cushion 138 Develop Equanimity 139 Practice Presence 140 Be A Flower 139 Write A Death Poem 141 Rest In Awareness 142 Additional books by Kimberley Snow |
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Kimberley Snow, prize winning playwright, teacher, and author of many books including In Buddha’s Kitchen, It Changes, and Writing Yourself Home, leads workshops on a wide range of dharma and related subjects. Her latest book is Writing Yourself Awake: Meditation & Creativity.
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