What is Meditative Journaling
Introducing useful questions within the context of a meditative stillness invites individuals to delve into you own rich inner resources. That place where you already know the answers to the questions, tensions and pains that pester you. One of the bigger challenges in our time is to find or create these little oases of time and intention to go to that place where we already ‘know’.
I developed Meditative Journaling as a technique in the early 1980’s, and have led workshops for a wide variety of groups, facing issues as myriad as relationship issues, finding right livelihood and moving through writer’s block. (To name a few.) I first support you in becoming quiet and deepening to that place within yourself from which you can access the answers to your most perplexing questions. Through a series of meditative questions posed to the mind as we center and become silent within, you more easily hear your own Inner Wisdom.
The Process:
- Individuals in the group enter a quiet introspective place of self-awareness
- I then pose relevant questions.
- Insights often arise that are new.
- We then do Journal work with this material.
- My workshops are always a blend of some bit of prepared material
- And a good amount of spontaneous action based on what arises in the group.
- They are delicious groups to be part of.
Format:
- Bring Journals and pens
- Be prepared to reflect deeply within yourself
Further notes:
It is a great joy to share, in my ongoing workshops and books, that which I personally find to be most useful. Right livelihood means, for me, to focus on this work as the greatest healing gift I can offer.
This is what I do, and it would be my great pleasure to share it with you.
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You can listen to a sample of all the Meditation CDs below by Mary Ann Iyer, MD.