I take meditation very seriously. I can't properly start my day without meditating. What makes this experience imortant to me is having the time to feel truly calm and have a mind clear of obscuring thoughts. Lately, my mind has been filled with plot points and character sketches. It's been seeping into my meditation sessions. It's become a double edge sword. I love having creative thoughts, but I know that it defeats meditating, a practice that asks me to have an "empty" mind.
Anyone out there in cyber world have any suggestions?
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Sorry , can't help with the meditation part. My head's always occupied with one thing or another.
I like the idea of "meditation in motion", which I guess is usually associated with martial arts. I'm not sure that meditation and creativity are mutually exclusive. I certainly feel I'm "in the zone" at times when a poem is coming to me.
You should talk to Terry Wolverton--she's working on a project that specifically merges meditation and creative practice, so she might be able to help you make those creative thoughts more meditative, or those meditative non-thoughts more creative.
baby meditation... i like!
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