What did you call your grandparents? Great-grandparents?
If you didn’t know your grandparents, why is that?
Do you know stories about them during their young years?
Write about your grandparents and/or your great-grandparents.
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Writing Prompt:
Write about a time you paid attention to your intuition.
Or, a time you didn’t pay attention.
Just Write!
More on Intuition: Calm Your Brain.
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Write about a building that has or had meaning to you.
Describe the building.
Where is it? Or, where was it?
Write about the energy of the building or the place.
Did you like being there, or going there?
If you no longer go there, would you like to go back?
If you continue to go there, what draws you to this place?
In your mind’s eye, turn to the building. Wave good-bye.
Tell it you will see it again, either in your imagination or for real.
“A Building,” by Cheryl Moore, might offer inspiration.
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Writing Prompt
Look around.
What catches your eye?
Choose an item near you, or in your room, to write about.
Hold it in your hands, if you can.
Move it around in your hands.
Feel it.
What is the weight?
The heft?
The texture?
Where did you get the item?
What meaning does it have for you?
You can start your freewrite like this:
“I want to tell you about . . .”
Use sensory detail
Sight: Color, shape
Feel/Touch: Smooth, bumpy, texture
Smell: “Smells like . . .”
Sound/Hearing: If it makes a sound, what do you have to do to make the sound?
More posts about Sensory Detail.
Sit comfortably in your chair.
Feet flat on floor. Hands on lap.
Sit up tall. Take a deep breath in. Hold for a few counts.
Release your breath.
Take a couple more deep breaths.
Relax into your chair.
Notice your non-dominant hand.
Lift it and rotate it in a circle a few times.
Rotate opposite direction a few times.
Gently stretch fingers out.
Relax hand.
Stretch and relax hand a couple more times.
Stretch arm in front of you or to the side.
Stretch and notice your arm.
Relax Arm. Return hand to lap.
Take a deep breath in. Hold breath for a few counts. Release your breath.
Notice your dominant hand.
Lift it and rotate it in a circle a few times.
Rotate opposite direction a few times.
Gently stretch fingers out.
Relax hand.
Stretch hand a couple more times.
Stretch arm in front of you or to the side.
Stretch and notice your arm.
Relax Arm. Return hand to lap.
Take a deep breath in. Hold for a few counts. Let go.
Travel back in time. See yourself at 10 years old.
Eight years old.
See yourself doing whatever you liked to do.
Six years old. See yourself playing.
Deep breath in. Hold. Release.
Writing Prompt:
I see an arm, reaching for . . .
I see a hand, grasping . . .
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Memorable writing that sparks imagination. Lean in. Hear the writer’s voice on the page.
A Simple Building
By Cheryl Moore
A simple building lacking in flare
Why am I so often drawn there?
Roaming its shelves, tasting its wares
A whole wide world available there
Journeys take me around the world
And when I no longer want to roam
Work on gardens, on business
On cooking and art
And English lit and Shakespeare
To keep me smart
Not to mention poetry
To suit the fussiest muse
So much to read, no time to lose.
Cheryl Moore grew up in the mid-west, went to college in San Francisco, then lived in foreign lands before returning and eventually settling in Sonoma County.
In recent years, she lives in a house and garden where deer nibble on roses, raccoons dine on fallen figs, and her bird feeders are busy.
A nearby river offers opportunities to observe waterfowl.
Seeing and writing about these miracles of nature are adventures in living.
Write about a time you did the right thing, even though it was difficult and you didn’t really want to do it.
Or, write about a time you didn’t do the right thing.
What happened?
Someone said to me: Everyone has a gift.
What is your gift?
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If you could learn a new skill, what would it be?
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Today’s Guest Blogger Jean Grant Sutton writes about why we are stressed.
| The Great ‘Post Covid’ Unwinding It has become so very clear to me of the havoc that has been wreaked on our world from the Covid Pandemic. Of course, for most of us the disruption to our financial stability is still having ripple effects. For those in small business or even those that lost jobs or needed to let their job go because of the lockdown may still be struggling to get back above water. Where I am experiencing the most clarity of devastation is in our human nervous system. With the knowledge of physiology and how we are wired in our brainstem for survival, I personally feel and witness in others the huge contraction that was triggered by this threatening virus. Huge repercussions to many connected systems take place when the stress response is activated as it has been. This is called Stress Response Hyperstimulation. |
| We know there was a huge stress response activation globally, we were put on lockdown, isolated and masking for most of 2 years.(Some people are still for their various reasons) What happens when the stress response is activated and hyper-stimulated is well documented in our health sciences. If affects all systems, organs, glands in various ways that can lead to so very many symptoms of dis-ease. Heart palpitations, Chest pain, Dizziness, Lightheadedness, Muscle weakness, Numbness, Tingling, Weak limbs, Asthma, Anxiety, Chronic pain, Back pain, Chronic fatigue, Insomnia . . . the list goes on. I bring this to your attention to help support your understanding of the need to be sure to do whatever is necessary to help unwind the layers of stress in order to come back to homeostasis and equilibrium in your body/mind systems. Doing a Daily Deep Relaxation like ‘savasana‘ the resting pose has shown to relax the central nervous system and return it to healthy ‘rest and digest’ functioning. Consider creating a new habit for yourself. Every day take 7-10 minutes to lie down on floor and let the sensory awareness of your body prevail. The results may surprise you in how you feel. |
Another resource for calming the nervous system: Sankalpa.
“Sankalpa is your heartfelt mission, said in a short phrase or sentence, clearly and concisely expressed, using a present tense “I” statement. It is said to ourselves in the present tense because it is in the now, as it is really only now all the time. This sustains your inner felt sense of purpose, meaning, and value.”
Jean Grant-Sutton’s approach to Integrative Yoga Therapy, is based on a vision of health as a unity of body, mind and spirit. She focuses on bringing balance, strength, flexibility and awareness to the body and mind. To raise awareness of the primary intention of yoga: awakening of Spirit–our essential nature.
Jean’s yoga classes are both in person (Petaluma, CA) and online.