On Your Way exercises to start or maintain your meditation
practices. This month we invite you to welcome more sun,
expansion, revitalization, and socialization, into your day. Sun is
external, extroverted, light. Moon is internal, introverted, dark.
Prompt #3. Meditation: Deep Well
Close your eyes, breathe deeply, inhaling through the nose an exhaling through nose or lips.
Envision clear, uncluttered space in your mind and heart. Witness your thoughts and if they appear
to be of a distracting, dispirited, or destructive nature (ie, putting yourself down, thinking shopping
lists), put them in an "imaginary" balloon and send them up in the sky. Do this until all balloons
disappear from your view and consciousness. If "naggers" refuse to float up, gently ask them to
take a back seat. You're the driver, you control the ride and its destination.
Sit in the deep well of your being enjoying a measure of stillness and silence.
Prompt #1. Basic Mind Mapping. Have you used a mind map, also called a
treasure map, before? If not, try this one:
1. Start with a colorful image. A picture is worth 1,000 words. It will encourage creativity
while significantly increasing memory, or “stick-to-ability”--a memorized image that sticks.
2. This image is the theme of your mind map. So, whether your theme is “health,”
"work success," or “vacation,” put a colorful picture in the center of a sheet of paper.
3. Write words that are related on branches/lines coming out of the main circle. Each
line can have specific sub topics. This allows “branching out”-- each word leads to related
ideas. For “vacation,” you could have lines for “beach,” “stay-cation,” “sister’s.”
5. You may use different colors for sub branches. Color enhances memory, delights the eye,
and stimulates the right cortical (right brain) process of creative flow.
6. Free associate. The idea is to download everything your mind thinks of around a central idea
or theme. Don’t stop to edit now, keep going and flowing. Ideas may come faster than you can write.
7. Once you have completed your mind map, put it where you will see it often. Its words and
power will work on your subconscious "back of the" mind.
Extend the power of your mind map through journaling: Using the whole or part of your mind map,
come to your senses and journal. Start with an image, color, sound, smell, taste, word, or feeling.
Make your own treasure/mind maps. Find out more by contacting me at [email protected].
practices. This month we invite you to welcome more sun,
expansion, revitalization, and socialization, into your day. Sun is
external, extroverted, light. Moon is internal, introverted, dark.
Prompt #3. Meditation: Deep Well
Close your eyes, breathe deeply, inhaling through the nose an exhaling through nose or lips.
Envision clear, uncluttered space in your mind and heart. Witness your thoughts and if they appear
to be of a distracting, dispirited, or destructive nature (ie, putting yourself down, thinking shopping
lists), put them in an "imaginary" balloon and send them up in the sky. Do this until all balloons
disappear from your view and consciousness. If "naggers" refuse to float up, gently ask them to
take a back seat. You're the driver, you control the ride and its destination.
Sit in the deep well of your being enjoying a measure of stillness and silence.
Prompt #1. Basic Mind Mapping. Have you used a mind map, also called a
treasure map, before? If not, try this one:
1. Start with a colorful image. A picture is worth 1,000 words. It will encourage creativity
while significantly increasing memory, or “stick-to-ability”--a memorized image that sticks.
2. This image is the theme of your mind map. So, whether your theme is “health,”
"work success," or “vacation,” put a colorful picture in the center of a sheet of paper.
3. Write words that are related on branches/lines coming out of the main circle. Each
line can have specific sub topics. This allows “branching out”-- each word leads to related
ideas. For “vacation,” you could have lines for “beach,” “stay-cation,” “sister’s.”
5. You may use different colors for sub branches. Color enhances memory, delights the eye,
and stimulates the right cortical (right brain) process of creative flow.
6. Free associate. The idea is to download everything your mind thinks of around a central idea
or theme. Don’t stop to edit now, keep going and flowing. Ideas may come faster than you can write.
7. Once you have completed your mind map, put it where you will see it often. Its words and
power will work on your subconscious "back of the" mind.
Extend the power of your mind map through journaling: Using the whole or part of your mind map,
come to your senses and journal. Start with an image, color, sound, smell, taste, word, or feeling.
Make your own treasure/mind maps. Find out more by contacting me at [email protected].