Visualization Poetry

When it comes to creating, anyone can do it. We are creations ourselves, and therefore it is only natural for us to be creative. This creative prescription invites you to explore writing and scribbling in mindful and meditative and mindful way. This activity requires no experience in poetry or writing in any way. Simply be.

I have choose to not include examples in this post so as to help you, dear reader, expand you own imagination without direct visual stimuli.

Benefits

Expanding our imagination through words and scribbles is an act of play and release. This is an act of letting go, or of allowing ourselves to connect with out inner child. The motion of becoming absorbed within an activity of creating and combining words and marking, is an act of slowing down the busyness in our daily life and bring ourselves back to a sense of calm.

The sensory acts of both writing and drawing combined, help to bring our system back from fight and flight down to regulation which is important for our busy nervous system. This brings us into a state of play and flow.

Time to Take a moment:

You will need:

• a pencil or pen

• a few pieces of paper

• markers, pencil crayons or crayons

Start by getting comfortable.

Tune into your breath and get yourself grounded by placing your feet on the ground, if you are able go outdoors and connect directly to the earth.

Breathe.

Close your eyes.

Breathe.

Visualize a place that makes you feel safe, relaxed and in tune. Allow yourself to connect to this place. Find yourself breathing in the calm within this place. Allow yourself to enjoy this vision for a few moments while taking gentle, calm breaths.

When you open your eyes again, without thinking, write down five words or statements that come to mind that describe, define or transmit the feeling of the place in your vision.

Take a new piece of paper and, using a colour or as many colours as you want, write a poem that expands on one of the phrases or words you wrote. Don't think too hard, a poem can be as short or long as you want. You can expand one word into a background of clouds with the curve or wave of your marker. You can create a flower bouquet of various words. You can write a word and scribble that word out and then replace it with another. You can write one word over and over again creating a pattern. No pressure, no rules.

This activity is all about expansion, about let your mind go, letting judgement and criticism go. This is about play.