Thursday, October 16, 2025

Thursday, October 16, 2025

Once you dedicate yourself to something you feel passionately about, when follow your calling, the universe listens. It augments the skills required for you to do that you deeply desire to do. So stay in touch with your Authentic Self and pay heed to its whispers.  

I experienced the guidance of my Inner Self in the spring of 2009. For years, I had been meditating, journaling and writing alone at home. I had reaped the benefits of these two practices in heaps and wanted to share them with other writers who were struggling with isolation and dithering before the creative flow would stream forth. At the same time an urge to invite writers to meditate and write together repeatedly nudged me. 

I hesitated. What would I say? Who would want to meditate and journal instead of writing? At our first meeting, how would I introduce the subject matter? Writers prefer writing behind closed doors and only afterward come out to socialize. Why would they want to waste time in practicing something they don’t know. I kept postponing sharing my idea and its benefits. At workshops and conferences I attended, writers discussed how isolated they felt and how hard it was to begin the flow of writing. 

One day a week I used to go to the local library to write. One morning as I entered the building I saw a copy of L. Frank Baum’s book Wizard of Oz in the display window. The moment I laid my eyes on it, something clicked. My body felt energized and my mind urged me to borrow the book although I had read it couple of times. Instead of writing I spend that whole day to finish rereading the book. To my surprise, I realized that in my earlier readings even though I had enjoyed the story I had not completely understood its symbolic meaning woven in the story. 

This time the meaning was as clear as the day. The three characters, the Scarecrow, the Tinman and the Lion skipping on the yellow brick road along with Dorothy are her fragmented selves: her brain, her heart, and her courage. Separated from one another they are stupid, cold and fearful. It is only after she becomes aware of her fragmented selves that Dorothy integrates her own being. When she integrates as a whole person she is able to return home. At the end of her heroic journey she “awakens” to her True Self and finds herself surrounded by her loved ones. Her outer surroundings reflect her inner condition that of being aware and whole. 

Voila! Here it was, the introductory topic for my first meeting. Why it is important to meditate and journal because these practices integrate our fragmented selves. We can only be our best if we are whole. It was as if the topic for the opening class was handed over to me: How majority of us live as fragmented selves and we are not even aware of it. Like Dorothy, our body is at one place, our mind elsewhere, and our heart somewhere else. All our lives we have access to our “home,” we want to be home but we don’t how. Each waking moment we float through the past, present, and future. Our Authentic Self, our true remains hidden under the rubble of mental narrative woven with memories and plans. Unless we integrate ourselves with the help of meditation and journaling we cannot ignite the creative power within. 

I invited writers, they came, we meditated and journaled, and we flourished. 

Only last week one of the Mindful Writers wrote this on my website, “Thank you for teaching me how to settle the “river sediments.” Every single piece of writing I’ve ever put out into the world has sprouted from the clearer waters created by the Writing Meditation Practice. Thank you!”

Thank you, Jennifer Diamond!