Making writing mindful

 

I have three professional passions.....Education, Mindfulness and Writing (not necessarily in that order!) Stemming from these could lead to a huge map of my mind and all the different pathways my thinking leads to! But, today I am concentrating mostly on two of these passions and how joining them together can be quite beneficial.....Mindfulness and Writing.

Let us begin with how I found mindfulness and wellbeing. Working in Education, I have noticed how there is becoming a wider focus around children's wellbeing and mental health. I started to study and research this, completing a Level 2 certificate in Children's mental health and more recently my Level 2 Mental Health first aid qualification. I have also been running a mindfulness after school club for around a year now, helping children to discover how mindfulness can help them to accept their emotions and impulses, finding ways to control them and to live in the present moment.

It has totally changed how I conduct myself too. I find myself handling stressful situations differently and finding the positives in situations more where I can. This has helped not only in work, but with personal situations at home too, leading me to share techniques with my family.

This has now led me into researching mindful writing, so I can put all I have learnt into my love of writing. It is a healing form of writing where you can fully express your thoughts and feelings. With mindful writing there are no grammatical rules, no worries about spellings or punctuation, just simply letting your words flow from your head to the paper. Very similar, I guess, to an artist doodling on a page! Writers so often become stressed about filling a page full of prose, so perhaps changing your mindset and having more mindful writing sessions can help to deal with this!

In the spirit of this, I have decided to add to my blog a "mindfulness moment" every now and again where I just write how I feel , no attention to structure or anything and just let my mind wander!

I definitely feel up for the challenge....watch this space!