Listen to My Meditations on Insight Timer!
Writing these meditations was easy and fun but making the recordings brought me closer to God. Thank you Sweet Baby Jesus for helping me get these done!
My dear reader,
Today I’m giving you something completely different. Not something for you to read—but something for you to listen to. PRETTY CRAZY, HUH?
I have been a long-time loyal fan of the meditation app Insight Timer. My personal stats are pretty impressive if I do say so myself! Because that’s what meditation is all about…being impressive….HAHAHA. Anyway, I have spent 114K minutes meditating on 2,267 distinct days in the last 9 years or so and I can honestly say Insight Timer has changed my life. Meditation has enabled me to be the person I am today.
Which is why I took the plunge to add some guided meditations I made myself. Meditations for writers! This has not been the easiest endeavor. Over the last 49 years-ish, I’ve become comfortable using my voice in 2D but 3D is still pretty terrifying for me. This means saying things OUT LOUD. Which couldn’t be easier or more natural one:one or in workshops, but recordings? Where I have to use microphones and software and then listen to my voice when I play myself back?
To do this, I needed some serious technical, emotional, spiritual, and moral support which my beautiful, sweet friend Niki—a yoga teacher, dancer, actress, and writer— was generously happy to do. Here she is giving me voice coaching lessons in her studio!
Writing the meditations was easy and fun but making the recordings brought me closer to God. Thank you Sweet Baby Jesus for helping me get these done! I used royalty-free music by Holizna for the background and photos taken on my travels for the cover art. And I feel pretty good about them. As in, I can listen and still love myself when all is said and done.
If you have the time and inclination, I would love for you to listen, too! If you leave a comment after listening on Insight Timer anytime this week and then email to let me know (valley@valleyhaggard.com), I’ll put you in a drawing for a Sacred Circle Writing Oracle card deck. Yes, this is blatant bribery and shameless self-promotion. But I’m doing it because I truly believe our writing can change the world!!! Let’s do this together.
A Guided Meditation for Writing Your Memories
Affirmations for Healing the Wounded Writer
THANK YOU.
I love you. I really do.
Unsolicited advice is criticism.
—ancient Alanon proverb.
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