Morning Pages for Release

Morning Pages

Filled with an abundance of stressful and/or anxious thoughts immediately upon waking, we can feel like we’re already defeated quite early in our day. But, what if we were to give these thoughts a home? We would soon find ourselves not feeling bogged down any longer. Releasing these thoughts, we would essentially be giving our mind the space that it needs for beneficial and creative thoughts to arise. In this life coaching session, Nitima teaches us how we can do just that by introducing us to a clever idea called morning pages. Unlike writing in a journal where we are formulating our thoughts, morning pages is a stream of our consciousness. Meeting ourselves where we are in this moment, we jot down our thoughts while not caring about spelling or grammatical errors. Thus, we are free from any judgments we can so easily place on ourselves. Giving our mind a sort of brain dump, we do not entertain any one thought. Rather, we give them a home by releasing them onto paper. Jotting down our thoughts onto morning pages have several benefits for our body and mind. These include centering ourself, bringing clarity to our mind, discovering our creativity, silencing our inner critic as well as lessening any anxiety we may be experiencing. To feel these benefits on our body and mind, Nitima suggests we write 3 pages every morning upon waking for 20-30 minutes for a duration of 30 days. After learning about how beneficial morning pages has on our body and mind, I got to thinking about how a lot of us have issues with falling asleep and/or staying asleep. In fact, 30% of people receive 7 hours or less of sleep a night. This lack of sleep causes its own detriment on our body and mind. Therefore, I could see where jotting down our thoughts from any stressful or anxious thoughts prior to bed would be extremely beneficial as well. Perhaps we could call it, bedtime stories?! Thoughts? Thank you, Nitima! Namaste 🙏🏻❤️☮️

Morning Pages

The process of streaming whatever thoughts come to mind, minus the perfect journaling (ie. sentence structure, grammar, spelling), doesn’t sound like an AM chore but a way to just be in that moment.

Streaming...

Thank you for this wonderful idea Nitima! I just learned a similar idea of streaming consciousness writing yesterday from a professional improv speaker in NSA. He described our mind as a pond. When we are mindful and can calm our thoughts it is smooth & peaceful. Toss in one pebble (a thought) and we can see the many ripples it creates and can follow them fairly easily. (Good time to write) But toss in several pebbles and it becomes difficult to follow each ripple as they collide with each other - some reinforcing & some cancelling other ripples. (This is me in morning before work - thoughts of home & family) Now imagine there is a breeze over the pond and there are already some small waves & it is becoming more difficult to see the ripples created by our thought pebble. (This is leaving the house to engage the world and traveling to work) Now imagine a strong wind over the pond... white cap waves crashing all around... makes it impossible to follow a single thought. (this is me at work w/ various phone calls, e-mails, customers, vendors, coworkers, boss, etc.) Thus doing this continuous writing 1st thing in the Morning when our pond is calm makes a lot of sense. Some great ideas should come up from our well rested subconscious! Imports to Write fast (forget spelling & sentence structure - maybe even do a mindmap instead) this helps us get past our limiting conscious mind filters & taps us into our powerful, wise, unlimited subconscious mind (that connects us to Infinite Intelligence) so expect some incredible information to be Downloaded thru us!! Possibly doing at night may also work well as a “brain dump” so our conciseness feels safe we are not going to miss any thoughts and will allow us to go to sleep easier. I would think it may be more structured by default and not as creative as a morning session but I think both have their value. I would love to develop the discipline to do one or both. I typically get into an Aura session or a You Bible session 1st thing (like before getting out of bed) maybe I can do a voice recording w/ transcribing for 3 pages before doing them?!? I really need to retire so I have more time to do all three and a much calmer pond!! ❤️✍🏼🍀

I feel good ..I feel happy early in the morning listening to this channel

I learned that if I write what I’m feeling and thinking in the mor when I wake up will help me feel as if I had a bigger purpose

Morning Pages

I felt a sense of weight being lifted, as I am someone who prefers sentences, ideas, etc. to be perfect and Morning Pages is allowing me to write freely and have things flow organically. :)

“Intention without action is delusion”

That one hit home- I’m a dreamer, and have trouble with doing. Perhaps thinking about it in that framework will help me do a bit more. 🌙

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I feel this could be a good exercise to help release stress and tension by unloading thoughts onto paper.

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I learned a way of o release my thoughts and to get them on paper. I like the idea of just dumping with out even thinking. It was a great after a restless night. Thank you!

Angels

When I want to settle a situation instead of arguing and engaging.I need to lay down close my eyes and mediate to find my peace . Listen and look to my angels .

First glance

I noticed I should connect more with my emotions and thoughts

Recognised

I felt someone is there to understand what I am going through. I have always felt alone. At least most of the time. Hearing someone in my quite early mornings which is usually spent by myself is soothing and doesn’t feel too lonely. I was feeling stressed since last night that I was irritable to someone that matters to me. I want to be more mindful of my actions, show gratitude and awareness to him and to myself. Recognised. Hearing this session makes me feel constructive instead of constrained. There is something I can do to help myself. I have a path in front of me. By following it consistently, by writing everyday, it will help me recognise if there is a problem and can it be solved. That’s 50% of the problem already handled. The rest requires analysing, solutions, action/inaction and the whole thing repeated again till a perfect or close to perfection solution is reached. When stressed it’s sometimes difficult to be sure if the problem is really you or made out to be yours. I am hoping that these writing sessions will help bringing me awareness, clarity in thoughts and peace within me. Let us all be happy! 🌷🙏🏻

I felt that maybe if I journalize what’s been on my mind in the morning that maybe it will motivate me to change the negativeness, I hope this works

Journaling will keep me mindful! I hope and pray that the more I journal about my morning thoughts that maybe it will be therapeutic for me to talk about them.

Let it be

I realize that if I try to control my thoughts and behaviors, I will miss out on so much! Yes I need to take more risks and let it be. Morning pages helps with this.🤗

Day 1

Finding time to write down what’s in my mind may be helpful.

Daily Pages Thoughts

felt that this hit home very well my mind is always really full in the morning and often cluttered so I can’t be creative. I am going to commit to doing this every day for 30 days.

I’m tired tiday

I learned that I am a survivor. I helped Jason move out most of the rest of his things yesterday. It was painful physically and emotionally. I got angry at one point and fell down the stairs, one step and caught myself anyway. I didn’t fall all the way. Bruised my arm and ankle and knee good but I bounced back up like I always do and kept working. Ignoring the pain while helping. I just wanted his stuff out of here. I need to make my space my own. Paint and pictures and new furnishings. Just new.

Still thinking what am I thinking

I haven’t learn anything yet per say but I have learned a new way to let out what I’m thinking.

Morn pages

Great wat start day. Freeing. No judgement no analyzing. Just write.

Lost

I feel this is a lost time in my life. Its not necessarily a bad thing, i am trying to enjoy finding my new way. Its scary at this age. I want a certain sense of security and i have an ideal of love and to be loved. Maybe i expect too much

Morning Pages

Writing down your first thoughts each morning, the first things that enter your mind each day when you wake can help you cope with stress and anxiety

Morning Pages

Well I never did it probably because I feel kind of ashamed to write down my own thoughts… without a reason… but is something that I will look forward to do… see how I go… take it easy🌈🫶🏼

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I noticed I was able to finally see the inner critic as just that, and my other thoughts as just thoughts. I have done a lot of meditations and journal practices, but with the help of this guidance I felt like I pushed through a certain barrier I’ve had to just letting it all out. This will definitely be a regular practice for me. ✨

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I'm going to try this practice for sure. I'm excited to see how it will be after 30 days.

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Hey, new idea for dumping stuff of night to keep it from holding me back throughout the day ahead.

Morning Pages

Helps decrease anxiety and silence the inner critic. Write around 3 pages, 20 min/day for 30 days. No judgment whatsoever. 1st person, 3rd person, no grammar, to do lists, ideas, plans, regrets, whatever you think about when you first wake up.

Morning Pages

Thank you🙏 I've loved 'The Artist's Way' for decades, and dabbled with morning pages on and off since then, because they are soooooo helpful. Julia Cameron is visionary. Writing morning pages creates space in my mind, and makes it more flexible to change. It makes me braver and more fearless to think and new things. They're a brilliant tool. However, I really struggle to organise my morning routine and keep it simple and consistent. The pages end up going to the wall. I use the yamas and niyamas of yoga as my philosophy, or try to. I want to get washed and dressed, make tea, tidy my space for yoga, then do the yoga, then...well, by then, it feels too late for my pages. I'm into doing all the things! Writing morning pages is great meditation, but it feels like I have to leave out so much else to do so. I will keep trying. X