Meditation for Inspiration

Finding inspiration to complete creative tasks can be challenging, turn to meditation for a new, ancient solution.

Hannah Boling
2 min readDec 12, 2022
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If you sit long enough and do nothing, one of two things will happen. You will either overthink current, past or future events, or you’ll come up with something new. Boredom can lead to either crisis and desperation, or an entirely new inspiration. Here’s where meditation comes in.

Just sitting and doing nothing sounds non-productive, but can be the best thing for those looking to produce new works, as long as you know where you’re going with it. There are a variety of sources available on the internet and in books for guided meditation practice. I’d recommend a verbal guided meditation for creativity and inspiration, so you can close your eyes and truly come up with something original to your soul.

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The idea of creative meditation is to relieve the mind of constant overthinking, and open the soul to inspired, new thinking. It can be challenging to start meditation if you have never tried, but with the guided practices available it becomes easier for beginners. You can start by centering…

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Hannah Boling

I am a freelance writer learning to navigate the waters of solopreneurship, finances, and self motivation