Don’t Just Write. Sit!

Meditation benefits creative thinking and improves focus

Photo by Gift Habeshaw on Unsplash

I sometimes surprise my students when I ask them to try meditation during my adult writing classes. “What’s meditation have to do with writing?” more than one has asked over the twenty years I’ve taught. When I first began to teach, meditation was seen as a hippie, woo woo, new age thing. Some students even feared it might…