Have you ever tried meditation but your mind is so busy that you find it difficult to do? Often times life’s stresses and challenges make it hard for you to clear your head. Perhaps you can’t stop thinking about your hectic day, your job, your children or spouse, the grocery list, or that project that you keep meaning to get to. Have you tried more traditional meditations and they don’t seem to help very much? Well, here is a simple mind meditation that can help you to re-train and focus your mind…to slow it down, to create a space for yourself so that you can discover the stillness you / your soul is seeking. This mind meditation can be done either: indoors - by taking your brush / pencil / etc. for a walk on your canvas and coloring the spaces in, or outdoors - by following your finger with your eyes and using the shapes and colors in nature as your canvas (i.e. clouds, leaves, trees, rocks). To begin, all you have to do is find a single point and slowly take your brush or finger for a walk, simply drawing one continuous line wherever it takes you. Let your mind wander and feel which way, or path, your brush wants to go. Focus on the line itself, the shapes, the colors. Try not to think of the end results, but only the process of creative thought. As you do this, remember to breathe in and out of your solar plexus and to let everything flow into you and through you. Soon you will discover that anything you wish to create is at your fingertips and that nature exists within you. ~Enjoy your new space.