Writing Prompt from "And Now You Write" is ready for your words - September 16, 2010

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Today's And Now You Write theme:

Touch: with our hands, our skin, our emotions.

Prompt: What do you hold in your hand?

 

 We start with a very simple question.

What do you hold in your hand?

Simple question indeed. Yes, it is. To 
answer? It is perhaps not so simple.

Before rushing to an answer, let's pause
for a moment to consider our 
hands - all of us across the globe - 
together.

Use your eyes to visually inspect one
 of your hands.

Really look at it for a moment – consider
 it as if it was the first time you were seeing
it.  What do you notice first?  What do you 
notice after looking at it for a while?

Let's take a moment of silence to really 
witness our hand.

Your hand is an example of perfect, 
divine proportion. Right in front of you, 
right at the end of your arm – a beautiful 
model of sacred geometry.

Your fingers – the humble servant of 
the hand, stand at attention, waiting for 
your command.  Your fingers are 
very sensitive because you find out 
a lot about things by feeling with them 
and with the rest of your hands.

Take a moment to wiggle your fingers.

 What do they feel like as you wave them 
about? Listen to this fact and wow your 
friends with it today: Different from all the 
other senses, the sense of touch involves 
our bodies from head to toe. That's because
the sensory receptors that allow us to feel
things are located in our skin. True, some 
parts of our skin have many more
receptors than others.

According to an article from Johns Hopkins
Magazine, our fingertips have about 3,000 
touch receptors each. The trunks of our 
bodies have about the same amount of 
receptors as just one fingertip!*

Take a moment to really look at your fingertips.
3,000 touch receptors on each finger?
15,000 touch receptors on that hand you are 
openly admiring.

As writers, our hands are precious 
commodities – they are literally our 
partners in creativity. We craft with 
them whether we write directly onto 
the keyboard or hold a pencil or 
paint brush, our hands are one 
of the primary tools of our craft.

The sense of touch is different from
the other senses in that your entire 
body is involved in giving and 
receiving touch. This is very cool 
AND today – remember, our hands 
are the stars of this lesson.

Shape your hand into a cup and pour
that fact into the center of your hand.

"Hand, in your fingers alone you 
have 15,000 touch receptors."

Hold that in your hand…. and heart.

"Hand, you are a model of sacred
 geometry"

Hold that in your hand….. and heart.

Hand, you are an example of perfect, 
divine proportion."

Hold that in your hand….. and heart.

Take a moment to touch the inside
 of your body – touch your heart –very
 gently with your breath.  Open in gratitude
to the new discoveries you are making,
that wellspring of emotion when you 
recognize something for the very 
first time – this time it is recognizing
the wonder of and giftedness 
of your hand.

Remember our initial question?

What does your hand hold?

Does it hold wonder, beauty, openness,
justice, pleasure, power, growth, awareness?

Does it hold connections, a profession, 
does it hold centering energy?

What does your hand hold?

Prepare to write:

Georgia O'Keefe said, "When you take 
a flower in your hand and really look at it,
it's your world for the moment. I want to 
give that world to someone else. Most 
people in the city rush around so, they
have no time to look at a flower. I want
them to see it whether they want 
to or not."

During our writing today, we are going
to make our wondrous hand our world 
for the moment.  Your hand holds 
something within it – perhaps that
something isn't in tangible form…. Yet
… and one of the strongest ways to 
manifest that "something" is to begin 
to speak it into awakening through words.

Your prompt has two parts, almost like 
you are in a self dialogue.

It goes like this:

What does your hand hold? My hand holds……..

What does your hand hold? My hand holds……..

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Comments

[Julie Jordan Scott]

I am happy to post blog entries for anyone who doesn't have a blog or who would prefer to keep "And Now You Write" entries separate. This morning, I posted an entry from Ann Flesburg... as I will do the same for you!

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