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Proprioceptive Writing® is a meditative form of writing that allows participants to know themselves more fully by exploring on paper the territory of their minds, memories, and emotions.

“Proprioception” comes from the Latin, proprius, meaning “one’s own,” and this writing method, pioneered by Linda Trichter Metcalf, Ph.D. and Tobin Simon, Ph.D., helps synthesize emotion and imagination, generating authentic insight and joy. Proprioceptive Writing® is not formal writing, nor is it automatic or stream-of-consciousness writing. A regular, disciplined practice in a quiet environment, the method uses several aids to deepen attention and free the writer within: Baroque music, a candle, a pad, and a pen.

Proprioceptive Writing® can help you:

• Focus awareness, dissolve inhibitions, and build self-trust
• Unburden your mind and resolve emotional conflicts
• Connect more deeply with your spiritual self
• Write and speak with strength and clarity
• Enhance the benefits of psychotherapy
• Awaken your senses and emotions
• Liberate your creative energies
• Bring increased energy and power to the creative process
• Focus and deepen the thought process

Tzivia Gover is a certified Proprioceptive Writing Teacher.

Recommended Reading: Writing the Mind Alive by Linda Trichter Metcalf and Tobin Simon.