18. Creating Mindful Exercises

June 25, 2019

In the earlier weeks of my research I did exercises suggested by Lupi & Posavec on drawing my pulse and my breath. While traveling, I started to notice that those in-between thoughts where my anxiety usually was now had songs playing over and over. I decided that it would be fun to write down the lyrics that were stuck in my head as an exercise.

I also started noticing my focus on billboards as my family played the alphabet game so I wrote down random billboard signs. Because I spent 17 days exploring national parks, I was able to find patterns in these exercises related to nature. I pulled out words associated with nature from the billboards and doodled little symbols for each one.