This is a wonderful exercise for tuning in and noticing the good stuff happening around us – the joy, the beauty, and the sparks. It builds curiosity and helps us to slow down.
• Practise this anywhere, but it’s best done outside if you can.
• Take time to look around you and then look a little longer and deeper. Notice what you see, hear, and how you feel. Look left, right, up, down and all around. Then linger and just watch what is happening. If you see something that catches your eye, pause and notice. It can take several minutes for something to reveal itself but there will be a small glimmer waiting to be harvested.
• Write down what you found in a notebook. Over time, if you practise this, you’ll build a list of glimmers that you can return to when you need them. Or just enjoy your glimmer and move on, knowing that such moments can be fleeting.
Finding Glimmers is just one of the exercises in using creativity to soothe mind and body taken from the book Creative First Aid by Caitlin Marshall and Lizzie Rose (Murdoch Books), which we have an extract from in our June issue.
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