all right welcome into this dream space and just starting by taking a moment to ground into the present moment and the space around you and your body just take a moment to close your eyes and sink in drop your focus to the center of your body wherever that feels right for you many people feel it most intuitively in their chest or solar plexus but wherever feels right for you and we'll take three deep breaths here one two three and then just grounding down feel your energy your weight drop through your body growing heavier and heavier
like sand in a sand timer everything's just draining down all the thoughts and distractions and stiffness tension feel it dropping down from your head your neck and throat your chest your abdomen and belly your pelvis down through your legs your feet and into the ground beneath you and take one more deep cleansing breath letting it all out and fully arriving now you may want to keep your eyes closed if that helps you concentrate better or if you're working with a candle or a fire you can blink your eyes open and softly focus on that and
now just bringing your story or your intention to discover a story to your mind at first there may be just darkness or maybe there is a white mist and out of this emerges a character perhaps you know this character and recognize them perhaps you've journeyed together before perhaps they are new to you perhaps they are human it's an animal perhaps something else although most of my language from here on will assume they are in human form what do they look like what do you see their hair their clothing their build who is this person the
hero Arc is chronologically a young adult Arc someone in their late teens or early 20s so perhaps this is how you see your character but they can also be any age or gender whatever feels right for you for this story and what do you see around this character do their surroundings look like the setting what details emerge they could be anywhere are they inside a home a job place a school are they outside in what way is this place one of familiarity to your character how do they seem accustomed to this place does that customization
translate to comfort do they feel happy and safe here or do they feel out of place in some way is there a sense that they are too big or that they want more than what they have here what does that look like can you see other people around your character lives in this normal world with your character who does your character see every day is there a sense of friendship perhaps or does your character maybe feel like a fish out of water and how might your character be responsible to these
