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Dive into the transformative practice of heart-brain coherence with today's podcast session!View today's full session 👉 https://intentioninspired.com/heart-brain-coherence/Join us as we explore how harmonizing the heart and brain can unlock profound personal power and healing. Learn simple yet powerful techniques to align your emotional and cognitive functions for increased stability, clarity, and resilience. 🧠❤️3 Steps for Heart-Brain Coherence:1. Shift your focus to your heart, connecting deeply with your center of compassion and love.2. Practice controlled breathing to activate relaxation and reduce stress.3. Evoke positive emotions to create a state of inner harmony and coherence.Perfect for anyone looking to enhance their well-being and embrace a life of joy and peace. Tune in and transform your day with just a few minutes of practice! 🎧✨#HeartBrainCoherence #Mindfulness #EmotionalWellbeing #SpiritualAwakening #PodcastSession
Today, let's explore the landscape of our loved ones' inner worlds. Check out today's full session 👉 https://intentioninspired.com/the-attune-framework-connect-deeper-understand-better/Understanding their fears, hopes, and joys is foundational in nurturing deep, loving relationships. We'll build robust "Love Maps" to strengthen our bonds.Key Takeaways:🗺 Map the heart🧭 Navigate together❤️ Connect deeper~~~~~~💡 INSPIRED PRACTICE"Love Maps" is from Dr. John Gottman's Seven Principles for Making Long-term Relationships Work. Enhance yours with these practices:- Question Game: Dive deep with questions like “What has been on your mind lately?”- Update Often: Regularly check in on each other’s thoughts and feelings.- Favorites Folder: Keep note of their current favorites—song, stress-reliever, Saturday activity.~~~~~~💬 QUOTE"Knowing one another well is the foundation on which a loving relationship is built." – John Gottman~~~~~~🧬 STUDIES SHOWRegular updates to "Love Maps" foster stronger, more resilient relationships. Commit to learning one new thing about your loved ones each week.~~~~~~📿 TRAIL MANTRAEmbrace UnderstandingThis mantra encourages active participation in truly knowing our loved ones, striving to see beyond the surface and appreciate their unique emotional landscapes.~~~~~~🧘 MINDFUL MOMENTReflect on your knowledge of your loved ones and identify areas needing more exploration. Set an intention to discover these aspects lovingly and attentively.~~~~~~✍🏼 JOURNAL PROMPTSExplore your curiosity about your loved one’s world and how they have changed over the last year.~~~~~~🎨 CREATIVE EXERCISEDraw Your Maps: Visualize your loved one's world—fears, joys, stressors, dreams.Share and Reflect: Discuss your drawings and discover new insights.~~~~~~🌚 SHADOW WORKReflect on inaccurate assumptions about your loved ones and how these can be corrected.~~~~~~🔥 RELEASELet go of outdated perceptions and embrace their current realities and growth.~~~~~~🦁 COURAGEOUS ACTIONAsk a deep, probing question you’ve hesitated to ask before, with gentleness and openness.~~~~~~🙏 GRATITUDEAppreciate the efforts in staying connected and informed about each other.~~~~~~📣 AFFIRMATION"I am committed to truly knowing and loving my loved ones every day."~~~~~~🙏 PRAYERBless us with the curiosity and compassion needed to continuously discover each other and strengthen our bond.~~~~~~🙌 KUDOSGreat job on taking steps to deepen your connections! Keep building those Love Maps and nurturing your relationships’ foundations.~~~~~~💞 SHARE THE INSPOPass this session on to someone who could benefit from strengthening their relationship foundations!~~~~~~💬 COMMUNITY CONVERSATIONShare recent discoveries about your loved ones that intrigued you or brought you closer in the comments!
Today's focus is on enhancing relationships using the ATTUNE framework, fostering deeper connections and understanding. View the full session and delve deeper into building meaningful relationships at https://intentioninspired.com/the-attune-framework-connect-deeper-understand-better/This approach involves becoming fully aware of our partner's needs, engaging fully, tolerating differences gracefully, understanding their perspective, listening without defensiveness, and deeply empathizing.Key Takeaways:👂 Listen Deeply❤️ Empathize Fully🌱 Grow Together———The ATTUNE Framework Details:Awareness: Notice your partner’s emotional states beyond their words.Turning Toward: Engage with nods, smiles, and wholehearted responses.Tolerance: Accept misunderstandings and embrace differences patiently.Understanding: See from your partner's perspective without judgment.Non-defensive Listening: Focus on understanding, not reacting.Empathy: Feel what they feel and respond with care.———Daily Practice:Make it a habit to check in daily, using small conversations to foster big connections.———Quote by Gary Chapman:"Love is not a place to come and go as we please; it's a house we enter in and commit to never leave."———Research Insight:Studies show that empathy and non-defensive listening boost relationship satisfaction.———Daily Mantra:"📿 Turn Toward Love" - Choose to engage with compassion and openness in every interaction.———Mindful Moment:Spend five minutes holding hands and syncing breaths with your partner, feeling a mutual understanding.———Journal Prompts:Reflect on a time you felt truly heard by your partner. What made you feel understood?How can you show more empathy during disagreements?———Personal Challenges:Identify moments of defensiveness or difficulty in empathizing and explore ways to change these patterns.Practice releasing the need to always be right.———Visualize Success:Imagine your relationship enriched with mutual understanding and empathy.———Express Gratitude:Thank your partner for their efforts to understand and support you.———Affirmation:"🙏 I value and respect the perspectives and feelings of my loved ones as much as my own."———Explore more with John Gottman’s The Relationship Cure and Esther Perel’s Ted Talk on lasting relationships.———Community Engagement:Share a relationship insight that transformed your connection with others.———View the full session and delve deeper into building meaningful relationships at https://intentioninspired.com/the-attune-framework-connect-deeper-understand-better/
Today, let's practice the art of emotional surfing: learning how to ride the waves of stress and return to balance with compassion and ease.View today's full session 👉 https://intentioninspired.com/riding-hearty-emotional-waves-with-grace/Navigating life's stress isn't just about staying afloat but thriving through understanding, patience, and support. Whether we're aiding someone in a low moment or managing our own stress, the secret is emotional agility. Today, we'll tackle these emotional tides together, ensuring we and our loved ones feel seen, heard, and supported without overwhelming ourselves.Key Takeaways:🌊 Embrace emotional waves🤗 Support with sensitivity🧘 Maintain personal balance💡 INSPIRATIONStress, like the ocean, can be navigated. Imagine standing by the shore, where each wave represents life's challenges. Like surfers, we can learn to choose our responses, finding balance on our inner strength's surfboard. Feel the breeze, taste the salty air, and see each wave as an opportunity to glide towards deeper connections and emotional resilience. Let this vision inspire us to rise above life’s tempests and find serenity in the chaos.💬 QUOTE"You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf."— Jon Kabat-Zinn, founder of the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) program.🧬 STUDIES SHOWResearch shows that emotional regulation can reduce stress-induced inflammation. Practices like deep breathing and mindful listening help stabilize our emotions and genuinely support others.📿 TRAIL MANTRABreathe, Center, Expand.This mantra guides us to breathe deeply, center on our breath, and expand our awareness. This sequence fosters stress management and emotional balance through mindfulness.🧘 MINDFUL MOMENTTry the Three-Step Breathing Space Exercise inspired by MBSR:1. Breathe - Notice your internal experiences without judgment.2. Center - Focus on your breath, feeling each inhale and exhale.3. Expand - Broaden your awareness to your body and surroundings.This exercise can help regain balance when overwhelmed, grounding us in the present and reconnecting us with our resilience.✍️ JOURNAL PROMPTSWhen have I felt supported yet overwhelmed? What did I learn?How can I approach someone in distress while maintaining my emotional boundaries?What are my signs of emotional overwhelm, and how can I proactively address them?🎨 CREATIVE EXERCISEDraw two waves: one calm, one turbulent. On the calm wave, write how you support others; on the turbulent, note your balance-restoring strategies. Color them to reflect your emotions.🌚 SHADOW WORKReflect on times you've absorbed others' emotions to your detriment. How can you recognize these feelings without owning them?🔥 RELEASEEngage in "emotional decluttering": Identify and release an unhelpful emotion or thought through visualization or writing.🙏 GRATITUDEIdentify three emotional strengths that help you and others through tough times. Value your blend of strength and sensitivity.📣 AFFIRMATION"I am both a sanctuary and a surfer, embracing and managing life's emotional waves."🙏 PRAYERMay I find balance between supporting others and caring for myself, navigating my emotional landscape with grace and love.🙌 KUDOSToday, by practicing emotional equilibrium and support, we've taken a significant step. Keep nurturing this awareness for compassion and resilience in your daily life. Keep surfing those waves! 🌊💪💞 SHARE THE INSPOKnow someone who'd benefit from learning to surf their emotional waves? Share this session and spread the balance!This session aims to equip you with tools to handle emotional stress and support others without losing your balance. Keep practicing, keep sharing, and stay inspired!
💸 View the 30 Days of Money Journey » https://intentioninspired.com/money✨ View today's full session » https://intentioninspired.com/money30👁 INTENTIONToday, we crystallize our 30-day money journey's wisdom into lasting prosperity.💡 INSPIRATIONOur journey has been transformative, blending financial enrichment with spiritual growth. We've navigated practical money management and tapped into wealth beyond material means. As we conclude, let's invest in ways that align with our financial goals and intentions.Today's Golden Nuggets:🔄 Transform challenges into opportunities.🌱 Embrace growth as wealth.🧘 Reflect to create an integrative game plan.💬 WEALTHY WISDOM“Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.”– Henry David Thoreau🧬 PROSPERITY PHYSICSPositive psychology shows reflection and gratitude enhance well-being and a sense of prosperity. By appreciating life's wealth in all forms, we foster personal happiness and a richer abundance.📿 MOOLA MANTRAAbundance in ReflectionTrue wealth lies in introspection and insights. Reflect on your financial journey to uncover a deeper understanding and perspective.🧘 MINT MEDITATIONReflect on our 30-day financial journey. Revisit your beginnings, growth, and transformation towards financial wellness. Visualize your future path in manifesting financial desires.✍🏼 RICH REFLECTIONConsider how your perception of wealth has evolved. What money habits will you change? How will you foster financial growth post-journey?🔥 PROSPERITY PIVOTIdentify and transform limiting beliefs or behaviors hindering financial growth. Embrace changes, shifting from scarcity to abundance, fear to faith, doubt to certainty.🪄 MONEY MANIFESTATIONVisualize financial success beyond money. Align your desires with your values and purpose. Take actionable steps towards manifesting your financial goals.🙏 GRATEFUL INVESTMENTNote one aspect of this journey you're grateful for. It could be an insight, lesson, or newfound confidence in finances.💖 ABUNDANCE AFFIRMATIONI embrace the abundance within and around me. Every step is towards greater wealth in all life aspects.🙌 KUDOSCelebrate your dedication to growth and abundance. Carry forward the wisdom and practices learned, nurturing a life rich in joy and abundance.💬 COMMUNITY CONVERSATIONShare the most valuable insight or habit you've developed and plan to continue using. Join the conversation!
💸 View the 30 Days of Money Journey » https://intentioninspired.com/money👁 View today's full session » https://intentioninspired.com/money29Today, let's become wealth itself, right now, so that our thoughts, actions, and experiences naturally lead to becoming more and more wealthy.💡 INSPIRATIONIn the infinite vastness of the universe, everything we seek exists already within us. Our inspiration today comes from the profound wisdom of David Cameron Gikandi, whose insights in his book, A Happy Pocket Full of Money, invite us to acknowledge our innate wealth and embody wealth (now) to most effectively actualize it in our lives.Today's actionable takeaways:🤑 Choose to be wealthy, now, without a doubt.💭 Allow a wealthy state of being to influence your thoughts, words, and actions.💯 Hold onto your chosen state against any external evidence to the contrary.💬 QUOTE“What you are, so is your world. Everything in the universe is resolved into your own inward experience. It matters little what is without, for it is all a reflection of your own state of consciousness. It matters everything what you are within, for everything without will be mirrored and colored accordingly.”– James Allenpioneer of the self-help movement and author of the influential book ‘As a Man Thinketh‘🧬 SCIENCEA study published in the Frontiers in Psychology emphasizes the impact of our internal beliefs on our external reality. The research reveals that those with a mindset of wealth, regardless of their current financial status, we're more likely to attain financial success in the future. The psychology of abundance is real, and it begins within us. Let's harness this potential today, choosing to embody a state of wealth, and allowing a wealthy state of being to influence our thoughts, words, and actions.📿 MANTRA“As I choose, so I am.“🧘 MINDFUL MANIFESTATIONChange begins with a decision. Decide now to transition from a state of lack to a state of abundance.Embrace this mindful manifestation process as you align with the vibration of wealth:🌚 ACKNOWLEDGE🪞 REFLECT🔥 RELEASE🪄 REPLACE💃 EMBODYThis process can take time and may need to be repeated as old patterns and beliefs surface. Be patient with yourself and celebrate each step forward on your journey towards wealth consciousness.Let's break it down. 👇https://intentioninspired.com/become-wealthy-through-an-embodied-state-of-being/
30 Days of Money Journey 💸👉 https://intentioninspired.com/moneyToday's full session ✨👉 https://intentioninspired.com/money28👁 INTENTIONToday, let's consciously sow seeds of abundance and generosity to create lasting wealth.💡 INSPIRATIONWealth reflects our internal state and actions. To manifest it, we must give and act generously, using the law of cause and effect.Today's Golden Nuggets:👁️ Wealth reflects internal state.🔃 Cause and effect govern creation.💸 Act and give abundantly to attract wealth.💬 WEALTHY WISDOM“Generosity...the manner in which it is bestowed.”— Mahatma Gandhi🧬 PROSPERITY PHYSICSFractal geometry parallels the law of cause and effect. Small actions influence broader patterns, like karmic principles.Action Step:Perform a “Fractal Act of Prosperity”: a small financial decision reflecting generosity and abundance.📿 MOOLA MANTRA"Sow generosity, reap abundance."🧘 MINT MEDITATIONExplore the law of cause and effect. Visualize creating and experiencing wealth, giving generously, breaking illusions, and cultivating compassion. Trust this process to shape your future.✍🏼 RICH REFLECTIONReflect on your wealth beliefs, their impacts, and actions to align with prosperity.🔥 PROSPERITY PIVOTShift from limiting beliefs to expansive ones like “Wealth is natural” or “I'm worthy of abundance.”🪄 MONEY MANIFESTATIONReframe limiting money beliefs to align with wealth and abundance.🙏 GRATEFUL INVESTMENTUse gratitude to attract wealth. Hold money, think of something you're grateful for, and save it in a “Grateful Investment Jar“.📣 ABUNDANCE AFFIRMATIONAffirm your worthiness of prosperity, and the free flow of abundance through you.🙌 KUDOSCelebrate sowing seeds of abundance today!💞 COMMUNITY CONVERSATIONShare your recent “Fractal Act of Prosperity” and its impact on your view of wealth and karma.
30 Days of Money Journey 💸👉 https://intentioninspired.com/moneyToday's full session ✨👉 https://intentioninspired.com/money27👁 INTENTIONChallenge fear of “not enough” through generosity, opening channels of wealth and abundance.💡 INSPIRATIONGenerosity transforms our relationship with money, signaling to the Universe “I have more than enough.” It's a spiritual and material abundance pathway.Today's Golden Nuggets:• Giving invites receiving.• Generosity counteracts scarcity mindset.• “Pay It Forward” as an investment.💬 WEALTHY WISDOM“It's not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.” – Mother Teresa🧬 PROSPERITY PHYSICSGenerosity boosts mental well-being, happiness, physical health, and life expectancy. Engage in financial generosity today.📿 MOOLA MANTRA“Give freely, live richly.” Generosity charges spiritual and financial batteries, attracting more abundance.🧘 MINT MEDITATIONVisualize giving from an endless heart vault. Notice emotions and the replenishment of your inner wealth.✍🏼 RICH REFLECTIONReflect on fears and creative ways to express financial generosity.🔥 PROSPERITY PIVOTOvercome scarcity mindset. Replace limiting thoughts with abundance affirmations when hesitating to give.🪄 MONEY MANIFESTATIONManifest generosity through visualization, feeling, gratitude, and actions. Carry a token as a reminder.🙏 GRATEFUL INVESTMENTAcknowledge existing wealth. Practice gratitude with a “Grateful Investment Jar.”📣 ABUNDANCE AFFIRMATION“I am an abundant being, rich in love, joy, and financial prosperity. As I generously give, I open new channels for abundance.”🙌 KUDOSCelebrate unlocking generous abundance. Keep the flow going.💬 COMMUNITY CONVERSATIONShare experiences of enrichment through generosity. Join the conversation.
30 Days of Money Journey 💸👉 https://intentioninspired.com/moneyToday's full session ✨👉 https://intentioninspired.com/money26👁 INTENTIONFocus on the power of sufficiency to release ourselves from money stress, celebrating our inherent worth.💡 INSPIRATIONWe often unconsciously believe in scarcity, overshadowing our true wealth found in spirit and connections. It's essential to redefine our understanding of prosperity.🌿 Money is our creation, not our master.🌸 Personal worth is more than financial figures.⚡ Shift from “I lack” to “I have, I am, I will.”💬 WEALTHY WISDOM"Money is like an iron ring we put through our nose. We just forgot that we are the ones who designed it." – Mark Kinney🧬 PROSPERITY PHYSICSValuing time over money leads to greater happiness. Balance in the universe brings tangible and intangible richness.📿 MOOLA MANTRAAppreciating time, love, or money allows it to flourish.🧘 MINT MEDITATIONVisualize an abundance-filled forest and stream, symbolizing wealth beyond material assets. Focus on feeling abundant in love, creativity, and purpose.✍️ RICH REFLECTIONContemplate your treasured non-material possessions and moments of feeling truly wealthy.🔥 PROSPERITY PIVOTTransform limiting beliefs about money into abundance anthems. Replace “I can't” with “How can I?” to pave the way for a prosperous future.🪄 MONEY MANIFESTATIONSet a financial goal, release attachment to outcomes, and take inspired action towards it.🙏 GRATEFUL INVESTMENTAcknowledge non-monetary aspects enriching your life, recording them in a “Grateful Investment Jar.”📣 ABUNDANCE AFFIRMATION"I am wealth beyond numbers, rich in spirit and connection. My financial decisions reflect my heart's values."🙌 KUDOSCongratulate yourself for exploring your financial relationship, opening a path to true prosperity.💬 COMMUNITY CONVERSATIONShare how changing your wealth perspective has affected your life, and discuss any resultant shifts.
30 Days of Money Journey 💸👉 https://intentioninspired.com/moneyToday's full session ✨👉 https://intentioninspired.com/money25👁 INTENTIONToday, we focus on using communal resources to create collective wealth and prosperity.💡 INSPIRATIONFinancial synergy goes beyond strategy; it's understanding our interdependence. By combining our resources and talents toward a shared goal, we create wealth that surpasses individual efforts. Like in a community barn-raising, every contribution is vital. We explore the benefits of pooled resources and collaborative investments in our financial journey.Today's Golden Nuggets:🌱 Cooperate.🤲 Share.🌐 Cultivate networks.💬 WEALTHY WISDOM“Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.” – Helen Keller🧬 PROSPERITY PHYSICSEcosystem ecology shows biodiversity enhances resilience and productivity. Similarly, a diverse community contributes more collectively than individually. We explore diversifying our personal ‘ecosystems’ to strengthen our collective financial health.📿 MOOLA MANTRA"Together Wealth Thrives"Our wealth, shared and supported by a community, grows and gains meaning.🧘 MINT MEDITATIONWe meditate on financial synergy, envisioning how collective efforts create expansive wealth. We breathe in diverse resources and breathe out their integration, imagining our unique contributions growing with community support. We reflect on the power of collaborative investments and shared economies, committing to engage and contribute.✍🏼 RICH REFLECTIONReflect on the impact of your financial decisions on your community and how contributing to a shared economy supports your financial goals.🔥 PROSPERITY PIVOTChallenge scarcity beliefs, shifting towards abundance and acknowledging our interdependence for collective prosperity.🪄 MONEY MANIFESTATIONEnvision yourself as a conduit of prosperity. Act by exploring collaborative investments or savings with others.🙏 GRATEFUL INVESTMENTReflect on your synergistic resources—time, skills, knowledge, and finances—contributing to collective wealth. Recognize how collaborative efforts enhance your individual contributions.💖 ABUNDANCE AFFIRMATIONI am a beacon of abundance, nurturing a flourishing shared economy with my community. Our mutual support multiplies our collective fruits of labor.🙌 KUDOSCongratulations on embracing communal prosperity. Your financial growth journey is inspiring. Keep this energy for tomorrow's session.💬 COMMUNITY CONVERSATIONShare how synergy in your financial life has led to unexpected abundance. Join the conversation!
Explore today's full media-rich session 👉 https://intentioninspired.com/money23👁 INTENTIONToday, let's align our finances with our values for wealth that enriches our lives.💡 INSPIRATIONTrue wealth is the alignment of money and meaning. Our financial choices reflect our desired world and life.Golden Nuggets:❤️🔥 Invest in passion.🌈 Reflect on value creation in purchases.💖 Support what mirrors your ethics.💬 WEALTHY WISDOMAlign financial actions with your heart for prosperity in wealth and well-being.– Matthew Prindle🧬 PROSPERITY PHYSICSConsider the "Butterfly Effect" in finances. Minor financial decisions can lead to major life impacts. Each dollar spent influences the economic system.📿 MOOLA MANTRAWealth flows from value. Reflect on values to guide financial decisions.🧘 MINT MEDITATIONMeditate on aligning finances with deep values. Envision your financial life as a tree, each leaf a financial element. Breathe in values like integrity, love, and exhale to shed misaligned elements.Contemplate:What does financial abundance mean to me?How can spending/saving reflect my values?✍🏼 RICH REFLECTIONReflect on the values behind your purchases and align spending habits with your ideal world. Commit financially to your highest principles.🔥 PROSPERITY PIVOTShift from scarcity to abundance. View financial decisions as seeds for the future, nurtured by courage and self-compassion. Replace "I can't afford this" with "How can this enrich life?".🌱 MONEY MANIFESTATIONObserve if your spending aligns with your values. Each dollar is a seed for the future.🙏 GRATEFUL INVESTMENTAcknowledge a financial victory or blessing, no matter how small, as an abundance ritual.📣 ABUNDANCE AFFIRMATIONI am a conduit for prosperity, aligning my finances with my deepest values.🙌 KUDOSCongratulations on aligning financial choices with values, the seed of true prosperity.💬 COMMUNITY CONVERSATIONShare a recent value-driven financial decision you're proud of in the comments!
30 Days of Money Journey 💸👉 https://intentioninspired.com/moneyToday's full session ✨👉 https://intentioninspired.com/money24👁 TODAY'S INTENTIONToday, let's leverage our passions and hobbies with the spirit of service so that others may benefit from our joyful creations.💡 INSPIRATIONYour passions can be your paycheck. Learn to turn hobbies into careers, finding joy and financial independence. Today, we explore unlocking the hidden value in your hobbies.Today's Golden Nuggets:🗝 Unlock hobby potential🛠 Turn passion into skill💸 Create value for others💬 WEALTHY WISDOM"Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally." – David Frost🧬 PROSPERITY PHYSICSAligning passions with a purpose brings personal satisfaction and economic abundance. Ask, how can your gifts serve the greater good?📿 MOOLA MANTRA"Passion Pays." This mantra reminds us that joy from passions has value, and it's worth being paid for.🧘 MINT MEDITATIONVisualize the value in your hobbies and passions. Envision your passion reaching out, adding value to others' lives. Embrace the worthiness to be compensated for your unique contributions.✍🏼 RICH REFLECTIONReflect on how monetizing your passion can transform your life and what's stopping you from starting.🔥 PROSPERITY PIVOTAddress limiting beliefs obstructing your abundance flow. Through awareness, honesty, patience, courage, and action, shift towards empowering thoughts aligned with your passions.🪄 MONEY MANIFESTATIONTurn passions into prosperity. Identify passions, clarify skills, recognize others' needs, validate the market, price your skill, visualize the exchange, and take the leap.🙏 GRATEFUL INVESTMENTWrite down a skill or hobby you're grateful for, affirming, "I am abundant in skills, passions, and opportunities."📣 ABUNDANCE AFFIRMATIONI am a wellspring of untapped talent and limitless value.I align my passions with purpose.The universe conspires to manifest financial abundance in my life.Every hobby I engage in holds the potential for prosperity.I am grateful for this abundance.I openly receive all the wealth that flows towards me.🙌 KUDOSRecognize your passions as a path to prosperity. Align actions with your soul, and trust in the resultant wealth.💬 COMMUNITY CONVERSATIONWhat's one action you're taking today to monetize your passion? Share in the comments!
View today's full media-rich session 👉 https://intentioninspired.com/money21👁 INTENTIONToday, let's unblock the stream of our financial energy for a more uninterrupted flow of prosperity.💡 INSPIRATIONEmbrace Feng Shui principles to harmonize your financial energy. Key points:🍀 Make space for prosperity.🌀 Release stagnant energy.🛠 Fine-tune financial intentions.💬 WEALTHY WISDOM"Your environment is the garden of your life—nourish it with intention, or watch it wither in neglect. Choose your soil, your sunshine, and your companions wisely; for as you cultivate your surroundings, so blooms your wealth."— Matt Prindle🧬 PROSPERITY PHYSICSPrinceton University Neuroscience Institute research shows orderliness improves focus and decision-making, impacting financial health. Clear your space for enhanced financial clarity.📿 MOOLA MANTRAClear space, welcome grace. Declutter for a focused mind and financial abundance.🧘 MINT MEDITATIONAlign with financial abundance through meditation. Envision a golden orb of wealth, guide it through your body, and visualize attracting financial prosperity. Journal post-meditation insights.✍🏼 RICH REFLECTIONReflect on how your environment mirrors your inner state and how decluttering can invite abundance.🔥 PROSPERITY PIVOTReplace mental clutter with expansive thoughts. Explore Marie Kondo's decluttering methods for a liberated mindset.🪄 MONEY MANIFESTATIONTurn bathing into a wealth-attracting ritual with herbs, crystals, essential oils, and focused intentions. Practice during lunar cycles for enhanced effectiveness.🙏 GRATEFUL INVESTMENTNote your gratitude for clarity and space in your "Grateful Investment Jar."📣 ABUNDANCE AFFIRMATIONI am a clear vessel through which prosperity flows endlessly.🙌 KUDOSCelebrate your steps towards a less cluttered space and mind.💬 COMMUNITY CONVERSATIONShare how you plan to declutter for financial growth. Join the discussion!
View today's full media-rich session 👉 https://intentioninspired.com/money20👁 INTENTIONToday, focus on embodying absolute certainty in financial endeavors to attract wealth and prosperity.💡 INSPIRATIONEmbrace certainty and trust for financial abundance. Clear doubts and visualize financial goals with clarity.Golden Nuggets:🎯 Articulate financial goals.🙏 Maintain unwavering faith.💪 Build tenacity for manifesting desires.👁 Monitor thoughts.💬 WEALTHY WISDOM"Your faith can move mountains, and your doubt can create them." — someone like Jesus Christ in Mark 9:23🧬 PROSPERITY PHYSICSJames Alcock's paper in Skeptical Inquirer highlights our brains as 'Belief Engines'. He argues our beliefs are survival-driven, often prioritizing consistency over truth. This concept supports "mind over matter", implying belief direction can shape our reality.📿 MOOLA MANTRA"I AM. Certain."Use this mantra to anchor confidence and conviction, reinforcing self-identity and purpose amidst life's uncertainties.🧘 MINT MEDITATIONPractice mindful breathing to release tension.✍🏼 RICH REFLECTIONReflect on financial certainty and overcoming doubts.🔥 PROSPERITY PIVOTTurn limiting money beliefs into empowering affirmations.🪄 MONEY MANIFESTATIONIdentify financial goals, visualize success, affirm and act daily.🙏 GRATEFUL INVESTMENTExpress gratitude with a note in a 'Grateful Investment Jar'.📣 ABUNDANCE AFFIRMATION"I am absolutely certain about my path to financial abundance. I trust in the journey."🙌 KUDOSCelebrate progress towards financial certainty. Walk the path with belief in yourself.💬 COMMUNITY CONVERSATIONDiscuss financial growth and confidence. Engage in the community to inspire and support each other.
View today's full media-rich session 👉 https://intentioninspired.com/money19👁 INTENTIONTransform illusory fears into growth and wealth opportunities by infusing faith in thoughts, words, and being.💡 INSPIRATIONFaith, a deep trust in the universe and our abilities to create wealth and well-being, shapes our financial narratives. We are architects of prosperity, oscillating between faith and fear, based on belief and choice.🧐 Fear as False Evidence Appearing Real.🗡️ Confront and dismantle fear.🧠 Cultivate faith in mentality.💬 WEALTHY WISDOMNapoleon Hill highlights faith as vital for wealth accumulation and overcoming failure.🧬 PROSPERITY PHYSICSFaith and wealth creation are linked spiritually and scientifically. Neuroplasticity and quantum theory show how faith influences brain pathways and quantum particles, shaping reality towards wealth and prosperity.📿 MOOLA MANTRA"Faith fosters. Fear falters." Faith nurtures growth and abundance, while fear hinders prosperity.🧘 MINT MEDITATIONVisualize and dissolve fear with the light of faith from within, transforming fear into a stepping stone towards wealth and success.✍️ RICH REFLECTIONReflect on how lack of faith impacts financial decisions. Embrace empowering money beliefs and internalize them to replace limiting ones.💰 MONEY MANIFESTATIONAffirm your ideal state of being and intentions daily to prioritize energy, enhance faith, and replace fear. Observe fear patterns without judgment.📣 ABUNDANCE AFFIRMATIONI am replacing fear with faith, paving the way for abundance and prosperity.💰 GRATEFUL INVESTMENTCombine savings with gratitude in a Grateful Investment Jar. Focus on consistent, grateful saving to shift financial reality.🎴 INTENTION CARD"Have faith. Fear is just an anticipated growth spurt!" - Embrace faith as a transformative power.🙌 KUDOSCelebrate cultivating faith toward wealth and abundance.💞 COMMUNITY CONVERSATIONShare self-discoveries from today's session in the comments.
Explore today's full media-rich session 👉 https://intentioninspired.com/money18👁 INTENTIONToday, we navigate our financial fears, aiming for purposeful abundance.💡 INSPIRATIONRobert Kiyosaki, author of "Rich Dad, Poor Dad," emphasizes making money work for us, shifting from hard labor to leveraging money as a tool.💡 Golden Nuggets:Understand your relationship with money.Shift from fear to reverence for money.Use wealth for purposeful living.💬 WEALTHY WISDOM"Success is measured by your desire, dream size, and handling of disappointment."Robert Kiyosaki🧬 PROSPERITY PHYSICSA Cambridge University study shows our money habits form by age seven. We can reshape these through financial literacy.🧘 MINT MEDITATIONA 6-minute meditation to transform beliefs about money.📿 MOOLA MANTRA"Prosperity through purpose" - aligning wealth with values and intentions for impactful, abundant living.🙏 GRATEFUL INVESTMENTReflect on positive money beliefs and practices, expressing gratitude.🔥 PROSPERITY PIVOTExplore areas of money anxiety or blocks, understanding their roots to foster a more abundant mindset.💚 HEALING PROCESSAcknowledge and heal financial fears, introducing a "Prosperous Self" for better financial decisions.🍏 WEALTHY HABITFocus on acquiring assets (e.g., real estate, stocks, side-hustles) over liabilities (e.g., debts, costly hobbies).✍🏼 RICH REFLECTIONReflect on reshaping your money perspective, identifying liabilities to reduce and exciting assets to cultivate.📣 ABUNDANCE AFFIRMATION"I am worthy of abundance and use it in alignment with my highest purpose."🙌 KUDOSCelebrate progress in understanding money and embracing changes.💞 COMMUNITY CONVERSATIONShare discoveries from today's session in the comments!
Explore the full money session 🤑👉 https://intentioninspired.com/money17👁 INTENTIONToday, let's confront financial scarcity to open up to boundless prosperity.💡 INSPIRATIONTransformative wealth advice focuses on our emotional and mental relationship with money. Overcome scarcity mindset and rewire financial patterns.🌟 TODAY'S GOLDEN NUGGETS• Money is energy; circulate it freely.• Abundance is a state of being, not just in the bank.• Generosity fuels abundance.💬 WEALTHY WISDOM“Abundance...is something we tune into.” - Wayne Dyer, a self-help author and spiritual teacher.🧬 PROSPERITY PHYSICSDr. Carol Dweck's research highlights the importance of a growth mindset in accumulating wealth.Practice: Observe your thoughts on money and shift from scarcity to abundance.📿 MOOLA MANTRA"Abundance flows as the heart knows." A mantra for internalizing prosperity as a state of receptiveness.🧘 MINT MEDITATIONSpend 5 minutes visualizing abundant life, embracing gratitude, and welcoming more.✍🏼 RICH REFLECTIONReflect on limiting beliefs about wealth. Identify their origins and how to transform them today.🔥 PROSPERITY PIVOTAcknowledge subconscious financial barriers with awareness, not judgment. Choose abundance.🪄 MONEY MANIFESTATIONVisualize a stress-free financial life. Embrace the emotions, release desires, and trust the universe. Act as if it's already true.🙏 GRATEFUL INVESTMENTGratitude practice enhances well-being and financial decision-making. Identify and appreciate financial blessings.📣 ABUNDANCE AFFIRMATION“I am a conduit of limitless prosperity, attracting abundance with gratitude and generosity.”🙌 KUDOSCongrats on today's session! Embrace abundance as an internal journey. Join us tomorrow for more!💞 COMMUNITY CONVERSATIONShare your insights from today's session in the comments!
Check out today's full money session 🤑👉https://intentioninspired.com/money16👁 INTENTIONTransform money mayhem into growth by navigating challenges with a peaceful heart and clear mind.💡 INSPIRATIONMoney is a medium of exchange, a measure of value, and a transaction facilitator. Stress around it can create tunnel vision. Approaching it with loving-kindness and compassion transforms spending, earning, debt management, and more.🛶 Peace empowers wise financial choices🌼 Embrace existing wealth🌱 Plant seeds for financial stability💬 WEALTHY WISDOM“Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.”– Benjamin Franklin🧬 PROSPERITY PHYSICSMindful practices lead to logical financial decisions. Pause and breathe before decisions for clarity and alignment with values.📿 MOOLA MANTRAPeace Begets ProsperityContentment fosters wealth. Use the mantra to return to peace, the cornerstone of prosperity.🧘 MINT MEDITATIONFocus on inner peace and financial abundance. Visualize a light of peace in your heart, expanding to your financial aspects, transforming them positively.✍️ RICH REFLECTIONConsider beliefs causing financial stress. Reshape these for financial freedom. Reflect on contentment in financial life and its impact.🔥 PROSPERITY PIVOTChallenge scarcity mindsets and limiting beliefs about money. Replace them with empowering beliefs for wealth flow.🪄 MONEY MANIFESTATION1. Identify a financial goal.2. Embody the achievement in imagination.3. Release the image, trusting in its manifestation.4. Take aligned action towards the goal.🙏 GRATEFUL INVESTMENTExpress gratitude for a past financial decision. Record it in a “Grateful Investment Jar.”📣 ABUNDANCE AFFIRMATIONEmbrace abundance and prosperity. Welcome peace as your guide in financial matters.🙌 KUDOSCongratulations on completing today’s session. Keep peace as your financial ally.💬 COMMUNITY CONVERSATIONShare what ‘financial peace’ means to you in the comments!
Explore today's full session 🤑👉 https://intentioninspired.com/money15👁 INTENTIONToday, let's bring our financial wisdom into focus, merging it into a holistic plan so that we can step into a future of financial liberation and empowerment.💡 INSPIRATIONUnderstand that money can be a stress source or a freedom vehicle. Take ownership of your financial situation to create opportunities.👁️ Golden Nuggets:• Define your current financial status and future goals.• Write a financial plan.• Commit to a long-term strategy.💬 WEALTHY WISDOM“Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.” – Abraham Lincoln🧬 PROSPERITY PHYSICSStudies show that a clear financial roadmap enhances goal achievement. Writing down goals and having accountability increases success by 33%.📿 MOOLA MANTRA"Plan, Act, Thrive." Embrace clarity in planning and consistency in action for financial success.🧘 MINT MEDITATIONVisualize your current financial situation and your ideal financial future. Plant the seeds for this vision through intentions and actions.✍🏼 RICH REFLECTIONRefine your SMART money goal:Specific: Define a precise financial goal.Measurable: Establish criteria for success.Achievable: Outline necessary actions.Relevant: Connect the goal to personal significance.Time-Bound: Set a deadline.Identify your first action step and accountability measures.🔥 PROSPERITY PIVOTIdentify and challenge limiting beliefs. Replace them with liberating truths aligned with your financial goals.🪄 MONEY MANIFESTATIONRitualize your financial intentions:Take a deep breath.Touch your heart.Speak your SMART goal.Visualize daily actions.Commit with a fist.Release and smile.🙏 GRATEFUL INVESTMENTExpress gratitude for a financial or abundance-related aspect in your life.📣 ABUNDANCE AFFIRMATIONCommit to growing in financial understanding, transforming your relationship with money into empowerment and liberation. Align actions with your purpose and ambition.🙌 KUDOSCelebrate the culmination of a week of financial wisdom and empowerment. Prepare for continued insights.💬 COMMUNITY CONVERSATIONShare your committed action step in your money plan and its impact on your financial goals.
View the full money session here 👉 https://intentioninspired.com/money14👁️ INTENTIONLet's cultivate the intention to invest our money (and all energy) wisely so that we can experience the magic of compounding interest—in all areas of life.💡 INSPIRATIONWarren Buffet, the Oracle of Omaha, once said, "My wealth has come from a combination of living in America, some lucky genes, and compound interest." Did you know ~90% of Buffet's wealth has been acquired in the last ~10% of his investing career? This has less to do with making better financial decisions, and much more to do with the powerful snowball effect of compound interest.Here's a graph that shows how saving just $500 per year turns into $250,000 over 30 years of compound interest in a standard 15% investment account.And that's just what happens with a 15% increase per year—which is based on the actual average interest I've earned from my personal low-risk Wealthfront Investment Account (which I highly recommend) since I first opened it in 2016.The principle of compound interest applies universally to our lives. It inspires us to hold the vision, have patience, and trust the process—not just with our financial gains, but in the growth of our well-being, relationships, spiritual development, and professional growth, and most especially for insert your intention.Today's Key Actionable Takeaways: 🙋 Save at least 10% of everything you earn. 💸 Slowly and consistently invest your savings. ⏳ Hold the vision, trust the process.💬 QUOTECompound interest is the eighth wonder of the world. He who understands it, earns it; he who doesn't, pays it.- Albert Einstein🧬 SCIENCEStudies show the importance of starting to invest early and how compound interest really multiplies our wealth over the long term.One study compared the total amount accumulated by two individuals who invested the same total amount but started at different ages. The first individual started investing at 25 and stopped at 35, investing for just 10 years. The second individual began investing at 35 and continued until 65, investing for 30 years.Despite the second individual investing three times as much, the first individual accumulated more wealth by the age of 65. This surprising outcome was the result of the power of compound interest: the first individual’s investments had more time to grow, demonstrating that the length of time money is put to work can be more important than the amount invested.This study inspires us to act now. Start saving and investing today, no matter how small the amount might be. Let your money work for you over time, and watch as the magic of compound interest enhances your wealth.📿 MANTRAHold the vision. Trust the process.✍🏼 JOURNAL PROMPTHow would your financial situation look different if you saved 10% of everything you earn?Let's find out:I earn about $ _______ / month x 12 = $ ________ / year x 10 = $ ________ / decade x 0.1 = $ _________ the amount I would have if I saved 10% over the past decade.And now just imagine if that saved money was making compound interest! 💰🤑💰What small, consistent actions can you start taking today for long-term growth and success?🙏 GRATITUDEWhere have you experienced massive growth over a long period of time thanks to small, consistent actions? Express gratitude for the growth and improvement these actions have facilitated.Here are a few examples: Health and Fitness 💪 Learning and Skill Development 🎸 Relationships 💞 Hobby Growth 🤓 Habit Formation 🫡 Environmental Impact 🌱 The critical factor in all these examples is consistency over time. Much like with compound interest, the benefits might seem insignificant or even nonexistent in the short term. But given enough time, their accumulated effects can be significant and transformative.📣 AFFIRMATIONI am consistently investing in my growth and reaping exponential benefits.
Explore today's full session 👉 https://intentioninspired.com/money13👁 INTENTIONDispel the myth of quick riches and embrace the transformative power of steady, long-term investments.💡 INSPIRATIONReal wealth comes from consistency and discipline, not high-risk, quick-reward schemes. Successful investors favor a steady approach.Today's Golden Nuggets:🍊 Consistency beats timing.🍓 Diversify, don't gamble.🍋 Patience yields dividends.💬 WEALTHY WISDOM"The stock market transfers money from the impatient to the patient." – Warren Buffett🧬 PROSPERITY PHYSICSPoor market timing, driven by emotional decisions, leads to below-average returns for most investors. Prosperity follows consistent momentum.Inspired Action: Automate small, monthly investments into diversified funds.📿 MOOLA MANTRASlow growth ensures sure wealth. Patience is an effective investment strategy.🧘 MINT MEDITATIONReflect on the wisdom of patience and steady progress in financial growth.✍️ RICH REFLECTIONConsider your emotional triggers for impulsive decisions and envision a life of steady, growing wealth.🔥 PROSPERITY PIVOTReplace “I need money now” with “My wealth is always growing” to counteract the lure of quick riches.🪄 MONEY MANIFESTATIONVisualize abundance as a glowing ball of golden light.Affirm, “I am worthy of abundance and financial freedom.”Practice gratitude for financial flow.🙏 GRATEFUL INVESTMENTAcknowledge one financial decision you're grateful for.📣 ABUNDANCE AFFIRMATIONEmbrace being a long-term investor in wealth, well-being, and wisdom.🙌 KUDOSCelebrate your commitment to a slow but sure path to riches.💬 COMMUNITY CONVERSATIONShare long-term investments that excite you.
Check out today's full session » https://intentioninspired.com/money12👁 INTENTIONToday, let's commit to cultivating a sanctuary of financial peace through intentional saving, so that we can alleviate the burden of unexpected expenses and unlock the potential of compound growth.💡 INSPIRATIONConsistently saving a portion of your income is a critical strategy for financial freedom. This habit establishes a financial safety net for emergencies and harnesses the power of compound interest. Saving regularly not only addresses immediate financial concerns but also lays the groundwork for long-term wealth accumulation. It's about meeting fundamental human needs: security against financial emergencies and the excitement of watching your investments grow over time.Consider the liberating feeling of being prepared for life's uncertainties while simultaneously nurturing a prosperous future through compound interest. Let's delve deeper!Today's Insights:🐖 Aim to save at least 10% of your income.🛟 Build an emergency fund for unexpected life events.🌲 Utilize the power of compound interest to grow your savings.💬 WEALTHY WISDOMWarren Buffett, a renowned investor, advises, "Do not save what is left after spending, but spend what is left after saving." This wisdom from a man who began investing at 11 years old underscores the importance of prioritizing savings.🧬 PROSPERITY PHYSICSAlbert Einstein famously described compound interest as the eighth wonder of the world. This principle demonstrates how consistent savings, even modest amounts, can grow significantly over time. The exponential nature of compounding allows your savings to generate further earnings, creating a powerful wealth-building effect. The best time to start capitalizing on this is now.📿 MOOLA MANTRA"Save today, prosper tomorrow." This mantra emphasizes the foresight and mindfulness in financial planning. Saving is an act of self-care, a gesture towards your future self, and a belief in life's abundance.✍🏼 RICH REFLECTIONReflect on the peace of mind from having emergency savings. Consider the impact of consistently saving 10% of your income. Identify obstacles to saving and strategize ways to overcome them, making saving a more effortless part of your life.🔥 PROSPERITY PIVOTAddress limiting beliefs around saving. Identify and challenge these thoughts, replacing them with empowering beliefs like "saving is empowering." Embrace these new beliefs, allowing them to guide your financial decisions.🪄 MONEY MANIFESTATIONConsider the benefits of consistent savings: security, freedom, and empowerment. Visualize the positive outcomes of this practice and incorporate it into your routine.ACTION STEPS:Set up an automated savings plan. Begin by expressing gratitude for your financial resources. Then, calculate 10% of your average monthly income and establish a recurring transaction to transfer this amount into a savings or investment account. Optionally, divide this amount into weekly transactions for ease.🙏 GRATEFUL INVESTMENTPractice gratitude for your financial resources and the security your savings provide. Write a note of thanks for these blessings and add it to your Grateful Investment Jar.📣 ABUNDANCE AFFIRMATION"I am a conduit of financial wisdom and prosperity. Saving money is an act of self-care and secures my freedom. Every dollar saved is a step towards my ultimate freedom and peace." Repeat these words to reinforce your commitment to financial prudence.🙌 KUDOSCongratulations on deepening your understanding of saving as an essential aspect of financial wisdom. Remember, this journey is a marathon, not a sprint. Every small step is a victory.💞 COMMUNITY CONVERSATIONShare your insights and experiences from today's session in the comments. Let's learn from each other and grow together in our financial wisdom journey.
Explore today's full session 👉 https://intentioninspired.com/money11👁 INTENTIONToday, let's courageously confront the formidable challenge of DEBT, a crucial step in reclaiming our financial autonomy. This journey empowers us to pave the way for creating generational wealth and positions us as channels for boundless generosity. Our focus is to break free from the chains of debt, liberating ourselves to a future filled with financial prosperity and the capacity to give generously.💡 INSPIRATIONImagine debt as a suffocating veil, overshadowing our aspirations and trapping us in a financial maze. It often feels like an ever-tightening straitjacket, constricting with each bill and expense. However, with a steadfast commitment to budgeting and employing strategies like the debt snowball method, the dream of a debt-free existence becomes achievable. Tackling this significant challenge opens doors to a future abundant in financial liberty, opportunities for growth, and the pure joy of generous giving.Inspired by the wisdom of renowned financial experts, today is about charting our bold escape from the clutches of debt. Let's embark on this enlightening journey.Today's Golden Nuggets:🌱 Draft a detailed financial plan.🌊 Initiate the debt snowball strategy.🌳 Cultivate a vision for long-term wealth and stability.💬 WEALTHY WISDOM"The borrower is slave to the lender." — Proverbs 22:7This profound proverb reminds us of the crucial importance of overcoming debt to achieve financial independence.🧬 PROSPERITY PHYSICSResearch indicates a strong correlation between high debt levels and increased stress and depression. Debt transcends mere numbers; it's a significant mental health concern.Actionable Insight: Thoroughly analyze and list all your debts. Facing these figures head-on today can lead to a more stress-free and financially sound tomorrow.📿 MOOLA MANTRA"Debt-free, abundantly me."Embrace the empowering essence of these words. They represent a pivotal shift: financial freedom transcends bank balances—it's about embracing an abundant mindset. Regularly affirming this mantra aligns your energy with the universe's rhythm of abundance. Let these words guide you, transforming your financial perspective and actions to align with today's intention of conquering debt. 🐉Practice: Repeat "debt-free, abundantly me" during financial transactions or contemplations.🧘 MINT MEDITATIONIn today's meditation, visualize breaking free from debt using the "debt snowball" approach.✍🏼 RICH REFLECTIONReflect on your initial encounters with debt. Envision your life debt-free. Identify one immediate action towards this goal.🔥 PROSPERITY PIVOTTransform your financial narrative from a limiting story to an empowering saga. Replace "I can't afford this" with "How can I afford this?" Challenge limiting beliefs with empowering questions, setting the foundation for financial liberation.🪄 MONEY MANIFESTATIONManifesting out of debt involves practical, focused actions aligned with your financial goals.Manifestation Steps:1. List All Debts: Record every debt, from smallest to largest.2. Budget: Understand your income and expenses. Spot surplus funds.3. Minimum Payments: Automate these for all debts.4. Tackle Smallest Debt: Direct extra funds to clear the smallest debt first.5. Employ Snowball Effect: Once a debt is cleared, apply its payment to the next.6. Celebrate and Adapt: Acknowledge each cleared debt. Adjust strategies as needed.📣 ABUNDANCE AFFIRMATION"I am more than capable of achieving a debt-free life, opening doors to saving, investing, and generous giving. I am taking active steps to liberate myself from debt, paving the way to prosperity and peace. As each debt disappears, my life's capacity for abundance grows."💬 COMMUNITY CONVERSATIONWhat empowering action are you inspired to take today to break free from debt?Share your thoughts in the comments!
Explore the 30 Days of Money Journey 👉 https://intentioninspired.com/moneyToday's full money session 👉 https://intentioninspired.com/money10👁 INTENTIONToday, let's peel back the layers of financial murkiness that weigh on us by creating a written plan for our money that will pave the way to financial freedom.💡 INSPIRATIONAchieving financial freedom is more than just amassing wealth; it's about gaining mastery over your finances. Often, we find ourselves entangled in the web of bills and unforeseen expenses. It's time to sever these ties and march to the beat of our own drum with a solid financial strategy, one that endures the test of time. Let's delve into understanding our financial state, pinpointing the leaks, and identifying avenues for significant gains!Today's Key Insights:🤓 Understand the journey of every penny.📝 Develop a concrete plan for financial autonomy.⏳ Escape debt and turn your finances into your allies.💬 Wisdom on Wealth"Control your money, or it will control you."— Dave Ramsey🧬 The Science of ProsperityResearch indicates that prioritizing time over money correlates with increased happiness. Yet, the two are deeply connected. Managing our finances well buys us the precious commodity of time.Hence, let's focus on budgeting as a tool for freeing up time. We'll guide you through this process step-by-step below.📿 Mantra for Money Mastery"Master Money, Master Life."Approaching our finances with intention frees up mental and emotional energy, fostering creativity, peace, and a life free from financial stress. Let this mantra remind us that our relationship with money profoundly affects our well-being and life quality.🧘 Meditation on MoneyIn today's meditation, we will reflect on our financial landscape, identify what's effective, and focus on a healthier path to financial liberation.✍🏼 Reflect on RichnessContemplate the essence of financial freedom. What feelings arise? Notice the physical sensations.What aspects of your current financial strategy are effective? Where do you falter? Jot down your thoughts.Where are you drawn to focus your financial energies? What specific actions can you take to foster a healthier financial future?🪄 Manifesting MoneyLet's actualize greater wealth by mastering our finances! Here's an effective strategy:Step 1: 📜 Audit Your FinancesList all income sources and expenses.Step 2: 🎯 Prioritize Essential ExpensesIdentify fixed costs and necessities.Step 3: ☔️ Create a Safety NetAllocate funds for emergencies.Step 4: ⚔️ Eliminate DebtUse the "Debt Snowball Technique" to systematically reduce debts.Step 5: 🌱 Invest WiselyAfter clearing bad debts, invest in opportunities like stocks or education.Step 6: 🎉 Celebrate Financial FreedomEnjoy life's pleasures with the money you've saved and grown.Step 7: 🗺️ Review and AdjustContinuously update your budget to reflect changes and improvements.🙏 Gratitude in WealthAppreciate your current financial state. Note down one aspect of your wealth you're grateful for in your "Grateful Investment Jar".📣 Affirmation for Abundance"I am the master of my financial destiny. My actions lead me to financial freedom. My spending and saving serve my greater freedom. I align with abundance, shaping my reality with wise decisions and positive energy."🙌 Celebrating ProgressCongratulations on taking a substantial step toward redefining your financial reality. Integrating this process into your daily, weekly, and monthly routine will be immensely rewarding. Keep shining and join us tomorrow for more insights on financial wisdom!💬 Community ConversationShare your most significant financial victory and the lessons learned that you apply to your ongoing financial journey.We welcome your insights in the comments!
Explore the 30 Days of Money Journey 👉 https://intentioninspired.com/moneyView today's full session 👉 https://intentioninspired.com/money9Today, let's tend to our money garden by cultivating the seeds of financial literacy so that we better understand the simple practices that create wealth and abundance.✨ INSPIRATIONFinancial literacy is the ability to understand and apply various financial skills, including personal financial management, budgeting, and investing. It's about making educated decisions with all of the financial resources, from daily budgeting to long-term retirement planning.In this spirit, let's embrace these core principles financial gurus echo over and over:📚 Commit to learning financial concepts🔄 Track your money and embrace budgeting 💰 Save for emergencies and invest for the future 📿 MANTRAI am the architect of my financial freedom.🔥 RELEASING RITUALLet's explore and release some of our limiting language, thoughts, and beliefs around money. 👋 Identify and converse with your inner 'financial protector.' 📝 Let your inner 'financial protector' completely take over your journal in order to air out all the doubts, concerns, fears, etc. .... just let it flow!🥰 Acknowledge your 'financial protector' and the fears it holds. Thank and reassure this part of yourself with the power of your conscious intentions.🔥 Should you desire, safely burn this paper as you repeat the mantra, "I am open to abundance."✍🏼 JOURNAL PROMPTWhat would financial freedom look like for you?Use vivid language. Bonus bucks if you can bring these visuals to life with shapes, colors, sounds, etc.📣 AFFIRMATION I am learning the language of finance toward abundance and prosperity.💞 COMMUNITY CONVERSATIONWhat did you discover about yourself during today's session? Feel free to share in the comments below.
Today, let's focus on internalizing the timeless principles of wealth creation so that we can build financial resilience and prosperity. Today's Full Money Session » https://intentioninspired.com/money830 Days of Money Journey » https://intentioninspired.com/money✨ INSPIRATIONToday's session is inspired by George S. Clason's wisdom, a man who revolutionized our understanding of wealth creation in his book, The Richest Man in Babylon. As we dive into the essence of his words, we discover that wealth creation and prosperity, like a tree, require time and nurturing to grow.So today, we'll explore ways to:🌱 Plant the seeds of financial health and wealth 🌳 Nourish our prosperity with consistent savings☀️ Cultivate positive self-beliefs that promote beneficial financial choices💬 QUOTEWealth, like a tree, grows from a tiny seed. The first copper you save is the seed from which your tree of wealth shall grow. The sooner you plant that seed the sooner shall the tree grow. And the more faithfully you nourish and water that tree with consistent savings, the sooner may you bask in contentment beneath its shade.George S. Clasonauthor of "The Richest Man in Babylon"🧬 SCIENCEIn a study titled Self –Esteem, Financial Knowledge and Financial Behavior, researchers shed light on how our self-perceptions impact our financial decisions, discovering that self-esteem is significantly related to individual financial behavior. The key takeaway is that positive self-beliefs encourage informed and beneficial financial choices. So today, let's challenge any negative self-beliefs about money and reinforce your confidence in managing your finances. We have the power to cultivate financial resilience!📿 MANTRAProsperity flows through me, abundantly.🙏 GRATITUDEWrite a thank-you note to money, acknowledging its role in your life.Show gratitude for your financial blessings, no matter how small. Acknowledge the journey you've embarked on, and appreciate the steps you've already taken towards financial prosperity.🌚 SHADOW WORKLet's investigate our financial shadows.Are there patterns of scarcity or victimhood in your financial life? Note them without judgment. Practice allowing, accepting, and embracing these patterns. Dissolving them starts with clear, compassionate awareness. 🧸 CONTEMPLATIONTake a moment to pause, pivot, and merge into your financial journey. Reflect on your past financial decisions, the patterns that served you well, and those that didn't. What insights do they reveal? How can you apply these insights to your future decisions? ❤️🩹 HEALING PRACTICERecognize any financial fears or anxieties as protective parts within you. Thank these parts for their concern, and reassure them that you are taking proactive steps towards financial resilience. In this way, we can begin to heal our relationship with money. 🔥 RELEASING RITUALLet's perform a symbolic release of your financial worries or limiting beliefs. GATHER: 🏺 Jar 💧 Water 🧂 SaltSTEPS:1. Fill a jar with water, representing your mind. 2. Add a pinch of salt, symbolizing your worries and limiting beliefs. 3. Allow the salt to dissolve, signifying the release and transformation of these concerns into growth and prosperity. This ritual will support your intention to cultivate financial resilience.✍🏼 JOURNAL PROMPT What changes can you make to my daily routine to improve my financial health and wealth? 📣 AFFIRMATION "I enjoy the steady journey of financial prosperity." 💞 COMMUNITY CONVERSATIONKudos for embracing the journey toward financial prosperity. 💸🌿🕊️ Our wealth is growing every day as we continue to consistently re-align with the prosperous and abundant parts of ourselves.What did you discover about your abundantly prosperous self today? What is one takeaway you are excited to implement?We'd love to hear from you in the community Activity Feed at https://intentioninspired.com/
Explore the 30 Days of Money Journey 👉 https://intentioninspired.com/moneyView the full media-rich session at https://intentioninspired.com/money7👁 INTENTIONToday, let's explore what role actions have in the manifesting process so that we can take aligned action toward creating wealth (or anything else).💡 INSPIRATIONManifesting wealth starts from within. It's a process involving shifts in being, thinking, speaking, and acting. This leads to manifestation.Today's Gold Nuggets:Manifestation begins with 'being,' then moves to 'thinking,' 'speaking,' and 'acting.'Vibration, reflected in feelings, attracts outcomes.Action is crucial for receiving what you manifest.Every action, no matter how small, is significant.💬 WEALTHY WISDOM"Every action...touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity." - Edwin Hubbell Chapin🧬 PROSPERITY PHYSICSQuantum physics suggests that our vibrations influence the universe. Emotional intentions and actions create vibrations that can manifest desires.Key takeaway: Align actions with intent, emotions, and thoughts to enhance manifestation potential.📿 MOOLA MANTRAEmbrace the Imperfect Step: Act even when conditions aren't perfect. Every step is a vibrant expression of your inner state.🧘 MINT MEDITATIONAlign thoughts, emotions, and actions with desired manifestations through visualization and affirmations.✍🏼 RICH REFLECTIONReflect on your vibrational energy, thoughts about wealth, words used to discuss finances, and actions aligning with financial goals.🔥 PROSPERITY PIVOTAddress limiting beliefs hindering wealth creation through awareness, honesty, patience, self-compassion, and courage.🪄 MONEY MANIFESTATIONReplace a limiting belief with an empowering thought to guide actions towards abundance.🙏 GRATEFUL INVESTMENTAcknowledge gratitude for what money has provided in your life.📣 ABUNDANCE AFFIRMATION"I align my thoughts, words, and actions with my intentions, bringing abundance into my life."🙌 KUDOSCelebrate every small step towards financial success.💬 COMMUNITY CONVERSATIONShare a small action you'll take today towards your financial goals.
Explore the 30 Days of Money Journey 👉 https://intentioninspired.com/moneyExplore today's full session at https://intentioninspired.com/money6👁 INTENTIONToday, focus on aligning thoughts and feelings with financial goals, understanding the “why” behind monetary aspirations.💡 INSPIRATIONEmotions are catalysts, not just reactions. They amplify the strength of intentions, aiding in achieving financial freedom and inner peace.🌱 Identify emotions related to financial dreams.🌟 Visualize financial dreams in detail.🚀 Use mantras to enhance emotional alignment.💬 WEALTHY WISDOM“Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.” – Elizabeth Gilbert🧬 PROSPERITY PHYSICSHarvard Business School study: Aligning values and emotions with financial goals increases success rates.Action: Daily, identify and deeply feel emotions that align with financial goals.📿 MOOLA MANTRA“Feel to Fuel”Emotions are both a compass and a catalyst for realizing financial dreams.🧘 MINT MEDITATIONFocus on aligning emotions with financial intentions in meditation.✍🏼 RICH REFLECTIONReflect on emotions connected to financial dreams and aligning them with goals. Practice this emotional alignment daily.🔥 PROSPERITY PIVOTPivot from negative money emotions to positive ones to change financial thinking and behavior patterns.🪄 MONEY MANIFESTATIONVisualize money flowing in, feeling associated emotions. Use the mantra “This, or something even better.” Repeat before financial decisions.🙏 GRATEFUL INVESTMENTAcknowledge existing abundance and feelings while contributing to a “Grateful Investment Jar.”📣 ABUNDANCE AFFIRMATION“I am emotionally aligned with my financial dreams. Every step I take is guided by this powerful alignment.”🎴 INTENTION CARDDownload high-res art files at https://intentioninspired.com/money6🙌 KUDOSCongratulations on completing today's session on financial well-being. Continue tomorrow for more on building a wealthy life.💞 COMMUNITY CONVERSATIONShare discoveries about aligning emotions with financial goals in the comments.
Explore the 30 Days of Money Journey 👉 https://intentioninspired.com/moneyView the full session at https://intentioninspired.com/money5👁 INTENTIONToday, focus on clarifying our vision and setting goals to guide us toward our financial desires.💡 INSPIRATIONOur vision is our compass, and goals are our roadmap, transforming thoughts into structured actions aligned with our deepest desires.Today's Insights:🔮 Visualize with conviction.🎯 Set clear goals.🌱 Develop wealth consciousness.💡 Be open to universal guidance.💬 QUOTE"Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakens."– Carl Jung🎭 STORYTIMEJim Carrey, once unknown and broke, would visualize his success by driving along Mulholland Drive. In 1992, he wrote himself a $10,000,000 check for “Acting services rendered,” dated “Thanksgiving 1995”. By then, he earned that amount for 'Dumb and Dumber'. This story highlights the need for conviction and action alongside goals.🧬 PROSPERITY PHYSICSA Harvard MBA study found that 3% of graduates with written goals earned ten times more than the other 97%. This demonstrates the immense power of goal-setting.🧘 MEDITATIONToday's 8-minute meditation focuses on fostering wealth and abundance.📿 MOOLA MANTRA"I actively create my destiny."🧸 REFLECTIONReflect on past goals and their impact on your life and growth.🙏 GRATEFUL INVESTMENTExpress gratitude for your ability to dream and set goals. Write a thank you letter to yourself for your dreams and goals.🍏 HEALTHY HABITInclude goal-setting in daily journaling. Write and visualize your goals each morning.✍🏼 RICH REFLECTIONWrite down specific life goals. How do they align with your values and dreams?💚 HEALING PROCESSAddress any internal obstacles to your goals with love and understanding.🪄 MONEY MANIFESTATIONVisualize your goals as achieved and feel the joy of this achievement.📣 ABUNDANCE AFFIRMATION"I am achieving my goals with care, conviction, commitment, and joy."🙌 KUDOSCongratulations on completing today's session. Your dreams and goals are valid and crucial to your fulfillment.💞 COMMUNITY CONVERSATIONShare your insights from today's session on visualization and goal-setting in the comments!
Explore the 30 Days of Money Journey 👉 https://intentioninspired.com/moneyExplore today's full money session 🤑👉 https://intentioninspired.com/money3👁 INTENTIONToday, let's dive into the sacred alignment between purpose and prosperity through the Japanese concept of Ikigai, so that we can welcome an unshakeable wealth that mirrors our soul's passion and worth.💡 INSPIRATIONIkigai teaches that aligning our life's work with our soul's bliss ensures inevitable prosperity. This alignment beckons universal affluence, echoing our inner wealth.Today's Golden Nuggets:🌌 Discover your Ikigai for a soul-aligned path.🌟 Achieve true wealth with purpose-driven actions.🌿 Understand purpose and prosperity's symbiosis.💬 QUOTE“Work is love made visible. If you can't work with love, take alms of those who work with joy.” – Kahlil Gibran, inspiring purposeful living with love and joy.🧬 PROSPERITY PHYSICSStudies show a purposeful life reduces mortality and cardiovascular disease risks, suggesting that purpose fosters healthier lifestyle choices, benefiting physical and mental health.📿 MOOLA MANTRA"I Align, I Prosper."Prosperity is assured when aligned with your true calling. This mantra helps realign your spirit.🧘 MINT MEDITATIONA 9-minute meditation focuses on living intentionally and aligning with your purpose, embracing your inherent abundance through Ikigai.✍🏼 RICH REFLECTIONExplore Ikigai to find where passion, skill, need, and income intersect perfectly. Use a Venn diagram to identify this harmonious convergence.🧸 REFLECTIONContemplate your life's purpose beyond your job. Consider what internally drives you, offering endless satisfaction and aligning with your true self and deepest desires.🔥 PROSPERITY PIVOTChallenge limiting beliefs like, “I can’t earn from my passion,” with empowering thoughts such as, “Soul alignment ensures prosperity.”📣 ABUNDANCE AFFIRMATION"Prosperity naturally flows into my life as I courageously explore and align with my life's purpose."🙌 KUDOSBy aligning your soul’s purpose with prosperity, you’re tapping into the universe's supportive nature, guiding you to joy, wealth, and fulfillment.💞 COMMUNITY CONVERSATIONShare your insights from today's session. We're eager to hear your thoughts in the comments!Tomorrow, we'll focus on setting powerful goals to pave the way for more money, wealth, and abundance!
Explore the 30 Days of Money Journey 👉 https://intentioninspired.com/moneyExplore today's full money session 🤑👉 https://intentioninspired.com/money4👁 INTENTIONToday, let's shift focus from chasing money to problem-solving for genuine contribution and creativity.💡 INSPIRATIONProsperity lies in impactful actions and solutions. True wealth is found in problem-solving, valuable to both material and spiritual growth.Today's Golden Nuggets🌟 Chase solutions, not money.🌱 Wealth comes from valuable contributions.🔥 Align your skills with problem-solving.💬 WEALTHY WISDOM“Do not wait... Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you have..." - Napoleon Hill.🧬 PROSPERITY PHYSICSPurposeful action correlates with success. Problem-Solution Fit is vital for economic and social impact.📿 MOOLA MANTRASeek Solutions, Summon Wealth. Focus on solutions for personal and collective wealth.🧘 MINT MEDITATIONVisualize solving a problem using your talents, feeling the fulfillment and impact of your solution.✍🏼 RICH REFLECTIONConsider problems you can uniquely solve and the emotional impact of your solutions.🔥 PROSPERITY PIVOTFace doubts about value or impact with the belief: “My purpose is my pathway to prosperity.“🪄 MONEY MANIFESTATION1. Identify Your Unique Gifts: Recognize your talents and how they can serve.2. Consider Service Opportunities: Align talents with community needs.3. Brainstorm Practical Applications: Apply talents for service.4. Plan Your Approach: Outline steps to use your talents in service.5. Take Action: Implement your plan.6. Set Monetary Goals: Set financial targets for your service/product.7. Adapt and Grow: Be open to feedback and adjustments.8. Celebrate Your Impact: Acknowledge your positive influence.🙏 GRATEFUL INVESTMENTExpress gratitude for wealth created through problem-solving.📣 ABUNDANCE AFFIRMATION"I harness my talents to create value and abundance, architecting impact and prosperity."🙌 KUDOSCongratulations on taking a step towards being a problem solver and wealth creator.💬 COMMUNITY CONVERSATIONShare a problem you'd like to solve and its potential enrichment to your life.
Explore the 30 Days of Money Journey 👉 https://intentioninspired.com/moneyCheck out today's full session 🤑👉 https://intentioninspired.com/money2👁 INTENTIONToday, let's embrace our unique magic to attract authentic wealth and prosperity.💡 INSPIRATIONOur individuality is our most valuable asset, a journey of self-discovery. By understanding and practicing our unique abilities, we innovate, create, and stand out—morphing intention into reality.Today's Golden Nuggets:🎨 Uncover your unique skills.🧲 Attract opportunities by being yourself.🚀 Transform, don't conform.💬 WEALTHY WISDOM"Don't aim to be someone else. Aim to be yourself, but better." – Cal Newport🧬 PROSPERITY PHYSICSLike the Quantum Observer Effect, our attention and intentions transform. Turn the observer's lens onto your traits and talents—observe, then act.📿 MOOLA MANTRABe you, be rich. Align skills, passions, and values for an irreplicable blend of awesomeness that the world pays for.✍🏼 RICH REFLECTIONReflect on an overlooked income source in your unique traits. Imagine financial abundance—how do your skills contribute? Write a mission statement incorporating uniqueness into financial goals.🔥 PROSPERITY PIVOTShift from self-doubt to fiscal freedom. Be aware, honest, patient, self-compassionate, and courageous. When hiding uniqueness, pivot—replace limiting beliefs with liberating truths.🪄 MONEY MANIFESTATIONVisualize money flowing effortlessly by leveraging your unique skills. Act as if it has already happened.🙏 GRATEFUL INVESTMENTFeel sincere gratitude for your unique qualities. Write down one thing, fold it, and place it in your "Grateful Investment Jar" to attract abundance effortlessly.📣 ABUNDANCE AFFIRMATIONEmbrace uniqueness as the greatest financial asset. Individuality brings endless opportunities for success.🙌 KUDOSBravo for completing today's session! You've opened the door to financial fulfillment through the power of your unique self.See you tomorrow as we delve into what makes us truly unique, doubling down on being our unique selves—and getting paid for it!💬 COMMUNITY CONVERSATIONHow has embracing your individuality benefited your financial journey? Share your thoughts in the comments!
Explore the 30 Days of Money Journey 👉 https://intentioninspired.com/moneyExplore today's full money session 🤑👉 https://intentioninspired.com/money1👁 INTENTIONEmbark on a courageous journey into the depths of our financial aspirations today. Our aim is to synchronize our actions with our values, fostering a life rich not just in monetary terms, but in the wealth of the soul.💡 INSPIRATIONRemember, you are in command of your financial fate. To truly unlock our potential for prosperity, we need to dig deep into our innermost financial desires. By understanding our true selves, we can effortlessly attract and enjoy external wealth. Are you ready for this exploration?Today's Insights:🌱 Cultivate a sincere intention for financial well-being.🎯 Identify the true desires driving your financial aims.🔄 Transition from impulsive spending to thoughtful investing.💬 FINANCIAL PHILOSOPHY"Money is a tool. It will transport you wherever you desire, but it won't drive for you."– Ayn Rand, noted author and philosopher🧬 ECONOMIC EPIPHANIESA compelling study, "The Neuroscience of Financial Decision Making", reveals that aligning our financial intentions with our emotions can greatly enhance wealth creation.Let's harness the power of our adaptable mind. Set aside time to ponder your financial goals and align your feelings with them. This will supercharge your wealth-building journey through the marvels of neuroscience.📿 PROSPERITY PROVERBWealth is birthed from intention.Each financial decision, be it savings, investment, or spending, stems from an underlying intention. You are the author of your wealth narrative. You are the alchemist transmuting intentions into wealth.🧘 MONEY MINDFULNESSToday's meditation focuses on uncovering our innermost financial desires to find where money and intention intersect.Take a deep breath, exhale, and gently return to the present.✍🏼 REFLECTIVE RICHES1. Identify the core of your financial desires.2. List an emotion that resonates with this goal.3. Revisit and deepen your understanding of these intentions.4. Align your financial choices today with these intentions and emotions. Adjust as necessary.🔥 PROSPERITY PIVOTTired of feeling financially trapped? It's time to change that narrative.Today's Exercise:1. Awareness: Note any limiting financial thoughts you encounter today.2. Honesty: Challenge these thoughts – are they truths or self-imposed stories?3. Patience: Changing long-held beliefs is a journey.4. Self-Compassion: Be kind to yourself during this process.5. Courage: Boldly confront each limiting belief with an empowering, intention-aligned alternative.For each limiting belief, write its positive counterstatement. Use this as your new financial affirmation.🪄 MONEY MAGICPractice "Intentional Currency Circulation" (ICC).Take a physical dollar or coin. Hold it and close your eyes. Reaffirm your Prosperity Mantra three times, charging the money with intention.Open your eyes and declare, “Wealth is birthed from intention. I use this money to realize my highest good and that of all.”Spend this money aligned with your intention. Notice the emotions during this intentional transaction.If this practice resonates, commit to it daily for a week.🙏 GRATITUDE GIVINGWrite down a financial blessing you're grateful for. Add it to your "Gratitude Investment Jar."📣 ABUNDANCE AFFIRMATION"I shape my financial destiny, constructing my future with intention. Today, I sow seeds of intentional prosperity, enabling me to circulate money for my greatest benefit and that of others."🙌 KUDOSCongratulations on delving into your financial psyche! You're making meaningful strides in aligning with your true financial aspirations. Keep up the fantastic work!Join us tomorrow for another enriching session!💬 COMMUNITY DIALOGUEWhat small, intentional financial step will you take today?We're eager to hear your thoughts in the comments!
30 Days of Money intends to empower anyone to become financially free regardless of their current financial situation by following the structured guidance in each day's 15-minute morning money session.Explore the full journey at https://intentioninspired.com/moneyLike money, the return on investment in self-discovery compounds exponentially by investing in our self with rhythmic consistency.If you already have a daily practice of self-discovery, you'll need to create an additional 15-30 minutes each morning to allow yourself time for these additional monetary communions.If you don't have an intentional practice of self-discovery, this journey will help create the structure and accountability to get started. Make this daily practice a morning ritual and the rest will be history.Cultivating a wealthy relationship with money is a slow and steady (yet reliable) path. The foundational wisdom and practices offered in this journey are what the most successful (wealthy and happy) people collectively agree on—thank Lakshmi!The goal of this journey is to provide tools that will cultivate more freedom, more generosity, more connection, more creation, and more love for our inherently wealthy self and the reality it creates.“There is a science of getting rich. It is an exact science, like algebra or arithmetic. There are certain laws which govern the process of acquiring riches. Once a person learns and obeys these laws, he will get rich with mathematical certainty.”– Wallace D. WattlesExplore the full journey at https://intentioninspired.com/money
Today, let's get back in touch with our deepest intention so that we can live in more alignment with the truth of what we really are.
"Before you agree to do anything that might add even the smallest amount of stress to your life, ask yourself, "What is my truest intention?"
Give yourself time to let a yes resound within you. When it's right, I guarantee that your entire body will feel it."
― Oprah Winfre
👁 TODAY'S INTENTION
When we are in touch with our deepest intention, we embody a sincere loving presence that manifests beauty, freedom, and love. Let's feel more into this core of what we are by remembering, embodying, and inhabiting the deepest yearnings of an awakening heart.
🧸 HAVE YOU NOTICED?
Our deepest intention is what we are.
When we go really deep, beyond the survival-mode intentions, we find that our deeper intention is love—that's what we are.
Beyond the limbic intentions that run off of patterns of the past and anxieties of the future, we find that our deeper intention is awareness—that's what we are.
Beyond our egoic desires, our deeper intention is connectedness—that's what we are.
"Gamble everything for love, if you are a true human being. If not, leave this gathering. Half-heartedness doesn’t reach into majesty." ― Rumi
🧸 LET'S REFLECT
Three qualities to recognize our deepest intention:
(1) Our deepest intention is embodied—does my whole body resounds with a passionate yes?
(2) Our deepest intention applies now—does this intention relate to this present moment?
(3) Our deepest intention is manifesting potential—does this intention inspire and ignite my creative life force energy?
🧘 MINDFUL MOMENT
Taking a moment to feel your body breathing you.
Feel the life that's here.
Reflecting on the truth of impermanence.
Letting the fact that everything will change, awaken us to our deepest aspirations.
If you had a year to live, what would you do? What would you want to experience? What would your longing be? What would matter? Letting this be as real as it can be.
If you had a week to live, what would you do? What would you want to experience? What would really matter to your heart?
If you had a day to live, what would you do? What would you want to experience? What would really matter to your heart? What would you long for? What would you care about?
If you had just a few moments to live, what would you do? What would you want to experience? What would your heart long for? What would most matter?
Letting this longing fill your mind, body, and heart.
Whatever the longing ... for love, for light, for healing, for connection, for peace ... letting it be as big as it is
Filling your whole being with this liberating intention.
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"For I have learned that every heart will get What it prays for Most." — Hafez
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Today, let's reawaken our deepest intentions so that we can realign our actions with what is most important.
As we wake up to what we really are, the wisdom of our hearts grows louder. From the stillness of our heart, clarity into our most liberating intentions is found. We can trust in this boundless radiant presence of our awakening hearts. Inspiring seeds for a beautiful future takes root each time we remember what it is that is most important.
📖 INSPIRED POEM
Half Life by Stephen Levine
We walk through half our life as if it were a fever dream
barely touching the ground
our eyes half open our heart half closed.
Not half knowing who we are we watch the ghost of us drift from room to room through friends and lovers never quite as real as advertised.
Not saying half we mean or meaning half we say we dream ourselves from birth to birth seeking some true self.
Until the fever breaks and the heart can not abide a moment longer as the rest of us awakens, summoned from the dream, not half caring for anything but love.
🧸 LET'S REFLECT
What intention is operating right now?
A limbic intention is rooted in fear, grasping, addiction, doubt, shame, defensiveness ... the ego's will.
A liberating intention is rooted in love, freedom, peace, joy ... the heart's will.
How do we wake up from a limbic intention, into our more mature/evolved being? We recognize what's happening and bring kindness to it.
🧘 MINDFUL MOMENT
Bringing attention inward. Feel this body breathing. Arriving more fully into presence.
Bringing a recent situation to mind that triggered reactivity within you.
Noticing what aspects of this situation were uncomfortable for you.
Noticing any egoic intentions to protect, or defend, or separate.
Sensing what unmet needs your feeling? What is at the core of your reactivity?
Hand on the heart, bringing compassion to whatever you notice.
What do you really long for within this situation? What is the heart's will? What really matters here? What is the deeper intention?
How would your awakening heart respond more compassionately to this situation?
How does this situation help to deepen your wisdom and awaken your heart and mind?
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Today, let's nurture those emotionally reactive parts of ourself by combining two powerful methods of self-compassion.
Self-compassion naturally arises in the moments that we recognize we are suffering and intentionally nurture our inner life with self-care. When the intention to awaken self-compassion is sincere, the smallest gesture of turning towards love, of offering love (even if initially it feels awkward) will nourish your heart, ease the mind, heal the body, and feed the soul.
⚒️ THE METHOD
Let's merge two powerful methods of awakening through self-compassion.
Internal Family Systems (IFS) is the evidence-based psychotherapy model that reveals how each of our inner "parts" contains valuable qualities (especially those reactive parts). Each of these parts are sub-personalities of our core Self—that knows how to heal, allowing us to become integrated and whole.
RAIN is a synonym for paying attention (Recognize, Accept, Investigate, Nurture) that helps us presence our reactive parts and provide the support for working with intense and difficult emotions.
🧘 LET'S PRACTICE
Let's move through the practice of RAIN while compassionately speaking directly to a reactive part of our self:
Taking a moment to get comfortable. Creating stillness. Taking a few breaths to invite all of yourself to this moment.
Bringing to mind a part of your self that has been experiencing difficult emotional reactivity recently.
R – Recognize what is happening, by asking this part:
How as this part been feeling emotionally reactive and unsettled? What sensations does this bring up?
A – Allow life to be just as it is, by letting this part know:
I see you. Yes, you are welcome here. Thank you for making yourself known. It's okay to be here. I know you have something valuable to share.
I – Investigate with a curious attention, by asking this part:
How do you want to be with me? What emotions are you feeling right now? What do you most need right now?
N – Nurture with loving presence, by affirming to this part:
I'm sorry for the ways I may have disregarded you. Please forgive me for the ways I have not been listening. Thank you for showing me what you need to feel nurtured and whole. I love you.
Be still for another minute or two and let yourself rest in this clearing.
📿 TRAIL MANTRA
All parts are welcome.
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Today, let's reclaim more life-force energy by releasing patterns, again and again, with patient endurance.
Once we recognize a pattern and develop a practice to disidentify with it, the last step is to release the pattern again and again with the practice. Whenever the pattern rises, release it with attention. Step by step, all the triggers, associations, and components of the pattern are identified and we are able to experience them in attention. The unreleased experience is released in awareness, and the pattern falls apart.
🧸 HAVE YOU NOTICED?
The power of patterns to degrade attention is impressive.
Most patterns have been in place for a long time. They consist of solid structures of beliefs, personality traits, and behaviors. They use every available resource to degrade attention—exaggerated fears, distorted perceptions, depression, elaborate realizations, or physical illness. So good on you! It's courageous and commendable work to consistently dismantle a pattern and reclaim the precious life-force energy they require to operate.
🦁 COURAGEOUS ACTION
Consistent releasing is the key to freedom.
As we observe and release deeper and deeper into a pattern's structure, the energy stored in the pattern is released. The energy of the pattern, which is transformed into attention, increases our ability to release deeper into the pattern. The more a pattern is released, the more energy the pattern will try to consume to maintain its operation. Consistency in the form of patient endurance is the only way to get through.
💪 LET'S PRACTICE!
Whenever a pattern arises, release it immediately, with consistent R & R:
(1) Recognize when your attention is being overtaken by a pattern. Initial recognition of a pattern usually takes place after it operates because its very function is to erode attention.
(2) Releasing the pattern by bringing attention to its operation. Notice how the operation of the pattern affects your emotions, body, and mind.
Repeat as often as you notice a pattern.
In the end, the work of releasing patterns comes down to a single question: who is going to live your life—you or your patterns?
Recognize and Release whenever you can, it may just save your life.
📣 TRAIL MANTRA
With this breath, I release.
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Today, let's develop a simple and reliable practice that interrupts the attention-erosion process of a pattern.
"If someone comes along and shoots an arrow into your heart, it’s fruitless to stand there and yell at the person. It would be much better to turn your attention to the fact that there’s an arrow in your heart." — Pema Chödrön, Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living
👁 TODAY'S INTENTION
The purpose of a pattern interrupting practice is to reclaim the energy and attention that a pattern needs to run. The practice can be very simple—for instance, if you observe that you are triggered into reactivity by stop-and-go traffic, rest your attention on your breath whenever the traffic comes to a stop. Constant observation inevitably reveals other possibilities—let's explore!
🧐 HAVE YOU NOTICED?
Patterns are only limited by the amount of energy available to them.
Patterns have no internal mechanisms that limit their operation or evolution. To dismantle a pattern, we have to disrupt the operation of the pattern by systematically bringing attention to its operation. The energy then flows into attention, not into the pattern.
💪 LET'S PRACTICE
Simplicity and consistency for the win!
Intentionally changing our behavior from a well-set pattern can be challenging. But as we play with different ways to practice reclaiming our attention, identification with a pattern becomes weaker and weaker.
(1) Bring to mind a common pattern you've noticed running your life.
(2) Think of something you can do to remind yourself to return to attention as the pattern in running:
• bring attention to a big juicy breath • snap a rubber band around your wrist • bring awareness to sensations in the body • find one thing in your environment that sparks joy • anything that reclaims your attention will do
As we intentionally separate from a pattern, we'll naturally come up with more and more ways to practice. Enjoy reclaiming that precious energy✨ 😃 🙌
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Today, let's practice dying to a pattern by disidentifying with it.
A student asked Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, "Why do we practice?" He replied, "To make the best of a bad situation."
👁 TODAY'S INTENTION
Disidentification is the process through which a pattern becomes an object of attention. The big fear in disidentification is that we won't be able to function without the pattern. Fair enough! The more our identity relies on a pattern, the more it will feel like a part of us will have to die to be free from it. Trust the process: as we die to a pattern's mechanical attention-eroding process, we naturally open to more presence and live with more intention.
🔥 RELEASING RITUALS
How do we develop the willingness to die? by honestly facing the predicament we are in by opening to how things are by questioning the nature of things by caring about what is by practicing, one inspired intention at a time ...
💪 LET'S PRACTICE
To disidentify a pattern, we simply and consistently bring attention to it.
In disidentification, we really see how we can be more present in our life, but the attachment to patterns is so strong that we often abandon ourselves at precisely this point. For this reason, choosing weaker patterns to practice disidentifying with may be more useful than stronger ones.
(1) Bring to mind a pattern you have recognized in yourself. (2) See the pattern as a process that operates independently of your intention. (3) Observe the pattern in attention. (4) The pattern will appear to disappear. (5) You will feel a release of energy, a deeper pattern underneath, or both. (6) Return to seeing the pattern as a process. Observe the pattern in attention, and repeat.
📣 AFFIRMATION
I am pure awareness. (In Sanskrit: सो चैतन्य Soham Chaitanya)
I am not my thoughts. I am aware of my thoughts. I am not my feelings. I am aware of my feelings. I am not my patterns. I am aware of my patterns. I release all that does not serve into pure awareness.
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What is one thing you notice when you hold a pattern in attention?
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Today, let's recognize when we're operating from reactive patterns so that we can live with more intention.
"I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars." – Og Mandino
TODAY'S INTENTION
Patterns operate to degrade our attention because they operate from fears of the past or anxieties of the future. By recognizing the energetic drain of reactive patterns, we create the opportunity to live with more presence in ways that align with our most liberating intentions.
HAVE YOU NOTICED?
Reactive patterns operate stronger in adversity.
Friends, teachers, or significant others are very helpful in our effort to recognize patterned behavior. Every more helpful (though more difficult to appreciate in the moment), are the contributions that come from people and situations that create more adversity within us. By paying attention to how we react under stress, we can see patterned behavior clearly.
Reactive patterns create unfulfilled expectations.
Careful observation of actions and their results eventually leads us to recognize patterns. When our actions are consistently contrary to our intentions or expectations, we know we're operating out of a pattern.
LET'S PRACTICE!
To recognize, we simply bring attention to the pattern, again and again, and observe, again and again.
1) Take a reactive pattern you have observed within yourself. 2) Sit in attention, and let the pattern play out in your imagination. 3) Any of the following points can be used to recognize the pattern more clearly: • shifts in the body, emotional state, or perception of things • a repeated chain of reactive emotions • the way the pattern projects a world • familiar automatic behaviors—physical, verbal, mental • familiar results, such as how your relationship with others is affected • a divergence between your intention and what actually happens
NICE WORK!
Honestly taking a look at our patterns is a courageous practice.
It can feel vulnerable as we feel the unfelt emotions that created the pattern in the first place. The repeated practice of recognizing and observing a pattern cultivates a higher level of attention—interrupting the pattern, releasing stuck energy, and dissolving the pattern's operation.
AFFIRMATION
Lightness is my true self. In Sanskrit: Om Svayam Agurutva.
The inner light I keep is always on and always alive. Nothing heavy can obstruct who I really am deep down inside. I am endlessly renewed in the present moment, so here, and now, I abide. I recognize patterns as they arise, and in doing so become free from their grip.
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Let's discover our worthiness and within it, our greater capability. This week, we dig and delve deeper into our understanding of our own selves to realize that we can handle life's challenges with competency and grace. With our observation we can prove that we are worthy and deserving of love and happiness.
Our self-esteem is one of our deepest psychological needs. We are generally our worst critics and our judgments of ourselves dictate how fully we allow ourselves to live and love. It can be said that our "concept of self tends to be our destiny". It is our higher self that knows the truth of who we are without judgment or analysis. In this segment, we look at our higher self.
Episode art is called "Celestial Union" by Rassouli
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It may have occurred to you as you worked through the last segment, that it is not only our "negative" emotions that we have been burying.
We are a social species. Our connection to our "tribe" is of the utmost importance to our well-being. Sometimes we try to make sure that we do not "upset that applecart" by seeming like "too much". If we have been led to believe that what others think or feel is somehow our responsibility, it is likely that we will "contain" our passion or joy to "protect" them.
Imagine, unknowingly, walking into a group of people that are discussing the pain of someone's upcoming divorce after you have won $5000 dollars. What does your "training" tell you is the appropriate behavior?
In this segment we will observe how we may be masking or burying our passion, enthusiasm or joy (or other "positive" emotions) and why.
Let's begin!
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Episode art is called "Celestial Union" by Rassouli
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We begin this week of our self-discovery journey by exploring emotional intelligence.
Being able to accurately and honestly identify our emotions helps us come back into the present moment by grounding ourselves in our body, assessing our needs, managing reactions with self-awareness, and engaging in more thoughtful decision-making. This is "Emotional Intelligence". Despite the fact that the words "feelings" and "emotions" get used interchangeably they are actually two different, connected, phenomena.
Emotions are the raw data, a reaction to the present reality which generally manifests as a physical/body sensation such as a change in breathing, butterflies in your stomach, sweating, etc.
Once the body speaks we make a "value judgment" based on these sensations. A "value judgment" is a rapid interpretation of the experience followed by our response (hide, step forward, yell, run, etc.). These responses can be valuable information for self-discovery once a pattern is observed.
Feelings manifest first as a thought (sometimes a thought about the emotion we are experiencing). They are an emotional manifestation of conditioning, perceptions, and beliefs. They may be influenced by emotion but our feelings can be distorted or diluted by stories we’ve created in our head based on events of the past or fears of the future—not necessarily the truth of the situation. With practice, we can ask "Is this true?" "Have I correctly identified this feeling place or the emotion connected to it?" and look carefully at how the feeling place is serving you, how often you feel it, and what experiences trigger it.
Listening to our body, informed by our sense perceptions, helps us connect to the reality of our present experience rather than to stories made up of potentially inaccurate perceptions. By becoming adept at honestly identifying our emotions and employing both curiosity and a lack of judgment we can become "emotionally intelligent".
Let's begin...
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To access subconscious information about the people of our past we called on our Inner Child.
There is a clear distinction between our perceptions of "The Past" and the Child Within. It is understood that the past is behind us but our Inner Child (and our Inner Teen) shape who we are as an "Integrated Self". The child that lives within has their own values, perceptions and way of processing experience and a longing to live life fully. We are witness to their presence when we act or react to experiences in the present with the consciousness of who we once were.
We can honor the presence of our Inner Child by allowing their voice to be heard.
When our Child feels heard, safe, and loved it does not feel the need to "act out" or demand our attention. If we have befriended our Inner Child we clearly see the spontaneity, curiosity, and beauty that our child provides. If we have ignored that child or resisted their presence we may be experiencing "tantrums" that are difficult to understand.
In this segment, we expand our understanding of childhood perceptions and beliefs. Let's dive in!
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Episode art is called "Celestial Union" by Rassouli
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As we begin to understand more about the human brain we also begin to understand how our conditioning is impacting our reality.
Because of the way our brain (especially during development) processes our experiences we come up with the most brilliant solutions for surviving the wide spectrum of "traumas" we may encounter. For the ability to come up with these brilliant solutions we can be grateful. At some point, these brilliant solutions were our saving grace. It is possible, that these "brilliant solutions" are no longer serving us.
Other species, when faced with high-stress situations, run and shake off the stress hormones that are created. Once the situation is resolved, they are back to eating or whatever they were doing. They process in real-time even if they meet the same experience many times. They do not run their experience through an analytical mind filter, they do not create a story, they do not judge themselves or the experience.
Watch as this antelope freezes from the stress response of a cheetah attack and then, once free, shakes off the stress stressful event.
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As an exercise in observation and discovery only, this week we will look to the past. To the people and experiences of the past. Not to perpetuate a trauma story but to make peace with it. Not to blame, shame, or judge ourselves or others but to identify and gain clarity.
Let's begin ...
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Things that seem true and universal are often just our own unique experience of the world.
What we perceive in any given moment is not only determined by sensory input, but by our past experience, physical abilities, energy levels, feelings, social identities, past conditioning and more.
Even though perception is not reality it can certainly appear and feel like it is real. Perception can become a person’s reality. It certainly has a potent influence on how we interpret our reality. That is one reason that we have to dig so deep to unearth our conditioning. After years of habitually using our perceptions and imagined beliefs to validate or protect ourselves we have convinced ourselves that they are fact.
Keep that in mind as we move through our journey (and when dealing with others). Compassion and courage, for ourselves and others, are needed as we travel this path.
Episode art is called "Love Glance", created by Rassouli
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We come to self-discovery for many reasons.
We may have always felt a longing to know our "true" selves and now want to dig deeper into who we are. We see patterns of behavior and wonder if our behavior is serving our needs. Our relationships are often strained and we wonder if we could be playing a part in that. Our desire to know and understand ourselves can feel like an immediate need or our ultimate, lifelong adventure, or both.
Remember this: • We are on a quest of SELF-DISCOVERY. • We are not broken. • We do not need to "be fixed". • We have learning and growing to do (no matter what our age). • Part of that learning and growing is releasing what no longer serves us.
The first step to self-discovery is self-awareness.
The practice of observing ourselves without analysis or judgment and documenting our findings will lead us to ask questions that bring clearer understanding.
We can use our feeling place as a guide to becoming aware. How you "feel" will undoubtedly be painted with conditioning but it is our habitual conditioning that we are uncovering. Own those feelings without judgment. Document them without analyzing them.
Can we become AWARE of ourselves and just notice, through observation, the beauty in all of our states of being? I believe we can. Your ability to acknowledge your feeling place, no matter what it is, is the key to authentic, lasting growth. If you can put to rest the "shoulds" or "if only" or "can'ts" by identifying them but not allowing them to take hold, you can answer with your own authentic truth.
Spend the day observing your feeling places and documenting those feelings.
If you are at work keep a post-it note near you to jot down these feeling places. Be specific enough on your post-it to remember, when you document in the evening, the person, place, or thing that contributed to that feeling.
Episode art is called "Balance Your Mind", created by Rassouli
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Together, let's step into the fire of self-discovery.
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Before we begin a journey of discovering our Self, we can honor ourselves by having our "supplies" in order and a space where we can create and reflect. In this segment, we explore the format of our journey, create a space that is conducive to our self-awareness, and gather our tools.
This 16-minute episode includes an overview of "Segment 1: Creating the Space" of "The Art of Self-Discovery" journey as we unpack each of the inspirations that we will be using for each segment: PAUSE + INTENTION + BEAUTY + JOURNAL + REFLECTION + CREATE
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"Step into the fire of self discovery. This fire will not burn you. It will only burn what you are not." – Rumi
Episode art is called "Enrapt", created by Rassouli
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PAUSE + INTENTION + BEAUTY + JOURNAL + REFLECT + CREATE
10 minutes a day for 8 weeks
To truly embody our authentic and divine self and feel that beauty in ourselves we need clarity and understanding. This journey includes simple practices that engage our attention and intention in ways that can break down habitual conditioning and overcome fearful resistance. It's a fun and simple way for anyone to blossom more fully into their beautiful selves.
Self-Discovery may be the greatest adventure of our life. This journey was designed to answer the questions that we ask ourselves daily:
Who Am I? ________________________
Why do I feel this way? ________________________
How can I change (heal, grow, become conscious)? ________________________
Answering these and more specific questions with curiosity (rather than judgment) and having the courage to take action will transform our lives.
It isn't just a "maybe".
Once one discovers the beauty within, not only can we see more of this intrinsic beauty in all things but reality will forever change in ways that are more in alignment with who we really are.
The "Art" of Self-Discovery can guide you to the creative, expansive life that you were born to experience.
✨ THE FLOW:
There are a total of 48 short sessions, broken down into 6 sessions within eight segments. So if you spent just 10 minutes a day on each session, you would complete this journey in about eight weeks. As you get started, please feel into whatever pace is best for you ... whether that's an eight-week journey, an eight-day journey, or an eight-hour journey.
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Today, let's embrace unexpected nonroutine moments as part of the routine itself!
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🙏 A MOMENT OF GRATITUDE
Starting the day with gratitude creates clear space for new possibilities to emerge.
When we start our morning with gratitude, getting out of bed will become that much easier, as our day is instilled with meaning beyond what is on the to-do list. Not to mention the wealth of health a consistent gratitude practice brings; including more positive emotions, a stronger immune system, better sleep, a deeper sense of connection to all things, more appreciation for others, and more enjoyment all around.
How about you? What are three things you are grateful for right now?
🌻 MINDFUL MOMENT Ran out of coffee? Favorite morning robe is missing in action? A loved one is reaching out for support?
Morning routines hardly ever play out exactly as we want them to. So the way we respond to 'disruptions' in our morning flow is an essential element to consider and prepare ourselves for.
How we adapt to the unexpected is always our choice, (if we choose). In times of distress, feel your feet on the ground and take a deep breath. If you feel like you didn't meet your morning routine expectations today, that's okay. Tomorrow is a new day!
❤️🔥 RELEASING RITUAL There is no right or wrong way to release what no longer serves you. Here are some fun ways to play with releasing: • Open some windows to let in some fresh air while acknowledging what it is that is no longer working for you. • Burn some incense as you reflect on the ways this transitioning way of being has served you in the past. • Give your morning space a good cleaning as you acknowledge what thoughts and feelings arise. • Spend time journaling about what you would enjoy in place of what you are releasing.
👯 COMMUNITY CONVERSATION
How about you? What are you ready to release so that something bigger and better can come fill it's place?
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Today, let's explore the vast benefits of getting our juices flowing first thing in the morning.
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💪 MICRO CHALLENGE
Starting tomorrow, get up just five minutes earlier than usual. If you usually wake up at 7:00 A.M., set your alarm for 6:55 instead. Eventually, if you keep moving your wake-up time five minutes earlier every week, you'll find a time that works for you.
😅 PRO TIPS
Keep your exercise routines short, simple, and fun! This is especially important in the beginning when we first start playing with new routine ingredients. Done is better than perfect. There's nothing wrong with push-ups, squats, jumping jacks, or just standing up beside your bed and getting in some stretches. Keep your workouts fluid, day-to-day, and throughout your life. Enjoy the feeling of accomplishment an early morning sweat brings. Take your workout "win" into the rest of your day.
💧 REHYDRATE FIRST THING We human beings are made of up to 60 percent of water. The cells in our brain are mostly water, too. In fact, water makes up about 73 percent of our noodle! During 8 hours of sleep, we lose an average of 200 milliliters of water—nearly 7 cups! So rehydrating soon after waking up is a simple and helpful practice to include in our morning routine's stack of healthy habits.
🤑 INVEST IN YOURSELF Sticking to an exercise routine doesn't always come so easy. The best investment is the investment in yourself. Put your money where your values are. Set stakes that inspire you to show up. Consider working with a personal trainer.
🍫 REWARD YOURSELF
Any effective reward system can immediately boost inspired action! What kind of exercise reward(s) will inspire you to stick to your goals? Consider the exercise a reward in itself!
👯 COMMUNITY CONVERSATION
How about you? What is one way you enjoy rewarding yourself for exercising?
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Today, let's stoke a sense of early morning productivity that will continue to radiate into the rest of the day.
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📿 TODAY'S' MANTRA
"I am my greatest priority."
Death comes for us all. So why not invite today to be the next best day of our life!?
Remembering the impermanence of all things, especially our skin and bones, inspires us to show up with attention for whatever the day beholds and reminds us of the importance of prioritizing what is most important.
❗️ HEALTHY HABIT
The most important thing is to remember the most important thing.
We are most fresh and clear-headed in the mornings (if are well-rested), and so what is most important surfaces easier.
Everything we do is because we think we will feel better in the doing or having of it.
A to-do list is most effective when we prioritize the items on it and, once prioritized, do the most important tasks first.
☑ YOUR TURN 1. Start with what is most important to you. 2. Keep it short. 3. Add some easy tasks for some quick wins. 4. Practice makes progress! Enjoy the process of fine-tuning your own to-do & to-be lists in ways that make you feel good and set you up for more success throughout the day.
📣 TODAY'S AFFIRMATION
"I am a receptive and proactive being. I notice when a stress response makes me reactive. My body is an anchor that grounds me back into the present moment. I take a deep breath to quiet the critical mind and release what does not serve me. I lovingly accept what is. I see more clearly who I am and remember what is most important to me. I prioritize serving my Self first so that I can serve others with joyous alignment. I do not let anything get between me and my most important tasks for the day. I pour my precious productive energy into things that make my soul sing."
👯 COMMUNITY CONVERSATION:
How about you? When have you noticed you are most productive?
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Today, let's view our morning with the playful creativity of our three-year-old and the graceful focus of our 108-year-old.
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📣 TODAY'S AFFIRMATION
I wake up renewed and smile. I smile with every cell in my body. Grateful to live another day. Eager to honor this gift of life. Receiving each precious moment. Accepting and loving what is. Letting it all wash over me. Embracing myself and all beings, with kindness and compassion.
🧬 SCIENCE SHOWS
Among a plethora of benefits, meditation is proven to help with the following:
• improves our concentration and attention • helps us solve problems and make smarter choices • brings us out of our mental ruts • reduces stress and lowers blood pressure • reduces anxiety and depression • reduces physical pain • improves sleep • dampens the genes involved in the inflammatory response, and promotes those genes associated with DNA stability (hello longevity!) • opens our eyes to the truths we've forgotten
📿 TODAY'S MANTRA
"Meditation is medication."
As you repeat today's mantra, let it guide you into a meditative state of surrender and trust. Allow the repetitive sounds of these words to penetrate the depths of the unconscious mind and adjust the vibration of all aspects of your being towards inner harmony.
LET'S REFLECT 🧸
Here are two meditation myths we often hear:
Myth #1: "Meditation means clearing your mind."
While that sounds nice, meditation is more about watching your mind, wherever it goes; without judgment. This practice of observing, without attaching to, helps us be the objective witness.
Myth #2: "Meditation should be peaceful and relaxing."
Well, it can be, but it’s not going to be like that all the time. And when it isn’t? That’s ok! Meditation is about seeing things clearly, not wanting them to be a certain way.
👯 COMMUNITY CONVERSATION:
How about you? What is one way you will sprinkle an extra bit of mindfulness into your morning routine?
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Today, let's view our morning with the playful creativity of our three-year-old and the graceful focus of our 108-year-old.
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Striving to improve our Morning Routine is only helpful until it isn't. If we dare let self-criticism get the best of us in amidst the inevitable resistance we'll face ... well, perhaps it's time to ease up a bit and remember that tomorrow is a new day to try it again.
Every morning is a chance to observe and be creative with the details we use to fill our day in with. As we apply one layer at a time, we notice what feels good and learn to stack healthy habits just as we would stack layers of color on a canvas. Part of this work of art is our process of creating an intentional and inspiring flow throughout the day. One perfectly imperfect stroke at a time.
📿 MANTRA
"I create my habits. My habits create me."
As you repeat today's mantra, notice what thoughts come to surface. Allowing each thought to pass by as you get more and more clarity into how you want to create the morning habits that ultimately end up creating you.
💪 HEALTHY HABIT Our first action upon waking forms the beginning of a habit stack: a series of linked actions. Much like a Jenga stack, habit stacks are only as sturdy as their foundational blocks.
🎨 CREATIVE EXERCISE
Let's create a visual representation of our morning routine habit stack.
- Find yourself an empty canvas of your choosing.
- Honor the empty canvas for what it is, an opportunity for anything.
- With ease and gratitude, begin to add to the canvas as you would add things to your ideal morning.
No rush. Just one small thing at a time. Plenty of time to try new things. Continue playing on your morning routine canvas for as long as you'd like!
👯♀️ COMMUNITY CONVERSATION
How about you? We'd love to see a snapshot of your morning canvas.
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Today, let's rest in the felt sense of "I amness" by witnessing with broader awareness.
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There is a brief time, between sleeping and waking when reality begins to warp back into present-day life.
This liminal arousal is a unique opportunity to enjoy our spacious beingness and quieted mind before it gets a'head' of us into the day.
TRY IT! Immediately upon naturally waking up tomorrow morning, notice, and savor this hypnopompic meditative state.
💬 TODAY'S QUOTE
During his morning routine walk, Mooji offers simple and practical guidance for how best to start the day grounded in presence.
"Just be aware of the sense of being, it is not personal. Of all habits, this is going to be the most fruitful, the most delivering. And this habit becomes integrated in your being. The more you try this, the better it gets!"
– Mooji
🙏 A MOMENT OF GRATITUDE
As extensions of Source and creators of worlds, how we focus our energy is how we manifest our reality.
Positive thoughts lead to positive experiences, while negative thoughts manifest negative experiences.
This is why gratitude is such a powerful practice to include in our morning routine. It is a simple and accessible way to invite more joyful abundance into the rest of the day.
• Reflect on something you wish you had more of; like love, money, joy, fame, or relationships. • Recognize that it is the positive feelings you will feel upon having that thing that inspires your desire to manifest it. • Appreciate what you already have that creates the same positive feelings. • Remember that you are always worthy to receive more of those things that bring you joy. • Trust that benevolent Universal forces are working on your behalf as you think and speak and do what feels good for you.
📓 TODAY'S JOURNAL PROMPT
If you could only get one thing done today, what would it be?
This question helps us really narrow down what is most important.
HOW ABOUT YOU?
If you could only get one thing done today, what would it be?
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Today, let's honor our worthiness by acknowledging our Greatness and creating courageous boundaries around our morning routine.
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📣 TODAY'S AFFIRMATION
"I am the one who is the most worthy of my time and energy. I can lovingly serve at my best when I first serve myself. I take as much time as I need to nourish myself so that I can act in harmony with my Truest self. When I operate from this place of alignment, I am able to love more, serve more, enjoy more, create more, and be more. I AM WORTHY."
📓 TODAY'S JOURNAL PROMPTS:
Explore the following self-inquiries and free-flow journal about whatever comes up: Why is it often easier to prioritize other people's desires above my own? What aspects of myself I am trying to avoid by focusing on others instead of myself? How can I honor the fact that I am the one who is most worthy of my time and energy?
"Boundaries are an act of self-love."
As you repeat today's mantra, allow it to serve as a reminder of your worthiness and why creating courageous boundaries are an essential element to an effective morning routine.
💪 MICRO CHALLENGE
Let's honor our worthiness by treating our morning routine as the most important meeting of the day.
This meeting with our Self, after all, has a massive impact on the rest of the day's meetings, appointments, and unfoldings.
What is one thing you can do to create a courageous boundary around your morning routine?
• leave my phone in Airplane Mode until my Morning Routine is complete • ask my housemates to wait until 10 am before asking anything of me • declutter my morning space from distractions each evening before bed
How about you? What courageous boundary around your morning routine are you excited to try?
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The intention of this self-guided journey is to inspire creative action into the first moments of our day so that we can be in more alignment with our highest self and deepest intentions.
Why spend 7 days refining your Morning Routine?
How we start our day sets the tone for the rest of it.
When we awake from a well-rested slumber, we are nourished and aligned. As the day unfolds, external influences demand our energy, and internal noise clutters the mind. If we're running on autopilot, we can quickly lose ourselves to the daily shuffle and to the desires of others.
Our morning routine nurtures our deepest intentions into inspired action. When we start each day with our Self, we gain clarity into who we are (self-awareness), what is most important (set intentions), and how to get it (inspired action).
Our morning routine helps us focus on what is in front of us and where to prioritize our time. From this place of clarity, we are more prepared to move through the day with focused intention, empowered decision-making, and aligned action.
As we refocus and reprioritize our deepest sense of Self first thing in the morning, what is most important naturally surfaces to our consciousness, and those trivial things that have been consuming our precious energy fade to nothingness.
Over time, we craft an ever-changing morning practice that consistently shows us what is most important to us at the moment ... (love, joy, creativity, flow, fulfillment, happiness, freedom, equanimity).
What to expect on this journey. Over the next 7 days, and hopefully forever beyond it, we will be gifting ourselves at least 15 minutes each morning to lay a clear and focused foundation that the rest of the day can blossom from.
Each morning, we will be served with a daily intentional session that includes a variety of positive, healthy inspirations that help us see things in a new light.
You are encouraged to make each daily session your own and find what works for you. Our morning routine is uniquely suited for each of us as we continue to experiment and adjust.
Ready to commune with your Self each morning and nurture your deepest intentions?
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Today, let's consciously co-create our reality with the support of the Universe.
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Our perception of reality informs our belief of what reality is. We believe what we perceive to be accurate and our perception feels very real but many of our beliefs may not be factual.
🔬 SCIENCE SHOWS
"Perception molds, shapes, and influences our experience of our personal reality,” says Linda Humphreys, PhD, “Perception is merely a lens or mindset from which we view people, events, and things.” She also says that "our past experiences greatly influence how we decode things. Certain people, things, and situations can trigger you to interpret things through a positive or negative lens based on those past experiences."
📣 TODAY'S AFFIRMATION
"I consciously co-create my reality with the Universe. My journey is magical and magnificent."
🌻 MINDFUL MOMENT
Perceive yourself and your reality to be exactly what you need at this moment. Try it. There may be resistance but you might be on to something. You have the power. You have the choice.
📓 CREATIVE JOURNAL PROMPT
- Sit and breathe yourself into this moment.
- Choose three items that are around you right now.
- Sketch them.
This is all practice so don't panic if you perceive that you cannot sketch.
Remember the exercise that we did with lines and shapes? See the items as lines and shapes.
🙏 A MOMENT OF GRATITUDE
"As I become more intentional about the reality I am creating, I am grateful for _______________________"
I am grateful for each and every one of you for having the courage, compassion, and curiosity to explore your creativity. It is always fun to have others to play with.
👯♀️ COMMUNITY CONVERSATION
How are you inspired to live with more intention and create the reality of your dreams?
Please share your observations and creative musings in the comments below or the Art Room Activity Feed at https://intentioninspired.com/art-friend
Today, let's break away from the "norm" in a way that resonates with our inner divinity and allows our soul to sing its own song.
Explore today's full session here: https://intentioninspired.com/creative-autumn29
The abstract is not designed to "make sense" or copy reality.
We are not designed to always "make sense" or copy a reality we have already lived or the reality of anyone else.
Abstract means existing in thought or as an idea but not having a physical or concrete existence.
It is meant to encourage involvement and imagination in the viewer. We are the viewers of our reality. The abstract allows us the freedom to explore and create our own meanings for the reality we are creating and the manifestations that we bring to life. The abstract brings us close to releasing our need to believe that we already "KNOW".
🍂 AUTUMN INSPIRATION
We gaze with wonder as the natural world prepares. Much of the preparation goes unseen but we can imagine it occurring. That is the beauty of the Abstract.
Holding just an idea or a vision and imagining an outcome ... that is the essence of creativity. What is also amazing is that you don't have to have a thought or a well-thought-out idea. You have your own internal expression that is longing to be witnessed.
To let your soul speak you just have to begin and be willing to stay out of your own way.
📣 TODAY'S AFFIRMATION
"I have the courage to create and the wisdom to admit that I may not know. I allow my internal wisdom to be heard."
📓 CREATIVE JOURNAL PROMPT
Find today's exercise at https://intentioninspired.com/creative-autumn29
🙏 A MOMENT OF GRATITUDE
"As I gaze with wonder and let my soul speak,
I feel grateful for ___________________ "
👯♀️ COMMUNITY CONVERSATION
How do you enjoy letting your soul speak through abstraction?
Please share your observations and creative musings in the comments below or the Art Room Activity Feed at https://intentioninspired.com/art-friend
Today, let's allow effortless creativity to flow as we empower ourselves with the relaxation we deserve.
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🍂 AUTUMN INSPIRATION
Winter is coming! We are prepared to ease into it with comfort and anticipation. We have learned to tune into our body and our intuition and rest when it is called for.
From our commitment, we have learned that we are important and that we are deserving of our Creative time. We no longer question whether we are "Creative" because we know that it is the expression of our soul and that everyone is Creative.
📣 TODAY'S AFFIRMATION
"Rest helps me connect to the peace, wisdom, and creativity within me and all around us. I allow myself to rest as often as I need."
💬 TODAY'S QUOTE
"Creation is the foremost human condition. The right to creation is more important than the right to food. If man does not create or is impeded to create, man ceases to fulfil human functions because he loses his justification to be present on this earth as a higher being. Our real illiteracy is not the incapability to read and write but the incapability to create. The children have a bigger knowledge to create until they lose their soul by becoming homogenous, or by education and convention." – Hundertwasser
📓 CREATIVE JOURNAL PROMPT
Do what you do. This has been a wonderfully creative journey through Autumn.
I hope that you will give yourself the gift of your own daily Creative Practice and continue to work in your Journal.
🙏 A MOMENT OF GRATITUDE
"As I allow myself the rest I deserve, I feel grateful for ___________________ "
👯♀️ COMMUNITY CONVERSATION
What were your favorite creative activities this week?
Please share your observations and creative musings in the comments below or the Art Room Activity Feed at https://intentioninspired.com/art-friend
Today, let's be more conscious of the reality we're creating with the words we choose to use.
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🧸 A MOMENT OF REFLECTION
There is power in the words we speak. Power to create or "destroy". Power to soothe or agitate. Power to build relationships or disregard them. This power does not only apply to words used towards others. It also applies to the words we speak to ourselves and the words we use to tell our stories. It is important to be intentional about the words we use.
What messages are we sending to ourselves and the Universe?
🔬 SCIENCE SHOWS
Psychologists have found that our subconscious mind interprets what it hears very literally. Whatever words you use, your body, mind, and environment will eventually follow. This information, however, is older than the Bible.
💪 MICRO CHALLENGE
For one week, be very conscious of the words you speak and write them down every day. This will give you a very good idea of what you are telling yourself and the Universe.
📣 TODAY'S AFFIRMATION
"I am conscious of the words I speak because I know that I Am listening. My words become my reality. I speak to myself and others with love and compassion."
📓 CREATIVE JOURNAL PROMPT
- Make a cool background.
- Cut out 50 words or phrases (or more).
- Lay them all out on the page and arrange them in a manner that creates a poem or a paragraph.
- Compost the words that don't apply and/or cut out more that resonate.
🙏 A MOMENT OF GRATITUDE
"As I spend time observing the words that create my reality,
I feel grateful for ___________________ "
👯♀️ COMMUNITY CONVERSATION
Do you speak to yourself with love and compassion?
If we approach this creatively (with curiosity, observation, and inspired action) we can become aware and shift our words. We can avoid getting too critical with ourselves or fearful if we speak "negatively".
What is one shift you are inspired to make with your words?
Please share your observations and creative musings in the comments below or the Art Room Activity Feed at https://intentioninspired.com/art-friend
Today, let's redefine 'art' as we notice what inspires our souls to sing.
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What is Art? How do you know if you are making it? Is there a valid reason for having "Art" defined? Wouldn't everyone have a different opinion of what Art is?
Let's look at this together.
Here are what some artists had to say about what Art is:
"Filling a space in a beautiful way. That's what art means to me." – Georgia O'Keeffe
"Art is harmony." – Georges Seurat
"To me the thing that art does for life is to clean it – to strip it to form." – Robert Frost
"We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth." – Pablo Picasso
What do you think Art is?
Can't art just be a soul's expression? And wouldn't your soul be called to stand and marvel at whatever resonates and vibrates with it? A song, a quilt, a sculpture, a dance, a building, a dress, a loaf of bread, a canyon, a sunset ... a soul starts to sing and Art is born.
📣 TODAY'S AFFIRMATION
"I Am the Artist of My Life. The label of "Art" does not matter. Creating is what feeds my soul."
📓 CREATIVE JOURNAL EXERCISE
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Cut out, from magazines or images, at least five unrelated items (like...an umbrella, a giraffe, a spoon, a train, and a radish)
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Look at these five items and decide what type of background they would go on (the beach, a mountain, in a mouth...use your imagination.
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Arrange these five items on the page as if they were somehow connected.
YAY 🙌 You have just made a work of art.
🙏 A MOMENT OF GRATITUDE
"As I am constantly in awe of the beauty that is all around me. I feel grateful for ___________________ "
👯♀️ COMMUNITY CONVERSATION
We are all artists, living in an artistic Universe, surrounded by wonder and Art.
🌲 🍪 🪐 🌻 🦋 👘 🍄 🍁 🏔 🍊 🐚 🎨 🪘 🍭 🕯 📱 🧸 🛠 📝 🛖 🦚
What kind of artful creations do you enjoy being immersed in?
Please share your observations and creative musings in the comments below or the Art Room Activity Feed at https://intentioninspired.com/art-friend
Today, let's broaden our perspective of reality by attentively examining what is on the inside.
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We have heard it many times, "It is what's on the inside that counts.
We may make our first impression judgment based on the look of someone or something but seldom does that first impression hold valuable information.
If we want to make a true and creative connection we must assess the outside (without a judgment), follow our intuition, and attentively examine (using our well-practiced listening and observation skills and our power of curiosity).
What is on the inside?
🍂 AUTUMN INSPIRATION
Autumn is the season of contrast and duality. Our practice is calling us to look at all sides of what appears in our reality.
The inside and the outside, the dark and the light, the outer "shell" and the core of what we encounter or experience.
Creatively speaking there is a whole new world of "insides" to be explored.
As you can see by the kiwi above the "inside" offers a whole different perspective.
📣 TODAY'S AFFIRMATION
"Viewing both the inside and the outside of who and what I encounter broadens my perspective. I Understand more and connect more authentically by focusing more on what is on the Inside."
📓 CREATIVE JOURNAL PROMPT
Using our imagination we can gain inspiration from what is on the inside. First, find three things that can be cut in half. Then, use the patterns, lines, and shapes to create a Journal page.
🙏 A MOMENT OF GRATITUDE
"As my intuition guides me in gathering valid information concerning the "whole" of my experiences, I feel grateful for ___________________ "
👯♀️ COMMUNITY CONVERSATION
Seeing and intuiting both the inside and outside leads us to better understand and more fully assess our reality. How does your reality broaden when you look inside yourself?
Please share your observations and creative musings in the comments below or the Art Room Activity Feed at https://intentioninspired.com/art-friend
Today, let's elicit the energy of our emotions to inspire our creative practice.
Intention Inspired community can access today's full session at https://intentioninspired.com/creative-autumn24
🍂 AUTUMN INSPIRATION
It is in Autumn that the impermanence of all things and the assurance of change are all around us.
For many people that may produce a feeling place of fear, anxiety, or depression.
What do you do when you feel the emotions of loss, grief, anxiety?
We play with our journal, our hobbies, and our creative pursuits and in turn begin to be creative about our family, our work and ourselves. Creativity breeds creativity across the board.
That is the beauty of the Creative Journal.
It allows for observation, imagination, and self-awareness to occur through an active creative outlet. Practicing any creative outlet benefits all other experiences.
The more you practice, with intention, the more healing can occur.
We will give simple form to some emotions in our Creative Journal today.
📣 TODAY'S AFFIRMATION:
"I use my creative process to acknowledge and give a voice to my emotions."
📓 CREATIVE JOURNAL EXERCISE
We are going to do some line and colorwork to give physical life to our emotions.
Focus on each of the following words individually, momentarily feeling that emotion. JOY ANGER FREEDOM GRIEF BOREDOM INSECURITY COMPASSION ANXIETY DEPRESSION CONTENTMENT PASSION CONFUSION EXCITEMENT
For each of these emotions use a continuous line (don't pick up your pen) and draw that emotion line.
For the same emotions, choose a color that resonates with each emotion listed. Combine both exercises if that feels right to you.
🙏 A MOMENT OF GRATITUDE
"As I engage with my emotions creatively, I feel grateful for ___________________ "
👯♀️ COMMUNITY CONVERSATION
How do you enjoy moving your emotional energy with creativity?
Please share your observations and creative musings in the comments below or the Art Room Activity Feed at https://intentioninspired.com/art-friend
Today, let's reconnect to our child-like creativity with curiosity, imagination, and freedom!
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Remember what it was like to create freely?
To have a connection to creating that was simply curiosity, imagination and freedom? Today, let's bring our freedom to the page.
🍂 AUTUMN INSPIRATION
The Weather has turned and we are prepared.
We may not have a lot of "art supplies" on hand (or we might have too many and have to choose) but one thing stays with us: our imagination.
Maybe it has been a while since you used it but it is always there.
📣 TODAY'S AFFIRMATION
"I honor the creative child within me. I create with joy and freedom knowing there are no 'mistakes'."
📓 CREATIVE JOURNAL PROMPT
Here are a couple of fun exercises to spark your imagination for an interesting journal page.
These can be done with only a pencil and a piece of paper if that is all you have.
1) Ten Totally Random Things
Start by making a list of ten random things. Imagine these "things" doing the unexpected, in unexpected places, with unexpected company. For instance, a beard where a unicorn lives. A strawberry on a racetrack. A cave with a road going in and a river coming out the other side. Cars go in and boats come out. You get the idea. Sketch them (Stick figures are just fine) or make a collage with images.
2) Crumple, Mash, Twist, and Arrange
Take a piece of paper and mark it up with whatever tool you have. (Crayons, a pencil, black marker, watercolor...whatever) crumple it, mash it, twist it. Now smooth it out the best you can. Tear it into shapes. Arrange the shapes on a new sheet of paper or in your journal. Glue them down when you're satisfied.
🙏 A MOMENT OF GRATITUDE
"As I play and create with my inner creative child, I feel grateful for ___________________ "
👯♀️ COMMUNITY CONVERSATION
How did it feel to create with freedom?
Please share your observations and creative musings in the comments below or the Art Room Activity Feed at https://intentioninspired.com/art-friend
Today, let's clear the cobwebs of creative resistance with intuitive, inspired action!
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💬 TODAY'S QUOTE
"To be creative can be as simple as seeing something everyone else sees, but thinking what no one else thinks about it." – Robert and Michele' Root Bernstein
👆 I would take that one step further and include yourself.
Seeing something you have seen many times, but thinking something different than you ever thought before.
Your creative voice is always there, imploring you. "What if...?"
🍂 AUTUMN INSPIRATION
Look at the lines and shapes of Autumn.
These are the creative observations that invite your creative voice to be heard.
📣 TODAY'S AFFIRMATION
"I hear my creative voice. I see a challenge, intuitively imagine a solution, then creatively take action."
🌻 MINDFUL MOMENT
Bask in the beauty of this Autumn day.
Whatever the weather, taking a walk outside to breathe and observe Nature's elements is a great way to clear the mental chatter and hear our creative voice.
📓 TODAY'S JOURNAL PROMPT
What shapes are you drawn to?
Find three items (either outside on your walk or in your house).
Hold them, sense them and then break them down to their lines and shapes.
This exercise will require you to focus, intently, on each item with your whole being. Using the essential lines and shapes create their shapes on the page.
🙏 A MOMENT OF GRATITUDE
"As I listen and trust my creative voice, I feel grateful for ___________________ "
👯♀️ COMMUNITY CONVERSATION
How are you feeling about your ability to identify the essential lines and shapes of things around you?
How is your creative resistance? The more you create the easier it becomes. If you are in "beginner mind" while creating with lines and shapes be compassionate with yourself as you journey.
Please share your observations and creative musings in the comments below or the Art Room Activity Feed at https://intentioninspired.com/art-friend
Today, let's free ourselves of tension by resting with appreciation and satisfaction.
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We covered a lot this past week on our Autumn Creative Journey.
It is so curious and exciting to stretch our imaginations and consider all possibilities ... like creating loving connections and imbuing our creations with love and healing. That process of expanding the box we live in makes our creative journey magical.
Autumn changes quickly.
The weather has turned at my house. It has gotten wet and windy and colder than I like. The garden is mostly gone...a few onions remain. We are moving towards Winter in a slow, wet, colorful spiral.
REPEAT WITH RELAXING INTENT
"I am always exactly where I am meant to be. I am never behind, never slacking, lacking, or procrastinating. I am right where I am meant to be—in this moment. I give myself the rest I need."
Today, have fun!
"As I rest in this moment with contentment, I feel grateful for ___________________ "
Rest and Reflect today.
There are infinite possibilities and we are growing and creating, adding wonder to the collective field.
What is one way you will allow yourself to relax today?
Please share your observations and creative musings in the comments below or the Art Room Activity Feed at https://intentioninspired.com/art-room
Today, let's joyfully create with surrender, curiosity, and love.
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The most important part of this journey is to CREATE.
Create with abandon. Create with Curiosity. Create to Heal. Create with Love ... but by all means, CREATE.
Today, we aren't going to broaden our view of creativity out to all things created. Today we are going to bring it home and CREATE!
🍂 INSPIRATION FROM AUTUMN:
Autumn is a very creative season.
Up to this point, our focus has been on the power of creativity in all experiences.
Creativity-Expanded Version ... as in, We Are Creating our Reality. A Study of Creative Self Awareness.
The rest of our journey will be Creating ... the making of ... using our imagination, getting curious, being courageous, and creating from our Soul with Compassion.
What will you create today?
📣 TODAY'S AFFIRMATION:
Prime the heart, body, mind and soul with creative intent by repeating the following affirmation out loud:
"Creating clears my mind and heals my heart. I Create to Feed My Soul. I Create to Heal. I Create to Understand."
📓 CREATIVE JOURNAL PROMPT:
- Begin with a circle.
- Inside the circle make a square.
- Inside the square draw a heart.
- Inside the heart make a triangle.
- Around the circle write about what you love and how love feels.
- Now give it all waves of energy.
🙏 A MOMENT OF GRATITUDE:
"As I focus on the things that bring me joy, I feel grateful for ___________________ "
💬 COMMUNITY CONVERSATION:
By now (hopefully) you realize that creativity has more to do with healing and self-expression than artistic ability.
Creating with intention allows us to release what does not serve us, heal our emotional pain and raise our consciousness. That is an ability available to ALL. (I think this bears repeating so I am leaving it here today.)
What is one thing you are excited to create today?
Please share your observations and creative musings in the comments below or the Art Room Activity Feed at https://intentioninspired.com/art-friend
Today, let's imbue all our creations with soulful intentions of love, healing, and growth.
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When our intention is to let our souls "speak" we can heal and we can grow. We can raise consciousness for both ourselves and the planet. This expression of feeling has been present since the first cave drawing was created and our souls feel it.
📿 TODAY'S MANTRA:
"Creating with intention sets me free."
🍂 AUTUMN INSPIRATION:
When we are intentional about our creative process we serve this field. When our alignment is toward healing and a feeling place of love and compassion we raise the consciousness of the field. That in turn raises and heals all consciousness.
Each time we create (whether that is soup, a song, a painting, a mutually respectful conversation, a business...or of course, our journal pages) we imbue our creation with our energy. That energy lives in our creation. If our intention is to act and create with love, that soup, that song, that business, that page vibrates with that loving energy and is passed on...either to ourselves through healing or to other energy that connects to it.
📣 TODAY'S AFFIRMATION:
"My creative expression is intertwined with my spirituality and my self-awareness. I offer myself through my intentional practice. I intentionally create my life."
🙏 A MOMENT OF GRATITUDE:
"As I embrace gratitude as essential energy that brings health and well-being, I am grateful for _________________________ "
💬 COMMUNITY CONVERSATION
By now (hopefully) you realize that creativity has more to do with healing and self-expression than artistic ability.
Creating with intention allows us to release what does not serve us, heal our emotional pain and raise our consciousness. That is an ability available to ALL.
What is one way you're inspired to create with more soulful intention today?
Please share your observations and creative musings in the comments below or the Art Room Activity Feed at https://intentioninspired.com/art-friend
Today, let's explore how creativity enhances our connection to all things.
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We hear from many different sources that "we are all connected". What does that actually mean?
Not only are we, as humans, connected but all things are connected by energy on a quantum level. (Studies have now been done that validate this but ancient wisdom has known this for years). What that also means is that our "feeling place" (vibration, if you prefer) emanates out from us, affecting the energy in this connected field.
Our internal creative practice brings our focus to this moment with an intention to grow and heal.
Through this courageous, curious, self-aware process we observe and shift our conditioning. This balances our "feeling places" so that we are generally adding "love energy" to the field. When that is our general state of being ... a love for peace, a love for the planet, a love for others...we not only create miracles for ourselves but contribute to the peace and healing of the planet. We begin to fully and deeply understand and feel connection.
🔬 SCIENCE SHOWS:
Humans are inherently social creatures; we are biologically, cognitively, physically, and spiritually wired to be loved and to belong.
Studies show people who feel more connected to others have lower levels of anxiety and depression, stronger immune systems, live longer, have higher self-esteem, greater empathy for others, and are more trusting and cooperative. Connectedness generates a positive feedback loop of social, emotional, and physical well-being.
🤝THE ART OF CONNECTION
Probably one of the most important tools to greater communication and connection is the art of listening.
Listening is more than just remaining silent while another person speaks.
Good listeners amplify, energize, and clarify the speaker's thinking. They make the speaker feel better by being actively supportive.
💬 COMMUNITY CONVERSATION
What is one way you enjoy connecting to Nature and Others?
Please share your observations and creative musings in the comments below or the Art Room Activity Feed at https://intentioninspired.com/art-friend
Today, let's get more clear about what's most important so we can live in more alignment with what makes our soul sing.
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The world is in the midst of great change and transformation. Change can be scary but we know, deep within, that this change is necessary to restore balance and connection. We also know that balance and connection must be restored within the individual for transformation to occur. This change and transformation is guiding us towards our preferences.
📣 TODAY'S AFFIRMATION:
"I pause to make sure I am aligned with what feeds my soul. My values are clearly defined. I prefer to live in alignment."
🍂 AUTUMN INSPIRATION:
Autumn is the Season of change and transformation.
The time to intentionally practice our preferences. It seems like that would be easy enough but often we make choices that are counter to who we are, our values, and the life we want to create. In many cases, we are taught to disregard who we are and what feeds our soul. Over time this conditioning leads us further and further from our "true" values and purpose. How do we know what we prefer?
🙏 A MOMENT OF GRATITUDE
"As I observe the characteristics, behaviors, and beliefs that are the most important to me,
I am grateful for _________________________"
👯♀️ COMMUNITY CONVERSATION
Knowing what you prefer as you tackle the challenges of the day and as you create will produce a balanced, peaceful feeling place within you. That feeling place is your guidepost to whether you are in alignment or not. Once you know your preferences you can make the choices that align you with your life of purpose. Your purpose.
Please share your observations and creative musings in the comments below or the Art Room Activity Feed at https://intentioninspired.com/art-friend
Today, let's break the momentum of past conditioning by returning our focus to the abundance of this moment.
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To be aware and mindful of what we are feeling ... in this moment, what is happening, in this moment ... the abundance around us, in this moment allows us to break the momentum of past conditioning. We may also realize that in most cases we are safe and whole and secure ... in this moment.
📣 TODAY'S AFFIRMATION:
"When I drift to past moments or worry about moments to come, I take a breath and bring myself into this moment. I am fully present in this moment."
🍂 INSPIRATION FROM AUTUMN:
As we practice what Autumn has to teach us, we can be mindful that we are in a cycle of preservation and gratitude for our abundant "Harvest". We can honor and accept the dark and the light. We can prepare for a future of our choosing from our point of power in the present. We can examine the past, intentionally to observe our successes, behaviors and lessons in small doses.
🌻MINDFUL MOMENT
Sit quietly for a few minutes, taking long, slow breaths. Ask and observe: How often does my mind wander to the past in a day? When in conversation with another what stories do I tell? How often am I anxious or worried about the future?
📓 TODAY'S CREATIVE JOURNAL PROMPT:
Capture the present moment. Bring yourself into this moment ... How do you feel? What can you hear? What catches your attention? Can you smell or taste anything?
Around the "captured moment" write answers to these questions.
How does presence feel?
🙏 A MOMENT OF GRATITUDE
"As I bask in the feelings of this present moment, I feel grateful for _________________________ "
👯 COMMUNITY CONVERSATION
So many things are designed to distract us and keep us worried about the future or focused in the past (including our own conditioning). What will always ring true is that there is nothing but the present moment and that is where our point of power to become aware, create and grow will always be.
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Today, let's accept the inevitable contrast and celebrate periods of balance.
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📣 TODAY'S AFFIRMATION:
"I accept the contrast and celebrate periods of balance. My creative process is in equilibrium."
🍂 AUTUMN INSPIRATION:
Our whole system longs to maintain its equilibrium. We are noticing the natural world continuously moving towards balance and we experience it thoroughly in Autumn. Darkness and light, birth and death, giving and receiving are the push and pull of this season.
Equilibrium is not something we want to "lose".
I enjoy exploring all that Autumn has to show us and applying its lessons to my creative practice. "Letting go" of perfectionism, insecurities, and critical thoughts. Pausing to center myself, bring myself into the moment, break the momentum of conditioned reactions, preserving my creative time and space and the healing benefits I receive daily. Honoring the "harvest" that is every page of my journal.
📓TODAY'S CREATIVE JOURNAL PROMPT:
When you engage, daily, with a creative process your being returns to balance.
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Draw a line down the center of your page.
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On one side, write for at least three minutes about what it feels like when you lose your equilibrium (Creatively, Emotionally, and Spiritually).
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On the other side, write for three minutes on what it feels like to be "in balance" in these areas as well.
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Create a page, over your writing, that symbolizes BALANCE.
🙏 A MOMENT OF GRATITUDE
"As I notice what shows up when I ebb and flow in and out of balance, I remain grateful for ____________________ "
👯 COMMUNITY CONVERSATION:
Balance is very important to my growth on all levels.
Maintaining that fine centerline is not always possible but accepting that the heaviness will change, the swinging scales will balance again and there is much learning in this process if I observe with curiosity.
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Today, let's rest and reflect with curious observation of our seasonal cycles.
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📣 TODAY'S AFFIRMATION:
Read today's affirmation out loud with purpose and intent:
"Rest and reflection allows me to do my best work. I connect to the seasonal cycles, allowing myself to rest and reflect."
🍂 AUTUMN INSPIRATION:
As we look towards Winter we get to choose how we proceed as the days get shorter and colder.
We can allow the approaching winter to hamper our "forward motion" and fight against it or we can use our time to go within and focus on creative pursuit.
Autumn cycles suggest that we meet change with grace.
One way to ease into and choose how the changes affects our lives and decisions is to take the time to rest and reflect. Reflection allows us to observe the changes with curiosity and make the choices that further our growth.
📓 CREATIVE JOURNAL PROMPT:
As we Rest and Reflect today, let's do whatever we feel called to do in our creative journals.
🙏 A MOMENT OF GRATITUDE
"As I take time to rest and reflect, I feel grateful for ___________________ "
👯 COMMUNITY CONVERSATION
Even a creative pursuit can feel forced and challenging at times.
This is one of the reasons we observe our thoughts and feelings as we create. Curious observation as we create can impact every facet of our being. Whatever we have observed can be thoroughly examined when we rest and reflect.
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Today, let's take stock of our internal landscape and choose a path that feeds our soul.
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📣 TODAY'S AFFIRMATION:
"When I pause and take stock of my internal landscape, I am able to intentionally choose a path that feeds my soul. I pause and honor this cycle with grace."
When we feel that there is so much to do we fall back to our old patterns quickly. We may experience feelings of overwhelm and anxiety. We may begin feeling our life as a hamster wheel...round and round, endlessly "doing" but not moving forward much. We are busy people and that is why the Pause is so vital to our well-being.
If we can Pause before the overwhelm and anxiety takes full hold we can use the tools we've been learning to honor our cycles with grace. Our commitment to our creative practice is a wonderful way to pause and reassess our choices, beliefs and behaviors.
Other creative tools that can facilitate the Pause (and reset) are meditation, taking a breath, napping, tapping (EFT), connecting to Nature. My favorite is my journal. Getting fully present and in the flow with a page allows me to pause and reenergize my whole being.
🍂 INSPIRATION FROM AUTUMN:
Autumn is a mixed bag of energy.
In many ways it feels like there is much more for us to do as we prepare for cold and dark, holidays and winter introspection. The transformation also brings with it a bit of sorrow as, once again, everything is ending and changing. Internally we understand that this is part of the cycle so there is excitement in the possibilities to come and new beginnings. Summer was warm, fun and in motion. Autumn suggests that we pause and allow the changes and energies to BE with grace.
With so many feelings and energies wrapped around Autumn, a pause becomes all the more therapeutic.
Pausing to allow ourselves to stop and reassess can ward off overwhelm and anxiety but a pause can have other benefits as well.
A Pause before answering allows us to collect our thoughts and give a response that is true to ourselves.
A pause also allows us to reframe a response, bypassing our conditioning and triggers and speaking with clarity and compassion. This pause only takes a breath (two, maybe, if you're already triggered).
A Pause can break the momentum of a thought or feeling that you can't get rid of.
Breaking the momentum allows us to focus intentionally on what the thought and feelings actually are. We give these thoughts and feelings a voice and then let them pass through leaving our mind freer.
A Pause will bring us back to this moment and place our focus on what will best serve us.
Being in this moment can turn our attention towards appreciating the beauty all around us, returning to the awe, wonder, and curiosity that we knew as children.
A Pause helps us tune into our body and focus on what it really needs.
Am I hungry? Have I been sitting too long? Do I need water?
Consciously and intentionally pausing can literally change your life.
📓 CREATIVE JOURNAL PROMPT
Today is a doodle or scribbling day. Both of these activities allow us a Pause.
🙏 A MOMENT OF GRATITUDE
Pausing to remember all that we have to be grateful for is a wonderful way to reset and reenergize. Stopping to write down five things that you are grateful for can shift your whole being.
I am grateful for 1 _____________________ 2 _____________________ 3 _____________________ 4 _____________________ 5 _____________________
👯 COMMUNITY CONVERSATION:
A Pause can change your life. What is one of your favorite ways to pause?
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Today, let's be wholehearted in our service by upholding loving boundaries that allow for authentic transformation.
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📣 TODAY'S AFFIRMATION
“As I identify and alter my conditioning, I embrace wholehearted giving and lovingly set personal boundaries.”
Setting boundaries is essential if we want to be physically, spiritually, mentally, and emotionally healthy.
It is also a kindness to others (though it may not seem that way). Boundaries lay a strong foundation for our authentic and desired participation in this life journey and also gives necessary information to those journeying with us. Personal boundaries help define where you end and others begin on all levels. They help you decide what types of communication, behavior, and interaction are acceptable to you and are true to your values.
Setting these boundaries can also be one of the most challenging tasks we undertake.
Many of us have had counter conditioning. This counter-conditioning indicates that “keeping the peace”, “protecting ourselves from trauma by agreeing”, “staying invisible so we remain undetected”. There are thousands of possible scenarios. Each one is designed to protect us in some way but keep us locked in a prison (sometimes for years). Setting boundaries lovingly is the path to freedom.
💬 TODAY'S QUOTE
"An intimate relationship is one in which neither party silences, sacrifices, or betrays the self and each party expresses strength and vulnerability, weakness and competence in a balanced way." ~Harriet Lerner
🍂 AUTUMN INSPIRATION
Autumn is a time when we gather the earth's riches.
A time when we may come to realize that what matters in life is not productivity and having things but human connection and being of service. While the “service” of our conditioning can often set up frustration or resentment, we have been intentional about being of service to ourselves. Not a selfish pursuit, as our Ego or critics may attempt to indicate, but a necessity to living our highest truth.
It is Autumn; we are experiencing transformation and it is both exciting and bittersweet as change often is. To ease into this transformation we can begin by laying a good foundation of boundaries.
📓 CREATIVE JOURNAL PROMPT:
List your top five values. List your top five “truths” about relationships.
Choose five important relationships. Make a map using each person as their own “state”.
Get creative by visually expressing the boundaries needed for these “people states” and the options available for a true and mutually satisfying connection. Get clear on the boundaries you need to set for your own well-being.
Keep in mind that sometimes the most healthy boundary you can set might be letting go altogether.
😄 A MOMENT OF GRATITUDE “As I reflect on my top values and relationships, I am grateful for _____________________ “
👯 COMMUNITY CONVERSATION
Following the transformational tenets of Autumn brings us freedom and allows us to expand our vision of a whole, creative life.
Sometimes the lessons are more challenging…like setting boundaries. The more compassion we have with ourselves, the easier this transformation becomes (and the more compassionate we can be with others).
How can you express your own values and needs more clearly? What boundaries speak to your soul?
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Today, let's take stock throughout the day to improve our connection to Self.
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📣 Read today's affirmation out loud with purpose and intent:
"I honor my commitments to my health and well-being."
🍂 INSPIRATION FROM AUTUMN:
The Harvest is underway.
We have the opportunity to gauge what we have to carry us through Winter. Do we have enough tomatoes to can or just enough to eat? How much squash did we grow? Enough cucumbers to pickle?
We also take stock of our mental, emotional and spiritual harvest. Did we make a commitment to create daily, meditate daily, connect with Nature, observe and journal our conditioned patterns? Are we honoring that commitment?
Taking Stock What did you grow this year?
I grew a garden-tomato, cucumber, onion, eggplant, squash, melon, etc. I grew Patience (still tending that). I grew my commitment to daily creativity (I get a gold star). The desire to declutter is becoming hard to ignore. I will plant the seeds of my decluttering commitment for at least 30 min per day but it is only the desire that is planted so far. The same with organization but both are becoming a necessity. I planted acceptance for people being and believing as they will.
What can you preserve or create that will carry you through the Winter cycle?
Tomatoes-a lot of them, Creativity Commitment, Acceptance and Allowance for myself and others, Taking the time during the end of the Autumn Season and through the Winter to honor the commitments I made to myself.
How can you prepare your inner and outer spaces for rest and reflection?
I can make a firm commitment beginning today towards decluttering and organization. That will prepare both inner and outer spaces. Make good, hearty soups, Wash my warm blankets. Check the pantry for staple items. Stay off of my phone and the internet. Make a FIRM meditation commitment.
🙏 A MOMENT OF GRATITUDE:
"As I observe the bounty of my harvest, I am blessed by the many choices I have available to feed my soul with. I am grateful for _____________________ "
👯 COMMUNITY CONVERSATION
Taking stock will help us acknowledge our "harvest" and lay a foundation that will not only take us through the end of Autumn but through the Winter with grace. We ask a lot of ourselves (and maybe others as well) and creating space for love, rest and reflection, once we have taken stock and prepared, aligns us with a safe, warm sanctuary to weather this cycle.
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Today, let's play with symbols of Autumn in ways that deepen the connection we have to the cycles of the Universe.
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🍂 AUTUMN INSPIRATION: Autumn is a season rich with symbolism. Falling leaves, pumpkins, Thanksgiving and Halloween may be the symbols that spring to mind. However, there is so much more to be learned from this season of Harvest and how it connects to the maturity and awareness of our own cycles. For those of us in the Autumn cycle of our life journey, we may look at the Symbols of Autumn with conflicting emotion.
There may be a sadness, yet also a feeling of fulfillment. There may be some fear, yet also a feeling of peace and knowing. Autumn brings a knowing. All of these conflicting emotions allows us to choose what best serves us best from a cornucopia of possibility.
These are some of the aspects of Autumn that may apply to our stages of development both internally and externally:
Harvest • Ripeness • Maturity
As an idea manifests into reality it becomes ripe with possibility. Autumn represents the apex of all "fruits". The natural cycle is full and ripe but also comes with a knowing that this is the peak of the cycle and all things will change.
Impermanence • Letting Go • Acceptance
As the leaves change color we gaze in awe at the canvas they create. We also know what that means. All things are impermanent. Autumn gives us the opportunity to accept and honor the cycles of birth, growth and death on all levels. Whether it is changing conditioned behaviors, dealing with our bodies as they age, a brilliant idea or a tree as it sheds its leaves, there is a cycle to all things. Winter is coming. We choose how we navigate this cycle.
Preservation • Connection • Preparation
Animals collect and store their harvest to prepare for Winter. They prepare their spaces for hibernation. We, too, can use this time to preserve the bounty that feeds our soul and to prepare our indoor (and internal) spaces, making it comfortable for the cold months ahead, for ourselves and our cohabitants. It is these cohabitants that we rekindle and reexamine our connection to during these Autumn days.
Balance
The days and nights are returning to balance during this cycle. This gives us the opportunity to explore both the "light and the dark" of our nature. As part of the cycle we revisit the idea that both are equally important and worthy. We give each their voice and we accept that this contrast is vital for our growth.
📓 CREATIVE JOURNAL PROMPT:
Are you familiar with Rune Stones? The Rune symbols are an ancient Anglo Saxon alphabet over 2000 years old. Traditionally they were used for protection, gravestone markings, communication and magic. No one knows for sure the origins of the rune alphabet but there is something mystical and wise about these symbols. (If you want more information on runestones and their use there is great information online).
Today we are going to make our own symbolic language. After reading the Autumn Inspiration above let's make at least ten symbols that resonate with this season with an explanation of our meaning.
👯 COMMUNITY CONVERSATION
Symbols and Rituals are a valuable part of our diverse culture. As humans, we "need" to create meaning of the world around us. There is such creativity wrapped up in the way these rituals and symbols enhance our lives. Symbols help us understand the connection we have to the cycles of the natural Universe and playing with them (as well as creating them) is both a wonderful expression of our creative power and a lot of fun.
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Today, let's embody the feeling place that reflects the magnificence of our own being.
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With curiosity and observation, expressive creativity can guide us more clearly through deep-seated feelings and fears, conditioned patterns and responses, connection to other creators, and intuition. It is enhanced by our ability to think BROADLY about our life experience and possibilities (even the possibilities we find "far fetched"). All that is required is our acknowledgment.
📣 TODAY'S AFFIRMATION:
Repeat today's affirmation out loud with releasing intent:
"I am creative. There are infinite possibilities available. Just because I currently believe something does not make it "truth". I am a magnificent being and I honor my growth."
It is unfortunate that acknowledging our magnificence is so difficult for us to do without hesitation, resistance or embarrassment. What is your usual response when faced with your own reflection?
Do you ignore yourself?
Do you deny or justify that it is difficult to look in your own eyes? (I do not care how I look...what really matters is how I feel or how much I get done or what I do for others...etc.)
Or do you look at yourself and point out the "flaws"?
Go to the mirror. Look directly in your own eyes and say this:
You are safe. You are magnificent. I love you.
🍂 AUTUMN INSPIRATION
Autumn is the beginning of the end that we are witnessing all around us.
With that, we acknowledge and celebrate that we, too, are somewhere in this seasonal transition. For those of us that are in the Autumn of our cycle, this cycle of maturity and "adulthood" allows us to reflect on who we are now and acknowledge the abundance of our journey. Bringing ourselves into this moment to reflect and acknowledge ourselves-our divinity and abundance, brings us closer to peace as we move into the Winter cycle.
Our acknowledgment brings with it an important understanding. How precious this moment truly is. How will we honor our precious moments? As I "age" the answer becomes very clear. Love is and always has been the answer.
📓 CREATIVE JOURNAL PROMPT
Go back to the mirror. Look deeply into your own eyes and tell yourself, "I Am Safe". Acknowledge that you are a divine being. Acknowledge that you are a being of beauty and wonder. Acknowledge that you are creative.
What is your feeling place?
What color is this feeling place?
How much room does this feeling place consume?
Create this feeling place.
🙏 A MOMENT OF GRATITUDE
"I will wrap myself in blankets of love. I will BE love and I will begin with myself in this moment. From that acknowledgment, I will share love. "I am grateful for _________________________ "
💬 COMMUNITY CONVERSATION
As we acknowledge our exceptional traits and the abundance of what we have learned and what we are learning we also ease, slowly, into the realization that our journey is a cycle and, as all natural things do, we will transition.
What is something you acknowledge in your Self to be exceptional?
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Today, let's embrace impermanence by letting go of what no longer serves us.
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📣 TODAY'S AFFIRMATION:
"As Autumn leaves fall to the ground, I will also release all of my burdens and stress."
🍂 INSPIRATION FROM AUTUMN:
Nature is within us and around us.
We can rejoice in the letting go, as the leaves change color and fall. It means the release of what has served its purpose. We may feel a sense of grief at the impermanence of all things but still rejoice in our awareness that this is part of the cycle.
"Autumn is about to show us how beautiful it is to let things go." - Anonymous
Everything seems a bit more precious at this time of year. That may be because this is the time when things come to an end, or begin to come to an end. Maybe everything seems more beautiful at this time of year, because everything is in transition and we are aware that we must let go. In fact, letting go when things are at an "end" is part of the cycle.
Just as the trees give up their leaves, this is the ideal time for us to give up those habits, practices, and even relationships that no longer serve us. We have been changing and growing all year long and our needs have most likely also changed. Holding on to dead leaves does not help a tree weather the cold of winter, and holding on to outdated aspects of our lives will not aid us in moving forward either.
It’s an awareness of this that helps us fall in love with life in a much deeper way.
Impermanence is the beauty and the energy of life. Life is forever changing and transforming and turning into something new. If we can honor this transformation we begin to see that as some things come to and end, new things are being born.
In this Autumn Season, how can you embrace this transformation? What needs to end or is ending? What will be born as a result?
📓 JOURNAL PROMPT & RITUAL
Take three long, slow breaths. Bring yourself to this moment, to this creative sanctuary. Now with intention ask ... What needs to go?
Spend at least 5 minutes writing about what you need to let go of. Sit with your observations a moment.
Our journal page for today is an expression of Letting Go.
Then burn it baby!
As you watch the paper burn, visualize what is unwanted rising up in the smoke, being released from you. Allow yourself to experience whatever you are feeling: fear, anxiety, sadness, loss, gratitude.
When your paper is ash offer a releasing affirmation such as:
“Today I release what I don’t want. I let go, allowing my higher self and Source to work on my behalf. I am healed and renewed. I open my heart to love, and I am blessed with peace, joy, and harmony.”
Scatter the ashes on the wind or in the water.
😄 A MOMENT OF GRATITUDE:
Gratitude for releasing can be a freeing experience.
"I Am Grateful for ________________________ "
💬 COMMUNITY CONVERSATION:
Letting Go is something we can all practice for our well-being.
We tend to hold on to old ideals, old beliefs, old opinions, behaviors and possessions that we have simply outgrown or never served us in the first place. It isn't always easy to Let Go but with consistent practice and starting "small" we can make room for something new.
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Today, let's rest and reflect as we capture the essence of Autumn by tuning into the smells, textures, sounds, tastes, and sights.
📣 TODAY'S AFFIRMATION
"To prepare for the short and chilly days I will learn to rest and reflect. I will welcome this day with my open heart."
🍂 TODAY'S INSPIRATION FROM AUTUMN:
As we ease into Autumn, the season of Harvest, Gratitude, and Preparation we are reminded that Nature's cycles are reflected in our lives.
Tune into this Autumn Season with your whole being. See if you can capture the essence of Fall with each of your senses.
“Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the earth.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden
Many of us live by the clock and it might be easy to forget that we live in a world of natural seasons and seasonal change. Each season teaches us lessons about ourselves, other people, and life in general. We know that as one cycle ends another will begin and in each cycle, we have grown and are connecting with greater awareness. Each season helps us transform psychologically, physically, and socially. They strengthen our self-awareness and resilience and enliven our spirits.
This week we focused on the Harvest and Abundance of Autumn, Next week we look at the aspects of Autumn that remind us of the impermanence of all things. Both indicate that Fall is once again upon us.
📓 TODAY'S JOURNAL PROMPT
Today is a free journal day. Use this time to finish pages or writings. Or create from your own imagination.
🙏 A MOMENT OF GRATITUDE
"As I tune into my current smells, textures, sounds, tastes, and sights I am grateful for _________________________ "
💬 COMMUNITY CONVERSATION
Please share your observations on how this week went for you in the comments below or the Art Room Activity Feed.
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Today, let’s focus our energy where it best serves by acknowledging our blessings.
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A gratitude practice is a daily ritual of expressing your gratitude for all the wonderful things, people, and experiences in your life so far. I like to practice gratitude, periodically, throughout the day or whenever I feel "lack". A gratitude practice can be as simple or as as listing three things you are grateful for in the morning and then three things about your day that you were grateful for in the evening.
What would your daily gratitude practice look like? The main idea is to "feel" grateful by acknowledging the bounty that you have created (your life). Don't leave the many wonderful attributes that YOU possess on the back burner. Feeling gratitude about the wonder of your being has its own set of benefits.
📣 TODAY'S AFFIRMATION:
"I see and feel abundance all around me and I feel blessed."
🍂 TODAY'S INSPIRATION FROM AUTUMN:
Autumn is the season of gratitude.
We know that Gratitude is one of the "feel good practices" of Mindfulness but did you also know that gratitude has many health benefits? Studies are now being done that indicate that people who consistently practice gratitude.
A gratitude practice affects your energetic vibration, your mood, hormone levels, and health. These are a few of the benefits: • A stronger immune system • Lower blood pressure, reduced stress • Higher levels of positive emotion, happiness, joy and optimism • Acting with more compassion and generosity • Feeling less isolated and lonely • Strengthening social relationships and increased understanding of others
There are many more benefits but my observation is that we cannot be in two feeling places at one time. If we are focused on gratitude we find ourselves, more often, in a feeling place of abundance, happiness, optimism and honor our connections more. These are the feeling places of a joyful, creative life.
Because Autumn is the Season of the Harvest, it is clear to see why it is also the season of gratitude.
When we place our intention on the abundance we have created (sure, we still have other wants and desires but look at what we HAVE accomplished! Look at the magnificence of who we ARE!) our expressions of gratitude become clear.
Focusing on all we have to be grateful for raises our energy and we show ourselves that we HAVE been learning, we have been growing, we have been evolving. By following the cycles and honoring the seasons, we can move into the coziness of Winter (once again) with gratitude and a clearer path laid out before us.
📓 TODAY'S JOURNAL PROMPT:
We have two ideas for our creative journal today:
(1) Our first idea is a Gratitude Journal!
It can be as simple or expansive as you like and you are putting yourself in the "feeling place" of abundance and gratitude.
If you are limited in time you could write three things you are grateful for, followed by three affirmations of gratitude. Expand that to ten things if you have the time.
2) Our second idea is CORNUCOPIA.
Make a cornucopia on your journal page and fill it with what you are grateful for (images or words or both). Take your time and add to it as you continue your gratitude practice.
🙏 A MOMENT OF GRATITUDE:
"I am a remarkable being with so many unique qualities. I am grateful for _________________________ "
👯 COMMUNITY CONVERSATION
Being in Gratitude (and being in Autumn) reminds us of our bounty.
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Today, let’s examine our Harvest so we can gather and protect what will carry us through the darkest times.
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Because we have been gathering, the abundance lays out before us in a cornucopia of possibility. We are beginning to become very clear on what feeds our soul. With that knowledge each day becomes an experiment and a treasure hunt for more input.
During this Autumn Season what bounty do you want to experience daily? What will you hold in your knapsack? What will you compost?
📣 TODAY'S AFFIRMATION
"I choose to gather and preserve what I need to live a creative life."
🍂 TODAY'S INSPIRATION FROM AUTUMN
Gathering the Autumn Harvest allows us the opportunity to decide how we will "preserve" our "bounty" (or if we even want to).
Much of our bounty (the pause, creativity, compassion, self care, meditation, connection to Nature, breathing, etc.) we would like to use on a daily basis. This bounty we preserve by our commitment to daily "use".
Some of our bounty, we realize, will be useful as our journey unfolds (stepping into the unknown, reframing conditioning, certain creative expressions, etc.) and we may want to take our time or practice in stages. This bounty we preserve and put in our knapsack to snack on when we need to.
Some of what we used to believe was bounty, we realize now should be composted (over giving, over achieving, avoidance, fear of being negative, always saying yes, scarcity mindset, berating yourself, etc.).
With the coming of Autumn, we are able (once again) to examine our Harvest and choose our intentions for preservation.
For many creatures in Nature, Autumn is the season for preserving and preparing.
We know that Winter will be upon us soon. We gather and preserve our foods, our supplies and our tools of creativity to feed us, carry us through, keep us safe and allow us comfort. We prepare our space so we have a comfy sanctuary to wait out the cold.
What preparations do you need to make this Autumn?
📓 TODAY'S JOURNAL PROMPT
Today, look around your creative space. Have you gathered your tools of creative expression?
That might be a room full of color-making mediums or a set of colored pens and a sketchbook. Feeding your creative soul is all that matters and that is your own preference.
Are there any "tools" you need or would like to try out?
GATHERING is our journal prompt for the day.
😄A MOMENT OF GRATITUDE
"I am astonished at the Bounty I am Harvesting! I am grateful for _________________________ "
👯 COMMUNITY CONVERSATION
Preserving the bounty that feeds our soul is part of honoring the tenets of Autumn.
We want to be aware of what we need to both balance our energies and keep us safe and warm as we move closer to Winter.
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Today, let's honor all facets of our being—both the darkness and the light.
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Because we are human, each of us contains elements of both darkness and light. In fact, our light and our darkness is the duality that makes us whole. Often we acknowledge and value the light and attempt to avoid, bury or mask over the darkness. We pass judgment, quickly, on those we perceive to be "dark". To be clear, light and dark are merely opposites, polarities that exist in our human experience.
Can you think of a time in your life when your light and dark were out of balance?
LIGHT: love. compassion, trust, peace, passion, freedom, fulfillment, caring, delight, beauty, divinity, joy, health
DARKNESS: fear, perfectionism, greed, jealousy, lack, dishonesty, dis-ease, loss, suffering, pain, anxiety, depression
Only you can fully identify (by knowing your values and beliefs) what your perceptions of light and dark would be. This is very valuable information for creating our reality.
🍂 INSPIRATION FROM AUTUMN
As Autumn unfolds the days get shorter and the night gets longer. Darkness and light gently return to balance. Our focus today, as we follow the cycle of Autumn, is the darkness and light within each of us.
"I will love the light for it shows me the way. Yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars." – Og Mandino
💬 TODAY'S QUOTE:
"Put light against light...you have nothing. Put darkness against darkness...you have nothing. It is the contrast of light and dark that each give the other one meaning. " – Bob Ross
📓 TODAY'S CREATIVE JOURNAL PROMPT:
Honor of the Darkness and the Light and your unique imagination.
Depict your own connection of Light and Dark within you in whatever medium you choose.
👯 COMMUNITY CONVERSATION
It is not always comfortable to acknowledge our perceptions of the dark.
Thank you for the courage to be curious and creative as you journey. Please share your observations in the Art Room Activity Feed at Intention Inspired at https://intentioninspired.com/art-friend
Today, let's craft more intention into the space where engage with our creative practice.
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Any experience can be a chance to practice our creativity and an opportunity to embrace all aspects of our being. You do not have to be "productively" creative to be a creator. Creativity is your life force energy, the embodiment of ALL you are. You only need the courage and curiosity to find out what that means for you.
We move into Autumn appreciating what we have learned from the "seeds" we have tended. Gathering the bounty that our intentions have sown, honoring this bounty with ritual and gratitude and allowing ourselves to feel the cyclical rhythms of this Harvest Season.
Our busy Summer has come to an end and in Autumn we prepare for Winter by establishing our daily routines, preparing our Winter spaces (internal and external) and feeding our souls.
📣 TODAY'S AFFIRMATION:
"I look within to unearth information of new experience."
One of the magically creative things that we can do to feed our soul is to experiment with a bunch of experiences that may interest us. Autumn invites this experimentation. Make a list of 5 things you will do today to feed your soul. Now, make a list of at least 10 things that you would like to play with that you think might feed your soul. Be bold, be brave, be wild!
It may not be possible at this moment to try all of these things this week but using your imagination you can find ways to experience the "feeling place" of the experience or have a mini-experience. For instance, maybe one of the items on your list is to sing to a large audience. You may have no idea how to pull that off but you could find karaoke in your area or sing while you're waiting for the bus. Use your tools of imagination and curiosity and begin to feed your soul.
PREPARING OUR SPACE
There is a theme today as we identify what feeds our soul. For some of us, a lot of our "soul feeding" is done indoors (especially as the weather turns). It is important that we claim a spot, no matter how small, that we can call our own. A place where we can have privacy if needed, leave tools and items available to return to, a space that fuels our imagination and our muse can feel comfortable. A place where we can have mementos of love around us, an alter, a yoga mat, a bowl of stones. If you already have such a space, today is the day for organizing, decorating and fine-tuning.
If space is an issue for you, you can make yourself a "To Go" box, bag or cart. This "To Go" Receptacle can house the tools you need for your indoor activities and you can move it to whatever space is available. Choosing and decorating a space for your "journey's and explorations" sends a message to yourself that you and your journey are important.
If you have no open space at all, your journal can be your space. Each blank page is a room all to itself. A journal and the tools required to create our creative journal take up very little space at all. A journal, pens, pencils, ruler, scissors, color, magazines (if you collage), stamp pads, stencils, glue or glue stick, gesso are your base supplies and they all fit neatly into a small carrying receptacle.
All of the activities we played with today can feed us. They can also fuel our excitement about the endless possible dreams that may be available and appealing. We only need to provide the willingness and the courage.
Please share your observations as we Journey into Autumn and the things that Feed Your Soul in the comments below or the Art Room Activity Feed.
Today, let's broaden our perspective of abundance by appreciating what we have already created and become open receptacles of for the vast bounty that is yet to come.
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We have manifested a great bounty of love and creativity. There is more to come! That is not a statement of greed. We are deserving of this abundance. We are doing the internal, creative "work" necessary to become the highest expression of our being. "Source" is active and willing to give. How open are we to receive?
📣 TODAY'S AFFIRMATION
"I am deserving of the abundance of the Universe."
Not only are we surrounded by the abundance of the creative life we are living (both internally and externally) but this very moment we are creating the path towards what lies ahead. This knowledge adds importance to our creative observations.
What we think, believe and feel will determine what our future path will be. That is why we spend so much time observing our patterns of thought and behavior and then setting the intentions that will best serve our greatest manifestations.
🍂 INSPIRATION FROM AUTUMN:
Oh! The vast abundance of Autumn. So rich, so colorful, so ripe!
We tend to equate abundance with money or material goods. Let's spend the day broadening that perception. We live on a planet of incredible wealth. We are receptacles of knowledge that we may not even be fully aware of. All around us is the bounty of our own creative manifestation.
Spend a moment appreciating the bounty that surrounds you.
Today we are focused on the Abundance of the Harvest.
Throughout our creative practice runs a beautiful and bountiful thread of connection. We are not only connecting to ourselves and becoming aware of our own divinity. We are connecting to Nature, to other co-creators, to Source. These connections allow our creativity and self awareness to take form and to grow...if we are willing to stay open and receptive.
What do you wish to receive? (The sky universe is the limit.)
📓 CREATIVE JOURNAL EXERCISE:
To gather the bounty of the Harvest we need a receptacle. This could be a basket, a bowl, a shell, a chalice. Any receptacle that resonates with you.
Collage or sketch this empty receptacle into your journal. Ground yourself into this moment with a few grounding breaths. Feel the gratitude for the abundance you have already manifested.
Ask and remain open to receive: "I fill this receptacle with the bounty of my creative journey. What do I need to create a path of love and fulfillment?"
Sit silently for a moment and let the answers arise. When you are satisfied, fill your receptacle with words and/or images of your bounty (the bounty you currently have and the bounty that is yet to come).
😄 A MOMENT OF GRATITUDE:
I am bountiful and creative. I am open to receiving the Abundance of the Universe.
I am grateful for _________________________ _________________________ _________________________
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There is no limit to what we can create.
That is the magic of our journey. Part of the excitement and expansion is to celebrate the abundance that we have already created.
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Today, let's feel our life force with our whole being and make a sacred commitment to our creative journey.
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When we began our journey through the Seasons of Creativity we may not have realized the new rituals we were going to create. One such ritual is our commitment to our creative practice. For each season that is where we begin.
We acknowledge that creativity is not specific to "the Arts" or the Act of physically making or producing things. It is the key to unlocking our self-awareness and our potential. Creativity is an energy that is at the root of all things. It is life force energy that invites us to expand. Nothing happens without the energy of creativity.
Creativity brings us to life!
📣 TODAY'S AFFIRMATION:
"My Commitment to Creative Practice is Sacred"
Making the time to express ourselves creatively is a sacred undertaking. You may not be called to your creative journal, daily, as your primary source of creative expression. As we journey together with focused attention and intention, we are able to define and expand our knowledge and understanding of our own "life force energy" and how creativity shapes our entire being.
The commitment we make to our creative practice is not a commitment to "Art", it is not a commitment to "finishing" every task in a day, it is not a commitment to finishing a journal page every day. The commitment we make is to intentionally observe our daily lives in a creative rather than conditioned manner. We celebrate those observations here.
Our creative journal allows us to experiment, examine and heal the areas of our being that have been stuck or have lived in darkness for a long time. It is one of the best ways that I have found to practice creativity in community.
As we consciously link our awareness to the cycles of Nature, our understanding of our own cycles begin to deepen.
Keeping a creative journal, honoring the commitments we make to ourselves, making our journal our own...these are the actions that clarify and define our unique creative practice. As we expand our life force energy and we begin to live a creative life, we begin to acknowledge how our creativity extends to all areas of our being.
Choose an amount of time for your Creative Practice that fits your lifestyle but also one that reflects the importance that your practice holds. You can always stay longer. If you continually "fall short" of your commitment you may be sending a powerful message to yourself that your self awareness and creativity are not that important. That is neither right or wrong but it is an important observation.
Also available in the Art Room is a commitment agreement you can print out, fill out, perhaps decorate, and sign.
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😄A MOMENT OF GRATITUDE: Autumn is the Season of Gratitude.
It becomes clear, as we acknowledge our growth, that all around you are the gifts of your creation.
You may want to honor all that you have in your life and shift your consciousness from one of lack to one of prosperity and gratitude in some way through a small ritual or ceremony.
I am grateful for _________________________ _________________________ _________________________
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As we move into the Harvest of the Autumn Season we will be focusing on and defining all that we are (which is just right in this moment), all that we "need" and the infinite possibilities that lay ahead of us.
We are all creative beings and whatever amount of time you have committed to can be accomplished in infinite creative ways. Look for the CREATIVE in your life.
Please share what you hope to learn as we Journey into Autumn and Harvest our bounty in the comments below or the Art Room Activity Feed
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✨🍂 Welcome to the Bounty of Autumn! 🍂✨
The Autumnal Equinox began on Wednesday, September 22 in 2021. Day and night come into balance and once again we, in turn, balance our energies of darkness and light. We look upon the Abundance of our intentions and we prepare for Harvest and Winter.
Our Creative practice and process becomes all the more exciting with what we have been learning. Autumn gives us an opportunity to be discerning and curious about our Creative Life.
We have basked in the warm, energy of Summer, sown and tended our seeds and with the coming of Autumn we acknowledge, with awe and gratitude, the cycle of all things. The season of ritual, we will use this season to examine our growth and refine the process of our Creativity.
Autumn invites us to experience the fruits of our labor by enjoying them when they are ripe and ready, preserving and storing them for later use or disposal into the compost to be transformed and open up space. In this season of harvest we will clearly define, understand and connect to the Creative in all things.
Thank you for joining us as bring ourselves to life with the power of Creativity!
This is a different kind of active journaling and a journey into the power of Creativity. This is not an "art" course (although we will play with art...color, prose, design, collage, etc.) and you do not have to believe that you are "creative" to participate.
🍂 THE DAILY FLOW The daily process of the creative journal is really fun and uniquely meaningful to each of us. It need not take more than 15 minutes a day and the return on self-investment is immeasurably rewarding.
👩🏼🎨 Creativity Is a State of Being Creating is an innate human attribute, available to everyone. We will explore this. You will find so much benefit to daily creative expression and so many areas that creativity can enhance your life. Each person that accepts this challenge and commitment changes the world for the better.
🍂 Aside from honoring Autumn, this journey was designed to:
• Examine and reframe our beliefs about our own Creative expression and expand our understanding of how vital Creativity is to our personal growth and our lives.
• Allow us to create and observe ourselves while creating in a space that is non-judgmental, supportive and authentic. You will find that sharing this journey with other co-creators really enhances the journey. We can learn so much and more quickly through the loving support and wisdom of others and sharing ourselves as we learn.
• Remind us of the importance of keeping commitments we make to and for ourselves. If, like me, this was not something you were taught to do, you will find out how powerful this practice of commitment is. This practice allows us to become mindful and self aware and to honor ourselves as we learn.
• Observe ourselves in a fun and active creative format. That is why I chose creative journaling. It is fun and I can learn while I play. My inner child loves it!
• That gives you some idea of what this journey is about. There are many layers to this onion and no matter where you are on your creative journey there is much for all of us to learn about knowing ourselves, loving ourselves and how creativity affects our lives.
🙌 The Autumn Creative Journey is now live!
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Our final addition to the Self Awareness “tool kit” is creativity!
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We saved creativity until the end of our three self-awareness tools because it is where we get to use our understanding of judgment and our powers of observation. It is also our favorite way of becoming self-aware at Intention Inspired and expanding our connection to self.
📓 JOURNAL PROMPT:
Most of us have at least a small amount of trauma around the idea of “being creative”. We hear the word and think the ARTS, unusually gifted, not a valid use of our time and energy, something we are not talented enough to achieve. We may have come to the conclusion that we are not creative on our own or received “well-meant” advice from another. It is equally possible that we were, straight up, discouraged from any creative pursuit. If any of that resonates with you, you are not alone. We may have been conditioned to believe that we are not “Creative” and now have a very narrow view of how important our ability to CREATE actually is. We must redefine these old beliefs if we are to become Self Aware.
Take a moment to journal about what “creativity” means to you.
💪 MICRO CHALLENGE:
So how do we redefine old beliefs in order to grow in self-awareness?
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We reframe judgment and understand that there is nothing “wrong” with us because we “judge”. We learn to stop judging ourselves. We will consider that a judgment may be the way we understand and feel comfortable in the world around us. You will know if you feel that your judgments cause you more stress or a discordant emotional state. Because you understand how to observe yourself you can modify your reactionary behavior in the moment.
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We approach the unknown with curiosity and courage. Any anxiety we prefer to call excitement (all a matter of perception). We keep a journal of our dreams, our values, gratitude and what causes us to react.
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We spend as much time as possible focused in this moment and in a feeling place of joy and gratitude.
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When our body tells us that a stress response is eminent we pause and focus on our breathing. We ask questions, of ourselves or others, to gain clarity without judgment of right or wrong.
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We spend time in nature, meditate, and have a releasing ritual for beliefs or behaviors that do not serve us.
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WE PLAY and EXPERIMENT and keep in close contact with our creative inner child. The world around us fascinates us so much that we have almost no time to be anything other than blissful.
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We commit to a daily practice of creative expression-if you would like to know more about this there are some good articles in the Art Room that not only explain creativity but also gives you ideas for creative expression.
What all 7 practices above have in common is that they are all creative solutions.
This is how we create our reality. By using our Creativity we can become more self-aware. By observing ourselves in varied creative practices, using our imaginations and curiosity to problem solve, keep moving forward focused on the journey and this moment, we can know and love who we truly are at our core and have FUN while doing it.
Which of these practices are you willing to commit to become more self-aware?
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Today, let's learn our stress signature and practice becoming the empowered "Watcher" of our emotional triggers.
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One of the greatest practices for enhancing self-awareness is OBSERVATION.
We may think that we have no choice but to observe the way we act, the things we say, the things we do, the things we are “triggered” by. That is observation on a surface level and we generally chalk that up to “The Way I Am…”. Most of the time we are on autopilot running the same old programs and conditioning that we have run for years and these states of being seem like “who we are”.
To evolve as consciousness and become more self-aware we need to become very observant as we travel on this journey. We need to become “The Watcher” as Eckhart Tolle says.
"Be the silent watcher of your thoughts and behavior. You are beneath the thinker. You are the stillness beneath the mental noise. You are the love and joy beneath the pain." – Eckhart Tolle
Psychological “triggers” can be tricky, they can be deep and hidden in our subconscious.
We have accepted them as ourselves, when actually they were conditioning that we adopted (usually in childhood) as a protection and coping tool. As adults, they are soundtracks and patterns of behavior that in most cases no longer serve us and in many cases are causing us higher stress. A “trigger” can manifest by any sense reaction. A smell, a taste, a word or phrase or perception. Many small and seemingly insignificant or unrelated manifestations that cause us to react in a patterned way. But is there any way to alter these triggers?
1) Learn your “stress signature”.
According to what science currently knows when we experience a trigger, our hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis (HPA axis) kicks off a complex process of self-protection that readies us for three possible actions: fight, flight or freeze. Our adrenaline spikes, and stress hormones like cortisol course throughout our bodies and brain. Once these stress hormones are released, anxiety soars, and we often lose touch with our healthy coping skills and succumb to reactions like lashing out or running away.
Learning to recognize that you are being triggered as soon as the signs start in your body is the first step. Each one of us has a unique “stress signature”. One of three things usually throws us into the fight, flight or freeze response: increased heart rate, sweating or muscle tension. Pay close attention the next time you feel triggered, and see which of these is most prominent for you.
2) Pause, calm your body and focus on your breath and what you are feeling.
Document your findings. All of this information can lead us to greater self awareness.
3) Practice tuning into your body and what it is trying to tell you several times a day-triggered or not.
As stress levels arise our tendency is to tune into what is happening outside ourselves. We have become so conditioned to that feeling place that we have become disconnected from the wisdom our body holds. There are several great meditations that focus on our connection to our body. Try one. Document your findings.
What about you? What inspired you during today's intention on observation?
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It is our nature to judge our circumstances and what is occurring around us.
Years ago it was a matter of survival. Quick judgments have to be made if the circumstances are a matter of life or death. Our survival is generally not the cause of our stress in this day and age (obviously there are circumstances where survival is still a concern but we tend to view those circumstances from the moment and take appropriate action to be “safe”) but we are more stressed-out than ever before. Our physical, mental and emotional states of being and those of the people around us, now, have “new” areas of stressful focus and they seem to be more invasive and dangerous than being chased by a tiger.
Certainly with the combination of “actual” physical danger and emotionally and mentally perceived threats to our well-being, our capacity to JUDGE is on high alert. For a lot of people, the innate human function of judgment is no longer a “quickly judge my surroundings for my physical safety” instinctual response but a fear-based, daily validation of reasons to be afraid. That high alert, fear-based judgment is causing much dis-ease in our world. Is it human nature or is it our conditioning that makes us feel so unsafe that we have to judge harshly on every level of our being (physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual)?
TODAY'S QUOTE:
"If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher." – Pema Chodron
TODAY'S JOURNAL PROMPT:
Write out, in detail, 10 (or more) things that cause you stress. Take a good look at your list. How many of these things are within your power to change? How many of these stressful things are happening in this moment?
No matter how many things are on your list, chances are most of them are related to the past or the future. Many of them are things you have no power to change and a lot of them are not about you at all (someone else stuff). If you draw a line through the stressors that come from the past, future or someone else what is left on your list?
TODAY'S MICRO CHALLENGE:
Today, let's reframe our perception of “judgment”.
Making a judgment may be our way of gathering information. Judgmental is what you are when you are judging. That may sound like semantics but do we really need another “flaw' to “justify” our unworthiness? Couldn't it be that the act of judging is just humans trying to make sense out of what we are feeling or an experience we are having without the self-awareness to know that these judgments are subconscious coping mechanisms? Maybe judging is the clue we need to point the way to old habits, old beliefs, or old conditioning. Consider this concept with an open mind.
Left at that, judgment is just a thought and holds no validity or impact except to ourselves when used as an observation. Judgments that cause emotional reactions are also clues to help you find personal insight. It is the reaction on any level of being that creates the discord and our reactions are in our power to change. Reactions that cause discord due to the judgments we make always have to do with our own perceptions, our own self-judgments, and feelings of inadequacy or strength.
We must stop looking at ourselves as a broken piece of equipment that needs repair and if, after observation, we determine that we are judging things so often, harshly and reactively (and on so many levels of our being) that it is causing our well being or our relationships to suffer, then we can make a commitment with an intention to change. Until then it would help to understand that all feelings have validity, that we are not broken, just learning, and that we are magnificent and worthy just as we are.
What about you? What inspired you during today's intention on reframing judgment?
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Today, let's turn jealousy into liberating creative action.
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TODAY'S INSPIRATION FROM JULIA CAMERON
Jealousy is always a mask for fear: fear that we aren’t able to get what we want; frustration that somebody else seems to be getting what is rightfully ours even if we are too frightened to reach for it. At its root, jealousy is a stingy emotion. It doesn’t allow for the abundance and multiplicity of the universe. Jealousy tells us there is room for only one—one poet, one painter, one whatever you dream of being.
The truth, revealed by action in the direction of our dreams, is that there is room for all of us. But jealousy produces tunnel vision. It narrows our ability to see things in perspective. It strips us of our ability to see other options. The biggest lie that jealousy tells us is that we have no choice but to be jealous.
Perversely, jealousy strips us of our will to act when action holds the key to our freedom.
(The Artist's Way, 2016, p. 123 - 124)
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📣 TODAY'S AFFIRMATION
Read today's affirmation out loud with vigor and delight:
I move past my jealous concerns by taking faithful action.
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💪 TODAY'S CREATIVE EXERCISE
THE JEALOUSY MAP
Your jealousy map will have three columns. In the first column, name those whom you are jealous of. Next to each name write why. Be as specific and accurate as you can. In the third column, list one action you can take to move toward creative risk and out of jealousy.
When jealousy bites, like a snakebite it requires an immediate antidote. On paper, make your jealousy map.
WHO WHY ACTION ANTIDOTE
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Even the biggest changes begin with small ones. Green is the color of jealousy, but it is also the color of hope. When you learn to harness its fierce energy on your own behalf, jealousy is part of the fuel toward a greener and more verdant future.
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💬 TODAY'S QUOTE
"With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity."
– Keshavan Nair
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📓 TODAY'S JOURNAL PROMPT
How will you harness the fierce energy of jealousy today?
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Today, let's befriend jealousy as fuel for inspired creative action.
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TODAY'S INSPIRATION FROM JULIA CAMERON
Jealousy, I’ve often heard, is a normal human emotion. When I hear that, I think, “Maybe your jealousy—not mine.”
My jealously roars in the head, tightens the chest, massages my stomach lining with a cold fist as it searches out the best grip. I have long regarded jealousy as my greatest weakness. Only recently have I seen it for the tough-love friend that it is.
Jealousy is a map. Each of our jealousy maps differs. Each of us will probably be surprised by some of the things we discover on our own. I, for example, have never been eaten alive with resentment over the success of women novelists. But I took an unhealthy interest in the fortunes and misfortunes of women playwrights. I was their harshest critic, until I wrote my first play.
With that action, my jealousy vanished, replaced by a feeling of camaraderie. My jealousy had actually been a mask for my fear of doing something I really wanted to do but was not yet brave enough to take action toward.
(The Artist's Way, 2016, p. 123)
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📣 TODAY'S AFFIRMATION
I let jealous show me what I value and where I can take inspired action.
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💪 TODAY'S CREATIVE EXERCISE
Make this phrase a mantra:
Treating myself like a precious object will make me strong. Watercolor or crayon or calligraph this phrase. Post it where you will see it daily. We tend to think being hard on ourselves will make us strong. But it is cherishing ourselves that gives us strength.
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💬 TODAY'S QUOTE
"Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness."
– François de La Rochefoucauld
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📓 TODAY'S JOURNAL PROMPT
What is one way jealousy has shown you what you value?
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Marva here, welcome to my "Art Room" and our New Creative Summer Journal Journey. 👉 Join us for free at https://intentioninspired.com/art-friend
This is a different kind of active journaling and a journey into the power of Creativity. This is not an "art" course (although we will play with art...color, prose, design, collage, etc.) and you do not have to believe that you are "creative" to participate.
🦄 THE DAILY FLOW • intention • affirmation • summer inspirations • gratitude • creative journaling • community reflections
The daily process of the creative journal is really fun and uniquely meaningful to each of us. It need not take more than 15 minutes a day and the return on self-investment is immeasurably rewarding.
👩🏼🎨 CREATIVITY IS A STATE OF BEING Creating is an innate human attribute, available to everyone. We will explore this. You will find so much benefit to daily creative expression and so many areas that creativity can enhance your life. Each person that accepts this challenge and commitment changes the world for the better.
🌻 Aside from honoring Summer, this journey was designed to:
• Examine and reframe our beliefs about our own Creative expression and expand our understanding of how vital Creativity is to our personal growth and our lives.
• Allow us to create and observe ourselves while creating in a space that is non-judgmental, supportive and authentic. You will find that sharing this journey with other co-creators really enhances the journey. We can learn so much and more quickly through the loving support and wisdom of others and sharing ourselves as we learn.
• Remind us of the importance of keeping commitments we make to and for ourselves. If, like me, this was not something you were taught to do, you will find out how powerful this practice of commitment is. This practice allows us to become mindful and self aware and to honor ourselves as we learn.
• Observe ourselves in a fun and active creative format. That is why I chose creative journaling. It is fun and I can learn while I play. My inner child loves it!
That gives you some idea of what this journey is about. There are many layers to this onion and no matter where you are on your creative journey there is much for all of us to learn about knowing ourselves, loving ourselves and how creativity affects our lives.
🧭 A couple of rules within the Art Room
...there are no rules in the art room. This is YOUR journey and your safe space to create. How you do that is up to you.
I have a couple of rules that apply to the Creators that are in the Art Room.
This is a space of trust. In the interest of everyone being able to share their creations, their triggers, their truth, and their challenges we must all feel comfortable and safe enough to speak or share. This journey isn't always "rainbows and unicorns". It takes courage to create, it takes courage to step into the unknown, it takes courage to change.
Sometimes the journey is raw and intense. Everyone's truth may not sound like yours but everyone deserves to be seen and heard without fear of retribution. In the Art Room that space and that right is held and sacred.
It's an honor to journey with you. 👉 Join us for free at https://intentioninspired.com/art-friend
Today, let's expand our self-definition by releasing conditioning limits.
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TODAY'S INSPIRATION FROM JULIA CAMERON
QUESTION: What would I do if I didn’t have to do it perfectly? ANSWER: A great deal more than I am. We’ve all heard that the unexamined life is not worth living, but consider too that the unlived life is not worth examining. The success of a creative recovery hinges on our ability to move out of the head and into action. This brings us squarely to risk. Most of us are practiced at talking ourselves out of risk. We are skilled speculators on the probable pain of self-exposure.
We deny that in order to do something well we must first be willing to do it badly. Instead, we opt for setting our limits at the point where we feel assured of success. Living within these bounds, we may feel stifled, smothered, despairing, bored. But, yes, we do feel safe. And safety is a very expensive illusion.
In order to risk, we must jettison our accepted limits. Usually, when we say we can’t do something, what we mean is that we won’t do something unless we can guarantee that we’ll do it perfectly.
As blocked artists, we unrealistically expect and demand success from ourselves and recognition of that success from others. With that as an unspoken demand, a great many things remain outside our sphere of possibility.
Once we are willing to accept that anything worth doing might even be worth doing badly our options widen. “If I didn’t have to do it perfectly, I would try ...”
Very often a risk is worth taking simply for the sake of taking it. There is something enlivening about expanding our self-definition, and a risk does exactly that. Selecting a challenge and meeting it creates a sense of self-empowerment that becomes the ground for further successful challenges. Viewed this way, running a marathon increases your chances of writing a full-length play. Writing a full-length play gives you a leg up on a marathon.
Complete the following sentence. “If I didn’t have to do it perfectly, I would try ...”
(The Artist's Way, 2016, p. 121 - 123)
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📣 TODAY'S AFFIRMATION
Read the following affirmation with gusto and intent:
I am willing to risk my illusion of safety in order to expand my self-definition.
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💪 TODAY'S CREATIVE EXERCISE
The phrases that follow are more of your sleuth work. Very often, we have buried parts of ourselves that can be uncovered by some digging. Not only will your answers tell you what you missed in the past; they will tell you what you can be doing, now, to comfort and encourage your artist child. It is not too late, no matter what your ego tells you.
Complete these phrases. As a kid, I missed the chance to ____________________ As a kid, I lacked _________________________________ As a kid, I could have used ________________________ As a kid, I dreamed of being ______________________ As a kid, I wanted a ______________________________ In my house, we never had enough ________________ As a kid, I needed more __________________________ I am sorry that I will never again see _______________ For years, I have missed and wondered about ______ I beat myself up about the loss of _________________
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💬 TODAY'S QUOTE
"Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark."
– Agnes de Mille
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📓 TODAY'S JOURNAL PROMPT
What is one small risk you will take today towards a dream?
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Today, let's notice how our perfectionistic tendencies are stifling productive action.
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Tillie Olsen correctly calls it the “knife of the perfectionist attitude in art.” You may call it something else. Getting it right, you may call it, or fixing it before I go any further. You may call it having standards. What you should be calling it is perfectionism.
Perfectionism has nothing to do with getting it right. It has nothing to do with fixing things. It has nothing to do with standards. Perfectionism is a refusal to let yourself move ahead. It is a loop—an obsessive, debilitating closed system that causes you to get stuck in the details of what you are writing or painting or making and to lose sight of the whole. Instead of creating freely and allowing errors to reveal themselves later as insights, we often get mired in getting the details right. We correct our originality into a uniformity that lacks passion and spontaneity. “Do not fear mistakes,” Miles Davis told us. “There are none.”
Instead of enjoying the process, the perfectionist is constantly grading the results. The perfectionist has married the logic side of the brain. The critic reigns supreme in the perfectionist’s creative household. A brilliant descriptive prose passage is critiqued with a white-glove approach: “Mmm. What about this comma? Is this how you spell ... ?”
To the perfectionist, there is always room for improvement. The perfectionist calls this humility. In reality, it is egotism. It is pride that makes us want to write a perfect script, paint a perfect painting, perform a perfect audition monologue.
Perfectionism is not a quest for the best. It is a pursuit of the worst in ourselves, the part that tells us that nothing we do will ever be good enough— that we should try again.
No. We should not.
That is a normal part of creativity—letting go. We always do the best that we can by the light we have to see by.
(The Artist's Way, 2016, p. 119-120)
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📣 TODAY'S AFFIRMATION
Read the following affirmation out loud with purpose and intent:
I let go of needing perfection and enjoy the process of my creative endeavors.
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💪 TODAY'S CREATIVE EXERCISE
Collect a stack of at least ten magazines, which you will allow yourself to freely dismember. Setting a twenty-minute time limit for yourself, tear (literally) through the magazines, collecting any images that reflect your life or interests. Think of this collage as a form of pictorial autobiography. Include your past, present, future, and your dreams. It is okay to include images you simply like. Keep pulling until you have a good stack of images (at least twenty). Now take a sheet of newspaper, a stapler, or some tape or glue, and arrange your images in a way that pleases you. (This is one of my students’ favorite exercises.)
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💬 TODAY'S QUOTE
"Cerebration is the enemy of originality in art."
– Martin Ritt
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📓 TODAY'S JOURNAL PROMPT
What is the next best step you can take on an unfinished project?
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Today, let's accept the help of the universe's synchronistic support.
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Once you accept that it is natural to create, you can begin to accept a second idea—that the creator will hand you whatever you need for the project. The minute you are willing to accept the help of this collaborator, you will see useful bits of help everywhere in your life. Be alert: there is a second voice, a higher harmonic, adding to and augmenting your inner creative voice. This voice frequently shows itself in synchronicity.
You will hear the dialogue you need, find the right song for the sequence, see the exact paint color you almost had in mind, and so forth. You will have the experience of finding things—books, seminars, tossed-out stuff—that happen to fit with what you are doing.
Learn to accept the possibility that the universe is helping you with what you are doing. Become willing to see the hand of God and accept it as a friend’s offer to help with what you are doing. Because many of us unconsciously harbor the fearful belief that God would find our creations decadent or frivolous or worse, we tend to discount this creator-to-creator help.
Try to remember that God is the Great Artist. Artists like other artists.
Expect the universe to support your dream. It will.
(The Artist's Way, 2016, p. 119)
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📣 TODAY'S AFFIRMATION
Read the following affirmation out loud with purpose and intent:
I have faith the universe has my back and supports my dreams.
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💪 TODAY'S CREATIVE EXERCISE
Take positive stock of what good you have to build on in the present.
Finish these phrases:
I have a loyal friend in __________________ . One thing I like about my town is ______________ . I think I have nice _________________________ . Writing my morning pages has shown me I can ___ . I am taking a greater interest in ________________ . I believe I am getting better at __________________ . My artist has started to pay more attention to _________ . My self-care is _________________________________ . I feel more ___________________________________ . Possibly, my creativity is __________________________ .
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💬 TODAY'S QUOTE
"Trust in yourself. Your perceptions are often far more accurate than you are willing to believe."
– Claudia Black
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📓 TODAY'S JOURNAL PROMPT
What area of your life you can be more receptive to universal support?
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Today, let's practice listening to that inspired, intuitive voice that exists past the Censor's chatter.
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These moments of clear inspiration require that we move into them on faith. We can practice these small leaps of faith daily in our pages and on our artist dates. We can learn not only to listen but also to hear with increasing accuracy that inspired, intuitive voice that says, “Do this, try this, say this....”
Most writers have had the experience of catching a poem or a paragraph or two of formed writing. We consider these finds to be small miracles. What we fail to realize is that they are, in fact, the norm. We are the instrument more than the author of our work.
Some people find it easier to picture the stream of inspiration as being like radio waves of all sorts being broadcast at all times.
With practice, we learn how to hear the desired frequency on request. We tune in to the frequency we want. Like a parent, we learn to hear the voice of our current brainchild among the other children’s voices.
(The Artist's Way, 2016, p. 118)
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📣 TODAY'S AFFIRMATION
Read the following out loud with purpose and intent:
I am hearing with increasing accuracy that inspired, intuitive voice.
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💪 TODAY'S CREATIVE EXERCISE
Take yourself into a sacred space—a church, synagogue, library, grove of trees—and allow yourself to savor the silence and healing solitude. Each of us has a personal idea of what sacred space is. For me, a large clock store or a great aquarium store can engender a sense of timeless wonder. Experiment
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💬 TODAY'S QUOTE
"Listening is a form of accepting."
– Stella Terrill Mann
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📓 TODAY'S JOURNAL PROMPT
What has that inspired, intuitive voice been saying to you recently?
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Today, let's replace thinking something up with getting something down.
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The ability to listen is a skill we are honing with both our morning pages and our artist dates. The pages train us to hear past our Censor. The artist dates help us to pick up the voice of inspiration. While both of these activities are apparently unconnected to the actual act of making art, they are critical to the creative process.
Art is not about thinking something up. It is about the opposite—getting something down. The directions are important here.
If we are trying to think something up, we are straining to reach for something that’s just beyond our grasp, “up there, in the stratosphere, where art lives on high….”
When we get something down, there is no strain. We’re not doing; we’re getting. Someone or something else is doing the doing. Instead of reaching for inventions, we are engaged in listening.
Art is an act of tuning in and dropping down the well. It is as though all the stories, painting, music, performances in the world live just under the surface of our normal consciousness. Like an underground river, they flow through us as a stream of ideas that we can tap down into. As artists, we drop down the well into the stream. We hear what’s down there and we act on it—more like taking dictation than anything fancy having to do with art.
(The Artist's Way, 2016, p. 117 - 118)
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📣 TODAY'S AFFIRMATION
I am listening beyond my egoic Censor.
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💪 TODAY'S CREATIVE EXERCISE
Give yourself time out to listen to one side of an album, just for joy. You may want to doodle as you listen, allowing yourself to draw the shapes, emotions, thoughts you hear in the music. Notice how just twenty minutes can refresh you. Learn to take these mini—artist dates to break stress and allow insight.
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💬 TODAY'S QUOTE
"In the esoteric Judaism of the Cabalah, the Deep Self is named the Neshamah, from the root of Shmhm, “to hear or listen”: the Neshamah is She Who Listens, the soul who inspires or guides us."
– Starhawk
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📓 TODAY'S JOURNAL PROMPT
What is one step towards getting something down that you have been thinking up?
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Today, let's get serious with our art by getting serious with our play.
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Creative living requires the luxury of time, which we carve out for ourselves—even if it’s fifteen minutes for quick morning pages and a ten-minute mini bath after work.
Creative living requires the luxury of space for ourselves, even if all we manage to carve out is one special bookshelf and a windowsill that is ours. (My study has a window shelf of paperweights and seashells.) Remember that your artist is a youngster and youngsters like things that are “mine.” My chair. My book. My pillow.
Designating a few things special and yours alone can go a long way toward making you feel pampered. Chinatown anywhere offers a beautiful teacup and saucer for under five dollars. Secondhand stores often have one-of-a-kind china plates that make an afternoon snack a more creative experience.
Much of what we do in a creative recovery may seem silly. Silly is a defense our Wet Blanket adult uses to squelch our artist child. Beware of silly as a word you toss at yourself. Yes, artist dates are silly—that’s the whole point.
Creativity lives in paradox: serious art is born from serious play.
(The Artist's Way, 2016, p. 112)
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TODAY'S AFFIRMATION
I routinely allow myself the luxury of free time.
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TODAY'S CREATIVE EXERCISE
Bake something. (If you have a sugar problem, make a fruit salad.) Creativity does not have to always involve capital-A art. Very often, the act of cooking something can help you cook something up in another creative mode. When I am stymied as a writer, I make soups and pies.
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TODAY'S QUOTE
"As an artist, it is central to be unsatisfied! This isn’t greed, though it might be appetite." — Lawrence Calcagno
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TODAY'S JOURNAL PROMPT
What is one tiny change that will allow you more free time to play today?
Today, let's acknowledge and practice what feels luxurious today.
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For many blocked creatives, it takes a little work to even imagine ourselves having luxury. Luxury is a learned practice for most of us. Blocked creatives are often the Cinderellas of the world. Focused on others at the expense of ourselves, we may even be threatened by the idea of spoiling ourselves for once.
“Don’t try to let go of Cinderella,” my writer friend Karen advises. “Keep Cinderella but focus on giving yourself the glass slipper. The second half of that fairy tale is great.”
What we are talking about when we discuss luxury is very often a shift in consciousness more than now—although as we acknowledge and invite what feels luxurious to us, we may indeed trigger an increased flow.
(The Artist's Way, 2016, p. 111)
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TODAY'S AFFIRMATION
I acknowledge and invite what feels luxurious.
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TODAY'S CREATIVE EXERCISE
List your "favorites" in the following categories: Cars ___________________________ Dogs ___________________________ Flowers _________________________ Trees ___________________________ Fruits ___________________________ Vegetables ______________________ Desserts ________________________ Entrées _________________________ Musical Groups __________________ Colors _________________________
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TODAY'S QUOTE
"True life is lived when tiny changes occur."
– Leo Tolstoy
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TODAY'S JOURNAL PROMPT
What is one way you will practice authentic luxury today?
Today, let's practice listen for and saying yes to those things that give us true joy.
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In order to thrive as artists—and, one could argue, as people—we need to be available to the universal flow. When we put a stopper on our capacity for joy by anorectically declining the small gifts of life, we turn aside the larger gifts as well. Those of us, like my artist friend, who are engaged in long creative works will find ourselves leaching our souls to find images, returning to past work, to tricks, practicing our craft more than enlarging our art. Those of us who have stymied the work flow completely will find ourselves in lives that feel barren and devoid of interest no matter how many meaningless things we have filled them with.
What gives us true joy? That is the question to ask concerning luxury, and for each of us the answer is very different.
(The Artist's Way, 2016, p. 110)
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TODAY'S AFFIRMATION
I notice and follow what brings me joy.
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TODAY'S CREATIVE EXERCISE
Any new flow in your life? Practice saying yes to freebies.
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TODAY'S QUOTE
"Explore daily the will of God."
– C. G. Jung
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TODAY'S JOURNAL PROMPT
What is one thing that gives you true joy?
Today, let's allow ourselves the luxury of time to explore dwindled passions while trusting that tiny changes towards abundance are occurring.
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For those of us who have become artistically anorectic—yearning to be creative and refusing to feed that hunger in ourselves so that we become more and more focused on our deprivation—a little authentic luxury can go a long way.
The keyword here is authentic. Because art is born in expansion, in a belief in sufficient supply, it is critical that we pamper ourselves for the sense of abundance it brings to us.
All too often, we become blocked and blame it on our lack of money. This is never an authentic block. The actual block is our feeling of constriction, our sense of powerlessness. Art requires us to empower ourselves with choice. At the most basic level, this means choosing to do self-care.
(The Artist's Way, 2016, p. 108-109)
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TODAY'S AFFIRMATION
I empower myself regularly with authentic self-care.
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TODAY'S CREATIVE EXERCISE
Throw out or give away five ratty pieces of clothing.
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TODAY'S QUOTE
"Money will come when you are doing the right thing."
– Mike Phillips
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TODAY'S JOURNAL PROMPT
What is one authentic luxury you will allow yourself today?
Today, let's get clarity on what we are really meant to do by tuning into what we really want to do.
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Making art begins with making hay while the sun shines. It begins with getting into the now and enjoying your day. It begins with giving yourself some small treats and breaks. “This is extravagant but so is God” is a good attitude to take when treating your artist to small bribes and beauties. Remember, you are the cheapskate, not God. As you expect God to be more generous, God will be able to be more generous to you.
What we really want to do is what we are really meant to do. When we do what we are meant to do, money comes to us, doors open for us, we feel useful, and the work we do feels like play to us.
We will continue to work this week with our ideas surrounding money. We will see how our ideas about money (“It’s hard to get. You have to work long hours for it. You need to worry about money first and creativity second”) shape our ideas about creativity.
(The Artist's Way, 2016, p. 108)
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TODAY'S AFFIRMATION
What I really what to do is what I am really meant to do.
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TODAY'S CREATIVE EXERCISE
For the next week you will be discovering how you spend your money. Buy a small pocket notepad and write down every nickel you spend. It doesn’t matter what it is for, how tiny the purchase, how petty the amount. Petty cash is still cash.
Each day, date a page and count—what you bought, what you spent, where your money went, whether it was for groceries, lunch in a diner, a cab ride, subway fares, or a loan to your brother. Be meticulous. Be thorough. And be nonjudgmental. This is an exercise in self-observation—not self-flagellation.
You may want to continue this practice for a full month or longer. It will teach you what you value in terms of your spending. Often our spending differs from our real values. We fritter away cash on things we don’t cherish and deny ourselves those things we do. For many of us, counting is a necessary prelude to learning creative luxury.
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TODAY'S QUOTE
"Always leave enough time in your life to do something that makes you happy, satisfied, even joyous. That has more of an effect on economic well-being than any other single factor."
– Paul Hawken
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TODAY'S JOURNAL PROMPT
What is one type of "work" you've done that felt like play?
Today, let's soften our rational and sensible minds and be more open to receiving divine creative support.
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Many of us equate difficulty with virtue—and art with fooling around. Hard work is good. A terrible job must be building our moral fiber. Something —a talent for painting, say—that comes to us easily and seems compatible with us must be some sort of cheap trick, not to be taken seriously. On the one hand, we give lip service to the notion that God wants us to be happy, joyous, and free. On the other, we secretly think that God wants us to be broke if we are going to be so decadent as to want to be artists. Do we have any proof at all for these ideas about God?
Looking at God’s creation, it is pretty clear that the creator itself did not know when to stop. There is not one pink flower, or even fifty pink flowers, but hundreds. Snowflakes, of course, are the ultimate exercise in sheer creative glee. No two alike. This creator looks suspiciously like someone who just might send us support for our creative ventures.
When it comes time for us to choose between a cherished dream and a lousy current drudgery, we often choose to ignore the dream and blame our continued misery on God. We act like it’s God’s fault we didn’t go to Europe, take that painting class, go on that photo shoot. In truth, we, not God, have decided not to go. We have tried to be sensible—as though we have any proof at all that God is sensible—rather than see if the universe might not have supported some healthy extravagance.
The creator may be our father/mother/source but it is surely not the father/mother/church/teacher/friends here on earth who have instilled in us their ideas of what is sensible for us.
Creativity is not and never has been sensible. Why should it be? Why should you be? Do you still think there is some moral virtue in being martyred? If you want to make some art, make some art. Just a little art ... two sentences. One rhyme. A silly kindergarten ditty:
God likes art. That’s the part My parents would ignore. God likes art, And I make art. That’s what God likes me for!
(The Artist's Way, 2016, p. 107-108)
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TODAY'S AFFIRMATION
My creativity does not have to be sensible.
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TODAY'S CREATIVE EXERCISE
NATURAL ABUNDANCE
Option 1: Find five pretty or interesting rocks. I enjoy this exercise particularly because rocks can be carried in pockets, fingered in business meetings. They can be small, constant reminders of our creative consciousness.
Option 2: Pick five flowers or leaves. You may want to press these between wax paper and save them in a book. If you did this in kindergarten, that’s fine. Some of the best creative play is done there. Let yourself do it again.
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TODAY'S QUOTE
"All substance is energy in motion. It lives and flows. Money is symbolically a golden, flowing stream of concretized vital energy."
– Patrick J. Harbula
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TODAY'S JOURNAL PROMPT
What is one thing you really want to do today?
Today, let's explore the ways our limited beliefs about God/source/Creator limits our financial abundance.
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“I’m a believer,” Nancy declares. “I just don’t believe God gets involved with money.” Although she doesn’t recognize it, Nancy carries two self-sabotaging beliefs. She believes not only that God is good—too good to do money—but also that money is bad. Nancy, like many of us, needs to overhaul her God concept in order to fully recover her creativity.
For many of us, raised to believe that money is the real source of security, a dependence on God feels foolhardy, suicidal, even laughable. When we consider the lilies of the fields, we think they are quaint, too out of it for the modern world. We’re the ones who keep clothes on our backs. We’re the ones who buy the groceries. And we will pursue our art, we tell ourselves, when we have enough money to do it easily.
And when will that be?
We want a God that feels like a fat paycheck and a license to spend as we please. Listening to the siren song of more, we are deaf to the still small voice waiting in our soul to whisper, “You’re enough.”
We cling to our financial concerns as a way to avoid not only our art but also our spiritual growth. Most of us harbor a secret belief that work has to be work and not play, and that anything we really want to do—like write, act, dance—must be considered frivolous and be placed a distant second. This is not true.
We are operating out of the toxic old idea that God’s will for us and our will for us are at opposite ends of the table. “I want to be an actress, but God wants me to wait tables in hash joints,” the scenario goes. “So if I try to be an actress, I will end up slinging hash.”
Thinking like this is grounded in the idea that God is a stern parent with very rigid ideas about what’s appropriate for us. And you’d better believe we won’t like them. This stunted god concept needs alteration.
(The Artist's Way, 2016, p. 105 - 106)
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TODAY'S AFFIRMATION
I am enough just as I am—as is God.
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TODAY'S CREATIVE EXERCISE:
Complete the following phrases:
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People with money are ________________________
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Money makes people _________________________
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I’d have more money if ________________________
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My dad thought money was ____________________
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My mom always thought money would __________
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In my family, money caused ____________________
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Money equals ________________________________
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If I had money, I’d _____________________________
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If I could afford it, I’d __________________________
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If I had some money, I’d . ______________________
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I’m afraid that if I had money I would ____________
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Money is ____________________________________
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Money causes _______________________________
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Having money is not __________________________
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In order to have more money, I’d need to ________
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When I have money, I usually ___________________
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I think money ________________________________
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If I weren’t so cheap I’d ________________________
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People think money ___________________________
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Being broke tells me ___________________________
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TODAY'S QUOTE:
"The more we learn to operate in the world based on trust in our intuition, the stronger our channel will be and the more money we will have."
– Shakti Gawain
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TODAY'S JOURNAL PROMPT
What is one attitude that has supported your financial abundance?
Today, let's explore how we've been systematically and unconsciously destroying our true self.
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The question “Are you self-destructive?” is asked so frequently that we seldom hear it accurately. What it means is Are you destructive of yourself? And what that really asks us is Are you destructive of your true nature?
Many people, caught in the virtue trap, do not appear to be self-destructive to the casual eye. Bent on being good husbands, fathers, mothers, wives, teachers, whatevers, they have constructed a false self that looks good to the world and meets with a lot of worldly approval. This false self is always patient, always willing to defer its needs to meet the needs or demands of another.
Virtuous to a fault, these trapped creatives have destroyed the true self, the self that didn’t meet with much approval as a child. The self who heard repeatedly, “Don’t be selfish!” The true self is a disturbing character, healthy and occasionally anarchistic, who knows how to play, how to say no to others and “yes” to itself.
Creatives who are caught in the Virtue Trap still cannot let themselves approve of this true self. They can’t show it to the world without dreading the world’s continued disapproval.
“Are you self-destructive?” is a question that the apparently virtuous would be bound to answer with a resounding no. They then conjure up a list proving how responsible they are. But responsible to whom? The question is “Are you self-destructive?” Not “Do you appear self-destructive?” And most definitely not “Are you nice to other people?”
We listen to other people’s ideas of what is self-destructive without ever looking at whether their self and our self have similar needs. Caught in the Virtue Trap, we refuse to ask ourselves, “What are my needs? What would I do if it weren’t too selfish?”
Are you self-destructive?
(The Artist's Way, 2016, p. 99-100) 📕 GET THE BOOK » http://www.mattprindle.com/the-artist-way-book
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TODAY'S AFFIRMATION
I seek the creator within and embrace my own gift of creativity.
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TODAY'S CREATIVE EXERCISE
Are you self-destructive?
This is a very difficult question to answer. To begin with, it requires that we know something of our true self (and that is the very self we have been systematically destroying).
One quick way to ascertain the degree of drift is to ask yourself this question: what would I try if it weren’t too crazy?
One quick way to ascertain the degree of drift is to ask yourself this question:
List 5 things you would try if it weren’t too crazy.
List 5 things you would do if it weren’t too selfish.
By seeking the creator within and embracing our own gift of creativity, we learn to be spiritual in this world, to trust that God is good and so are we and so is all of creation. In this way, we avoid the Virtue Trap.
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TODAY'S QUOTE
"Finding yourself" is not really how it works. You aren't a ten-dollar bill in last winter's coat pocket. You are also not lost. Your true self is right there, buried under cultural conditioning, other people's opinions, and inaccurate conclusions you drew as a kid that became your beliefs about who you are. "Finding yourself" is actually returning to yourself. An unlearning, an excavation, a remembering who you were before the world got its hands on you.
– EMILY MCDOWELL
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TODAY'S JOURNAL PROMPT
What is one way you will say "YES!" to yourself today?
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Today, let's see how we've passively given up our individual sovereignty and practice reclaiming our personal power.
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TODAY'S INSPIRATION FROM JULIA CAMERON
Many recovering creatives sabotage themselves most frequently by making nice. There is a tremendous cost to such ersatz virtue.
Many of us have made a virtue out of deprivation. We have embraced a long-suffering artistic anorexia as a martyr’s cross. We have used it to feed a false sense of spirituality grounded in being good, meaning superior.
We strive to be good, to be nice, to be helpful, to be unselfish. We want to be generous, of service, of the world. But what we really want is to be left alone.
When we can’t get others to leave us alone, we eventually abandon ourselves. To others, we may look like we’re there. We may act like we’re there. But our true self has gone to ground.
What’s left is a shell of our whole self. It stays because it is caught. Like a listless circus animal prodded into performing, it does its tricks. It goes through its routine. It earns its applause. But all of the hoopla falls on deaf ears. We are dead to it. Our artist is not merely out of sorts. Our artist has checked out. Our life is now an out-of-body experience. We’re gone. A clinician might call it disassociating. I call it leaving the scene of the crime.
“Come out, come out, wherever you are,” we wheedle, but our creative self no longer trusts us. Why should it? We sold it out.
Afraid to appear selfish, we lose our self. We become self-destructive. Because this self-murder is something we seek passively rather than consciously act out, we are often blind to its poisonous grip on us.
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TODAY'S AFFIRMATION
I am very discerning with how I give my self to others.
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TODAY'S CREATIVE EXERCISE
One of the best ways we can evade our Censor is to use the technique of speed writing. Because wishes are just wishes, they are allowed to be frivolous (and frequently should be taken very seriously).
As quickly as you can, finish the following phrases. I wish ____________________________________ I wish ____________________________________ I wish ____________________________________ I wish ____________________________________ I wish ____________________________________ I wish ____________________________________ I wish ____________________________________ I wish ____________________________________ I wish ____________________________________ I wish ____________________________________ I wish ____________________________________ I wish ____________________________________ I wish ____________________________________ I wish ____________________________________ I wish ____________________________________ I wish ____________________________________ I wish ____________________________________ I wish ____________________________________ I most especially wish ______________________
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TODAY'S QUOTE
"We are traditionally rather proud of ourselves for having slipped creative work in there between the domestic chores and obligations. I’m not sure we deserve such big A-pluses for that."
– TONI MORRISON
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TODAY'S JOURNAL PROMPT
What is one small action you will make today to create space for your list of wishes?
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Today, let's have the courage, conviction, and resiliency to honor the solitude we need to heal and grow.
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TODAY'S INSPIRATION FROM JULIA CAMERON
An artist must have downtime, time to do nothing. Defending our right to such time takes courage, conviction, and resiliency. Such time, space, and quiet will strike our family and friends as a withdrawal from them. It is.
For an artist, withdrawal is necessary. Without it, the artist in us feels vexed, angry, out of sorts. If such deprivation continues, our artist becomes sullen, depressed, hostile. We eventually became like cornered animals, snarling at our family and friends to leave us alone and stop making unreasonable demands.
We are the ones making unreasonable demands. We expect our artist to be able to function without giving it what it needs to do so. An artist requires the upkeep of creative solitude. An artist requires the healing of time alone. Without this period of recharging, our artist becomes depleted.
Over time, if our warnings are ignored and we deem to stay in whatever circumstance—marriage, job, friendship—requires threats and warnings, homicide gives way to suicide. “I want to kill myself” replaces “I could murder you.”
“What’s the use?” replaces our feelings of joy and satisfaction. We may go through the actions of continuing our life. We may even continue to produce creatively, but we are leaching blood from ourselves, vampirizing our souls. In short, we are on the treadmill of virtuous production and we are caught.
We are caught in the virtue trap. There are powerful payoffs to be found in staying stuck and deferring nurturing your sense of self. For many creatives, the belief that they must be nice and worry about what will happen with their friends, family, mate if they dare to do what they really want to constitutes a powerful reason for nonaction.
(The Artist's Way, 2016, p. 96-97) 📕 GET THE BOOK » http://www.mattprindle.com/the-artist-way-book
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TODAY'S AFFIRMATION
I am nurturing my deepest sense of self.
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TODAY'S CREATIVE EXERCISE
THE VIRTUE-TRAP QUIZ
The biggest lack in my life is______________________ The greatest joy in my life is ______________________ My largest time commitment is ___________________ As I play more, I work ____________________________ I feel guilty that I am _____________________________ I worry that . ____________________________________ If my dreams come true, my family will _____________ I sabotage myself so people will __________________ If I let myself feel it, I’m angry that I ________________ One reason I get sad sometimes is ________________ Does your life serve you or only others? Are you self-destructive?
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TODAY'S QUOTE
"There is the risk you cannot afford to take, [and] there is the risk you cannot afford not to take."
– PETER DRUCKER
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TODAY'S JOURNAL PROMPT
What is one way you will nurture your deepest sense of self today?
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TODAY'S INSPIRATION FROM JULIA CAMERON:
By holding lightly to an attitude of gentle exploration, we can begin to lean into creative expansion. By replacing “No way!” with “Maybe,” we open the door to mystery and to magic.
This newly positive attitude is the beginning of trust. We are starting to look for the silver lining in what appears to be adversity. Most of us find that as we work with the morning pages, we begin to treat ourselves more gently. Feeling less desperate, we are less harsh with ourselves and with others. This compassion is one of the first fruits of aligning our creativity with its creator.
As we come to trust and love our internal guide, we lose our fear of intimacy because we no longer confuse our intimate others with the higher power we are coming to know. In short, we are learning to give up idolatry— the worshipful dependency on any person, place, or thing. Instead, we place our dependency on the source itself. The source meets our needs through people, places, and things.
Time and again, I have seen a recovering creative do the footwork of becoming internally clear and focused about dreams and delights, take a few outward steps in the direction of the dream—only to have the universe fling open an unsuspected door. One of the central tasks of creative recovery is learning to accept this generosity.
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TODAY'S AFFIRMATION:
I acknowledge and accept the generosity of the universe.
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TODAY'S CREATIVE EXERCISE:
One of the favored tricks of blocked creatives is saying no to ourselves. It is astonishing the number of small ways we discover to be mean and miserly with ourselves. When I say this to my students, they often protest that this is not true—that they are very good to themselves. Then I ask them to do this exercise.
List ten things you love and would love to do but are not allowed to do. Your list might look like this:
• Go dancing. • Carry a sketch book. • Roller-skate. • Buy new cowboy boots. • Streak your hair blond. • Go on vacation. • Take flying lessons. • Move to a bigger place. • Direct a play. • Take life-drawing class.
Very often, the mere act of writing out your list of forbidden joys breaks down your barriers to doing them.
Post your list somewhere highly visible.
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TODAY'S QUOTE:
"The specific meaning of God depends on what is the most desirable good for a person."
– ERICH FROMM
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TODAY'S JOURNAL PROMPT:
What is one thing you've felt like you can't enjoy that you're now open to gently explore?
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Today, let's find freedom from dependencies by focusing our dependence on the creator within.
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TODAY'S INSPIRATION FROM JULIA CAMERON
For four weeks now, we have been excavating our consciousness. We have seen how often we think negatively and fearfully, how frightening it has been for us to begin to believe that there might be a right place for us that we could attain by listening to our creative voice and following its guidance. We have begun to hope, and we have feared that hope.
The shift to spiritual dependency is a gradual one. We have been making this shift slowly and surely. With each day we become more true to ourselves, more open to the positive. To our surprise, this seems to be working in our human relationships. We find we are able to tell more of our truth, hear more of other people’s truth, and encompass a far more kindly attitude toward both. We are becoming less judgmental of ourselves and others. How is this possible? The morning pages, a flow of stream of consciousness, gradually loosens our hold on fixed opinions and short-sighted views. We see that our moods, views, and insights are transitory. We acquire a sense of movement, a current of change in our lives. This current, or river, is a flow of grace moving us to our right livelihood, companions, destiny.
Dependence on the creator within is really freedom from all other dependencies. Paradoxically, it is also the only route to real intimacy with other human beings. Freed from our terrible fears of abandonment, we are able to live with more spontaneity. Freed from our constant demands for more and more reassurance, our fellows are able to love us back without feeling so burdened.
As we have listened to our artist child within, it has begun to feel more and more safe. Feeling safe, it speaks a little louder. Even on our worst days, a small, positive voice says, “You could still do this or it might be fun to do that....”
Most of us find that as we work with the morning pages, we are rendered less rigid that we were. Recovery is the process of finding the river and saying yes to its flow, rapids and all. We startle ourselves by saying yes instead of no to opportunities. As we begin to pry ourselves loose from our old self- concepts, we find that our new, emerging self may enjoy all sorts of bizarre adventures.
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TODAY'S AFFIRMATION
I am safe. I am open. I am free.
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TODAY'S CREATIVE CHALLENGE
If I were twenty and had money ... List five adventures. Again, add images of these to your visual image file.
If I were sixty-five and had money ... List five postponed pleasures. And again, collect these images. This is a very potent tool. I now live in a house that I imaged for ten years.
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TODAY'S QUOTE
"Often people attempt to live their lives backwards: they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want so that they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then, do what you need to do, in order to have what you want."
– MARGARET YOUNG
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TODAY'S JOURNAL PROMPT
What have you noticed yourself saying yes to more recently?
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Today, let's let go of having to sabotage ourselves by letting the flow manifest itself where it will—not where we will it.
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TODAY' INSPIRATION FROM JULIA CAMERON
One reason we are miserly with ourselves is scarcity thinking. We don’t want our luck to run out. We don’t want to overspend our spiritual abundance. Again, we are limiting our flow by anthropomorphizing God into a capricious parent figure. Remembering that God is our source, an energy flow that likes to extend itself, we become more able to tap our creative power effectively.
God has lots of money. God has lots of movie ideas, novel ideas, poems, songs, paintings, acting jobs. God has a supply of loves, friends, houses that are all available to us. By listening to the creator within, we are led to our right path. On that path, we find friends, lovers, money, and meaningful work. Very often, when we cannot seem to find an adequate supply, it is because we are insisting on a particular human source of supply.
We must learn to let the flow manifest itself where it will—not where we will it. As each idea comes to us, we must in good faith clear away our inner barriers to acting on it and then, on an outer level, take the concrete steps necessary to trigger our synchronous good.
If this still sounds airy fairy to you, ask yourself bluntly what next step you are evading. What dream are you discounting as impossible given your resources? What payoff are you getting for remaining stuck at this point in your expansion?
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TODAY'S AFFIRMATION
As I listen to the creator within, the right path unfolds.
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TODAY'S CREATIVE CHALLENGE
Starting an Image File: If I had either faith or money I would try ... List five desires. For the next week, be alert for images of these desires. When you spot them, clip them, buy them, photograph them, draw them, collect them somehow. With these images, begin a file of dreams that speak to you. Add to it continually for the duration of the course.
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TODAY'S QUOTE
Look and you will find it—what is unsought will go undetected.
– SOPHOCLES
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TODAY'S JOURNAL PROMPT
What dream are you inspired to take action towards today?
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Today, let's clear way the wreckage of our negative patterning and clarify the vision of what we really want.
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TODAY'S INSPIRATION FROM JULIA CAMERON
One of the chief barriers to accepting God’s generosity is our limited notion of what we are in fact able to accomplish. We may tune in to the voice of the creator within, hear a message—and then discount it as crazy or impossible. On the one hand, we take ourselves very seriously and don’t want to look like idiots pursuing some patently grandiose scheme. On the other hand, we don’t take ourselves—or God—seriously enough and so we define as grandiose many schemes that, with God’s help, may fall well within our grasp.
Remembering that God is my source, we are in the spiritual position of having an unlimited bank account. Most of us never consider how powerful the creator really is. Instead, we draw very limited amounts of the power available to us. We decide how powerful God is for us. We unconsciously set a limit on how much God can give us or help us. We are stingy with ourselves. And if we receive a gift beyond our imagining, we often send it back.
Some of you may be thinking that this sounds like the magic-wand chapter: I pray and presto! Sometimes, that is how it will feel. More often, what we are talking about seems to be a conscious partnership in which we work along slowly and gradually, clearing away the wreckage of our negative patterning, clarifying the vision of what it is we want, learning to accept small pieces of that vision from whatever source and then, one day, presto! The vision seems to suddenly be in place. In other words, pray to catch the bus, then run as fast as you can.
For this to happen, first of all, we must believe that we are allowed to catch the bus. We come to recognize that God is unlimited in supply and that everyone has equal access. This begins to clear up guilt about having or getting too much. Since everyone can draw on the universal supply, we deprive no one with our abundance. If we learn to think of receiving God’s good as being an act of worship—cooperating with God’s plan to manifest goodness in our lives—we can begin to let go of having to sabotage ourselves.
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TODAY'S AFFIRMATION
I am as abundant as I allow myself to be.
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TODAY'S CREATIVE CHALLENGE
List five grievances. The reason I can't really believe in a supportive God is ... (be honest, God can take it.)
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TODAY'S QUOTE
"Expect your every need to be met, expect the answer to every problem, expect abundance on every level, expect to grow spiritually. You are not living by human laws. Expect miracles and see them take place. Hold ever before you the thought of prosperity and abundance and know that doing so sets in motion forces that will bring it into being."
– Eileen Caddy
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TODAY'S JOURNAL PROMPT
What is one way you will open yourself up to more abundance today?
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Today, let's practice not distracting ourselves to further invite creativity to flow.
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TODAY'S INSPIRATION FROM JULIA CAMERON:
If you feel stuck in your life or in your art, few jump starts are more effective than a week of reading deprivation.
It is a paradox that by emptying our lives of distractions we are actually filling the well. Without distractions, we are once again thrust into the sensory world. With no newspaper to shield us, a train becomes a viewing gallery. With no novel to sink into (and no television to numb us out) an evening becomes a vast savannah in which furniture—and other assumptions—get rearranged.
Reading deprivation casts us into our inner silence. If we monitor the inflow and keep it to a minimum, we will be rewarded for our reading deprivation with embarrassing speed. Our reward will be a new outflow. Our own art, our own thoughts and feelings, will begin to nudge aside the sludge of blockage, to loosen it and move it upward and outward until once again our well is running freely.
Reading deprivation is a very powerful tool—and a very frightening one. Even thinking about it can bring up enormous rage. For most blocked creatives, reading is an addiction. We gobble the words of others rather than digest our own thoughts and feelings, rather than cook up something of our own.
Even at the safe remove of the written word, I can feel the shock waves of antagonism about trying this tool. I will tell you that those who have most resisted it have come back the most smugly rewarded for having done it. The nasty bottom line is this: sooner or later, if you are not reading, you will run out of work and be forced to play. You’ll light some incense or put on an old jazz record or paint a shelf turquoise, and then you will feel not just better but actually a little excited.
Don’t read. If you can’t think of anything else to do, cha-cha.
(Yes, you can read and do this week’s tasks.)
(The Artist's Way, 2016, p. 87-89)
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TODAY'S AFFIRMATION:
I can hear the inner voice of my artist's inspiration.
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TODAY'S EXERCISE:
Don’t read. If you can’t think of anything else to do, cha-cha. If you break your reading deprivation, write about how you did it. In a tantrum? A slipup? A binge? How do you feel about it? Why?
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TODAY'S QUOTE:
"We are always doing something, talking, reading, listening to the radio, planning what next. The mind is kept naggingly busy on some easy, unimportant external thing all day."
– BRENDA UELAND
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TODAY'S JOURNAL PROMPT:
What is one type of information you use to distract yourself from your sensory world?
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Today, let's learn how to recuperate while continuing the momentum of our creativity recovery.
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TODAY'S INSPIRATION FROM JULIA CAMERON:
If you look over the time you have been doing your morning writing, you will see that many changes have entered your life as a result of your willingness to clear room in it for your creator’s action. You will have noticed an increased, sometimes disconcerting, sense of personal energy, some bursts of anger, some flash points of clarity. People and objects may have taken on a different meaning to you. There will be a sense of the flow of life—that you are brought into new vistas as you surrender to moving with the flow of God. This is clear already.
You may well be experiencing a sense of both bafflement and faith. You are no longer stuck, but you cannot tell where you are going. You may feel that this can’t keep up. You may long for the time when there was no sense of possibility, when you felt more victimized, when you didn’t realize how many small things you could do to improve your own life.
It is normal to yearn for some rest when you are moving so rapidly. What you will learn to do is rest in motion, like lying down in a boat. Your morning pages are your boat. They will both lead you forward and give you a place to recuperate from your forward motion.
It is difficult for us to realize that this process of going inside and writing pages can open an inner door through which our creator helps and guides us. Our willingness swings this inner door open. The morning pages symbolize our willingness to speak to and hear God. They lead us into many other changes that also come from God and lead us to God. This is the hand of God moving through your hand as you write. It is very powerful.
One technique that can be very reassuring at this point is to use your morning pages—or a part of them—for written affirmation of your progress.
Choose affirmations according to your need. As you excavate your buried dreams, you need the assurance that such explorations are permissible: “I recover and enjoy my identity.”
(The Artist's Way, 2016, p. 85 - 86)
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TODAY'S AFFIRMATION:
I surrender to the flow of creativity.
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TODAY'S CREATIVE EXERCISE:
As recovering creatives, we often have to excavate our own pasts for the shards of buried dreams and delights. Do a little digging, please. Be fast and frivolous. This is an exercise in spontaneity, so be sure to write your answers out quickly. Speed kills the Censor.
List five hobbies that sound fun. List five classes that sound fun. List five things you personally would never do that sound fun. List five skills that would be fun to have. List five things you used to enjoy doing. List five silly things you would like to try once. As you may have gathered by this point in your work, we will approach certain problems from many different angles, all of them aimed at eliciting more information from your unconscious about what you might consciously enjoy. The exercise that follows will teach you enormous amounts about yourself—as well as giving you some free time in which to pursue the interests you just listed.
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TODAY'S QUOTE:
"All you need to do to receive guidance is to ask for it and then listen."
– SANAYA ROMAN
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TODAY'S JOURNAL PROMPT:
What is one fun interest you are excited to spend time playing with today?
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TODAY'S INSPIRATION FROM JULIA CAMERON:
When we have engaged the creator within to heal us, many changes and shifts in our attitudes begin to occur. I enumerate some of them here because many of these will not be recognizable at first as healing. If fact, they may seem crazy and even destructive. At best, they will seem eccentric.
There will be a change in energy patterns. Your dreams will become stronger and clearer, both by night and by day. You will find yourself remembering your nighttime dreams, and by day, daydreams will catch your attention. Fantasy, of a benign and unexpected sort, will begin to crop up.
You may find your candor unsettling. “I don’t like that” is a sentence that will leave your mouth. Or “I think that’s great.” In short, your tastes and judgments and personal identity will begin to show through.
Conditioned as we are to accept other peoples’ definitions of us, this emerging individuality can seem to us like self-will run riot. It is not.
The snowflake pattern of your soul is emerging. Each of us is a unique, creative individual.
(The Artist's Way, 2016, p. 84-85)
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TODAY'S AFFIRMATION:
A stronger and clearer me is emerging.
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TODAY'S CREATIVE EXERCISE:
Time Travel: Describe yourself at eighty-years-old. What did you do after fifty that you enjoyed? Be very specific. Now, write a letter from you at eighty to you at your current age. What would you tell yourself? What interests would you urge yourself to pursue? What dreams would you encourage?
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TODAY'S QUOTE:
"To become truly immortal, a work of art must escape all human limits: logic and common sense will only interfere. But once these barriers are broken, it will enter the realms of childhood visions and dreams."
– GIORGIO DE CHIRICO
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TODAY'S JOURNAL PROMPT:
What is one piece of advice your eighty-year-old self would give to you right now?
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TODAY'S INSPIRATION FROM JULIA CAMERON:
Shifts in taste and perception frequently accompany shifts in identity. One of the clearest signals that something healthy is afoot is the impulse to weed out, sort through, and discard old clothes, papers, and belongings.
By tossing out the old and unworkable, we make way for the new and suitable. A closet stuffed with ratty old clothes does not invite new ones. A house overflowing with odds and ends and tidbits you’ve held on to for someday has no space for the things that might truly enhance today.
When the search-and-discard impulse seizes you, two crosscurrents are at work: the old you is leaving and grieving, while the new you celebrates and grows strong. As with any rupture, there is both tension and relief. Long-seated depression breaks up like an ice floe. Long-frozen feelings thaw, melt, cascade, flood, and often overrun their container (you). You may find yourself feeling volatile and changeable. You are.
Be prepared for bursts of tears and of laughter. It is important to know that no matter which form your growth takes, there is another kind of change, slower and more subtle, accumulating daily whether you sense its presence or not.
(The Artist's Way, 2016, p. 83) get the book » http://mattprindle.com/the-artist-way-book
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TODAY'S AFFIRMATION:
I trust my perceptions.
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TODAY'S CREATIVE EXERCISE:
Open your closet. Throw out—or hand on, or donate—one low-self- worth outfit. (You know the outfit.) Make space for the new.
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TODAY'S QUOTE:
"It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult."
– SENECA
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TODAY'S JOURNAL PROMPT:
What is one physical item you are ready to let go of that is no longer serving you?
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Today, let's lose our vagueness about our self and our life situation to become available to the moment.
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TODAY'S INSPIRATION FROM JULIA CAMERON:
People frequently believe the creative life is grounded in fantasy. The more difficult truth is that creativity is grounded in reality, in the particular, the focused, the well observed or specifically imagined.
As we lose our vagueness about our self, our values, our life situation, we become available to the moment. It is there, in the particular, that we contact the creative self. Until we experience the freedom of solitude, we cannot connect authentically. We may be enmeshed, but we are not encountered.
Art lies in the moment of encounter: we meet our truth and we meet ourselves; we meet ourselves and we meet our self-expression. We become original because we become something specific: an origin from which work flows.
As we gain—or regain—our creative identity, we lose the false self we were sustaining. The loss of this false self can feel traumatic: “I don’t know who I am anymore. I don’t recognize me.”Remember that the more you feel yourself to be terra incognita, the more certain you can be that the recovery process is working. You are your own promised land, your own new frontier.
(The Artist's Way, 2016, p. 82) get the book » http://mattprindle.com/the-artist-way-book
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TODAY'S INSPIRATION:
My life is an ongoing work of art.
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TODAY'S CREATIVE EXERCISE:
Time Travel: Remember yourself at eight-years-old. What did you like to do? What were your favorite things? Now, write a letter from you at eight to you at your current age. What would you tell yourself?
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TODAY'S QUOTE:
"All the arts we practice are apprenticeship. The big art is our life."
– M. C. RICHARDS
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TODAY'S JOURNAL PROMPT:
What is one piece of advice your eight-year-old self would give you right now?
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Today, let's find the clarity we need for constructive change by letting go of ambiguity, illusion, and misconceptions.
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The process of identifying a self inevitably involves loss as well as gain. We discover our boundaries, and those boundaries by definition separate us from our fellows. As we clarify our perceptions, we lose our misconceptions. As we eliminate ambiguity, we lose illusion as well. We arrive at clarity, and clarity creates change.
As we notice which friends bore us, which situations leave us stifled, we are often rocked by waves of sorrow. We may want our illusions back! We want to pretend the friendship works. We don’t want the trauma of searching for another job.
Faced with impending change, change we have set in motion through our own hand, we want to mutiny, curl up in a ball, bawl our eyes out. “No pain, no gain,” the nasty slogan has it.
And we resent this pain no matter what gain it is bringing us. “I don’t want to raise my consciousness!” we wail. “I want ...” And thanks to the morning pages we learn what we want and ultimately become willing to make the changes needed to get it. But not without a tantrum. And not without a kriya, a Sanskrit word meaning a spiritual emergency or surrender. (I always think of kriyas as spiritual seizures. Perhaps they should be spelled crias because they are cries of the soul as it is wrung through changes.)
We all know what a kriya looks like: it is the bad case of the flu right after you’ve broken up with your lover. It’s the rotten head cold and bronchial cough that announces you’ve abused your health to meet an unreachable work deadline. That asthma attack out of nowhere when you’ve just done a round of care-taking your alcoholic sibling? That’s a kriya, too.
In twelve-step groups, kriyas are often called surrenders. People are told just let go.And they would if they knew what they were holding on to. With the morning pages in place and the artist dates in motion, the radio set stands half a chance of picking up the message you are sending and/or receiving. The pages round up the usual suspects. They mention the small hurts we prefer to ignore, the large successes we’ve failed to acknowledge. In short, the morning pages point the way to reality: this is how you’re feeling; what do you make of that?
And what we make of that is often art.
(The Artist's Way, 2016, p. 81-82)
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TODAY'S AFFIRMATION:
As I work on my life, the work of my art emerges.
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TODAY'S CREATIVE EXERCISE:
Use your life pie (from Week One) to review your growth. Has that nasty tarantula changed shape yet? Haven’t you been more active, less rigid, more expressive? Be careful not to expect too much too soon. That’s raising the jumps. Growth must have time to solidify into health. One day at a time, you are building the habit patterns of a healthy artist. Easy does do it. List ongoing self-nurturing toys you could buy your artist: books on tape, magazine subscriptions, theater tickets, a bowling ball.
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TODAY'S QUOTE:
"'Stop talking, stop thinking, and there is nothing you will not understand.'"
– SENG TS'AN
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TODAY'S JOURNAL PROMPT:
What is one self-nurturing practice/tool/toy that has been helpful for you in healthfully reparenting your artist child?
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Today, let's begin sorting through the differences between our real feelings and our official feeling.
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Working with the morning pages, we begin to sort through the differences between our real feelings, which are often secret, and our official feelings, those on the record for public display. Official feelings are often indicated by the phrase, “I feel okay about that [the job loss, her dating someone else, my dad’s death, ...].”
At the root of a successful creative recovery is the commitment to puncture our denial, to stop saying, “It’s okay” when in fact it’s something else. The morning pages press us to answer what else.
In my years of watching people work with morning pages, I have noticed that many tend to neglect or abandon the pages whenever an unpleasant piece of clarity is about to emerge.
Over any considerable period of time, the morning pages perform spiritual chiropractic. They realign our values. If we are to the left or the right of our personal truth, the pages will point out the need for a course adjustment. We will become aware of our drift and correct it—if only to hush the pages up.
(The Artist's Way, 2016, p. 79 - 80)
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TODAY'S AFFIRMATION:
I am true to my self.
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TODAY'S CREATIVE EXERCISE:
Environment: Describe your ideal environment. Town? Country? Swank? Cozy? One paragraph. One image, drawn or clipped, that conveys this. What’s your favorite season? Why? Go through some magazines and find an image of this. Or draw it. Place it near your working area.
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TODAY'S QUOTE:
"Eliminate something superfluous from your life. Break a habit. Do something that makes you feel insecure."
– PIERO FERRUCCI
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TODAY'S JOURNAL PROMPT:
Look at one situation in your life that you feel you should change but haven’t yet.
What is the payoff for you in staying stuck?
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Today, let's honor the rest required for sustainable growth.
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TODAY'S INSPIRATION FROM JULIA CAMERON:
Growth is an erratic forward movement: two steps forward, one step back. Remember that and be very gentle with yourself. A creative recovery is a healing process. You are capable of great things on Tuesday, but on Wednesday you may slide backward. This is normal. Growth occurs in spurts. You will lie dormant sometimes. Do not be discouraged. Think of it as resting.
Easy does it is actually a modus operandi. It means, "easy accomplishes it." If you hew to a practice of writing three pages every morning and do one kind of thing for yourself every day, you will begin to notice a slight lightness of heart.
If you do one nice thing for yourself a day, God will do two more. Be alert for support and encouragement from unexpected quarters. Be open to receiving gifts from our channels: free tickets, a free trip, and offered to buy you dinner, a-new-to-you old couch. Practiced saying yes to such help.
More than anything else, experiment with solitude. You will need to make a commitment to quiet time. Try to acquire the habit of checking in with yourself. Several times a day, just take a beat, and ask yourself how you are feeling. Listen to your answer. Respond kindly. If you were doing something very hard, promise yourself a break and a treat afterward.
Yes, I am asking you to baby yourself. We believe that to be artists we must be tough, cynical, and intellectually chilly. Leave that to the critics. As a creative being, you will be more productive when coaxed than when bullied.
(The Artist's Way, 2016, p. 74-75)
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TODAY'S AFFIRMATION:
I embrace and allow the stillness I need to grow.
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TODAY'S CREATIVE EXERCISE:
This week, take an hour to follow your inner compass by doing an artist-brain activity and listening to what insights bubble up. Each of us has an inner compass. This is an instinct that points toward health. It warns us when we are on dangerous ground, and it tells us when something is safe and good for us. Morning pages are one way to contact it. So are some other artist brain activities—painting, driving, walking, scrubbing, running.
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TODAY'S QUOTE:
"There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all of time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and it will be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is nor how valuable nor how it compares with other expressions. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep yourself open and aware to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open."
– Martha Graham
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TODAY'S JOURNAL PROMPT:
How will you nurture your inner artist today?
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Today, let's restore those parts of ourselves that we've abandoned for fear of hurting others.
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INSPIRATION FROM JULIA CAMERON:
Many blocked people are actually very powerful and creative personalities who have been made to feel guilty about their own strengths and gifts. Without being acknowledged, They are often used as batteries by their families and friends, who feel free to both use their creative energies and disparage them. When these block artists strive to break free of their dysfunctional systems, they are often urged to be sensible when such advice is not appropriate for them. Made to feel guilty for their talents, they often hide their own light under a bushel for fear of hurting others. Instead, they hurt themselves.
A little sleuth work is in order to restore the persons we have abandoned—ourselves. When you complete the following phrases, you may feel strong emotion as you Retrieve memories and missed placed fragments of yourself. Allow yourself to free-associate for a sentence or so with each phrase.
My favorite childhood toy was … My favorite childhood game was … The best movie I ever saw as a kid was … I don't do it much but I enjoy … If I could lighten up a little, I'd let myself … If I weren't too late, I'd … My favorite musical instrument is … The amount of money I spend I'm treating myself to entertainment each month is … If I weren't so stingy with my artist, I'd buy him/her … Taking time out for myself is … I am afraid that if I start dreaming … I secretly enjoy reading … If I had a perfect childhood I'd have grown up to be … If it didn't sound so crazy, I'd write or make a … My parents think artists are… My God thinks artists are… What makes me feel weird about this recovery is… Learning to trust myself is probably… My most cheer me up music is… My favorite way to dress is…
(The Artist's Way, 2016, p. 52 - 53)
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TODAY'S AFFIRMATION:
I am a very powerful and creative artist.
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TODAY'S CREATIVE EXERCISE:
How have others enlivened your inner artist? List five people you admire. Now, list five people you secretly admire. What traits do these people have that you can cultivate further in yourself?
List five people you wish you hadn't met who are dead. List five people who are dead whom you'd like to hang out with for a while in eternity. What treats do you find in these people that you can look for in your friends?
Compare the two sets of lists. Take a look at what you really like and admire—and look at what you think you should like and admire. Your shoulds might tell you to admire Edison while your heart belongs to Houdini. Go with the Houdini side of you for a while.
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TODAY'S JOURNAL PROMPT:
What is one quality you really like and admire about someone else?
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It is important to be able to sort useful criticism from the other kind. Often we need to do the sorting out for ourselves, without the benefit of a public vindication. As artists, we are far more able to do this sorting than other people might suspect. Pointed criticism, if accurate, often gives the artist an inner sense of relief: "Ah, hah! So that's what's wrong with it." Useful criticism ultimately leaves us with one more puzzle piece for our work.
Useless criticism, on the other hand, leaves us with a feeling of being bludgeoned. As a rule, it is withering and shaming in tone; ambiguous in content; personal, inaccurate, or blanket in its condemnations. There is nothing to be gleaned from irresponsible criticism.
You are dealing with an inner child. Artistic child abuse creates rebellion creates block. All that can be done with abusive criticism is to heal from it.
There are certain rules for the road useful in dealing with any form of criticism.
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Receive the criticism all the way through and get it over with.
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Drop-down notes to yourself on what concepts or phrases bother you.
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Jot down notes on what concepts or phrases seem useful.
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Do something very nurturing for yourself—read an old good review or recall a compliment.
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Remember that even if you have made a truly rotten piece of art, it may be a necessary stepping-stone to your next work. Art matures spasmodically and requires ugly-duckling growth stages.
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Look at the criticism again. Does it remind you of any criticism from your past—particularly shaming childhood criticism? Acknowledge to yourself that the current criticism is triggering grief over a long-standing wound.
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Write a letter to the critic—not to be mailed, most probably. Defend your work and acknowledge what was helpful, if anything, in the criticism proffered.
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Get back on the horse. Make an immediate commitment to do something creative.
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Do it. Creativity is the only cure for criticism.
(The Artist's Way, 2016, p. 72 - 73)
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TODAY'S AFFIRMATION:
I proactively decern when criticism is useful.
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TODAY'S CREATIVE EXERCISE:
Make a list of friends who nurture you. That nurture (give you a sense of your own competency and possibility), not enable (Give you the message that you will never get it straight without their help). There's a big difference between being helped and being treated as though we are helpless. List three nurturing friends. Which of their traits, particularly, serve you well?
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TODAY'S QUOTE:
"The words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels."
– Hazrat Inayat Khan
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TODAY'S JOURNAL PROMPT:
What is one trait from a nurturing friend that serves you well?
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Today, let's learn when and where to seek out the "right" type of criticism.
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INSPIRATION FROM JULIA CAMERON:
We don't make art with its eventual criticism foremost in mind, but criticism that asks a question like "how could you?" Can make an artist feel like a shamed child. A well-meaning friend who constructively criticizes a beginning writer may very well and that writer.
Let me be clear. Not all criticism is shaming. Does this mean no criticism? No. It means learning where and when to seek out right criticism. As artists, we must learn when criticism is appropriate and from whom.
As artists, we cannot control all the criticism we will receive. We cannot make our professional critics more healthy or more loving or more constructive than they are. But we can learn to comfort our artist child over unfair criticism; we can learn to find friends with whom we can safely vent our pain. We can learn not to deny or stuff or feelings when we have been artistically savaged.
Art requires safe hatchery. Ideally, artists find this first in their family, then in their school, and finally in a community of friends and supporters. This idea is seldom a reality. As artists, we must learn to create our own safe environment. We must learn to protect our artist child from shame. We do this by diffusing our childhood shaming, Getting them on the page, and sharing them with a trusted, non-shaming other.
By telling our shame secrets around our art and telling them through our art, we release ourselves and others from darkness. This release is not always welcomed.
We must learn that when our art reveals a secret of the human soul, those watching it may try to shame for making it.
We must be very firm with ourselves and not pick up the first doubt. We simply cannot allow the first negative thinking to take hold. Taking in the first doubt he's like picking up the first drink for an alcoholic. Once in our system, the doubt will take on another doubt — and another. Doubting thoughts can be stopped, but it takes vigilance to do it. "Maybe that critic was right . . . . " And, boom, we must go into action: "You are a good artist, a brave artist, you are doing well. It is good that you did the work . . . ."
(The Artist's Way, 2016, p. 69 - 71)
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TODAY'S AFFIRMATION:
I am a brave artist. I am doing well. It is good that I did the work.
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TODAY'S CREATIVE EXERCISE:
Habits: Take a look at your habits. Many of them may interfere with your self nurturing and cause shame. Some of the oddest things are self-destructive. Do you have a habit of watching TV you don't like? Do you have a habit of hanging out with a really boring friend and just killing time (there's an expression!)? Some rotten habits are obvious, overt (Drinking too much, smoking, eating instead of writing).
List three obvious rotten habits. What's the payoff and continuing them? Some rotten habits are more subtle (no time to exercise, little time to pray, always helping others, not getting any self-nurturing, hanging out with people who belittle your dreams). List three of your subtle foes. What use do these forms of sabotage have? Be specific
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TODAY'S QUOTE:
"I have made my world and it is a much better world than I ever saw outside."
– Louise Nevelson
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TODAY'S JOURNAL PROMPT:
What is one small healthy habit you can replace with one of your rotten habits today?
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Today, let's recognize how we've been wrongly shamed and how that affects our creative process.
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INSPIRATION FROM JULIA CAMERON:
Those of us who get bogged down by fear before action are usually being sabotaged by an older enemy, shame. Shame is a controlling device. Shaming someone is an attempt to prevent the person from behaving in a way that embarrasses us.
The act of making art exposes a society to itself. Art brings things to light. It illuminates us. It sheds light on our lingering darkness. It casts a beam into the heart of our own darkness and says, "See?"
Art opens the closets, airs out the sellers and attics. It brings healing. But before a wound can heal it must be seen, and this act of exposing the wound to air and light, the artist's act, is often reacted to with shaming.
For the artist who endured childhood shaming—over any form of neediness, type of exploration, any expectation—shame may kick in even without the aid of a shame–provoking review. If a child has ever been made to feel foolish for believing in himself or herself talented, the act of actually finishing a piece of art will be fraught with internal shaming.
A lifetime of this experience, in which needs for recognition are routinely dishonored, teaching a young child that putting anything out for attention is a dangerous act.
Often we are wrongly shamed as creatives. From this shaming we learned that we are wrong to create. Once we learn this lesson, we forget it instantly. Buried under it doesn't matter, the shame lives on, waiting to attach itself to our new efforts. The very act of attempting to make art creates shame.
(The Artist's Way, 2016, p. 44 - 49)
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TODAY'S AFFIRMATION:
There is no shame in my struggles.
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TODAY'S CREATIVE EXERCISE:
List five childhood accomplishments. (straight A's in seventh grade, trained the dog, punched out the class bully, short-sheeted the priest's bed).
And a treat: list five favorite childhood foods. Buy yourself one of them this week. Yes, Jell-O with bananas is okay.
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TODAY'S QUOTE:
"We will discover the nature of our particular genius when we stop trying to conform to our own or to other people's models, learn to be ourselves, and allow our natural channel to open."
– Shakti Gawain
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TODAY'S JOURNAL PROMPT:
What is one way you can nurture the parts of your artist child who has been shamed today?
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Today, let's take a small step in the direction of a dream and watch the synchronous doors fly open.
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Life is what we make of it. Whether we conceive of an inner god force or another, outer God, doesn't matter. Relying on that force does.
Is it any wonder we discount answered prayers? We call it a coincidence. We call it luck. We call it anything but what it is—the hand of God, or good, activated by our own hand when we act in belief of our truest dreams, when we commit to our own soul.
When we answer that call, when we commit to it, we set in motion the principle that C. G. Jung dubbed synchronicity, loosely defined as a fortuitous intermeshing of events.
Back in the 60s, we called it serendipity. Whatever you choose to call it, once you begin your creative recovery you may be startled to find it cropping up everywhere. Don't be surprised if you try to discount it. It can be a very threatening concept.
I have learned, as a rule of thumb, never to ask whether you can do something. Say, instead, that you are doing it. Then fasten your seatbelt. The most remarkable things follow.
In my experience, the universe falls in with worthy plans and most especially with festive and expensive ones. I have seldom Conceived a delicious plan without being given the means to accomplish it. Understand that the what must come before the how. First, choose what you would do. The how usually falls into place itself.
We like to pretend it is hard to follow our heart's dreams. The truth is, it is difficult to avoid walking through the many doors that were open. Turn aside your dream and it will come back to you again. Get willing to follow it again and the second mysterious door will swing open.
Take a small step in the direction of a dream and watch the synchronous doors flying open. Seeing, after all, is believing. And if you see the results of your experiment you will not need to believe me. Remember the maximum "leap, and the net will appear."
(The Artist's Way, 2016, p. 62-66)
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TODAY'S AFFIRMATION:
As I leap, the net will appear.
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TODAY'S CREATIVE EXERCISE:
Describe your childhood room. If you wish, you may sketch this room. What was your favorite thing about it? What's your favorite thing about your room right now? Nothing? Well, get something you like in there—maybe something from that old childhood room.
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TODAY'S QUOTE:
"Did you ever observe to whom the accidents happen? Chance favors only the prepared mind."
– Louis Pasteur
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TODAY'S JOURNAL PROMPT:
What is a small step you can take today in the direction of a dream?
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Today, let's listen to our anger to better understand where we have betrayed ourselves.
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Anger is fuel. We feel it and want to do something. Hit someone, break something, throw a fit, smash a fist into the wall, tell those bastards. But we are nice people, and what we do with our anger is stuff it, deny it, bury it, block it, hide it, lie about it, medicate it, muffle it, ignore it. We do everything but listen to it.
Anger is meant to be listened to. Anger is a voice, a shout, a plea, a demand. Anger is meant to be respected. Why? Because anger is a map. Anger shows us what our boundaries are. Anger shows us where we want to go. It lets us see where we've been and let us know when we haven't liked it. Anger points the way, not just the finger. In the recovery of a blocked artist, anger is a health sign.
Anger is meant to be acted upon. It is not meant to be acted out. Anger points that direction. We are meant to use anger as fuel to take the actions we need to move where our anger points us. With a little thought, we can usually translate the message that her anger is sending us.
When we feel anger we are often very angry that we feel anger. Damn anger!! It tells us that we can't get away with our old life any longer. It tells us that our old life is dying. It tells us that we are being reborn, and birthing hurts. The hurt makes us angry.
Anger is the firestorm that signals the death of our old life. Anger is the fuel that propels us into our new one. Anger is a tool, not a master. Anger is meant to be tapped into and drawn upon. Use properly, anger is use-full.
Sloth, apathy, and despair are the enemy. Anger is not. Anger is our friend. Not a nice friend. Not a gentle friend. But a very, very loyal friend. It will always tell us when we have been betrayed. It will always tell us when we have betrayed ourselves. It will always tell us that it is time to act in our own best interests.
Anger is not action itself. It is action's invitation.
(The Artist's Way, 2016, p. 61 - 62)
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TODAY'S AFFIRMATION:
Anger is a loyal friend that shows me where I am being invited to grow.
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TODAY'S CREATIVE CHALLENGE:
Describe five traits you like in yourself as a child.
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TODAY'S QUOTE
"I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues."
– Duke Ellington
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TODAY'S JOURNAL PROMPT:
What is one healthy way you can tap into and drawn upon your anger today?
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Today, let's notice that each moment is not without its beauty.
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Writing about attention, I see that I have written a good deal about pain. This is no coincidence. It may be different for others, but pain is what it took to teach me to pay attention. In times of pain, when the future is too terrifying to contemplate and the past too painful to remember, I have learned to pay attention to right now. The precise moment I was in was always the only safe place for me. Each moment, taken alone, was always bearable. In the exact now, we are all, always, all right. Yesterday the marriage may have ended. Tomorrow the cat may die. The phone call from the lover, for all my waiting, may not ever come, but just at the moment, just now, that’s all right. I am breathing in and out. Realizing this, I began to notice that each moment was not without its beauty.
(The Artist's Way, 2016, p. 54)
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TODAY'S AFFIRMATION:
In the exact now, I am always, all right.
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TODAY'S CREATIVE EXERCISE:
Inner Compass: Each of us has an inner compass. This is an instinct that points us toward health. It warns us when we are on dangerous ground, and it tells us when something is safe and good for us. Morning pages are one way to contact it. So are some other artist-brain activities—painting, driving, walking, scrubbing, running. This week, take an hour to follow your inner compass by doing an artist-brain activity and listening to what insights bubble up.
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TODAY'S QUOTE:
"The noun of self becomes a verb. This flashpoint of creation in the present moment is where work and play merge."
– STEPHEN NACHMANOVITCH
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TODAY'S JOURNAL PROMPT:
What is one tiny change you'd like to make for yourself?
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Today, let's find delight through our capacity to pay attention.
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INSPO FROM JULIA CAMERON
Very often, a creative block manifests itself as an addiction to fantasy.
Rather than working or living in now, we spin our wheels and indulge in daydreams of could have, would have, should have. One of the greatest misconceptions about the artistic life is that it entails great swathes of aimlessness. The truth is that a creative life involves great swathes of attention.
Attention is a way to connect and survive. Success or failure, the truth of a life really has little to do with its quality. The quality of life is in proportion, always, to the capacity for delight. The capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention.
The reward for attention is always healing. It may begin as the healing of a particular pain — the lost lover, the sickly child, the shattered dream. But what is healed, finally, Is the pain that underlies all pain: the pain that we are all, as a Rilke phrase is it, "unutterably alone." More than anything else, attention is an act of connection.
(The Artist's Way, 2016, p. 52 - 53)
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TODAY'S AFFIRMATION:
Survival lies in sanity, and sanity lies in paying attention.
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TODAY'S CREATIVE EXERCISE:
Add five more lives to your list of imaginary lives. Again, check to see if you could be doing bits and pieces of these lives in the one you are living now. If you have listed a dancer's life, do you let yourself go dancing? If you listed in monk's life, are you ever allowed to go on a retreat? If you are a scuba diver, is there an aquarium shop you can visit? A day at the lake you could schedule?
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TODAY'S JOURNAL PROMPT:
What is one small thing you will do today explore one of your imaginary lives?
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Today, let's set skepticism aside to further examine beliefs that keep us stuck and imbalanced.
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One of the things most worth noting in a creative recovery is our reluctance to take seriously the possibility that the universe just might be cooperating with our new and expanded plans.
We've gotten brave enough to try recovery, but we don't want the universe to really pay attention. We still feel too much like frauds to handle some success. When it comes, we want to go.
Of course we do! Any little bit of experimenting and self-nurturance is very frightening for most of us. When our little experiment provokes the universe to open a door or two, we start shying away. "Hey! You! Whatever you are! Not so fast!"
Setting skepticism aside, even briefly, can make for very interesting explorations. In creative recovery, it is not necessary that we change any of our beliefs. It is necessary that we examine them.
More than anything else, creative recovery is an exercise in open-mindedness. Begin, this week, to consciously practice opening your mind.
(The Artist's Way, 2016, p. 50 - 52)
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TODAY'S AFFIRMATION:
In the act of paying attention, healing begins.
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TODAY'S CREATIVE EXERCISE:
Create a Life Pie. Draw a circle. Divided into six pieces of pie. Label one piece spirituality, another exercise, another play, and so on with work, friends, and romance/adventure.
Place a dot in each slice at the degree to which you are fulfilled in that area (outer rim indicates great; inner circle, not so great). Connect the dots. This will show you where you are lopsided.
As you begin the course, it is not uncommon for your life pie to look like a tarantula. As recovery progresses, your tarantula may become a mandala. Working with this tool, you will notice that there are areas of your life that feel impoverished and on which you spend little or no time. Use the time tidbits you are finding to alter this.
If your spiritual life is minimal, even a five-minute pitstop to a synagogue or cathedral can restore a sense of wonder. Many of us find that five minutes of drum music and put us in touch with our spiritual core. For others, it's a trip to a greenhouse. The point is that even the slightest attention to our impoverished areas can nurture them.
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TODAY'S QUOTE:
"No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen."
– Henry Miller
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TODAY'S JOURNAL PROMPT:
When you set skepticism aside, what is one thing that you're interested in exploring?
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Today, let's look at the inner enemy we harbor ourselves.
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TODAY'S INSPIRATION FROM JULIA CAMERON:
Perhaps the greatest barrier for any of us as we look for an expanded life is our own deeply held skepticism. This might be called the secret doubt. It does not seem to matter whether we are officially believers or agnostics. We have our own doubts about all of this creative/creativity stuff, and those doubts are very powerful. Unless we air them, they can sabotage us. Many times, and trying to be good sports we stuff our feelings of doubt. We need to stop doing that and explore them instead.
Boil down to their essentials, the doubts go something like this: "Okay, so I started writing the morning pages and I seem more awake and alert in my life. So what? It's just a coincidence… Okay, I have started filling the well and taking my artist on a date and I do notice I am cheering up a little. So what? It's just coincidental… Okay, so now I am beginning to notice that the more I let myself explore the possibility of there being some power for good, the more I notice lucky coincidence turning up in my life. So what? I can't believe I am really being led. That's just too weird…"
(The Artist's Way, 2016, p. 49 - 50)
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TODAY'S AFFIRMATION:
As I listen to my creativity I am led to my creator.
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TODAY'S CREATIVE EXERCISE:
Write down two favorite things that you've avoided that could goals for this week. Reference yesterday's list of 20 things you enjoy doing. These goals can be small: buy one roll of film and shoot it. Remember, we are trying to win you some autonomy with your time. Look for windows of time just for you, and use them in small creative acts. Get to the record store at lunch hour, even if only for 15 minutes. Stop looking for big blocks of time when you will be free. Find a small bit of time instead.
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TODAY'S QUOTE:
"Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself."
– Henry Miller
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TODAY'S JOURNAL PROMPT:
What is one small goal you have for yourself this week and how will you manage to fit it into your schedule?
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Today, let's acknowledge how others can be a destructive block to our creative work.
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INSPO FROM JULIA CAMERON
"Crazymakers are the kind of people who can take over your whole life. Whether they appear as you're overbearing mother, your manic boss, your needy friend, or your stubborn spouse, the crazymakers in your life share certain destructive patterns that make them poisonous for any sustained creative work.
• Crazymakers break deals and destroy schedules. • Crazymakers expect special treatment. • Crazymakers discount your reality. • Crazymakers spend your time and money. • Crazymakers triangulate those they deal with. • Crazymakers are expert blamers. • Crazymakers create drama—but seldom where they belong. • Crazymakers hate schedules—except their own. • Crazymakers hate order. • Crazymakers deny that they are crazymakers.
If you are involved now with a crazymaker, it is very important that you admit this fact. Admit that you are being used—and admit that you are using your own abuser. Your crazymaker is a block. You chose yourself, to deter you from your own trajectory. As much as you are being exploited by your crazymaker, you, too, are using that person to block your creative flow.
The next time you catch yourself saying or thinking, "he/she is driving me crazy!" Ask yourself what creative work you were trying to block by your involvement."
(The Artist's Way, 2016, p. 44 - 49)
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TODAY'S AFFIRMATION:
I acknowledge when others are being self-destructive in my creative growth.
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TODAY'S CREATIVE EXERCISE:
Take a sheet of paper. Draw a circle. Inside that circle, place topics you need to protect. Place the names of those you find to be supportive. Outside the circle, place the names of those you must be self-protective around just now. Place the safety map near where you write your morning pages. Use this map to support your autonomy. Add names to the inner and outer's fears as appropriate: "Oh! Derek is somebody I shouldn't talk to about this right now."
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TODAY'S QUOTE:
"What I am actually saying is that we need to be willing to let our intuition guide us, and then be willing to follow that guidance directly and fearlessly."
– Shakti Gawain
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TODAY'S JOURNAL PROMPT:
What is one way you can lovingly free yourself from the self-destruction of a crazymaker?
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Today, let's nurture a space of safety and self-acceptance that will allow our creativity to flourish.
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TODAY'S INSPO FROM JULIA CAMERON:
Creativity flourishes when we have a sense of safety and self-acceptance. You're artist, like a small child, is happiest when feeling a sense of security. As our artists protective parent, we must learn to place our artist with safe companions. Toxic playmates and capsize are artists growth.
Not surprisingly, the most poisonous playmates for us as recovering creative or people whose creativity is still blocked. Our recovery threatens them.
Blocked friends may find your recovery disturbing. You're getting unblocked raises the unsettling possibility that they, too, could become unblocked and move into authentic creative risks rather than bench sitting cynicism. Be alert to self-sabotage from your friends. You cannot afford their well-meaning doubts right now. Their doubts will reactivate your own.
Be very careful to safeguard your newly recovering artist. Often, creativity is blocked by are falling in with other people's plans for us.
The essential element in nurturing our creativity lies and nurturing ourselves. Through self-nurturance, we nurture our inner connection to the great creator. Through this connection, our creativity will unfold. Paths will appear for us. We need to trust the great creator and move out in faith.
Repeat: the Great Creator has gifted us with creativity. Our gift back is our use of it. Do not let friends squander your time.
Draw a sacred circle around your recovery. Give yourself the gift of faith. Trust that you were on the right track. You are.
You will learn to enjoy the process of being a creative channel and to surrender your needs to control the result. You will discover the joy of practicing your creativity. Process, not the product, will be your focus.
Your own healing is the greatest message of hope for others.
(The Artist's Way, 2016, p. 42-44)
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TODAY'S AFFIRMATION:
Though nurturing myself, my creativity will flourish.
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TODAY'S CREATIVE EXERCISE:
Where does your time go? List your five major activities this week. How much time did you give to each one? Which were what you wanted to do and which were sheds? How much of your time is spent Helping others and ignoring your own desires? Have any of your blocked friends triggered doubts in you?
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TODAY'S QUOTE:
"Every time you don't follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of energy, loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness."
– Shakti Gawain
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TODAY'S JOURNAL PROMPT:
What is one thing you can do today that will provide protection around your creative recovery?
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TODAY'S INSPIRATION FROM JULIA CAMERON:
Trusting our creativity is new behavior for many of us. It may feel quite threatening initially, not only to us but also to our intimates. We may feel—and look—erratic. This erraticism is a normal part of getting unstuck, pulling free from the muck that has blocked us. It is important to remember that at first flush, going sane feels just like going crazy.
There is a recognizable eb and flow to the process of recovering our creative selves. As we gain strength, so will some of the attacks of self-doubt. This is normal, And we can deal with these stronger attacks when we see them as symptoms of recovery.
These attacks are groundless, but very convincing to ourselves. Buying into them enables us to remain stuck and victimized.
These attacks can come from either internal or external sources we can neutralize them once we recognize them as a sort of creative virus. Affirmations are a powerful antidote for self-hate, which commonly appears under the mask of self-doubt.
Do not let your self-doubt turn into self-sabotage."
(The Artist's Way, 2016, p. 41 - 42)
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TODAY'S AFFIRMATION:
I neutralize self-hate with self-love.
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TODAY'S CREATIVE EXERCISE:
List 20 things you enjoy doing. (rock climbing, rollerskating, baking pies, making soup, making love, making love again, riding a bike, riding a horse, playing catch, shooting baskets, going for a run, reading poetry, and so forth).
When was the last time you let yourself do these things? Next to each entry, place a date. Don't be surprised if it's been years for some of your favorites. That will change. This list is an excellent resource for artist dates.
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TODAY'S QUOTE:
"All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones moving easily under the flesh."
– Doris Lessing
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TODAY'S JOURNAL PROMPT:
What is one thing you're inspired to do today?
Today, let's turn negative blurts into affirmative allies. Watch today's video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBd9NR7jtG4 View today's full session: https://intentioninspired.com/artist
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INSPO FROM JULIA CAMERON:
Affirmations help achieve a sense of safety and hope. When we first start working with affirmations, they may feel dumb. Hockey. Embarrassing. Isn't this interesting? We can easily, and without embarrassment, bludgeon ourselves with negative affirmations: "I'm not gifted enough/not clever enough/not original enough/not young enough…" But saying nice things about ourselves is notoriously hard to do. It feels pretty awful at first. Try these and see if they don't sound hopelessly syrupy:
"I deserve love." "I deserve fair pay." "I deserve a rewarding creative life." "I am a brilliant and successful artist." "I have rich creative talents." "I am competent and confident in my creative work." Did your Censor perk up its nasty little ears? Censors loathe anything that sounds like real self-worth. They immediately start up with the imposter routine: "who do you think you are?"
You will be amazed at the rotten things your subconscious will blurred out. Write them down. These blurts flag your personal negative core beliefs. They hold the key to your freedom in their ugly little clause.
(The Artist's Way, p. 33-34)
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TODAY'S AFFIRMATION:
Through the use of a few simple tools, my creativity will flourish.
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TODAY'S CREATIVE EXERCISE
Let's practice dissolving the blockage of our negative blurts. Start by picking a positive affirmation. For example "I, ___(your name)___, am a brilliant and prolific potter (painter, poet, or whatever you are)." Write that 10 times in a row. While you were busy doing that, something very interesting will happen. Your Censor will start to object. "Hey, wait a minute. You can't say that positive stuff about me." Objections will start to pop up like burnt toast. These are your blurts. Each of them has held you in bondage. Each of them must be dissolved.
Locating the sources of our Censor's blurts. Using your list of blurts, scan your past for possible sources. Mom? Dad? Teachers? At least some of them will spring violently to mind. One effective way to locate the source is to time travel. Break your life in five-year increments, and list by naming your major influences in each time block.
Transform the blurt into a positive affirmation. For example, a blurt that runs, "I, Fred, am untalented and phony" might be converted to the affirmation "I, Fred, am genuinely talented."
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TODAY'S QUOTE:
"Affirmations are like prescriptions for certain aspects of yourself you want to change."
– Jerry Fankhauser
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TODAY'S JOURNAL/COMMENT PROMPT:
Your turn!
Create one positive affirmation from a negative blurt.
Today, let's acknowledge jealously as a stalling technique that reinforces our staying stuck. Watch today's video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itDma3VjLSo View today's full session: https://intentioninspired.com/artist
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INSPO FROM JULIA CAMERON:
Your Ally Within: Affirmative Weapons
All too often, it is audacity and not talent that moves an artist to center stage. As blocked creators, we tend to regard these bogus spotlight grabbers with animosity. We may be able to defer to true genius, but if it's merely a genius for self-promotion we are witnessing, our resentment runs high. This is not just jealousy. It is a stalling technique that reinforces our staying stuck. We make speeches to ourselves and other willing victims: "I could do better than that, if only…"
You could do better if only you would let yourself do it! Affirmations will help you allow yourself to do it. An affirmation is a positive statement of (positive) belief, and if we can become one-tenth as good at positive self-talk as we are negative self-talk we will notice an enormous change.
(The Artist's Way, p. 33-34)
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TODAY'S AFFIRMATION:
I am willing to use my creative talents.
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TODAY'S CREATIVE EXERCISE:
Imaginary Lives: If you had five other lives to lead, what would you do in each of them? I would be a pilot, a cowhand, a physicist, a psychic, a monk. You might be a scuba diver, a cop, a writer of children's books, a football player, a belly dancer, a painter, a performance artist, a history teacher, a healer, a coach, a scientist, a doctor, a Peace Corps worker, a psychologist, a fisherman, a minister, and auto mechanic, Carpenter, a sculptor, employer, the painter, a computer hacker, a soap opera star, a country singer, a rock and roll drummer.
Whatever occurs to you, Jot it down. Do not overthink this exercise. The point of these lives is to have fun with them—more fun than you might be having in this one. Look over your list and select one. Then do it this week. For instance, if you put down a country singer, can you pick a guitar? If you dream of being a cowhand, what about some horseback riding?
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TODAY'S QUOTE:
"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler."
– Henry David Thoreau
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TODAY'S JOURNAL/COMMENT PROMPT:
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Today, let's reveal the central negative belief that all other negative beliefs stem from. Watch today's video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zim2XbMlXGU View today's full session: https://intentioninspired.com/artist
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INSPO FROM JULIA CAMERON:
"Stripped to their essence, our multiple negative beliefs reveal a central negative belief: we must trade one good, beloved dream for another. In other words, if being an artist seems too good to be true to you, you will devise a price tag for it that strikes you as unpayable. Hence, you remain blocked.
Most blocked creative carry unacknowledged either/or reasoning that stands between them and their work. To become unblocked we must recognize our either/or thinking.
"I can either be romantically happy or an artist." "I can either be financially successful or an artist." It is possible, quite possible to be both an artist and romantically fulfilled. It is possible to be an artist.
Your block doesn't want you to see that. Its whole plan of attack is to make you irrationally afraid of some dire outcome you are too embarrassed to even mention. You know rationally that writing or painting shouldn't be put off because of your silly fear, but because it is a silly fear, you don't air it and the block stays intact."
(The Artist's Way, p. 32-33)
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TODAY'S AFFIRMATION:
I am willing to experience my creative energy.
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TODAY'S CREATIVE EXERCISE:
Select and write out one happy piece of encouragement. Describe why this vote of confidence means so much to you. Once you are done, write a thank you letter to the person who gave you this encouragement – even if it was you. Mail it to yourself or to the long-lost mentor.
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TODAY'S QUOTE:
"I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy."
– Louise Bogan
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TODAY'S JOURNAL/COMMENT PROMPT:
What is one piece of encouragement for others who are on this creative journey?
Today, let's uncover false negative beliefs that inhibit our creativity. Watch today's video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uL9xifzGMzQ View today's full session: https://intentioninspired.com/artist
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INSPO FROM JULIA:
Core Negative Beliefs
"Here is a list of commonly held negative beliefs: I can't be a successful, prolific, creative artist because:
Everyone will hate me. I will hurt my friends and family. I will go crazy. I will abandon my friends and family. I can't spell. I don't have enough good ideas. It will upset my mother and/or father. I will have to be alone. I will find out I am gay (if straight). I will be struck straight (If gay). I will do bad work and not know it and look like a fool. I will feel too angry. I will never have any real money. I will get self-destructive and drink, drugs, or sex myself to death. I will get cancer, AIDS—or a heart attack or the plague. My lover will leave me. I will die. I will feel bad because I don't deserve to be successful. I will have only one good piece of work in me. If it's too late. If I haven't become a fully functioning artist yet, I never will. None of these core negatives need to be true. They come to us from our parents, our religion, our culture, and our fearful friends. Each one of these beliefs reflects notions we have about what it means to be an artist.
Negative beliefs are exactly that: beliefs, not facts. The world was never flat, although everyone believed it was. You are not dumb, crazy, egomaniacal, grandiose, or silly just because you falsely believe yourself to be.
What you are is scared. Core negatives keep you scared.
(The Artist's Way, p. 30-31)
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TODAY'S AFFIRMATION:
My creativity always leads me to truth and love.
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TODAY'S CREATIVE EXERCISE: Bravely acknowledge and list false core negative beliefs you have about yourself that have silenced your artist child.
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TODAY'S QUOTE
"There is only one cause of unhappiness: the false beliefs you have in your head, beliefs so widespread, so commonly held, that it never occurs to you to question them."
– Anthony de Mello
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TODAY'S JOURNAL/COMMENT PROMPT:
What is one false negative belief you are ready to let go of?
Today, let's find ease from the fear of the unknown.
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INSPIRATION FROM JULIA CAMERON
"Most of the time when we are blocked in an area of our life, it is because we feel safer that way. We may not be happy, but at least we know what we are—unhappy. Much fear of our own creativity is the fear of the unknown.
If I am fully creative, what will it mean? What will happen to me and to others? We have some pretty awful notions about what could happen. So, rather than find out, we decide to stay blocked. This is seldom a conscious decision. It is more often an unconscious response to internalized negative beliefs.
(The Artist's Way, p. 30)
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TODAY'S AFFIRMATION I am willing to learn to let myself create.
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TODAY'S CREATIVE EXERCISE
Yesterday, we listed three old enemies of our creative self-worth.
Today, let's write a letter to the editor in our defense.
Reflect on a horror story from your monster hall of fame. Now, write a letter in your defense. Write this letter in the voice of your wounded artist child:
"To whom it may concern: Sister Ann Rita is a jerk and has pig eyes and I can too spell!"
For added fun, copy this letter onto nice stationery and mail it to yourself.
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TODAY'S QUOTE:
"To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong."
– Joseph Chilton Pearce
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TODAY'S JOURNAL/COMMENT PROMPT:
What fear do you have about unleashing your creativity?
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Today, let's find and protect our artist child by gently acknowledging enemies of our creative self-worth.
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INSPO FROM JULIA CAMERON: "The artist child must begin by crawling. Baby steps will follow and there will be falls. Typically the recovering shadow artist will use these early efforts to discourage continued exploration.
In recovering from our creative blocks, it is necessary to go gently and slowly. What we are after here is the healing of old wounds—not the creation of new ones. No high jumping please! Mistakes are necessary! Stumbles are normal. These are baby steps. Progress, not perfection, is what we should be asking of ourselves.
Remember that in order to recover as an artist, you must be willing to be a bad artist. Give yourself permission to be a beginner. By being willing to be a bad artist, you have a chance to be an artist, and perhaps, over time, a very good one."
(The Artist's Way, p. 29-30)
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TODAY'S AFFIRMATION: My creativity heals myself and others.
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TODAY'S CREATIVE EXERCISE: Time Travel: Monster Hall of Fame List three old enemies of your creative self-worth.
Please be as specific as possible in doing this exercise. Your historic monsters are the building blocks of your core negative beliefs. (Yes, rotten Sister Ann Rita from fifth grade does count, and the rotten thing she said to you does matter. Put her in.) This is your monster hall of fame. More monsters will come to you as you work through your recovery. It is always necessary to acknowledge creative injuries and grieve them. Otherwise, they become creative scar tissue and block your growth.
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TODAY'S QUOTE
"Make your own recovery the first priority in your life." – Robin Norwood
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TODAY'S JOURNAL PROMPT:
What is one negative belief about your creative self-worth you are ready to let go of?
Today, let's accept our Critic within and begin to nurture our artist child. Watch today's video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84B9VqId3os View today's full session: https://intentioninspired.com/artist
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TODAY'S CREATIVE EXERCISE:
Take a moment to tune in to your Critic. If you need help, go ahead and start writing your morning pages ... your Critic will soon chime in to question the validity of this, badger you for that, it will do whatever it can to prevent you from putting your thoughts on the paper. Poor thing that Critic, always reacting out of fear, it really does mean well.
Now, take a "blurt" from your Critic and convert it into a positive affirmation.
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TODAY'S QUOTE:
"An affirmation is a strong, positive statement that something is already so." – Shakti Gawain
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TODAY'S JOURNAL PROMPT:
What is one positive affirmation you've made for yourself?
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The Artist's Way is a distillate from forty years of Julia Cameron's artistic practice intended to teach people to process and transform life through acts of creativity.
The Artist’s Way "helps de-mystify the creative process by making it part of your daily life. It tackles your self-doubts, self-criticism and worries about time, money and the support to pursue our creative dream. It has already helped thousands of people to uncover their hidden talents - it can help you, too." - Julia Cameron
Many of us sense we are more creative, but unable to efficiently tap that creativity. While there is no quick fix for instant, pain-free creativity ... creative recovery (or discovery) is a teachable, trackable spiritual process.
When we engage in a creative recovery, we enter into a withdrawal process from life as we know it. Withdrawl is another way of saying detachment or non-attachment, which is emblematic of consistent work with any meditation practice. We ourselves are the substance we withdraw to not from as we pour our overextended and missed placed creative energy back into our own core.
"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters, compared to what lies within us." – Ralph Waldo Emerson
As you learn to recognize, nurture, and protect your inner artist, you will be able to move beyond pain and creative construction. You will learn ways to recognize and resolve fear, remove emotional scar tissue, and strengthen your confidence. Damaging all ideas about creativity will be explored and discarded. You will experience an intensive, guided encounter with your own creativity — your private villains, champions, wishes, fears, dreams, hopes, and triumphs. The experience will make you excited, depressed, angry, afraid, joyous, hopeful, and, ultimately, more free.
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Today, let's use our creative journaling session to uncover patterns and conditionings that want our healing attention.
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Art opens the closets, airs out the cellars and attics. It brings healing. – Julia Cameron People have been relying on the arts to communicate, express themselves, and heal for thousands of years. We think of the creative journal as a “new” form of creative expression but visual journaling has been a way of documenting ideas, questions, and observations since there has been paper and writing media. Leonardo da Vinci was probably the most famous in the late 1400's.
AFFIRMATION: I am the artist of my own life.
It is possible to use our daily creative expression for greater self-awareness and healing. Being able to express visually allows us to say what needs to be said without actually saying the words. That can be useful when the words might be hard to say. As we observe, we uncover our patterns and conditioning and begin to understand the changes we could make. We also begin to realize that embracing ourselves-all of ourselves-both the dark and the light of ourselves, is a necessity. We can use our journal to integrate. Along with gaining balance, reducing stress, releasing traumas, and a host of other benefits expanding our creativity can help us heal. We are just beginning to learn the full scope of how a daily creative expression can enhance our lives.
Have you seen benefits-emotional, spiritual, physical, or mental-from your creative practice?
Today, let's embark on a curious adventure that will make a clear division between our 'self' and our creative expression so that we can better carry out the wishes of our creative muses.
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"If there's a book that you want to read but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it." – Toni Morrison
How do you connect with your creative Muse? Greek poets would "invoke the muse" to open the door to creative ideas and thoughts. The word Muse comes from the Greek mousai, and refers to the goddesses of creativity and the "arts". I choose to believe that those goddesses live within me. When I need a dose of inspiration I turn my creative expression over to the goddesses that live within.
The reason that I like to do that is because it makes a clear division between me and my creative expression. I become a partner in a curious adventure. I am not "in charge" of the outcome so my critic has nothing to say. My function is to carry out the wishes of the Muses and I do so to the best of my ability.
AFFIRMATION: I Am Inspired to practice creativity in all of my experiences.
Who or what is your creative muse? Here are one or two ideas for enticing "them" to stay. Make a place for "her"-an alter, some flowers, some nice music and a candle? Freewriting (stream of consciousness). Take your muse on a date to a place that you know "he'll" love.
CREATIVE JOURNAL EXERCISE Write a poem calling on your Muse.
Then let your Muse do the creating today and create a self-portrait on your journal page.
Let's dance with the moon's energetic glory as we embrace her illuminated pull and connect to her power with balance and grace.
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All things on Earth have a natural cycle.
Nothing on the physical plane shows cycles better than the Moon. (The tides, the water that evaporates and turns to rain, fruit that falls, rots, and then creates new life).
The moon is a goddess symbol.
In pagan traditions, it is said that the moon represents the Maiden, Mother, and Crone as the waxing, full and waning moons. the cycle of birth, life, death, and rebirth. It is also a symbol of the spiritual aspects of femininity, such as intuition, psychic abilities, creativity, and wisdom. The moon is ever-changing. It grows from a thin sliver to a round, glowing orb and then slowly fading back again to nothing.
AFFIRMATION: I am manifesting all that aligns with my highest potential.
But what does it mean to Dance With The Moon?
No matter which phase the moon is in there is a "dance" that goes with it. The strong magnetism of the moon calls us to Dance. Each cycle of the moon holds a different meaning. The New Moon is the time we set our intentions, begin new projects and plant our seeds for manifesting. During the New Moon, we do a dance of starting anew and a dance of replenished energy. During the waxing moon, we set our intentions and dance, refreshed, with planting the seeds of our dreams. The Full Moon is a time for releasing—when all human traits are amplified. We dance with the Stillness to stay in balance from the heightened energies. It is a time of illumination and harvesting the seeds we have planted if we stay open to receiving. The waning moon invites us to dance with gratitude and sharing the abundance. I am drawn to the Moon...she always invites me to Dance.
Guess what we are called to create today?
We are going to Dance with the Moon ... or at least create a journal page that reflects that dance.
The moon shows up in many of my paintings and I have always been somewhat of a "night owl" There is just something about her that pulls me.
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"It took me four years to paint like Rembrandt, but a lifetime to paint like a child." – Pablo Picasso
What do you think Picasso meant when he said the quote above?
Children create in a magical state. Until rules or conditioning begin to dampen their imagination they exhibit a freedom to their creativity. They do not realize it but their experimentation with everything is all the expression of their creativity. To them it is just their natural state of being. To children the world is a wonder, a playground and canvas to be decorated.
AFFIRMATION I am a creative being. Each moment I create my reality. We have spoken about this childlike state of creativity before. I think it bears further reflection because finding and feeling that magical creative state of being can not only change our “art”. It can change our life as well.
What makes us discard that sense of wonder and playful experimentation? What makes us begin to believe that our creativity has less value? Why do we allow our creative inner child (or our curious inner child, or our vulnerable inner child, or our magical inner child) take a back seat to the grown up, responsible, “rational” parts of our personality? This phenomenon happens so often that it has to be more than just someone else saying we aren't creative. That is what I normally hear. Someone with “authority” in our early years creates a creativity wound and that may be the total story. As important as our creativity is to our growth, our relationships and communications, our joy in the moment it seems like these questions might require deeper ponderings.
CREATIVE JOURNAL EXERCISE: To connect us to the Magical Creative Inner Child let's try some of these prompts.
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Maybe if we are connected to them we will have a greater understanding of their story. Your Inner Critic may show up as you do these exercises. Hand them a box of crayons and a coloring book.
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Look to your left. What is the first thing you see? Write a poem about whatever that is. Don't try to sound scholarly or fit into a particular poetic style. Don't judge or edit yourself…Don't try to make sense. A Magical, Creative childlike poem. See if you can bring that child in. Choose one living thing and focus on it with childlike curiosity. How does it move? What textures does it have? What colors? What would it feel like? What is its home like? Whatever questions come to you…find the answers.
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Do a multi-layered, abstract, no thought work of art. No subject just lay colors over colors to see what happens.
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"There is no such thing as creative or noncreative people, only people that use their creativity and people that don't." – Brené Brown
No matter what modality we use to create it is possible that at times we will feel blocked. An occasional feeling of “creative block” is totally normal when it happens every now and then and it is this type of block we are discussing in this session. (Over the years, creatives have reported creative blocks that have lasted weeks, months, and sometimes, years. That is an indicator of a more complicated issue.)
With self-observation, you may notice a pattern to the blocks. If that is the case it helps to understand when, how and why these patterns occur. There could be many reasons but fear is the best place to start:
• depression • fear of rejection or failure • perfectionism • self-doubt, anxiety about the outcome • negative self-talk or criticism
These are a few of the possibilities but what I end up finding is that there is a lack, an overattachment to what my mind is saying or a fear of some kind.
AFFIRMATION: My creativity flows freely.
In the journal segment, we will explore some tips and techniques that could break the block. It really doesn't matter which creative practice you love to do, these quick exercises are designed to get into whichever flow excites you. (Writing, dance, painting, drawing, songwriting, theater, leadership…whatever your creative outlet).
CREATIVE UNBLOCKING EXERCISES:
Some of the tools that will unblock the flow are tools that can be used for any challenge you are experiencing:
• Meditation – a releasing meditation is helpful. Add in an intention of curiosity and compassion.
• Free form writing – (I call it a stream of consciousness)-with this exercise we clear our mind by writing continuously for at least one page. We do not stop to correct spelling, analyze what we have written or judge what we are saying. We simply write. If we all of a sudden run out of words to write, we write one sentence or word over and over until something else evolves.
• Recharge – If you have been creating for hours a day, for days, maybe it is time to recharge your batteries. Spend the day caring for yourself without a specific creative goal.
• Nature – A walk in Nature with the intention of experiencing the wonders of the moment (no guilt or judgment).
• Information Deprivation – Limit or forgo social media or the news.
For the hands-on tools let's try these:
• Draw 5 or 6 “clouds” on a sheet of paper (try not to duplicate shapes). Now, just as if you were lying in a grassy field look at each cloud individually and make it into what you see.
• On a clean sheet of paper do a continuous line drawing. Set your pen/pencil on the paper and make a line without lifting your tool until you have an “interesting or resonating” line. Use your color to color in the shapes.
• Continuous doodle-fill in the spaces with dots, squiggles, lines, Keep going until you feel the flow or you fill the page.
• Choose one form-eyes, hands, bottles, cactus, etc. and sketch it over and over again.
When a creative block comes to visit we can realize that blocks are a natural occurrence. We can embrace the need to take a creative break without panic or self-doubt. We can assure ourselves that this is a temporary state of being and address the issue with courage and compassion.
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Today, let's release our intentions into the fertile soil of our consciousness where they can flourish and grow.
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Spring is the season of growth. This is the perfect time to honor growth of all kinds. The days become longer. The nights are warmer and the world wakes up from it's winter sleep.
As journal keepers, we might feel compelled to go back through our journals from years ago and we may have the thought that nothing has changed. The “battles” we were fighting then seem to be the same “battles” we are fighting now. In fact, that is not the case. Each time we experience a challenge we are a different person than the first time we saw it. We have more knowledge, wisdom and possible solutions just because we had observed the challenge in the first place. Each time we experience that challenge we can choose a new and creative way of acting towards it until finally it is no longer a challenge at all. It is a new skill set.
AFFIRMATION: Each day offers me experiences that support my growth and potential.
If we are observant we realize how much we have grown each time we see these aspects of ourselves. We begin to see them as a valuable part of our journey and we celebrate our learning.
Today, let's befriend all the parts of ourselves and use the powers of creativity, courage, and compassion to try on all the hats of joy.
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Even in the Spring the night is still dark. Even as we observe, shift and grow our shadows remain. That need not be a concern…our shadows are part of our learning on this physical plane. We are human and we need the contrast to expand our growth and consciousness. We also have the ability to choose and play around with our actions and behaviors when shadows appear. What feels like the loving, conscious solution to this challenging experience?
If we can integrate our dark and our light and see all facets of our being as an important part of this physical experience, we can feel the fulfillment and wholeness of our soul. We can stop fighting ourselves or trying to “fix” ourselves and begin to love ourselves. It seems to me that humans that love themselves are more likely to love other beings, the Earth, the physical journey and would be better suited to make decisions for the good of all concerned.
AFFIRMATION: "I love and show compassion for my whole being."
There will always be darkness and light on this journey, on this planet and within ourselves. How can we befriend all of the parts of ourselves and, in this moment, use our powers of creativity, courage and compassion to try on all the hats of joy?
CREATIVE JOURNALING EXERCISE:
We have two options for today's creative journaling exercise today:
- First sit with your breath for a moment. Focus on how it feels as you slowly inhale and then exhale. Feel the tension leave your body. Clear your mind and let the stillness soothe you.
See in your minds eye your Shadow self. Use a blank page from your journal. Ask your Shadow “what do you want me to know right now?” and then paint or draw whatever comes to mind. Even the strangest mental images or scenarios can hold a seed of wisdom, helping to reveal hidden feelings, thoughts, or information. Express that image in your journal page.
Or….
- Make your journal page a testament to the Dark Night.
How can you identify your shadow?
According to Debbie Ford, author of The Dark Side of the Light Chasers gives her recommendations for identifying our Shadow. She says some good questions to start with are:
What am I most afraid of? What aspects of my life need transforming? What am I most afraid of that someone else will find out about me? What am I most afraid of finding out about myself? What’s the biggest lie I’ve told myself? Someone else? What could stop me from doing the work needed to transform my life? The shadow is not to be seen as something bad. Quite the opposite. It’s exactly what we need to embrace, love and accept about ourselves in order to feel a deep authentic self-love. It’s when we have embraced our shadow that we feel whole. Please take a moment to pause and reflect in the Activity Feed.
Today, let's search for life-enriching treasures in the form of opportunities to explore and experiment.
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Take yourself back to a time when every day was an adventure.
When a pile of rocks and some sticks became a fort or a fairy garden. When you could fly to the moon in a cardboard box. Maybe your days are filled with adventure right now and if that is the case I applaud your desire to find "hidden treasures" in your every day life. You don't have to travel to the jungle or a great distance to have an adventure. Seeing your experiences as an adventure is a matter of perception.
AFFIRMATION: I savor new experiences.
Opportunities exist to explore and experiment everywhere.
Even in your own backyard. Here are some ideas to search for the treasure in your own life:
*Take a journey to a place without leaving your house. Choose a country or area you're interested in. Learn about the food, the culture, the history, art and culture. Cook an "authentic meal" from the region and possible learn some of the language.
*Take a moment to remember skills you may have used a few times, that you enjoyed or were good at and dig them up again (forgotten skills could be the buried treasure that begins an adventure. Like setting up a community garden, a garage sale or making banners, painting mailboxes, papier mache'.) Any of these skills could lead to remembering how much you enjoyed leadership or how skilled you were at project management, etc.
*Try something new. You never know what kind of treasures you have within you until you try them. A new sport, a new hobby, a new group to join, a class to take.
*Help others-Assist a charity, befriend someone, volunteer or just spend some time smiling at people or complimenting them.
*Have an affair....with yourself. Take yourself on dates, fall in love with yourself, keep a gratitude journal of every wonderful thing there is about you. Begin to see how wonderful you really are.
Every day can be an adventure!
Today, let's get still and balance our form identity with our formless, interconnected essence identity.
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When we began our Spring Journey we asked ourselves a question that we may believe holds great importance to the expansion of our consciousness. Who Am I?
Eckhart Tolle, renowned spiritual teacher and best-selling author says, “You have form identity and essence identity. Suffering arises when you know “yourself” only as form identity.”
Many know themselves only as form identity: my name is __________________. My career is_____________________. I am a mother/father/grandparent. I have done these things- past experience. I am striving/trying to do future experience. All of this is form identity. It is the physical reality you are living, the content of your life as a Human but is this the totality of “Who You Are?”
You Are Not a Human Being Having a Spiritual Experience. You Are a Spiritual Being Having a Human Experience
I believe that there is value in the understanding that we are both. Your “essence” identity can be found in the Stillness within. It is your innermost “I Am…” It is the divine essence that connects your energy to the energy of all that is. It is timeless, formless, and entirely impossible to explain in words. When we embrace and include the magnificence of each, when we balance our “form” with our “essence”, the question of “Who Am I” is no longer relevant.
We are … I Am … You Are and by the very nature of our birth, the power and wonder of our Being is laid before us. When that premise resonates we are Awake.
Without vulnerability, we struggle to achieve love, creativity, belonging, trust, and joy (to name a few). Today, let's courageously show up and be seen when we have no control over the outcome.
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When we live in a reality of conditioning we guard ourselves against the possibility of being hurt.
Many times we don't even realize when we are guarded or how thick the walls are. The guarding has become habitual and we are protecting ourselves against people and situations that could open us to the wonders of the Universe. Without vulnerability, we struggle to achieve love, creativity, belonging, trust, and joy (to name a few). All of these experiences place us in the unknown and when we are living in our conditioning we need protection from the unknown.
This is where vulnerability comes into the picture.
Brene' Brown has spent the past two decades studying vulnerability, courage worthiness and shame. In her words "Vulnerability is basically uncertainty, risk, and emotional exposure. It is not winning or losing; it’s having the courage to show up and be seen when we have no control over the outcome. Vulnerability is not weakness; it’s our greatest measure of courage".
When do you think of vulnerability what comes to mind?
CREATIVE JOURNAL EXERCISE:
Two phases to our journal practice today.
First, take a few grounding breaths and bring yourself into this moment. Take a few more breaths with the intention of connecting and opening your heart. Now spend 3-5 minutes writing (not thinking, just writing a stream of consciousness. If you get stuck write the word vulnerable until your mind clears) on areas of your life that being vulnerable could really serve you or make you more connected.
Choose one thing that you do not believe you are very good at drawing. (That is people faces for me) Draw that and if you really want a dose of vulnerability color it as well.
The objective is to step into the unknown with an open heart, courage, and the willingness to do something uncomfortable. That feeling you're having is vulnerability (unless you are stuck in perfectionism, comparison, or avoidance. If that is the case you are in your conditioned mind. Sit in stillness and breathe then proceed).
The power of imagination brings things that do not exist into the mind and uses it to visualize how things "could" be. The more you use this power the stronger it becomes.
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Imagine that you have extraordinary power.
This power brings things that do not exist into the mind and uses it to visualize how things "could" be. The more you use this power the stronger it becomes.
If you can reach a state of stillness and quiet your mind, your subconscious will be more accepting of the "reality" your imagination can visualize. You will be in the field of infinite possibility. Once in this state of stillness, you can replace beliefs that no longer serve you with new beliefs. Your new beliefs will attach to this higher state of consciousness and you will be inspired to behave and act in new ways.
There is one element that needs to be observed. You must trust the process and not try to control the outcome. Once your new belief has been sent out, follow your intuition and trust that this or something better will manifest. Stay aware and observant of where you are being guided.
This extraordinary power is also exceptional when combined with Creativity.
Today, let's bask in the energetic glory of our own warmth and light to feel whole and peaceful.
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Let's pretend that we are the light and the warmth. Let's pretend that we recognize the magnificence of our being. We are shining bright and holding ourselves in the highest esteem. Let's pretend that our warmth and our light radiate from us and surrounds the entire world. At once the world experiences love and compassion and feels safe.
Let's pretend we are exposed to the warmth and light that we are and we feel so whole and full and peaceful that we bask in our own glory. And we never forget how transcendent we truly are. We are so transcendent that our glory has to be shared. We do so gladly.
Breathe …. intentional breathing helps us decrease stress, relax our mind and body, helps us sleep better and so much more. Today, let's observe how our breathing affects our focus as we create.
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Taking just a few moments each day to practice some deep breathing exercises can decrease stress, relax your mind, body and can help you sleep better. These are only a few of the benefits of breathwork. Having a daily breathing practice could drastically improve your health and well-being. Other benefits are pain control, lower blood pressure, improved immunity and blood flow, calm anxiety, increased energy, reduce inflammation, improve digestion, and more.
The reason that we are interested in breathing in the Art Room (other than the benefits above) is that breathing grounds us and gives us greater focus in this moment. When we are focused in this moment it is easier to find ourselves in the creative flow.
Your breathing routine can be done anywhere, at any time. It doesn't require a heavy time commitment-just a few deep breaths a few times during the day will do. If you are interested in breathwork there are great videos online that can show you different techniques.
CREATIVE EXERCISE:
Today we are following our breath. Aside from supplying our body with the oxygen it needs it also has an effect on our creative expression. As noted in the introduction, deep breathes have many benefits but for this session, we can observe how it affects our focus as we create.
Bring yourself into alignment with your space by taking a few long, slow breaths. Focus on the air as it comes into your body and follow it as it flows out of your body. Now move your attention to your heart, taking a few breaths into your heart and opening it to the creative experience. When you feel ready…
Choose the colors of breath. You will have to use your magnificent powers of imagination to express the action of breathing or the path of breath or the idea of moving air. Because we grounded ourselves in with a few breaths, we find ourselves fully in this moment, ready and willing to expand our imagination and accept the challenge of expressing breath. No judgment, no pressure, just let your creativity guide you. Let's see what we come up with. We can't get this “wrong”. There are no “rules” in the Art Room.
Play is crucial to the development of our creativity, health, and happiness (as well as many other benefits). It may be one of the higher expressions of humanity. It is more a feeling of an experience than the experience itself. Today, let's play with some color and see if we can get to that playful feeling space.
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PLAYFUL CREATIVE EXERCISES: If you have a creative ritual begin with that. Bring yourself into alignment with your space by taking a few long, slow breaths. Focus on the air as it comes into your body and follow it as it flows out of your body. Now move your attention to your heart, taking a few breaths into your heart and opening it to the creative experience. When you feel ready…
Choose some playful colors in whatever medium you have available. Don't think, just pick one color. As you can see I wrote a Spring stream of consciousness with a magic marker before I laid my colors. I like the text showing through in bits. Using your chosen color make a repeated pattern using that color:
Color number 2: use a different pattern and go over the first color.
Repeat this process using each of the five colors.
Do not overthink the process.
Remember, you are just playing.
Today, let's slow down and try new experiences that take will expand our knowledge of how we do what we do.
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When Spring returns again energy springs into action. Winter has been restful and reflective but now it's time to grow. That is usually my thought process with the arrival of Spring but this year I decided to Ease into Spring. I want to fully commit to the tasks I have been waiting to accomplish. I want to get intentional and not start more than I can finish and I want to finish those projects I set aside last year. They are taking up space in my thoughts and feelings and I want to make room for the NEW.
We are going to slow down this week and use our committed time to create. Except for honoring our commitment of whatever time we chose, we are going to simply play and observe. We will continue to gather data on who we believe we are by creating and observing ourselves while we play. This week is focused on trying new experiences that take us to the edge of comfortability and expanding our knowledge of how we do what we do.
Use this week to also observe yourself as you move through the experiences of your day. What are your thoughts? How do you feel? These are wonderful clues that can lead us to the beliefs and the conditioned patterns we tend to operate from. We are not using our data to judge or prove anything to ourselves, so be aware of the mind chatter. That is usually where conditioning shows itself. (That mind chatter also holds valuable information. Document any repetitive mind chatter to use as data).
Bring out your favorite spring colors and create a page that reminds you of the intentional power of new growth and new beginnings.
Please take a moment to pause and reflect on how much more effective you can be when you SLOW DOWN and become intentional. If you feel comfortable please share your observations in the Activity Feed.
A shared journey is a journey that has more depth and more impact. Our community can give us the strength and the accountability to succeed. The very thing you might be challenged by may be exactly what another needs to witness to grow on their journey.
Let's compile what we know about ourselves and answer the question to the best of our ability—WHO AM I?—with a self-love card!
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You may have noticed that when we were gathering our personal data I kept saying "Who we believe ourselves to be" rather than "Who I Am". Who we believe ourselves to be may be very different than who we actually are.
What we know about the way the brain works is that we form a belief and then we look for evidence that support them afterwards.
We have gathered quite a lot of data on who we believe ourselves to be. First let's understand that "just because I currently believe this does not make it true". We are a compilation of every thought, conversation, opinion and contemplation that has crossed our path since our birth. The possibility that we have absorbed information that does not serve our current reality is quite high. It is because of all of this information that we have collected that we are gathering it and observing ourselves in action.
Today we will compile our data and answer the question to the best of our ability ... Who Am I?
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The Life Pie exercise is a good indicator of where our time and energy are spent so we can make informed decisions that will bring more balance into our lives.
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We use these Life Pies to determine the state of balance in our lives at this moment. This exercise requires an honest, non judgmental assessment of where your focus is most of the time at this stage of your growth. If you do this exercise once every other week or so, you can track your state of balance, notice which areas may need to be shifted and note the difference that any shift of the segments have on your reality.
It is very important that you are intentional and honest about your percentages. Watch out for trickery (The Judge and the Ego like a good trick). For instance: One of the segments is Friends/Social Connection-If you gather with a group and spend much of that time on your phone or scrolling Facebook, that is trickery and not actually Social Connection. Same idea if you eat dinner with your family but you are all focused on a device or you spend the meal distracted by something that happened at work. That is not part of the Family/Home percentage. These situations are where the honesty and intent come into play.
This exercise is information only. We don't need to be "fixed". It was not designed to cause guilt, shame or judgment. Do not let this be something you beat yourself up over. To make the changes we may need to make, it helps to have well thought out information and that is the intent of this practice.
Today we will compile all of the data that we have been collecting over the past few days and we will add to that data through a series of questions until we can clearly define: Who Am I?
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Who Am I? Get out your journal and let's find out.
How do I feel right now?
What are my thoughts about life?
What are my top 5 core values?
Am I living in alignment with these values?
What would I have to change to be in alignment?
What are my top 5 challenges? (Some examples: I say yes when I want to say no, I am not a good listener, I don't trust anyone, I have to be perfect, I am comparing myself to others constantly, I have to be right, health issues, my job, my relationship to__________, I don't have money, I feel invisible, I am lonely, I am depressed...you get the idea)
What are your strengths?
What do you need to be happy?
Are you generally balanced emotionally, physically, mentally, and spiritually?
Finding out who we are can be a journey of a lifetime. Who we are today is not who we will be tomorrow or five years from now (even though it may seem that way). Each day is an opportunity for growth, expansion, and change and these things will happen whether we consciously embrace them or not. By becoming clear on who we believe ourselves to be in this moment we can make adjustments if necessary. We can begin to live a life that fulfills us and brings us joy.
If you are moved to create in color draw a picture of life.
What do we really desire from our life? Today, let's examine our values to get clarity on what will allow us to feel more balanced and whole.
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To gain clarity about who we are, how we aspire to live, and the choices we make and to live fully rather than just survive. New beginnings require clarity and focus to manifest. Being clear about the path we choose can help us create the new life adventure we long for. What is more SPRING than a new adventure?
Yesterday we briefly touched on our core values. Today we will dive in and become clearer still.
What do we really desire from our life? How can examining our values make our lives feel more whole? We are more balanced and more fulfilled when we are aligned with our values.
Personal core values are the things that are consistently important to us, the characteristics and behaviors that motivate us and guide our decisions. By identifying our values, we can begin to design a life that is in better alignment with our true self. Here are a list of values that may resonate with you. Add any values you may have that aren't on the list:
Honesty • Kindness • Loyalty • Efficiency • Positivity • Dependability • Optimism • Adventure • Creativity • Fun • Authenticity • Fairness • Wisdom • Balance • Freedom • Courage • Authority • Beauty Status • Altruism (selfless concern for others) • Compassion Determination • Faith • Growth • Humor • Knowledge • Justice • Learning • Work that inspires
Choose five of these values. We can examine these and the role they play in our lives. We can look at them with curiosity and determine if they were chosen due to conditioning or from an inner feeling of “truth and purpose”. We can determine if they align with our truth.
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Winter is over and Spring invites us to celebrate a New Beginning!
We have spent the past few months in the winter stillness and wrapped in the reflective blanket that Winter provides. We have used our time wisely and have gained some clarity about who we are and how we show up in the world.
We have observed ourselves in action and are aware of the “masks” we wear and the conditioning that has shaped us. We are all a work in progress and we are all whole, beautiful and enough just as we are. We are beginning to feel this at the core of our being.
As you read these words is there any part of you that is in resistance? Any part of you that wants to argue your own worthiness or make a statement that suggests that you are NOT ENOUGH? These are the thought traps that we want to observe, acknowledge and finally release. Before we consider a new beginning we need to ask ourselves a question. Who Am I…right now?
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We begin with our commitment to our creative expression and to our own self-awareness.
We begin with the realization that even if a “creative journal” isn't your chosen form of creative expression, any creative practice enhances the power of creativity in all areas of our life. I find that I can be more authentic, experiment, play, and also share these ideas with you more fully if all of us have the same tools to work with. Keeping a creative journal, honoring the commitments we make to ourselves, making our journal our own…these are the actions that bring us closer to living a joyful and creative life and self-actualization.
Spring invites us to realize and celebrate that we are new each moment. The Spring Equinox or Vernal Equinox is the time when the Earth comes into balance, awakening from the long sleep of Winter. 12 hours of light and 12 hours of Darkness. Our imagination, curiosity, and creative energy awaken with the Earth and we shake off our "hibernation". The Vernal Equinox (vernal-"of the Spring" equi-"equal" nox-"night") marks the turning point when daylight begins to overtake the darkness.
Winter has allowed us to rest, to go within, and embrace stillness. It gave us the opportunity to accept death, not as an end but as a new beginning. With the arrival of Spring, we feel the stirrings of rebirth, growth, and awakening. A new beginning is stirring and we must become clear about what we desire.
Today we make our commitment to our awakened creative energy. We vow to honor our commitment of self-awareness by releasing critics, judgment, and perfectionism. We applaud our courage to create and to stay open and curious about the way that expression manifests for us.
Copy this commitment agreement either by handwriting it into your journal or making a copy and pasting it in:
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I, ___________________, will abide by the terms of this contract and commit to setting up my creative work space and working in my Creativity Journal, every day, for at least 30 days. I will spend at least _________ minutes each day (longer if possible).
It is my intention to connect with myself and my internal wisdom, to know and love myself and to honor myself with compassion, courage and curiosity. I am learning to trust and embrace myself exactly as I am in this moment. I have the courage to find out exactly who I am, observe myself in action and know that I am enough.
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When you have copied or printed and signed your commitment declaration use your colors to decorate around it.
To solidify your commitment I encourage you to do something symbolic (light a candle, write a poem, a Spring meditation, create an alter) something to honor your commitment. Share that with us if you feel comfortable. A shared journey can be very powerful.
There is great power in sharing your creative process. It takes courage to show up and feel vulnerable but we learn so much by sharing. In many cases it is your vulnerability that will give someone else the courage to be seen and heard. I always love to hear about where you are and what you're learning on this journey of creative expression. Get Curious and Feed Your Soul!
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👩🏼🎨 Creativity Is a State of Being Creating is an innate human attribute, available to everyone. We will explore this. You will find so much benefit to daily creative expression and so many areas that creativity can enhance your life. Each person that accepts this challenge and commitment changes the world for the better.
🌱 Aside from honoring Spring, this journey was designed to:
• Examine and reframe our beliefs about our own Creative expression and expand our understanding of how vital Creativity is to our personal growth and our lives.
• Allow us to create and observe ourselves while creating in a space that is non-judgmental, supportive and authentic. You will find that sharing this journey with other co-creators really enhances the journey. We can learn so much and more quickly through the loving support and wisdom of others and sharing ourselves as we learn.
• Remind us of the importance of keeping commitments we make to and for ourselves. If, like me, this was not something you were taught to do, you will find out how powerful this practice of commitment is. This practice allows us to become mindful and self aware and to honor ourselves as we learn.
• Observe ourselves in a fun and active creative format. That is why I chose creative journaling. It is fun and I can learn while I play. My inner child loves it!
• That gives you some idea of what this journey is about. There are many layers to this onion and no matter where you are on your creative journey there is much for all of us to learn about loving ourselves and how creativity affects our lives.
Today, let’s discover our power as alchemists of our lives.
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Today, let’s let go of what is ready to go, noticing the beauty in changing.
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Today, let’s digest and integrate our experiences and feelings.
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Today, let’s sink into the love and nurturing of our centers.
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Today, let’s play with how fire’s quickness can help us change and charge our brightness.
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Today, let’s tap into the joy warming our beings.
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Today, let’s climb to the top of the trees and vision the future.
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Today let’s explore the flexibility we need to be able to bend in the wind of life’s storms.
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Today, let’s tap into the power of flowing water, how there is no rush but it always gets where it wants to go.
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Today let’s explore the seed underground, waiting in darkness. What power lies in stillness?
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This course is inspired by juniper's studies in Chinese Medicine and the five movements that generate and create all life. Each element/movement has a powerful key to developing resilience. Unlocking the gift of each movement opens the way for the five movements to dance in your life. This is a dance to foster calm, flexibility, joy, nurture, and surrender. Get ready to get your alchemy on!
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Today, let's have fun and learn to be prepared for hunger (because it isn’t going anywhere).
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Today, let's find the courage to invite the healthy change we know we need.
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Today, let's have grace for the times we eat emotionally while continuing to cultivate trust in our body.
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Today, let's give praise to how resilient our bodies are.
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Today, let's discover what life feels like without dieting.
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Today, let's look at exercise without worrying about burning calories.
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Today, let's see what the body has to say about this and that.
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Today, let's create effective routines that naturally adapt to life's unexpected events.
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Today, let's understand calories and portions without falling back into the diet mentality.
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Today, let's bask in the transformational power of guilt-free relaxation.
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Today, let's notice where our focus goes when thinking about our body.
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Today, let's feel our feelings and let them guide us.
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Today, let's learn how to ride the natural flow of our thinking around food.
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Today, let's breathe back into our bodies and turn on our senses. For today's rest day, we chat with Jen Gens.
Jen Gens is a Holistic Empowerment & Relationship Coach, who guides women to release their fears of the past, cultivate unshakeable confidence, & call in aligned soulful connections. She is an award-winning speaker & has a Bachelor’s degree in Interpersonal & Nonverbal Communications from Boston College. She is also a certified Nutritional Health Coach, certified Raja Yoga & Ayurvedic Wellness teacher, & Meditation teacher. She has extensively studied psychology, fitness, the science of habit change, intuitive eating, disordered eating recovery, & an array of alternative healing & mindfulness modalities.
• https://jengens.com • instagram.com/jengens • facebook.com/jengens • gatHER 2021: The Self-Sovereign Womxn(January 29-31st): https://www.eventbrite.com/e/gather-2021-the-self-sovereign-womxn-tickets-128269129419
Today, let’s find freedom releasing opinions of others around our body and eating habits.
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Today, let's notice how our mindset changes depending on our perspective.
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Today, let's see ourselves as whole and evolving by letting go of labels.
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Today, let's learn how the diet mentality shows up and see how we can respond with love, instead of react with fear.
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Today, let's explore the difference between binge eating, emotional eating, and overeating.
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Today, let’s explore why diets aren't always what they're cracked up to be.
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Today, let's soften the brow, drop the shoulders, and loosen our bellies.
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Today, let's learn how to reduce sugar cravings by noticing patterns.
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Today, let's learn how poor sleep can make weight loss hard and cause cravings.
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Today, let's learn about and experiment with eating for energy.
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Today, let's learn about and experiment with eating for energy.
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Today, let's learn about the benefits of plate crowding to allow more indulging.
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Today, let's learn how to slow down while listening to hunger and fullness.
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Today, let's be playful and connect with the Intention Inspired fam to see how everyone else has been doing on their intuitive eating journey.
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For your rest day today, I invite you to go do something fun that you enjoy and notice how when you get caught up enjoying life, thoughts, fears, and worries about food go away. You still want to pay attention to hunger and fullness but instead of purposefully waiting to get hungry, you will naturally just notice when the stomach rumbles. That is your cue, your signal to take a break and go eat soon. Then go back to enjoying what you were doing if you wish. Don't forget to visit the course Activity Feed to share about and even brag about your day! :)
Today, let's consciously listen to the body to unlearn subconscious beliefs that have been keeping us stuck.
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TODAY'S QUOTE “I believe in intuitions. I sometimes FEEL that I am right. I do not KNOW that I am.” ― Albert Einstein
TODAY'S JOURNAL PROMPT What does hunger and fullness feel like to you?
TODAY'S HEALTHY HABIT Chew your food as much as possible. Aim for 20 chews per bite of food!
TODAY'S MINI CHALLENGE Slow down and notice Hunger/Fullness in the moment.
Today, let's let go of judgemental limitations and regaining control of we want to live our lives.
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Our intention today is to be open-minded to change.
Change can be scary and often we think it is long term. When it comes to changing your eating habits some fear may pop up because of past experiences. Maybe you worked with a coach, trainer, or just tried a random diet online that told you to cut out your favorite food. You might have fears similar to some of my clients. Thoughts like “Please don’t tell me I have to stop drinking coffee, I just can’t live without it.”
The thing I want to point out today is that you’re always in full control. If you love coffee, don’t ever let anyone stop you or make you feel guilt for enjoying it. Live your life. Weight loss and living healthy don’t have to be taken to extremes. It is possible to have your cake and eat it too and the path there is intuitive eating and seeing food as abundant.
Today notice these fear-based thoughts of someone taking a food or beverage you like away from you. Notice if it feels like an attack AND if it feels long term.
It isn’t an attack, it is really just someone's opinion of what they think you should do for health or weight loss. Sometimes these opinions are valid and fact-based and sometimes they aren’t. Nothing is off-limits going forward starting right this moment. You may still have beliefs that carbs are bad or a food isn’t allowed because it causes weight gain but do your best to let these thoughts go and instead, begin listening to your body before jumping on board with these worries and limiting beliefs
JOURNAL PROMPT: What fears and worries come up when you think about letting go of restrictions around food?
HEALTHY HABIT: Chew your food as much as possible. Aim for 20 chews per bite of food!
CHALLENGE: Slow down and notice Hunger/Fullness in the moment.
This 30-day journey will inspire and empower you to create a sustainable, healthier lifestyle by understanding how problematic eating habits are created and how to shift away from the diet mentality that keeps us stuck and feeling crazy around food.
Intuitive eating is a natural way of eating that most of us have lost touch with. This journey will cultivate freedom around food by tuning into the wisdom of your body.
Along this journey, we learn how to eat more intuitively, understand how to eat for energy and to reduce cravings, no longer overthink food choices, and begin to change your habits around food.
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Introducing, our next project for the soul: Winter Creative Journaling!
A message from our host, Marva:
Bring yourself...every day...because this is your art room and you are the creator of your own sanctuary.
You are worthy, important, magical and wise. You are a creator and you are enough.
The intention for this project is twofold. First, I want to make my creative expression a priority by devoting a period of time to it daily. I want creativity to be my spiritual practice. Not only because it is what feeds my soul but also because sharing my specific view of "creativity" is my gift to you and that makes it a high priority. I feel out of balance if I don't practice what I preach.
My thought is that even if keeping a creative journal is not one of the creative practices that feeds your soul we can all benefit from making ourselves a priority. This is a fun way to do that.
Secondly, artistic expression is not my only creative outlet. I am also a writer. I want to develop a seasonal format for creative journaling that includes both writing and color, technique and an intentional focal point. I believe that we can learn so much on our journey of self through the practice of combining writing with "art" and I am really excited to put my theory into practice.
Today, let's celebrate our unfolding, welcoming every version of ourselves as we are becoming.
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Today, let's daringly surrender needing to know or control the future. Let's practice accepting what is and explore where we are being invited to surrender.
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Today, let's release control and welcome the people we are becoming. Let's make room to shift.
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Today, let's practice believing we are made of love, and let that expand our awareness.
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Today, let's follow our curiosity. Let's learn from what excites us, what is already around us, and this wonderful community we're journeying with right now.
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Today, let's be still. Let's let this be a respite and a sanctuary in a world always moving.
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Today, let's explore balance and what it looks like to be limited creatures. Let's come to terms with our edges and practice presence together.
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Today, let's practice radical acceptance for the miracles that we are, for the miracle of being alive, and how seeing ourselves this way can change everything.
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Today, let's let the story be unfinished. Let's leave room for what is being born and what is becoming.
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Today, let's awaken our inner truth and magic. Let's see how this lights us up and connects us to all that is.
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Today, let's notice the places inside us and in our lives that feel closed. Let's explore nudging open, breathing into stuckness, and what space feels like when we shift with our breath.
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Today, let's dive into how we receive love and care. Let's unblock and let the river of love flow.
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Today, let's breathe and find the life coursing through our bodies. Let's not just coast or trudge through life but be awake.
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Today, let's imagine beyond what we believe to be possible. Let's push the boundaries of our self-limiting beliefs.
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Today, let's view ourselves from the perspective of people who love us, to see our own beauty and presence in the world.
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Today, let's explore the energy of springtime, and how we see that manifesting in our lives.
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Today, let's expand our awareness, our minds, and our hearts. Let's dream and be.
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Today, let's see how we are connected to all that is, and find ourselves in the ecosystem of our lives.
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Today, let's soak in nurture & care for our beautiful selves.
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Together, let's develop the self-awareness that inspires us to live in more alignment with our deepest intentions.
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Today, let's look at hesitation and fear as we face the places that are ready for action.
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Today, let's get in touch with where we need to listen and course adjust.
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Today, let's see ourselves as weavers and follow the threads of what we are weaving, and the communities that make us who we are.
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Today, let's embrace our dynamic nature and move our bodies.
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Today, let's feel into the meaning of home, and how we can welcome ourselves home in our bodies.
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Today, let's explore the concept of liminal space and how life is change.
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Today, let's play with the possibility that we are an adventure, that our lives are a playground of possibilities.
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Today, let's welcome in love for ourselves, and what it looks like to be a being of love.
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Today, let's honor the darkness and the light that make up our dynamic experience of being alive.
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Today, let's explore what it means to be human, to embrace our messiness and live in a body.
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juniper klatt sips tea with me in the tiny house as we follow the rainbow.
We unpack the creative process of her new book, becoming a rainbow, and how that inspired the creation of November's Community Course: 30 Days of Rainbow. Throughout our goobs & giggles, juniper reads us some of her light weaving poetry, shares insights into embracing the human spectrum between fear and joy, and invites us to come play on this journey of wonder, whimsey, and magic.
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Today, let's explore what 30 Days of Authenticity looked like for each of us individually with the goal of ending up with a powerful I am statement that resonates and touches the core of who you really are.
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Today, let's connect to what we have received and learned about ourselves in this authentic journey.
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Today, let's look at this authentic journey as a whole and honor exactly where we are, reflecting on everything we have gained and all of our own individual growth.
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Today, let's look at our own personal definition of wholeness so we can be more accepting of the polarities that create our reality.
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Today, let's open ourselves up to our own healing and allow whatever needs to come through for ourselves to come through.
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Today, let's get to a space of not judging but being loving, compassionate, and understanding for what someone else might be going through.
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Today, let's shift our perspective to realize that whatever we're working through can ultimately help us to love ourselves more deeply.
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Today, let's spend some time unfolding the future from the tip of intention.
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Today, let's heal and transform into more of who we are meant to be.
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Today, let's be reminded of all of the wonderful things (creativity, passions, hopes, beliefs) that exist within us and are available to connect to at all times.
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Today, let's explore what our future self would tell us and remain hopeful for what's to come.
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Today, let's identify and work with our inner sense of truth and how that shows up for us.
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Today, let's explore what love means to us and capture it in a way that excites us and allows us to remember the ultimate truth of who are.
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Today, let's look into our personal sense of power and how we truly want to show up in this world.
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Today, let's move into the expansion of what’s to come by connecting with our future self.
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Today, let's move into the expansion of what’s to come by connecting with our future self.
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Today, let's spend some time in reflection for all we have uncovered within ourselves recently.
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Today, let's see how expectations might be limiting the potential that exists in each present moment.
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Today, let's accept and embrace all of what makes us who we are.
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Today, let's approach our fears with gratitude in order to discover why they are there and how they can help.
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Today, let's see ourselves in the light and eyes of someone we consider outside of ourselves.
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Today, let's show up with our inner child to gently heal wounds with gentle care and patience.
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Today, let's make the connection to what a trigger is trying to show us and discover what the opportunity for you is.
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Today, let's connect with the work we have done and create a purpose statement that will inspire our most authentic self to blossom.
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Today, let's honor ourselves by paying attention to the way we are talking to ourselves offering forgiveness when we don’t treat ourselves the way that we ultimately deserve to be treated.
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Today, let's explore the notion there is no “good” or “bad,” there is ultimately just exactly where you are, which is worthy of expression!
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Today, let's release self-limitations by shifting challenges into opportunities.
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Today, let's release self-limitations by shifting challenges into opportunities.
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Today, let's reconnect to how loved we all are, how amazing we all are, and how much we all have to offer.
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Today, let's take time to experience all of the emotions that go into our everyday reality in an effort to recognize our own personal development and growth.
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What if we spent 30 days in a state of acceptance? Not with how we think things should be, what we think we are lacking, how we can’t do something or aren’t ready for XYZ, but really in a state of authentically making peace with exactly how things are - the way they are. What would happen then? We plan to spend the next 30 days exploring that with you!
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Today, let's embrace the beauty of who we are, right now, as a result of all past moments that have led to this one … and this one … and this one …
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Today, let's flex our brave muscle and expand the boundaries of what we're afraid to do.
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Today, let's become totally absorbed in the present moment by appreciating everything that comes our way.
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Today, let's practice basking in the moment by letting things flow naturally in whichever direction they like.
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Today, let's let go of all the distracting and insignificant details that bog us down and cloud the mind.
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Today, let's release the weight of past burdens to allow more space for a mindful, peaceful, and happy life.
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Today, let's release the weight of past burdens to allow more space for a mindful, peaceful, and happy life.
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Today, let's create the greatest satisfaction and harmony around us by considering the feelings of others.
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Today, let's follow that flow of inspired energy by recognizing what comes naturally and what is being forced.
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Today, let's flow smoothly with our environment and those around us by releasing resistance.
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Today, let's practice using the good ol' tool of the breath while embracing opposition to find sustainable inward balance.
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Today, let's learn how mindfulness can help us to open up and share that pure energy within.
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Today, let's approach life like a beautiful game of trial of error (each with their unique joys to appreciate) by taking complete ownership of our decisions.
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Today, let's let go of what isn't working and seek to find what is.
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Today, let's remove our own obstacles in order to build a balanced foundation for success.
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Today, let's seek new understanding and clarity as we gain more information and awareness around situations we have been struggling with.
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Today, let's let go of that which gets in the way of experiencing life's abundant joy.
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Today, let's tap into that exciting inspiration that can carry us through the ups and downs of the day.
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Today, let's open our hearts to see the beauty and innocence in everyone.
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Today, let's practice finding the bright side of every situation by exploring the power of positive energy.
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Today, let's create a fresh slate of possibilities by letting go of all expectations and bringing an attitude of hope to every situation.
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Strong emotions tend to pull us away from a relaxed state of mindfulness. So today, we will practice being intentional about accepting what every moment brings with peace and equanimity.
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Today, let's remember the power that resides in making mindful choices.
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Today, let's practice allowing our experiences to be just as they are. We get to enjoy them with equanimity and curiosity as they help us find the deeper meaning in life.
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Today, let's take a few minutes to get re-centered so we can make more mindful, confident decisions that better respect our overall well-being.
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Today, let's bring in more receptivity to the goodness of life by learning to receive more with every breath.
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Today, let's reflect on how mindfulness is an expanded awareness of the self living each moment in the world.
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Today, let's relax into the spaciousness of mindfulness and practice embracing each moment as it comes.
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Today, let's use our breath and the grounded energy of the earth to enter into a relaxed state of calm awareness.
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The first step in living mindfully is to settle back into the present moment and quiet the mind of its constant chatter. From this place of peaceful presence, we have an amazing opportunity to live with more intention and awareness. But first, we must become very clear.
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Today, let's dive deep into aligning with the natural laws of being human and how that leads to unconditional love.
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Today, let’s return to the isness of that empty space of awareness to cultivate peace and clarity of mind.
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Today, let’s look at the lens of acceptance, from an entirely new vantage point.
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Today, let’s tap into a direct route towards greater love through the purest form of generosity.
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Today, let’s zero in on personal grounding so that the seeds of our unique understanding continue to grow long after this challenge ends.
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Today, let’s realize that no matter how bad things seem to be going in our personal lives, we can always rediscover love, security, and peace of mind.
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Today, let’s consider how one of our greatest inner assets to cultivating a joyful, fun-filled life is also one of our greatest resources in the journey towards profound love.
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Today, let's learn about a tool you can use anytime, anywhere to flex and grow your love muscles.
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Today, let’s investigate how to leave the past where it belongs and cultivate the freedom to love, create, and live fully in the now.
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Today, let’s re-discover the most effective action for finding “the one true love.”
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Today, let’s dig into the peace of what forgiveness really is by letting go of what it isn't.
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Today, let’s share the secret to feeling more loved by others.
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Today, let’s explore one of the fastest routes to love, connection, and inner wisdom.
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Today, let’s break down the components of fear in order to support ourselves in experiencing more freedom in love and in life.
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Today, let’s explore effective ways to approach the conflict and uncomfortable emotions that arise in our relationships.
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Today, let's get at the root of what it means to be human and what happens when we are going with the flow of reality.
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Today, let’s use patience as an act of self-love while exploring the difference between intellectual and visceral experiences.
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Today, let’s try something fun that will get us in touch with our loving nature.
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Today, let's transform our fear of change into a love that inspires us to take chances.
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Today, let’s address issues of constant comparison, envy, and jealousy head-on.
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Today, let’s begin eliminating unnecessary emotional stress, while simultaneously cultivating self-compassion and resilience.
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Today, let's expose the most common culprit of unhappiness by shattering the misconception of unworthiness.
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Today, let's nurture our seeds of self-love by fully embracing who are at the core and letting go of who we are not.
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Today, let’s lay the foundational bricks of readiness that will prepare us for a deep journey inward and fertilize our seeds of intention towards an abundant adventure.
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Today we prove that what you do matters. You are not insignificant, you are a powerful vessel of love and goodwill.
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Today, we will quantum leap our level of understanding when it comes to matters of the heart by relying on creative insight rather than analytical thinking.
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Today we find psychological freedom from repetitive, stressful thinking so that more empowering ideas about love can breakthrough.f
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Today, let's think critically about the human system in order to shine a light on our current blind spots.
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Today, let's embrace our ego in a way that emanates connection and love within a fear-based society.
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Today, we begin to lay the groundwork for our journey towards experiencing love (of self and others) in a profoundly different way.
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