Tidbits of Wisdom to inspire your unique life journey – Jeanne Loehnis, Songs For Your Spirit, LLC
Bring to mind a situation, relationship, belief that both challenges you and that you are ready to experience shift around.
Got it? Now:
Blurred vision — not the vision we speak of in coaching — that rich and powerful life vision that is the foundation for our choices. Though this is very important vision!
Rather, the vision that we see with day in and day out.
Sometimes, we see clearly. We know, and we proceed in this very specific, pointed, limited, clearly defined direction. Our vision is not blurred. And there are times when this is perfect. And there are times when it is not.
Sometimes such clear vision is preventing us from opening, from seeing possibility, from looking outside the box. It is keeping us stuck. At these times, consider the impact of blurred vision. Try it. Softly let your eyes cross ever so slightly to reveal a world less defined, less certain, less concrete, more unknown. Now let your mind blur a bit, release what you think you know and open to the looser, softer, even the unknowable.
What sensations fill you?
What do you *know* intuitively?
How will you let blurred vision guide you?
Have I ever shared with you how I began my daily journaling practice? After years of wanting to, intending to, planning to … but never getting to it, I finally took a real first step. I’d read Julia Cameron’s, The Artist’s Way, where she said: “You must begin the practice of brain drain – just write what flows through your mind – every day, first thing out of bed. Write until you have filled 3 pages.”
To which at first I said, “THREE PAGES?!!!!!!!!!! You have to be kidding! I can’t take that kind of time.”
Then I decided to start small. I made a commitment to 3 minutes of writing first thing every day. Seriously! I set an alarm for 3 minutes so that I could forget about time but not overdo it and miss my next urgent commitment. Are you smiling yet?
Here is what happened. Those three minutes were easy to keep and I did… until they flowed into 5 minutes and 15 minutes and … Well, they flowed into a practice which amounted to:
“I can’t wait to sit with my journal each morning and write until I am done. Sometimes it is three or more longhand pages. Sometimes, it is writing until the tears flow and whatever is blocking me for the day brakes open and I am freed. Sometimes the words flow until a poem or song appear, unannounced and unplanned.”
What is it that you want to begin?
What small, consistent step will you take in that direction …
starting today?
Bring to mind a situation, relationship, belief that both challenges you and that you are ready to experience shift around.
Got it? Now:
The day stretches before me with very little in the way of formal commitment – available time. Possibility awaits, yes?
Yes. Yet in this moment, motivation wains. I could sit and close my eyes and wander all too easily.
Is this ever your experience?
Now there is nothing inherently wrong with wandering, daydreaming, breathing into the spacious nothingness and smiling. Sometimes that is “just what the doctor ordered”.
And always, there comes a time to get motivated and take a powerful next step.
What is your next step?
What vision motivates you to take it?
Who loses if you refuse to step powerfully into your future?
What are you waiting for?