I have been thinking about INTENTION and how important it is right now. I think we have to be intentional about how we move through these times or else we’re going to drown in everything that is happening.
I really feel how important that is... but I am struggling to show up in any kind of intentional way today.
I am trying to do the Hello Day energy clearing + intention setting meditation.
I started it three times. There is SO MUCH distracting me and I just couldn't get into it.
And even if all I did today was try three times and not actually get to the meditation in the way I wanted - that counts as a success because I am SHOWING UP in the way that this particular day allows.
To establish a successful Creative Dream Alchemy practice, successful as in it holds space for you to do that things you want to do and to figure out all the things you need to figure out to do the things you want to do, we have to be really gentle and easy about what a "successful step" entails. This encourages you to shop up more often and take more steps.
Not every step can be a "winner" you know?
But today, on my fourth try, I did the meditation all the way through and had this vision....
I was creating a bubble of warm yellow light. It started small but I grew it big enough to sit inside it. It was a space of HEALING CREATIVITY + POSSIBILITY and all around it was storms.
It was a haven from the storm.
That's what our creative dream practices are right now.
A place where we hold on to knowing that a better world is possible. A place where we connect with the parts of us who believe in a better future for everyone.
This is such important work. And it's such HARD work. We are not always going to get it right.
These are the times when artists (and healers!) GET TO WORK.
And these are the times when it's the hardest to get to work.
It's on us to hold both of those truths. And to create space for ourselves to be with both.
I made the Hello Day energy clearing + intention setting meditation to help with exactly that.
There is SO MUCH mindset stuff in there for supporting that work.
But the right tools make the work possible, they don't necessarily make it easy.
I'm stuck today.
And I am so frustrated that I am stuck because I was having such a good week and was excited about the progress I was making and today I was looking forward to checking off a lot of to do items from my list.
And now here I am. My brain feels like fuzz and I have wasted most of the morning distracting myself in every way possible to avoid my next steps.
So I am finally going into the Un-Sticking Station to really BE WITH this.
What’s up stuck?
Stuck is a mountain in my chest. I get closer to it and there’s a meadow of wildflowers. It’s not a menacing place to be, but that mountain feels like A LOT to climb.
Hmmmm.
What would it look like to STAY IN THE MEADOW today and not try to climb the mountain? Could it be that the mountain is a way of saying… these tasks ARE too much for you today. You DID do a lot this week, and you need to take it easier today.
I feel like the meadow is inviting me to lay down.
INTENTIONAL rest and slowing down is not the same as being distracted and not doing the things you meant to do.
INTENTIONAL rest can fuel the next steps.
I look at the mountain. It just feels so un-moveable. And I am too tired to climb it.
It feels true that INTENTIONAL REST is my next step.
But a part of me feels sooooo uncomfortable with this, because I AM NOT GETTING ENOUGH DONE.
But the mountain kind of… asserts its presence when I think that. It’s like I AM A FREAKING MOUNTAIN, CAN’T YOU SEE? YOU KNOW YOU DON’T HAVE THE ENERGY TO CLIMB ME TODAY.
I get out my list of things I am working on and had hoped to do this week.
I feel so behind, like I am drowning in my dreams and I am judging that for feeling really dramatic about that and I am encouraging myself to express my feelings as fully as possible.
I feel like the REAL WORK today is to forgive myself for not being able to do what I wanted/planned to do.
And I feel resentful about that.
And I know… this is what it means to engage with your dreams in an ALCHEMICAL and NON LINEAR way.
The alchemy doesn’t come from just… checking everything off of your list every week.
The alchemy comes when you make space for what is actually happening.
And this is what is actually happening for me today.
So I am going to accept… I can’t do the Outer Work tasks I wanted to finish today.
I CAN take my journal to bed, get cozy, and meet with the souls of my projects and do some brainstorming about HOW to hold all of the things I want to be doing in a way that doesn't overwhelm me.
Resources that help with this:
- Dream Plan Kit
- Dream Lab (you can meet with the soul of your projects there, instead of the soul of your dream)
- Creative Genius Planning Sessions
- Structure Habits Routines
After that I went and made lunch and let this all simmer a bit.
And now I feel really good about this plan.
I have been working through the Structure Habits Routines class, and one of the things on my list for this week, that I didn't get to, was to finish it.
I know I need different ways of holding all the things I want to do. WITHOUT pressure to get things done, but able to honour deadlines where appropriate.
I think it's really about acknowledging that all the stress in the world impacts us more than we know. Plus the health stuff I have going on that I am always working around.
Plus I have been doing this work for over 15 years... the structures, routines and habits I started to create when I was 37 aren't the ones that are going to work for me 2 weeks away from my 52nd birthday.
So, a lot is shifting and I could give myself some grace.
I am really appreciating the visual of resting in the meadow of wildflowers and the mountain is right there and I KNOW I CAN CLIMB IT, but just not today.
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