The Day after the "Big" Day
Life turns on a dime. Cliché but true. We practice being calm on the good days, so the bad ones don’t eat us alive. We practice when everything is going “well” because you never know when it will turn sour.
Life turns on a dime. Cliché but true. We practice being calm on the good days, so the bad ones don’t eat us alive. We practice when everything is going “well” because you never know when it will turn sour.
Today, I invite you to consider this alongside me... How do you prepare the way for new beginnings? What would it mean to dedicate this coming year to you? What if ‘happy’ meant being content with how things are? If ‘growing’ meant discovering a little more each day... or not?
Part of my morning ritual these days is spending time in meditation followed by reading from my dear friend and mentor, Christine Valters Paintner’s brilliant book, The Artist’s Rule: nurturing your creative soul with monastic wisdom. This practice is providing a lovely container for both my creative side (as I embark upon NaNoWriMo - National Novel Writing Month) and my deepening spiritual practice (after returning from a 10-day silent meditation retreat.)
...remembering the times "back before"... before I’d published a book or hosted a blog under my ‘real’ name or become a whoop-de-doo “certified” life coach... back when I was an unvarnished rebel – a psychotherapist who was willing to blog – a spiritual person struggling with the church – a mom whose kids were driving her crazy... In the “back before,” I wrote.
Earlier this week I was in the midst of a brainstorming session with a friend when she mentioned an exercise she wanted to use in an upcoming retreat. She suggested the participants focus on their bodies and allow an image to arise in their minds. Before she could even finish her thought, a word popped into my head. LUMP...