Creative Every Day

Intention and Abundance

January 3rd, 2007

I'm planning to follow along with the book Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy this year. I decided tonight that I'd like to work with it this year. The book follows through an entire year, so it wouldn't be quite like the the Artist's Way. The style is different in that it has short daily essays and occasional tasks. I love her (Sarah Ban Breathnach's) style of writing. It's gentle. And among other things is aimed at helping you live your life more authentically. I want more of this in my life. I think with all the changes ahead I'll need to center myself again and again. I never seemed to come to this book at the start of a year, but this year I have it and the timing seems right. I don't expect there to be the interest of AW, so I'm not going to promote it as such, but I will simply say that I'm going to go through it and blog about it here and anyone who would like to, may join in for some Simply Abundant Blogging!

Heh, I just got a wink from the Universe in the form of looking up at the tv where the fiansor is watching a basketball game to see the game tied at 17-17 with 17 seconds left on the shot clock. Groovy.

I've been thinking about goals or intentions lately. I suppose this is par for the course this time of year. But I've been writing out various goals since I decided to leave my job a few months ago. Last night I tried to break it down a little bit into categories. Last night I journaled many pages, here are 2 journal pages I wrote about this.

Today's entry in S.A. (Simple Abundance) says, "Today I want you to become aware that you already possess all the inner wisdom, strength, and creativity to make your dreams come true. This is hard for most of us to realize because the source of this unlimited power is buried so deeply beneath the bills, the car pool, the deadlines, the business trip, and the dirty laundry that we have difficulty accessing it in our daily lives." Breathnach writes that instead of waiting for external events to create change, we can be the catalysts for our own change. She writes of an inner shifting. Along with all the external change occuring, I feel big internal shifts happening as well. They've been building and building over the last 5 years or so, or you could say they've been building since the day I was born, each moment leading to the next.

Life is feeling very abundant for me right now and I am so grateful. I find myself hurting for the people I see hurting around me, while also aware that it's ok to be happy. Do you believe in the laws of attraction? The idea that what you think about becomes your reality? I've had experiences of this happening for me, a story for another time, but still I don't know for sure. It seems possible though and I like to play with it. I play with it in morning pages and sometimes in collage. I read a really cool example of an artist doing this today. She uses the laws of attraction in her goal-setting. I got the link from the Art Biz Blog newsletter of Alyson Stanfield. Today on her blog she talks about SMART goals, a great guidline for goal-setting. Sometimes goal-setting feels scary for me. I worry about setting the bar to high and falling flat on my face and then feeling super disappointed in myself. It's important to know how you work. I do better when I'm held accountable in some way. I'm in total awe of all the daily painters out there. But do I want to make that kind of commitment? I don't know. I don't want to over-commit to projects and make myself crazy.

Just getting around to "Getting to know you day" on Create a Connection. Here goes:

1. I have never wanted to play competitive sports ; but I've always thought I might like to be an incredible athlete, maybe at something like gymnastics or ice skating.

2. When I was 7 years old, I believed that if you held your breath when you passed a cemetary you added hours to your life for every second you held your breath (what an odd superstition!)

3. If I was my own best friend, what I would enjoy the most about spending time with Me would be making art and laughing; while what I'd find the most irritating would be my low draggy days, sometimes weeks.

4. If the story of my life up to this point was being published tomorrow, it would be titled "The Four C's: Cats, Creativity, Cuddling, and Craziness" and it would be dedicated to um, my cats? lol...I don't know.

5. When my time on Earth is over, and the people who loved me are remembering me, it would please me if they said she inspired me to get in touch with my creative self.

How was that for a post that was all over the place? Heh.

 

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