During this annual time of thanks, I am filled with immense gratitude. I am living. In a beautiful home, with loving friends and talented musicians. I am meeting new friends and being welcomed and embraced wherever I go. I have the time and space to breathe, process, feel, dream, and envision. I have been running and doing yoga on a daily basis, and attending open mic nights and shows most nights of the week. I've also been participating in family life by cooking lots of meals, which feels really good. Life feels simple, effortless, flowing, and natural. I am grateful for this pause, this time to re-evaluate who I am, where I have been, and how I want to live my life. I am excited to develop my intentions and continue to live and (wo)manifest a beautiful life every single day!
Many months ago, my core group of friends in Bellingham had a "visioning" circle and made boards charting where they had been, where they are now, and what they want to manifest in the future. I was absent that evening, and have been intending to make a board ever since but kept holding myself back. I thought I had to wait until I had a nice surface and backdrop for it, with lots of clips from magazines and different visuals to bring it to life. After journaling every day since I arrived two weeks ago and spending a lot of time envisioning how I want to live my life, I realized the time had come. If I wait until I have all the "perfect" materials, I will never do it. And I really want to have my vision displayed more visually than a journal can allow.
So I marched out to the garage and found an old box in the recycling. And here we have it- my very simple and scratchy past, present, and future vision board!
Yes, this is a messy, hard to read, scattered visioning board. And I am proud of it! How often do we hold ourselves back from doing things that feel good, things that help us and others, because we are ashamed of our imperfections? There is power in our weaknesses, if we can get over our embarrassment and self-judgement. Obviously penmanship and drawing are two of my weaknesses....and I could hide them pretty well in this modern day and age.... but I find something comforting in witnessing the imperfect, the parts of ourselves that are raw and scratchy and challenging. And chances are you feel the same way. It is likely that no one reading this will judge me harshly for the rough and imperfect nature of my writing, my music, this blog, or anything else in my life. I challenge you to let your imperfections shine through sometime soon...chances are it will feel great AND you will set everyone around you at ease by being true to yourself!
Artist Recommendation of the Week:
My gracious host William Wallace is a fabulous song writer! He just updated his in-home recording studio and has been working on a new recording of his song "Green Dress"- it's so beautiful and catchy! Shawnee sings harmonies and they sound soooo beautiful. I feel honored to be a witness to their creative process.
love it! very well written and fun to read! I have no doubt you will get the things you want.
ReplyDeleteIn additon to making boards, I also keep a little box where I gather things that make me think about the future I am creating.. I take them out from time to time and touch and smell them. It's nice. I also LOVE Pintrest.com... super awesome for mainifesting.
Hugs and Kisses! Thanks for sharing!