Inspired

Mind - Heart Territory

 

Mind - Heart Map

 

Another digital creation inspired by Day 40’s prompt of Patti Digh’s Project 137

 

Draw a map of your head and your heart today. In whatever form you'd like.

What's in there?

Who's in there?

 

 

I’ve spent years learning to “master” my mind but it’s only been in the past two that I’ve felt I’ve begun to understand why it always seemed to master me and how to turn that around.  Worry, anxiety, obsessive thinking…things we all do to some extent, can begin to take over and run the show when we hit a bump in the road of life. 

The survival instinct’s job is to keep us alive.  Most of us no longer have to worry about the sabre tooth tiger devouring us but we still need to be aware if we’re stepping into the path of an oncoming bus.  It has a job to do but when it begins to take over and convince us we need to control every aspect of our life and environment, it's to our advantage to learn how to calm it down.

Accessing that calm center allows my heart to speak to me in ways that I can “hear”…with Insight, inspiration, joy, and love.

At the moment, my father is in the final stage of his physical life and although there have been moments of deep grief and physical weariness, I’m realizing that for the most part, my heart is finally running the show. That’s not to say that I’m never tempted to travel the freeway of anxiety or obsessive thinking but hallelujah!…I now quickly recognize when I’m on that road and can reroute myself back to my centered space, lickety split. 

What a relief it is to be able to navigate the map to new territory!

 

Many blessings to everyone and thank you for visiting.  It's lovely to know that so many of us will be looking up into the sky tonight and marveling at the same beautiful, full harvest moon.  It's one amazing thing that we all share together.

 

 

Lighten The Load

Lighten The Load

Digital Media

Another creative response to Patti Digh’s Project 137.  This one is for Day 27 under Live Fully:

 

You carry a trunk around with you, wherever you go.

It is always with you.

What's in your trunk?

What makes it so heavy?

How could you lighten your load?

 

I’ve been “lightening my load” for years now, one item at a time, trunk after trunk. And yes, I’m beginning to see the bottom, although I’m sure that as long as we’re alive, we'll still have a certain amount of baggage.  It’s a process, and the first and hardest step is knowing that we...each one of us...are dragging a full and heavy trunk every where we go!

How can you lighten your load?

Project 137

 

In my previous post, I wrote about Patti Digh and her husband John who was recently diagnosed with renal cell carcinoma…and the fact that they’re not insured.

Patti is embarking on a journey that’s tied in with the very name of her blog…37 days…and she’s invited all who would like to join her as she makes her way through the next 137 days (taking us to December 31st, New Years Eve). 

In Patti’s own words…

“And so I'm embarking on this journey. Come, be a pilgrim with me. It will be a simple path, one in community with others who want to love well, live fully, let go deeply, and make a difference. Together we will create greater, deeper meaning in our lives. We will live like we are dying in order to fully live. And we'll do it together.

Give what you can and feel called to give. Whatever--and I mean whatever--feels right to you. Everything you give will be used for John's medical expenses.”

I’m one of more than 500 that have already decided to dedicate the next 137 days to create deeper meaning my life.  It’s not too late if you’d like to join in.

 

(Each participant has chosen 137 objects for the 137 days of the project.  To fully understand the signifigance of each day that passses, we will transfer one bead, one stone, one small piece of paper, one piece of lego, etc from one container to another.

My beads (above) are made from pieces of gourd and were from a necklace that I bought in Mexico several years ago.  I had thought I would take it apart and reconstruct it…well, that never happened. As opportunity would have it, I now plan to redesign these 137 beads into a necklace at the end of the project which I'll wear to remind myself of the journey)