“Life purpose is a choice rather than an experience. It’s something we decide about life.” -Eric Maisel
The principal goal of Right Brain Planner is to foster a daily-ish (and/or lunarly) practice of [being present] + [self-compassionately seeing and reviewing] the details of our living by compiling a visual chronicle as a safe place to check in with ourselves. 💖
- Examples of how to pause + check in with ourselves: copy a quotation from something you are reading; snap a photo of the ☁️💙☁️ sky while noticing its details; pull an oracle 🃏 card and reflect on its meaning within your life; jot notes about your day, your 🪄 wishes and/or your 🚨 vents; a quick 📝 chronicle of the moon phases and weather on a monthly 📆 calendar; a one-line journal … there are lots of possibilities, Braveheart. 😊
The focus in developing a right brain planning practice is to see our living as ongoing—a timeline [days within years; years within a lifetime].
- To resist the urge to allow a “bad day” or a “bad week” to become a filter—a lens—that limits our ability to hope and live differently.
- Easing away from a performance-based valuation of self-worth; cycling like the moon and exploring so-called irregularity (stops and starts) as a cycle of wholeness.
Right brain planning is an opportunity to allow our journals to be our “planners”—elevating expression and desires over expectations and shoulds. A safe space to tell our stories.
“We are each keepers of our own truths. Sharing these truths opens doors for healing and intimacy with others.” -SARK
Truth sets us free. False hopes and “enabling fictions” represent the stuff we tell ourselves that dull our ability to accept the truth about our choices—and that which we have no control.
The freedom of Truth is yet another reason to keep a tangible, dated chronicle of our living, Braveheart. (Read: it’s reference material.) 😊
Right Brain Planner resources are designed to support [quietness + reflection] as a self-paced creative practice to chronicle our stories-unfolding according the phases of the moon + the rhythms of nature (instead of a constant state of busyness and performance, feeling behind and “shoulding” ourselves).
gratitude | June guide words + download | summer art | my summer sojourn
⏰🗓️ Scheduling posts before I begin a time of being offline (through ➡️ June 26, maybe longer) feels like writing letters to my future self, reassuring myself of Life’s continuum (and that all will be well). ❤️🩹
Right brain planning is not about planning as much as it is about self-compassionate chronicles of our living—being in touch with wants and feelings, but also being willing to hold that space in whatever creative 🦄🗃️✂️🖌️📐🎨🖌️ ways are doable.
- An act of love and self-compassion; this is a practice of being aware of our desires and needs, and learning to trust our 🐌 pace through our phases and seasons.
- Doing what we must—doing the best we can, until we know better and can do better (paraphrasing Maya Angelou). 💟
Hope occurs within micro-shifts of focus and habits, and breath-by-breath.
Hope occurs when we connect to our living as a means of knowing (and loving) ourselves; when we check-in and compile dated chronicles offering us data that we are evolving ever-slowly within the hours, days and weeks of calendar years.
Thank you kindly for your presence here, Braveheart. 💗
I appreciate your interest and support.
~love & good wishes~
