Imagination is absolutely critical to the quality of our lives. Our imagination enables us to leave our routine everyday existence by fantasizing about travel, food, sex, falling in love, or having the last word—all the things that make life interesting. Imagination gives us the opportunity to envision new possibilities—it is an essential launchpad for making our hopes come true. It fires our creativity, relieves our boredom, alleviates our pain, enhances our pleasure, and enriches our most intimate relationships.
Bessel van der Kolk
My right brain planning practice provides me with “imaginary worlds” (safe spaces) where I have been able to recover from years of trauma and periods of debilitating depression.
Recovering that comes via self-compassion and expression; vent-journaling, overwriting and pages of layered color imagining spaces of ease and beauty amidst feeling hopeless and lifeless within an extended season of rest — and belonging to a kindred community.
I write because I don’t know what I think until I read what I say.
Flannery O’Connor
One day you finally knew
what you had to do, and began,
though the voices around you
kept shouting
their bad advice —
(Mary Oliver, The Journey)
Braveheart, I know the saving grace of a creative practice; I learned from a lifetime of trial-and-error experience.
We may not remember all of the details of everything that led to this moment. We may feel confused about how we’re supposed to focus on growth when all of the growth steps so far have been so difficult to unpack.
Morgan Harper Nichols
Right brain planning is grounding (calming), and it is a way of remembering the details of our living: tracking micro-movements, daily sequences, lunar phase practices, books we are reading and words that guide us.
The 2024 Annual Kit includes:
(1) Guide — content and principles regarding a right brain planning practice to foster your attention regarding your “constellations” [patterns, habits and rhythms] and compassion.
(2) Prompts and Template Pages — basic principles for a right brain planning practice including monthly guide words, prompts, art and themed content to provide a framework for a calendar year.
Thank you kindly for your presence here, Braveheart.
I appreciate your interest and support.
~love & good wishes~
2024 Right Brain Planner® Kit | field notes | Right Brain Planner® FAQ
2024 Right Brain Planner® Kit [Theme] Kaleidoscope Perspectives ✨ [Focus] — Noticing Beauty (within the kaleidoscope of your living: the ongoing, ever-changing “formations” of color and meaning)
❤️ Braveheart, as the Creator/Artist of Right Brain Planner® I am ever-grateful to have the opportunity to share my creative work online + support other creators since 2008! 🎉 This is possible, in part, by {you} and your presence here. But also because of the support of my Ko-fi patrons and the other other member/subscriber communities I host (via their presence, input and subscriptions).
P.S. I have been devoting more time to writing here about my creative practice. 😊 I hope you will join me here, Braveheart. 🎉