All of life is story, story unraveling and revealing meaning.
Madeleine L’Engle
Right brain planning is to allow your journal to be your planner; to promote expression over productivity and achievement.
My right brain planning practice continually enables me to:
- Process whatever I am experiencing (feeling, thinking), fostering self-compassionate and being present (mindful, involved and connected) within my living.
- Express myself without filters and shoulds [to get “it” out (verbally/visually)] as well as “decipher” and determine the root causes (and inspirations) of what I am experiencing.
And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.
Rilke, Letters To A Young Poet
July was all about living everything; it was about recovery and release. (2023 has been such a time of release and clarity … celebrated and long-awaited, Braveheart.) ♥
The dominant activity for July: rest and recovery.
The routine on repeat during July was a sequence of actions initiated when recurring migraines and vertigo paused everything …
- Using my walking cane for balance, I collected the small drawstring bag of essential oil bottles, my red insulated water bottle and my phone (for google searches and to text my partner, as necessary); slowly making my way to my recliner; tossing my cotton throw blanket over my legs and adjusting the recliner incline to the angle that eventually paused the spinning sensation in my head; leaning into these details of sensory comfort for as long as needed.
- July also included sharing space with kindred friends and community. This included book discussions and a quarterly synchronicity session with my Ko-fi patrons. ♥
My tracker for July; I shared my notes and resource links with my Ko-fi patrons.
- ⚫️ [geography lessons]
- regarding Chapter 7 of an Austin Kleon book (local discussion group)
- July-August Lunar Cycle Templates
- synchronicity and grief
- [21-day Life Quad practice] [grounding + attention]
- [synchronicity] Feel Something, Make Something
- starting in the middle & new essential oils
- rhythmic and repetitive motion
- 🌕 [full moon journal] & [full moon art & notes]
- [week 27/52 notes]
- mid-year intention
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