My Week 3/53 page collage includes the lunar phase and weekly art marker; found words that created a message of guidance and affirmation; art from packaging (fruit stickers; yogurt; a pocket mirror); swirls inspired by Lynda Barry (my versions differ a bit); red Washi tape (red is the color prompt for January from the 2024 Kit).
The basics of right brain planning help me to remain open and vulnerable (and curious) to what is new and different.
These basics include: setting aside time + self-compassion to [notice, honor and chronicle within your personal energies].
There can be no growth if we do not remain open and vulnerable to what is new and different.
John O’Donohue
Right brain planning + tracking the details of each week helps me focus on my priorities.
The awe-inspiring, the numinous, is all around us, all the time. It is transformed by our deliberate attention. It becomes valuable when we value it.
Katherine May
Turning the kaleidoscope of my life means I give my attention to what matters most to me, and that I remain open and vulnerable to what is new and different.
- Setting aside time according to my energies (the biological rhythms and patterns that determine when I have the best energy/focus for certain activities).
- This includes honoring my pace and trusting [beginner’s mind].
- This principle appeared several times in my reading and during conversations this week.
For whatever feelings are rising up, be gentle with yourself. Even if you don’t have words for them. Even if you feel like something is changing but you can’t quite figure out what, you are free to inhale, exhale, and make space for what you’re feeling.
Morgan Harper Nichols
Inspiration from this week included kindred book discussions of Motherhood by Lisa Marchiano, The Artist’s Rule by Christine Valters Paintner and The Creative Act by Rick Rubin.
- Oracle cards are a part of my right brain planning practice. (Two of the cards I pulled this week.)
- What do oracle cards have to do with right brain planning?
- Braveheart, 🗣️messages of comfort, guidance and inspiration await us each and every day.
- 🔎 Giving our attention to 👂 listening and noticing 👀 ensures we don’t miss ‘em! 😊😉
- 📝📕📐 Having a designated space for chronicling these messages ensures we can refer to these bits of goodness again and again. (I compile a list in my my lunar cycle booklet.)
- 🧩 These messages can be like pieces of puzzle as we live out the 🧮 details of our story unfolding. 🙌 Offering guidance and inspiration and answers to questions we have as we cycle like the 🌙 moon.
- What do oracle cards have to do with right brain planning?
Content from page 6 of the Prompts and Template Pages of the 2024 Annual Kit.
- Sky meditations are part of my Sunday evening ritual.
- This is a way for me to pause; to conclude my weekend and give my attention to the beauty of nature … ☁️🩶☁️
- Sunday’s grey skies invited the use of filters to highlight and add dimension.
We don’t have to be perfect, just engaged and committed to aligning values with actions.
Brené Brown
Having a system, a scaffolding of sorts, provides us with starting points + helps us to show up for ourselves on the page as we align our values with our actions.
- The 2024 Annual Kit provides instructional content to guide you in establishing a right brain planning practice.
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.
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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)
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Ko-fi posts for Week 3/52: feeling what you need & making space for feelings | mark-making & making space for feelings | 2024 Review Notes [download] | January-February Lunar Templates
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