Our earth is only one polka dot among a million stars in the cosmos. Polka dots are a way to infinity. When we obliterate nature and our bodies with polka dots, we become part of the unity of our environment.
Yayoi Kusama
Week 7/52 was about pages hand-written entries (first thing daily) and visual notes to assess and process my thoughts, feelings and plans; it was also framed with several meaningful conversations with kindred friends. ♥
[Having] compassion for yourself means that you honor and accept your humanness. Things will not always go the way you want them to.
Dr. Kristin Neff
Tracking my days + counting weeks assists me in being attentive to my energies.
- It helps me to be aware of the cyclical energies, habits and patterns of my living — and to resist overthinking/fretting about the “highs and lows” of those cycles.
- Chronicling these events also helps me to identify the details and decisions of what I can influence and modify — and release myself from any undue sense of duty or responsibility regarding what I cannot influence or modify.
Instead of thinking our way through everything, we discover a deeper wisdom that emerges when we surrender to that which we can’t articulate.
Christine Valters Paintner
- “This can be frustrating, the realization that an old tool has expired, but it can be fun too. Composting our past selves² (or even just certain aspects of self) is part of what allows a new self to bloom into being, gifting us the chance to explore and experiment with which new tools feel most supportive for us along the way.” –Nicole Antoinette
- “As someone who has been trying to wriggle free from perfectionist tendencies for my whole life, this can sometimes feel like a mixed bag. … This lesson is axis-shifting to me both creatively and personally. The perfectionistic impulse—the need to be unimpeachably good—can be extremely limiting.” -Suleika Jaouad
- “Resourceless meta feelings are often judgmental, creating this underlying sense that we shouldn’t feel what we’re feeling. We’re being too sensitive, too petty, too cruel, too angry. We think that if we’re hard enough on ourselves, we’ll simply snap out of it. It’s an avoidance strategy that rarely works, often making things worse. … One effective way of reducing resourceless meta feelings is to allow ourself to fully feel whatever is coming up without judgment.” -Ryder Carroll
When we allow our feelings to express themselves through writing, we’re opening the trap and stepping back. It’s the beginning of a process of freeing whatever jagged thing has been tearing us up inside and allowing it to do what it needs to until it tires itself out and moves on.
Ryder Carroll
⭐regarding closure | “Toxic people are only toxic, until you stop drinking their poison.” –Sarah Snow | “{Not] because I have ‘thick skin.’ But because I trust my choices.” –Stasia Savasuk | Talking to My Angels by Melissa Etheridge | The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories by Marina Keegan | Why So Many Women Don’t Know They are Autistic with Katherine May:
Here’s a myth buster for you: there’s this common perception that autistic people are very unfeeling and that we don’t have emotions at all, but actually, if you talk to autistic people, they’ll say they’re feeling everything and they’re feeling the feelings of everyone else in the room.
Katherine May
Getting Back into Flow – Art Making 076 | “Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity and change.” –Brené Brown | various YouTube videos regarding abstract art (I have been experimenting with abstract art on the pages of a 11″x14″ sketch pad.)
May healing be a journey lined with endless grace. When the road you are on is taking a winding turn, may you know that when you get to a point where you feel that you can’t keep rushing ahead, you are free to pause and rest however you can.
Morgan Harper Nichols
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. 🎉
What Your Brain Is Doing When You’re Not Doing Anything
[other posts from week 7/52]