Such an honor to witness people showing up and doing deep work. Wow. Every Monday morning at 8:30 when I leave the Wheeeee! tele-fun conference, I sit back for a moment and take it all in – the courage, laughter, willingness, shakiness, warmth. This is what nurtures my love affair with human beings.
Today we got curious about the question What helps me prioritize? Over the years, I’ve noticed that, as the complexity of the world and the uncertainty of life became more apparent, the difficulty of discerning, prioritizing and choosing has increased. How do we know what to do, what to choose when black-and-white is replaced by a rainbow of possibilities? Is there some internal compass we can navigate by? Here’s a playful way to explore this:
- Take a deep, deep breath and let it out with a sigh. Repeat.
- Stretch your body in all directions. Shake it out. Notice what’s tense – breathe into it and relax.
- Close your eyes.
- There’s a place in you that knows how to choose – put your hand there now. Trust yourself. Breathe and connect to this place of knowing within you.
- Raise your hand in the air and begin to move it, dancing on behalf of your inner authority, your ability to discern what your priorities are. If there’s a sound that accompanies your dancing hand, you can let it out. Dance for at least 1 minute.
- Find a place of stillness and silence. Breathe in and blow your breath out slowly through your lips.
- Open your eyes – notice, journal, doodle.
- What affirmation will you use this week to support your trust in your inner knowing?
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Joyfully yours, Nika
Massanko has this great tool! He had us visualize two or three circles, with some mental image of what we were choosing from – one in each. Then we did some dancing around them – I had my eyes closed, but I don’t remember if that was suggested. It was great to play with the images of the things I was choosing between. I got to use my body wisdom instead of just using my mind to try to rationalize my way through a decision. I remember his suggesting how it felt to be in each of the circles. I think he did some guiding words while we did it, or maybe he was just drumming. Anyway, I found it very freeing! I think some kind of playing with imagery, or vizualization could help with setting priorities. Thanks for getting me to think about this!
Allysson
What a surprise to find and touch the actual place on my body that knows. I guess its been there all along. Now it has a audience.