Nadine
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Thank you all for sharing. In some ways it is reassuring to know that we are all meeting and greetings our limits.
In the last couple of weeks I came across this performance artist, Marina Abramovic, and the work she did in 2010 inside MOMA in New York reminded me very much of the heightened awareness I started to experience the more I spend time in my Sit Spot. Marina Abramovic sat for 736 hours inside MOMA, looking straight into 1,545 visitors eyes without saying a word. The work was entitled The Artist is Present. During the first days that she sat at MOMA, she heard the same noises that we all here inside a packed museum. People walking, milling about, speaking in hushed tones. After a few days, she was able to perceive the cars passing outside the building. A few weeks later she heard the bumps from cars driving over one particular manhole cover in the street. I find that amazing.
The Sit Spot has been my most consistent daily practice the last few weeks. Most likely because it is the most accessible to me, as I am already comfortable with it. Right away I feel grounded and at peace when I am sitting in nature. Sometimes I practice the 7-breath exercise, or bring my Council with me, but often I just immerse myself in sensory awareness, noticing the dips and spikes in the baseline. That is easy work for me, as I am naturally doing it. (And yes, I am noticing a trend here!)
I have noticed a lot more resistance around exercices that are harder for me, that make me more uncomfortable, and/or that I do not fully grasp, such as the Empty Chair exercise, or Partworks. I realized now that I have made few honest attempts to break through my resistance.
On a different note, doubts are still doing their share of destruction any time I let the Vision speak and dreams come out. I am becoming more aware of it and better at squashing that little voice, but this is going to take a lot more practice, and a lot more re-programming.
I have decided to enroll in the NCC program and I am super excited about it. But I found myself pondering on “what is the question I am trying to answer?”. I now realize it might be very different than what I intended to do. The impetus behind enrolling into the NCC program was to transition out my current corporate position within 2 years. Now though, I seem less attached to this outcome, but rather focused on creating a life I love. -
I find this exercise very powerful, and I realize that it takes time and lots of re-enforcement for it to be successful. From my experience, I need to be super persistent and consistent otherwise the work I started quickly evaporates. My challenge is to find the time to do it regularly and to be in the right the mental space.
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6:15PM on Friday.
It took me the whole weekend to evaluate all the options. The flight to Gunnison is at least twice++ as much as flying into Denver. But then I could not find any lodging in Boulder that was reasonably priced. Even AirB&B was $100 for a night. And now I will just leave on Friday instead of Thursday. Happy planning! -
Hello Melody, I booked my ticket a couple days ago. I will be flying directly to Gunnison, on United, leaving Denver at 15:55, arriving at Gunnison at 17:02pm. We will be on the same flight! 🙂