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sabrinamariSeveral weeks ago I posted an exercise designed to move you towards the career/apartment/house that you most desire. That exercise asked you to write out the "story" of a day in your ideal job, or the day that you found your perfect new house/new apartment.
The link to that post is here: http://sabrinamari.livejournal.com/504893.html
Now for Part 2:
First, pull up or pull out your story and think about what happened next.
Once the vision crystallized on the page, how did it infiltrate your life? Did you decide on a new course of action? Did you start walking in a new direction? What did you do differently, once your attention was focused on what you most wanted?
Even if you didn't actually write out your story, did you begin to visualize a new and different path? Check under the cut for your next move.
---Perhaps you've created a timeline for getting/creating the job you want
---Maybe you've generated a plan for your own new business
---Maybe you went out and found a new place to live (several people did this!)
---Maybe you even began packing!
---Maybe you told several friends about your dream and asked them to help encourage you to move towards it
---Maybe you figured out the one step that will take you closer to living your story
Given what has unfolded in the last two weeks, what is the logical next step? At this point, there may be several possible next steps---writing out your vision and/or building it in your imagination is powerful magic. This is how you tell both the yourself and the universe to bring you what what you want.
If you did the exercise and began changing your world, list several possible next steps and choose one. Make it concrete---as concrete as possible! Then do the following:
1. Tell at least one friend what you are going to do
2. Set a day and time in which to do it (or several, if it is a repeating action).
3. Decide on one positive and useful reward that you can give yourself when you complete this action
4. Do it---then tell your friend that you did it and reward yourself.
If you thought about doing this exercise, but felt too uncomfortable/busy/stressed out to do it, now is the time to ask yourself what's going on.
Why would you say that you want something and then refuse to create a vision of it?
Could it be that the forces that push you towards your vision are matched by equal and opposite forces holding you back?
If this is the case, you may feel stressed and sad as you think about your vision. You may want it, but feel hopeless about ever getting it. It may even be too uncomfortable to actually think about!
However, think about this: you are guaranteed never to live out your vision if you won't imagine it, feel it or begin moving towards it.
If this is you, and you are unsatisfied with what you have right now, ask yourself if you are at least willing to look more closely at your paralysis. A good way to do this is to give voice to each opposing part of yourself. Here's how:
1. Sit down and get ready to write---open a blank page on your computer or pick up a pen/pencil.
2. Close your eyes and listen for the inner voice that keeps you from moving forward. Enter that part of yourself that is afraid/stressed out/unwilling to move. When you are there, open your eyes and set an alarm for three minutes.
3. For three solid minutes, write out whatever that voice tells you. Do not judge---just listen and write.
4. At the end of three minutes, close your eyes, take a long, deep breath, and thank that part of yourself.
5. Keep your eyes closed and listen for the part of you that wants to move forward. Enter that part of yourself. When you are there, open your eyes and set your alarm for three minutes.
6. For three solid minutes, write out whatever that voice tells you. Do not judge---just listen and write.
7. At the end of three minutes, close your eyes, take a long, deep breath, and thank that part of yourself.
Now you will have both voices sitting before you---one that's ready to move, and one that isn't. Read each one carefully. What does it tell you about yourself? Where are the conflicts?
Everyone knows the old saying, "Don't just stand there---do something!"
However--- if you torn and stressed by two opposing voices, I suggest that you do just the opposite. I suggest that you don't just do something---instead, just sit there.
I suggest that you put up both "voices" in a place in which you'll see them every day and spend the next week simply listening to each one. Get comfortable acknowledging them both, and giving them both voice. Your assignment is to stay where you really are and experience it as fully as you can.
Next week: Part 3
The link to that post is here: http://sabrinamari.livejournal.com/504893.html
Now for Part 2:
First, pull up or pull out your story and think about what happened next.
Once the vision crystallized on the page, how did it infiltrate your life? Did you decide on a new course of action? Did you start walking in a new direction? What did you do differently, once your attention was focused on what you most wanted?
Even if you didn't actually write out your story, did you begin to visualize a new and different path? Check under the cut for your next move.
---Perhaps you've created a timeline for getting/creating the job you want
---Maybe you've generated a plan for your own new business
---Maybe you went out and found a new place to live (several people did this!)
---Maybe you even began packing!
---Maybe you told several friends about your dream and asked them to help encourage you to move towards it
---Maybe you figured out the one step that will take you closer to living your story
Given what has unfolded in the last two weeks, what is the logical next step? At this point, there may be several possible next steps---writing out your vision and/or building it in your imagination is powerful magic. This is how you tell both the yourself and the universe to bring you what what you want.
If you did the exercise and began changing your world, list several possible next steps and choose one. Make it concrete---as concrete as possible! Then do the following:
1. Tell at least one friend what you are going to do
2. Set a day and time in which to do it (or several, if it is a repeating action).
3. Decide on one positive and useful reward that you can give yourself when you complete this action
4. Do it---then tell your friend that you did it and reward yourself.
If you thought about doing this exercise, but felt too uncomfortable/busy/stressed out to do it, now is the time to ask yourself what's going on.
Why would you say that you want something and then refuse to create a vision of it?
Could it be that the forces that push you towards your vision are matched by equal and opposite forces holding you back?
If this is the case, you may feel stressed and sad as you think about your vision. You may want it, but feel hopeless about ever getting it. It may even be too uncomfortable to actually think about!
However, think about this: you are guaranteed never to live out your vision if you won't imagine it, feel it or begin moving towards it.
If this is you, and you are unsatisfied with what you have right now, ask yourself if you are at least willing to look more closely at your paralysis. A good way to do this is to give voice to each opposing part of yourself. Here's how:
1. Sit down and get ready to write---open a blank page on your computer or pick up a pen/pencil.
2. Close your eyes and listen for the inner voice that keeps you from moving forward. Enter that part of yourself that is afraid/stressed out/unwilling to move. When you are there, open your eyes and set an alarm for three minutes.
3. For three solid minutes, write out whatever that voice tells you. Do not judge---just listen and write.
4. At the end of three minutes, close your eyes, take a long, deep breath, and thank that part of yourself.
5. Keep your eyes closed and listen for the part of you that wants to move forward. Enter that part of yourself. When you are there, open your eyes and set your alarm for three minutes.
6. For three solid minutes, write out whatever that voice tells you. Do not judge---just listen and write.
7. At the end of three minutes, close your eyes, take a long, deep breath, and thank that part of yourself.
Now you will have both voices sitting before you---one that's ready to move, and one that isn't. Read each one carefully. What does it tell you about yourself? Where are the conflicts?
Everyone knows the old saying, "Don't just stand there---do something!"
However--- if you torn and stressed by two opposing voices, I suggest that you do just the opposite. I suggest that you don't just do something---instead, just sit there.
I suggest that you put up both "voices" in a place in which you'll see them every day and spend the next week simply listening to each one. Get comfortable acknowledging them both, and giving them both voice. Your assignment is to stay where you really are and experience it as fully as you can.
Next week: Part 3
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Date: 2010-03-24 09:54 am (UTC)