When I was living in India, I was filled with words,
descriptions, images that wanted to flow out on the paper. I blogged, I kept a small journal to write
things down when travelling and my mind was thinking like I was writing.
Upon returning to the US, I started back with a busy work
schedule with my focus on helping others, the writing flow started to slow down
from a raging river to a trickle at best.
I’m not sure why. When I was in
India, there was so much newness, awe, and discovery. I kept myself busy but my mind was less
focused. Now, I find my mind wanders
constantly to my clients and things that I might help them with on their
self-development journey. Even when
sitting in meditation this will happen or when I’m out enjoying myself. I’m starting to catch this more and allow
myself to let go of the thought, but I wonder how this preoccupation has been
part of the obstacle for the flow of writing.
It’s most likely one of those things that when we feel good,
everything flows and when there are struggles, it takes more effort. When I didn’t have a 40 hour a week job to
fill my time, I had more attention to be inspired by the newness in my
surroundings. Now I’m in my culture,
focused on a job to help pay the bills (though it’s also one I enjoy), and it
does take more effort to sit down and allow myself the time to write.
I wonder if I were to give myself a 40 day challenge of
writing three sentences a day, how that might allow time for me to create space
for this in my life again…
Since I’ve written this today, I guess I’ve started. Here we go, 40 days of writing (other than
the tedious part of my job…paperwork.
Hmmmm, maybe that’s also contributed to the drying up of an urge to
write in a more creative manner).
Here’s to 40 day challenges!!
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