DISCIPLINE MONTH: DAY 22: “If chess has any relationship to film-making, it would be in the way it helps you develop patience and discipline in choosing between alternatives at a time when an impulsive decision seems very attractive.” ― Stanley Kubrick
I am not well-known for my patience or lack of impulsive ideas! I get quite excited every morning by the things that come to me, either in dreams or in those first 10 minutes when I wake up. I do my best to write these things down, because quite often they are very inspiring. That is the reason I get so excited.
It is best if I sit with these things and let them percolate for a bit.
Once in a while, I jump up and race off to get into whatever the idea or inspiration brings to me. It can be quite interesting to see how this plays out. Although my inspirations/ideas can be quite spiritual in nature, it is funny how sideways they can go when I don’t sit quietly and let life unfold them for me. It is also interesting how many of these things are the theme of my day.
I may dream about a journey and get invited to go somewhere on a journey, usually on that day. Or, I can dream about someone and have several things come up in the course of the day that are related to that person.
I do not believe I am psychic (more appropriately, I would say PSYCHO!), but I do know that I am very often in tune with what is happening and what is coming next in my life. Always been that way. It is only now, in my older years, that I trust this so much that I write it all down and pay close attention. Because of that, it happens more and more often.
The quieter I become, the more in tune I become. What recovery has given me is the quiet mind. It has given me the means to empty myself, over and over, of all the shit that used to roam through my mind. I can process the biggest of fears, worries, any crazy you can think of (or I can think of!), and then I get to be receptive to the new, the upcoming, the what’s next.
That only happens for me when I am empty. When I am full of ideas, questions, old stories, Kelly-shit, I am not available to receive these other insights, inspirations, ideas, etc.
They may come up, but there is nowhere for them to sit. So, they go unnoticed and unrecognized and unrealized in my life.
Such a wonderful way to live…I am blessed to get this. I am blessed to talk about it with all of you…thank you, thank you, thank you!
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