It’s been a long time since I regularly cultivated my blog as a way to grow and nurture community. Creativity moves in cycles, like the moon, sometimes as full and glowing as the glorious full Super Moon we had last night, sometimes hidden in the darkness, and sometimes appearing as a slender crescent, full of promise.
When I received the invitation from Mirror to participate in a 14 day “Blogging from the Heart Challenge”, I experienced an immediate full-bodied YES! I didn’t stop to think about it or weigh up the pros and cons, it was just YES. This is how I tend to live these days – when the energy moves clearly and I feel it through my body, that’s a Green Light and I follow. If I think about moving in a given direction and feel my energy contracting, it’s a NO, a Red Light and I stop and take stock. And if I’m not sure and I’m wavering, it’s a MAYBE, an Orange Light so I wait until I know for sure.
In changing times, when I’m moving through a lot of uncertainty and confusion, this is a really simple and fail safe system of guidance, enabling me to take my next step with confidence, to experiment and see what happens.
Having found and spoken my YES, the next step was to find my WHY. Why am I doing this? How will it further my interests? Finding my WHY helps to set intentions so that my energy is moving purposefully rather than randomly.
Well, first I’m a writer and I always love to write. Writing a blog post everyday will exercise my writing muscles and stretch me in ways I am yet to discover. It’s like having a yoga or meditation practice – the more you do it the more flexible and present you become. It’s a way of celebrating the daily-ness of life – the movement through the expansion and contraction of daily breath.
Committing to turn up every day at the page builds perseverance and strength. Who knows what patterns of resistance will be brought to light? I could learn something about myself and, better still, breakthrough into a new rhythm of motivation, clarity and enthusiasm.
Writing for me is a vehicle of discovery. I write transformational books and programmes and when I jump on board the writing carries me and transports me and it’s usually a magical mystery tour. It’s my way of connecting fully with my authentic self and with the intelligence of Gaia, cheering me on and waiting for me to be her hands and eyes. I write to be inspired and to inspire. If I’m not inspired by the writing process, I know I’m missing the point. Writing a blog is a special challenge to offer bite-sized morsels of inspiration that make minimal demands on the reader. There’s an art to it and I’m keen to develop the art.
I’ve been unsure of the direction of my work for a while now, on the dark side of the moon, waiting for the Green Light. In the last few days, since accepting the invitation to the blog challenge, my energy and motivation to take my work forward has reawakened and I’m ready to be an active and inspired cell in the embodied movement of transformation that is happening all over the world. I’m looking forward to this journey of connection with you.
