Choosing to choose

Turn towards what brings beauty into our lives. A Still Point Curiosity & Contentment self enquiry

I don’t know about you but it has been quite a week. As someone keeping a close eye on the political landscape I feel I need a break. Physically, mentally, emotionally, metaphorically and any other way you want to describe it. 

I planned all these prompts to fit in with what I considered to be a lovely arc of learning and space to explore how we see the world. 

But it might just feel like effort. Too much damn effort to do anything about it and you'd rather hit the coffee, cookies and a trashy tv show to stop feeling or noticing anything!

Me too! I’ve just devoured a whole bar of dark chocolate in a mindless way to distract me from doing what I really need to do. 

A conscious choice

This week all the cues and prompts I look to to inspire my writing and journaling are pointing me towards choice. 

Beth Kempton

#tinyautumn poem prompt the other day was Choice and I wrote this short poem.

My daily meditation prompts talked about making a conscious choice to feel joy and absorb life’s beauty (for November 4th ironically). 

My mentor and meditation teacher spoke about how sometimes when we don’t feel safe enough to look at what is not working or difficult things from our past, what we need to do is spend time on building greater feelings of safety, satisfaction and connection. 

Right here, right now I am safe, all my family are safe in our home and in each other’s love. My body can let go of trying to protect me and let me rest. 

I can choose to let go of all the things I want to do to make things better in my small corner of the world for those I love and whatever ripples that might send out and take time to be here and rest. 

For this moment I don’t need to step off the bus into the oncoming traffic. I can stay siting here, quietly looking out of the dirt-covered window and watch the outside pass me by and rest. 

It will all still be there tomorrow.

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