Create 14: I am choosing joy

I sense our Dialogues are slowing in pace because I’m not competing the Creative Impulses. :/

You are feeling a little blocked because you are not completing the Creative Impulses. We are always here for you with the next Impulse. Like, always. Believe us! 😉

I’m sensing I should use some of this QT time to do that ‘execution’… But yet, I’m trying to order my non-client-facing time around BIC – Bookings / Inbox / Creative(=SoD) so that I have an hour each day for acting on the Creative Impulses.

And yesterday you had 5 client-facing hours, training 120 people..! 

After the second session I went to bed – at 3.50pm – and stayed there til 7pm! I was exhausted!

Excellent. You left it ALL on the pitch. That was you giving of your Heart. 

Today is a softer day. I have a 1:1 meeting with a dude who contacted me, and Conflict Coaching session at 5pm. It’s a 2/4 day (10-12 + 2-6pm) with (I hope) a good walk in the middle for the first time in days. I’m feeling a bit less adrenally, even though I woke up from a kidnapping nightmare (darn you, hostage-negotiating book at bedtime, Chris Voss!).

Let’s go in and get that ol’ PMA. That’s where the good stuff is, remember. 

Ty.

***15minBreathingMedwithInsightTimer***

Ok, so I tentatively played with feeling myself to be a ‘channel for peace’… and felt, hm, no today that’s not quite it. That’s too steady state. Joy! It’s about connecting to Joy today. Like a radio station with a long, long aerial heading up and up, and ‘receiving’ JoyFM.

“Joy is the key” as Abraham-Hicks says. 

And that is where it’s at! Especially in these long, dark, lockdowny days! How can I download, and embody, more joy?

‘Embody’ is the word. To embody joy you need to know that Joy is your Heart’s desire, and that through felt-perception, your Heart is ALWAYS letting you know what would bring it Joy. 

Michael Brown talks about how we shift into ‘felt-paralysis’ (vs our natural ‘felt-perception’) by about 14yo, and become ‘trance fixed’ in ‘thought-perception’.  (AOTH p31)

Thinking brings you little joy. Feeling is where the joy is. 

Neuroception of danger => joylessness

Interoception of the Heart’s playful desires => joyfulness

It’s like following the breadcrumbs, back in to the felt-perception – that is what our Heart does, and is for. Right?

It truly is. If you can get curious about ‘felt-perception’ of the Heart’s messages, you’ll be following the bread crumbs home. And you will feel Joy. So why not flip it? Instead of trying to get into the ‘felt-perception’ per se, just follow the most joyful bread crumbs. 

Like ‘follow your bliss’. That’s what that phrase means. Not merely: ‘be hedonistic’. But rather follow what gives you a sense of bliss, because that’s how you follow the heart instead of the head.

Yes! Indeed! Excellent! 

So, I just need to do/choose/prioritise whatever feels more joyful in any moment.

Boom. 

Ok!! And my creative impulse for the day would be…?

To find a way of sensing joy. 

*closes eyes*

Ok!

CREATIVE IMPULSE for Today: I’m going to get one of my battery powered noise-making buttons out of my training storage cupboard, and use it to make a ‘toot-toot’ every time I consciously Choose Joy. This means, when I have options, I pause and tune into what would bring me more Joy, and with a press of the button (to anchor/celebrate the choice) I choose Joy.  

Love. It. <3

I am choosing joy

DAY NOTES:

I created the Joy button using a post-it note sticker saying “Joy” on my battery powered noise-making button from my box of training props – it has a satisfying ka-pow-ow-ow laser sound. It does indeed underscore the value of choosing the more joyful option. I can use the button to CONFIRM/AFFIRM when I make the more joyful option; or to pause and ASK MYSELF what the more joyful option is. I tried it with a training option I was unsure about taking. I pressed the funny button, and after the sound had faded I felt a strong sense that ‘the more joyful option’ was not to do the training. I suggested to my colleague that another person did the training, which was accepted readily, and felt relieved to have ‘followed my joy’. I knew future me would be grateful I hadn’t said Yes to something my gut didn’t want to do. Awesome stuff!