What color are your glasses today?
We wear our state of consciousness like glasses that color our experience.
How is your state of consciousness? Your beingness, that is, or, how do you feel today? Some days feel heavy and dark for me, others light and playful. While that is a part of life, I believe we can learn to care for our beingness, our consciousness in a way that allows for more lightness, more playful days lived with ease. And, I think those days are kinder, for us and for those around us.
Here’s a question. What do you make more important than your state of being…and why? Perhaps it’s your to do list.
Often I fear (and I think our culture/social media etc. support this fear) that if I don’t focus on the doing first, it will never get done.
Okay, that’s a hypothesis. But have you tested it? Or rather have you tested taking care of your beingness first? Are you afraid to? シ
I’ve begun to test it and the results have been surprising. I still have heavy days, which serve to remind me to take better care. And I still get stuff done (okay, haven’t gotten to all my emails again! but realize the world doesn’t seem to fall apart! I usually get to the ones I really want to).
Not only do I get things done, I do so with more ease and playfulness. And I’m much clearer on what I really want to get done versus what the little voice in my head thinks should be done.
I invite you to experiment with taking care of your being or your beingness first. In other words, do something that makes you feel great first, then move into your doingness.1 I’d love to hear how it goes.
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Another non-word. Okay here we go again. シ Doingness feels like something I can turn on or off, as in I’ll move into productive mode for a couple of hours, then take a break to feed my beingness, and yeah…hopefully you get the idea.
This post helped me to cancel an engagement I didn't want to go to. I asked myself what I wanted to do, how I wanted to be and chose to cancel. Hard for me to do, now I feel free.