For the next 6 days I am in a yoga teacher training with Christina Sell. That pint sized woman holds so much inspiration and knowledge that I found myself walking out of the first day of training wanting to be creative. Create what, I have no idea but I felt the immense desire to do and make stuff. It made me think of a little story she told while we were holding one of the many deep warrior poses and focussing like we had never focussed before. She told of a teacher in India who was telling his students the difference between himself and them. Basically it came down to his body being in a million pieces and his mind being in one vs. his students whose bodies were in one piece and their minds in a million. So physically he was able to move each part of his body separately from another while keeping his mind totally focussed while his students had bodies that didn't manipulate as easily but their minds were in a million places at once. This little lesson landed when the creative bug hit and I had no idea where I wanted to focus the energy. And when I say I am all over the place believe me, I'm all over the place. My latest interests are yoga and teaching (as always), nutrition, cooking (by the way, I hate cooking and not sure why I am all of a sudden interested in it), making jewelry, making my home more comfortable to live in, planning a vacation (I just got back from one and I'm not sure where this vacation money is going to come from), meditation (at the moment I've made it as far as thinning about starting a regular meditation practice), read about 10 books that I've purchased for self betterment and blogging. So basically my mind is in a million pieces and aside from writing this post and being in the midst of a teacher training nothing else on the list has moved from the creative todo list into being.
So I'm hoping starting this blog is different from the other blogs of started, yes, there is more than one failed attempt I'm not known for my followthrough. I'm hoping that this becomes a place to share the culmination of the scattered mind into something at least a bit more focussed and maybe being able to get the creative energy to be a bit more productive. My husband loves to make fun of me when I drink coffee. He says I get all this energy but all I can manage to do with it is sit and vibrate at a high frequency. This is exactly how I'm feeling right now. I have so much potential and I'm not quite sure how to focussed the energy into anything useful.
So for the rest of this weekend and next week I am going to take all this energy and just focus it on my teacher training. All the other stuff on my todo list can wait until next week, or even next month. Just making that commitment to focus on one thing is liberating. That yoga teacher in India is really on to something, imagine that!
If you want a little more inspiration on how to get back on the productive track here's a little something I found.
http://www.pickthebrain.com/blog/how-to-turn-around-unproductive-day/
How did we ever get anything done before the internet, and how do we ever get anything done since the internet. It's a vast library of information that draws us into a time sucking black hole.
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| I imagine this is what my mind looks likes. It has a bit of organization and direction but it looks a bit crazy. |
Stay tuned.
xx
Casey
