This permission slip feels like it could work not only for assessment/decision-making, but for problem solving in general. Especially when we (instinctively and often reflexively) offer advice and solutions to problems that aren't ours...when a friend or loved one needs to vent and we feel as if we've been called upon to "fix it". Setting down the mantle is a great way to take the pause, the breath, and push our reset button to consider if we need to be assessing, or solving a problem, in that moment. Thanks for this reflection. 🫶
Analysis is an enemy of creativity. Logic blocks the flow. As an artist I struggle with assessment vs. experience. To let art touch my soul, I can't assess it. I mean, I can, but it takes the soul out of it, and I'm merely cataloging it. Those ceramic pieces are gorgeous. I'm so glad you found them Love, Virg
How lovely, these glimpses into special moments when you were able to be fully present. Thank you for the reminder and the reassurance that the world won't collapse if we do the same.
What a lovely read…”And it bleeds into everything. The restaurant, the art benefit, the grocery store. The decider doesn’t take days off. It just keeps running, sorting the world into categories, rendering verdicts, establishing positions.” Ahhh so relatable even though I often can’t decide things to save my life! But what in the same vein, I’ve a tendency to over-analyse to the 8th degree.
Things reeeally do taste better according to the receptacle don’t they?! YES! Sometimes when I’m in my mum’s she might give me something savoury on what I perceive to be a sweet plate or something sweet on what I perceive to savoury plate. 😅I’m the same with glasses and cups and mugs too…they all provide different sensory experiences for the foods and drink. Oh the magic of it all! 🪄✨
Being able to take off the mantle of our work is so peaceful. I found for me, It requires conscious choice. It doesn’t just happen unless I’m on vacation (and then it’s been removed before I even leave my house) Of course, my work mantle is very different than yours… mine is more akin to putting together puzzle pieces I observe all scattered about.
The analyzing aspect of my brain is slightly different. And I’m not sure when I first became aware that I had the choice to set it aside, but I suspect it was sometime around the years I began to truly feel safe. My intense awareness was the protective type, it’s armor, and not a work skill. In some situations it still requires a conscious choice to take off that armor. I love feeling safe enough to do that.
I must say I do find that pottery fetching. So in my mind, for whatever that is worth, you did well on that decision- maybe because it gives back to you - as just have to decide what to use them for - and if nothing else they are beautiful as is. Get it.
Now the question I might have, literally and metaphorically, is how much down time from the decider does your body need to not function like a "mindless computer" - I know that isn't what you do - and then you find the body hands you that smile you found in the computer.
That to turn something off for awhile turns something else on that allows the soup to taste better and to live out life more akin to an art form. To get out of the decision habit how do I build that in to what I do "for a living".
I Love this! I was a professional musician. My wife loved going to shows when we first got together. I could not just listen to music. It had to be... 'so many things' for me to let it in. The more we know, the more we expect... and then... not. It just is. Perfectly fine just like it is for what it is. And magically, we are still able to pick it up or put it down, without all the 'interference'. I freaking love that bowl. Just sayin'!
You amaze me! Not only are you healing us as you heal yourself, but your inner creative talent wiggles through. Each time you show us the connections you expose how exceptional you are in so many of life’s possibilities. Thank you, Alex. ❤️🌼
Hi Alex, I'm with Luis on the bowl. Your photo reminded me of a Van Gogh painting. How could that work of art be tainted by making bread in it? :) (I'm teasing, sort of.) Yet I get it. In some way, I see the paradox of using an art piece for an ordinary act - making bread. Bread is so metaphorical, anyway. It's about sustenance, the things that feed and fuel us.
This permission slip feels like it could work not only for assessment/decision-making, but for problem solving in general. Especially when we (instinctively and often reflexively) offer advice and solutions to problems that aren't ours...when a friend or loved one needs to vent and we feel as if we've been called upon to "fix it". Setting down the mantle is a great way to take the pause, the breath, and push our reset button to consider if we need to be assessing, or solving a problem, in that moment. Thanks for this reflection. 🫶
Analysis is an enemy of creativity. Logic blocks the flow. As an artist I struggle with assessment vs. experience. To let art touch my soul, I can't assess it. I mean, I can, but it takes the soul out of it, and I'm merely cataloging it. Those ceramic pieces are gorgeous. I'm so glad you found them Love, Virg
How lovely, these glimpses into special moments when you were able to be fully present. Thank you for the reminder and the reassurance that the world won't collapse if we do the same.
What a lovely read…”And it bleeds into everything. The restaurant, the art benefit, the grocery store. The decider doesn’t take days off. It just keeps running, sorting the world into categories, rendering verdicts, establishing positions.” Ahhh so relatable even though I often can’t decide things to save my life! But what in the same vein, I’ve a tendency to over-analyse to the 8th degree.
Things reeeally do taste better according to the receptacle don’t they?! YES! Sometimes when I’m in my mum’s she might give me something savoury on what I perceive to be a sweet plate or something sweet on what I perceive to savoury plate. 😅I’m the same with glasses and cups and mugs too…they all provide different sensory experiences for the foods and drink. Oh the magic of it all! 🪄✨
👏🏻 love this❣️
Being able to take off the mantle of our work is so peaceful. I found for me, It requires conscious choice. It doesn’t just happen unless I’m on vacation (and then it’s been removed before I even leave my house) Of course, my work mantle is very different than yours… mine is more akin to putting together puzzle pieces I observe all scattered about.
The analyzing aspect of my brain is slightly different. And I’m not sure when I first became aware that I had the choice to set it aside, but I suspect it was sometime around the years I began to truly feel safe. My intense awareness was the protective type, it’s armor, and not a work skill. In some situations it still requires a conscious choice to take off that armor. I love feeling safe enough to do that.
I must say I do find that pottery fetching. So in my mind, for whatever that is worth, you did well on that decision- maybe because it gives back to you - as just have to decide what to use them for - and if nothing else they are beautiful as is. Get it.
Now the question I might have, literally and metaphorically, is how much down time from the decider does your body need to not function like a "mindless computer" - I know that isn't what you do - and then you find the body hands you that smile you found in the computer.
That to turn something off for awhile turns something else on that allows the soup to taste better and to live out life more akin to an art form. To get out of the decision habit how do I build that in to what I do "for a living".
I Love this! I was a professional musician. My wife loved going to shows when we first got together. I could not just listen to music. It had to be... 'so many things' for me to let it in. The more we know, the more we expect... and then... not. It just is. Perfectly fine just like it is for what it is. And magically, we are still able to pick it up or put it down, without all the 'interference'. I freaking love that bowl. Just sayin'!
This was delightful. Thank you for the reminder to stop assessing and just receive.
You amaze me! Not only are you healing us as you heal yourself, but your inner creative talent wiggles through. Each time you show us the connections you expose how exceptional you are in so many of life’s possibilities. Thank you, Alex. ❤️🌼
Hi Alex, I'm with Luis on the bowl. Your photo reminded me of a Van Gogh painting. How could that work of art be tainted by making bread in it? :) (I'm teasing, sort of.) Yet I get it. In some way, I see the paradox of using an art piece for an ordinary act - making bread. Bread is so metaphorical, anyway. It's about sustenance, the things that feed and fuel us.
But fruit does that, too.
So I'm back with: I'm with Luis on the bowl. :)