Discovery Reflections: WILDCARD!!

• What is sacred work?
• What permission do you need?
• Reflection activities as a process
  • Best practices for developing flow
• Call to action
  • Comment on this page: What do you want permission to explore?
  • Share your PACT: How will you track your reflection activity progress?

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Hello friends 

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did that joke probably didn’t make that choice didn’t make any sense. I’m not hip, okay? Their thing is around keeping track of what video this is. Go with it. And also to hide my horrible hairdo. Okay, day four is about discovery and reflections, which is kind of a wild card. And the reason for this is, I’m not planning anything around this, this is where the collaboration comes in, I need you to help me generate these ideas. We do not do passive consumption and Raising Luminaries as a part of that reciprocity, and not just giving and not just taking, we need to give and take. So the collective that we do are tailored for you using your creativity, which means you get to define the goals for each chapter. So if you want to process this week’s topics, not just consuming and then regurgitating on like a worksheet, there has to be some way of we get back into our bodies and process this without like obsessing over it cramming, like we’re doing it for a test or something. So today, we’re going to talk about the sacred work of integrating world changing work into everyday life. And then we’re going to talk about the best practices for reflection activities. So today, integrating world changing work into everyday life. How does that work? That sounds like a lot. Let’s get small about it. So first, what is sacred Work sacred? And also, how are we giving each other permission to just process what we need to do? Sorry, what is a good work? So sacred work is the activity in our brain that we need in order to process and comprehend and understand how we’re connected to the world and how we’re connected to the concepts and the things that we’re experiencing. So what makes an action secret is that we set intention and meaning to it, it’s not just every day wiping your butt, although that could be sacred for you, no judgment. But it’s an action that we actually set intention and meaning to, and then we revisit it. So your existence creates all these wild opportunities for the world. And if we don’t have small breaks, till just like check out of just running on autopilot every day, we’re just gonna miss all that we’re gonna miss all those opportunities. So if we consider ourselves like a conduit for good trouble, right, the good trouble exists, and we’re here to make it happen. So your creativity makes creates a guidance for each other, and how to how to how we process it. So we’re going to go over what makes a good reflection activity, we’re going to experiment with it, you’re going to take these ideas and run with it. And then we’re going to come back into the Polo group and share what we’re doing, how we’re processing it. Whether or not it’s helpful, or it’s just fun. So sometimes it’s helpful and we don’t know it. Okay. So reflection activities. Basically, they’re just giving us permission to meet our intangible needs, like we know that we need to sleep some number of hours in the day, we need to, we know we need to drink water at some point. But those are all measurable things that contribute directly to productivity. But if we want something that restores our energy, and what we need to actually focus on good processes, remember, we’re not doing results or doing processes, we need to refuel our tank in intangible ways. So these reflection activities are basically just permission to drop the busy work that you need a break from. So you tell your partner, you tell your kid, this is special, this is only for six weeks, people are relying on me for this. So I need to go swimming, I need to go for a walk around the block, I need to sit in a quiet room for a minute and just, I don’t know, play Sudoku, whatever, whatever you need permission to do that usually you can’t fit into the slot of like, I need to exercise so I can take care of other people, right. So this is also your permission to take a break from stuff that drains you that you know you have to do or you feel obligated to do. Whether it’s an excuse just for a break, taking a break from social media, binging the news, making home cooked meals and making sure that your kids have a specific number of veggies and their meals. Everyone will survive. If you take six weeks off of this. You don’t need to teach the kids a second. Maybe you do need to teach the kids a second language. But for this six weeks, you don’t have to. It’s like a break of vacation. You can do an email free month where your autoresponders like I’m in training. I’m doing this thing for six weeks. I can’t respond. Sorry. I have done that to send all the emails to trash. It’s so freeing.

You can take a break from every time someone asks you to volunteer for a bake sale be like Sorry, I’m doing this really important thing right now. I cannot. You can take a break. You can opt out of that wedding you don’t want to go to right. This is your permission and you have it from us, this is also your permission to ask for help if you usually can’t give yourself permission to get childcare, because you’re not making money with the time that you have away from your kids. This is your permission to get some childcare. If you need something tangible to justify why you need your partner to take over some of the chores, this is your excuse for that. This is just be like, darling, it’s six weeks, I just need you to help out for this because think of how many times you’ve done that for them. This is your permission to spend time on an activity you enjoy or want to explore. It could be knitting, it could be I don’t know, I don’t know crafts, I have a list, there’s a list in the bonus resources and this. And basically, it’s just permission to release what’s holding you back to make this time different than all the other times all of the other summers you’ve ever had. So in terms of brain fuel, what makes an effective reflection activity. So there’s a few different aspects of doing, first of all, doing what we can with what we have, don’t need to go buy a whole bunch of stuff, although if like you really want an excuse to buy an origami kit, go for it. The point is just to experiment and get your head out of scrolling through screens and looking through your same regular routine, right. It’s a chance to experiment and to learn and to grow through process, not for the purpose of results. You’re not knitting. So you can knit a hat for someone you’re knitting because you want the process of knitting. Does that make sense? So if if growing for the process is a direct resistance to the consumption and the greed and the do more pneus of capitalist colonization and supremacy, then this is your chance to actually put your theory into practice. So this also gives you space to create flow, which your brain needs to be happy and a flow state and self care just like sleep and veggies and hot baths and whatever you need to do. Maybe your reflection activity is picking a different closet in your house every week and organizing it you do whatever brings you joy and makes you feel good. So in a society of fragmentation, we’re we’re expected to be in a different plate a whole bunch of different places at once we get our news from one source, we have our friendship over here. We’re expected to fragment our lives and all these different apps and all these different spaces and cut our days into chunks where we’re caring for kids slash going to work slash volunteering. What does it mean to consolidate all of that, and that’s where art and craft comes in. Because innocence, society of fragmentation, we need a consolidation process. And that’s where reflection activities and what we call the diminutive word hobbies, but you know, our craft. That’s That’s what consolidates the things that we’re in taking, and processing. Right? So. So Louise Bourgeois had this wonderful quote, which is art is restoration. The idea is to repair the damages that are inflicted in life, to make something that is fragmented, which is what fear and anxiety do to a person into something whole. So you’re taking all of the stuff that I’m throwing at you all the stuff that you have in life, and you’re consolidating it into a hole, not intentionally just go for a walk, man, but it gives your brain some space to work on things. And you don’t have to be actively thinking about all that stuff. You just need to make space for your body to move and to do things. So best. So when you choose your activities, you can choose one activity per week, or you can hone one specific craft all summer, you can do something new, or you can do something that you’ve been meaning to get back to. If you really want an excuse to get back into rock climbing, go for it get the gym membership. So you’re going to find inspiration for what kind of reflection activities you could try out if you don’t automatically have something that comes to mind. That’s in the bonus resources in the portal. And what’s important is that you track your your process, not your results, track your process needed for 15 minutes today,

right like a little checkbox, something like that. Not your process not needed a hat for someone, because what you want to be able to do is looked back and see that you worked on something not that you created something that you worked on something. So whether it’s making a playlist, whether it’s keeping a journal, whether you’re doing one of those like activity trackers where you fill in a square every day, do something that lets you at the end of the six weeks, see how you actually invested your time. So the best practices on reflection activities that give you opportunity to create a flow state are there sensory, which means they bring you into the present using your senses Smell Taste, using your sense of touch. So that’d be like cooking, rock climbing, knitting, compiling a playlist, something that involves at least one of your senses. It’s really helpful if you can make it social, if you want permission or an excuse to collaborate with Folks who you like and admire, this is your chance, right? It can be playing chess with someone, it’s really good if it’s active, if you get to get you back in your body, this creates an opportunity to move to change the physical space that you’re in, to interact with the world instead of interacting through the screen as a proxy for your identity. Also, it’s adjustable. So if the conventional way of doing things does not work for you, tweak it, right. And then it’s creative. If so, again, if we’re a conduit for good trouble, we’re a conduit for our experiences, we need to create space to consolidate those fragmented experiences of modern life into something new. So making something out of it. Again, the point isn’t to have a painting, but the point is to paint. So if you can create something new that didn’t exist before, that might feel really good. And then also, you want to work just on the edge of challenging, so not something that you’re not really thinking. This is why things like Sudoku, and stuff like this might not work because they might not be challenging enough for you. You want something where you’re working at just the edge of your ability, and it requires just enough of your focus to keep you from getting distracted. But it’s not so challenging and difficult that you end up getting frustrated and hopeless. So today’s call to action is comment in the portal, log into the portal and comment. What do you want permission to explore? And then create a pact? How will you track the process of your reflection activities, not the results? So I’m thinking of how are you going to track the time spent? Or are you going to make a daily check box? Are you going to check in with a friend are you going to create a spreadsheet? Are you going to just write a page not to create a book but just so you can have that stack of pages that you can see that you did? Okay, I think that was our fourth caper. We only have one left, and I’m super excited and also sweaty.

• Reflection Activity Ideas
• Permission to leave social media: How Leaving Social Media Makes Us Better Accomplices
• More permission to leave social media: How Social Media Promotes Activist Burnout
• Permission to say NO: The No Protocol: Use this liberally when folks try to encroach upon the time you’ve set aside to show up for your fellow Collective members!