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RE: The Power Of Intention, Attention, And A Bunch Of HUGE Whiteboards

in #dtubedaily7 years ago

Ha! You just rocked my world! Thank you!
The funny thing is, that regarding the topic of attention and intention, I totally am the opposite of you. 😂I hate whiteboards and plans. I really do. The moment I see a whiteboard, my brain goes into "I´m bored af" mode 😀So for me it works the other way round: I have very clear intentions, but they are so part of what I am, that there is no need to control my attention or to write them down. There is also no need to remind me of them. So let´s say, one of my intentions is to be more grateful about things in my life or be more loving. I don´t need a plan for that, but life will guide me through situations and interactions with people, where I can practice this anyway. For me, making a plan on "how to get more loving" would be a mental construct and a futile try to do something, that I can only be. It´s simply no "mental" thing at all and every plan would make the goal go further away. I haven´t checked your take on improv yet, but you also don´t plan things in improv, right? Or maybe you do - I don´t know 🤔I don´t. My whole life is improv and I basically trust my intuition, my belly, my inner voice and higher guidance. I also work this way and I´m quite successful with trusting my inner genius. 😀(...but please don´t ask my boss on that topic, since he tries his best to understand, what I´m exactly doing and why this is successful - he really has no clue and it´s driving him nuts - but hey, I don´t know either - so we are on the same page here...)

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lol! Intuition is quite a mystery, I can most definitely agree!

And I do relate to much of what you just said. Oftentimes, being is enough, it really is! I've spent a lot of time in that state of consciousness and I still do quite often, however lately I've most definitely been in a building mode and part of that building process requires a continuity of logic and a habitual routine.

I'm quite dynamic in nature, as it seems you are as well, and thus the structure does serve me and I'm growing a lot from it. I do prefer a more intuitive approach though, I will say that!

As far as improv goes... all of the unplanning happens within a planned structure. So you can be infinitely anything within a finite structure. Which is, IMO, very similar to how life seems to work.

Great thoughts here @atmosblack! Thanks for sharing :)

Awesome! I intuitively knew, that you are going to say this about improv 😀
It´s true and even though sometimes it seems, as if I can only be something finite in an infinite universe of endless possibilities. 😉Ok... I stop right there... 😀I was already driving a young colleague crazy today with the impossibility to get a hold on me. He must have had the impression, I´m some kind of slippery fish and he was trying to hit me over the head and failed remarkably lol This is nothing I´m planning though - I guess this is also what makes it hard for some people to like me - how can you like something that´s undefined?... Maybe I define myself through undefinability 😂 Stop.... Now... Really...

He must have had the impression, I´m some kind of slippery fish and he was trying to hit me over the head and failed remarkably

HAHAHA yeah I feel like I'm that way as well sometimes

how can you like something that´s undefined?

You know, the world definitely prefers definitions and I think those that choose to live outside of those boundaries and guidelines are very courageous ;-)

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