Sunday musings, post American Thanksgiving…

And I’m not talking waistband expansion, although, as Rachel Policar, a magnificent artist who works with me, has parodied on in IG account, there is such a thing as the Pandemic 15. If you don’t follow Rachel, you really should! Her IG is here.

But, I digress somewhat, but will stay in the Instragram world for a moment. I follow Dr Perry Nickelston & Stop Chasing Pain and something he posted this morning jumped out at me: “What you focus on expands”.

I am going to repeat that.

What you focus on, expands.

Did that resonate for you? It sure did for me.

Immediately, I heard my Dad’s voice, and something he told each of his children: You have a strong mind. Use it.

Focus; strength; expansion; action.

Here we are into the “holiday season” of 2020. It’s a very different world. There are clear flickers of hope. We aren’t there yet, but we see that we will be. We can be.

Now what?

What are you going to focus on?

We are all feeling the fatigue, and the dip. It’s a real thing. Trust me, I get it.

What if we focus just gently, and watch it expand?

One thing I truly believe it, because I have lived it over and over again, is this: If I release the insanity, the chaos, the fatigue, the anxiety, and simply begin to focus on a creative moment, it allows me permission to have a moment of grace. The focus expands. It strengthens. It takes action.

When you focus on something, it’s not escapism. It’s actually quite the opposite. The focus becomes razor sharp. There is no room for question, for self-sabotage, for anxiety, for anything else but YOU and your focus. As that focus gets clearer and sharper, YOU expand. Your energy expands. Your being rejuvenates and revitalizes. You feel clearer, purposeful, authentic.

That action of focus doesn’t make you disappear. It allows you to become more vibrant and take that vibrancy with you. It is the action that allows the focus to expand. It is the strength of focus that allows you breath more fully, ground more completely, and move into your next with more purpose and intention.

What do you do to find that focus? What do you know that allows you that?

Today, I nudge you in this time of exhaustion, fatigue and a dip of energy, to move into something that draws you into focus.

It doesn’t always have to be the same thing each time, but you will know what you need if you listen carefully to your instinctual response.

Give your attention to what needs you today. Your focus needs you. Act on that expansion. Breathe in the possibility that a new or latent energy might have just sparked.

Then have a nap. That’s also an action.

With fondness & fierceness,

Susan