So, what about a Holiday Vibration Shield Challenge Bonanza Special. Ok, ok, silliness aside.
But, it seems I need the agitation of bumping into or coming face-to-face with obstacles to grow. By the way, I'm loving how Jodie is maneuvering through hers at home.
My brushes with strangers have been going fairly well, and so it is with traffic as long as I make the conscious effort to course correct. But family seems to be the strongest source of agitation that triggers my self-concern. And challenges who I decide to be now instead of who they know me to be.
I see that wishing there were no agitation doesn't and won't help me grow. Here's why I say this. In my family, there is a great deal of teasing and making fun of. So much that it is certainly the soup I swim in (I do the same to them).
The challenge is that there isn't a conducive environment for being stupid, producing something unremarkable, or you get what I mean, right?
The last few days have been really eye-opening. I've had family members offer me things they wanted themselves under the guise of 'it's for you.'
I've seen where some family members are merely 'majoring in the minors', and being near forceful that others join their campaigns.
I've watched gossiping about one another. This is nothing new, probably to the others here, but I realized that many of us may be in circumstances where we need to make the best of where we are, especially around this time of the year.
To be clear, I haven't thoroughly thought through how this proposed challenge could be structured.
Maybe, and I mean MAYBE! it could be something like this:
A templated checklist perhaps:
- Today - Why is it worth taking good care of myself? ________________
- What or who did you bump into/Rub up against _____________________
- Did your Self-concern surface?_____________________________
- Did you notice what the voice said? If so, what? ___________________
- Was there something you may have communicated to be well? what? _____________
- Where was my entitlement in that interaction? __________________
- What being did I bringing to the interaction?
- What being can bring the next time? ______________________broken
It occurred to me, though, that having a little que card that prompts us to look through the distinctions, might be useful when you are waist deep in your family soup, at the time when it's easiest to revert to the puny being that they are used to.
Ok, one last thing, I promise
I'm envisioning a board game where Sophie partnered with a company to produce it. It has how to find your soul correction. It's got a trail where the player writes in the obstacles they're facing on the way to what you are up to. Surrounding each obstacle point there's a pop-up which lists the different opponents one may be up against. If the player, chooses not to own and make a correction, they pick from a number of dismal alternatives for their lives. It's got a place to put your projects too. There's so much more that would need to go into this, but it was fun playing with this idea, at your expense, of course XOXO