Looking Out My Back Window #419

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This is the 419th time I’ve I’ve sat down to write a “Looking Out My Back Window” post. Once a week for over eight years now. It’s part of my Sunday routine. I’ve written them from different states, different countries — wherever I am. And most of the time, like today — I just sit down and start writing. Once in a while I’ll have something in mind that I plan on writing about, but usually?… no plan. Just write and see what comes out. Usually it something about what life is, how we can live the best lives possible, how we can stay positive, upbeat and happy no matter what’s going on around us, etc… I write these for myself as much as anyone. I write a lot, actually — most of it will never be seen by anyone else. Even if it was seen, it would be almost impossible to read. I write three pages a day, every day. Every morning. It’s absolutely one of the best things I do for myself. I want to say I started doing that around the same time I started writing these posts — eight years ago. If you haven’t read “The Artist’s Way” by Julia Cameron, I highly recommend getting a copy and reading it. It’s great. I just dug out my copy and put it in my “on deck” circle to read again. She calls it “The Morning Pages”. Write three pages a day in the morning. Longhand writing — strictly “stream of consciousness”. Just write. Some days you’ll write “I don’t know what to write about — I have no words — how can I have no words when my mind never tops talking?”… etc, etc, etc… and other days you’ll write five pages because the brain dump needs to go long. You’re not writing for anyone else. You’re not writing to go back and read again (which is basically impossible for me as I go so fast it’s usually unreadable). You’re writing to get whatever is in there out. On the page. To clarify to yourself your own thoughts and beliefs. To dump the anger, the pain, the sadness out if that’s what you’re feeling. To laugh and cry and be grateful for everything you have if that’s where you’re at. And my guess is it very well could become one of the most important things in your life, as I feel it is for me. I can’t imagine ever starting a day without doing it. It’s part of my daily routine, as is reading something uplifting and motivational at lest ten minutes a day as well. Socrates said “The unexamined life is not worth living”. How often do you take the time to get in touch with what you’re really feeling? Not what society or your friends and family think about the proper way to look at things, I mean what you are truly feeling inside? Morning Pages are, to me — the best way to examine just who you are and what you feel. Because life often isn’t clear at all. Decisions wouldn’t be hard to make if there were clear cut answers. And we need to know where we stand within ourselves to lead the most loving, happy and satisfying lives we can. Check it out. Eight years ago it was recommended it to me, and I’m forever grateful that it was. I’ve been doing Morning Pages ever since. As always, I wish you well today. Give this a shot if you aren’t doing it already.

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