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Blogging, Duality and Distractions

(an article in progress…by Susan Loughrin)

Should it be simple? Or should it be complex?  Will I appear lazy?  Or will my insights be seen as profound?

Thinking about starting a blog last year had me battling my own thoughts and actions.  The questions above give an example of what I allowed my mind to do.

Then, I stopped, I asked myself, “What do I really want this blog to be? What is the vision?” Allowing myself to slow down, stop and ask the question “What shall I create today?” and listening to what the “blog” needed, freed my mind and allowed the meaning to create itself.

I gave myself permission to let the blog be about what it needed to be holding the duality of should it be this or that, by coming back to the question, “What is the vision?  What shall I create today?”.

Recently, I was in contact with a new acquaintance on-line.  She was wondering about “distractions”.  This got me thinking…is my blog just a distraction?  Is blogging just a side-track to get away from  something I am avoiding?

Perhaps…

But I am discovering that my blog has become a “tool for distraction”. This, then, leads to opening the way for new ideas to emerge.

Integration:

I picture an exercise from  Thinking on the Right Side of the Brain .  Drawing the lines of your non-drawing hand.  The exercise invites you to gaze at your non-drawing hand and with a pencil in your drawing hand, draw every line you see within an inch square in a certain amount of time.  This frees the chatty logical side of the brain allowing for the big picture to emerge…vision…I connect this with blogging.

When I am distracted from the work at hand, it is many times a great idea emerging…or the beginning of something bigger. I take a break, write the emerging idea, sketch it in a notebook, go for a walk and ponder, or take a picture.  Then, I get that spark of an idea into my blog.

The questions start to rise again; the negative self-talk, the part of my mind that wants to rule. I allow some of this chatter in and listen.  Then, let it pass on through.

Can I hold onto the duality…what does my blog need right now?  How am I creating meaning and then letting the thoughts go? And many times I go back to the larger project I was working on before the distraction.  Fresh and ready to continue, with a new idea safely stored on my blog.

Reflections:

Looking back through my blog posts I am reminded of past ideas.  I see the integration in my life and love how so many unexpected things connect.  I have gained insights and ideas for articles.  I see the thread that connects it all.  I have met new people who inspire me. I am learning how the computer worksJ

Embrace your dualistic thoughts and gently ease yourself into the distractions.  Listen and ask questions that can hold two ideas at once.

Where does this take you?

Free your mind…see the vision.