Daily Nourishment for August 18, 2024: Release What No Longer Serves You with Guidance from Katie Rouse
Daily Nourishment Read Time: 40 seconds
Pause/Prompt/Practice Time: 15 minutes
“I release what no longer serves me. I release what no longer works for me.” - Beautiful Chorus
Prompt.
How did the music make your body feel? What sensations came up, and where did you feel them in your body?
How did the words strike you? Did they bring up specific thoughts, problems, or feelings that you want and are ready to release? Did they show you anything that you are still holding onto?
Journal for at least five minus on this song and these questions.
Practice.
- Make a list of things you want or need to release. Start with the line: “I am ready to release…”
- What do you want or need to release with regard to your writing life and creative practice? Add those things to your list.
- Go through the list. Does anything feel like something you “should” do instead of a natural release?
-See if you can rework it into something with less “should-ing” for yourself.
- Listen to the song again if any negative emotions come up.
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Today’s Throwback Daily Nourishment was provided by Katie Rouse in 2023 before we began to offer Daily Nourishment on the website. Katie Rouse (she/her) is a marketing manager and freelance writer. Learn more about Katie and her writing here.
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