Daily Nourishment for September 23, 2024: Incorporate More Blank Space into Your Days
Daily Nourishment Read Time: 40 seconds
Pause/Prompt/Practice Time: 15 minutes
What would it look like to have more time to do what you want or need to do in the moment?
Pause.
Take a few deep breaths with a six-count inhale and a six-count exhale then do a few rounds of a breath prayer or meditation using the inhale and exhale prompts below:
Inhale: Help me be here now
Exhale: Help me honor what I need now
Prompt.
Watch the short video clip about blank space below from a recent Instagram Live about how to care for your body, mind, and soul during online workshops and classes:
I often ask clients what it would look like for them to incorporate more blank space into their regular daily rhythms and schedules. This is what I mean by blank space.
Practice.
Set a timer for ten minutes and take notes or journal in response to the short video above or the questions below:
—How much blank space (as defined above) do you typically have during a weekday? What about on Saturdays and Sundays?
—What can you reschedule, re-allocate, or cancel altogether to give yourself more blank space throughout your typical days and weeks?
—When you think about having more blank space in your schedule, how do you feel in your body?
—What are the three biggest obstacles to having more blank space?
—What hopes do you have for more blank space in the future?
Want More?
—Watch the entire IG Live video that covers three ways to care for your body, mind, and soul during online workshops and classes (or anytime!)
—My weekly charlottedonlon.com email newsletter that’s going out tomorrow will provide three more ways to care for your body, mind, and soul during online workshops and classes. Subscribe here.
—If you’d like to explore the possibility of meeting with me for spiritual direction to process things like having more blank space, I’d love to have a free introductory conversation with you. Schedule a time here.
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Workshops, Gatherings, & Resources
—New Resource: Parenting with Art® Lectio Divina Cards Information about ordering these cards can be found in my Books + Spiritual Direction + Retreats & Gatherings email newsletter that went out last night. To stay in the loop on all of my work, writing, book recs, and more, subscribe to that weekly newsletter at charlottedonlon.com/subscribe.
—The September Co-Writing calendar is live.
—Spiritual Direction for Writers® + Enneagram for Creativity Gathering will take place on Friday, September 27th and Saturday, September 28th. You can register here. All registered participants will have access to recordings.
—The Great Belonging Project is live here and The Great Belonging Project October Refresh will take place Oct 1-Oct 31.
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