My doing is my art... During a conversation yesterday I was talking with a colleague about how action - completing my to do list, "getting on with stuff" etc. can be a place to hide from feelings. I can numb my experience by putting my focus on "what needs done" and fast-paced urgent environments are a great support in doing this! I can also see doing as just that - just doing. Not a place I hide in, or hide from. Doing can have a neutral quality - I can be curious about my experience of it. For me, doing can also be my art. The actions and tasks I will perform today are an opportunity for me to express and create beauty, gratitude, wonder, integrity, peace... Every action today (meetings, emails, messages, calendar invites, document writing, washing up, collecting my children from school, hellos, goodbyes...) is an opportunity to create art. I start today with the question: What art do I want to make today?
Pauline Holland
2mo
‘Doing’ will never be my art, Helen, but you are teaching me about the deeper value of it 😀
Galina Butsyak
2mo
Very Inspiring, Helen! I will start every day by asking myself exactly that, "What art do I want to make today"
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2moI had a short-lived but informative existential crisis around 'doing' very recently Helen 😁 with some of the 'data' I gathered from the experience telling me some of the same things you've described here. When I notice that numbness setting in, it's a flag for me to connect into my values, which then allows me to find my place as part of a much more universal creativity. From where there's awareness of the doing. The neutrality you mention is inherently 'there'. If 'there' is the right word 😅