Ways to Notice Your Life
When you know something is present but you don't yet have words for it.
'I've been really irritated for three days and can't work out what it is about'
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The parts of yourself you can now recognise, perhaps for the first time.
'I've noticed that every time I feel sad I immediately start cleaning.'
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The relationship between work, energy, pressure, rest and livelihood.
The relationship between work, energy, pressure, rest and livelihood.
'I worked through lunch again even though I knew I was exhausted.'
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Who showed up in your life today?
Come and make a little more room for the life you are already living
Perhaps it was the playful child who wanted to blow bubbles in the garden.
The tired adult who needed someone else to make the tea.
The emotional self whose face said more than words could.
Or the wise older self who sat in the sunshine and did absolutely nothing.
Inside The Book Club, we use selfies, images, weekly rhythms and ordinary moments to notice the many selves participating in our lives.
The Selfie Album
Recognizing who showed up
Through emotional selfies, developmental stages, funny faces, moments of receiving and everyday play, we begin to recognise what may have been missed and discover ways to offer it now.
And that life is allowed to be playful.
You might make yourself tea, wrap yourself in a blanket, dance, swing, dress up, sit in the sunshine or notice which developmental self has arrived today.
Today’s selfie: Early Childhood. I bought bubbles at the supermarket and blew them in the garden.
Mine is Late Adulthood. Sat in the sun and did absolutely nothing. Apparently I’ve become very wise.
The Weekly Rhythm gives that relationship somewhere to live.
Monday reminds us: The week begins with me.
Thursday says: Creativity doesn’t have to be earned.
Saturday assures us: Rest belongs in my life.
These small, repeated experiences help something inside us begin to know:
Today we get to play.
Today someone will stay.
Today I belong in my own life.
Of course, ordinary life is not always playful. It also brings feelings we cannot quite name, days when staying with ourselves is difficult, and times when work or responsibility requires too much. Along the way, I share a reflection or orientation from one of the books as another resource within the Circle.
Different doors into the same living journal
The Journal Circle is a place to notice what is here, who is here, understand what you may need, and begin including them in the life you are living now.
Come and meet yourself in ordinary life.
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An email subscription about those ordinary encounters with life in which something reveals me to myself.
Someone makes an offhand comment and I bristle.
I read one sentence in an article and cannot stop thinking about it.
Someone doesn't respond in the way I expected.
I feel disproportionately irritated by something trivial.
I envy somebody.
I admire somebody.
Something I usually enjoy suddenly leaves me cold.
I notice myself explaining too much.
A stranger does something kind and I am unexpectedly moved.
I Meet No-one But Me
None of these need to become a lesson in how to process your reaction. The interesting thing is simply:
Why did that particular thing meet something in me?
And sometimes the noticing itself is enough.
The projection loosens because I can suddenly see,
Ah. This wasn't entirely about them. Something of mine was here too.
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So much of who we are is revealing itself all day long.
Reflections, dreams and everyday noticing are part of our relationship with our own life teaching us:
What moves us.
What we avoid.
What our body responds to.
What we can't quite forget.
♡ these are points of contact between
a life and the person living it.
And when we continually hurry past them, we can become remarkably unfamiliar with ourselves.
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