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Tonight I went on my Week 2 Artist Date. I went to a free meditation class in town, hosted by a teacher I've met a few times. About a year ago, I went [also on an Artist Date] to this class, in a comfortable yoga room at a local gym. I appreciated the structure (40 minutes of silent meditation, by whatever method, or non-method, you choose; followed by 15 - 20 minutes of questions and conversation with the teacher) and the realization that this teacher seemed to be awake, at least as I saw it.
As I saw it: that's the key point in this musing.
We really do get to go for what resonates with us, as individuals. It is a beautiful thing. We don't always realize that we're not doing this, but many times the work/family/friends life becomes regular and routine, and we don't question whether we're really stimulated in areas that fill us and open us up.
One of the rules of the Artist Date is that you go on your own. You don't bring friends with you, even though you might meet new people in the course of it. This is such an enriching experience for me, and it stretches me to reach out and into things that I've been curious about but I haven't gone for.
I never regret an Artist Date.
My first time through The Artist's Way I saw that my life was already full of activities - many done solo - that a lot of people would consider Artist Date-ish. But I couldn't rest on those things. I had to stretch.
I did things like
- shop for Airstream trailers,
- see a moving dance performance about Harriet Tubman, and
- volunteer for the Inside Books Project, an organization that sends books to incarcerated people.
All so very satisfying. All things I wouldn't have taken the time or energy to do had I not being going through this course.
And all specific to me and my heart.
Life loves to come through us in all of our myriad of movements. We never know what's going to come next. It's a wonderful mystery.
Do what you like: it's what God likes.
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