Well tonight is the first step of a thousand on this Blog Journey that so many before me have embarked upon. I now willingly surrender my procrastination to write, and hope that this new vehicle will help me show up to the page. I leave it at that tonight.
The first step is usually about Powerlessness and Unmanageability. Well these past few weeks, since first signing up to create this Blog, it has all been about how powerless I am in life and sometimes how unmanagemable my mind can get!
ReplyDeleteI am in the throes of returning to Canada from Bribane, where I've been for the last 6 months. The launching of my business Diamond Thought here in Australia has been simultaneously challenging and rewarding. There's just so much to do! And this is where the powerlesness part comes in. Life always happens when we're making plans...
When I first arrived I had one intention in mind: to begin spiritually advising and counselling folks around issues of alcohol and addiction, teaching meditation and doing writing and editing on a number of books that I've written. Well I think I've begun to slowly build a client base at Sowelu Clinic and my Meditation Classes on Wednesday nights have turned out to be a highlight of my week. The writing has been where I feel most powerless!
I have pulled out a piece from the book I've been working on these past few years: The Blaffled Queen (working title) and edited it to publish a very limited run for the community. It's just getting the time to do a final edit, and then press PRINT to get it out of my computer and onto the streets.
I come from a tradition of almost guerilla publishing where we used to print, what are called in Poetry circles, a Broadsheet. I am hoping to weekly publish a Broadsheet of my writing, excerpted from The Baffled Queen and pass it out at Bookstores, Cafes and at the Clinic so folks can red first hand a short snippet from the book.
The road is never straight ahead. It twists and turns and we have to move and bend with it.
The clients I've been seeing with their addiction and attachment issues never cease to amaze me with their courage and tenancity. That's one thing I can say for alcoholics or addicts of any kind. When we set our minds to do something, we go whole hog, or not at all. And thus it is as well for recovery. Seeing the light of realization go on in people that I am helping has to be the single most gratifying experience of my work. Watching the face of someone who has an A-HA moment after I've explained what might be going on for them is so exhilirating I can't even begin to describe it. Witnessing the transformation of consciousness from darkness to light is what I feel I was brought to earth to facillitate. And what joy it brings to me!
I'll be putting out my newsletter later today and I'm hoping the blog link to this blog will help stir up someone!
My intention with the blog is to, as frequently as possible, speak about what is going on in Diamond Thought's life - what new developments are happing with spiritual counselling, Meditation Classes, retreat/workshops and books and publishing. I hope to give my p.o.v. on what's occurring in the recovery communities in Oz and Canada and talk about some of the similarities and differences I'm noticing.
As I said I'll be transitioning back over to Canada for the months of March and April and I'll be back in Brisbane in May.
Until tomorrow...