Week One in One Word: PURGE!
Good Things about this Week: Morning Pages
Old Madonna Videos
Task #5: Letter to the Editor
Bad Things about this Week: Morning Pages
Trying to Resist Going to Chapter 2 before I completed wk 1 tasks!!!
Morning pages, morning pages, and more morning pages. They were fun, they were boring, they were satisfying, they were meaningless. I established the morning pages writing activity as a friendly way to celebrate the beginning of each new day. I turned on my Beethoven station on Pandora, filled a cup of coffee and wrote out three pages. Some days I greeted it with zest, but let's face it- I'm truly NOT a morning person. Some days were better than others. I think the trick is to not overthink the words that are manifesting themselves on the paper. It's almost like a morning purge of old thoughts and gaining some space for the new. I noticed that I seemed to have a pattern: the first page was neutral, the second page was a bit negative, and the third page was positive in tone and attitude. Very strange. Did anyone else sense a pattern in their morning pages?
As for the tasks this week, I absolutely adored the fifth one- writing a Letter to the Editor and mailing it to yourself. It was entertaining and extremely therapeutic. I felt as if I had feng shui-ed my brain and ridded it of some rubbish I had held onto for years. It felt amazing. I sent it off in the mail, but I haven't recieved it yet. I'm wondering what it will be like when I read it again.
Cheers to reading Chapter Two today!
I'm wondering how Week One went for you? What were the good points or the bad points?
