Setting Goals
Today I didn't draw cards for myself, but did exchange readings with my friend, Nancy. We started out intending to just draw a card for each other for a specific question, but one thing led to another and we came up with a format that might interest others.
We were both interested in defining goals because we were feeling a bit bogged down and uncertain about where we were going.
We did the readings over the phone, and Nancy was using a deck unfamiliar to me, which has unusual names for the cards, so I've forgotten which actual cards turned up. What we did was to draw cards for different ranges of goals - Spiritual, Physical, Mental, and Emotional. That would be the basic threads of one's life, but you could add more specific goals to that, like career, a particular relationship. However, at this moment we were searching for our bottom-line, basic needs and keeping it simple worked very well for both of us. Here is how it worked for me.
Spiritual goal - Spend more time in nature, more time attuned to the natural world. This gives me a spiritual balance and a perspective on life that is important to me. It also provides impetus to my creativity, especially for writing, which is a large part of my spiritual work, both for myself and to help others.
Physical goals - Fire. I need to have more fire in my life--fire in both physical and metaphorical senses. In the purely physical sense, I need to arrange warm (and dry) winters for myself to keep my lungs happier. I also need more passion in my life, more enthusiasm, which I will naturally have if I'm feeling better physically. I need to do the things that add energy, especially fire energy. Organizing a series of warm and dry winters will be quite an undertaking. I'm thinking about Central America...
Mental goals - Activities that give me joy. I need to be engaged in some mental activities and projects that make me bubble over with joy. I've been playing with a writing project that does exactly that, but thinking it wasn't "important" and what I'm hearing here is that it is important--inportant to my mental health. Mental play for mental health. There are lots of mental activities I find rewarding and stimulating in various ways, but this is saying that actual joy is a key ingredient and to focus on that.
Emotional goal - Fill the cup. Life has been very up and down for me lately, and I keep struggling with discouragement about "not getting anywhere." This is about focusing on what I have in the moment, which keeps my emotional cup, as I perceive it, full. At the same time, I need to break my current habit of fretting over what isn't done and what seems to be taking forever to do. I can't make it move any faster, but I can stop focusing on what isn't happening, which empties the cup. Simple. I know this! But I forget and go into fretting mode. Let go of the fretting; experience the fullness of the present.
We were both interested in defining goals because we were feeling a bit bogged down and uncertain about where we were going.
We did the readings over the phone, and Nancy was using a deck unfamiliar to me, which has unusual names for the cards, so I've forgotten which actual cards turned up. What we did was to draw cards for different ranges of goals - Spiritual, Physical, Mental, and Emotional. That would be the basic threads of one's life, but you could add more specific goals to that, like career, a particular relationship. However, at this moment we were searching for our bottom-line, basic needs and keeping it simple worked very well for both of us. Here is how it worked for me.
Spiritual goal - Spend more time in nature, more time attuned to the natural world. This gives me a spiritual balance and a perspective on life that is important to me. It also provides impetus to my creativity, especially for writing, which is a large part of my spiritual work, both for myself and to help others.
Physical goals - Fire. I need to have more fire in my life--fire in both physical and metaphorical senses. In the purely physical sense, I need to arrange warm (and dry) winters for myself to keep my lungs happier. I also need more passion in my life, more enthusiasm, which I will naturally have if I'm feeling better physically. I need to do the things that add energy, especially fire energy. Organizing a series of warm and dry winters will be quite an undertaking. I'm thinking about Central America...
Mental goals - Activities that give me joy. I need to be engaged in some mental activities and projects that make me bubble over with joy. I've been playing with a writing project that does exactly that, but thinking it wasn't "important" and what I'm hearing here is that it is important--inportant to my mental health. Mental play for mental health. There are lots of mental activities I find rewarding and stimulating in various ways, but this is saying that actual joy is a key ingredient and to focus on that.
Emotional goal - Fill the cup. Life has been very up and down for me lately, and I keep struggling with discouragement about "not getting anywhere." This is about focusing on what I have in the moment, which keeps my emotional cup, as I perceive it, full. At the same time, I need to break my current habit of fretting over what isn't done and what seems to be taking forever to do. I can't make it move any faster, but I can stop focusing on what isn't happening, which empties the cup. Simple. I know this! But I forget and go into fretting mode. Let go of the fretting; experience the fullness of the present.
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