So much of our mental health comes down to perspective.
It’s in the seeing differently that everything else — the thinking and acting and feeling — come together in a new way. A better way.
Today, we get to practice this with flow.
Here’s this week’s challenge:
Start at the top of the page, near the uphill symbol, and write out a hard thing you're facing in your life right now. The heaviness level is up to you, but I expect there’s at least one thing that popped into your mind first. I’d say use that one.
Move to the right by the black circle, and explain why that thing is so difficult. What makes it so sticky/hard/heavy? Feel free just to use single words or bullet points all around the circle. Messy is good for this one.
Now, onto the bottom of the page near the downhill symbol, answer this question: what would the opposite of hard look like for what you wrote at the top of the page? What is the easiest version of that thing you could imagine? FYI, this isn’t being graded, so get as out-of-the-box as you want!
Finally, swoop up and to the left by the faded circle. Here, I want you to identify one thing you could let go of that would help move you, even the slightest bit, towards flow? The items you wrote near the other circle are a great place to start. Which of those are you holding onto unnecessarily?
Flow comes as we learn to carry less.
It’s still absolutely f*cking wild to me that you can train your mind to see what and how you want it to.
That’s what all these little challenges are for: to help you realize this power is real and believe that harnessing it is not only possible but…easy.