Ever get the feeling of how much you would like to accomplish “something” and then keep hearing your inner voice, say “I don’t feel like doing that today!”
- I’d like to have the body of a Greek God, “but today I don’t feel like going to the gym!”
- I’d like to start that business, “today I feel tired!”
- I’d like to start that oil painting, “today I just don’t feel like clearing the room for my easel!”
- I’d like to learn how to draw, “I just don’t have the right pencil today!”
….and so the list continues on and on and on.
For about 8 months, I have been on a waiting list to join a Life Drawing Class. So popular is this class that in order for the students to have generous, spacious room to move within the studio of the gallery, number of students are limited. Thus each term I would e-mail the organiser with my excited intent to join the group, I kept being told that, “you are on the waiting list!”
Eight months on and another term arrived, another e-mail I had sent and this time I didn’t even receive a response back, only silence!
I thought about this? In my own silent contemplation, I began to realise where my own leverage was. I realised that it was all to do with how I was feeling and less to do with attempting to convince a total stranger of my personal desire to,’ please, please, please let me in the class’
As I sat and contemplated how wonderful it would be to be in a life drawing class, to share the cost of the life model, the atmosphere of all the other artists and how I would increase my own expansion, how I would bolster my artistic soul, I got an inspiration to go and speak with the gallery direct. What have I got to lose? I asked the gallery, "are there were any rooms available for hire?", and if they could help with one step. Due to privacy laws, "would you be able to get all the names and contact details of all the people on the waiting list and the contact information of all the Life Models?" Joyfully I said," I would organise the entire term, as long as I could have all the necessary information" With a simple and straightforward, “yes no problem”, whereby the gallery even said, “in fact we have been thinking to organise another Life Drawing Class, just didn’t have anyone that would want to champion the event”
The real life example that I am sharing with you might sound, straight forward, however it isn’t the action that caused the event to occur, rather it was looking and feeling different about the event that caused a new inspiration, whereby all that needed to align with this event to take place, did! Meaning, I could have complained and pushed and pushed and struggled with negative thinking, “why I couldn’t get into the day time drawing class”. In fact I did that for eight long months! It was only when I choose to change my emotional state and focus on how much I love the idea of being in a class, how much I love meeting new people, how much I love the atmosphere of a life drawing class, that I started to receive the inspiration of my first step, contact the gallery. From there, while it seemed like a lot of work, within two weeks, every detail fell into place and I was able to create and organise a new Life Drawing Class.
When you apply yourself using your emotional state of being, all things line up! Thus, it isn’t a large amount of action that is necessary to achieve something. When you feel your way toward that which you desire, you won’t even notice the action because now you are living from your emotional heart.
I have started to believe more in the unseen and less in the action oriented world. After all, everything that has been created has at one point or another been just a thought in someone's mind.
Until Next time.......
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