Autumn and letting go
Hello and happy Monday,
How was your week? I hope you managed to find some moments of creative flow, even if they were small ones.
I’ve been thinking a lot about autumn this past week. Everyone talks about it being a time of letting go, and it is. But I have been looking at the other side of this. How we sometimes have to let go in order to clear space for what is to come. This is hard if we do not know what is to come. We worry, we hold on too long. Yet the trees don’t need to know what is coming next when they shed their leaves. So why do we feel we have to know?
Clearing space
Last week I began recording some short videos and composing music for them. It brought me so much joy that I realised I wanted to create some space in my week to do more of this.
Here are two that I created last week if you’d like to take a look:
What I noticed whilst working on them is how the composition process mirrors this idea of letting go in order to move on. In the second video I had to let go of about three different melodic ideas that weren’t quite right before I found the one that worked.
The clearing is part of the creating and making space for what is to come.
This feels like it is connected to flow. We cannot be in flow if we are holding on to what doesn’t serve us anymore.
Nature lets go without needing to know what is coming next. Nature just knows that what will be, will be. Spring is coming even though there is no sign of it yet.
Journal prompts (adapted from Libby Stevenson‘s prompts)
This week, what if you asked yourself:
- What am I holding onto that is taking up creative space?
- What would I like to let go of so I can enter the next season feeling lighter and more free.
- If I could trust that everything would be okay, what would I clear away from my life right now?
Use these as journaling prompts if you like.
Journal with sound
If you want to use bilateral audio whilst journaling, put on your headphones and listen to the instrumental version of my bilateral flow audio whilst using the journaling prompts above.
Bye for now, hope you have a really lovely week,
Donna
