Comments on: Honoring Your Natural Rhythms

By: Carol Morgan

Carol Morgan — Mon, 20 Mar 2006 15:22:25 +0000

I juggle art with my other professional career of being a counselor in private practice, yoga instructor and teach psychology at the local college. Right now it feels overwhelming but I have a plan. After May I am totally focusing on art and giving up my other teaching responsiblilities. It felt a little scary depending upon art as my solo income. But art is the joy of my life. I have abundant ideas that need to be born. We have a marketing support group which is wonderful and I have a business plan. Thanks for the great advice. Forget fear is the key for me.

By: Greg

Greg — Thu, 09 Mar 2006 19:36:50 +0000

Natural rhythms I think of as varying degrees of stress. Our lives are filled with varying degrees of stress. Not all stress is bad. I have found that looking at a problem and thinking to myself: Will it make a difference a hundred years from now lowers my stress.Then there are those points in time when the stress gets very high. If I don’t deal with it, it just grows and grows and can overwelm my. So over the years I have learned that if I face it head on it turns out that it isn’t as bad as I thought it was. Not to say it becomes easy because it doesn’t. So if the stress is getting high I jump on it and sometimes all I need to do is step back. I can do something injoyable like paint something fun. Or sometimes I rest my mind and other times you just have to put your head down and dig into the problem.

By: Lisa Call

Lisa Call — Thu, 09 Mar 2006 18:13:08 +0000

I’ve spent my week home from work and sick. And doing pretty much nothing. Now I don’t feel guilty about it anymore – thanks.

By: Geraldine

Geraldine — Thu, 09 Mar 2006 12:28:24 +0000

You are so right about honoring your natural rhythms. When I try to work in an area that just doesn’t feel right, I only create ugly art. My problem is scheduling my time because it’s hard to know where those rhythms will take me.

By: Shan

Shan — Thu, 09 Mar 2006 12:21:26 +0000

I often fall prey to “spinning” and always do better when I let go of what I’m working on and do something else–even when I’m working under a deadline. I get better results when I take a break and come back to the project with a fresh mind. I’m glad Miki is doing alright. I know how hard it is to focus when a beloved pet is sick.

By: Terri West

Terri West — Thu, 09 Mar 2006 02:34:48 +0000

Quote: Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons. Author: Robertson Davies 1913-, Canadian Novelist, Journalist