Momentum Before Inspiration
A body at rest tends to stay at rest.
God knows, after a month of recovering from surgery, Holiday downtime, and a post-Baby Jesus/Baby New Year sinus infection…
…My eyes are bleeding from all the HGTV… I’ve traveled Middle Earth for the umpteenth time on TNT… I’ve come away with the conclusion that I will choose from:
- House #1 — a spacious open floor plan almost entirely made up of porches supported by Elvish pillars in Rivendell
- House #2 — a Candace Olson renovation of a condo with a view in a transitional cliff-side neighborhood just beneath the Citadel in Gondor where I can walk up to visit that pretty gnarly Tree
- House #3 — a rambling, single-story underground mansion in a nice tree-topped brugh between the Bucklebury Ferry and Hobbiton
I’ve discovered that I am not at all dependent on the granite countertops, cherry-wood cabinetry, and stainless steel appliances that 99.9% of the human population seems to require — where are the kitchen-witch kitchens with bricks and twig furniture and sprigs of herbs drying everywhere and wildflower-sod shingles, and those lovely round doorways?
Dear Suzanne Whang, let me know when they send you to the Shire…
Super digression…
Where was I?
I’m really tired of resting.
I’m a little bit sick of healing.
Wait for Inspiration?
Okay, Universe! Feel free to move me at any time! No, make that sooner than later. Now would be peachy.
Wouldn’t it be fabulous to return to my work with some luscious big bang of pageantry and pomp? I’d love to show up in your in-box or feed reader today, soaker-guns pumped, horns a-blaring, fires blazing, and hit you with a new-decade-worthy whammy of content…
Are you waiting for Inspiration to create your Momentum?
It’s nice when inspiration comes first and drives the repetitive actions that build momentum — and it often does — but what do you do when it does not?
Do you keep waiting for inspiration before you proceed? Inspiration is ephemeral, intellectual, intangible. Inspiration has very little to do with action, form, or function. Inspiration is a ghost without a body, a wisp of a soul with no vessel to move through or make an impact on the third-dimensional world.
I find that I can still be quite productive without initial inspiration — I define the necessary actions that create momentum and just go through those motions… Inspiration usually catches up with me down the road.
Inspiration seems to favor speed, action, momentum, and high vibrations. I seek the Flow, the Groove first — even when I’m not feeling it (yet).
A body in motion tends to stay in motion.
Shift Your Vibration First
Remember when we talked about how simple, repetitive actions can be all that is required to effectively shift your vibration?
It’s called getting in gear. You can’t start out in second or third gear — you’ve got to move through first gear for a bit. And if your parking brake is on and you’re waiting for fifth gear to happen before you start rolling… What kind of sense — what kind of crazy expectation — is that?
Start Out in First Gear
- Your intentions probably feature visions of cruising along in fourth or fifth gear, right?
- What are the required first-gear actions?
Depending on your intentions, goals, resolutions, first-gear actions be something like:
- Clearing last year’s clutter from your workspace
- Going to the gym and signing up for a trial membership
- Printing out some new recipes you found on the internet to support your new eating habits
- Downloading and installing the new software that will power your creative project
- Getting a tutorial to walk you through launching that blog you’ve kept in the planning stages for too long
The question to ask yourself:
Can someone else witness my actions?
If so, then you are in gear.
My first- and second-gear actions are pretty simple:
(I’ve been doing them for years — you are witnessing one at this very moment.)
- I listen in to the Collective, compare the energy patterns I find among all of us to my own, then I simply share my observations through the filter of my personal experience. It’s a fairly simple weekly action called a post, and not all of them need to be “brilliant,” nor can I predict who they will find or to whom they will effectively speak.
- I focus my observations on the spirit guides of individuals who ask me to listen in and translate messages just for them.
- I talk shop with other professional intuitives and we pick each other’s brains about our practice. I offer my advice and experiences to those who want to learn from me.
All my simple, “low-gear” actions are essentially simple acts of connecting and communicating.
The inspiration often comes after and/or because of these simple acts. If I wait on Inspiration before initiating the simple acts that lead to Momentum, we may both remain lost in our private vacuums of inertia.
What actions do you know you can take, right now — with or without hardcore inspiration — to induce the movement that will carry you forward?
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Slade, I like that — Can someone else witness my actions? All the thoughts and great ideas I have rolling around in my head, back and forth…I’m not in gear until someone can see evidence of those thoughts and ideas. Glad you’re sick of healing. Downtime always gives me an appreciation for life and sometimes a shift in perspective of where I was before.
This is wonderful! Really and truly, this is just what I needed to hear. I’ve felt “stuck” for so long, doing just what you mentioned here. Visualizing cruising along at fourth or fifth gear, all the while with the parking brake on in first, lurching along. Thank you for this clarity. Now, I just need to figure out the baby steps to get there from here
Hi Slade,
Hoping the healing is complete sooner rather than later.
FYI, no round doorways, but I have a kitchen witch, besides the one I become while concocting something or another, not necessarily food.
My cat made sure twig furniture had to be moved outside where it weathered and returned from whence it came. It was sitting next to the cobblestone path I fashioned in the yard, does that count?
All my herbs and spices are alphabetized, hanging clusters no longer. I’d be crazy without this particular excessive obsessive must-have place of organization. Everything else can be scattered, hopefully still locate-able and I remain calm. But please don’t move my cardamon!
Thanks for tickling my fancy today.
PS It’s almost eerie you talking about witches today. Only in the last two weeks have I been more actively practicing the craft, in fact yesterday, planning my next venture.
A phrase I’ll never forget:
“Inspiration is the opposite of fatigue”
- A Course In Miracles
I was laughing at the “workspace clearing” you mentioned! Since our last “shop talk” I rearranged my office significantly for better energy flow … that was definitely a first-gear kind of thing!
I’ve been slowly kicking myself into higher gears and feel like I’m almost up to full speed ahead. I think I just needed to figure out clearly where I was going! No use going a mile a minute into an unproductive direction, right?
Lots of hugs,
Andrea
Talking about the physical body: I hope you are concentrating on getting more than the usual vitamin C and protein in your diet. And be sure you’re getting out to walk everyday. This creates momentum.
My favorite site for health ideas is drbenkim.com.
It’s so funny you mentioned the kitchen witch thing. In the last month I’ve wanted to develop an online cooking show, and was thinking about calling it something like “Katie the Kitchen Witch”. There might even be a fake witch nose and crocheted peaked witch hat in the intro just for fun.
I had just been thinking that maybe in a strange way I did end up as a witch after all, even though I haven’t practiced Wiccanism in about 10 years, and food and herbalism have been one of my main focuses since then. I wanted to help bring the magic of good food and health to people in a fun and interesting way. Since I love costume design, making silly sets, etc, I thought a cooking show with a theme like that would work well. Looks like I already have one of my own inspirations to push to first gear. =) Good luck with all of your first gear actions you are working on at the moment, great post as always.
Slade,
What wonderful energy you share with the world around you ! I had a synchronous experience reading this blog post. The number 11 is everywhere.
“Inspiration is intellectual and intangible.” i=1
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LancelotduLac
Slade
Great post, in fact, I believe, quite inspired.
Amazingly, even though I have just come back from winter holidays in the Northern Hemisphere to near-40 degrees “Down Under” summer heat, I have been “first-gearing”. I have contacted my business buddy, sent out my first few emails to customers who had wanted to be contacted in the New Year, listened to a CD, and generally even as I unpack, and launder and feed the hungry hordes, I have made time time for some first gear activities, in the two days I have been back. And then I read your post…
Perhaps the Shift is happening to me?
Thanks for your post, and keep healing
Rili
Sue,
Thank you — and let me just STRESS my appreciation and gratitude. Although I’m whining and venting a bit about how quickly I became sick of recuperating, I am VERY much aware of how fortunate I am that I CAN heal in such a short amount of time, that I can so easily have a surgery to correct a problem…
Jay,
Thank you for telling me this post had that kind of impact on you. You’ve proved my own point, see, I could have wallowed another week in my own personal land of bad television and inertia (no one’s holding a gun to my head) yet I trusted that someone else out there was feeling this and could use the message. I often don’t know Who until after the fact. I appreciate the validation.
Barbara,
I don’t often have any specific or literal reason to include references to the Craft, as I am a long-time, eclectic, absolutely no-rules/my rules practitioner… But I do indeed prefer the label to witch to so many other little boxes that don’t really hold me.
Lauren,
Great quote — love it! Thanks…
Andrea,
A little intuitive feng shui declutter party is one of my favorite ways to up the vibes when I just can’t seem to get anything else done.
“Motion without meaning” — definitely something a lot of people have issue with and a whole other can of something to avoid…
Are you already back to full speed? Slow down, I’m eating your dust
Judy,
Thanks for the link. Honey, I’ve been walking since the day I had the surgery. It’s the one thing everyone stressed to do for a quick recovery. Interestingly, I tend to pace a lot, and standing and pacing was the most comfortable position.
I’ve also been mainlining Emergen-C — I think they’re going to send me to Vitamin C rehab here before long.
Katie,
What a fun idea for a show — I’d watch it! Maybe that witch reference was a little Message for you. Can’t remember the last time I “officially” practiced anything remotely Wiccan… and yet, every moment I’m breathing, somewhere in the back of mind, I am practicing. Always. Keepin it super loose.
Lancelot,
I try! I’m glad the vibes are reaching you in the high state in which they were intended. Love those Elevensies.
Hey Slade,
Your response is now timely! How do you do that?
Just yesterday, I had to ‘defend’ my position of no position. It is any and all, all the time, everything acceptable and utilized. Could I follow Buddhist teachings and carry lucky coins? They could be Buddha’s lucky coins… The only necessity I see is intention.
I have a different designation than eclectic, a close cousin maybe? An in deceptively plain clothes eccentric;-).