We know where it all starts from

STOP!!!!

This is where we will draw the line - by force :-) Today, we are going to start afresh. We all know where it starts from - we all know the answers.

Lately I have been feeling a little bit bogged down with a lot of CLUTTER. I am doing quite a couple of things, and I will admit I am not as good a 'multi-tasker' as our female friends :-) Last week we had this session on time management that brought things to perspective - We know all that hullabaloo about time management, but we don't actually do it. So for starters, I have created my own priority list for this year - 4 things. I will tell you about that another time.

While I was on that DE-CLUTTERING agenda during the weekend, I stumbled upon a nook called 'The power of less' written by Leo Babauta {who also has a blog called Zen habits - check it out zenhabits.net/}.

I stumbled on another book however, called The power of your other hand. Now, it picks up on a theme I had started familiarizing myself with over the past four months. It expounds a bit on our right and left sides of the brain and the various cognitive, intellectual and artistic abilities we all posses.

I was starting to write some 'did you know' facts but it already started to look boring. One thing you should know though, we have a dominant hand and for the majority of humans it is right handed. Scholars continue to bit around the bush but one thing is clear - Using both sides of your brain makes you more wholesome.

Enough of that.

The intro starts with a brief background on how the author had a depression phase because of a lot of stuff happening in her life then she stumbled upon the power of the other hand. It briefly outlines how she had a dialogue between her right and left hand and for her (she is right-handed), her right hand represented her domineering personality, her confident self while her left, her hidden worries, long time struggles and emotional stresses. She would write the dialogues down on a piece of paper. I was brave enough to have a go using my left hand and 2 quick things gained some clarity.

1.  I had a pout while I was drawing/writing using my left hand :-) Took me back to the kindergarten days, remember? when we first disregarded our weaker hands because the drawing books looked terrible/or for some because we were told it is WRONG to write with our left hands. While I was doing that I felt a sense of renewal, like the world was before me and I had the ability to re-invent myself. Parallel to that, it brought back a few of my childhood memories, some struggles, a few disappointments and my childhood torments.

2. As much as my left hand writing cannot catch up with my mental processing (for now), I already feel like it is opening me up, and removing any mental barriers, reservations that I have - My first time and I am already feeling re-energized.

In conclusion, I am on this path of a renewed outlook to life and I encourage you to STOP!! and consider the unthinkable for once. Look at it differently. We all say think without the box, and I will re-iterate that - There have never been boxes, all the shapes are in our heads. I will keep you posted on any new discoveries I find along the way. You know what to do in the mean time, don't you?