Lovely post, Medha - and I'm not only saying that because you so very kindly linked to me! Your fabulous cartoon of my squirrel safari makes me grin every time I look at it - again, thank you sooo much!
How lovely that you rediscovered something when you switched off the exogenous sound on your walks! I'm not doing nearly enough walking at the moment (thanks to the weather, which is currently persistently and unreasonably British!), but it's the act of doing the walking, moving my body, breathing the air and drinking in everything around me that gets the conveyor belts in my brain's ideas factory turning. I flipping love it! It's amazing how something like that can awaken creativity.
Now if only spring would just arrive, I'll get back out there for more than ten minutes (in the rain) at a time....! 🤣
Beautiful! LOVE the cartoonifications, wow!! Immensely enjoyable, your cartoons and your stories. Yay You! Well I feel lucky because I already am a paid subscriber, Yay Me! I was wondering how the very first panel (with you feeling a void in the pit of your stomach) ties into the rest of the essay? I understood the clarification between stress learning vs curiosity. But then we pivoted with you, and went on your phone-free walk and new ideas for your subscriber options... and I wasn't sure whether you wrapped up the earlier panels? Maybe I missed something. Hmmmm - inquiring minds would like a Part II please! :)
Great post Medha. I absolutely agree with your need to be distraction-free during walks for the ideas to flow, and what a result for you after you turned off the inputs! It is a constant struggle to turn off the never-ending stream of wonderful podcasts to give myself time to think. I also love your drawing of Rebecca's meeting with the squirrel: they both look immensely happy!
Oh those sneaky ways we trick ourselves....i've noticed this myself and having the quiet during my walks makes such a difference in my ability to create.
Another great post! Thank you for sharing your journey. I'm linking your last article on intuition in my next post at: https://scottweinzirl.substack.com/
I'm a new subscriber and so happy to be here! Gosh, I love what you're doing here. The infusion of your artwork is so different and creative, and your message of course reigns. Cheers! 💜
I rarely go on walks--especially by myself (though I LOVE walking!) so I can't speak to if the ideas flow in the silence then, but I AM definitely a shower thoughts kinda gal. I'll come up with so many ideas when I'm showering, haha! But not recently... because I've been bringing my wireless earbud into the shower to listen to audiobooks while I get squeaky clean!
Thanks for this reminder! I can remind myself to STOP doing that haha. Allow some quietness and electronic-free time in my day. I don't usually have music playing in my room or anything either. Just those showers just hit different for ideas!
And I've sorta had some experience with energy work! I was getting my NLP certification and when we were releasing anger and sadness for the certification with a partner, I'm sure my partner was reiki certified too. When she got to releasing sadness for me, I felt a warm melting down my body, and we were on ZOOM! It was wild! Next thing you know, I naturally didn't react to situations that usually left me explosive in an argument! I immediately turned to curiosity without prompt of thought. It was so wild!! Only other energy-ish thing I loved was during the certification we learned an extreme version of building rapport, where your partner thought of a memory and you matched their body language exactly, and were able to see most if not all of what their memory was about! I did it at least twice with two different partners on different days, and had the same done to me twice and we were all close or right!
Lovely post, Medha - and I'm not only saying that because you so very kindly linked to me! Your fabulous cartoon of my squirrel safari makes me grin every time I look at it - again, thank you sooo much!
How lovely that you rediscovered something when you switched off the exogenous sound on your walks! I'm not doing nearly enough walking at the moment (thanks to the weather, which is currently persistently and unreasonably British!), but it's the act of doing the walking, moving my body, breathing the air and drinking in everything around me that gets the conveyor belts in my brain's ideas factory turning. I flipping love it! It's amazing how something like that can awaken creativity.
Now if only spring would just arrive, I'll get back out there for more than ten minutes (in the rain) at a time....! 🤣
Beautiful! LOVE the cartoonifications, wow!! Immensely enjoyable, your cartoons and your stories. Yay You! Well I feel lucky because I already am a paid subscriber, Yay Me! I was wondering how the very first panel (with you feeling a void in the pit of your stomach) ties into the rest of the essay? I understood the clarification between stress learning vs curiosity. But then we pivoted with you, and went on your phone-free walk and new ideas for your subscriber options... and I wasn't sure whether you wrapped up the earlier panels? Maybe I missed something. Hmmmm - inquiring minds would like a Part II please! :)
Great post Medha. I absolutely agree with your need to be distraction-free during walks for the ideas to flow, and what a result for you after you turned off the inputs! It is a constant struggle to turn off the never-ending stream of wonderful podcasts to give myself time to think. I also love your drawing of Rebecca's meeting with the squirrel: they both look immensely happy!
Oh those sneaky ways we trick ourselves....i've noticed this myself and having the quiet during my walks makes such a difference in my ability to create.
and I friggen love the cartoon vision board!
Love your growth!
Another great post! Thank you for sharing your journey. I'm linking your last article on intuition in my next post at: https://scottweinzirl.substack.com/
Thanks again for all the inspiration!
I'm a new subscriber and so happy to be here! Gosh, I love what you're doing here. The infusion of your artwork is so different and creative, and your message of course reigns. Cheers! 💜
I rarely go on walks--especially by myself (though I LOVE walking!) so I can't speak to if the ideas flow in the silence then, but I AM definitely a shower thoughts kinda gal. I'll come up with so many ideas when I'm showering, haha! But not recently... because I've been bringing my wireless earbud into the shower to listen to audiobooks while I get squeaky clean!
Thanks for this reminder! I can remind myself to STOP doing that haha. Allow some quietness and electronic-free time in my day. I don't usually have music playing in my room or anything either. Just those showers just hit different for ideas!
And I've sorta had some experience with energy work! I was getting my NLP certification and when we were releasing anger and sadness for the certification with a partner, I'm sure my partner was reiki certified too. When she got to releasing sadness for me, I felt a warm melting down my body, and we were on ZOOM! It was wild! Next thing you know, I naturally didn't react to situations that usually left me explosive in an argument! I immediately turned to curiosity without prompt of thought. It was so wild!! Only other energy-ish thing I loved was during the certification we learned an extreme version of building rapport, where your partner thought of a memory and you matched their body language exactly, and were able to see most if not all of what their memory was about! I did it at least twice with two different partners on different days, and had the same done to me twice and we were all close or right!