Your Vision Will Rise Through Your Boredom
Your Vision Will Rise Through Your Boredom
A message from my soul's voice
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This morning, during meditation, I asked my soul to share what I needed to know right now. I do this practice each and every morning.
Since I’ve been reflecting on the ways in which I support myself financially, my soul supported me by offering a message on that topic.
I’ve since heard that this soul message is for my community as well so I hope it supports you as you refine and reimagine your offerings to the world.
My soul says:
“We hear your question. You would like to know how to find the new vision to bring the money to support your livelihood.
Well, we need you to get bored, sweet girl. We need you to be bored, to find your way to boredom. And I know that might sound contradictory to your big question.
But our answer is, ‘Get bored.’ Because it's always been in the boredom where the inspiration rises.
You are in this very interesting place right now. You are between the desire to be bored (to rest) and the fear of not doing enough to make money. You're existing between both those spaces.
And between both of those spaces, you're not doing either quite well. Your vision is a little cloudy. Your body is a little tired. So, we invite you to get into one of those spaces today.
Now, your mind might reply with, ‘Alright, I will get into the space of just thinking about the ways in which I make money.’
And we would say, you do not yet have enough vision and perspective and rest to do that well. So we want to invite you into the space of boredom.
And, you know, it's not actually boredom, but the intention is to get bored, to get rested, to get so blank within that an impulse arises, a creative impulse arises. But it arises from innate desire in that moment. And that is the inspiration that is worth pursuing or allowing.
Now, you may say or some of you may say, ‘Well, I don't have the time to get bored.’
The mind of Maggie says that sometimes. It says, ‘I don't have the time to get so blank, to get so bored, because that requires many days and far fewer responsibilities.’
And yet, we would question that mind theory.
We would say, ‘Can you take half a day to be bored? Can you take four hours to be bored? Can you take even two hours to be bored?’
And when we say ‘bored,’ we mean, get to the space beyond all the coping mechanisms that help you cope with boredom. We mean, beyond using electronic devices. We mean, beyond the stage of falling asleep or taking naps. We mean, beyond the stage of restlessness.
That does require some time. So we're going to invite you into that time today.
Get bored.
The vision will come to you.
We promise you.
You know, we think that's the reason why humans created vacation. And some people use their vacations for education. They take a trip to learn about a new city.
Some people use their vacation for lying around a beach, for resting.
Some people use their vacation for being with others, for family gatherings or friend gatherings. All of that is fine. None of that is wrong. And also, vacation can be a time to get bored.
So we invite you into that boredom, into that moment, into that time, into that space, where you remember to just follow your guile, follow your wile, follow the impulse in you, moment by moment.
And if the impulse is to take a nap, take a nap.
If the impulse is to make a salad, make a salad.
If the impulse is to read a book that you're curious about, read that book.
If the pulse is lay flat on the ground and look up at the sky, and watch the puffy clouds go by, that's fine, too.
Get to the place of the blank slate.
That’s the invitation: Get bored.
That's the invitation because it's in the boredom that the alchemy can happen, that the lessons and the knowledge you've gathered can marinate, can come together, can rise into something worth knowing, worth sharing, worth pursuing.
You don't learn a concept and then all of a sudden share it. You need to process it and integrate it. Allow it to become one with all the other parts of you. And then let your voice give words to the alchemy, the impulse, the inspiration.
So this is what we invite you into.
And if you need to do some things in order to get bored, do them and then get bored.
So if you need to take a nap, take a nap.
If you need to read a book, read a book.
If you need to clean your home, clean your home.
If you need to sell some items, to make space for the new, we welcome that. We encourage that.
And then get so bored that the natural impulse rises, the natural inspiration rises, and then you'll be ready to take inspired action.
It's all within you. We promise. It really is. It always is. It always is.”
If you decide to follow my soul’s advice like me, then you may need a little something to do in that space of boredom.
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