What’s this about? INTRODUCTION
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Week 6: Conclude, Shall We?
February 10, 2024
The last week of Part One, here we go!!
Bring one furniture from where you live, into your Hakoniwa.
Place it where and how you feel is right.
Imagine yourself sitting/leaning on /standing by the furniture.
What do you see? How do you feel?
How is the furniture placed in relation to the object from Week 1?
How does it relate to your surroundings, imagined in Week 2-5?
What do they tell you about yourself, your life – thoughts, feelings, memories?
Correlations, symbols, wisdom from yourself?
(You can either imagine yourself there, or imagine looking at you being there from where you actually are.)
Now, please do be open, as in accepting, to the way you feel, being there in your space.
Let me share with you how I have done it so far, for the purpose of conveying what I mean by all this.
“I am in my loft on a folded futon. My Week 1 object, a sequined silver dress’ positioned a few meters away nearly out of my peripheral vision. I sit facing a very large rabbit in distance with its gaze fixed in my direction, I see it through the wall with no windows. I feel on my back warmth from the very sunny beach, the light from which sparkling on the sequins of the dress.
“As I imagined, an awareness surfaced, about its significance in relation to my current life, what this rabbit symbolizes to me.
With this awareness alone the rabbit shrunk in size, to the point I can no longer see its expression, and sensed myself turning away towards the beach.”
See how this exercise can be of benefit – for instance, to increase one’s self-knowledge and internal freedom…?
More than anything tho, please, if you may, marvel at what you created in last five weeks.
That’s your garden, your room, your space you assembled together into imaginative reality.
Your Creative Potential: Limitless.
Join me in Part Two starting next Saturday, til then!!
Week 5: Lastly, Skyward.
February 03, 2024
Let’s turn our attention to what is above us.
Imagine, standing in your space//garden/loft, and looking up skyward.
What do you see there, the structure over you, and the space above it?
Do you have a roof, shade, awning?
See stars through your skylight, or solid ceiling above you blocking the sun?
How starlit is the night, how bright the sunshine?
Do you feel the warmth, the chill, or is it scorching and you feel it even through the roofing?
If it’s a garden, is it fully open or part covered, if so with what type of structure, made of what materials?
How is the light, the sound, the atmosphere – anything falling? Flying?
How does it feel to be beneath it?
Imagination tells you a story you star in.
As always, please take your time and listen to your answers arise from within you
– for your attention to yourself is a gift of generosity, and you, the main character of an unfolding story.
Have a beautiful week!!
Week 4: Inside, Looking Out.
January 27, 2024
Imagine standing in your space – garden, loft – and looking over the fences, through the windows – what you envisioned in Week 2.
Look around, all directions.
What do you see?
Do you see tall buildings, or giraffes? How close to your space, are they….friendly?
Dense or spacious? Busy or tranquil? What’s the overall feel, the vibe, of what surrounds your space?
Do you hear anything?
Traffic, waves, dinosaurs…
Which view / element do you like the most, and the least?
Again, please don’t judge your answers even when they are “impractical”, because….
You are the one you will spend
the entirety of your life with.
…and every time you embrace the ideas as they surface from within you, the Creative Energy would, with equal eagerness flow through and circulate around you.
I hope you are having a swell time with this exercise / experiment.
See you in a week!!
Week 3: Ask Your Soles
January 20, 2024
How is the ground / floor?
What is it made of / from, and how does it feel to the soles of your feet?
Grassy, sandy, packed dirt. Hardwood, or carpeted? What kind of carpet, how fine is the sand?
And how do your soles feel, standing on them?
Wood panels squeak? How tall are the grasses? Any inhabitants, birds, insects or a snake?
Suspend Your Logic &
Imagine.
Please remember this: you don’t have to make sense.
You can have a hummingbird hovering above footprints of a polar bear.
Imagine walking around your space, barefoot.
Is it evenly comfortable?
As always,
please take your time and let your answers surface.
…and Have Fun!!
Week 2: Embrace, Enfold.
January 13, 2024
embrace:
to take or receive gladly or eagerly; accept willingly: to embrace an idea.
– dictionary.com
Because ‘You’ happens only once in the history of the Universe
Continuing from the Week 1:
What feels right to enclose your garden / loft with;
walls, fences, the height, density, spaciousness?
Again, please take your time letting your answers surface.
Do you want to build a tall continuous wall, a barbed-wire fence?
Or leave one particular side open?
What about windows, balconies, gates…
If you sense any feelings attached to your answer – please take notes.
No need to know / figure out why you want it/feel that way. Not the purpose of this week’s theme anyways.
As you may be well aware: there’s no right or wrong however you want it. But I do wish you embrace your answers and have fun with all this.
You may draw a picture or describe in words. Or just keep your visions in your mind.
Do as you please; it’s your Hakoniwa!
See you in a week :)
Week 1: Let’s Hakoniwa*!!
January 06, 2024
*Hakoniwa is a Japanese word for sand box garden / therapy.
Imagine a garden or a large room like a loft. Think of it as a blank canvas.
If you are to plant/place just one item, what would that be?
Examples:
– A vintage kettle you didn’t buy that you still think about after decades.
– A park bench you used to sit on at lunch time while working in a office nearby.
This is not “resolution”, nor “to do list” for this year.
Nor about striving-planning-achieveing thing.
It is about letting ideas surface from within you. I am suggesting you catch them ideas when they do. And take notes.
Please spend enough time this week, asking yourself this. In other words, I recommend you do not rush.
It’s best not to analyze nor criticize – which may be a bit of a challenge.
In that case, if it does not feel too much, take a note about your criticism/hesitancy, etc. Not to overcome them but just to gather information.
If you really can’t think of anything, that is alright too.
Sometimes it’s more important that you ask/ed.
See you next week!!
In your imagination
you get to pick whatever you fancy.
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