Prompts for Exploration
What Are You Releasing to Create Space for What You Want?
In my project field notes / love notes, I share monthly Notes for paid subscribers with everything from short essays to lists, to interviews, to prose, to features from friends & lovers— thinkers in the field that have inspired new ways of thinking within myself. The main section of field notes / love notes will always be in flow with what’s tugging at my heart, what I’m currently resonating with, and what I want to be in conversation with you about. The monthly offering for paid subscribers also has a section called “Question Everything,” an homage to the “Question Everything” chapter in my book. Here, I pose questions for your consideration as it relates to the thoughts I’ve shared that month: mini check-in exercises that encourage moments of self-reflection so you can take constant inventory of the content of your life.
And as an offering to both my paid and my unpaid subscribers, I also share monthly “Prompts for Exploration” — the questions (sometimes slightly edited / expanded upon) from the “Question Everything” section in the most recent paid subscription offering.
I’m hoping that you’ll receive these “Prompts for Exploration” with an open mind and heart. Our questioning journey is most impactful when we’re open to changes within and around us.
The following “Prompts for Exploration” are in relation to my most recent field notes / love notes post:
What Are You Releasing to Create Space for What You Want?
Last week, I released my annual LESS / MORE list*. I typically do this exercise at the start of each year, but really, you can do it at any moment you’d like deeper reflection into how you’re allocating your energy and making space for even more goodness to unfold.
In this most recent post, I shared my annual LESS / MORE ritual with my readers, referenced Michèle Lamy’s “8 Things to Live By” for Cultured Mag and offered readers my version of that prompt, and shared a BK lunchtime rec as well as many different recommendations for new retreats, books, articles, and podcasts that I’m currently inspired by.
The option to subscribe is always here if you’d like to read more and engage in deeper reflection with your questioning journey.
Prompts for Exploration (from my most recent field notes / love notes post What Are You Releasing to Make Space for What You Want)
Take several minutes to thoroughly think about each question. I also find it helpful to journal, sketch, or paint my answers to questions that I have difficulty thinking through and/or keep coming back to.
In what ways can you prioritize rest, care, and healing for yourself this winter while also setting the foundational framework for your self-growth?
What mediums are most effective for your manifesting / spellcasting / world bending? (ex: writing, saying mantras out loud, painting, singing)
When you make resolutions or create new goals, do you typically stick to them for your desired time frame? If not, have you been able to pinpoint why?
When you set a resolution or goal, do you notice that it creates a new way of being in your life? Or do you only commit to the goal for a small time frame? (for example: if you want to drink less alcohol and set a resolution naming that, do you notice that you begin drinking less alcohol overall or do you only drink less alcohol for ‘dry January?’)
What happens when you think of your new resolutions as “goals” versus as “new energy” that you’d like to call into your life? Does approaching the change of incorporating “new energy” feel a bit easier / less abrasive?
What are a 2-3 things that you are dissatisfied with in your life? What happens if you remove even one of those things from your life?
The truth is that we are all limited beings. What in your life is a limited resource (ex: free-time, money, physical energy, time that you’d like to spend on work/projects, energy to socialize, alone time, emotional capacity)?
If your life is filled with things that use all of your limited resources, how will you have resources to welcome in other things that you want instead?
What are some ways you can adjust your schedule / priorities to free up more space for some of the limited resources that you listed? (ex: saying no to socializing time that you don’t feel super excited about so that you can have more space for alone time + more physical energy for activities that you are excited about)
If the gregorian calendar new year doesn’t feel like the appropriate time for you to renew your perspective, when do you make time for that during the year? Is assessing your satisfaction with your life something you take into account / commit to often? If not, why not?
How can you fill your life with what you want to prioritize if there isn’t any space to do so? What are you changing/de-prioritizing/releasing in order to make space for the new energy you’re welcoming in?
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Thank you for reflecting with me.
onward in love,
Sara Elise