A week into the New Year, and I have my first epiphany. So soon.
From the dictionary: Epiphany: • a moment of sudden revelation or insight.
ORIGIN Middle English : from Greek epiphainein ‘reveal.’ The sense relating to the Christian festival is via Old French epiphanie and ecclesiastical Latin epiphania.
My HuffPost blog this week is about overcoming doubt and celebrating what is right – with you and our world. I have chosen an inspiring video by Dewitt Jones, a National Geographic photographer, to illustrate the points I am making.
Each of the 57 so far articles I have written for The Huffington Post has been a seminar for me that has given me insights, and a process of learning what I need to from the experience of writing it. I think this is why I keep writing them. From the feedback I receive, I am encouraged to keep going.
Then it was not surprising that I would drop into my own feelings of self-doubt, a bit like being hidden in a dark cloud. Not very comfortable at all. But there can be a value in those dark moments, and often has been in the past for me. The challenge is to remember that as I am stuck in the middle of them. And if I am really aware, to love and bless those less than pleasant feelings.
The insight that I received yesterday was that if I am writing about wealth, I really need to be referring to money because that is what readers will expect. And the monetary side of wealth is not presently at all my strong suit. I have been going up a blind alley for me. My feelings of doubt were well placed.
What is it then that I do feel passionate about, enough to want to write about it? I think that it is the well-being associated with wealth, that may have nothing to do with money, other than that our basic needs are being taken care of. Hard to feel well if we are starving and cold and destitute.
As I reflected on wealth, I came across this article:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/schuyler-brown/the-new-marketing-paradig_b_411940.html
This made sense to me.
I am all for revelations because I feel that so much that is good within us is hidden from us. If it takes a dark moment to see the light, then it is no bad thing in the long run.
HuffPo are encouraging those of us who blog on the Living Page to write about sleep over the next month or so to coincide with Arianna and Cindi Leive’s Sleep Challenge 2010: Women, It’s Time to Sleep Our Way to the Top. Literally.
Last night, was not my best night’s sleep ever. Before I went to bed, I tried an exercise for using dreams to gain understanding about an issue, as described by Russell Bishop in his article: Could Sleep Aid Your Contact With The Divine? Well, throughout the night, I was inundated with ideas and insights, encouragement and inspiration. It felt like the Divine was working overtime with me. I hope It sleeps well today.
For me, I am taking it easy today and not rushing into any resolutions about how all of this will be evolving. My chat yesterday, when with a pale face I dropped in to see Alice Barker at her #1 Ladies Website Agency, (http://www.no1ladieswebsiteagency.com/) in Vence, gave me lots of food for thought. I left feeling much more rosy and my usual self.
Watch this space – I will keep you posted on developments.
In the meantime, enjoy a favourite YouTube of mine this week, The Pink Glove Dance, complete with its flash mob!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEdVfyt-mLw
