So... now that you occupy that space... what do you choose?
One response is: Choose the path that aligns with your values.
This sounds like good advice. But it carries a quiet presumption: that you already know your values—or that, if you don’t, you can define them quickly.
Let this suffice: Purge your mind of thoughts and actions.
That is: Recognize you are manifesting actions at this moment and release the thoughts and actions that might be in mind.
Tension often highlights a disconnect between the action you are manifesting and the actions closest to your values.
The thing about a mind under tension is its conception of time is distorted. It might hold and present a demand that you publish a novel NOW, while also insisting that you complete the reverse pyramid push ups you promised you would do in the morning and that there is soup in the microwave to be removed, NOW.
Each demand may align with your values but to engage them all at once is to meet with impossibility: You can't do all of the tasks NOW. And to entertain impossibility is to welcome paralysis.
One way to address this is to entertain the limitlessness of possibility with the use of a pen and a blank piece of paper. You write. You draw. You pour all that is in your mind onto a page.
What this does is release tension. A release of tension diminishes the distortion. An absence of distortion allows clarity. And clarity reveals the path.
You want to begin easy and simple: an unstructured list. The demand becomes (not to publish a novel or to complete the reverse pyramid push up or to remove the soup from the microwave but) to fill the list, and continue to do so until clarity surfaces.
You might ask, so all I am to do is write?
Yes—to the extent that you can take onboard the root meaning of the word to write, which is to etch something real into the world.
Think of the world as a canvas, you as a pen and your actions as the inscriptions made onto the canvas that is the world. To do so is to realise one implication of the instruction to Purge your mind of thoughts and actions: to execute.
A purging of thoughts and action also implies execution. Execute.
Execution benefits from planning. Plan.
Planning requires structure. Structure.
All these and everything in between spring from your willingness to release.
You will find that writing—in the modern sense of marking on a surface—is one of (if not) the easiest activity you can engage. An activity so close to nothing yet makes doing everything possible but not so close to nothing that it remains nothing. An exercise to slide you across the gradient of activity, from doing 'nothing' to doing something to doing the thing you feel you want/need/ought/should be doing.
So, release. Let go. Purge.
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