Post #28 put it against the wall
About a year ago, I worked on a painting. This painting was just ok. It had something to it, yet I knew it really needed more, something else. I tried to observe and analyze this painting. I tried to figure out just the right step to take to make it better. However, I arrived at no conclusion at all. I decided not to worry about it, and turned it to face the wall. And I left it that way for many months.
I didn't stress about it. I didn't freak out. I didn't look at it, I just let it sit there. I believed, in time, the answer would reveal itself to me.
In the meantime, I was working on many other things in the studio, other paintings, many new drawings, whatever came my way.
Only very recently did I realize I had the answer to resolve the painting. I saw the answer as I was working on the other things in the studio. So I flipped the painting around, and completed it. And now it is as it should be.
Of course, of course, of course, I am thinking about this directly applying to life. So maybe you have an unresolved issue. We all do. And maybe, just maybe, instead of freaking out, you just take that unresolved issue, and put it against the wall for awhile. Don't dwell on it, don't worry about it, don't freak out. You know it's there, against the wall for when you are ready. And maybe you have the capacity to believe that the answer will reveal itself to you in time.
Now in the meantime, you can work on other things - a little bit of this and a little bit of that - and I bet you at some point, if you come back to that original problem, you may have the answer to it.
and everything will be as it should be - as if there were any other options!
I didn't stress about it. I didn't freak out. I didn't look at it, I just let it sit there. I believed, in time, the answer would reveal itself to me.
In the meantime, I was working on many other things in the studio, other paintings, many new drawings, whatever came my way.
Only very recently did I realize I had the answer to resolve the painting. I saw the answer as I was working on the other things in the studio. So I flipped the painting around, and completed it. And now it is as it should be.
Of course, of course, of course, I am thinking about this directly applying to life. So maybe you have an unresolved issue. We all do. And maybe, just maybe, instead of freaking out, you just take that unresolved issue, and put it against the wall for awhile. Don't dwell on it, don't worry about it, don't freak out. You know it's there, against the wall for when you are ready. And maybe you have the capacity to believe that the answer will reveal itself to you in time.
Now in the meantime, you can work on other things - a little bit of this and a little bit of that - and I bet you at some point, if you come back to that original problem, you may have the answer to it.
and everything will be as it should be - as if there were any other options!
posted by Jenna at
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