Not So Favorable

Oops... I blew it again...

I am learning though.

Today I realised that you gotta watch the prompt and stop typing as it says: "Start again" and the words become highlighted in red.

Progress!

Here's the final (and the first attempt) of my freewrite for Hive account@mariannewest's Freewrite Writing Prompt Day 2284: not so favorable

Not so favorable

 
I don't know why this app has told me to start again. But I will start again then. *Sigh

My meditation teacher, or his recordings anyway because he has left this world and gone off to uncover more of the Great Mystery, says, "Start again." at the beginning of each mediation session he has recorded and left for us to practice.

"Start again." It makes me smile every time. And now it has become a mantra of sorts in my own life and everywhere I go.

"Start again." When I've forgotten the lessons life has taught me and I've gone off into a place of judgement. Which always, in my experience, leads to suffering somehow.

So I will not judge this prompt telling me to start again as favorable or not. I don't like to judge things as favorable or not, these days, because some of the least favorable experiences that I have experienced have been the most favorable.

I mean... the most lessons gifted and learned, that is.

Truly unfavorable while they were occurring. I did judge them, of course. Until, some years later, I understood the value of walking through, or sitting with, the most unfavorable of things.

I have my favorite things. Of course. But are they favorable to my personal growth and - ultimately - true happiness and joy? No. They never were that. It's, ironically, the parts of my experience that I judged as the least favorable that should always have, probably been judged the most favorable.

The first attempt and so failure is my best teacher, again

 
I wanted to plan this out but it defeats the purpose of this exercise because I find this prompt favourable to writing right now. I think too much, you know.

You probably know this already though.

This stream of conscious kinda thing
could really work to bring
something new to a table that maybe should be cleared.

If you can ever really clear a table with all that too much thinking we do.

There was a book I read, some years ago called "The Artist's Way" and one of the exercises, suggested by the author, was to write a stream of conscious diary each morning as you woke up.

No thinking required. Not favourable at all, in fact. The exercise was supposed to tap into your unconscious to release... what? I wonder? Release... oh here we go again and I was going to try and avoid this word today... Judgement.

You know me so well. But it's about this and mostly this at the end of the day, I think? Judgement. That confines us. Judgement. That halts us. Judgement. That makes us suffer unnecessarily.

So I'd say that labelling things, even, as favourable or not - becomes a problem in and of itself.

I mean... you kinda have to judge things, at times, to stay safe and sound. Sound as in sane. Perhaps that's what they meant when they came up with that expression. So yeah... judging things as favourable or not is necessary for our survival, I guess.

What I mean is that the judgement in and of itself is not necessarily helpful...

as in labelling things too much.

because our stories create our reality.

^{I found this on my wanderings before I cam to check the Hive account@daily.prompt today and it fits with the topic. But you gotta take the time to listen - and this post is about flash fiction while this video is not. It is about reality. Sharing it everywhere because... well... we're in the future now. And our stories, as it turns out, matter more than we may realise.}

#Jung #Individuation #ThisIsPerfect