NaNo Coffeehouse Reads discussion

"Ideas are disembodied energetic life-form." As she explains, they have consciousness and will and are driven by the impulse to be made manifest.

Ideas may come to you, but if you don't carry them out to fruition, they move on to someone else.

Have you ever had an idea and then see someone else do it? Maybe it was an idea for a book or a product or job?

How do you feel when that happens? What beliefs do you have around that?

Activity Write down all of those ideas that got away. Be specific if you can, but also let your pen doodle across the page as you mull over the feelings and judgements you may have.

Now, close your eyes and let all that go. Say "goodbye. I release you. I wish you well." or Maybe, "I forgive myself for not following through with these ideas." or "I let these ideas go, so I am open to new ideas."

And then, crumple up the paper with great satisfaction and burn it (if you can or recycle it).

And if later today or the coming days you find your mind wandering back to these ideas or regret or jealousy creeping in-- stop it. Nope. You've let that go. You are moving in the direction of forward.