For our final week, our theme is celebrating our senses! While we do use some of them when it comes to our digital lives, the overload of information / visuals / music / screen time can feel too much and to me, dull them. Let's spend some time focusing on and appreciating our different senses.
Listen to the Musn'ts
By Shel Silverstein
Listen to the mustn'ts, child.
Listen to the don'ts.
Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts.
Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me...
Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.
Our sense for today is hearing--through our ears and through our hearts. Spend time listening to music, to a story, or podcast, to good advice you've been given, to birds chirping, the sound of waves crashing on the shore, to what calls your heart, to what your gut tells you. You can also spend time NOT listening to things that don't serve you (whether that's advice from others or your own self talk) or spend time in silence--sometimes this can allow us to hear our own voice louder and clearer.
Here's an exercise to try as a warm up or for your section: Have some art supplies handy. Listen to a favorite piece of music. Draw/paint/color what you hear. (You can listen to it one time and create as you hear things that interest you or create alongside the song until you run out of space. Or listen to it all the way through one time without creating then create on the second listen. If there's another way that works for you, feel free to try it!)
