Favorite Kind of Day

 Instructions from the book: 

1 . Spend at least five minutes thinking about what your ideal day would look like. You are free to do whatever you want to do. When would you get up? Would you spend the day alone or with other people? Would you stay home or go elsewhere? Think through all the details.
2 . Using a pencil, draw your favorite day on the paper. It can be one scene in one location or it can involve many activities.
3 . Using either your colored pencils or watercolors, add color to your drawing.

 

 Questions for Discussion:
· What feelings surfaced as you completed this exercise?
· What activities came up when you thought about how you would want to spend your time?
· If you had the power to choose how you want your life to be, what would that look like for you?

I did this exercise with a twist. Instead of drawing I made a collage with some images I found via Google images. The feeling that surfaced during this exercise was mostly frustration, as I am doing only part of what I would like to be doing on a daily basis. Some excitement, some hope that somehow my life will be put back on track. I would like to spend my time eating healthy, exercising and meditating, reading, sleeping, learning and creating. The feeling I would like to get out of doing all of these activities is bliss. 

My ideal life would consist of having an engaging job within the creative industries, having supporting friends and family, having the ideal body weight, sleeping as much as I need, bringing all my ideas to life with the knowledge I accumulate from the books I read, learning as much as possible about myself and the world around me and putting my body to work so as to have a happy hippocampus. Wish me luck everyone.