The Quarantine Chronicles: Day 9

Hello, Dear One.

So glad you are here.

During this first week of the Quarantine Chronicles, I've been touching on the importance of creating -- but not just art for the sake of art. Creating connection, life, positive energy, creating home as you have always dreamt it to be, creating a place of acceptance within (and for) yourself.

There are so many ways we can be creative. And it's not that creating art, in any medium, isn't powerful enough on its own...it absolutely is.

Creating in any way is incredibly powerful in and of itself. It is truly a doorway into a realm of life-changing possibility and offers us unending potential for blessing, healing, discovery, and joy.

I have been purposefully incorporating themes into this project, however, that will potentially also bring you more tools to manage your emotions and thoughts as you create simply because it helps remind me, at the same time, what is true and what can offer us even more help and wholeness during this Quarantine experience.

Today's prompt is about creating meaningful connection in relationships. Here is an excerpt from Johann Hari's book, Lost Connections addressing what scientists have discovered about loneliness:

"When you are a patient in a hospital bed, you're not alone -- but the help flows only one way. The nurse is there to help you, but you aren't there to help the nurse -- if you try, you'll be told to stop. A one-way relationship can't cure loneliness. Only two-way (or more) relationships can do that.

Loneliness isn't the physical absence of other people, it's the sense that you're not sharing anything that maters with anyone else. If you have lots of people around you --perhaps even a husband or wife, or a family, or a busy workplace -- but you don't share anything that matters with them, then you'll still be lonely. To end loneliness, you need to have a sense of "mutual aid and protection,"...with at least one other person, and ideally many more."

Today, I want you to write about the things that really matter most to you. What things are truly meaningful to you? What is most significant, relevant, sincere and worthwhile in your life? What things have real purpose for you?

It would be fairly easy to take these questions and create poetry, story, music, visual art and dance as an artistic response...each question, each adjective, could be days worth of inspiration. And I encourage you to pursue that creative expression, absolutely.

But I also encourage you to ask one or two other people in your life, what is most meaningful to them? And meditate on ways that your connections and relationships with people can become even more like Johann Hari described...a mutual exchange of things that matter to you.

A shared flow of sincerity, significance, purpose.

I would love to have this kind of mutual exchange with you too!

If you feel like you don't know who to reach out to at this time, reach out to me.

Feel free to e-mail me, or share what you are creating in the private Facebook Group linked below.

Let's create meaningful connection in as many ways as we can.

There is so much love for you here,

JennyRebecca