moodling time
Do you ever have time to moodle? To allow you mind to drift, play, relax? It’s often a time of inspiration, creativity, imagination. So give yourself permission to do it often!
Many people have their best ideas whilst on the toilet, or is that just me? They say you have to let something go in order to let something else in! Maybe in our busy lives the toilet is a precious bit of space to moodle.
So why is moodling good? Perhaps when you are relaxed you are closer to your intuition, your knowingness and perhaps to spirit, since in the hecticness of most of our busy lives spirit must have a hard time trying to be heard. Moodling time is a time when you are closest to your essence, to God.
As adults we tend to have a full time table, my little ones find it hard to understand that at any request I’m not there immediately to make their wish my command, if Aiyana asks for a drink I may say; ‘Just a minute Aiyana my hands are wet.’ ‘Why mummy?’ ‘because I’m washing up’ ‘why mummy’ ‘Because it needs doing’ ‘Why mummy?’ and the whys go on! They are so in the moment nothing else matters but the now, and what they focus on is right now, and do you know what, nine times out of ten their wish is someone’s command!
I’m writing this sitting in Amsterdam airport, waiting for a connection to Teeside on a trip home from teaching QT in Sweden. Travelling is a fab time for moodling! I’ve just called home where my mum is looking after the kids until Conrad gets home from work. Taran excitedly came to the phone; ‘Mummy, mummy I love you. Guess what there are lots of red spiders on the wall in the garden and even some baby ones, bye.’ Busy adults probably wouldn’t have noticed the red spiders, we are too busy doing instead of being. But Taran noticed, he has time to moodle, that’s how kids learn. So when Taran comes up with questions like ‘Mummy why don’t spiders stick to their webs?’ and ‘Mummy how does the water from the ground get back up to the sky when gravity is pushing it back down?’ It’s because he has time to question the world, and then mummy has to find time to think of answers to my five year olds questions!
The fact is that it is your moodling times that give you your dreams, desires, inspirations and ideas for action. But what you have to remember it is your thoughts for the remaining 98% of the day that gives you your life!
So what do you focus your thoughts on? The god, the bad and the beautiful? Do you check in with your thoughts throughout the day and change the ones that are unsupportive? Do you use positive affirmations and gratitude to bring your focus regularly to what you do want? Or do you spend a lot of energy worrying about what other people think or what might happen? There’s a fabulous saying about worry being a waste of your imagination, I agree. Why not use your imagination to visualise the best!
So, going back to moodling time .... if you do have a busy life, perhaps you need to timetable some kind of chill time – whether this is gardening, drawing, doing the crossword, reading a book, having a cup of tea in the garden... Give yourself time and permission to think about nothing, and from that ‘no thing’ perhaps will come everything you could dream of.
At the first MBS fait that I did at Whitby Pavilion I looked at the scene from an upstairs window. The window shows the main room that we use, a huge room with circular windows looking out to sea. The scene was one of joy, stallholders, stands, the public, the colour, the sounds, the energy. I loved it. I smiled and shock my head in mild disbelief, ‘wow this was all an idea that started in my head, and here it is!’ Do the same right now look at your life, you’ve created it all – how amazing is that – and probably the best bits have come from your moodling times, so I wish you many more!