The Glow Project

In working on the Prosperity by Design group sessions, I had this idea for a project that I am hoping participants will work on. I have also sent out to family members and will be adding some friends to the project. I am really intersted in what happens. I am putting my instructions down here but since this has limited viewing am thinking of doing another blog somewhere else that might get some strangers involved just to see how it goes, what is experienced. I really hope that it is kept up for the entire ten weeks.
In the meantime this is what I have come up with. Initiated on April 14th, 2008, by Bluspider.

THE GLOW PROJECT
One Light- Just Glow

This is a voluntary experiment.
It will take place over the course of the next few weeks. In your journal it would be helpful to write down anything you notice during the course of the experiment. Place the phrase “one light- just glow” or other reminder where you notice it. The objective is to picture, you, places, and things as emitting a glow. Whatever symbolizes this to you is fine. Lines like a cartoon light bulb, full body halo, or like it is in a spotlight… I hope this will include children as well as adults of all ages.
I ask that you do this a few seconds at a time at least once a day but more often as you think of it. One can do this while sitting at a stoplight, brushing their teeth, in the shower, taking a walk…whenever, for at least a few seconds but longer is fine.
First week: Think of yourself glowing.
Second week: add this. Think of a room in your house glowing. This could also be your vehicle.
Third week: add the entire house.
Fourth week: Your school, workplace (you or your spouse), a place you do business, or mode of public transportation.
Fifth week: Your community as a whole.
Sixth week: your State or Region
Seventh week: Your country
Eighth Week: Continent (or area outside your country such as a conflict zone)
Ninth week: Hemisphere (or area outside your continent such as a conflict zone)
Tenth week: The Earth.
After the tenth week you can go back and work on any individual focus. You can keep doing yourself and your room, your home and business while you add the rest. Or you may choose not to do this and come back to it. The main idea here is to keep it up every day for ten weeks, going through all the tiers and perhaps longer if you choose. To start with you and to move up is an easy way to adjust to this concept. If something comes to you while doing this process, write it down in a journal or a computer page. Date it. This can just be a list of impressions.
EXAMPLES: felt funny, my head tingled, this is dumb, calming, relaxes me…etc. I would be grateful for any of these impressions emailed to me at bluspiders@gmail.com. I will be putting it with data from others to get an overall picture. I am mainly interested if it changes through the weeks and if you find it easier or would just like to toss it...

The main idea here is that people often say they do not have time to do something or nothing to give. This is asking you only to GIVE a few seconds a day to a particular thought. And a thought that can be easily done while doing a multitude of other things at any time of the day or night. The hardest thing at this point would just be to REMIND yourself to do it.
So a note in the car, by the bathroom mirror, on a bookmark of those four words “One Light-Just Glow” can remind you to do this process until you make it a habit. Or one friend put up four different pictures of suns around the house to remind her. One really good idea is to set a reminder on your computer for each morning changing your focus each week on Monday Morning.
You are not asking for anything to happen, trying to change anything, alter your thinking, start a new religion, or redesign your life, NOTHING ELSE. Just GLOW.

creeping crud

Well, even though officially spring is here, I finally came down with the creeping crud that has spread through friends and family all winter. I was really only sick sick for a couple of days but the fatigue and cough that is hanging on is driving me nuts. I went to get my hair trimmed yesterday and felt pretty good when I walked out the door. Needless to say that it took about five minutes in the chair before I had that irresistible tickle that was not to be controlled. I saw myself in the mirror turning red, eyes running and coughs exploding out of me in little bursts. I felt like a fool and I do believe the others in the shop thought I was the reincarnation of Typhoid Mary. Luckily the stylist produced a high mentholated cough drop. It got me through my haircut and out the door. While I can deal with some of the chronic stuff with a sort of "that's the way it is ...figure it out" I hate this being SICK. I don't know where this virus, flu, super cold or whatever came from but it can go back and stay there. I feel like my whole life is on hold while trying to get my house cleaned and vacuumed, and work on my projects without coughing my head off. It ain't happening today. It didn't happen yesterday and lord only knows if it will happen tomorrow.