Fresh Off the Press
Have you ever had that feeling that information or guidance is coming through you from somewhere beyond your own experience? Have you had words comes out of your mouth or on to a page when writing and think, “Wow, that’s good.” When that happens to me, it doesn’t always sound like the voice I’m used to, but I graciously accept the gift.
When I first started recognizing this phenomenon, I was teaching a group of employees, team building. I finished saying something that sounded brilliant beyond my knowing. All present probably thought that what I said came directly from my experience.
As that started happening more often, and I became less egotistical, I started referring to this occurrence as, “Fresh off the press.” Meaning, I’d never heard nor previously thought of whatever it was in quite that way before. My ego self would have liked to take credit for it, but my bigger self knew it had come from a place of wisdom beyond my conscious knowledge or experience.
During this same period, I was taking a Radiant Mind Training and heard myself teasingly say to someone, “Make up your mind!” At another time, those words would have come out of my mouth and that would have been the end of it. But this time they caught my attention. I must have repeated the phrase a dozen times giving every word a new inflection each time I repeated it. “Make up your mind. Make up your mind. Make up your mind. Make up your mind. It was as if I was hearing each word for the first time. Those simple four words landed somewhere beyond my usual comprehension. In that moment I had the realization that we actually make up our minds about something and then establish a momentum of thinking and doing that created a path we’d follow. That is until we “Make up our mind” again and carve out another route. I’m sure this was not an original concept, but it was as if I was hearing that phrase for the first time.
It made me wonder, what if I stopped, making up my mind? What would take the place of all the plans and directions I gave ourselves? If just for an instant I gave my thinking mind a rest, what would I have access to? In that moment, a fresh curiosity was born.
Einstein said, “You cannot solve a problem from the same consciousness that created it. You must learn to see the world anew.” I believe he was referring to the world anew arising from that place beyond our history, beyond our conscious mind.
Living “fresh off the press,” boredom becomes a thing of the past, and we drop to a new level of seeing and experiencing life. As writers, imagine what stories might flow through us and what insights we might offer!
Enjoy,
Jasmyne