Comments on: Switching off to switch on http://thrivewire.ca/blog/switching-off-to-switch-on/ Thu, 19 Aug 2010 22:00:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Tzaddi http://thrivewire.ca/blog/switching-off-to-switch-on/comment-page-1/#comment-4859 Tzaddi Sun, 31 Jan 2010 17:16:33 +0000 http://thrivewire.ca/?p=487#comment-4859 It's interesting to think of it as Changing Channels instead of Switching Off. I think I mean both. I need less stimuli that's digital and work oriented. I also need to spend time with inspiring stimuli from other sources: novels (which I rarely read anymore), art exhibits, nature. So that's Changing Channels. But I also need to Switch ON the impetus to create for myself and to act on it. To become less of a sponge filled with other people's input. To reconnect with the joy of creating things for self-expression. And I think the more Switching Off and Changing Channels I do, the more that impulse will grow. I've been doing life drawing lately, and already feel it becoming stronger because of that. It’s interesting to think of it as Changing Channels instead of Switching Off. I think I mean both. I need less stimuli that’s digital and work oriented. I also need to spend time with inspiring stimuli from other sources: novels (which I rarely read anymore), art exhibits, nature. So that’s Changing Channels.

But I also need to Switch ON the impetus to create for myself and to act on it. To become less of a sponge filled with other people’s input. To reconnect with the joy of creating things for self-expression. And I think the more Switching Off and Changing Channels I do, the more that impulse will grow. I’ve been doing life drawing lately, and already feel it becoming stronger because of that.

]]> By: Bill Wren http://thrivewire.ca/blog/switching-off-to-switch-on/comment-page-1/#comment-4858 Bill Wren Sun, 31 Jan 2010 15:13:53 +0000 http://thrivewire.ca/?p=487#comment-4858 Although I didn't switch off in quite the sense I think you mean, I think I switched off when I moved east. It wasn't so much switching of the information flow as it was changing the information flow, at least to a degree. For a long time after moving, I had far less interest (or is it time?) for the online flow because I was engaged by the real world flow of a new place, new people. So it may not be about switching off but about changing channels. At the risk of seeming to flog my own blog (now there's a phrase!) I have a long post today about finding ideas etc. I think the ending, under "Conversations" relates somewhat to what you are talking about. http://writelife.net/2010/01/31/finding-ideas-mind-mapping-process-and-chaos/ .-= Bill Wren´s last blog ..<a href="http://writelife.net/2010/01/31/finding-ideas-mind-mapping-process-and-chaos/" rel="nofollow">Finding ideas, mind-mapping, process and chaos</a> =-. Although I didn’t switch off in quite the sense I think you mean, I think I switched off when I moved east. It wasn’t so much switching of the information flow as it was changing the information flow, at least to a degree. For a long time after moving, I had far less interest (or is it time?) for the online flow because I was engaged by the real world flow of a new place, new people. So it may not be about switching off but about changing channels.

At the risk of seeming to flog my own blog (now there’s a phrase!) I have a long post today about finding ideas etc. I think the ending, under “Conversations” relates somewhat to what you are talking about.
http://writelife.net/2010/01/31/finding-ideas-mind-mapping-process-and-chaos/
Bill Wren´s last blog ..Finding ideas, mind-mapping, process and chaos My ComLuv Profile

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