An Epistolary Post For Your Edification! - #71

  

Nicola, Thanks so much for your continued interest in The Aware Athlete. Its encouraging to know that it has given people something to think about. I like the idea of mindlessly flipping through a magazine as that idea plays out in many ways. I recently let my mind lead me into an integration of ideas while I slept. I think this kind of "mindlessness" is actually allowing the brain freedom a freedom to explore and integrate.  

Scott Forrester

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Scott - you are most welcome - thank you for a great book!

Could you tell us more about how to let our minds lead us into integration while sleeping? I would really like to know!

Thanks in advance for any input you can provide.

Warmly,

Nicky

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Nicola, that is a great question! We know the saying that we should "sleep on it".  It think we have all benefited from insights of all kinds after a nights sleep. But sometimes I think things come together in a special way during or after sleep if we have really been immersed in the details of a particular thing and another factor is a deadline or a matter of personal urgency or importance that provides a point of focus before sleep. What do you think?

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Scott - Last night as I crawled into bed wondering how to begin Chapter 7 of my memoir, I thought of you and your challenge to me of what do I think? So I decided to ask for some ideas to appear as I slept. I woke up at 3 AM and wrote several notes on index cards which I had strategically placed on bedside table. I haven't looked at them yet so I can't report how helpful they will be but when I wrote them down, they seemed creative, original, innovative, insightful, and perceptive. I'll let you know!

Dear Readers! 

I hope you enjoyed hearing directly from Scott and learning a new word or two. I did! I had to use Google to remember the name for books containing letters. If you already knew both of the E words in the title, consider yourself a winner! 

As far as the notes I captured at 3 AM, I could barely decipher some of them because of their preschool scrawl aesthetic. Overall, I was pleased that several of the ideas proved helpful though waking up did interrupt my precious sleep. Let me know if you try using your sleep this way.

CLUE: Enjoy being safe in your warm  home and know the meat locker effect won't last forever. On that note, I want to welcome new readers from Australia and New Zealand! I hear from them that they are experiencing the opposite extreme weather as we are in the United States. It's difficult for me, when we are below zero and the wind is howling, to remember that it is also uncomfortable to be too hot but you help us. So in the spirit of helping,choose ONE thing you can do for someone you love that will help them cope with life's challenges. 

Thanks for exploring the mystery - Nicky Mendenhall