How Does Winter’s Darkness Inspire Your Inner Genius?
The darkness of the winter season brings an opportunity to reflect on your life’s journey by taking a closer look at who you are – underneath the layers of life. It’s a time to turn within and write about your inner thoughts and feelings.
By looking for the “light” – and knowing that it’s there, somewhere, waiting to be discovered – you can reach a place where your personal reflection begins to shed its own light.
It’s a time to ponder where you’ve been, how you got to where you are now – and where to go from here. It’s an opportunity to explore new ways of thinking and to prepare for a new path of travel. It also marks an ideal time for connecting with your inner self and your true heart’s desire.
How will your “inner genius” be inspired by the darkness of winter?
What magic will be created within you – as you move through the winter season and into spring?
And how will this magic be expressed through you – and brought into full bloom?
Mother Nature knows that a certain amount of darkness is always needed in order to see – and to truly appreciate – the “light” of possibility.
It’s often at the darkest point in any process that you have the insight you need to see your situation from a new perspective. These new insights open the door to new ideas, solutions, and directions.
As world-renowned artist, Vincent Van Gogh once proclaimed, “Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius.”
How will your “inner genius” shine during the darkest season of the year?
What great thoughts and ideas will come to mind as you receive the gifts of the winter season?
These are great questions to ponder as you navigate your way through this darker period of the year – and make your way into the light of spring.
4 Comments
Bonnie Nussbaum
I love, love, love the quote “Let us love winter for it is the spring of genius”. Gonna make a pretty picture to go with that quote to post! Thanks for the reframe on winter as I sit here in -4* without wind chill…LOL!
Jill Greinke
Great post Tina! Mother Nature gives us this time for reflection on our lives while we prepare for Spring,
Christine
Lovely post, Tina! Nature is such a beautiful model of how to live and conduct our lives. If only we are wise enough to follow her lead. Winter is a beautiful time to go inside and re-orient towards the light. I look forward to pondering the questions you pose throughout the rest of the season. 🙂
Teena
Tina such a timely post. I found my self struggling recently with the shorter gray days of winter. I was fighting it and could feel the tension building inside of me. I realized I had to make a shift or I would continue to manifest my own internal suffering. I started to let go of the tension and became open to what miracles would happen today. The light swirled back in warmed my heart and soothed a deep part of me that allowed me to open to the love of winter perhaps this is a touch of my inner genius 🙂
Teena
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