I’m super pleased with how the beta versions of my Design Your Day workshops have been going.
I’m so happy to hear my friends moving forward on projects that they’ve been wanting to do for a while!
I plan to run a weekend training on Finding Your Life Purpose to more deeply connect to our Heart as the compass in our lives.
Each person has their own heart and their own life mission. Their own reason for being here on Earth. I teach ways to connect more deeply with purpose and to bring that into daily life.
Email me if you’d like to jump in on the daily Design Your Day circles, held at 7:30am JST each day.
Today Shu and Hiro joined Shinobu and I for our fifth(?) Your Art
Matters event!
Hiro showed his HO gauge model train track he has been working on
since 2001. Shu showed her drawings that she has been doing daily in
the last month. Shinobu showed her interior landscape images. I
showed my start at soldering stainless steel wire for a new marble
track.
And someone didn’t take a single photo!
Here is my custom made soldering iron stand, made out of a single
piece of wire.
Great meeting tonight with a new man in the circle. We rewrote some
of the messages from our inner critics and even sent the inner critics
packing! Great rewrites such as
“you can’t do it” —> “It’s already done!”
“you don’t know what to do” —> “I trust my creativity”
What are some ways you’d rewrite messages from your inner critic?
I have begun to walk again in the mornings. I have posted on FB my idea of walking to Niigata. I have begun to plot out some potential waypoints for the route.
So far, I have plotted waypoints for 5+ hours to walk to Seibuen Amusement Park
Though I have decided to not stop at Lockheart Castle, I have not yet figured out a way to embed maps on my site. Working on that now. The Google maps API allows “only” 20 waypoints on a map.
For tens of years I have intentionally ignored news because it just
ends up riling me up and making me feel scared and sometimes angry. I
always went with the phrase, “if it gets bad enough, they’ll come tell
me.”
I saw a post the other day about how I don’t know what black people
have gone through or are going through now. That’s certainly true.
Humans can have empathy for each other, but until we have lived
through the same experiences, it’s hard to know what it’s really like.
What is it like to be suffocated to death with a knee in the back of
the neck? I don’t know, but I imagine it is pretty fucking horrible.
And even without watching any of the videos, I dare say the officer
should have known that he was doing something pretty fucking horrible.
How the fuck did this happen?
In my men’s circles, I often invite men to breathe. “Become aware of
your breathing in this moment. Allow your body to breathe itself as
you imagine pure clean energy coming up from the earth and filling
your body.”
This works well in many situations.
Feeling anger? breathe. Transmute the anger into action.
Feeling joy? breathe. Experience this moment to its fullest.
Feeling fear? breathe. Allow your brain some oxygen and space to figure out what to do next.
Etc.
Try breathing. Breathing works wonders.
…
George Floyd was denied the right to breathe.
Wait, what?
George Floyd was denied the right to breathe!!!
I said
GEORGE FLOYD WAS DENIED THE RIGHT TO BREATHE!!
I have seen #icantbreathe hashtags so just like “don’t taze me bro” I
guess George Floyd was saying “I can’t breathe” to the people around
him… People. around him. Humans, who I believe can have empathy.
A knee intentionally crushing someone’s windpipe into the ground is
pretty much the opposite of human empathy. It’s horrifying to imagine
“I can’t breathe” were George Floyd’s last words on earth.
So what to do?
Breathe. Give your brain and body oxygen to transmute your feelings
into awareness and knowledge of what’s next.
After you breathe, let your new awareness move you courageously
forward into action.
Use your empathy to stand up for human rights in whatever ways suit
your situation.
Write. Call. Join. Leave. Invite. Ask. Speak. Share. Meditate.
Pray. Post. Breathe. We are all connected and all playing a part.
Black Lives Matter.
23:49 Saturday 06 June 2020 JST
Plot Twist (jump right to 1:54:18 for George Floyd info):
"Living a life takes longer than reading a biography."
- Rob Nugen
Welcome to May!
My timeline of workshops has certainly accelerated with the new
schedule offered by the Covid Powered Pause. My goal was to lead
24 36 workshops in 2020, easily achievable at 3 per month:
First Saturdays: barefoot walkshop
Third Saturdays: Your Art Matters (co-lead with Shinobu)
I used the quote at the top to remind myself: even as things seem to
be accelerated, day to day things seem to be slow, and “normal”. I
still eat too much, waste time mindlessly online, haven’t been walking
each day, don’t meditate or even study Japanese each day. And that’s
okay.
I am distracted by N+1 things even as I write this newsletter, which
(in early April) I hoped to write by May 5th so I could include the
pun “Go Go!”
Afterward, I wrote in ink around the dent, “My body and I fucking
matter!” and “GO OUTSIDE!!” to act as both an affirmation and a
reminder to take care of myself. I need not be cooped up in my room
all the time.
And so, to the point, if I can find my way forward, I think you can
too. Just keep being as mindful as you can, as courageous as you
like, and take care of yourself first before others.
Love and Light
Rob
ps: I am pretty sure this newsletter is way shorter than the previous
ones and I am having some anxiety about that but I’m gonna send it
anyway.
Surround yourself with a supportive community who keep you focused and accountable.
Live life at choice.
Be the hero of your own life
Be the leader of your loving community.
What is Bold Life Mastery?
Adam Gilad’s Bold Life Brotherhood year-long course can be repeated
indefinitely as we take daily bold action towards improving our lives.
Every month will focus on a different core virtue. (See Upcoming Schedule below)
The Jungian Archetypes
Bold Life Brotherhood draws on the energies found in the male Jungian
archetypes. These are sensible and practical. They are universally
shared ideas, symbols, and energies. When you make an important
decision, you exercise careful thought and wisdom (King energy). When
protecting your family from harm, your energy would be sharp, focused,
and fierce (Warrior energy). It’s that simple. The key is knowing
which kind of energy to bring to which situation.
Costs (for four meetings each month)
You are welcome to check out your first meeting free. Simply register to access the meeting.
¥10,000: four sessions per month
Unsubscribe anytime.
Upcoming Schedule
We meet 7pm - ~8:30pm JST, every Monday except 5th Mondays of a month.
July focuses on Connection
Monday 6 July 2020 Connect with your Body
Monday 13 July 2020 Connect with the Moment
Monday 20 July 2020 Connect with the Other
Monday 27 July 2020 Connect with your Context
August focuses on Intimacy
Monday 3 August 2020
Monday 10 August 2020
Monday 17 August 2020
Monday 24 August 2020
Questions
Questions are welcome at rob (AT)robnugen.com or via the
contact form.
Do you know any hospitals, governments, prison systems, companies, or organizations, (especially LGBT) that need millions of federally approved PPE (personal protective equipment)?
I understand there’s a shortage in PPE and other medical devices right now.
My dear friend Christine has refurbished her factories to manufacture all PPE, including facemasks (N95, Exportable KN95, 3 ply), gloves, coveralls and more.
They have a 30 year history with the factories and have got them switched over to PPE production since COVID shut everything down.
They started with only donating to prisons after they saw an article about how prison inmates were passing away while their families were not allowed to hold proper funerals for them. Their website still only talks about donations to incarcerated people, but they are updating their website now that more funds have come in, to include hospitals, schools, and other organizations on their donations lists.
They are an FDA registered distributor of medical devices, and also offer their own brand products.
They have secured all the necessary requirements to ship them around the world, US being top choice.
So proud to be part of five men embarking on this bold journey into
Purpose.
I tapped in to an old dream I have had on the back burner
for two years, to walk barefoot to 新潟, way on the other side of this
island, 68 hours away by foot!
After inner reflection to find our current Purpose in life, we looked
at the inner and outer challenges and then all set stretch goals to do
in the next week.
