A recapitulation exercise helps creative people release rigid expectations that bleed into relationships and wellbeing. Spend ten minutes reviewing your past 24 hours and declare each moment complete, like turning a page. The speaker describes intense emotional release and personal forgiveness from the practice.
As creative people, I think we often put a lot of pressure on ourselves to show up and do something a specific way and generate some specific outcome. And I think this bleeds over not only into the work we do, whether you make art or, you know, you are some sort of creative entrepreneur. Like, I think it looks like that in our relationships, in the way we show up for people. And I just did an exercise where it's called a recapitulation exercise. The idea is that you look back on the last 24 hours and you call things complete. And to call something complete simply means to say, I may come back to this, there may be parts of this story that still play out. But the same way that we— this is what my coach said around it— is like the same way that we turn a page, we can call it complete. It's like, okay, this moment has ended. And it was so crazy because just thinking about the last 24 hours, which has had a lot of emotion. I don't know if anybody's feeling this, like, full moon stuff. I don't usually put myself in these, like, astrology buckets, but I'm telling you right now, like, there's something going on because in nearly all my relationships, all the things that's going on, like, I'm feeling a lot of heaviness. I've had a lot of cries the last couple days, and just in this exercise of calling the last 24 hours complete, I'm was freaking bawling like a baby. And I just realized how little I do that, how few times I go back and go, no matter what happened in this moment, it can be complete, it can be done, and I can be okay with where it is. Right? And so I think there's a level of just personal forgiveness that lives in that. I don't know, give it a try. Just set a timer for 10 minutes or something and like, start by just thinking through every moment of your day and imagine that, you know, as you see that moment, what if you could just call it complete? Just say, this is done as it is. Maybe there'll be more to the story later, but for now it just is what it is. And that's a beautiful thing. I think there's healing in that. At least there was a little bit for me today. Anyway, hope you all have a great weekend. Sending you love.
