Welcome back to another edition of the "Multi-Dimensional" newsletter. I hope you had a wonderful week!
Below are 6 journal prompts for you to explore, one for each dimension of your perspective.
Personal History
Perspective is a lineage. It did not start with you. One of the greatest ways to continue to understand the context of your perspective is to learn from generations before you.
I challenge you to call a relative this week. As them thoughtful questions, and write down their responses. Here are a few ideas to get you started:
- Can you tell me about your parents or grandparents?
- Are there any family traditions or recipes you remember?
- What was the happiest moment of your life?
- What would you do differently if you could?
Environment
Nature is a gift that allows you to heal your mind and recharge your soul.
How much time have you spent in nature this year? Where is your favorite place to go?
Beliefs
"We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Hope is both an emotion and a belief. While feelings of hope arise from optimism and anticipation about the future, hope as a belief is the underlying conviction that positive outcomes are possible even in the face of adversity.
How do you continue to nurture hope in your life, even when times feel challenging?
Emotions
Logic can try to make sense of the sensations in the body, but there's an innate wisdom within that understands what the mind cannot reason away. The most intense emotions are not meant to be explained. They are meant to be expressed.
How do you honor and express the wisdom of your emotions?
Relationships
Last week my grandma fell in the middle of the night and shattered her femur. After rushing her in an ambulance to the hospital, I sat at her bedside and held her hand through the night. The hospital room was cold and dim, and the monitors around us hummed quietly. As I watched her rest, it hit me that despite her spirit being as strong as ever, her body looked fragile, weakened by age and injury. At about 3:00 a.m., her eyes opened softly and her voice trembled through the pain as she looked at me and said: “I've taken care of you all these years, and now its your turn to take care of me.”
That sentence has echoed in my mind ever since. I thought about all the time she spent caring for me— cradling me, guiding me, and holding me up when I stumbled. And now, here we were, roles reversed but our bond unbroken.
It made me think about the cyclical nature of relationships, the ways in which they evolve, and how they return us to each other in unexpected ways.
Think about a relationship in your life where the roles have shifted over time. How has this change deepened your understanding of connection and reciprocity in relationships?
Identity
In September, I attended my first breathwork session. It was an emotional, intense, healing, and transformative experience—far beyond anything I had imagined. It is safe to say that I vastly underestimated the power of our breath and its ability to guide us back home to ourselves.
During the 60-minute session, the message that came to me again and again was: The more you try to construct a sense of identity, the more you risk losing yourself. This realization felt like an overdue invitation to let go and reconnect with the essence of who I am, beyond what the world wants or expects me to be.
How might letting go of the need to define or construct your identity help you return to a more authentic version of yourself?
Sadie Sanchez , Author of DIMENSIONS