Welcome to Wednesday Balms,
A short-form, long-term creative project designed to cultivate individual value.
The hope is for this project to be helpful in analyzing preconceptions and expanding how we live our lives.
Every week, we will feature one article (roughly 5-10 minutes in reading time) that revolves around this [main idea-balm].
The [Main Idea-Balm] in 4 Bullets
Value is an objective quality that translates into subjective usefulness or helpfulness.
All value can be divided into four categories: Wisdom, Peace, Love, and Freedom.
Each category contains a scale that goes from Unearned to Earned.
The Earned is always more real than the Unearned.
What’s an Idea-Balm?
Myka: A play on words on “truth-bomb” or “mind-bomb.” You know, things that make your head go *splooooosh.* Bombs are explosive and destructive. Balms are soothing and therapeutic. Both accentuate and allow the process of self-development.
Old material must be cleared away and cast aside. Bombed. Where there are wounds, sometimes ointment needs to be applied to allow healing. Balmed.
Bomb then Balm. Bomb. Balm.
Kellen: These balms aim to provide elasticity, malleability and flexibility to rigid mental systems. Your current network of thought is unlikely yours. Your existing associations of Wisdom, Peace, Love, and Freedom are more like a tapestry bestowed upon you. One that is unfit to provide meaningful direction in your life. Change in this sense is not earned through control and self-management, but through an act of letting go, releasing and ultimately surrendering.
As Myka said, let your mind sploosh.
What to Expect
Myka: Please think of this project as a mental-hiking book and a mental-hiking club. Every week we will examine the intricacies and nuances of the idea-balm as well develop and test applications for it.
One part identifying the hike. One part traversing it.
Kellen: There is the information and then there is the practice. The trail exists, yet the path has been overgrown. We will hack, prune and at other times leave be in the forest in order to move forward.
Deconstructing and rebuilding values that have been taken for granted.
Myka: The material is open to interpretation and open until experienced.
All value you earn is yours to keep.
Schedule
The aim of this project is to provide bite-sized readings for big-sized ideas. Every week will be like one section out of one chapter of a book. In this way, “chapters” are grouped and labeled as “seasons” due to their orientation toward time.
Season One: Overview
Week 1 → Summary
Week 2 → Wisdom
Week 3 → Peace
Week 4 → Love
Week 5 → Freedom
Week 6 → [HIDDEN]
Season Two: Wisdom
4 - 6 Weeks
Season Three: Peace
4 - 6 Weeks
Season Four: Love
4 - 6 Weeks
Season Five: Freedom
4 - 6 Weeks
Who We Are
Kellen is a pursuer of meaning and talks with people about their lives.
Myka is a creative rogue and a collector of cool ideas.
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Excited to join you on this journey!