Planned Spontaneity
by Indigo Irwin Kennedy ©Author: Indigo Irwin Kennedy/TheWaveRiders.com (PI1104spontaneity)

As Wave Riders our overly optimistic side can make us extremely vulnerable to taking action, "leaping before we look", that often leads us into occasionally dangerous and undesirable outcomes. Sometimes, our random side lucks out and we have the most incredible experience, which makes the spontaneous side of our character very addicting. We tend to believe that people who are not spontaneous are boring and we never want to be boring. Is there a way to still enjoy the excitement of being spontaneous without ruining our lives by making inappropriate instantaneous decisions…ABSOLUTELY!

It's the latest trend (according to TrendWatching.com)- planned spontaneity, and businesses are setting up services that support last minute decisions. Often called SMS, Small Message Services or MMS, Mobile Matching Services for Cell phone daters, it is a new system for directing last minute information allowing us to make spontaneous decisions. It works by sending small text messages on cell phones and portable devices that give us current information and instant text messages from matchmaking services for casual daters to the last minute travel deals posted by airlines and hotels and the latest stock market quotes for investors.

Planned Spontaneity is not the same as the spontaneous jumping on a plane regardless of cost and heading to a destination chosen at the last minute when you arrive at the airport and living with the consequences later. It is not about making a spur of the moment investment without researching. Planned Spontaneity is a trend of planning to do something at the last minute, knowing it is REALLY, what we want to do and not just an injection of adrenaline. Planned Spontaneity has great value to us Wave Riders. It means that we can make exciting plans and still leave a little mystery in the adventure.

I do not encourage anyone to jump on any idea that comes to you when you are on the upper wave. This past decision making process is what caused problems for many of us.
It may take days, months or even a year for you to truly come to the middle where you are neither ecstatic nor depressed and can make a clear decision. Only you will know when you are in the right place. If you are pacing and the decision seems rushed and full of anxiety slow down and look at it because soul based decisions are very calm and full of peaceful confidence. If you find yourself making a decision because your world sucks and you hate it, then wait awhile because it sounds like you are on the lower wave and in the rebuilding state of depression. We often confuse "spiritual inspiration" with a "high" wave ride. We are not preventing TRUE spiritual inspiration but are instead asking that you look inside yourself and double check that it is really inspiration and not an injection of adrenaline from the up energy state.

The safety in Planned Spontaneity is in doing the planning during your MID-WAVE TRUE self. This means that you REALLY want to do this thing, and then you can allow fate/the universe/ karma/ luck or whatever you want to call it to direct you the rest of the way. It allows you to spontaneously decide where to go or what to do while having previously planned to be spontaneous. The planning helps us to avoid leaving a wake of destruction from our impromptu actions. It helps us to be spontaneous in a direction that we really want to go or in a direction that we are true natural guidance.

In other words, you decide that you want to do something when you are on the mid-wave area and then can act upon the spontaneity even when you are on the upper "high" wave.

For example: I decide while I am on my mid-wave and being directed by desire, not fear or wanting to run away, that I want to travel this year. I decide that I will travel in the fall or within the next 6 months. I know this is what I want to do and so I put my money away. I have not decided where I am going or what I will do I am simply deciding to go on a trip.

While I wait for the time to come, I save and prepare to go on an adventure. Then preparation meets opportunity, I check the fall specials, and they are to Tahiti and the Dominican Republic. I chose the destination and set the date. I am not running off on a spur of a moment idea. I am being spontaneous but using caution.

Impulsive actions can be fun and they can often lead to solid great results, however, we need to be aware of our propensity to "jump on the next bandwagon" to "follow the signs without care". We also tend to see our world simply in "black and white" and "good and bad". Things are the best or the worst and rarely just good. We are either quitting or starting … and feel lost during the maintaining period.

We can still be fun and have fun and we can allow the natural flow of things to happen in our lives…we simply need to know that it is the natural flow and not our euphoric high or our dismal downs pushing us to take action that we would not normally take.

As Wave Riders we must be careful about the instantaneous spontaneity that can often get us into trouble, however we can chose to be carefully spontaneous, and live exciting lives filled with adventure without destruction. A day of spontaneous fun is not usually worth the price of a month's depression, lifelong sorrow and days of guilt over the consequences that a little planning could have avoided.

Let's learn how to have fun without causing pain.

Yours in Faith,
Indigo Irwin Kennedy
Beyond the mind, around the heart, fill the soul.