Tilda is visible by Jane Tara

Author:Jane Tara
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: First published by Affirm Press in 2024
Published: 2024-01-16T00:00:00+00:00

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Maintaining brain health as you age is essential, and there are many ways to do that. Hobbies such as learning a new language or musical instrument are shown to be beneficial. However, combating invisibility requires more specific brain exercises, and the most effective are those where you’re visualising a future where you’re healthy and happy.

Visualisation is a tool that is commonly used by elite athletes. The brain doesn’t know the difference between a real event or an imagined one, so by imagining repetitive actions, such as getting that basketball through the hoop, an athlete can create new circuitry in the brain and create a better outcome on the day of the game.

The same techniques can be applied to your life. Using visual exercises, you can become very clear on what you want and create the neural circuitry to achieve it.

Tilda closed Selma’s book and turned her attention back to her computer and the collage of photos on her vision board.

There was a woman jumping with joy; a very visible woman with her arms up in the air; a woman seated at a table with friends, laughing; a man holding a woman in a loving way; a woman at an art gallery; a vibrant-looking older woman. Looking at the collage made Tilda smile. Despite her initial scepticism, this had been a very beneficial exercise. It really clarified how she wanted her life to look and made her feel good about the likelihood of achieving it.

With the vision board done, she looked at the next exercise on her list: decluttering.

This was going to take some help, so she grabbed a glass of wine first and then went to the garage.

When Tom left, Tilda had packed much of their life together into boxes and stored them in the garage. Holly and Tabitha were still at school, and between parenting them and running her business Tilda simply didn’t have time to deal with the things Tom left behind.

Literal and metaphorical.

Then, after the twins left home, she couldn’t be bothered. Now, since her last session with Selma, Tilda couldn’t stop thinking about the boxes, and how they needed to go.

She lugged the boxes inside and put them in the corner of the lounge room. She couldn’t even remember most of the contents. She knew there was a hot-pink vibrator in one box. That was an oddly insightful engagement gift from girlfriends. She could vaguely remember a set of Humpty Dumpty salt and pepper shakers Tom had got her. The rest was a mystery. She kept looking at these boxes she’d once thought so precious and felt no attachment. Zero. Just a sense of trepidation.

She wanted them gone. They were a glaring reminder of hopes and dreams that died with her marriage. She was tempted to toss the lot, but they called to her like a siren’s song.

She grabbed the notebook to write down thoughts, as Selma had asked her to.

I don’t have time to deal with these boxes.

Tom never made time for me.

I feel anxious.

I need to get rid of these boxes.

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