Just less than a week ago I did some promotion at a small table in front of Kebab Masters. They kindly let us promote there and even have a blue flag in the carpark. I have done it before some years ago and I enjoyed one of their coffees again (I love their cheesy chips!)
I had not done stall promotion for the meditation I do for a while, certainly not for the Mandurah centre. I must admit I arrogantly thought I could find a better way and/or better things to do with my time. The reason I did it at all to start with was to take myself out of my comfort zone and share the meditation with anybody who's interested. I thought I had reached a point where I had gotten used to it and nobody wanted to approach me anyway, in effect hitting a plateau or wall even. I was proven wrong.
Going there was fairly uneventful, but quite paradoxically, I felt the most anxiety after going there. It was completely irrational and I recognised it was deep minds coming up to be discarded. In fact, I had a very similar experience when I first did stall promotion. It was quite overwhelming at times and I really had to focus on being grateful while discarding those minds - which I didn't even attempt to identify - using the meditation method I follow. Just today I seem to have gotten used to this approach and not much coming up. Maybe it's time to challenge myself again! 😁
Also, I had been looking at getting a job. In doing so, I saw a link between this form of self promotion and promotion of the meditation through my physical presence. Let's see where the Universe takes me next.