I am a creator of joyful experiences.
With my heart open I expand my world and express my Greatest Self.
I relax and allow more and more of the wonders of life to be revealed for me and through me. With my choices I celebrate and enjoy this magnificent life.
Happy New Year!
Thursday, December 31, 2009
Saturday, December 26, 2009
Intermission! Choose Your Next Movie
"I've been waiting for my dreams
to turn into something
I could believe in
And looking for that magic rainbow
on the horizon
I couldn't see it
Until I gave in to love
and watched all the bitterness burn.
Now I'm coming alive
Body and Soul
and feeling my world start to turn..."
David Cook
I love movies! And I love beauty too so I jumped to see Avatar when it first came out. I was not disappointed. I've got a whole slew of other movies to see over the next few weeks. It's Complicated and Holmes are on my list. But this time of year there is another movie at the top of my viewing list. The "Next Movie of Your Life" is available for New Years viewing and I don't want any of us to miss this golden opportunity.
Please take seriously the following paragraphs. I'm going to walk you through a simple process that could change the quality of your life from this point forward. Whatever you are doing - take a few minutes right now to imagine you are entering "Your Inner Cinema" where the next script for your life is ready for choosing.
Are you ready to have a look? Start here: In "The Current Movie of Your Life!"
Imagine. You are at the Cinema - one of the big ones where at least a dozen films are showing in one building. You are watching a flick. The movie on the screen is the story of your current life. Notice the scene that is playing. You'll probably see events, people and circumstances that you enjoy and love. Likely you'll also see events, people and stuff that you would prefer to do without. You might also recognize that some scenes are replays. You've seen the events many times before and you know where the movie is headed. The picture might be getting old. Or you might have recently stepped into a new theatre and much of what you see on the screen is new and exciting for you.
Look around the theatre too.
Who is sitting beside you?
Who else is there?
What is the mood in the theatre?
What are your dominant feelings as you watch the show?
Now, take a breath.
Intermission!
Imagine. The Universe is calling a brief Intermission. It happens all the time and usually we fail to notice. You are at a point in the movie of your life where you can make a shift. You can make different choices. Or you can reaffirm the choices you are currently making and you can return to the same theater to fully engage your current life with conviction and energy.
The Central Hallway
Imagine the film freezes and everything becomes still. It's as if time has stopped and you have a window of time to reflect upon your choices. Please get up from your seat and walk out into the central hallway of the cinema.
Take a deep relaxing breath once again.
All is well.
Enjoy this pause.
Now look back at the theater you just left and move your gaze up to see the Title of the Current Movie of Your Life lit up on the marquee above the door.
What does it say?
What is the title of the current movie of your life.
Please write it down.
Be open to receive this information in any way it appears for you. If you are more auditory you might "hear" the title rather than see it. Others who are kinesthetic might "sense" or "feel" the movie's title in your body. The title might appear blurry or out of focus at first. Relax and give it some time. Or if you are not sure Make it Up - We do make up the movies of our lives. And we can change the titles too.
A Creators Choice
Imagine. What other films are playing at the cinema right now?
What film would you most like to see?
If you could create the next ideal movie for your life- (you can indeed do that- when you align with Your Higher Self and your design blueprint) -what would it be? Today you get to choose.
You can return to the current movie of your life or you can choose a brand new flick.
Which will it be?
The Next Movie of Your Life
If, today, you decide to enter a new theater take a moment to view/ allow/ create/ record the Title of the Next Movie of Your Life. Make it a great one. Create a title that sings in your heart, curls your toes, and lifts your "Spirit" - Yes- choose that one! Write it down now.
Thank You!
You might want to run toward your new flick. You might feel excited to see what is in front of you. But before you do - please bow or nod with thanks and appreciation to the theater you just left. Give thanks for the adventure of your life so far and when you are ready - step into the Next Movie of Your Life and enjoy the experience fully. Remember. If you don't like what is happening you can always return to the Central Hallway to choose again. We are Creators. Exercise those creative muscles and they grow stronger every day.
This is just a sneak preview for the coming attraction happening this Tuesday December 29th at the Write Your Life for 2010 Global Teleclass. You'll have an opportunity to connect with the Next Highest Design Blueprint for the Four Major Rooms of your Life- and with the blueprint you'll roll into alignment with the greatest health, wealth, work and love that you and your Higher Self are conjuring up for you in the year ahead.
ps. At our Special Event Global Teleclass - Write Your Life for 2010 You Receive a 21 Page PDF Handout packed with information and blank Design Blueprint Worksheets for you to fill in during our Writing Practice. Watch your email over the next few days to download and print your copy prior to our Global Teleclass on Tuesday. You are gonna love it! Special Event: "Write your Life for 2010"
pss. Kona Ohana? The Live Program of Write your Life for 2010 happens tomorrow in Kona! Sunday Dec 27th and next Saturday Jan 2nd. Join me in person, come write your heart out!
Sunday, December 20, 2009
Falling Apart to Come Together in a New Way
This week I've been listening to people talk. I've tuned in to conversations at the gym where I go for Zumba, the grocery store where I get my veggies and the coffee shop where I drink Earl Grey tea. Here's a bit of what I over heard - just in the last five days.
"This year has been the worst year of my life."
"Everything started falling apart and there was nothing I could do about it."
"I went through so many changes this year it feels like my head is not screwed on the same way. "
"I feel like I've been through a Tsunami."
These statements are not rare ones- at least not this year. I could write pages of examples but I don't think I need to. You are probably saying or hearing some variation of these statements too.
Everywhere people are discussing the Big Changes they are going through.
For a while I thought I knew one person unaffected by major changes this year. I took comfort in thinking that the balance she maintained in her life was possible for all of us. But even she came upon sudden unexpected challenges that moved her to actions she hadn't considered previously.
There is no going backwards.
Our whole species is growing and changing. Outdated systems are falling apart- visible in our outer world and apparent in our individual lives. This is not new news! Yes, we are being challenged to surrender what doesn't work anymore and that can be downright unsettling. This we know!
During times like these it behooves us to look for what is whole and healing amidst apparent turmoil.
Barbara Marx Hubbard calls this time of collective change Humanity Ascending. Not Descending -Ascending! Do we believe that? Will we trust the changes we are going through - RIGHT NOW - are indeed taking us to higher ground not down into the gutter as we, in our deeper fears, imagine.
I remember when the acronym for FEAR was "False Expectations Appearing Real." Neal Donald Walsh offers us a new acronym that invites us into greater responsibility FEAR - "Feeling Excited and Ready." Even and especially when it feels as though everything is falling apart we get choose our attitude and approach don't we?
I often feel my fears are a flip away from excitement. Sometimes I flip back and forth many times in one hour. And sometimes I just flip-flop around and can't seem to get settled anywhere. When life feels most unsettled I turn my attention toward nature for solace. You'll often hear me talk about having a "beach day."
In nature I see the cycle of creation at work. Flowers bud, bloom, decay, turn to seed and fertilize the soil for a next cycle of growth. The lotus pushes its way through mud, travels to the surface of water, rises into the air where finally it blossoms- and then decays again. I've kept roses in a vase long after they blossomed because I find the shedding of their petals beautiful.
Creation is not about making things stay the same.
Life will call our bluff if we attempt to keep our lives static. Especially now - when the speed of creation is moving so quickly.
We need to accept that sometimes things fall apart - so they can come together in a new- and BETTER way.
We don't need to know "HOW" changes will create better experiences for us. But we can do our part to LISTEN DEEPLY AND STAY CONNECTED.
Right now as we complete a year of big changes we have the opportunity to release what isn't working for us. And as we lean into our New Year we can bring along our trust that life is good and wise. The very best is ahead of us.
Let go. Good and More Good is Coming!
"This year has been the worst year of my life."
"Everything started falling apart and there was nothing I could do about it."
"I went through so many changes this year it feels like my head is not screwed on the same way. "
"I feel like I've been through a Tsunami."
These statements are not rare ones- at least not this year. I could write pages of examples but I don't think I need to. You are probably saying or hearing some variation of these statements too.
Everywhere people are discussing the Big Changes they are going through.
For a while I thought I knew one person unaffected by major changes this year. I took comfort in thinking that the balance she maintained in her life was possible for all of us. But even she came upon sudden unexpected challenges that moved her to actions she hadn't considered previously.
There is no going backwards.
Our whole species is growing and changing. Outdated systems are falling apart- visible in our outer world and apparent in our individual lives. This is not new news! Yes, we are being challenged to surrender what doesn't work anymore and that can be downright unsettling. This we know!
During times like these it behooves us to look for what is whole and healing amidst apparent turmoil.
Barbara Marx Hubbard calls this time of collective change Humanity Ascending. Not Descending -Ascending! Do we believe that? Will we trust the changes we are going through - RIGHT NOW - are indeed taking us to higher ground not down into the gutter as we, in our deeper fears, imagine.
I remember when the acronym for FEAR was "False Expectations Appearing Real." Neal Donald Walsh offers us a new acronym that invites us into greater responsibility FEAR - "Feeling Excited and Ready." Even and especially when it feels as though everything is falling apart we get choose our attitude and approach don't we?
I often feel my fears are a flip away from excitement. Sometimes I flip back and forth many times in one hour. And sometimes I just flip-flop around and can't seem to get settled anywhere. When life feels most unsettled I turn my attention toward nature for solace. You'll often hear me talk about having a "beach day."
In nature I see the cycle of creation at work. Flowers bud, bloom, decay, turn to seed and fertilize the soil for a next cycle of growth. The lotus pushes its way through mud, travels to the surface of water, rises into the air where finally it blossoms- and then decays again. I've kept roses in a vase long after they blossomed because I find the shedding of their petals beautiful.
Creation is not about making things stay the same.
Life will call our bluff if we attempt to keep our lives static. Especially now - when the speed of creation is moving so quickly.
We need to accept that sometimes things fall apart - so they can come together in a new- and BETTER way.
We don't need to know "HOW" changes will create better experiences for us. But we can do our part to LISTEN DEEPLY AND STAY CONNECTED.
Right now as we complete a year of big changes we have the opportunity to release what isn't working for us. And as we lean into our New Year we can bring along our trust that life is good and wise. The very best is ahead of us.
Let go. Good and More Good is Coming!
Thursday, December 10, 2009
The Writers Lounge has a Muse
The Writers Lounge has a Muse! How do I know? Yesterday she would not leave me alone. She first appeared in the afternoon while I was writing at the beach. Yes, I do that at least once a week- at special spots where the Ocean Muses come to shore. Now the Writers Lounge - a global space created by writers around the world has a Muse too. Will I ever get any rest? Not likely now!
In the evening she had me sitting at the computer creating fourteen days of writing sparks. She wants us to keep writing. In fact she thinks the holiday season is one of the best times to write. Why? Most of us have time away from our ordinary routines. She loves that! She says ordinary life does not have enough fire in it. We ignore her sparks. We are not listening. We cover up our creative embers with chores. Also - many people feel sad or lonely during the holiday season - even when they are spending time with loved ones. There is a collective longing in the air - a desire for connection and belonging. The Muse from the Writers Lounge tells me we long to feel our own Creative Flow. We miss our Selves she says - and she has a cure. Get Creative! Get Writing!
I've just learned that everyone who registers for the Special Event "Write Your Life for 2010" happening December 29th will get a gift from the Muse of the Writers Lounge - Fourteen days of Writing Sparks. I just have to figure out the technical stuff to deliver a Writing Spark each day for fourteen days to our email boxes. I'm working on that right now. I have a feeling the Muse from the Writers Lounge is going to be keeping us all very busy doing what we love- writing.
In the evening she had me sitting at the computer creating fourteen days of writing sparks. She wants us to keep writing. In fact she thinks the holiday season is one of the best times to write. Why? Most of us have time away from our ordinary routines. She loves that! She says ordinary life does not have enough fire in it. We ignore her sparks. We are not listening. We cover up our creative embers with chores. Also - many people feel sad or lonely during the holiday season - even when they are spending time with loved ones. There is a collective longing in the air - a desire for connection and belonging. The Muse from the Writers Lounge tells me we long to feel our own Creative Flow. We miss our Selves she says - and she has a cure. Get Creative! Get Writing!
I've just learned that everyone who registers for the Special Event "Write Your Life for 2010" happening December 29th will get a gift from the Muse of the Writers Lounge - Fourteen days of Writing Sparks. I just have to figure out the technical stuff to deliver a Writing Spark each day for fourteen days to our email boxes. I'm working on that right now. I have a feeling the Muse from the Writers Lounge is going to be keeping us all very busy doing what we love- writing.
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
Tips from John Cleese ~ Create an Oasis!
I think John Cleese is pretty cool! I just stumbled upon this awesome Video of the actor John Cleese talking about his Creative Process and I loved it. He speaks about creating an Oasis in your life- where your creativity can emerge. Most of us have difficulty doing this. We have trouble tuning out from our daily grind - and that is why I created the Writers Lounge.
But there is something else that makes the Writers Lounge unique. You are not writing alone - and that is one of the most difficult challenges writers, artists and creators face. The solitude, the loneliness, the isolation. At the Writers Lounge you have company. Even though you are writing on your own, you know others are right there beside you writing too. It's comforting and the gathered creative energy adds to your writing flow.
For one hour you don't have to think. I guide you in Writing Practices and for that one hour - all you do is write, write, write. It is amazing what happens in just one hour devoted to your own creativity.
If you have not yet signed up for Thursdays Writers Lounge you can still do so here. Writers Lounge
When you register you add a topic to the mix. (The topics that have come in so far are heartful, deep and intriguing. They will indeed get our creative sparks firing!)
Video: I have always enjoyed the humorous side of John Cleese. Here we get a peek into his Creative Process: Enjoy!
ps. OASIS is one of my favorite words. Now you know. Oasis, Oasis, OASIS! I Love that Word. What words do you love?
But there is something else that makes the Writers Lounge unique. You are not writing alone - and that is one of the most difficult challenges writers, artists and creators face. The solitude, the loneliness, the isolation. At the Writers Lounge you have company. Even though you are writing on your own, you know others are right there beside you writing too. It's comforting and the gathered creative energy adds to your writing flow.
For one hour you don't have to think. I guide you in Writing Practices and for that one hour - all you do is write, write, write. It is amazing what happens in just one hour devoted to your own creativity.
If you have not yet signed up for Thursdays Writers Lounge you can still do so here. Writers Lounge
When you register you add a topic to the mix. (The topics that have come in so far are heartful, deep and intriguing. They will indeed get our creative sparks firing!)
Video: I have always enjoyed the humorous side of John Cleese. Here we get a peek into his Creative Process: Enjoy!
ps. OASIS is one of my favorite words. Now you know. Oasis, Oasis, OASIS! I Love that Word. What words do you love?
Firmed up Plans for Writing into the New Year
Today we firmed up our plans for Three Events to Write Your Life for 2010!
I am more than a little excited about these events since these are Writing Practices that have changed my life - more than once - and I have the privilege of sharing them.
Last night at our Writers Flow Class I guided the group into a preliminary writing practice that helped them see, feel and understand their creative power - or feelings of dis-empowerment - in the four major rooms of their life: Health, Wealth, Work/Play, Love. It was a full night of Writing with Spirit - and there were surprises. That is one of the best experiences - When we get out of the way and observe what appears on the page instead of controlling it.
I'll be doing Two Events in Kona
Sunday Dec 27th at the Aloha Center for Spiritual Living
and
Saturday January 2nd at Unity Church of Kona- Kohala
and I'll be doing a Global Teleclass for Anyone and Everyone Around the World
Tuesday Dec 29th
It will be a busy week for me and I hope you will join me for one, two or all three events.
There is nothing like putting ideas in black and white to get the creative forces of the Universe whirling and swirling into manifestation.
I am more than a little excited about these events since these are Writing Practices that have changed my life - more than once - and I have the privilege of sharing them.
Last night at our Writers Flow Class I guided the group into a preliminary writing practice that helped them see, feel and understand their creative power - or feelings of dis-empowerment - in the four major rooms of their life: Health, Wealth, Work/Play, Love. It was a full night of Writing with Spirit - and there were surprises. That is one of the best experiences - When we get out of the way and observe what appears on the page instead of controlling it.
I'll be doing Two Events in Kona
Sunday Dec 27th at the Aloha Center for Spiritual Living
and
Saturday January 2nd at Unity Church of Kona- Kohala
and I'll be doing a Global Teleclass for Anyone and Everyone Around the World
Tuesday Dec 29th
It will be a busy week for me and I hope you will join me for one, two or all three events.
There is nothing like putting ideas in black and white to get the creative forces of the Universe whirling and swirling into manifestation.
Sunday, December 6, 2009
Writing and Dreaming
I'm preparing for the upcoming "Write Your Life for 2010" workshops by taking myself through a series of new writing practices. I'm loving what is happening. Remember that song:
"I can see clearly now the rain is gone!" That is how I feel today.
And I am loving that my night dreams are dovetailing with my daytime writing practice. On the first day I wrote for my house of LOVE in 2010. That night I had a love dream that revealed my design and confirmed my blueprint. I could see the choices I had made that took me down a less than fulfilling love path. In the dream I made new choices – founded on my new blueprint and could see an entirely different experience for love in my life.
Last night I had a dream where I was stuck in a new building for my work. I was trying to be safe. Instead of hiding from my attackers I ended up in their room. I woke with understanding. Trying to be safe never works. It is the egos path. Real safety comes when I follow my Higher Self - which often asks me to be daring and to take risks. Today I will do the writing practices for my house of WORK for 2010.
Over the next few days I'll "Write my Life for 2010" for both HEALTH AND WEALTH. I can't wait to see the design for the greatest expression of my Higher Self in all of the major houses of my life for the year ahead.
I'm offering two live "Write your Life for 2010!" workshops in Hawaii and I got so excited about this process that I've just added a new Global Teleclass to the schedule. This process is too good not to share.
"I can see clearly now the rain is gone!" That is how I feel today.
And I am loving that my night dreams are dovetailing with my daytime writing practice. On the first day I wrote for my house of LOVE in 2010. That night I had a love dream that revealed my design and confirmed my blueprint. I could see the choices I had made that took me down a less than fulfilling love path. In the dream I made new choices – founded on my new blueprint and could see an entirely different experience for love in my life.
Last night I had a dream where I was stuck in a new building for my work. I was trying to be safe. Instead of hiding from my attackers I ended up in their room. I woke with understanding. Trying to be safe never works. It is the egos path. Real safety comes when I follow my Higher Self - which often asks me to be daring and to take risks. Today I will do the writing practices for my house of WORK for 2010.
Over the next few days I'll "Write my Life for 2010" for both HEALTH AND WEALTH. I can't wait to see the design for the greatest expression of my Higher Self in all of the major houses of my life for the year ahead.
I'm offering two live "Write your Life for 2010!" workshops in Hawaii and I got so excited about this process that I've just added a new Global Teleclass to the schedule. This process is too good not to share.
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
A Writing Practice For You: Invite Music into Words
Writers Flow happened again last night. This week our focus was on "Your Unique Style - Finding Your Writing Rhythm" We go about this in a "creative" way - imagine that! Through the course of the class we view pictures and invite them to "write through us". We listen to music and invite the music to form words through us. We use trigger words - randomly chosen - as if anything is ever random - and we let those trigger words write stories as if they are being delivered by waves washing through us.
By the end of the class we end up feeling expanded and stretched outside of our ordinary minds. And we find ourselves wanting to write more.
Really, you have to get out of your own mind to allow pictures or sounds to write through you. The thrill comes as we recognize that we are each unique instruments for the expression of Spirit in life. It dawns on us that there are stories everywhere. Everything has life in it waiting for one of us to bring it alive for others. Performers do that for their audiences. Writers do that for their readers. Lovers do that for their beloved. It is the creator in us that makes it up. And with Writing Practice we realize how creative we really are.
Is this some self-indulgent practice? Hardly! Writing Practice helps us develop our "creators muscles." As they grow strong and limber our capacity to share life in meaningful ways expands also.
A Writing Practice For You: Invite Music into Words
Find a piece of music that you love. Instrumental pieces work best. Close your eyes and listen carefully. Listen deeply. Let the music move through you as you ask it to become words. You might listen to the base notes and find one story. You might listen to the high notes and find another. You might listen from your belly and hear a different story than the one you hear in your toes. One piece of music can take you on many writing adventures. Writing music into words is great training for letting Spirits flow move your words. Enjoy!
By the end of the class we end up feeling expanded and stretched outside of our ordinary minds. And we find ourselves wanting to write more.
Really, you have to get out of your own mind to allow pictures or sounds to write through you. The thrill comes as we recognize that we are each unique instruments for the expression of Spirit in life. It dawns on us that there are stories everywhere. Everything has life in it waiting for one of us to bring it alive for others. Performers do that for their audiences. Writers do that for their readers. Lovers do that for their beloved. It is the creator in us that makes it up. And with Writing Practice we realize how creative we really are.
Is this some self-indulgent practice? Hardly! Writing Practice helps us develop our "creators muscles." As they grow strong and limber our capacity to share life in meaningful ways expands also.
A Writing Practice For You: Invite Music into Words
Find a piece of music that you love. Instrumental pieces work best. Close your eyes and listen carefully. Listen deeply. Let the music move through you as you ask it to become words. You might listen to the base notes and find one story. You might listen to the high notes and find another. You might listen from your belly and hear a different story than the one you hear in your toes. One piece of music can take you on many writing adventures. Writing music into words is great training for letting Spirits flow move your words. Enjoy!
Monday, November 30, 2009
How Do Messages from Spirit Come?
"I believe that you're great, that there's something magnificent about you.
Regardless of what has happened to you in your life, regardless of how young or how old you think you might be, the moment you begin to think properly, this something that is within you, this power within you that's greater than the world, it will begin to emerge. It will take over your life. It will feed you, it will clothe you, it will guide you, protect you, direct you, sustain your very existence. If you let it! Now that is what I know, for sure."
- Michael Beckwith
I slept deep last night. One of those soul-satisfying sleeps where I know my cells are being replenished. This morning while I was drifting between sleep and waking I had an image on my mind. It was the leftover fragment from a dream I couldn't quite catch but it became words that lingered when I opened my eyes-
"I am catching fireflies on my plate."
Huh? What is that all about? I haven't a clue what that phrase means but I like it -and I've been mulling it over all day. I've visited with friends, attended a community potluck at the beach, watched the sunset over the ocean, shopped for groceries, fed my cat and still this one phrase keeps replaying in my mind.
I suppose I could have put the whole idea of "catching fireflies on my plate" right out of my mind but I didn't want to. I felt energized and enthused when I thought about it. In fact I felt delighted and touched with the mystery of it all.
Sometimes that is how messages from Spirit come. Strange phrases, dream fragments, feelings that light us up inside and signal something unusual, otherworldly, profound has arrived. The question is whether we are listening and once receiving these messages - will we cancel them out because they make no sense to our ordinary minds?
Our creative worlds often appear mysterious and strange. Artists know their best projects are often born when they stumble down paths not taken before. Many outlines of my workshops were first jotted down on scraps of paper while I was traveling in a car. Mystics know that creation happens beyond the left-brain - when we are "out of our minds."
I love being connected to the mystic, creative, mysterious realms of Spirit. My life is richer and more exotic for it. When I'm not - well, let's just say - I get restless, uncomfortable and my life feels flat instead of bold and vibrant.
So I will continue to catch fireflies on my plate - even if I do not - right in this minute - understand what that means. And I will continue to notice when I feel "lit up inside". - mmm - isn't that what happens to fireflies?
I ask questions - about my work, about my love life, about my financial flow and about the best way to care for my physical body. I know when I ask the answers come. And I also know the most expanded answers to my questions happen when I am in my creative zone.
And so I do creative practices. I take on creative projects that stretch me. I write. I dance. I do things differently. I change things up - in ways that light me up. (mmm- I'm beginning to detect a theme) I make new choices. I create.
Living a creative life connects us to Spirit's design for our lives. Some might call the creators life crazy but I wouldn't want to live any other way.
Regardless of what has happened to you in your life, regardless of how young or how old you think you might be, the moment you begin to think properly, this something that is within you, this power within you that's greater than the world, it will begin to emerge. It will take over your life. It will feed you, it will clothe you, it will guide you, protect you, direct you, sustain your very existence. If you let it! Now that is what I know, for sure."
- Michael Beckwith
I slept deep last night. One of those soul-satisfying sleeps where I know my cells are being replenished. This morning while I was drifting between sleep and waking I had an image on my mind. It was the leftover fragment from a dream I couldn't quite catch but it became words that lingered when I opened my eyes-
"I am catching fireflies on my plate."
Huh? What is that all about? I haven't a clue what that phrase means but I like it -and I've been mulling it over all day. I've visited with friends, attended a community potluck at the beach, watched the sunset over the ocean, shopped for groceries, fed my cat and still this one phrase keeps replaying in my mind.
I suppose I could have put the whole idea of "catching fireflies on my plate" right out of my mind but I didn't want to. I felt energized and enthused when I thought about it. In fact I felt delighted and touched with the mystery of it all.
Sometimes that is how messages from Spirit come. Strange phrases, dream fragments, feelings that light us up inside and signal something unusual, otherworldly, profound has arrived. The question is whether we are listening and once receiving these messages - will we cancel them out because they make no sense to our ordinary minds?
Our creative worlds often appear mysterious and strange. Artists know their best projects are often born when they stumble down paths not taken before. Many outlines of my workshops were first jotted down on scraps of paper while I was traveling in a car. Mystics know that creation happens beyond the left-brain - when we are "out of our minds."
I love being connected to the mystic, creative, mysterious realms of Spirit. My life is richer and more exotic for it. When I'm not - well, let's just say - I get restless, uncomfortable and my life feels flat instead of bold and vibrant.
So I will continue to catch fireflies on my plate - even if I do not - right in this minute - understand what that means. And I will continue to notice when I feel "lit up inside". - mmm - isn't that what happens to fireflies?
I ask questions - about my work, about my love life, about my financial flow and about the best way to care for my physical body. I know when I ask the answers come. And I also know the most expanded answers to my questions happen when I am in my creative zone.
And so I do creative practices. I take on creative projects that stretch me. I write. I dance. I do things differently. I change things up - in ways that light me up. (mmm- I'm beginning to detect a theme) I make new choices. I create.
Living a creative life connects us to Spirit's design for our lives. Some might call the creators life crazy but I wouldn't want to live any other way.
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
Thanks Giving Day and My Perfectionist Flew Out the Window ~ What a Relief!
Tomorrow I am turning the computer off and instead of staring into the screen I'll be looking out at the deep blue ocean. We are packing snacks, taking lots of drinking water and a friend and I are leaving early in the morning for the beach. It's a Thanksgiving tradition here in Hawaii and this time of year beach time is something I treasure.
I've been on a huge learning curve over the last few weeks and it's not over yet. I have been revamping our Creators Choice website to make it easy for you to find the New Write with Spirit Schedule of Global Teleclasses along with more cool stuff to support the creator in all of us.
I've been learning the inside "stuffing" of website building and I've had my share of "mystic aches." Links are broken, pages have dissappeared and the perfectionist in me flew out the window hours ago. Still - if you want an imperfect peek at the imperfectly created Write with Spirit side of Creators Choice you can hop over there and visit. I'll be adding more soon. Well maybe not so soon. I'm going to take some time off to appreciate the wonderful, incomplete, unfinished nature of this perfect life.
We never get it done, and so we have a number of choices. Here are a few of them:
Worry, fret and get upset about the "imperfection" we see
or
Enjoy the journey exactly as it is today.
Is that possible?
The ego says NO!
The Spirit says Yes!
Sending Gratitude
Thanks for Being YOU!
I've been on a huge learning curve over the last few weeks and it's not over yet. I have been revamping our Creators Choice website to make it easy for you to find the New Write with Spirit Schedule of Global Teleclasses along with more cool stuff to support the creator in all of us.
I've been learning the inside "stuffing" of website building and I've had my share of "mystic aches." Links are broken, pages have dissappeared and the perfectionist in me flew out the window hours ago. Still - if you want an imperfect peek at the imperfectly created Write with Spirit side of Creators Choice you can hop over there and visit. I'll be adding more soon. Well maybe not so soon. I'm going to take some time off to appreciate the wonderful, incomplete, unfinished nature of this perfect life.
We never get it done, and so we have a number of choices. Here are a few of them:
Worry, fret and get upset about the "imperfection" we see
or
Enjoy the journey exactly as it is today.
Is that possible?
The ego says NO!
The Spirit says Yes!
Sending Gratitude
Thanks for Being YOU!
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