We are entering the final month of the creativity course.  So maybe some of you find it odd to start the project at the end of the road.  I believe that before we jump into a project, we need to learn how to connect to the Creative Self, to allow more creative inspiration to become a part of our daily life, and to remove the fears and blocks that keep us from connecting to this higher Creative Self.

Once we become connected to the Creative Self, now it is the time to direct my focus toward bringing something new into the world.

So for the final month we will make a first step towards stepping on the road of bringing forth something our soul has been longing to create.  What is it that you truly desire to create?  What is the project you want to see manifested?  Let's use this new moon to plant the seed of success!  

For this new moon session we will clarify our goals, in part by understanding the audience.  We will then make a commitment to taking some real steps in the 3D world towards actualizing those goals.

Join us Thursday at 4:30 CST.

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Cosmic Creativity: Art is an Echo of the Creative Force the Birthed the Galaxies. Creativity is the way that the Cosmos Evolves and Communicates with Itself. - Alex Grey 

As I am preparing for our next session together, I have come across a Ted Talk by Alex Grey.  What an incredible gift he has in expressing the spiritual nature of reality through visionary art.

Check him out here:
https://youtu.be/0_YJToyOp_4

"Visionary art matters because the mystical visionary experience of the Artist is the most direct contact we have with the divine.  All sacred art and religious traditions are founded on this mystic state.  The best currently available technology for sharing the mystic visionary experience is a well-crafted artistic rendering by an eye-witness"

We can say this to be true of all of the inner states.  The artistic rendering of these provides a window into the emotional, soul-based and spiritual dimensions of our reality.

When we do this, we can take a look at what is going on with a new perspective.  What a powerful tool for us all.  

The point of Consciousness Explorations is to help us learn to work with our consciousness in an effective way.  When we can do this we can live a life we want to live and create a world we want to live in.  Learning to work consciously with our thoughts and emotions is perhaps on of the most important goals of our lives.  So what about FEAR?!  Is there a way to work effectively with fear?
Here is Eckart Tolle’s take on the subject.  https://youtu.be/LiEU84nHEcY
​Throughout history there have been examples of fears causing people to go mute.  In fact, our nervous system is designed that way.  When we experience intense fear, a region of the brain called Broca’s area, completely shuts down.  This region is responsible for our ability to speak.  So in fear, we become mute.  We lose our voice. 
Fear has the power to control, and to throw us off course.  It draws us into what we don’t want to create.  The compelling power of this spooky world wherein we have no control, is inexplicable.  Fear causes us to make decisions that are not in our highest good.  In fear we struggle to fix things that may not even exist.  A life of fear-based decisions will leave us wondering what to do next.  It is one based on putting out fires (usually imaginary fires at that) of trying to survive rather than on striving towards a bigger vision with persistent faith and conviction.
Fear is one of the few emotions that I can find little use for.  Anger seems to allow a focused energy, anxiety, even, can be seen as a type of motivating force, but fear always seems to isolate me and leave me feeling paralyzed.  I wonder if any of you can see something of value in fear.

Join us this week as we explore ways to over-come fear using our creative energies.

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Topic: May Full Moon- On Fear
Time: May 26, 2021 07:00 PM Central Time (US and Canada)

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Desire is a powerful part of the creative process.  It is the emotional energy that we feel in the heart felt performance.  I remember not so long ago I attended a workshop with Mark Earlix.  He is a natural healer that I had been introduced to when we were seeking alternative therapies for my step-mom Sue as she battled cancer.

It was one of the most unusual workshops I have ever attended.  He told stories throughout the several days we spent together, and then we were given exercises to move ourselves into the state of healing and manifesting consciousness.  He said desire was one of the elements that could create a powerful state of manifestation.  (notably he also spoke about manifesting out of anxiety--although that seems a less preferable way to go.)

I was able to tap into this, and I see how powerful it is in shifting my state of consciousness, transforming unwanted thought patterns, and how especially effective it is in the act of creating!

Here I share with you a morning song writing process where I discuss this idea.

Hope you enjoy it.

It All Started with Seeing the Goodness in You
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Here is the finished song.... 

https://photos.app.goo.gl/UYGhcYY9NoA12BM86
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This month we are inviting you to engage in a creativity challenge.  This extends the open challenge to give a focus to the creative energy.

As we are all creators, creating the life and things we experience though our thoughts and emotions, why not start to shift our focus, and create the life we desire.

I am listening to Josiah Brandt read Neville Goddard, and I am particularly fascinated by this section...

youtu.be/5Oo4gvE-kAw?t=1150

I recall working with a therapist some years back, who talked to me about how my vibration was attracting the state of my existence, and that I may have discovered ways to occasionally move into those positive states I desired, but that the majority of the time I was in a low, depressed, and despairing state of mind.

She called it a flickering light.

So how do we shift and stay in that higher state?  I have found that the shorter my visits to the lower thought plane (or low road as we talked about in our last class) the more I feel myself, and my strength in that space of the high road.

But what about those particularly sticky life areas that just seem to drop us down and we can't get out?  I have found I can use those spaces as jumping of places.  As reminders to focus on the way I want the world to be.  

One particularly difficult experience I have had was with being taken advantage of.  When I couldn't stop the negative thoughts and emotions, I turned to a powerful tool.  I created an affirmation with a sigil.   The affirmation was "I am surrounded by people who are whole - Honest, Integrous, Trustworthy"  Then I created a sigil with the first letter of the words.  I also created a movement based on Eurhythmy and wrote a song.  When I became triggered I would sing the song to myself.  It seemed to work.

Now I am sharing this with you in hopes that you too can find a way to shift and remain in a higher, positive state so that you may become the expression of yourself you seek to experience in the world.

​youtu.be/PwnKP5kaVxw

Living a creative, spontaneous life can mean a lot of things to different folks.  I recently was introduced to the book Improv Wisdom: Don't Prepare, Just Show Up.  It has a wonderful way of putting in words how so much of my life has been lived.

She has 13 maxims she outlines in her guide to living a creative life.

1. Say Yes
2. Don't Prepare
3. Just Show Up
4. Start Anywhere
5. Be Average
6. Pay Attention
7. Face the Facts
8. Stay on Course
9. Wake Up to the Gifts
10. Make Mistakes, Please
11. Act Now
12. Take Care of Each Other
13. Enjoy the Ride

These are great ways to live a beautiful, spontaneous, heart centered life.

Why not choose one to do today!

For our next session, bring your creative project and heart felt intentions.   Monday April 26th, 7PM CST.  OR just show up with an open heart and curious mind. 

This is considered by some to be the most powerful full moon of the year.  Let's harness the energy and charge up our creative projects together.

In creating we are truly using our imagination to bring something into existence.  This sounds a lot like the process of Manifestation spoken of by so many spiritual teachers.

I like watching these videos, and so I will share before we meet again.

Neville Goddard

Florence Scovel Shinn

I have been playing particularly with the idea of the power of words.  

I give you a challenge on your creative journey this week to write a poem, or some sort of affirmations using the words of your future, desired outcome.

We had fun at our New Moon session doing just that, and I created another song bringing together the image of love engaged community.

Now it is your turn to do the same for your desire.  Don't be afraid to share it with others.

Enjoy!

I have looked into my hearts desire and seen
A picture of what the world could be
And so I choose to let go of doubt and fear
and welcome all those who share the dream, I know they're here.

And I believe my community is near,
to share the song my heart longs to hear.
and I believe and so I will see
All the goodness in the people right in front of me.

People are good and here to help
they share their gifts and they share the wealth 
of their spirit as their soul longs to fly free.


People are Good and Here to Help

APRIL CREATIVITY CHALLENGE!!!
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 We invite you to join in a fun challenge to bring more joy into your life.

To begin, just pick one or more creative activities to do each day for the month of April.  Maybe try writing a poem, or song, or draw one picture a day.  They don't have to be good.

Just do one (or more) creative activity each day for the next thirty days.

I personally started this challenge at the beginning of 2021 and decided to write one poem, draw one picture, and write one song each day.  It was a big surprise to me that what I continued was not the drawing, or poetry (actually I am not a poet at all) but the songwriting stuck.

Perhaps you will try with multiple options, and then end off with one, or maybe you will continue to switch around.  The creative activities do not have to be elaborate, but do keep a journal of some sort so you can look at what is emerging from your creative subconscious. If you would like to participate as a group, register for the course here.

Creativity is more than just fun, it is a way to tap into that deep inner creator.  How do I create what I want in the world?

I recently have been focusing my creative energies on this concept. I listened to a book by Neville Goddard (search his stuff on youtube) on the power of thoughts.  I have seen this tendency for thoughts to materialize in the world, so why not make my thoughts be more loving, kind and filled with abundance.

Here is the first song inspired by this idea.

The Speech of Fulfilled Desire

What you desire to see without
You must learn to see within
Before it comes to pass
You must channel your inner vision

What is your aim
Does it match your inner conversation
tell me who do you want to be in this world
what do you want to see in this world

Every fact of your life
Is your thoughts matched with your desires
So start to think and see
What you truly want to be

What is your aim
Does it match your inner conversation
tell me who do you want to be in this world
what do you want to see in this world

See the link for Me and Melody's singing.

THE SPEECH OF FULFILLED DESIRES

This final full moon session of our course Strengthening Your Core is about to take place, this Sunday at 12 noon CST.  Susan will lead us in another ATB session designed to awaken our senses to the world around us.  

For the new moon we played with the element of water, and for the full moon, we will be playing with the element of fire.  

We hope you can join us!

March Full Moon - Awakening Breath w Susan
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We all have elements of ourselves and our lives that tend to move into unhealthy states of being.  In our course Strengthening Your Core, we are finding ways to recognize those extremes and bring them back into a state of balance.

One of mine is being controlling, or overly directive.  The first step is to recognize when I am entering this state.  I love the program of CoDA primarily because it helps me to address that controlling tendency.  The flip side of controlling is throwing up your hands, and letting someone else do it all.  In CoDA they identify this alternative as Avoidance.  So either a person controls every detail, or they completely withdraw and avoid.

Neither of these are very healthy.  So what stands in the middle as a healthy heart-centered way of being.  I have been practicing with this, and I noticed the other day when I was being very directive, I needed to open up space for the other person to enter and participate.  How can I become softer, more welcoming of others input and participation.  This is such a tricky space, and becoming conscious of it, having the willingness to change, then making the action, however foreign it may seems towards that open, welcoming state, will be the first step.

Join us on Saturday at 2PM CST for an activity to help create ways of finding that centered space when we are moving into the extremes.

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