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 had attended.  He told stories throughout the several days we spent together, and then we were give exercises to move ourselves into the state of healing 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, and in the act of creating in general.

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.

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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
Time: Mar 28, 2021 12:00 PM Central Time (US and Canada)

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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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Topic: Full Moon - Finding Balance
Time: Feb 27, 2021 02:00 PM Central Time (US and Canada)

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Come Join Us for the first session of our new course

Strengthening the Core: A Journey to Self-Love 
Held on the New Moon
Jan 12th at 7PM CST

The most important journey of life is that of self-discovery. 

"Know thy self"

For most of us, who I see myself as is the product of so much social and familial conditioning.  It is a game of comparing and competing.  Maybe I have an image of who I want to be, and can't seem to get there?  But ask yourself truly, where did this image come from?

The first month in our first course focuses on our individual biographies.  They have such a deep and lasting impact on our perceptions of who we are.  Our individual life stories are embedded in a long history of belief systems, both on the small scale (like our parents or our community) and on a large social scale (the trends of the time).  Understanding how to disentangle myself, and my personal beliefs, from those of the people around me is one of the first steps towards liberation toward a true and empowered vision of myself.

We will spend one hour responding to prompts about our families, our peers and smaller social circles, and our larger social networks. 

Be prepared to think about your ancestors.  Find some picture of family members if you can.  

If you have not signed up for the course please do so here.  We will send you the Zoom link via your personal email.

​Hope to see you there.

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1:00 CST
Friday, January 1st 2021


Setting intentions is a powerful way to align our lives with our highest aspirations.  When we set intentions we are saying to the universe, “This is what I want for my life.”

Intentions are the seeds of our soul’s desire.  As we set them, we set the course to see new and beautiful things blossom in our lives. 

When setting my personal intention for the new year, I want to ask myself, “What is it I want to harvest in the new year?  What is my soul most longing to experience?  What would my life look like if I were living my dream?  What do I need to let go of to step into my light?”
 
2021 Intention’s Setting Ceremony Guide:

Prior to joining us, it will be useful to spend each night from today until New Year’s Day, thinking of what your soul most desires to experience in the new year. 

Each night before bed, grab your journal, and find a comfy spot.  Center your attention on the present moment.  Set your timer for 5 minutes and ask yourself, “What would my highest expression of my soul look like?  What do I need to do to step onto that path?  What is my soul longing to experience in the new year?”  Notice what arises.  Allow your thoughts to flow without judgement.  When the timer ends journal for another 5 minutes or so.

Notice both the positive and negative emotions or thoughts that arise.  Perhaps there is the inner critic that wants to minimize your desires.  Write down both the positive and negative in your journal.  We will set intentions to let go of any limiting beliefs you have identified, so we may step into our heart’s desire without fear, judgement, or doubt.

For Friday, please come with a candle and a journal or something to write with.  We will light our candles at 1:11 Central Standard Time.  The ceremony will end at 2PM CST.


1PM – introductions and sharing. 
1:11 – Candle lighting
1:15-1:20 – Intention for Family
1:25-1:30 – Intention for Relationships
1:35-1:40 – Intention for Community
1:45-1:50 – Intention for Self
2:00 PM
 
We invite you to stay on for an introduction to the free course Strengthening the Spiritual Core: A Journey to Self.
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Lynne McTaggert is certainly one of the go to authors if you want a grounded look at metaphysical research.  She does not proclaim to be a guru.  She is a straight forward journalist with a scientific mind.   For this reason her work appeals to me.

Her first foray into the power of intention came when she did some personal investigating of what the whole New Age was about.  She had heard many people talk about consciousness as having the power to manifest reality through intention.  She didn't really believe it.  But, she was curious enough to investigate.  Time after time, the experiments in setting and sending intentions shattered her scientific materialistic world view.  

From that point on she dedicated her work to understanding the nature of consciousness.  If you are interested in her work on the power of intention, check out her book "The Intention Experiment".  Or for a small but powerful effect, try out "The Power of Eight" for yourself.  Her research in the Power of Eight showed that SHARED intentions, even in a smaller group could enhance the power to create a new reality.  Intentions created around everything from medical issues, to relationships, to material and financial prosperity showed a greater success rate when those intentions were made as a group.

So come and join us, and super-charge your New Year's Intentions.

Rather than New Year's Resolutions, why not join us for a New Year's Intention setting ceremony.  We will spend some time with each other getting clear on what we really want to focus our energy on in the new year.  We will help each other in making meaningful intentions, and then together we can energize them to boost their effect!

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