Category Archives: Artist

You ARE It (more…)

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She must have said it a thousand times.
I’ve tuned into her class almost every week since May of 2020, sometimes three times a week, but I never got it the way I did last week: “Any time you feel stressed, depressed or feel unease of any kind, it is because of what you are thinking and believing. It is only because of that.”

Your thoughts. My thoughts. The way to freedom is within us. We’ve got the power.

Her suggestion: write the thoughts down on paper (or the app) and in a state of silent inquiry, question them.

I can hear the audience pushback now:

  • But bad things happen
  • He/she is the cause of my stress/ heartbreak/anger
  • If I don’t like someone, it’s clearly about them
  • I can’t control my thoughts
  • it’s YOU causing me stress!

I get it. Experientially, I can relate to all the objections. But I also know that when a stressful thought disappears into the silence of the One, the heart emerges from the cloud cover and beams. It soaks my world in sweet kindness. It feels realer than real.

In my lived experience, I vacillate. Intuitively? I know unconditional inner freedom is real. Getting to that unperturbable place as a state of being? Well, that is the game here. That is the school most of us are in.

5D Physics are Different

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Sometimes I hear that it will take a long time for an ascended reality to unfold in practical, physical structures on our planet. That is understandable given the slow nature of the kind of 3/4 D we have lived in (for ages) and are living in, but 5D will be different. It will have different physics. Matter will appear quickly and move in the same way. Gravity? I don’t know the details, but I know we will master it in short order. This could happen sooner than most of us think.

In-Demand

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I read an article about Kris Kristofferson the other day. He is a singer, songwriter and actor who started in the 1960’s. The article was written in 2016 when Kristofferson was poised to turn 80 yrs old. It described how a Lyme disease diagnosis (and subsequent treatment) revived some of his memory, most of which had been lost.

What struck me in the article was how in-demand and busy Kris Kristofferson was (and presumably still is). The year the article was written he had performed two tours with Willie Nelson; collaborated on an album in Canada; starred in a new Western and was on the verge of releasing his own new album. What jumped out as I read his story is this: What creates? What creates our life?

His story makes it obvious.

Most people would say, “It’s the strength of his career (my husband said this) or country artists can have appeal for donkey’s years or it is because he’s a legend.” But how many “legends” – whatever their art form, would love to be in-demand at 80, but aren’t? At all.

It is the soul that creates.

We say the intellect and cognition are “musts” to create a career or even the circumstances of life. We believe a healthy body is a requirement.

Yet here’s a man, Kristofferson, who still has bad memory days, sometimes cannot remember if he went to the studio that morning whose career (and life) are in full-tilt. A good memory – or even a memory at all – are not mandatory for a thriving career.

It is the soul that creates. It is the Conductor. It does not need a certain type of body to do it. It does not need anything.

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Finding the Infinite Bank (#1)

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Most techniques and philosophies about creating money and abundance don’t go far enough. Creating vision boards and thinking positively about desired things are helpful, but these tools can be incomplete.

It is easy to build up inner charge (and tension) around the so-called positive. If there is any sense of avoiding the negative or clutching the positive – a state seen as desirable by many schools of thought – there is no inner freedom. There is still tension and a sense of limitation.

I have only ever found inner freedom to be the most “abundant” state. It releases the attachment to what we decide is “abundance” (if you can’t abide not having it, how are you free?) which opens up tremendous energy.

It calls forth the part of us that is beyond all concepts, attachments, memory and outcomes, including numbers in our bank account. It doesn’t discount or deflect any outcome – we tend to think it does – it just doesn’t grab.

That aspect of Being is already free. Be “that.”

Mission Statements

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I am working on a mission statement for my business. After trying to make its different aspects (some are still in development) fit into one statement, I decided I would need two, maybe three mission statements. One for each part of the business.

The class I teach: gives creatives tools for more empowerment..
The one-to-one facilitation: I hold the space for you to create art despite resistance.
Books: I give children a sense of hope and joy about their world..

If I boiled down the details to their essence, I would say:

Your soul is already free.

and…

Life only happens NOW.

Saying Yes – Part 2

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At Work – photo by Stanley Zimney

While creating our art, there is often alot of thought-chatter in our heads.  Some of these thoughts may be fresh, valuable ideas about directions to take our art.  Chances are, most of the chatter is negative and unpleasant.  This chat is likely full of doubt, self-recrimination, fear and perhaps hurtful words spoken by others at a particular time in your life.

These voices tell you you’re not good enough to be an artist.  They critique your art and warn you about going in the creative direction you’re going down to what strokes to paint, words to write and materials to use.

Which, if any, of these thought-voices do you listen to?  How do you choose what you will listen to?  How do you weaken the negative chatter? How do you resist it?

First, you keep creating your art.  You get on a regular schedule and even if you give it 5 minutes, you give it 5 minutes.  Nothing…..NOTHING substitutes for this.  If you talk about it, think about it, do “shadow” activities (writing the most eloquent FB post ever!) instead of creating, you feed fear and resistance.

With resistance strengthened, the next time you think about creating, it will be easier to put it off.  The next time you actually do create, there will be a thicker layer of pain to wade through before you are in flow with your art.  It will make you cry.

First, show up for your work.  Create.  No matter what.

Second, meditate.  Meditation has a powerful ability to quiet the mind for hours after you do it.  One of the benefits I notice is it makes thoughts shorter.  It makes them less thread-y and tenacious.

Find a practice you like and even if you give it 5 minutes, give it 5 minutes.  Every day.

The Carver

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“Words do not label things already there.  Words are like the knife of a carver.  They free the idea, the thing, from the general formlessness of the outside.  As a man speaks, not only is his language in a state of birth, but also the very thing about which he is talking.”

– Inuit Wisdom