01-09-10

Balance. What does that mean to you? I actually heard a different view on it today and it made sense to me. I would say balance is an even amount of things, that would be balanced, equal proportions may be a better way to say how I thought of balance. Or standing on one foot and keeping my balance. In life it would be equal work and play time etc. But what I read today said balance is more like a recipe, where you don't always have equal proportions you still have a balance that makes the recipe perfect. The perfect balance may have a little more rest, a little less food, add a splash of exercise.
It could be 5 days of work, 1/2 hr of meditation a day, Saturday is shopping day, and Sunday you see family. And you feel balanced. They are not of equal proportions but you have some of everything that you need.
My challenge to you today is find 3 things you believe to be in balance in your life. I want you to remember when you look outside what things are balanced in nature? When I look outside it must be the perfect balance or my birds wouldn't be so happy, and our squirrels would move to another bunch of trees.

01-03-10

Creating is natural, it is how plants grow, how we invent anything, how we decide what to wear in the morning, what to eat all day. Being so natural how do we get so lost or so caught up in not seeing what is around us? The house, the yard, the trees, the lake, the animals in the area, the interesting people and colors that are eyes don't even see. Like yesterdays blog we get caught up in the chatter in our head.
It is like not being able to solve a problem or find something one day, and then as soon as you wake up you know the answer to the problem or you remember right where you put something and why you put it there. Is it because you aren't up with the chatter that getting up and getting ready for the day fills you with.
This is almost like the not seeing things in the moment.
So how could you have room to create, whether it be writing, painting, dancing or learning a script.
I have a challenge for you. Take 15 minutes during the day and make sure there is no TV, no phones, or even radio. What do you hear? see? feel? Does it make you uncomfortable to not have things going on. Walk around your house and look what you have filled your house with. If you still have time walk outside and look at everything like you have never seen it before.
Just take notice if your place is cluttered more that you thought? Do you have a sacred place to create? Tell me how this goes? I'm going to do it.

01-02-10

Creating a safe place to create has to start in our minds. If we are constantly listening to the talking head, we have no room to create. The past, what they just said, what did they mean when they said that. Oh, I did it again, why do I always make a mess of that. I am so tired of that happening again. They don't like me. I am scared of meeting those people. The mind can go on and on, over and over the same things.
Listening to this jabber is the first step, because then you know it is actually going on. If you can't hear it it is probably controlling you and you are out of touch with what is actually happening right now. Like I can hear water dripping, I can hear my fingers typing and my stomach just growled and I feel like I am in this moment.
Creating is in the moment. You may be feeling angry and you create out of that anger, but you are in the moment with anger. You have created a space that you can create out of instead of not listening to this feeling.
Making a space in your mind, learning how to stop the chatter, accept what comes up and allow it to gently go away can bring you to a place where you feel inspired. Music, meditation, exercise are a few ways of getting out of the jabber and into your body at this moment.
Have a great creative day, or a creative moment and know it is safe to be you and to create from you.

01-01-10

I am wanting to use creativity to create my life this year. The universe is made of energy and I have been creating things from the past by using the energy in the same way, thus getting the same things. This year I want to look, and listen and watch how changing my thought waves can change things around me. I have set myself up to be a victim for years. I recently saw that I was doing to myself in my head. Of course this is one of my patterns that the universe is so kindly to keep giving me that experience. Not to say I really found out how selfish I am. That is not a way I want to live my life.
Doing this daily blog is something that I hope can help clear some of these issues up with. And I can laugh more, have more fun and be a co creator in my life.
As a child it was not ok to speak your mind so that makes it kind of hard to create when you get knocked down for it. It wasn't safe. That's why this is called "a safe place to create" . I believe in my heart we are here to do that. And those are the gifts we were given to share. You can't be to scared, or too selfish if you want to share.