Has your cat or dog ever inspired you to be a better person, happier, or more creative? How about making you LAUGH? Encouraging you to PLAY? This is our cat Tiger, who inspired this question while sleeping in a box lid this morning...How does being in a box reflect getting outside of MY box? Last week I spoke to the San Francisco chapter of e-WomenNetwork on Growing Seeds of Creativity to Make your Business Bloom. One of the three secrets I shared to growing a thriving business was to be open to NEW experiences, stay CURIOUS, and BREAK OUT of routines. Cats are known for being curious. They poke their noses into new places. They look for new places to sleep and hide. They explore the neighborhood at night. They bat at unidentified flying objects. How do you stay curious and try new things in your life and work? (Here’s what the Thesaurus says about curious: inquisitive, inquiring, snooping, interested, questioning, probing, nosy, and prying). The opposite of curious is apathetic! Here are a few ways I have tried to be CURIOUS. Please add your CURIOUS about NEW Things tips to the list.
Let’s grow our list and watch our creativity inspire a blooming life and business. My journey into Sacred Geometry began about 20 years ago when I studied mandalas with Judith Cornell, author of the incredible book, Mandala. Drawing with sacred circles was so compelling and inspiring that I extended my study with Judith from 2 days to a whole week. My passion for drawing and teaching this beautiful process has continued ever since then! I love working with the color and the circles and the insights I gain. I feel at peace and centered in myself when drawing with circles. Mandala is a sanskrit word for circle. Circles are a tool for self-knowledge, meditation, healing, and expanding our consciousness. They have been used by ancient cultures for centuries in their sacred art, medicine shields, in nature, and numerous other ways. When we draw or write within a circular shape, amazing symbols and messages begin to emerge from our inner eye and inner wisdom. Exploring the circle you can discover your soul's true nature. Circles can be overlapped over and over to create new shapes as in the ancient Seed of Life or Flower of Life discovered by Leonardo daVinci. Or simply overlapping two circles creates a common space between them. This geometry is called the Vesica Piscis. It can represent cooperation, shared wisdom, joining, synergy, common ground or whatever you see in it. Try it for yourself. Very simply trace a circular bowl or use a compass. Try overlapping the same size circles in different ways. Try drawing inside of one circle and see how it feels. Then please let us know what you experienced. Follow your heart and everything you want in your life will show up! When you can find what gives you joy, you'll approach everything you do with more passion. You will experience life as flow, abundant, relaxed, and easy. With all the demands of our current lives, sometimes play is the last thing we make time for. Play is different for everyone. Start to discover what it is for you. PLAYFUL EXERCISE~~Imagination can take you into play Close your eyes:
How can you bring some of those feelings and activities into your life now? Share what these were for you and see what play is for others. Get playing and see how your life unfolds with ease! RECEIVE my FREE AUDIO of a CREATIVE VISUALIZATION, "Make Your Dreams Come True." by SIGNING UP HERE People are asking, so I'm taking a survey! What brings you JOY? What is Play for you? This is a joy altar I created for one of our Creative Playshops. Flowers and painting on silk in bright colors brings me joy! I love to grow flowers and plants, be outdoors, spend time with my friends, swim in the ocean, especially with the dolphins in Hawaii, make things, decorate my home, help others. |
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