Secret Garden – You Raise Me Up
One of my all time favorite songs -- from Secret Garden. This is the Brian Kennedy version.
Posted: September 4th, 2010 under dreaming-visioning, self help.
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Teen Sailor Jessica Watson – Passion & Inspiration
Jessica Watson the 16 year old who sailed solo around the world in 7 months arrived at Sydney today to an amazing welcome.
Even the Prime of Australia was there to greet her at the steps of the Sydney Opera House.
In her first press conference shortly after arriving, she shone like a seasoned celebrity.
When asked how she got through the tough times, she said that she really didn’t have any choice except to deal with whatever was at hand.
She talked of her passion for sailing and her determination to achieve the seemingly unachievable.
“If the boys could do it, then so could I.”
She said that she was just “an ordinary teenager” with a strong belief in herself and that “anything is possible”.
What did she learn?
“To have fun and not to take anything too seriously.”
“To lighten up.”
“To believe that anything is possible.”
“To enjoy the small things each day.”
In all, she showed great composure, humility and appreciation for those who had supported her.
All in all – what a wonderful inspiration for people of all ages!
Posted: May 15th, 2010 under dreaming-visioning, media.
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Using Passion As Your Personal Muse
What makes your heart beat with joy? What makes you feel excited about life?
Anything that makes your heart sing, anything that ignites excitement within you; anything that you just want to jump in and do -- is your passion speaking!
Passion is easy to recognise once you know the signs. And the signs are always ones that make you feel good, that make you exhilarated about life.
Passion is your inner voice -- your private muse speaking to you and leading you forward on a path that is uniquely your own.
Do not follow others’ ideas of what you should do or what constitutes ‘success”. You are unique. You must develop your own ‘success formula’.
This involves some trial and error as you learn to listen to your inner voice and trust it’s pull.
Many will tell you that people who are rich and famous are a success and that that is the path you should mimic. But your success will be different to others’.
Your success may well include fame, fortune. But it may also include vibrant good health, mutually rewarding relationships and friendships, emotional freedom, mental freedom (being aware of the beliefs that serve or hinder you) -- to mention less commonly discussed criteria of success.
Trust your insights. Trust your gut instinct. Trust that your talents, capabilities and passion are there for a reason.
See the short video below on the topic of ‘trusting your passion’ -- from John Kehoe.
Posted: January 6th, 2009 under dreaming-visioning, self help.
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Gregg Braden “Louise Hay Film” Interview 5 of 6
Gregg Braden certainly presents in a clear, powerful manner. His discussion about the partnership between thoughts and feelings in the creative process is profound.
When thought and emotion combine you can move mountains. This is a literal thing -- not a metaphor!
Gregg asked a Shaman about his process for praying.
Shaman. “Our prayer is about creating a feeling.”
In the West we have lost the texts that originally told us that feelings are a ‘language’. Instead we began to think that the words themselves were the prayer. We learnt to say the words. But we were not taught to add the vital ingredient -- feeling.
In so doing, we lost our ability to really pray -- and thus to change our reality in an elegant way. We came to rely upon a benign “Father figure” to look kindly upon our requests and pleas.
What is the force that holds the universe together?
“Compassion”, the Abbot answered.
Compassion is a feeling that we experience in our bodies. So in effect, we have the ability to feel in our own bodies the stuff that holds this universe together!
Earlier posts have discussed the other segments of this series.
See interview 5 of 6 below.
Posted: November 4th, 2008 under creativity, imagination, dreaming-visioning, power of mind, quantum physics.
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Using Imagination to Unleash The Power of Mind
Imagination used effectively can be the most powerful way to unleash the power of your own mind.
As a generalization, in Western society tools that develop or nurture creativity and imagination are considered far less important than tools that develop logic, proof, evidence, persuasion, being “right “.
Being “wrong” is anathema to most people under any circumstances! Sadly this has unfortunate consequences when it comes to nurturing imagination and creativity – and thus for new ideas, inventions and developments.
Developing imagination and creativity
In the recent past there have been people like Edward De Bono whose books received public acclaim – The Six Thinking Hats is one that springs to mind most readily. In “6 Thinking Hats” the intent was to encourage people to think outside their usual frames of reference; to encourage creative thinking.
For example, it offered a technique for dealing with challenges and problem-solving that relied on adopting different perspectives on the problem-issue. The concept was novel and clever. However interest in “6 Hats” never really became widespread as a tool. Certainly not amongst the group of people who could have benefited from its application – businesses and corporations.
My hunch is, “6 Thinking Hats” asked people to step too far beyond their “comfort zones”. “6 Hats” was too novel (fanciful) as a technique.
Human beings are creatures of habit. While habits are great for carrying many mundane or routine activities, relying on habits isn’t effective for non-routine activities. This includes problem solving, planning, invention. Resorting to what you already know and do habitually, only results in “more of the same”.
Except for people working in creative areas and innovative industries like car design or aeronautics to mention two, most people have not been taught the value of developing or using creativity or imagination on any regular basis. And certainly not on a daily basis in their jobs or lives.
What is imagination and why is it so important to develop?
Let me address “what” first. Imagination is about the free-wheeling of ideas and emotions. It’s big picture stuff. It’s about dreaming, envisioning. Imagination has no interest in “being right or wrong”. It is exploratory, pioneering. And above all – it’s meant to be easy, light and fun!
True imagination explores and reaches into the unknown. It frequently ‘mixes and matches elements’ from diverse sources – to create something new, different. Or it may wipe the slate clean, as it were, and dream something totally original, new.
Full bodied imagination is a multi-sensory experience
At it’s best imagination is truly multi-sensory involving all common senses – sight, sound, touch, smell, taste, as well as ‘uncommon senses’ like intuition, gut feelings, passion, clairvoyance, clair-audience, clair-sentience.
The latter referring to faculties or abilities of “insight” – the ability to reach into the future (mentally); to hypothesize, see or sense outcomes and consequences; to feel inspired in the present to achieve or mitigate future probable outcomes and events.
Imagination is not about ‘proof or logic’ it’s about exploration
Imagination taps into our deepest Inner Being or Inner Self for solutions to current problems. It does not rely upon the logical, conscious mind to solve problems alone. The person who utilizes imagination for creative problem solving – and this includes creatively designing the lifestyle they want for themselves – has a huge advantage over someone who simply rationalizes what they might have or do – or who tries to figure out the “next logical step” to take.
Imagination is different to logical thinking. However, imagination has its own “logic” (or system). Its just that we don’t understand the system at a logical, conscious mind level. The activity occurs at a deeper level.
For example, although we don’t understand how our bodies perform countless essential activities (e.g. metabolism, blood circulation, digestion, tissue repair, healing, conception and so on), we do at least realize than without this unseen support system, we would not be able to function effectively in daily life. If we had to deal with these kinds of processes at a conscious level we would be totally over-loaded with data and decision-making in every waking second. We would never get around to enjoying our life or planning for our future!
Yet ironically, when we DO become overloaded, overwhelmed or “burnt out” – from trying to solve problems logically – we don’t make the connection that perhaps we are using the wrong mental tool or approach! Instead we often work even harder and feel even more overwhelmed.
Access vast reserves and resources using your imagination
However, this doesn’t have to happen. We can access vast reservoirs of data and knowledge without having to consciously track everything – simply by learning to use our imagination effectively. This post can only touch on this incredibly important and exciting faculty we have at our disposal – our imagination.
Imagination comes from that same unseen or unknown domain that supports us physically. Imagination accesses, triggers and develops our mental, emotional and psychic abilities.
The technique of ‘creative visualization’ is one technique that, in a simplified way, taps into the powerhouse available within imagination. Many sports people use the technique in their training. Hopefully they generalize its application to other areas of their lives.
I hope this has got you thinking about how you can begin to deliberately engage your imagination for problem-solving as well as for generating exciting or new life style choices.
Posted: October 27th, 2008 under dreaming-visioning, power of mind, self help.
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