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Wing Therapy™ with B.B. Berg
A few months ago, being out of work, out of money and feeling lost and without a purpose, I started a prayer campaign to find a job.
I prayed with this in mind: Work that would have 3 factors:*
1. Beauty (that I would love this work)
2. Benefit (that it would ... Views: 1718
"Life as Art," at http://www.selfgrowth.com/articles/life-as-art-a-creative-adventure introduced this series. The first article described the difference between being a victim of fate and consciously designing one's life. It also outlined some broad steps for designing your story.
If life is ... Views: 922
Even without my practice, I have an eclectic group of creative people in my life. My creative tribe includes filmmakers, glass mosaic artists, photographers, writers, dog trainers, programmers, entrepreneurs, dance instructors, chefs, musicians, architects, and teachers.
It shouldn't be ... Views: 2026
There’s a lot of advice out there about “how to be creative.” On the surface, this sounds great — everybody wants to come up with useful and profitable ideas, right? But when I look more closely at this kind of advice, and what drives us to seek it out, I feel concerned.
On one level, none ... Views: 1092
Most people don't usually approach life as works of art that they create. While we may learn as children that we should have dreams, we are also warned that the outside world (called circumstances, fate, bad luck, etc.) may keep us from realizing them. These warnings, like a knife scraping ... Views: 1206
I was watching this video by Jonathan Budd the other day, and he talked about why understanding your Medium to market your business is so so important but such a taboo to so many home based business owners who do not raise the issue in their business model.
What Jonathan Budd said, made me ... Views: 1254
I have an associate who was a stand-up comedian for a little while. For right now, let’s call him Bill. Bill started out on open mic nights at a local comedy club, and then began touring as an opener for a headline comedian. Bill eventually stopped performing stand-up comedy for reasons I have ... Views: 1193
As a speaker, writer and leader I’m always looking to follow in the mind-prints of, or at least understand and hopefully emulate, Nobel-prize winning scientist, Albert Szent Gyorgyi’s “elegantly simple” words: “Creativity is seeing what everyone else has seen and thinking what no one else has ... Views: 1539
I come from a family that believes that if you can’t find a hammer, use a rock. If you can’t find a rock, use your shoe. Because my parents grew up poor, they believe in the idea of making do with what you have instead of complaining about what you don’t have. My entire family lives by this ... Views: 1182
Oprah Winfrey is an artist, and her life is her canvas. She is a woman who constantly reinvents herself. She started out with a tabloid television show, and then transformed it into an iconic television show focused around self-help and spirituality. Then she transitioned from being a television ... Views: 1797
I am not an expert in Feng Shui. I really don’t believe it is possible for a Westerner to BE an expert in Feng Shui. Feng Shui is a Chinese philosophy. It is totally Eastern in nature and, therefore, not easy to understand in our minds.
A friend of mine went to school in Boston to be a Feng ... Views: 3726
Old beliefs, personal prejudice and dogmatic traditions can often get in the way of progress our personal lives, in business, and even in the creative arts. Since today is Hank Aaron’s birthday (February 5, 1934), it only seems appropriate to take a look at baseball history to understand the ... Views: 1462
Last night, I was visited by an old friend of sorts. A person who I had not seen in almost a decade. A person who I thought I would never see again. This surprise visit caught me unawares and most unfortunate was the fact that I had no time to properly welcome this individual, as he showed up ... Views: 1074
A tarot card reading can be used for a very directional and predictive divination session. The tarot is often misunderstood in that many believe that anyone can read the cards without any special skills. Yes it is true you can get basic information from a tarot deck for ones own use, yet a real ... Views: 2062
I used to believe that I shouldn’t sit down to write unless I had a compelling vision of what I’d say. Unfortunately, this attitude was the reason why, for many years, I didn’t do any creative writing. Sure, I wrote a lot, but only when somebody else (1) gave me a subject to write about and ... Views: 1020
The energy this year has already started with a great deal of optimism and is much more progressive than 2010. The foundation phase has finished, it is now the time to be clear on what it is you want to change, rather than live in ‘hope’ of your life progressing differently.
Take time to ... Views: 1265
If you ever wanted to get into the food business, I think it’s important to check your knowledge of food history first:
* Who invented the crop rotation method for farming?
* Who invented of soy-based paints?
* Who owns the patent on peanut butter?
If you answered George ... Views: 1208
Although many communities support local businesses, supporting local art seems to be a different story. Our homes are filled with poster art of long dead artists, our furniture looks like it came out of a catalog, and our bookshelves are lined with celebrity authors. With our taste for art and ... Views: 1259
Spiritual workshop flyers can be an effective way to market and fill your events if the following are true...
• You use flyers in combination with other marketing materials and strategies.
• You display them in a place that has good foot traffic (provided that those feet are attached to ... Views: 3724
The best way to generate ideas for spiritual workshops is to draw from your personal experience, knowledge and wisdom.
Even if you think that there's nothing remarkable about your life, I have yet to meet any person in this world who did not have something to teach.
So just imagine for a ... Views: 4004
Many creative people struggle with time management and organization because many of them believe that constraints hinder the freedom to create. The opposite is actually true. Constraints can actually lead to productive creativity. To be creative means one is in the habit of creating. Being ... Views: 1175
Outside the box thinking is a magnificent ability that can help you to solve very complicated and complex problems, by changing your perspective as this allows you to come up with solutions no one else had thought of. Even scientists and inventors make use of the principle to think outside the ... Views: 1363
Whenever one looks to solve problems of life, be it spiritual freedom, relationships, success or family, the solutions work better if one looks for basic principles involved and uses them to get results. The basic principles are what makes up an activity and that is why they work for getting ... Views: 1207
The famous Ansel Adams photograph, “Maroon Bells” (1964), is possibly one of the most replicated photographs among nature photographers. Run a Google images search on “Maroon Bells” and you’ll see what I’m talking about. Walk into any art store in Colorado, and you will find at least a dozen ... Views: 1475
Embrace Your Full Wingspan
By Kristin Mackey
City to city I went, seminar after seminar until my voice could not be cured by the complementary lemon water or $2.50 tea and honey. Coast to coast, airport to airport I bounced with my travel polyester “silk” suit and my one carry on bag so ... Views: 1588
Levels of truth,
I chose that way of putting it because truth is something that has many different levels. We’ve heard people refer to “higher truth,” and so on and so forth. And that’s true. There are higher truths and there are lower truths.
There are the truths which we’re all used ... Views: 1507
Being creative is scary? No, no, that's not true at all. THINKING about being creative is scary. So much so that the large majority of people with inspired thinking abilities never actually show up to their creative dreams, nor to their potential.
And so, we have a rather impressive ... Views: 1381
By Kristin Mackey
…A pause follows with an attempt to grasp for further clarity, “Do you mean what I do for a living?” the participant eagerly asks…
“No, your life’s purpose”, I reiterate.
Confused, she expands her question, “With family, friends or work?
Then I prepare for the ... Views: 1607
Father’s Day is celebrated all over the world and is the time when we do something special for our Dads and Grandpas. We always like to spoil them with a gift or two but most Dads and Grandpas would be happy just to get the family together and have a good meal, preferably a barbecue, and a few ... Views: 1202
The Law of Attraction is a wonderful law because it fulfills your hope that you have creative power over the circumstances of your life.
But how is it possible that you can get inconsistent results when applying a “law?” Doesn’t the fact that you are applying a law insure that you get ... Views: 3431
Creativity means thinking out of the box. In other words, it means, thinking in the unusual way. It involves lot of innovation. Thinking out of the box requires the mind to be free. It is true that creativity is an art, however with proper training, it can be acquired easily.
These software ... Views: 1119
Take a deep breath and a brief pause. As the breath begins to travel through you, consider supporting Artists that create with their heart and soul; that is what Suzanne Toro is doing and wants everybody to spread the love and support to your communities of artists.
Suzanne set up a special ... Views: 1333
For those living a creative life, the absence of an externally-imposed schedule is both a joy and a delight. How marvelous to know we have the entire day (or much of it) to frolic among our creative pursuits! Yet at the end of the week, should we survey our accomplishments, we may find them ... Views: 1489
I made my way to my studio today and stopped for a delicious dose of sweet southern tea! I was handed the tea and no straw. I tapped on the window (my sister would be so proud) and got the woman's attention, she knew what I wanted and opened the window holding the straw. I drove away with a fine ... Views: 1307
To help us find a compelling direction in life, self-development writers often tell us to ask ourselves “what we’d do if we couldn’t fail.” For example, we might ask, what kind of book would we write if we knew that whatever we produced was destined to be a #1 bestseller?
I’ve taken to ... Views: 903
The prevailing wisdom is that to be happy, fulfilled and successful, one must discover and pursue one's 'purpose' in life. There are no shortage of self-help books and programs designed to do just that. The problem, however, is that this is utter bunk. Especially for DaVincis -- multi-talented, ... Views: 1458
Sex alone, is a mighty urge to action, but its forces are like a cyclone - they are often uncontrollable. When the emotion of love begins to mix itself with the emotion of sex, the result is calmness of purpose, poise, accuracy of judgment, and balance. Napoleon Hill
Are you aware of the ... Views: 2130
One of the key elements in our quest to improve the quality of our lives, is to reduce the number of unnecessary distractions which are causing our growth to either stagnate, or to move backwards. To fully understand what we need to focus on, we will need to ask ourselves a few simple ... Views: 1302
Meditation can be challenging for smart, creative multi-talented people. So many ideas! So many projects! So many things to keep track of! All these hyperactive thoughts can wreck havoc during meditation. If you've had difficulty meditating, consider trying again. The psychological, ... Views: 2561
I’ve written before about how it’s helpful, when you’re facing writer’s block, to just sit with that sense of creative emptiness, and allow it to pass away on its own — rather than beating yourself up for being uncreative, or distracting yourself from the emptiness by playing Minesweeper. When ... Views: 1295
As I’m sure you’ve learned firsthand, when we let people see our creative work, we risk getting criticized. But criticism by itself, I think, isn’t a problem. It only becomes problematic when we take responsibility for the critic’s suffering and anger.
My Criticism Fantasy
I’ll give you ... Views: 1010
As Americans, we live in a supercharged society where energetic activity always seems to take precedence over the simple common sense awareness of our basic need to get enough sleep. In fact, our active lives can be so enticing, so interesting that we get to the point where we actually begrudge ... Views: 1315
Are you an information addict? A news junkie? A Facebook frequenter, a Twitterer or devotee of other social media? A slave to your PDA or fancy phone? The costs of this information addiction is well documented. No wonder it's becoming chic these days to 'go off the grid' for a period of ... Views: 1316
A confession: I'm an organization nerd. Call me crazy but I enjoy being able to find what I need when I need it -- be it a particular tool, invoice, ingredient or garment. It feels good to have my 'to do' lists prioritized, to know that the important things are not falling through the cracks. ... Views: 2136
I have always believed that everyone has gifts. Sometimes it takes all of a person's life to figure out what those gifts are and the person doesn't get to do the work he or she was "supposed" to do. That's where Karma comes in. After all, what goes around comes around and if you don't get to do ... Views: 2641
As a multi-talented person, you've got a lot going on. It's very easy to be pulled in multiple directions, pretty much every day. Sure, you intend to write that novel/update that reel/submit that painting to the juried competition...but then the car battery dies and your sister gets sick and ... Views: 1785
We have been Approval Addicts, not following our inner promtings because we've been afraid of what others may think of us. We have blindly followed what we were hypnotised to believe is acceptable. We were rewarded for regurgitation, memorization and social conformity and punished and ... Views: 2364
I was cruising through YouTube last night when I cam upon a song by Chic called Good Times. During the Disco Era when I used to dance to that song under flashing , surrounded by hundreds of people like a great tribe I heard the words but never really paid attention. As I listened to the song ... Views: 1514
Are you are an information-maniac, a news junkie, a social-media butterfly? If so, you might be hurting yourself more than you think. The costs of information addiction are many and profound. Alas, I know this not only from personal experience ("Hello, my name is Liisa and I'm an ... Views: 2309
AN EXTENDED PROCESS
God blessed me to publish my first book of poetry entitled, ON SOLID GROUND: Inspirational Poetry For All Occasions. All of the poems are God inspired and are based on His word with a scripture reference for each one. I may have written the words, but God spoke them to my ... Views: 1372