Magical Enchantment
January 25, 2012
When Soleira visited Melbourne last year she brought back several beautiful pieces of magical enchantment, made by our friend Gayle Mainhardt.
Gayle creates wall hangings that depict Merlin, dragons, and other fantastical creatures. She makes dragon and phoenix brooches, and also works the designs on scarves and bags. Each piece is handmade and unique.
Gayle has just started up her own business called “Source Creations – Phoenix Rising”.
Pay a visit to her website at http://sourcecreations.weebly.com/.
Maybe, if you ask nicely, you can commission her to make you a phoenix, a dragon or a Merlin to adorn your home or to wear as a brooch. There’s nothing like having your own magical enchantment, made physical and looking back at you.
Merlin and the dragon - wallhanging
Enter The Dragon
January 24, 2012
The Chinese New Year - The Year of the Dragon – is under way
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Dragons are wonderful mystical creatures that seem to lurk in the shadows of our consciousness until we dare look them in the eyes and tell them that we are ready to play.
What you say? Play with dragons? Isn’t that like playing with fire? Well to answer that, it seems that dragons have many qualities and that there are many types of dragon. My friend Sue Couch tells me that this is the Year of the Water Dragon – one of the 9 major types of Chinese dragons.
But to get to know what dragons really mean to us, we must leave aside stories of tradition and speculation, and be open to what we might say about these mythical, mystical, and magical creatures.
So let’s walk in unknown territory, with nothing to guide us except what we feel about the landscape through which we are walking, and allow ourselves to become dragons. Stop breathing the air for a moment, telling yourself with each breath that you are only a human. Be aware that you can take on any form that you choose and have any experience that you desire.
Reach into your deep knowing of what a dragon is – and become it. Embody it. What do you notice? What is different? What are you so filled with, that you perhaps sit in silence for awhile, in order to appreciate the fullness of the moment?
Yes, this year is most definitely under way – and with every dragon breath that we take we can create the living reality of our world to be something super-special. Let this year be filled with exuberance, brilliance, mystery, colour, movement, jaw-dropping amazement and wondrous enchantment … and whatever else the dragon might whisper in your ear!
Listen to a half hour recording of the Quantum Creativity radio show, devoted to this new year and the limitless possibilities of what it is and can be.
Limitless
January 16, 2012
Just watched the thriller movie ‘Limitless‘ and was reminded of what it feels like when we don’t experience our fullness.
I’ve not had that feeling for years but I can speak from the experience of it, and, most importantly, know how to transition to the feeling of limitless.
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In the movie there is a pill that allows anyone to utilise 100% of their brain. It energises the brain; heightens senses; increases awareness; accelerates the processing of information; and enables the usage of information in limitless ways. Initially, the hero is dependent on this pill to provide an altered brain state but at the end of the movie he retains his super- awareness without any need for the drug.
Many super-hero movies that have sprung up in recent years use such a theme to invite us to think the impossible: to consider that we have (at least access to) super-powers.
These super-powers are largely depicted as being beyond the reach of ‘ordinary’ people, until certain life-changing circumstances intervene.
Of course, it depends on what we classify as super-powers. It depends on what we think about ourselves and our ability to live limitless. Here is what Ann Douglas says about it -
Robert De Niro observes in the movie … ”Your powers are a gift from God … or whoever wrote your life script.” So the life script or recipe or state of creative fullness that we develop for ourselves is how the limitless can manifest. A creative state is not born from limited thinking: it dances among our brain wave patterns and allows us to feel the exquisite rhythms of what moves in and out of our consciousness. And the gift is that we can make sense of all that feeling in whatever way we choose.
A state of feeling totally alive can colour everything in our reality. Experience comparitively less of that total feeling and we might think that there is something missing, but really it’s all here … the access to anything that we might possibly desire.
It’s not about having access to all the information we might need ~ it’s not about being a genius in using that information ~ it’s not about being connected to everything and forming new connections all the time, passing information along the super-highway of limitless consciousness.
It’s not about wishing we can teleport and then wondering why we aren’t doing that already, forgetting that we’ve used only a few senses to determine whether that has happened or not. Nor is it about super-powers and super-awareness.
The secret to being, feeling, living LIMITLESS is to know that we are already living this in some way. A deep centered knowingness that says it’s OK not to bother about whether we have total recall, or can levitate, or have the chemical formula to cure any disease. We just need to give free range to the impulses that tell us what wants to be lived right now – and that takes care of everything.
Perhaps the true test is whether we are comfortable in enjoying the limitless and able to function with a limitless capacity to understand (and celebrate) everything.
