Announcing Creative Freedom in February!
I'm so happy to share with you that the classes are a hit. Folks are reporting both personal and professional benefits. Here's what some former participants said:
"Cool techniques, and, even better, ideas about how to apply and modify for my clients."
"I got so much out of this course and would love another opportunity -- it blew my expectations away!"
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(Originally published in the Stay Open Newsletter, Feb. 2010)
Greetings, friends. It's always good to be here to share with you.
It's more and more obvious to me that solutions do not arise from thinking about some imagined future . . .
I've had something on my mind for days, mentally toying with me, showing up as thoughts that ask me about how I'm going to manipulate the future. As if I could
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So convinced, by habit, that there is something wrong, I flail to relax when the thoughts bully me, first thing in the morning, and again, later.
As inseparability becomes apparent, it does so in surprising ways.
Sitting at the table in Whole Foods this morning, my chai and pastels on the table in front of me, and the new Rolling Stone, with Steve Jobs on the cover. The mind goes on another ...
Opening your creative freedom . . .
I'm pleased to announce that registration is now open for
DISCO & DOODLES:
UNLEASHING CREATIVE FREEDOM!
This class is open to anyone who wants to spark/expand/loosen/lighten up their creativity
(and social workers and LPCs get CEUs)!
Disco & Doodles is here for creative guidance, inspiration and igniting. Through writing, doodling, collaging and a bit of ...
I went for a walk and found out that there is no such thing as thought.
Those of us who are on this so-called path (next we'll unfind that!) carry an assumption that there is an actual something called a thought, that is different from something called awareness or presence.
I've looked and have seen that actually awareness is not missing when what-we-call-thoughts are arising. How could it be ...
There isn't any deal.
Let me back up.
I was considering a period of intense emotions, physical, mental, the whole world of it. I was swimming in it for the last few days. And I was just thinking, I don't know what the deal was.
But there isn't any deal.
Sure as I'm sitting here now, I was there then, and what was happening was happening.
BUT I WANT TO FEEL GOOD.
This trip seems to have the effect of
Hey Carina,
I took your last advice and i've actually fallen in love with someone. He literally is the only person who can ever make me happy, I really think were soulmates. While this might sound good, I have other issues. We're in a band together and I'm 19 so I still live with my parents. My mom really doesn't like him at all and she makes fun of me for liking him. Now she tells me we
I can't say that anything I say here is, in an absolute sense, true.
But this is how it seems to me . . .
There is no such thing as resistance.
There are thoughts that say, I don't want to or I should.
And there is doing or not doing.
Ah yes, all concepts in themselves.
Look into the word resistance and show me where it is.
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I also don't believe in blocks. (Don't shoot me!)
I had long thought