Introducing...the New Dream Boogie ShareShow!

Introducing...the New Dream Boogie ShareShow!

The fabulous "Boogie Beans" in Dream Boogie and I want to share more about Dream Boogie with you, and invite you to join us for Dream Boogie Winter 2011! Enjoy this 5-minute romp through Dream Boogie...we call it the Dream Boogie ShareShow!


We've just started another fabulous "Dream Boogie" session that runs for eight weeks this Winter! Registration is open through Tuesday, February 8th!

So…get ready to put on your boogie shoes and accelerate your dream, business, project, or great idea!

If you're ready, you can sign up here...
Or keep reading to learn more!

Dream Boogie with SARK is an eight-week focused and fun dream productivity program designed and delivered from my heart, to help youfinally make your dreams and great ideas REALLY happen! It takes place on the phone and online, making it easy for you to commit to your dream in a highly focused, deeply JOYfull, and wonderfully integrated way, without the challenges of traveling or paying for airfare or lodging. YES, that means that you can attend classes in your pajamas, and complete your assignments while taking dream-filled walks...

And best of all, I finally get to work personally with you and your dream! And now is the perfect time to re-launch, begin FRESH, and manifest your great business ideas, creative intentions, or inspiring projects. It really doesn't matter how many times you've tried to make your dream real before; what matters is that THIS TIME is now, and now is finally the time to take your dreams from "thinking about them" to DOING AND LIVING THEM...while you ALSO live a joyfull, self-loving life.

I've designed Dream Boogie with SARK to be a fabulous, sparkly dream disco, where your dream can let loose and become REAL in your dazzling dance from dreaming to DOing. We're going to have a blast! And while we'll be emphasizing lots of laughter and play, this isalso a comprehensive, effective study program for those who are truly ready to make change, based on techniques I've developed in my 25 plus years as a transformational teacher, business leader, bestselling author, and artist.

In this innovative dream productivity program, you'll be working directly with me and getting to connect closely with other like-minded souls who are also dancing with dreams, projects, businesses, and other great ideas. I'm delighted to utilize state-of-the-art technology to provide a happy abundance of multimedia tools and resources that gently facilitate ALL learning styles in the dazzling dance from dreaming to DOing!

Here are some words from current and former "Dream Boogie" participants…

I have been devouring all the downloads and I really see how beautifully they all work together. The gloriously colorful and comprehensive workbook, the exciting video, Marney's interview with Tama, and SARK's splendid class...not to mention all the glorious souls here in this group...what I've realized is that there's something to appeal to EVERY sense. What SARK said about 5-d glasses is absolutely right. This IS 5-D learning. I have not felt this excited about my future in...well, EVER!

- Tara

What a great class and wonderful downloads......like having another juicy SARK book at our finger tips........this is a gift/class that keeps on giving.

- Violette

I am just downloading the Boogie Book for this week.....your generosity in giving us SO much with each lesson is truly heart opening...thank you!

- Ingrid

I can't get enough of the interaction with all the fantastic people in this community. I have been looking for a class exactly like this for weeks. This is too fantastic.

- Virginia

I feel like dancing and crying all at the same time. Oh, it feels so good to be on this journey. Freedom and Love and Juicy Living are all mine. Listening, writing, beinging inspired, uplifted and excited doing the work in the Boogie book. It's not easy, but just what I need! This is the first GREAT day I have had in a long while.

- Ama

If you're ready, you can sign up here...

Keep reading for great audio testimonials, plus lots of fun Boogie Samples to download and enjoy...

Your enrollment provides you with an inspiring structure of support, resources, and creative delights for you and your dream. It is an eight-week dream productivity program completely designed and delivered by me, facilitated so that each style of learning is accommodated. The program includes:

Dream Boogie Share-n-Tell-A-Classes As you'd expect, these aren't just your run-of-the-mill teleclasses. The eight weekly Dream Boogie teleclasses are unique because they are highly interactive and participatory...SARK style!

The classes begin Tuesday, February 1, 2011, and are held on Tuesday nights at 9pm Eastern Daylight Time (6pm Pacific Time) via state-of-the-art phone conference systems, allowing for breakout study groups and other unique interactions. In fact, I'm structuring these calls exactly like I run my live workshops, with lots of small group discussions and interactive games that allow you to connect with one another, as well as with me.

Click here to see the complete class schedule for Dream Boogie with SARK (think of it as your Succulent Sillybus!)

Can't make the live classes? No problem! You will also have infinite access to high-quality recordings of all classes, in case you miss a class or want to listen again.

I am very excited to start the teleclass ! The hour went by SO fast ! It was very motivating.. by the class... I LOVED being able to talk to others as they are on their own journey ! ! I can not wait for next week's class woo hooo !!

- Athena
I just want to express how lovely our second class was. It feels very nice and comforting to feel that we are not alone and that we have this lovely community of kindred spirits to help us. One of the callers said something that just blew my mind; what a dream-starter: "I'm the best at being me than anybody else!" It was also nice to hear SARK talking about her own fears. This gives us perspective. Thanks to SARK for these classes, and to everyone in this community! Let's move on on our dream path.

- Anna Maria

Boogie Beans Community - You'll get to participate in a private, moderated community-based Web site open only to Dream Boogie program participants, offering supportive connections and mentoring opportunities among your peers, as well as access to communicate directly with me in between classes.

We are all indelibly connected, and when our dreams come together, they are magnified!


I know exactly how you all are feeling, that is why community is so cool! This community and support is so amazing!

- Susan
I love SARK's Intuitive Flash on the Boogie Beans Community! Thank you, SARK, for your beautiful insights to my question. This Dream Boogie has given me the physical push to go mind over chatter and take these first wonderful baby steps. With another glorious month of encouragement I know I (and so many others) am finally on my way.

- Deborah

If you're ready, you can sign up here...

Keep reading for more great audio testimonials, plus lots of fun Boogie Samples to download and enjoy...


Weekly Boogie Books - Work and play with your dazzling series of eight weekly inspiring playbooks that you can work with in between classes.

The Boogie Books follow the topics in the Succulent Sillybus and are designed to help you absorb and anchor the material from the teleclasses in a variety of inspiring formats, including:

  • - inspiring lessons
  • - positive challenges and games to try
  • - downloadable SARK art
  • - journal prompts delivered in beautiful ready-to-print journal pages
  • - radiant resources for your dream
  • Each Boogie Book continues suggestions for Weekly "Ownwork", which is my reframe on the word "homework". Your Ownwork is your way to be accountable to yourself during this program, and you can go at your own pace to do as much or as little as you want each week as your accelerate your dream at your own rate.

    See sample Boogie Book pages in the collection of fun Boogie Samples, below!

    This week's Boogie Book has unleashed some wow power for my dream. I took the time to be with my dream as I went through the exercises. We shared tea and moments of deep integrity and deep wisdom. A truly amazing tool. I like the concept of allowing my dream to have its own identity, and taking time to build a relationship with it -- a concept I've not thought of, but am finding tremendous power in it.

    - Alexis
    I love these Boogie Books! I print them on thick recycled paper from SCRAP and then punch 3 perfect holes, and take special pleasure in putting them in the binder. And yes! I do the homework. These work books remind me of being in kindergarten when I LOVED homework and was always jumping ahead. Can I just say that my dreaming has been off the hook creative in the last 8 days!

    - Catherine

    If you're ready, you can sign up here...

    Weekly "Boogie Burst Broadcast" SARK Video - You'll also get a weekly video during the eight weeks of the course, where I'll invite you into my home in San Francisco for a fun little "boogie burst".

    This is thefirst time that I'm adventuring into Video Land, and I'm delighted to connect with you in this delicious new way!

    Keep reading to see a sample "Boogie Burst Broadcast" SARK video in the collection of fun Boogie Samples, below!

    I love this video message from SARK! I am ready to face the world fearlessly, confident to SHOUT OUT my dreams.

    - Wendy
    The Boogie Bursts are so very helpful to me. I have watched them all on several occasions. This week's Boogie Burst on Micromovements really helped significantly!

    - Melody

    Keep reading for more great audio testimonials, plus lots of fun Boogie Samples to download and enjoy...


    Dream DOer Inner Views - Enjoy a delicious collection of 10 interviews on different dream-building topics, to inspire and motivate you in fabulous new ways.

    The Inner Views are presented in a variety of formats, including audio recordings and colorfull print layouts, to stimulate different parts of your brilliant brain! Keep reading to listen to an audio of some tasty tidbits from the Inner Views in the Boogie Samples, below!

    In these Inner Views, you'll get to know some of my favorite Dream DOers, including:


    Michael Gelb
    Bestselling author of How to Think Like Leonardo Da Vinci

    Eric Maisel
    America's foremost creativity coach and author of 30 books, including Creativity for Life

    Marci Shimoff
    Bestselling author of Happy For No Reason

    Brian Andreas
    Artist, author, and creator of Storypeople.com

    Tori Hartman
    Creator of Tori Hartman, Inc., an Oprah-featured brand of inspiring spiritual products

    Kris Carr
    Best-selling author, filmmaker, and creator of crazysexylife.com

    Amy Ahlers
    The Wake-Up Call Coach

    Jen Lemen and Andrea Scher
    Creators of MondoBeyondo.com

    Tama Kieves, author ofThis Time I Dance: Creating the Work You Love

    Keep reading to listen to an audio of some tasty tidbits from the Inner Views in the Boogie Samples, below!

    The inner views are great. SARK, I think it was a stroke of genius to have Marney do these interviews - what a gifted interviewer she is! (I'm in PR for my "day job" and so I know how special that gift is). This truly adds value to this program. Thank you SARK, Marney, and all the inspiring interviewees...and I can't wait for the next one!

    - Tara
    The Boogie Bursts are so very helpful to me. I have watched them all on several occasions. This week's Boogie Burst on Micromovements really helped significantly!

    - Melody

    If you're ready, you can sign up here...

    Boogie Buddies - One of the best parts of the program is getting assigned to your own special team of 3-5 human beans who are also participating in the program.

    In this small group, you'll create more intimate and meaningful connections as together you engage in specific "Boogie Buddy" assignments throughout the program.

    How cool is Dream Boogie!!! I'm spinning like a top on the inside today.... I have beautiful communication flowing through most days from SARK and my Boogie Buddies, I 'm so so so so so so pleased to have taken this leap of fuzzy purple faith!! This community is bursting with creative energy and love and I am so thrilled and grateful to be involved! Thank you SARK, you are seen, you are loved and you have made such a difference to my life already... in just a few short weeks!!!

    - Denise

    Bodacious Boogie Boost - When you enroll in Dream Boogie with SARK, you will get the opportunity to have YOUR dream featured in the SARK eLetter!

    I'm ready to spread the news of your dream far and wide, to all SARK readers everywhere, so that you can experience the energetic support of being seen while also gaining new customers, readers, and followers for your work.

    Other Boogie Bits - Throughout the program, you'll receive personal emails of encouragement form me, bonus SARK art downloads, and more fun stuff to keep you surprised and delighted.

    I have a special camera hidden in your home so I know when you need them the most (well, not really...but synchronicity does have a way of working its magic...)

    The wonderful motivation and delight I've needed has been inspired within me to help me get out of the continual beginning stages of my dream that I have been stuck in for years! Thank you for what you inspire in me and others SARK! This community thing is amazing!

    - Valerie
    I am really smiling at this Boogie Bit...thanks for the fairy dust & the subliminal magic wand waving! A new world is opening...waiting for me...imagine that?...YES! ' I am deeply appreciating this time of discovery, the Boogie Beans Community support system, & all you share...YES! Thank you.

    - Joan

    Here are some fun samples for you to enJoy:

    1. NEW Fun Sample! Here is a link to the “SARK Unplugged After Party”, with more “Intuitive Flashes” from SARK, info about the Dream Boogie Winter 2011 session, and more SARK fun!

    * * * Click here to listen to
    the "After Party!" * * *

    If you’d like to learn more about Dream Boogie, here is a link from a Dream Boogie Information Session held last Fall, where lots of wonderful "Boogie Beans" speak first-hand about their experiences with Dream Boogie. Listening to this recording is a GREAT way to learn what it's all about! Listen to the "Dream Boogie Info Session": LINK HERE - what you have there now:

    * * * Click here to enjoy their amazing stories and testimonials! * * *

    2. Here is the class schedule, with the fabulous themes we'll be covering during our eight weeks together (think of it as your Dream's Succulent Sillybus!):

    Can't make the live classes? No problem! You will also have infinite access to high-quality recordings of all classes, in case you miss a class or want to listen again.

    3. NEW Fun Sample! Here are some delicious snippets from the "Dream DOer" Inner Views! I can't stop smiling as I listen to these glorious recordings of Marney Makridakis from Artella Land interviewing these luminous dreamers and doers.

    * * * Click here to listen! * * *

    4. Here is a sample of the Weekly "Boogie Burst" SARK Videos:

    Here's another fun video of a Tea Party with me, from my home in San Francisco!!


    5. Here are sample pages from your Dream Boogie Books. You'll get 8 inspiring, colorfull weekly playbooks, designed to help you anchor and process the rich material presented in each live teleclass.

    You can click the samples to enJOY them in full size:


    • - You have a business, project, or idea that is ready for accelerated growth and efficient, exciting results
    • - You are ALSO equally interested in balancing this success with a wonderfull life overflowing with new self-love and self care practices developed by me and shared with you.
    • - You respond to intimate support, heart-felt communication, and the power of collaborative and connective energy possible in a group of like-minded souls
    • - You are intrigued and excited about making the delicious leap from DREAMing to DOing!
    • - You are ready to make an 8-week commitment to yourself, your dream, as well as to me and your program colleagues, as you engage in "inner active" work to productively take your dream to the next stage
    • - You're a kindred SARK spirit and you'd like the chance to work with me directly. Dream Boogie with SARK is just like attending a live workshop with me, except that you don't have to leave home!

      If you've never been to a live SARK workshop, here is some fun footage, thanks to our friends at the Southwest Institute of Healing Arts:

    If you're ready, you can sign up here...

    Still not sure? You can even get a recording of the first class for FREE!

    YES! You're invited to download a recording of the first "Share-And-Tell-A-Class" completely for free -- with absolutely no obligation or any silly strings whatsoever.

    So if you're undecided about Dream Boogie, or if you simply would just like an infusion of inspiration for you and your dream--- I invite you to download this complimentary recording at no charge.

    Please send me SARK's complimentary recording of the first "Dream Boogie" Class!

    Registration for Dream Boogie Winter 2011 is still open throughTuesday, February 8!

    This rare and unique experience to work directly with me for eight full weeks is simply four monthly payments of $49.99, or a one-time discounted payment of $180 (save 10%).

    Our first class was February 1, 2011, and we are keeping registration open until the second class, on Tuesday, February 8. As soon as you register, you'll have instant access to all of the juicy materials for Week 1.

    Enroll before February 8 and you'll also get a special gift when you sign up: an instant download of the jump-start workbook, "SARK's Big Purple Crayon: A Playbook for Naming Your Dream".

    To sign up, simply click one of the buttons below.

    Questions? You can find answers to most of your questions in our FAQs (Fantastically Answered Questions), here. Or you can email my assistant, Trisha Marcy at trisha @planetSARK.com or call her at 541-223-5757
    You can reach her Monday-Friday between 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. PST or leave a message and she'll respond as quickly as possible.

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    We've just started another fabulous "Dream Boogie" session that runs for eight weeks this Winter! Registration is open through Tuesday, February 8th!

    So…get ready to put on your boogie shoes and accelerate your dream, business, project, or great idea!

    If you're ready, you can sign up here...
    Or keep reading to learn more!

    Dream Boogie with SARK is an eight-week focused and fun dream productivity program designed and delivered from my heart, to help youfinally make your dreams and great ideas REALLY happen! It takes place on the phone and online, making it easy for you to commit to your dream in a highly focused, deeply JOYfull, and wonderfully integrated way, without the challenges of traveling or paying for airfare or lodging. YES, that means that you can attend classes in your pajamas, and complete your assignments while taking dream-filled walks...

    And best of all, I finally get to work personally with you and your dream! And now is the perfect time to re-launch, begin FRESH, and manifest your great business ideas, creative intentions, or inspiring projects. It really doesn't matter how many times you've tried to make your dream real before; what matters is that THIS TIME is now, and now is finally the time to take your dreams from "thinking about them" to DOING AND LIVING THEM...while you ALSO live a joyfull, self-loving life.

    I've designed Dream Boogie with SARK to be a fabulous, sparkly dream disco, where your dream can let loose and become REAL in your dazzling dance from dreaming to DOing. We're going to have a blast! And while we'll be emphasizing lots of laughter and play, this isalso a comprehensive, effective study program for those who are truly ready to make change, based on techniques I've developed in my 25 plus years as a transformational teacher, business leader, bestselling author, and artist.

    In this innovative dream productivity program, you'll be working directly with me and getting to connect closely with other like-minded souls who are also dancing with dreams, projects, businesses, and other great ideas. I'm delighted to utilize state-of-the-art technology to provide a happy abundance of multimedia tools and resources that gently facilitate ALL learning styles in the dazzling dance from dreaming to DOing!

    Here are some words from current and former "Dream Boogie" participants…

    I have been devouring all the downloads and I really see how beautifully they all work together. The gloriously colorful and comprehensive workbook, the exciting video, Marney's interview with Tama, and SARK's splendid class...not to mention all the glorious souls here in this group...what I've realized is that there's something to appeal to EVERY sense. What SARK said about 5-d glasses is absolutely right. This IS 5-D learning. I have not felt this excited about my future in...well, EVER!

    - Tara

    What a great class and wonderful downloads......like having another juicy SARK book at our finger tips........this is a gift/class that keeps on giving.

    - Violette

    I am just downloading the Boogie Book for this week.....your generosity in giving us SO much with each lesson is truly heart opening...thank you!

    - Ingrid

    I can't get enough of the interaction with all the fantastic people in this community. I have been looking for a class exactly like this for weeks. This is too fantastic.

    - Virginia

    I feel like dancing and crying all at the same time. Oh, it feels so good to be on this journey. Freedom and Love and Juicy Living are all mine. Listening, writing, beinging inspired, uplifted and excited doing the work in the Boogie book. It's not easy, but just what I need! This is the first GREAT day I have had in a long while.

    - Ama

    If you're ready, you can sign up here...

    Keep reading for great audio testimonials, plus lots of fun Boogie Samples to download and enjoy...

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    'Don't Talk to Strangers' is Dangerous Advice

    by Lenore Skenazy (Subscribe to Lenore Skenazy's posts) Jul 20th 2010 11:00AM

    Lenore Skenazy

    Want to keep your children safe? Teach them to talk to strangers.

    Oh, sure, that's easy for me to say -- Ms. Free-Range Kids. But it's not just me. "We have been trying to debunk the myth of stranger danger," says Ernie Allen. He's the head of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, the group that put the missing kids' pictures on the milk cartons (and got us all hysterical about stranger danger in the first place).

    As Mr. Allen knows, most child abuse occurs at the hands of someone the child knows well -- a stepparent, a brother, a babysitter -- not a stranger. So we're already pointing kids in the wrong direction when we tell them that strangers are the big threat in town.

    But another problem with "Stranger danger!" is that it teaches kids not to develop any common sense. Case in point:

    The other day my friend was in the aisles of Target, trying to decide between two bathing suits. A little girl sitting in a cart nearby -- her mother but an arm's distance away -- piped up in her 3-year-old voice, "I like the pink one."

    My friend replied that she was leaning toward the black one when the mother turned around, saw her daughter talking to someone she didn't know and rushed her away, yelling, "We do not talk to strangers!"

    Even those really dangerous strangers who are middle-aged ladies, in a public place, buying clothes.

    What lesson has that mom taught her child? That everyone, everywhere is dangerous. That she should make no distinction between the guy who lost his puppy and the granny who chucks her under the chin. And why is that a terrible lesson? It could actually make the kid less safe.

    Let's say that some day that girl really does find herself in a tight spot. To jump to the ultimate nightmare, let's even say that one day there's a van following her -- a white one, without windows (the predator's vehicle of choice). The girl can keep walking, trusting no one and hoping to God she's safe. Or, she can run to the stranger pruning his hedges and say, "Let me stand next to you till that guy leaves!" She can run into the store and tell a stranger, "Call 911!" She doesn't have to wait for a policeman. She can ask for -- and get! -- help from any stranger because the vast majority of strangers are not predators. They're like you and me.

    That's why the best advice is this: Teach your children they can talk to strangers, they just cannot go off with strangers. It's an easier lesson to learn and it will prevent your child from growing up a paranoid, freaked-out dum-dum.

    Like that mom.

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    Knowledge vs. Intelligence...

    I was looking at WordPress plugins and somehow stumbled upon a post...well, actually it jumped out at me. It also compelled me to make a post of my own. The statement was.....“Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.”

    It's one of those weird statements that has the air of truth about it, or gospel...sorta running off the brain without much thought, the way "I'm fine" runs off the tongue, when I'm asked how I'm doing. In reality it's bullshit. Sorry to be blatant, but...that's how I'm feeling. It could very well be a quote directly from some bible. I don't care if it is or not. It's just plain wrong (and I don't use that word lightly).

    In fact, the exact opposite is true. Well, we'll just leave God out of it, but....ignorance is bliss. Knowledge is that evil that continuously trips us up, with it'sknowledge vs intelligence tightening noose. I won't get into it too much. It's always a sensitive issue for most....getting into ideas about "knowledge". Word to the wise, avoid all discussions that involve peoples belief-systems! I'm not that wise. Knowledge and Intelligence are two, drastically different things. Intelligence is a universal energy. I like to call it "creativeloveintelligence". It's the glue of all existence. It's not learned, or earned, or bought. It's a natural occurrence in everything. Knowledge on the other-hand is a man-made invention. Basically, if you believe what I believe...agree with what I agree, then you are smart! If you follow this dogma to the end without question...you're brilliant! I find it all very weird, and very suspicious. Obviously, I didn't do well in school! ;)

    I could biblically point out that God insisted, the tree of knowledge not be touched, but really it comes down to common sense. It's all just theory, is it not? How can anything be termed a "fact"? It's the creative wealth in me that hates the whole concept of knowledge. It's the sick idea of hammering into a little kids head that grass can't be purple, and cows can't fly; that boys don't play with dolls, and men don't wear skirts....and blah, blah, blah. It's narrow minded. And, it supports the idea that the more narrow-minded one is...the smarter they are. Bullshit! Knowledge is synonymous with conforming, nothing else. "Follow what we say is RIGHT, and you'll be right too!" After all, who wants to be stoned, ridiculed, exiled?

    I'm not saying knowledge is 'bad' thing. It's just not a healthy thing when it's given so much power over us. Knowledge has it place. It's good for learning how to drive heavy-machinery, or build a bridge. It's great for cooks that don't want to poison their customers, and doctors that don't want to cut out the wrong organ. Stuff like that. But it's not Intelligence by any means. Intelligence is beyond us, it contains us. It's not something we control and wield, which is probably why it's overlooked. At this very moment...your heart is beating, circulating your blood through your body...metabolizing, making exchanges. Your lungs are drawing in air, filtering out oxygen, releasing carbon dioxide. Your eyes are blinking constantly, your producing saliva, swallowing unconsciously. Digesting....all of it. If we had to take over any ONE of those tasks...we'd drop dead on the spot. We'd get distracted by a pretty, sparkly thing...and forget about keeping our heart beating. All those things are governed by INTELLIGENCE! In that sense, ignorance is bliss.

    In the whole, entire scheme of things....intelligence runs the shows. Call it God-Source-Energy...whatever. Idk....I'm really appreciative of it, whatever it is. It's the one thing that surrounds us all, and never mentions it's importance. Ever. It's CONSTANT...in that sense, it's love. It takes care of everything, so we can just stumble around life, explore and experience. Okay...we can remember to wipe our ass, and put food in our mouths, but it doesn't really get anymore complicated then that! But, look at how complicated we've made everything!!! And..........we have the gall to call it 'advanced'. We're all stressed out beyond reason, popping pills, and voiding out in front of some machine every chance we get, arguing with one another over who's "right", who's "better". Arrgg! It's craziness!!!!! I'm a huge nature-lover. I watch the birds, the stray cats, etc. I watch them hanging out, seeking food, lazing in the sun. I see them seek out shelter in foul weather. That's as complicated as it gets. No money, no property taxes, no job, no fences, no gas, no cars. Idk...I like it! I get a tiny bit frustrated at time, bcuz everyone thinks i'm nucking futs....but I don't care. No one (yet) has been able to convince me that we shouldn't just get rid of all of it, and get right back to the very basics of it all! I guess if I step really far back, and tilt my head as far it will go, and strain my eyes all the way............maybe I can see where there's a slight possibility, that through all this 'advancement' we might get back to the basics. I'm just not one for the super-long way around...WHEN, it's right there in front of us. It's always been there...it hasn't gone anywhere....this creativeloveintelligence. We've just wondered way off the reservation (out of Eden) bcuz a bunch of yahoos insist that we can do better/more. I don't want better/more. I want simple, easy, natural. :( </rant>

    Wow.......that was a lot longer then I expected.

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    Therapy Thursday: Create

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    therapy thursday: create We don't always notice when we're being negative, especially about our own lives, and ourselves! We think we're being constructive, when we tighten the reigns and stick to a very, narrow path. We believe we're being "responsible". The true meaning of responsible, is "the ability to respond well", and that has a lot more to do with being OPEN-MINDED then it does being strict.

    A good way to tell if you're being negative, is how much energy you have. Negativity requires a ton more energy, then being positive! If you're feeling tired, there's conflict in your life. Look at how much energy children have! Children (pre-programming) are always in a positive, optimistic state, where possibilities abound. There's nothing they feel they CAN'T do....until they're taught they can't do them. The worst thing can do (besides limiting our own creative nature & ability), is limit our children, by convincing them they aren't capable. It's not that parents want to curb their kids; it's a TRANSFERENCE of negativity and doubt! The opposite of LOVE is FEAR, and fear is hard to pin-point and overcome....so we tend to off-load it on the nearest/easiest person. That's usually our children. Getting a little of track....

    The possibilities that surround us our limitless. We can't SEE them all, and it's a good thing we can't. Our minds would shatter at the scope of it all. Still, we all walk around thinking that we see everything there is to see, and out of that small sliver...we grasp/struggle/strive for the best options.

    As I've mentioned in previous "therapy" posts, we can only see what vibrates on the same level we do. Simple examples of this is are color and music. Colors vibrates, just as sound does. They are related. We can only see a 7 color spectrum (ROYGBIV), like we hear 7 musical notes (ABCDEFG). Sounds and colors outside that are invisible to us. They don't exist in our immediate space. That rule applies to everything. We unconsciously inhabit a certain frequency with our thoughts & emotions. In that space there are fluctuations...low and high. So, it can appear that there are good and bad days, but always in that limited frequency range. I don't agree with the concept that in order to be spiritually enlightened one has to be happy all the time. It's most important that one be AUTHENTIC and GENUINE!

    The goal is to continue raising ones frequency, but in order to that...one has to clean out their closets on a continuous basis. Frequency can't be faked. Once upon a time we were always happy, then people around us transfered limitations onto us. We accepted them as 'truth', and walled ourselves into that space. In order to de-program ourselves...we have to reach back through all that conditioning; back to that childlike state of enthusiasm.

    TODAY I BYPASS ALL THE NOT-SO-GOOD THINGS I THINK ABOUT MYSELF. I LET ALL THAT GO, TO COMPLETELY EMBRACE THAT WONDERFUL, FUN LOVING, FANTASTIC, JOYFUL, WONDER-LUST CHILD INSIDE ME! I AM DESERVING OF ALL THE LOVE I CAN MUSTER. THERE IS NO LIMIT TO LOVE. THE MORE I GIVE MYSELF...THE MORE I HAVE TO GIVE! WHEN I LIMIT MY LOVE FOR MYSELF...I LIMIT MY LOVE FOR OTHERS. I LIMIT EVERYTHING. THE UNIVERSE DOESN'T RECOGNIZE MY NEGATIVITY, OR MY SELF-IMPOSED LIMITATIONS, BUT IT IS SET UP TO MIRROR MY ENERGY. IT'S DESIGNED TO GIVE ME WHAT I NEED. IF I NEED TO CONSTANTLY RECONFIRM THAT I'M NOT WHO I'M SUPPOSE TO BE...NOT WHERE I'M SUPPOSE TO BE. IT WILL LOVINGLY SUPPORT ME IN THAT.

    TODAY I CONFIRM THAT I AM PERFECT AS ME, WHERE I AM NOW. I AM GRATEFUL. I CONFIRM THAT I AM WORTHY OF LIMITLESS LOVE, AND THAT ALL IS WELL IN THIS MOMENT. THAT ME AND MINE ARE WELL TAKEN CARE OF, AND PROTECTED BY THAT INFINITE LOVE, WHERE NOTHING NEGATIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE IS ALLOWED ACCESS. SITUATIONS MAY ARISE TO GIVE CLARITY, WISDOM, AND AWARENESS. I AM OPEN TO SEEING THOSE THINGS EARLY ON, AND CORRECTING MY COURSE, BEFORE DISASTER OCCURS. TODAY I LET GO OF ALL THE CONSTRICTIONS AND OPEN WIDE...THE DOORS AND WINDOWS OF MY SOUL. I AM NOT AFRAID OF WHAT IS OUT THERE. AS I STEP OUT OF MY OWN SHADOWS, I ATTRACT MORE AND MORE HOLISTIC OPPORTUNITY INTO MY LIFE.

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    Therapy Thursday: Empowerment

    For those that haven't done a lot of deep, intense, spiritual work...please let me save you some effort and energy! Everyone starts out seeking some secret or answer to the meaning of it all. There's only one thing to understand where all spirituality is concerned, one spiritual practice, and that's it. It's in BEING PRESENT.........in the moment. It's the hardest thing in the world to do! Being present is the solution for the sum of all problems! It cancels out everything else!

    When one is present, there's no need to forgive, no need for fear, no search for love, no feeling misplaced, no need to keep score, etc, etc,. There is only now, and now is always perfect. "Being" is an absolute! There's nothing to add to it, and nothing to take away. It is, and that's all there is to it. It's what Zen Masters specialize in, and what all the rest of us hope to attain. The entire process of clearing ones self from the past, and releasing ourselves from some predetermined future...is fascinating to say the least. I spent a good ten years in deep, spiritual contemplation, without much fulfillment. It was one, Jiddu Krishnamurti that set things straight for me...in a book called "The Awakening of Intelligence". Jiddu's work is not for everyone, but I have to suggest it just the same. It's brilliantly simple, if one can wrap their heads around it, and basically that means: putting aside everything you think you know about everything!

    Thought itself is old. By the time you think of something it has already taken place. Words are old. By the time you open your mouth to speak about something...it is past. In essence, there is no point thinking or speaking about anything. What's done is done. The simplicity of such things seems to outrage the average person. We define ourselves by what we "think" (we know), and (as humans) we love to demonstrate ourselves, and our knowledge by speaking (tirelessly) about everything; even that which we know nothing about. We all have opinions, and we all know deep down inside...they stand for nothing. Yet, we press and press. It get's very complex, why we have such a need to do these things. A lot of it is conditioned or programmed into us. Monkey see monkey do. We learn it, and nothing else. It's "normal" behavior. But, it's not spiritually intelligent by any means. Meaning to say, it's not where we could be, what we have the ability to attain...it's just where we're all comfortable hanging out. And holy crap.......................it's exhausting. Really, truly, exhausting! We hold onto all these past experiences like they define us, all the while collecting a shitload of information from those around us...to help us navigate life, and hopefully point us in some meaningful direction. We look to others to help us chart our course, forgetting that everyone around us is just as LOST as we are. We take all that information and roll it all up into some ridiculous ball of expectations, and project all of it into some future we wish to place ourselves in. Blah, blah, blah....to simplify. We live in the past, and project ourselves into the future.....all the while we're missing the NOW.

    It's hard-wired in! It's the most difficult habit to break! Especially nowadays! Some practice yoga, others meditation. Some veg in front of the boob-tube, others in video games, some take drugs, others medication, some drink, or work themselves into a daze...all in an attempt to find a little peace of mind.  Basically we look around at ourselves, and others...........and who's truly happy, blissful, content? Who amongst us, isn't searching for "something"??? In truth.......we need not search for anything, we need not be heading in any direction. If we could all just stand in the moment, and be, as is. That's the challenge for all of us.

    I'm not going to change anyone's perspective in one post, and my intention is not to "fix" anyone. All I can suggest is the practice of letting it all go...that some new insight might be earned. Just to make the effort to view what's going on with "you" from moment to moment, when you think of it. Study and be aware. Is the thought you're thinking old? Is the thought you're thinking an expectation (based on old thoughts & experiences)? Is how you're acting...conditioned into you? Is how you're feeling something that holds onto you? Is it based on things that have happened in the past that you care not to repeat? Or, something you wish to repeat bcuz it brought you happiness at some point? Then......laugh at all that and let it go for a moment, and BREATH! It doesn't matter what it is, or where it's coming from...let it go for a moment! All of it gets in the way of the now! Even when we "hope for the best"...it's a move away from the moment. There is no "better" direction. No other place to be. It's not a thing that we can find and hold onto. If we're lucky.....we recognize it from time to time. Fleeting "moments". It's not a thing to be "consumed" with.

    THROUGHOUT TODAY, WHEN IT COMES TO ME....I WILL RECOGNIZE WHERE I'M STANDING...IN THE MOMENT. AND I WILL BE GRATEFUL FOR WHERE I AM AT. WITHOUT THOUGHT. WITHOUT MEASURE. IN THAT MOMENT...I WILL NOT LOOK AROUND TO SEE WHO IS WATCHING ME. I WILL NOT LOOK AROUND TO CHECK HOW OTHERS ARE DOING, AND HAVE OPINIONS ABOUT ANY OF IT. I LEAVE ALL OPINIONS FOR OTHERS. I WILL NOT LESSON THE MOMENT, BY THINKING OF ALL THE THINGS I DON'T HAVE. OR WHERE I WOULD RATHER BE. I WILL NOT PRIDE MYSELF ON WHERE I AM, NOR WILL I LIMIT MYSELF BY THINKING I AM NOT WHERE I SHOULD BE. I WILL LET EVERYTHING GO FOR SMALL MOMENTS...AND BREATH IN THE NOW.

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    I Have a Problem...

    I do. I think it's part and parcel to being an artist....like when I was little, and rather then adapt to awkward or uncomfortable situations or environments...I'd grab crayons, pencils, paint, or play-dough....and retreat into my own little world (of my making). I still do that! I distract myself with the form and function of things, the aesthetics, and matrix of it all. I'm a TWEAKER! I can't seem to leave well enough alone. I LOVE...I get big satisfaction from BUILDING and creating a website. The vision...the sweet customization. Buttons, backgrounds, logo's, and banners. Tweak, tweak, tweak....bcuz I'm really just a noob. I can't write code and assemble a website from scratch. I probably should learn, but with all the open-source stuff available, why? Because I might actually be able to make a somewhat decent living at it? Good point. Maybe. So much competition though, and another forte of a creative spirit..........................non-competitiveness. <deep sigh>

    I can keep tweaking and tweaking this site. Never wholly satisfied. I will customize a theme....as I've done, only moments later to sit back, and not feel satisfied with what I've accomplished...but find a new theme and think to start again. Maybe it's too wide? Maybe it should be flexible? Maybe it's too dark? Maybe it's too packed? Maybe it's too plain? Arggggggg.....it's a sickness I tell ya. Seriously!

    Was one thing when I had nothing better to do (Q: does one ever really never have anything better to do?) But now that I'm a mom. A single mom at that.......there is no free time to play around, which in essence is what it is. On top of that I have to start making more of an effort to learn to be spiritually satisfied with what I'm doing. Which isn't just a head-space....it requires a whole restructuring of my thought-processes, and my actions!!! Can't just f--k around with life, and be satisfied at the end of the day. Pardon being blunt, but it's truth. It's a vigil.  Being constantly aware of ones self, and it's direction...ahhhhhhhhhhh, something like that. IDK. I guess it all comes down to CONFLICT!

    There's this old Chinese folk-tale about an old man who's awoken in the middle of the night by thief breaking into his house to take his belongings. I can't remember it exactly, but the old man is very accommodating. He helps the thief pack up his stuff, he shows him where the finest things are...reminding him not to forget them. He even feeds the thief, and allows him to spend the night bcuz there's a terrible storm. The next morning the thief leaves, only to return a day later with all of the things he had stolen. The thief is completely beside himself, crying to the old man, "You've ruined me! I can't live with myself anymore!" The thief explains at length, that he had never really thought of himself as a "thief" before. That he was an opportunist, smarter then average men. That other people were greedy, materialistic, and shallow...so he was always able to justify his thievery. But.........since the old man had been so kind to him........all he could think about was how he was an outright THIEF, and he couldn't live with that. Anyway........he begged the old man to forgive him, and help him be a better man. The old man took his stuff back, but confided to the thief that he could not help him with the rest, saying..."Now that you consider yourself a thief...that is what you are".

    The moral being........that once the thought is in place, it can be the strongest thing against ones self. The idea of someone being their own WORST enemy. And, it's true. As long as the man was completely ignorant/unconscious of his actions...he could live easily with himself. Once, he made the acknowledgement...and chose to own the "fact" of it. He was stuck with his own awareness of it. That can be the hardest thing to change. Ones ideas about them-self. Ignorance is bliss. Once we begin down a path of self-awareness, we can appear even more messed up then we thought we were to begin with! To avoid going on, which I can easily do! It's not so much about "changing" these habits for those habits, worse for better. It's not about a vigil of 'remembering' to be one thing and not another. It's actually a vigil of forgetting, and the conundrum in that!!! I guess it's simple to say it's about a vibration one holds...where their resonance is...places them on a particular level of existence or 'being'.

    Thoughts are vibrations too. Everything is a vibration. As we come to understand....eventually....certain thoughts can only exist on certain vibratory levels. What I'm getting at is....it's not so much about balancing a hundred things on your plate, or 'forcing' yourself in this direction or that. It starts off with INTENT to be a certain way, then it's through a hands-off vigil of non-obsessing that we can enter that space. Like the saying, "Let go and let God". Or the idea that there's nothing standing in the way, except YOU. That's all very true. Forcing vibrational change doesn't work. It's a flow we can only get into if we vibrate with it. Then it's wide open to us. Blah, blah, blah.....not trying to be some spiritual guru. Just sharing my experience that as humans...we typically make things more difficult then necessary! Forget about who you want to be, where you want to be....like it's work. Hold a loose energy for that space, then allow things to fall into place. Sometimes giving things time, is the hardest thing we can do. Without stepping in and working to fix or tweak them! Obsessing, or holding tight to particular thoughts...just gives them more energy...to hold that vibration. Letting go when we can...we break free from that. And, there's a lot more options in freedom.

    May the FLOW be you! :)

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