for the Creatives

 Automatic writing is like a gift of freedom. This gift of freedom is present when engaging in any creative medium that has no end goal. I feel completely unencumbered. I want this feeling in everything I do in life. I feel that sensation with my breath. And while it may be as free as can be, I choose to appreciate it rather than take it for granted. Would I take life for granted if I lived completely free and unencumbered? I think not. What does it mean to take something for granted? To not appreciate it? To not energize it completely? To not mold it into its greatest potential? Well, I choose to appreciate my life. I choose to energize my life completely. I choose to mold my life into its greatest potential which is my dream. I'd say that living in that way is freedom and it takes nothing for granted. The moment I begin to judge myself is the moment a mask appears. I would rather be my true self and know who genuinely likes me than be a false self for the sake of pleasing the jud...

How to Cultivate Joyful, Organized Focus:  An Arts Integrated* Lesson for Homeschool Teachers      *(Lesson includes integrated art modalities such as visual arts, literature, and performance arts.) Objective: Joyful, organized focus. Outcome: Task completion.  Narrative: After assigning the task to "go within" or in other words, taking a few moments each day to engage in solitude and breath work or meditation, we are now reflecting on the experience. Teacher is to award themself one point each time this task is complete. Encouragement was provided to complete the organization of one specific area of the home to provide an outward visual of what is developing within. The objective is organization within and without.  Spiritual Connection: Exploration of "on earth as it is in heaven" where heaven is a state of mind and earth is our 3-D reality. (Matthew 6:10) Self-Reflection Exercise: Teacher may choose any creative modality they are drawn to in respons...

Faith is the ONLY How.   Christian doctrines often teach the idea that we are blind. But the truth we must learn to step into is that we were once blind and NOW WE SEE. "It is with the renewing of our mind that we prove the good, acceptable, perfect will of God." Romans 12:2 Without renewing our minds, we are indeed blind.  But how ? If you've read the posts on this blog from its onset in 2022, you'll notice my desperate, endless search for the answers to a number of how  questions. I wandered and wondered how will I survive off of my artistic gifts? How will I make money? How will I cure my OCD, so I stop getting in my own way? How can I beat imposter syndrome?  Notice that every how  is proceeded by a negative idea in the mind. An idea that goes against success, health, and wealth. That's because when we ask how , we deny the fact of the whole matter. Read that again please. When we ask  how , we deny the fact of the whole matter .  matter...

 Ye of little Faith.  Ever had a thought? Ever had a thought become a word? Ever had a word become a sentence? Ever had that sentence become a conversation? Ever find harmony with someone in conversation and that conversation lead to harmonious movement into a similar direction in time and space? Ever have a thought lead to, I don't know, how about a sandwich?  Ever had a problem? Ever tried to find a solution to a problem? Have you ever tried to make a homemade solution to a problem? Ever have your solution to a problem fail? Ever have to think of a different solution to a problem? Ever have to test multiple possible solutions for a single problem? Ever contemplate the structure of freedom? Have you ever been told you're free, but wonder why you feel imprisoned? Ever feel guilty for wanting more? Ever try to suppress or even kill off your own desires?  Ever praised yourself for not falling into temptation? Have you ever given yourself a pat on the back for a job wel...

Ideal is just undoubtedly beautiful. Gorgeous even. They have perfect skin and beauty marks. They're even toned-- all around adored by the sun. When Ideal speaks, everyone listens, and the words are edifying. And they're voice is velvet and smooth -- a vibrating movement that inspires. They're rhythm is a perfect cadence, and they are impeccably in tune. Ideal never loses breath and never gets tired. Ideal rests well and perfectly arises. Ideal never gets angry. They are always Patient and Kind. Ideal is always generous. Never late. Always on time. Ideal's humor never offends. Yet, they bring Joy filled with chuckles. Ideal is always courteous, thankful, and fearless. Ideal finishes everything they start and does everything they say. Ideal dies but awakes again. It's typically sometime around their Saturn's return. Today I was inspired to write about perfectionism as if it was an anonymous being. It had to be done in the present tense and it could not have a sex...

for the Creatives by Mika Vonshá Living with a lack mindset can make it extremely difficult to not worry about money first whenever you make any decision. Moreover, a lack mindset can make it seem impossible to give and cause you to undervalue yourself. It's time to shake things up. It's time to adopt a new belief that may cause some discomfort at first glance. Yet the solution to a poverty stricken habit of mind is and always will be generously giving and practicing an attitude of service.  Oprah Winfrey has stated that as long as you have breath in your body, you have something to be grateful for. This couldn't be closer to the truth. When I fell in love with my breath, my entire life began to change. I realized that although it had seemed like I had lost everything -- my health, my home, my marriage, my children, the truth was that I had everything in the world to be thankful for and that my breath alone was enough. Having breath means that you still have your being. You...