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Make Your Travel Plans Now.. Bring a Friend
With author/illustrator Jill Badonsky
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Dear Creative Explorer,
Explaining how we get ideas is limited by the intellect's ability to grasp something so mysterious. Perhaps that's why Dr. Seuss invented the following flippant reply to "How do you get your ideas?"
"I get all my ideas in Switzerland near the Forka Pass. There is a little town called Gletch, and two thousand feet up above Gletch there is a smaller hamlet called Über Gletch. I go there on the fourth of August every summer to get my cuckoo clock fixed. While the cuckoo is in the hospital, I wander around and talk to the people in the streets. They are very strange people, and I get my ideas from them."
Such an elaborately silly answer makes sense when you understand Dr. Seuss's feelings about nonsense. He wrote, "I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope." Fantasy is also a creative solution to answering a question that might otherwise annoy you, like Theodore Geisel (Dr. Seuss) did.
In the spirit of one of the world’s most beloved authors, a place called Über Bliss is now available for your pleasure, perhaps initiated by fantasy, yet a solid and real place with which you can depend. Jill will bring Über Bliss to your group to wake-up your creative spirit: your inner reserve of strength, peace, and resilience - the most necessary ingredients for happiness.
I have found my way to Über Bliss and I know there are others who want to experience this unique approach to lasting happiness as well. This isn't the illusion of happiness much of the world is under - that if you get the job, the house, the relationship, or the money you'll be happy, but the real definition of happiness - inner peace no matter WHAT is happening on the outside and the love of the mysterious process of creating at whatever your skill-level.
The association of mindfulness with creativity is not a new one:
- Many writers and artists describe their participation in the creative flow as feeling they are a "vessel" for something greater than themselves. They experience flow and timelessness.
- One of the most spiritually powerful acts a person can undertake is to create and feel it is a gift to do so. Creativity is a reward in and of itself.
- Creativity and mindfulness are often seen as synonymous. We are inspired (moved by the divine or to a higher place) by creative expression, whether it is from ourselves or others.
- When individuals persevere with the creative process, they not only produce something unique but more importantly, they earn spiritual rewards: resilience, patience, compassion, resourcefulness, courage, surrender, and serenity.
- Both mindfulness and creativity can defy logic and when faith arises, the individual is admitted to a world far beyond the limitations of knowledge, a world of imaginative possibilities and higher vision.
Finding Über Bliss is:
- a playful love affair with the power of creative passion to connect you to resources of wonder, inner peace, agelessness, grace, kindness, compassion, healing, joy, your kindred tribe, and liberated creative inspiration. These are the foundations of bliss.
- an opportunity to repair your cuckoo blocks - procrastination, resistance, perfectionism, distraction, self-sabotage, and crankiness.
- a place where you get to be an artist of being alive.
Instead of a “Gletch,” this journey is about "Bliss" which is good because "gletch" sounds like what my cat says when he's got a hairball stuck in his throat.
Finding Über Bliss is a presentation and workshop from Inspirational Humorist and Award winning author, Jill Badonsky
Jill has moved through her own habitual self-sabotage through intuitive creative thought and action, and it is an adventure far beyond what she expected and one that I believe surpasses the typical definitions of happiness. What to do if you are interested:
Contact Jill at info@themuseisin.com to have her speak at your group, church, or venue.
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“Look at everything always as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time: Thus is your time on earth filled with glory.”
― Betty Smith
Explore from an array of:
- small creative missions that anyone at any stage of creative exploration can complete
- writing and art inspiration that makes people who think they can't do one or both
- multimedia experiences
- the most effective Kaizen-Muse Creativity Coaching tools that repair resistance, fears, perfectionism, and the inability to focus
You will optimize your current creative strengths and develop new ones including the important habits of showing-up and following through.
You will rediscover creativity you have explored in the past.
"The creative process is just that. Not a means to an end, but an ongoing participation." ~poet Kim Addonizio.
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I do not understand the mystery of grace -- only that it meets us where we are and does not leave us where it found us. ~Anne Lamott
Creative thought can cultivate the spiritual qualities of
- A connection to a higher source of strength within yourself
- Non-material contentment
- Compassion and acceptance
- Operating on trust instead of fear
- Seeing the world through a lens of compassion and acceptance
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| An Example of an Über Bliss Teleconference
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| Hello... Let's go on a journey.
Topic:
Thinking Differently
Applicable Quote:
A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Mini Inspiration Infusion:
I will talk about why thinking differently leads to both creativity AND happiness, examples, stories and quotes from creative people will be shared to inspire our own thoughts and actions. Thinking Differently is a tool that inspires new associations, ideas, and amusement. It is also practice with developing a different perspective – seeing our world with new eyes can make the difference between grumpiness and bliss. It takes practice for this tool to endure.
Mini Small Step During the Call:
Engaging in a short, fun creative exercises to practice thinking differently for both creativity and happiness, optional sharing.
Short guided relaxation to cultivate your inner world.
Mini Mission for the Week:
Choose a subject and choose your approach:
- Write about it from five different angles (for example- explain it to a UFO, have it talk to you, write about it as if this is the last time you’ll ever see it ,
- Sketch it five different ways or with 5 different media: crayons, pencils, with your non-dominant hand, as an abstract,
Or photograph it five different ways .. See Lemons Above
Über Bliss Realignment Journal Entry:
What do you want to be reminded of from this call?
Close:
Dream
Mindfulness Worksheet :
A worksheet with Jill Badonsky illustrations
Members Only Facebook Page:
Talk, laughing, sharing
Jill Badonsky is founder of Kaizen-Muse Creativity Coaching Certification Training and author/illustrator of three books about creativity. www.themuseisin.com , www.kaizenmuse.com
Another KM Creativity Coaching Certification Training begins in August 2015 (It's also the least expensive way to get 18 weeks of creativity coaching for yourself. That information is here.
All rights reserved Jill Badonsky (C) 2014
v My friend, Donna Jones did the Lemons Assignment from the first article
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