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Another vision of safety
From Barb Culver:
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My image of an emotionally safe person
When I meet this person he/she looks directly into my eyes and gives a firm handshake or hug , when appropriate. She inquires about me and the important people and happenings in my life. She follows up my answers with deeper questions or comments that validate what [...]
August 24, 2009
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What does a safe person look like?
In our summer session discussions about commitment and the fire element, we’ve been looking at the importance of emotional safety as a creative prerequisite. Here is a lovely and succinct description of what a “safe person” looks like, written by and reprinted with permission of Arvilla Grazier (Thursday morning class) about one of her safest [...]
August 19, 2009
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Focus, Distraction, and Using Your Whole Brain
Focus comes after vision, and it’s what allows us to begin to harness the shakti (creative power) which is still only living in potential. But what is focus? How does it work? How do we do it?
Focus is both a noun and a verb. A focus (noun) is whatever is at the center of my [...]
May 2, 2009
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Shakti, Vision, and Getting Started
Vision
–noun
the act or power of sensing with the eyes; sight.
the act or power of anticipating that which will or may come to be: prophetic vision; the vision of an entrepreneur.
an experience in which a personage, thing, or event appears vividly or credibly to the mind, although [...]
April 14, 2009
Tags: creative potential, creative power, creative process, creativity, hatha yoga, left brain, meditation, potential, right brain, Shakti, shiva, vision, yoga Posted in: 2009 Classes No Comments