Meaning of Ritual

Maria Popova wrote in a post: I think a great deal about the difference between routine and ritual as a special case of our more general and generally trying quest for balance — ripped asunder by the contrary longings for control and whimsy, we routinize daily life in order to make its inherent chaos more manageable, then ritualize it in order to imbue its mundanity with magic, which by definition violates the predictable laws of the universe. I...

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Motion Creates

Moving our bodies is a great way to feed our creative spirit. There is a wonderful article on Brainpickings that discuss wanderlust: With the hindsight of a decade and a half, Solnit’s book emerges as triply timely today, as we struggle to master that ever more precarious balancing act of living with presence in the age of productivity. She writes: Thinking is generally thought of as doing nothing in a production-oriented culture, and...

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Mind Mapping For Inspiration

Mind Mapping is a great way to free up your imagination and see where it leads. Mind mapping is one of our assignments in Rituals Of Creativity™. You start with a central thought, problem, idea or project...then branch out from there. It's am amazing tool when you are stuck or just don't know how to take the next step. Roberta used this process to map out our Vibration Of Color™class. Here is a terrific blog site that explains this process w...

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