Start Your Go Creative! Week. Exercise 13: Go To The Movies

Why not make this week a creative one and try our task?

Movies anyone…

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Movies are a great place to escape and unwind.  We get to see and experience things that are not a part of our every day.  We can learn a lot about other countries we may never have visited and take a look at people we would not ordinarily encounter in a number of imagined situations which may or may not mirror real life.

 

When was the last time you went to see a movie and can you remember what you saw?

 

Was it a movie you wanted to see or one you saw only to appease the people around you?

 

Did you enjoy it? Really?

 

 

 

Exercise 13

 

Take yourself to the movies however, make sure you see a movie you really want to see.

Whether you stay indoors or go to your local cinema; whether you take a friend along for the adventure or decide to go alone, there is only one rule, as usual…

 

Enjoy!

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Singing With My Family by Kira Kenley

31 Kira Kenley shares her creative dilemmas and decisions every Friday. You can read her earlier posts here

Go Creative! in PortugalA family member is dead and we will send him off in typical Irish style. There will be a wake. I must travel to Portugal, which is the place this branch of my family calls home.

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The History of Meditation: Part 1 by Orna Ross

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Mediation is a very ancient practice. We have written evidence dating back to the Rig Veda, the oldest Indian texts, composed ten centuries before Christ but the shaman tradition, witches, witch doctors and artists who could access superhuman powers through ecstatic, trancelike states, dates back to the stone age and possibly further back into the reaches of pre-history.

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Start Your Go Creative! Week. Exercise 12: Old Age

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Meeting Old Age

IMG_0297Society has a lot of rules around “old age” and what it means. The term “old age pensioner” brings to mind a whole multitude of images around what it means to be old in this world. Continue Reading →

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Carnival, A Reason To Celebrate Life by Kira Kenley

31 Kira Kenley shares her creative dilemmas and decisions every Friday. You can read her earlier posts here

Carnival

On The Road With My Pan Sister Jaki

Carnival is just about upon us and I prepare with Miguel for what will be a busy but fun weekend. There is much work to do to get the show on the road and in addition there are social events to attend. This carnival is as much about socializing as music making. I am getting closer to the West Indies tradition and falling deeper in love with this colourful culture.

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Oprah Winfrey (Media Mogul): Why I Meditate

Oprah Winfrey (b: 1954) is an award-winning American media mogul, philanthropist and TV presenter who has entertained, enlightened and uplifted millions of viewers and readers for more than two decades.

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 For me, meditation reorders the natural flow of life. Everybody has a flow or stream of consciousness that allows all things to move without resistance. Decisions come easily, things fall into place, and there’s no conflict. You’re vibing with life ’cause you’re in the flow.

Hopefully, we’ve all had glimpses of that way of being. How do you hold on to it? Practice consciously making space for the FLOW to show itself. Meditation is a way to get you there.

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Start Your Go Creative! Week. Exercise 11: Carnival

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Carnival

Start Your Go Creative! Week

This weekend means Carnival if you are anywhere near Notting Hill, in London.

To give everyone a chance to get into a carnival humour the usual Monday post is being posted a few days earlier…

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Just The Two Of Us by Kira Kenley

30 Kira Kenley shares her creative dilemmas and decisions every Friday. You can read her earlier posts here

Just The Two Of Us

Funds are low low low in the Kira Kenley bank. This is the least money I have had since I was a student and I am scared. Truly scared.

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Inspiration Meditation: Presence, Practice and Process by Orna Ross

Inspiration Meditation 3 p'sMeditation As Practice

 Making meditation a practice means doing whatever you need to do to inhabit this free, open and unconditioned experience — your creative consciousness.

That may – for most of us does – mean a cross-legged session on a cushion once or twice a day but the act of sitting, and the ritual deployed there, is just a container: the discipline within which the freedom can flourish, the action that shows our everyday, thinking mind that we’re serious about letting it go for a while.

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Thich Nhat Hanh’s Creative Intelligence

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