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Neil — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 19:45:36 +0000

…download this cool texture file from Flickr.

Training Your Focus – Enhance Your Reality

Neil — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 03:02:06 +0000

Training Your Focus – Enhance Your Reality

How is your focus? Do you find it easy to concentrate for longer chunks of time or are you easily distracted? Do you enjoy doing the same thing at the same focus level over and over again, or are you easily bored?

I used to think that focus is a function of pleasure: I can concentrate on this because I like it. I do some stuff better than other because I like it. While loving what you do can keep your concentration high, at least in the beginning, maintaining a constant, high focus is not a function of pleasure at all. It’s a function of will.

Focus can be trained. It can be enhanced, it can be shaped the way you want. It can serve you well, if you treat it well. In today’s post I’ll share some of my observations regarding focus and how one can work this tool the same way you work your muscles in your daily workout.

Read the rest to enhance Your Reality

Job 22 – the ancient light

Neil — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 02:13:13 +0000

Job 22 – New International Version – BibleGateway.com

²⁶ Surely then you will find delight in the Almighty
and will lift up your face to God.

²⁷ You will pray to him, and he will hear you,
and you will fulfill your vows.

²⁸ What you decide on will be done,
and light will shine on your ways.

²⁹ When men are brought low and you say, ‘Lift them up!’
then he will save the downcast.

The Book of Job in the Hebrew Bible is considered the oldest book of the bible. A very complex literary work dealing with the problem of evil.

I am being taught that light shines on the good way!

k47 – free texture download

Neil — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 14:24:51 +0000

Pay Yourself First – So You Can Pay Others Too

Neil — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 12:36:08 +0000

Pay Yourself First – So You Can Pay Others Too

Anything you do requires energy. And everything you do creates energy. Anything. Even reading this article. You’re spending energy by focusing on the text, processing the info in your brain and matching it against what you already know. At the end of this process, you get some energy back in the form of new ideas, new approaches or possibly some answers. Hopefully, you’ll get some positive energy by reading this :- ).

Have you ever thought what happens with this energy you get back? How much of it you really use? How much of it you discard unconsciously? We’re usually thinking in spending patterns rather than in receiving patterns. We think: how much it will cost me to do this, or how much I will have to give to make this happen. But we almost never think in terms of: what’s the reward of doing this?

Finish this intriguing article about energy balances and you

Concerning all acts of creation

Neil — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 16:53:15 +0000

“Concerning all acts of initiative and creation, there is one elementary truth –

that the moment one definately commits oneself, then, Providence moves, too.”

–Van Goethe

(thanks to Amy Deputy for the card)

The moment one definitely commits oneself

Neil — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 21:20:22 +0000

“Concerning all acts of initiative and creation, there is one elementary truth — that the moment one definately commits oneself, then, Providence moves, too.”

–Van Goethe

Tao 43 : advantages of non-ado

Neil — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 19:30:39 +0000

with thanksgiving

Tao 43

The softest of all things

Overrides the hardest of all

Only Nothing can enter in to no-space.

Hence I know the advantages of Non-Ado.

Few things under heaven are as instructive as the lessons of Silence,

Or as beneficial as the fruits of Non-Ado.

Pocket Classic Tao Te Ching

Lao Tzu, John C.H. Wu

Tao 8 : form of goodness

Neil — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 14:39:13 +0000

TAO 8

The highest form of goodness is like water.

Water knows how to benefit all things without striving with them.

It stays in places loathed by all men.

Therefore, it comes near the Tao.

In choosing your dwelling, know how to keep the ground.

In cultivating your mind, know how to dive in the hidden deeps.

In dealing with others, know how to be gentle and kind.

In speaking, know how to keep your words.

In governing, know how to maintain order.

In transacting business, know how to be efficient.

In making a move, know how to choose the right moment.

If you do not strive with others,

You will be free from blame.

Pocket Classic Tao Te Ching

Lao Tzu, John C.H. Wu

Guided imagery

Neil — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:58:40 +0000

There are many facets of guided imagery. Much of it comes from how much you surround yourself with your art. That is, doing your morning pages each day, doing your artist date each week and taking your creative walks three times a week. When you constantly do this, all of a sudden, you start to hear whispers in your heart (no, not the schizo type of voices) and all of these inspirations start to naturally come to you. These are the things that will make you pick up your camera simply for the pure joy of clicking the shutter.

Get something that is near and dear to your heart: A teacup from your grandmother, a clay artpiece from your kid’s secong grade class, anything. Grasp it in your hands and sit in a quiet space in your home. Close your eyes and relax. Things will go through your mind, things not even related to what you are holding. Let all things pass through your consciousness. What you will be searching for are the stories that come in relation to that piece you are holding. The stories may not be necessarily true! It could be a story from a far off place.

The key is to write down what you saw when you are done (it only takes about 5-10 minutes, but if you can go longer… You want to remember those fantasies and then the magic begins. You start creating what’s in your heart, not someone else’s.

The Artist’s Way - Julia Cameron

The Artist’s Way Workbook - Julia Cameron

Walking in this World - Julia Cameron

Finding Water - Julia Cameron