Category: creative
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Healing with Music
During my emotional healing work on my spiritual journey, I have used music as a form of therapy. I have played the piano since I was eight years old, and this past fall, I began guitar and voice lessons to help with my emotional healing process. I have been composing music for about three…
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Creating a Meditative State
Cane Goblets of Kenny Pieper Since I began apprenticing with a glass artist last fall, I have been trying to learn as many different techniques as possible as an assistant. At my apprenticeship, one of the assistants is much more seasoned than the rest of us, so he ends up doing all the more…
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Awareness of Fear and Brain Functions
I have come to realize that humans operate and function predominately through fear. Through fear, genocide and holocausts occur as these events are triggered by blaming smaller groups of people for our economic and society’s problems. Blaming others is a fear based behavior as we cannot take responsibility for our own problems, and we fear…
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Dance of the Left and Right Brain
I have been studying Latin and ballroom dancing for the past two years, and I see this correlation between the two dancing partners with left and right brain activities. In all ballroom forms of dancing, the male is the lead and the female follows. The responsibility of the male lead is to decide the sequence…
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Meditation through Art
Today was my glassblowing apprenticeship and when I showed up to work, I was the only apprentice working with the glass artist today. I was overjoyed in that I am able to do all the assisting instead of sharing tasks with other apprentices. As I have been working for this glass artist since last fall,…
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How Our Brain Learns Music
Last evening, I had my guitar lesson and during this lessons I had this awareness about how my brain works when I am learning to play music. This is particularly enlightening to me as music is my first love, and I have been playing the piano since I was eight year old. I have lived…
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The Art of Surrender
Today is a beautiful day in the mountains where I live with the sun shining and birds singing. I spent most of my day flameworking that is working with hot glass on a torch. It was the perfect day to create something beautiful in glass reflecting this wonderful day in spring. It has been almost…
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Old Habits Die Hard . . .
For a long time, I have not felt this way, but today I didn’t feel good about myself. Learning has always come easily to me, so I have always been the accomplished student. Every year, I take on new hobbies. This year I began guitar and voice lessons, and learning tango dancing. Last year, it…
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Surrender: Secret to Life’s Happiness
Since beginning ascension practice, I have repeatedly heard those in the spiritual community say that we must surrender in order to ascend. For a long while, I never understood what that means. Yesterday, I was at my glassblowing apprenticeship blowing hot glass when I finally understood what everyone is talking about. Molten glass reacts to…
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Balancing Masculine and Feminine Energy
Balancing the feminine and masculine energy is vital to emotional and spiritual health. Because of my emotional history of childhood abuse and trauma, I needed strong masculine energy to protect me from future harm. I chose a career that is very left brained based in linear thinking, and I operate very efficiently in the physical…
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