Often our rational mind and it’s chatter gets in the way of accessing our inner knowing and wisdom. Here are some different tools that may help. Find the ways that work but for you. – Oracles: Medicine cards, Tarot, I Ching, Runes, Angel cards, Goddess cards, etc – Dreams: asking to remember your dreams and [...]

Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. – Edgar Allan Poe To see the world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wildflower. To hold infinite in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour. – William Blake Each month [...]

Creative thinking is not a talent, it is a skill that can be learnt. It empowers people by adding strength to their natural abilities which improves teamwork, productivity and where appropriate profits. – Edward de Bono Everyone is creative. It is a natural gift we are all born with that we actually have to be [...]

The instant trivial as it is is all we have, unless. . .unless things the imagination feeds upon the scent of a rose, startle us anew. -William Carlos Williams When I started to work on this article I had originally intended that the title “Coming to Your Senses” would refer to how important actively using [...]

Most of us have never been encouraged to use our imagination. In fact we have often been discouraged with comments like “stop that daydreaming” or “why are you doing wasting time staring out the window.” When we are engaged in these activities we are letting our subconscious/unconscious mind run free to make new connections and [...]

This is one of my favorite poems for the holiday season. It reminds me of how much poetry really illuminates what essentil in our lives. Amazing Peace Thunder rumbles in the mountain passes And lightning rattles the eaves of our houses. Flood waters await us in our avenues. Snow falls upon snow, falls upon snow [...]

A creative writing class may be one of the last places you can go where your life still matters – Richard Hugo Poet Richard Hugo, who started the creative writing program at the University of Montana and taught there for 30 years, thought that writing allowed you to more readily make sense of your life [...]

Well, you’re right in the work, you lose your sense of time, you’re completely enraptured, you’re completely caught up in what you’re doing, and you’re sort of swayed by the possibilities you see in this work. . . .The idea is to be. . .so saturated with it that there’s no future or past, it’s [...]

The imagination is not interested in two-dimensional reductionism or naively pitting one side against another, dark against light. It is interested in the place where the two sides meet, and what they give birth to when they cross-fertilize each other. That is the heart of creativity. – John O’Donohue What is imagination but a reflection [...]

I believe in nothing but the holiness of the heart’s affection and the truth of the imagination. – John Keats As I witness the growing Occupy movement that through peaceful means is focusing on the need to transform systems that really are not working for the good of the whole, I have been thinking about [...]