About This Blog

About This Blog:

I understand that most blogs contain a theme so I decided to write about the theme of my blog ……. THERE IS NO CENTRAL THEME!

Why is that, you ask. Here’s my answer. I have come to realize that I am a ‘mixed media’ type of person. As I review my life and work I see that: (1) When I paint, I use mixed media. No one medium has all of the possible colors, textures and qualities I require, hence the need to use more than one. (2) When I do therapy (I was a psychotherapist for many years and called myself a mind, body, spirit therapist) I pulled from many different disciplines in order to have enough options to help my clients. (3) When I recently took a nutritional typing test (from Dr. Mercola) guess what? I was typed as a ‘mixed nutritional’ type (as opposed to a protein or carb type for instance). No surprise there! So it makes perfect sense that my blog would also be a mixed bag.

I read about and have interest in many different topics, so as one area of interest rises above the others to capture my attention, I will write about it. Perhaps that comes from being a Libra (the Scales.) Always trying to balance and counterbalance things in my life. So that I don’t tip over, perhaps? All that being said, the topic of my blog today is:

IMAGINE

Okay, this is going to ‘date me’ but here goes. When I was a child, we used to listen to a radio program called, Let’s Pretend. In the old days, before television (yes, dear ones, there was such a time) we also used to play a game by the same name. The ‘sun room’ of our home became a theater where the ‘audience’ sat on the couch while the ‘actors’ entered through doors on either side of the room to perform. We would have a box of colorful clothes, jewelry, etc. in the adjoining dining room from which to create our costumes so that our wardrobes could enhance our acts of make believe. We spent endless hours engaged in creating and viewing our acts.

Between games like this and other radio shows (The Shadow, The Lone Ranger, The Green Hornet) we learned to use our imaginations to see a new reality in our mind’s eye before bringing it to our outer reality. For many of us reading books also became equally important as a way to use our imaginations to temporarily transport us out of our present reality while taking us to new and different places and meeting a whole new cast of characters.

In my years as a practicing psychotherapist, I used a version of this imagination theme to help clients out of their present situations. With a process called guided imagery I would lead the client into a different scenario to create a more wholesome and healthy world for them to inhabit. If the client trusted me in this process, the results were often positive and, in some cases, remarkable.

I recently taught a Wellness and Longevity class to seniors. We used Deepak Chopra’s book, Grow Younger, Live Longer to guide us. Chopra believes that, through a process related to quantum physics, we can change our cells and our bodies through affirmations. He says that our mind is not located only in our brain but in every part of our body, each of which carries a similar intelligence. Therefore we can talk to our cells telling them to be healthy and stating what age we want them to be. Strong and fascinating stuff.  And a quantum leap from my earlier reminiscences of using our mind and imagination to create a new reality in child’s play.

So where is all this leading? My first post on this blog site is titled, The United States of Wall Street. You can access it below. One of the comments posted by a reader was a suggestion that we all read Matt Taibi’s new book, Griftopia, on the economic meltdown and how our cash strapped country is now auctioning off its highways, ports and even parking meters, finding eager buyers in the Middle East. Reading the details of what is in this book had me aghast, experiencing feelings of disbelief and horror. It was all so overwhelming that my feelings did a tilt and then turned to giddiness. I saw the selling of America as a ‘play in which I no longer wished to participate or view.’ I no longer wanted to give credence to this reality by continuing to focus on it. I began to muse instead ……. If Dr. Chopra believes we can change our cellular structure through thought and affirmations, why could it not work for our physical surroundings and reality as well? It was time to try this out on the world at large for myself. If nothing else, I knew that I would feel so much better just thinking about how to create a new, more positive reality instead of focusing on the existing one. By feeding the new one with my thoughts and visualizations perhaps I could help to bring it about. My new affirmations are thus: The world and my life are only filled with love, light, joy, laughter, peace and prosperity. I recalled the words from John Lennon’s song, Imagine:

Imagine there's no Heaven
It's easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people
Living for today

Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace

You may say that I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will be as one

Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world

You may say that I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will live as one

Won’t you join John and me on our imagination boat and perhaps we can all, working together, actually create the world of our dreams. Just imagine that!