Dear Readers! This newsletter come in a bit later than previous ones. We have a reason for that 🙂 We published a new book and soon there will be another two. Hopefully, they will be a good support for a harmonious life.

And I am back with the next newsletter that will come in as before, weekly. Happy to create them for you, and hope these practices will support your activities!

Warm wishes, Olga and Conscious Creativity Team 🙂

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In the previous newsletters, together with 9 practices that support thinking and communication skills by creativity, we also talked about how our Life is related to our Consciousness. We touched many topics including Garden, Tree of Life, and Unique Garden Care Map. Let’s remember some details.

• the Garden is our inner world, a place where our Consciousness as our Life Tree grows together with Flowers-Feelings.
• a Gardener is everyone who is the owner of their own Garden.
• the Culture of Thinking is a process of Garden care, where “culture” is based on the Greek “καλλιέργεια”, that literally means “cultivating the land”.
• Conscious Creativity is a way of developing the Culture of Thinking.
• Systemic Thinking is a tool to care for our own Garden where our Life Tree grows.

We talked about how the quality of our Garden care is reflected by the quality of thinking that is based first on feelings. Like a tree, we don’t see the roots, but we see the results of what grows above the land. Feeling – Thinking are the roots and Action – Result is the part of our Life Tree that we see above the land. In this newsletter we pay more attention to the roots.

Welcome to the next practice!

Practice “Fairy Tale Wizards”

The goal of this practice is to create your own fairy tale.

For the practice we need sheets of white A4 paper, pens, colored pencils and paints, a box around 10 x 10 x 10 cm, and cards prepared from 1/4 page of A4 paper. Each card has a sentence as a beginning of a fairy tale. The cards need to be added to the box that is named the “Fairy Tale Magic Box” with cards as Fairy Tale Ideas. Each participant takes one card-Fairy Tale Idea from the Fairy Tale Magic Box and creates their own fairy tale.

If some participants in the group can’t read, place cards with pictures of the characters in the Magic Box. And, if the participants can’t write yet, the fairy tale can be written as a series of drawings, creating a fairy tale as a series of pictures.

It is important that the fairy tale characters are, like us, from Nature: a dandelion, a grasshopper, a butterfly, a tree, a mushroom, rain, wind, a drop, or others. An example of a Fairy Tale Idea card: “the small Grasshopper jumps up joyfully and said, ‘Good day to everyone!’ and . . .”

The fairy tale rules, as well as the Resources * at the end of this letter, will help you with this.

Fairy Tale Rules

The Fairy Tales provide and develop:

• Kindness and Human values
• Respect and care for Nature
• Improvement in what we are doing
• Fearlessness and continuing forward
• Generosity and supporting each other
• Respectfulness and gratitude
• Self honesty and honesty with others
• Seeing and creating Beauty

If you have young children in your group, you can use illustrations to help explain the Fairy Tale Rules to them.

Like always in our practices, the best place will be closer to Nature or indoors with the sounds of Nature supporting an atmosphere of creativity and there are important conditions:

• no competition: “who is faster or who creates the best fairy tale”
• no hints or instructions like: “look to the right, then to the left”
• no comment or analysis of what is “good” and what is “bad”
• all sources of color are based on the colors of Nature
• colored pencils or paints are better than markers because they can create different colorful shades.
• the color palette doesn’t have a black color because Nature doesn’t have it. Welcome to Fairy Tale World!

P.S. How fairy tales help us fly into Space

All great scientists developed their ideas by creating the foundation for their and future practical activities, based on unlimited vision and synthesis, uniting natural science and humanitarian ways of knowing Life as an evolutionary process.

Tsiolkovsky’s formula, created over 100 years ago, became the foundation of modern Space research based on his unique ability to create through continual learning and practice, observation and purposeful labor, based on unity by synthesis. (1- Resources *)

Along with his scientific research, he created fairy tales as fantastical stories that reflected the direction of his thought and its boundlessness. Fairy tales helped Tsiolkovsky create what is now reality, but at the time seemed like a fairy tale. 🙂 We can see what we can, and create what we can imagine.

And if we look at Tsiolkovsky’s works from the perspective of the unity of natural science and humanitarian ways of knowing the world, we see that the formula essentially reflects not only the speed of a rocket, but also our own movements in life: speed, direction, and altitude 🙂  Let’s see this formula a bit more attentively 🙂

V = I x In x (M1: M2), where:

V – is the rocket’s final velocity

I – is the rocket engine’s specific impulse

In – is the natural logarithm; in this formula it shows the relationship between the change in the mass of the rocket and the achieved change in its speed: the higher this value, the more fuel will be consumed relative to the initial mass, and therefore, the greater the speed the rocket can attain.

(M1: M2) – is the ratio of the initial rocket mass with fuel reserve (M1), (M2) is the final mass without fuel.

The formula in question reflects the efficiency of a rocket’s use. To achieve the maximum possible speed, the following are required: maximum fuel reserve and maximum specific impulse.

The ideal rocket equation describes the motion of a device that can accelerate itself using thrust. Such a rocket burns propellant and simultaneously reduces its weight. As fuel burns, the rocket accelerates due to the conservation of momentum.

This formula, created by Tsiolkovsky in 1897 and published in 1903, is for simple cases where no other external forces act on the rocket as a system. The same way Newton, Gibbs and other great scientists chose. It helped them to understand how the system worked, sharing it with us from their formulas that we are using now.

In real motion a rocket, like any system, can’t be isolated and always overcomes the influence of external and internal forces. Tsiolkovsky considered air resistance and gravity in his later, more complex studies.

Each of us creates our own flight

“Why do we need to understand this formula in such detail if we’re not planning to build a rocket?” you might ask 🙂 Yes, perhaps not everyone plans to get into rocket science, but each of us already has a rocket—our own life. Each of us creates our own flight, determining the speed, direction, and altitude of our lives.

Everything that happens in our lives is based on our life energy reserves. If we imagine this as a fuel reserve, then this formula will help us to understand how to improve the quality of our rocket and its management to achieve better speed results and rise higher 🙂 Let’s see this formula from a Life development point of view. V = I x In x (M1: M2)

Based on our conversation above, the impulse (I) in Tsiolkovsky’s formula has another sense to him. It is the inspiration to cognize the Universe as our World, and the one Home where we live. And fairy tales supported him. The first of them was “On the Moon” which appeared in 1887, much early than his Formula.

The quality of impulse (I) determines the quality of thought because impulse is based on feelings that are created in the heart. Whether we realize it or not, thought is born in unity with the heart. The results in our lives are directly proportional to impulse.

If we consider that M1 and M2 are proportional to the amount of our vital energy, the formula shows that thought processes determine our speed. Speed is a characteristic of movement. Movement is a constant process of change and Life is an energetic process, as energy is movement.

We ourselves make the choice of what kind of impulse drives our activities. The choice of the quality of feelings determines the quality of thought and the result. Feelings – Thinking – Action – Result.

Quality is improvement. Improvement is the process of Evolution and means development in unity with Life by improving the quality of what we have. And this is Systemic Thinking.

About sustainability and thinking

The role of Systemic Thinking to support our sustainability we talked about in previous newsletters. Let’s summarize a bit.

We are participants in the process of Life. Every action we take is part of a universal action. We have the freedom of choice: to participate consciously, or not. Systemic Thinking is a way of developing Consciousness, is a bridge between the heart and the mind, and the bridge to our future.

According to research by the World Economic Forum, analytical and creative thinking skills remain among the leading core skills necessary for future jobs. * These skills are based on Systems Thinking. (2 – Resources *)

The Green Transition transforms all spheres of life through technological, geo-economic and demographic changes based on the transformation of Consciousness. (3 – Resources *)

“It promotes understanding of the interconnected global challenges we face, including the climate crisis, environmental degradation and loss of biodiversity, each of which has ecological, social, economic and cultural dimensions.” (4 – Resources *)

The three pillars of Sustainable Development: society, economy and environment, are integrated with the fourth – the Culture of Thinking.

The Culture of Thinking is developed through Systemic Thinking, which helps us see our gardens as a part of the Universe that begins in each of us, and is reflected in all areas of our lives.

Research by the World Economic Forum over 10 years and forecasting until 2030, confirms the enduring value of human qualities, which is the basis of activity no less important than the development of technology. The process of synthesis, as a harmonious combination in the creation of new, encompasses the moral sphere. (2 – Resources *)

Why fairy tales?

A fairy tale is based on a process. And process is movement. Movement is energy. Tsiolkovsky’s formula, like the formulas of Newton, Descartes, and Gibbs, which we discussed in previous letters, demonstrates our unity with life as an energetic process that occurs within each of us, including the moment you read these lines 🙂

“If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales” Albert Einstein

“Someday you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again” Clive Staples Lewis

The ability to develop and direct this process helps us understand the formulas, and fairy tales help us develop the skills to use them in life. And this is the development of Systemic Thinking skills. Systemic Thinking skills help us care for the Garden in which our Consciousness grows—the very Life Tree that grows in our Garden 🙂

“Okay, fairy tales give inspiration as impulse, but why does everyone need to create them?” you might ask 🙂 Well, we can only read fairy tales. But we have our Garden, Life Tree, and we have our Rocket. . . . So, why not create one fairy tale or more :)?

“’Garden, Gardener, Tree, Rocket’ too many things . . . but anyway the Garden is clear, but what’s the point of a rocket? Where do we put it?” you might ask 🙂 Okay, the Garden is something that’s always with us, and the rocket is always nearby. Incidentally, it can easily be transformed into a multi-seat rocket:). And this is about interaction and synergy, which we discussed in practices in previous newsletters.

We will return to these topics more than once, and for now, let’s summarize: by creating fairy tales we develop the quality of our thinking through creativity. The quality of our thinking determines our Consciousness. This is Conscious Creativity 🙂

We are people, and we create

“The best fairy tale is one invented by life,” said Hans Christian Andersen.

May the principles of Conscious Creativity help us create the best.

• Freedom of Choice through Responsibility
• Independence through Unity
• Tolerance through Respect
• Activity through Improvement

Based on Five Key foundations:

• Heart – Consonance – to choose and develop the best feelings
• Beauty – Harmony – to see Beauty in unity with Nature
• Work – Collaboration – to organize one’s own activity
• Evolution – Improving – to develop what we create
• Aspiration – Accordance – to see the direction of development

The Key questions of Systemic Thinking will help:

• “Why?” – Why do I need it?
• “What?” – What, of what I have now, will help me improve what I have now?
• “Who?” – Who is the participant in this process and takes responsibility for the choice and decision?
• “How?” – How can I use the resources and skills I have, and how can I improve them?

To support the storytelling rules discussed at the beginning of this letter, please refer to previous newsletters and resources*.

Value of Practice

Develops the quality of thinking based on creativity:

• Consciousness in choosing feelings |
• Synthesis of the ways of cognizing the World
• Unity with Nature
• Responsibility for “what and why I create”.

“Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.” Marcus Aurelius

And one more P.S. 🙂

It’s morning, 15 minutes before the start of the “Where do Fairy Tales Live?” workshop. The door opens and a smiling group of 45 participants stream into the room, animatedly speaking a language I don’t understand a word of. . . . After a minute of shared effort to understand each other, it turns out that the translator is missing.

When the out-of-breath translator ran into the hall an hour later, he saw 45 participants with complete stories in their hands. “Wow! I wasn’t late!” he laughed, and everyone else laughed along with him. We have one language that each of us understands and can speak—the language of the heart. . . .

Culture speaks this common language throughout the world. It unites us people with Nature, Heart and Mind, helping us find the path of Creativity as the unified path of Life in our Universe.

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Resources* 1- Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Human_and_Robotic_Exploration/Exploration/Konstantin_Tsiolkovsky | https://nmspacemuseum.org/inductee/konstantin-e-tsiolkovsky/ | 2 – World Economic Forum, “Future of Jobs” | https://www.weforum.org/publications/series/future-of-jobs/ | 3 – “Priorities of the Erasmus+ Programme” | https://erasmus-plus.ec.europa.eu/programme-guide/part-a/priorities-of-the-erasmus-programme | 4 – “Council Recommendation on learning for the green transition” | chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://data.consilium.europa.eu/doc/document/ST-9242-2022-INIT/en/pdf, #3.page 3 |https://olgaverasen.com/fairy-tale-guide/

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