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Like all the previous ones, this practice is simple, but you need to prepare for it in advance. You will need white or beige yarn and art supplies that you are already familiar with: colored paper, glue, scissors, colored pencils. Anyone can participate in the practice. The best place to conduct the practice will be a place closer to Nature or indoors with the sounds of Nature to help maintain an atmosphere of creativity. Welcome to practice!
Olga and Conscious Creativity Team 😊
Practice “Our Wishes to Earth”
Prepare in advance a globe-ball with a diameter of about 30 cm, which you can make with yarn threads, PVA glue, and a balloon. To make such a ball, you need about an hour of time, but it takes about 24 hours for the ball to dry and be ready for further work. Therefore, it makes sense to plan the preparation of the globe-ball in advance. You will learn how to make it in resources at the end of the post.* (*Resources)
The globe-ball is the Earth. Wishes can be expressed as a letter of wishes, drawings or figures, for example: hearts, flowers, butterflies, or birds. You can make them with the help of the artistic tools that you have. As in all practices, there are important conditions:
- no competition: “who is faster or who is better”
- no hints or instructions like: “look to the right, then to the left”
- all sources of color are based on the colors of Nature.
- also, colored pencils or paints are better than markers because they can create different colorful shades.
The practice time is 45 minutes and more, depending on the venue, age and number of participants. The artwork, decorated by a team of participants, will be a beautiful interior design that can become a central element 😊
P.S. About Quality of Thinking and Garden
Our participation in Life is determined by our Quality of Thinking. Our quality of thinking determines our inner world and as the results in the outer world: we can share that we have. As we talked in the previous newsletters, our inner world is our Garden where our Flowers-feelings and Tree of Consciousness grow. Each of us is a Gardener of our own Garden. The Garden is a system, and as all in Life, includes other systems (like Gardener, Tree, and Flowers-feelings) and is a part of other systems. The way we look after our Garden is the Culture of Thinking, and it is our responsibility for what happens in our Garden. The Quality of Thinking determines the quality of the Garden.
We can create a beautiful Garden, or we can wait for someone’s support. We can learn new to develop what we want day by day, or we can ask help to create a beautiful style because we are: “busy, don’t know how, someone knows better, and also, they have tools, vision, skills, and maybe a gardener’s plan”, etc. But it always was, is, and will be OUR OWN GARDEN.
“We create beautiful gardens, but how can we keep them when we have outer influences that sometimes aren’t good?” you may ask. Well, we can try to build a fence, following the urge to protect our gardens from outer influences, but a closed system is not viable, since Life is a unity of interactions.
Well, first we recognize that the viability of a system is based not on isolation but on strong immunity that supports high force (F) by high aspirations (a). Our high aspirations are based on human feelings that grow in our Garden: Love, Joy, Gratitude, Inspiration, Goodwill, Imagination, Hope for the best. So, our focus on immunity helps us to recognize what is good or not for our Garden.
About Force and Feelings
The viability of a system is based on unity with Evolution and is the foundation for Sustainable Development. The force (F) of this development is embedded in our Garden. Newton’s and Descartes’ formulas, which we talked about in the previous newsletter, help us understand where our life energy is directed. F = m x a, where F is force, m is mass, and a is acceleration. If m is thought and a is aspiration, they determine our F life force, where each of us determines the direction of life force though aspiration. Force is the result of the unity of thought (m) and aspiration (a). Aspiration comes from feelings that are born in the heart and thought comes from activities of the mind. This is Aristotle’s Golden Mean.* We have force by building Heart-Mind bridge. If we lose connection with the heart, we lose connection with the mind because even if our m is very big, but if our a=0 our F=0 🙂
“Wait, but we always have feelings!” you may exclaim 😊 Yes, we are humans, and we have feelings. But F and a are the vector quantities of process. Any process has its own direction. The quality of feelings creates direction. Descartes, together with the coordinate system he created, also helps us understand where our thoughts are directed 😊 P = m x v, where P is impulse, m is mass and v are velocity. If m is thought, then the influence of impulse P affects thought itself and its velocity.
This formula also combines vector quantities P and v, reflecting process in our Garden. When we have high human feelings such as: Love, Joy, Gratitude, Inspiration, Goodwill, Imagination, Hope for the best, the impulse (P) and aspiration (a) will be the same and they will navigate thought to the Evolutionary way. If feelings are the opposite of high feelings, the direction will be also opposite – Involution. Feeling-Thinking-Action-Result.
About Viability by Free Energy and Immunity
Systemic thinking is aimed at maintaining immunity, where immunity is an internal quality that reflects the ability of a system to be resistant to external influences. In other words, regular care of our Garden will save energy, which will allow us to go in unity with Evolution. “What if I give the best, but someone forgets about their own Garden and seems to be trying to drop in even though I haven’t invited them. And also, the wind regularly blows not so good seeds into my Garden. What can I do?” you might ask.
How much time and energy we spend trying to change others is the same time and energy we take away from our development. The words: “If you want to change the world, change yourself.” have a deep philosophical meaning and are based on physical processes. In addition, we see what we can see and perhaps what is happening in the other gardens is a process that can be seen completely differently from another point of view.
When we spend energy on changing others, we forget about our Garden, focusing outside. A striking example of this is a spinning top. This simple children’s toy has deep meaning. If someone spins it, the top spins. But life is not running in a circle, as a spinning top. It is the ability to organize the balance of its spheres and direct energy to development. This is the Dynamic Balance of Gibbs where a system maintains a stable state by opposing forces or processes.* And, as all in Life, dynamic balance and collaboration are the foundation of development.
Caring for our Garden complies with the evolutionary properties of a system: Advisability – Sustainability – Improvement – Flexibility. The Principles of Conscious Creativity support caring for our Garden:
- Freedom of Choice through Responsibility
- Independence through Unity
- Tolerance through Respect
- Activity through Improvement
These principles keep energy of the system. Free energy or the energy of transformations is what Gibbs* wrote about. Free energy is necessary for the development of a system, where development is a process of transition from one qualitative state to another from internal and external influences. Free energy is a measure of the orderliness of the system and is the energy that remains after we have directed part of it to tidy up our Garden. When we tidy it up regularly, we have the force to develop. Also, like attracts like, which is reflected in natural science research, and wisdom: what you give is what you get. And therefore, wishing good for us and the world, we give the best through our best feelings and thoughts, creating the same in our deeds, inviting the same in our life. Feeling-Thinking-Action-Result.
About Systemic Thinking and Sinergy
Kalliérgeia (καλλιέργεια – Greek)* literally means “cultivating the land,” but can also describe the cultivation of the mind or the arts. Systems Thinking is the ability to accommodate the awareness of the value of our Garden-system, and responsibility for it, with the awareness of the unity and collaboration with the world as an infinite unity of other systems.
The practice in this newsletter is also based on Systemic Thinking. The globe-Earth, and the threads of which the globe-Earth is made, is a connection between all of us living on Earth through our systems that collaborate with each other.
Synergy is when energy is spent on collaboration. Collaboration is the Synergy of Force. “Si vis aliqua motum quemvis generet, dupla duplum, tripla triplum generabit, sive simul & semel, sive gradatim & successive impressa suerit.”1 (If any force generates any motion, double it will generate double, triple it will generate triple, whether it is impressed together at once, or gradually and successively.) wrote Newton*
Returning to the practice 😊 Good wishes are without boundaries. Thought is a physical quantity (m), and our feelings create acceleration (a), determining force (F) and influencing its direction. Directing our beautiful feelings, we improve our world, and the world in which we live together. Value of the practice:
- develop Consciousness by choosing the best feelings
- creation by cooperation
- participation by an active position
- leadership through responsibility
One more P.S. 😊 “World in Me” workshops. Children of a kindergarten group, aged 4-4.5 years. I did not have time to prepare a globe-ball from threads in advance. . . . The door opened and the little participants of the master class filled the hall, noisily laying out their clothes on empty chairs and enjoying the warmth after a walk in the frosty air. I turned on the music with the sounds of Nature, took a skein of thread and said: “Welcome to a circle!” The noisy team created a circle quite quickly 🙂
“Sh-sh-sh . . . and now let’s listen to the music of Nature . . . ” I said and added: “Look! This is a magic thread . . . ” I wanted to continue as I had written in my program. They were simple words about what beautiful feelings live in our hearts and how they fly into our world supporting Beauty. But I suddenly realized that these words weren’t needed now. . . . I saw the children’s eyes and smiles. . . I smiled and just said: “How beautiful our Earth is where we live together! Let’s wish it the best that is in our hearts!” The children passed the ball from one to another and said amazing wishes. . . . Then one girl said: “I want more. . .” “Me too! Me too!” the voices rang out around. This master class was many years ago. The children have grown up. I believe that they took with them into adulthood what they heard from themselves and each other.
All children know these words addressed to our Earth. . . . We adults know them too, because each of us was a child. And each of us keep in our own heart “I want more. . .” for good deeds that started from the good wishes to Earth.
Resources*: – 1 – Newton “Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica” page 8 https://archive.org/details/philosophiaenatu00newt/page/n11/mode/2up | – Aristotle “Nicomachean Ethics (Apostle)” https://archive.org/details/aristotle-nicomachean-ethics-apostle/mode/2up | – Descartes https://archive.org/details/john-m.-morris-descartes-dictionary-2022/mode/2up | – Gibbs On the equilibrium of heterogeneous substances https://archive.org/details/Onequilibriumhe00Gibb | – Dictionary of meanings https://breezygreek.com/learn-greek-vocabulary/%CE%BA%CE%B1%CE%BB%CE%BB%CE%B9%CE%AD%CF%81%CE%B3%CE%B5%CE%B9%CE%B1 |
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