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This practice, as well as the practices in the previous letters, are simple. They can be done individually or in groups, outdoors or in a room. This practice can become a joint creative activity with the family, in a kindergarten, a school, a library or a community center. Age of participants: from a sleeping baby in a cradle next to parents drawing 😊and older.
The practice time is around 45 minutes but can be longer. It depends on your decision, the number of participants, and the materials chosen. You will need white and colored paper, colored pencils, glue, and scissors.
I am happy to share it with you!
Olga and Conscious Creativity Team 😊
Practice “Garden of Beauty”
Draw a circle on a sheet of paper, the diameter of which is equal to the width of the paper. If you take an A4 sheet as an example, the sides of the square will be 21 cm. Cut out these circles for each participant. This is the basis for the Garden. The color of the circle is white. You will also need a circle of paper, cardboard or thick fabric, also white, of a large enough size that will fit the circle-gardens of all participants.
The circles are Gardens. The Gardens represent our inner World. Each garden has its own Gardener – each of your participants. The task of each participant is to decorate their Garden, as they consider necessary, with their own colors – feelings.
Like everything in Nature, the colors of the Garden have an infinite number of shades and shapes. All colors live together, that’s why the rainbow always has 7 colors 😊All colors together create Beauty: Love – red, Joy – orange, Gratitude – yellow, Inspiration – green, Benevolence – blue, Respect – indigo, Faith in the best – purple.
Nature is a manifested form of Life, based on light. Light penetrates everywhere, creating various shades of all the rainbow colors. Therefore, there is no gray or black in our practice, but there are different shades of all the colors of the light spectrum.
The practice “Colorful World” which was discussed in the previous letter will help you notice colors, as well as photographs and music of nature, if you are in the room, can also become your support.
As in all practices, when creating a Garden:
– there is no competition
– no assessments, and no instructions: “good-bad”, “do better”
– you can always go back and improve what has been created.
When the circle-gardens of the participants are ready, combine them together, creating a beautiful pattern within a larger circle. In the center of the large circle is the sun. This pattern can be a wonderful decoration for any interior! 😊
Sometimes I hear the question: how can I explain to a child what Beauty of feelings means? Let the short story at the end of this newsletter help you (resources*)
P.S. About the garden as a system
Our Consciousness grows like a tree. The Garden is our inner world where this tree grows. What we see is the result of what the roots are like and how we, the gardeners, take care of our garden. The Culture of Thinking is the process and the result of how we take care of our Garden, and what grows in it.
Everything that grows and develops is a process of Life. The process is a change of the system from an influence. Where influences are internal and external. The properties of a system determine its organization and development: – Advisability – Sustainability – Improvement – Flexibility. The properties of the system reflect the evolutionary laws of Life.
Each system is unique and at the same time is in unity with other systems, being a part of the general process of Life. Like the unity of drops in the ocean, like the unity of grains in the ears of corn in a field, like the unity of the planets of our Solar system, the stars in our Galaxy, and the Galaxies of our Universe. . . .
About the circle
Since ancient times, the circle has been considered a symbol of unity and completeness, reflecting the essence of the Unity of Life, and the potential of Life development. We can see the circle in ornamentation, architecture, in fairy tales and legends, in the dances of peoples, and see this form in various manifestations of the geometry of Nature: the arrangement of leaves, shells, etc.
The circle is the basis of the spiral, being the potential for expansion under the influence of impulse. The Golden Ratio and the Fibonacci numbers (resources*), the formulas of Newton and Descartes, which we discussed in previous letters, reflect the process of Life in unity of the ways of its cognition.
We ourselves choose the impulse that determines the development of our Garden, and the state of everything that grows in it. Caring for our own Garden, we participate in the process of Evolution or vice versa. We are people and we create. The properties of a system help us with this:
“Why?”- Advisability – Harmony as manifested Beauty
“What?” – Sustainability – Garden
“Who?” – Improvement – Gardener
“How?” – Flexibility – Garden Maintenance
About Beauty
Awareness of Beauty is immunity based on the Culture of Thinking. The properties of the system determine its activity: Synthesis, Collaboration, Unity, and Beauty.
Beauty reflects Harmony in motion and is the Culture of Thinking.
Conscious Creativity is the process of developing and improving human activity based on the Culture of Thinking in Unity with Nature. The three pillars of Sustainable Development: Society, Economy, and Environment are integrated with the fourth, the Culture of Thinking.
We can only share what we have, and we can always improve what we have. However, it will not be possible to clean up once then sit back and enjoy your garden. The system, as a structural unit of the Life process, is always improving. That is why Garden maintenance is a continual process.
More about the circle
The circle has an infinite number of axes of symmetry, which makes it a harmonious and balanced form that has potential for development. Gibbs called Potentials of system as Free Energy, where the difference between the orderliness of the system and its disorder, is the very energy that can be directed to development of the system.
By putting our garden in order, we create energy for our development, improving the influence of conditions within the system. Realizing the unity of our inner world with the outer one, we develop the best choice for our gardens: Why – What – Who – How.
The value of the practice “Beauty of Garden” in the development of systemic thinking, stability and flexibility is based on:
- awareness of the uniqueness of your inner world and the inner world of others
- choice of feelings, and responsibility for the result “What and Why I create
- thinking as a continuous process of improvement
- harmonic balance of inner and outer world by unity of interaction.
The Garden of Beauty is Unity of Mind and Heart and is the evolutionary path of development of human Consciousness based on the unity of knowledge and moral qualities: Feeling-Thinking-Action-Result.
One more P.S.
The master class was fun. The little participants quickly settled down at the table, looking curiously at what I had in my hands. I had a piece of orange clay in my hands. I rolled a ball, drew eyes and a smile on it and said: “This is our helper! Do you want to meet him?” The children laughed, and I added, “And if my language is not quite clear to you, ask me or him what it means, okay?” “Don’t worry,” one of the participants answered, “I’ll translate!”
Each of our meetings with each other opens up the world of the Universe which is in each of us, and in which we live together. . . . creativity helps us to understand this with our heart, through its Beauty revealing the Beauty of Life. . . .
Resources *
– J. W. Gibbs “Equilibrium of Heterogeneous Substances”, 1874 https://archive.org/details/Onequilibriumhe00Gibb
– The Liber Abaci or Liber Abbaci (Latin for “The Book of Calculation”) was a 1202 Latin work on arithmetic by Leonardo of Pisa, posthumously known as Fibonacci
“Tre scritti inediti di Leonardo Pisano” https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_jdhMAAAAMAAJ
– The full text of the fairy tale, as well as examples of Beauty of Garden, can be found here:
https://olgaverasen.com/fairy-tale-journeys/
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