Conscious Creativity Resources

for Systemic Thinking, Resilience, and Flexibility

based on the manuscript “Conscious Creativity for Sustainable Development”: ISBN 978-1-963690-77-4; 978-1-963690-74-3

Some time ago I asked myself: “We have a Fairy Tale Newsletter, and other resources why and what do you want to create in another one?” and “What do you want to share with readers?”

It was good questions. Each of us has our own time and ‘to do’ list, and even though we don’t exactly follow this list, we know the value of time. And, at the same time, each of us has something that, despite the time, continues to keep warmth and light in the heart. It is good when we share it to support each other, uniting the Knowledge and Beauty that we have.

These Why, What, Who, and How “Conscious Creativity Resources” as weekly articles are starting. You can read them here and also on Facebook, and LinkedIn pages. We will be happy if these practical tools, that I have learned and created, will be useful for your activity. Welcome!

Olga and Conscious Creativity Team 😊

List of the Conscious Creativity Resources articles:

1- About Power of Colors, Impulse, and an Orange Horse
2 – About Together, Newton’s Formula, and the Elephant’s Star
3 – About Garden of Beauty, Immunity, and “I can translate!”
4 – About Feelings, Systemic Thinking, Sustainability, and the Milky Way
5 – About Wishes, Vector Quantities, Synergy, and “Me too!”
6 – About Butterfly Wings and Why We Shouldn’t Run With a Net
7 – About Flower-Wishes, Quality of Thinking, and “This is for you!”
8 – About Garden Care, Five Keys, and “Thank you!” from Magic Box
9 – About Unique Garden Care Map, Happy Habits, and “I don’t have Time!”
10 – About Fairy Tales, Formula, and “Wow! I wasn’t late!”

1. About Power of Colors, Impulse, and an Orange Horse

Evolution is the basis of Life. Synthesis is the basis of Evolution. The basis of Synthesis is the unity of diversity. The practice “Colorful World” is simple and does not require much time and conditions. I have conducted it with children and adults in different places and continue to apply it in my daily affairs. It helps to be in unity with the process of Life and to see the bigger in the small and the small as part of the bigger. This practice supports seeing Beauty in Nature, maintaining Harmony in oneself, in interaction with each other, and the World. I’m happy to share it with you! Welcome!

Olga and Conscious Creativity Team 😊

The practice “Colorful World”

Look around and find the 7 colors of Nature in the space around you: red, orange, yellow, green, light blue, blue, and violet. Then look closely and find 5 different shades of green. Why green?

Green is in the middle of the 7 colors of the rainbow, where each color corresponds to a frequency of the wave that we can see. Green is the main color of plants that support life on Earth.

Children and adults can participate in the practice. It can be used during a walk, in a room with plants. It can be good support during lessons, meetings, or creative activities. The time of the practice depends on the number of participants, their age and the conditions where you conduct it. It can be 5-10 minutes or 1 hour + 😊. And if there are not any plants, photos of nature can help. This practice also can become a family game or an independent activity.

The practice can have several options:
– the number of shades can increase from 5 to 10
– for ease of counting, we have fingers 😊
– you can create small groups of participants: 2-3 people
– you can find different shades of other colors, our colorful world of Nature
– can be supplemented with drawing Nature

Important conditions of the practice:
– all sources of color are based on the colors of Nature
– no competition: “who is faster or who is better”
– no hints or instructions like: “look to the right, then to the left”.

The main task of the facilitator is to invite the participants on a journey of color in the world of Nature. The inspiration of the participants is directly proportional to the inspiration of the facilitator 😊 The music of Nature, if you are in a room, will help.

P.S. In each of our eyes there are approximately 126 million light-sensitive cells that provide information to 86 billion neurons. Scientists continue to clarify these numbers, understanding their importance. (Resources*)

Indeed, if there are so many of them, then we have them for something 😊. And also, the sensory system is originally one of the first to be developed.

We people know the value of color, so we invented paint in ancient times. The culture of every nation on our Earth preserves an amazing combination of colors that are combined in beautiful works of art, and to decorate clothes and homes.

The ability to accept information from the world around us develops our consciousness and neural connections that determine our responses. In essence, this is immunity, which is the basis of mental and physical health. Consciousness is an important participant in this process.

The quality of the information we perceive affects the development of consciousness. The first step in the conscious perception of information is Recognition. If we imagine this process as answers to the questions Why-What-Who-How, then the ability to answer the question “Why” is the recognition of information, which determines the next steps What, Who, and How.

Some examples of these questions: Why do I need that? | What does it invite in my Life? | Who takes responsibility for the process and result? | How can I improve my choice?

The answer to the Why-What-Who-How questions determine the direction of our development, answering the question Where. That is why the quality of information affects the development of consciousness and determines our movement.

Life is movement, and is energy in various forms of its manifestation. Newton’s formula, which was discussed in the previous newsletter, helps 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 striving, they determine our force, where each of us determines its direction. We are where our thoughts are.

Descartes’ formula, 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 is velocity. If m is a thought, then the influence of impulse P affects the thought itself and its velocity.

Newton’s formula and Descartes’ formula combine vector quantities F, P, a, v, reflecting a process. Any process has its own direction. Our process of cognition, and therefore the direction of the vector, depends on us. We ourselves direct our thought, recognizing the quality of the impulse that created or influenced this thought, and we ourselves create the result.

These formulas reflect the unity as a unity of the ways of knowing. We can call this process by natural science and humanitarian ways, but the process itself was and remains a one process of Life.

The value of the practice “Colorful World”

Developing the ability to see different shades develops observation
Observation is the basis for recognition
Recognition is a condition for determining the quality of information
The ability to see diversity develops breadth of perception and tolerance
Concentration of attention develops cognitive skills
Developing skills of Synthesis by the unity of diversity.

The ability to see the Beauty of Nature develops Beauty of the heart. Beauty of the heart helps us to see the Beauty of Life with our own eyes.

P.S. “On this day, children and I drew a fairy tale about funny little horses that live wherever they like. The boy the nanny spoke of was silent at first, glancing at me from under his eyelashes. Then he took colored pencils and began to draw. . . His little horse ran among the clouds. . . . She had a bright orange tail, and she was yellow with multi-colored round spots on her sides and large blue eyes. . . (Newsletter “Joyful Stories to Inspire Harmony – Bluebell’s Song”)

One more P.S. 😊

The amazing property of rainbow pollen on the wings of a butterfly to accept and reflect light helps it to easily float in the air and overcome huge distances.

The ability to see the beauty of Nature helps us people to look at the World from the heart and, despite difficulties and obstacles, create Beauty with our deeds.

Resources *:Gustav Osterberg “Topography of the Layer of Rods and Cones in the Human Retina” Osterberg 01 Jan 1935 -Acta Ophthalmologica – Vol. 13, pp 6-97 | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/1427131/ | https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2776484/figure/F3/

2. About Together, Newton’s Formula, and the Elephant’s Star

The practice “Creating Together”

There are many cells on a sheet of paper. Their number, vertically and horizontally, is approximately equal to the number of participants. The task is to draw a picture together. The theme of this drawing is positive and can be determined by the facilitator or decided together with the participants. For example: an elephant, a mountain, a tree, etc.

The conditions of practice: each participant approaches the sheet once, draws only in one cell that they choose. The facilitator and participants do not indicate or prompt what, where, or how to draw, and don’t give any comments about the drawing. The order of participation is not designated. Simply, the one who wants to draw raises his hand and the first one to raise his hand goes. If there are free cells left, they can remain open. When the drawing is finished, look together at what you have got without any comments and advices.

Sometimes it happens that the drawing result is not so pretty, and the elephant can have three ears instead of two 🙂 But everything can always be improved! Therefore, give time to improve together what has been done. Everyone can improve their own field of activity, in their cell they created earlier. And participants can draw in the remaining free cells, together with others. Let’s take 5-10 minutes for that.

This drawing can be created by a family, friends, with colleagues at work, and with students. This picture can become an interior feature 😊

The ability to draw together, by respecting each other, and at the same time taking responsibility for what and why we draw, helps us to create the best together. The size of the drawing is your choice, but bigger is better. Nature’s sounds, with music, will help. Why is a Nature based atmosphere important?

Nature, as manifested Life, is based on Harmony, where Harmony unites Beauty, Uniqueness, Proportionality, and Collaboration. This unity is the process of Life as an endless and boundless process of cognition and creation of the World as One Space, based on Improvement. We are participants in this process.

P. S. Research by the World Economic Forum over 10 years, forecasting until 2030, confirms the enduring value of human qualities, which is the basis of activity no less important than the development of technology.

Since 2016 The Future of Jobs Reports have explained the results of analysis on how socio-economic and technological trends will shape the workplace of the future. This process of development encompasses spheres of activities uniting with the moral sphere. (resource: https://www.weforum.org/publications/series/future-of-jobs/)

This process is based on the development of the Culture of Thinking that is reflected in all spheres of our life. The three pillars of Sustainable Development: Society, Economy, and Environment are integrated with the fourth, Culture of Thinking.

“I think, therefore I am,” (the Latin: “cogito, ergo sum”) wrote Descartes.
The Culture of Thinking is a process where F= m x a Newton’s formula is also: Force = Thought x Striving 🙂

We people and we create. The value of the practice “Creating Together” is developing synergy based on the unity of Conscious Creativity principles (p):

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

from the “Conscious Creativity for Sustainable Development” https://olgaverasen.com/conscious-creativity/

And one P.S. more 😊

The drawing was almost ready. . . All participants looked at each other happily because it was a really good job, by a strong team. Only one cell, on the elephant, was empty . . . A new employee walked up, connected two adjacent cells with a line, looked at the whole drawing, thought a bit, and added a star. . . . It was the wonderful elephant’s star that helped everyone to see more.

We can always create the best when and where we create together, even if it is, from the first view, only one cell with only one line. And we can always see each other as someone who has great potential to create the best.

3. About Garden of Beauty, Immunity, and “I can translate!”

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/

4. About Feelings, Systemic Thinking, Sustainability, and the Milky Way

This practice, like the previous ones, can be done by participants of different ages, both indoors and outdoors. There are no age restrictions. The practice time is 45 minutes or more, depending on the number of participants, age and location. You will need: colored paper, colored pencils or paints, glue, scissors, and 7 sheets of white A2 paper. If you don’t have this format, you can connect several A4 sheets together using tape, which should be on one side only. Also prepare 7 multi-colored circles of colored paper, 2-3 cm in diameter, in advance and paste one of them to each A2 white page. Colored pencils or paints are better than markers because they can create different colorful shades. Well, we have outlined everything you need for the practice, and now about the practice itself 🙂 Welcome!

Olga and Conscious Creativity Team 😊

Practice “Shining Stars”

Take sheets of colored paper, preferably thick like cardboard, and cut strips of 2 cm X 5 cm. Seven colors to represent the seven feelings that we are already familiar with from the previous newsletter practice: Love – red, Joy – orange, Gratitude – yellow, Inspiration – green, Benevolence – blue, Respect – indigo, Faith in the best – purple. The number of strips of each color is equal to the number of participants, so that everyone has an equal choice of any color.

Put all the strips together in a large box or plate. Invite the participants to form groups according to their chosen color. To support the choice of colors-feelings you can find additional resources at the end of the post. * (Resources) When the participants have created groups based on their chosen colors, invite each group to create one picture together, coloring a star using colored pencils, paints, colored paper and glue. If it suddenly turns out that one or more colors are left unnoticed, you can go back to them with all team after and together create additional pictures.

Each picture is dedicated to feelings: Love, Joy, Gratitude, Inspiration, Benevolence, Respect, and Faith in the best. The basis of the picture is a star. You can draw light dots on the white sheets of paper, which are the basis of the drawing, and show on the sample how the participants can connect them together to make a star. And of course, the most important resource and inspiration comes from Nature, which is always with us 😊

P.S. The previous letter discussed a system, a process and conditions. In this newsletter we will continue the conversation. Why?

Life is an evolutionary process of creating and improving systems under the influence of external and internal conditions, based on its properties: Advisability – Sustainability – Improvement – Flexibility. We are participants of this process.
The participation of us people in the process of Life determines our future, in unity with other systems of which we are a part, among them our own Home – the Earth.
Our participation in this process is determined by the development of Consciousness and is the result of the process of developing the Culture of Thinking.
Systemic thinking is the path of developing the Culture of Thinking, which is reflected in all spheres of our human activity supporting Sustainability.

Summarize: a system is a structural unit of the Life process, this is about you and me, and it is directly related to the resources of Systemic Thinking, and the practice discussed above. Therefore, let’s pay more attention to this topic, so that the value of these practices discussed in the newsletters will be more understandable, and will benefit the development of children and adults.

A system, as all in Life, is a unity of uniqueness and interaction.

Each system is unique, and its boundaries are relative. The boundaries define it as a system, but each system is part of other systems. A dandelion is different from other meadow plants, and at the same time, it is part of the meadow system. Our planet is a system, and a part of the Solar system that is also united with many other systems, which in turn is united with other systems. And so on, ad infinitum: ∞System∞

Each system exists due to interaction. Each atom has its own name and position in the Mendeleev periodic table, and at the same time interacts with other atoms, creating an infinite number of elements, each also interacting with each other. Our Earth as a participant in the Solar system is in interaction with the Sun and with other planets. Each of us, the inhabitants of Earth, is an example of interaction.
Any isolation of a system is a conditional concept. It helps researchers in laboratories to understand the influence of conditions in a process. However, in Life, isolation of a system is not the path of evolution, since this violates its basis of existence and finally it is destroyed. Can a dandelion in a meadow grow without soil, air, water, and wind that carries its seeds?

Limitations of Consciousness are the result of the isolation of a system. In human activity, it is expressed by the absence of Responsibility for “What and Why I create”. Lack of Responsibility creates a corresponding Result. If we do not take responsibility for our choices based on Why (for example: “Why do I need this?”), this choice will be made for us by conditions that influence the development of a system, both external and internal. This is about the Garden that was discussed in the previous newsletter.

“Stars, a garden . . . so, what is Systemic Thinking?” – you may ask, tired of reading these lines 😊 This is the process that is in us. We people create at every moment of our lives, creating that influences the development of each of us, and all of us together.

Systemic Thinking is the process of improving our Consciousness as a system based on unity of uniqueness and interaction, by our choices of conditions that influence our development. We are people and we create. Systemic Thinking helps us to create better 😊 Before summing up, let’s return to the questions “Why?” – “What?” – “Who?” – “How?” They will help us combine what has been said in this and the previous newsletter:

“Why?”- Advisability – Beauty of Feelings | Our choice of Feelings is the first step to the Quality of thoughts. Feelings are flowers in our Garden, the same one that was discussed in the previous newsletter.
“What?” – Sustainability – Thoughts | The quality of Thoughts determines the unity of uniqueness and interaction of I and I, I and You, I and World, World in Me. The Garden, which each of us has, and in which the tree of Consciousness grows.
“Who?” – Improvement – Activity | Activity is based on Freedom of Choice, and Responsibility for what I create and Why. Each of us is a Gardener in our Garden.
“How?” – Flexibility – Garden Maintenance – Result | The result is not the goal, but the next step of constant improvement. Everything can always be improved.

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.¹ (Resources*) These skills are based on Systems Thinking.

The Green Transition transforms all spheres of life through technological, geo-economic and demographic changes based on the transformation of Consciousness. “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.” ² (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.³(Resources*)

Systemic Thinking is based on Synthesis, Collaboration, Unity, and Beauty. Where Beauty are those Feelings that grow in our Garden, and those very Stars that are created by the participants of the practice “Shining Stars”: Love, Joy, Gratitude, Inspiration, Goodwill, Imagination, Hope for the best. It is the unity of our moral values. Is it possible to remove one color from the Rainbow?

“These are not all feelings!” – you may say. “Of course!” Is it possible to name an infinite number of shades of color? It is enough to look at the sunrise or sunset, the sea or lake, the mountains or the field. . . . Nature constantly tells us the Beauty of the diversity of Life in its manifestations. You only have to look around. The practice “Colorful World” in the first newsletter will help you with this 😊 By developing the skills of Systemic Thinking in ourselves, and helping children develop these skills, we build the foundation for Sustainability.
“Sustainability should become a part of the entire spectrum of education and training, including curricula, professional development for educators as well as buildings, infrastructure and operations.” ¹(Resources*)

Life is the Beauty of Creation. Developing the ability to create consciously we begin to live the same way.

The value of this practice is that it develops:

Awareness of our morality of feelings, and value of feeling we choose
Uniqueness and expression through our art creativity
Harmonious interactions: I and I, I and You, I and World, World in Me
Green Transition skills through Systemic Thinking and social responsibility “What and Why do I create”.

One more P.S. A few years ago, I sent my fairy tale about “Little Star” as a gift to the father of a 4-year-old boy. He said: “Thank you! But my son does not know what stars are. He mostly watches cartoons on TV or his tablet.” “You can find them in the sky together,” I replied. They found them! Now the father has the Milky Way as an avatar on his social networks 😊

We can only share what is in us, and we can always improve what we have. And even if there are many things that take up time, you can always look to the sky, the stars, the leaves on trees . . . smile and add to our lives something that will help us feel the Beauty and Infinity of the Universe, which begins in each of us and in which we live together.

We can see what we can. If we notice and choose the color of a star, then it is in us. If we decorate it with different colors, then they are also in us. And when we see different colors during the day, and see different stars in the sky, then they are in us.

And . . . the stars in the sky shine brightly because they know how to shine together 😊

Resources* 1 – “Priorities of the Erasmus+ Programme” | https://erasmus-plus.ec.europa.eu/programme-guide/part-a/priorities-of-the-erasmus-programme | 2 – World Economic Forum, “Future of Jobs” | https://www.weforum.org/publications/series/future-of-jobs/ | 3- “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 | the post based on “Conscious Creativity Education Technology”, manuscript ISBN: 978-1-963690-77-4; 978-1-963690-74-3 | 2025 © Olga Verasen | https://olgaverasen.com/conscious-creativity/#education-technology

The fairy tale about Feeling is here: https://olgaverasen.com/fairy-tale-journeys/ Welcome!

5. About Wishes, Vector Quantities, Synergy, and “Me too!”

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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6. About Butterfly Wings and Why We Shouldn’t Run With a Net

For this practice you will need the materials that you are already familiar with – white A4 paper, colored pencils, paints, colored paper, scissors and glue. Anyone from 3+ can participate. Younger participants can also become assistants with the support of their parents😊. And like all previous practices: 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 this practice!

Olga and Conscious Creativity Team 😊

Practice “On Butterfly Wings”

Task of the practice: coloring butterflies together. For this, you will need to prepare butterflies from A4 sheets. The shape and size of their wings can be different. You can connect two or more A4 sheets to make the butterflies larger. Participants are united in mini groups of 2 or 4, one part of the group colors the right side, and the other the left. The body and head are colored together at the end. If the number of participants is not a multiple of two, no problem, a full butterfly will be created by the odd number participant. As in all practices, there are important conditions:

no competition: “who is faster or who creates better butterfly”
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. In this part of the letter, we will also talk about the skills of systemic thinking, sustainability and flexibility, which are useful in any area of life. “Okay, skills are needed, but what does a butterfly have to do with it?” you might ask. A butterfly helps us see the essence of systemic thinking and besides, a butterfly is very beautiful😊.

In previous letters, we said that systemic thinking is based primarily on the concept of a system as a unit of life. The formation and life of a system are based on its properties: expediency, sustainability, flexibility and improvement. The system’s compliance with these properties determines its viability based on the direction of development: evolution or, conversely, involution. A butterfly, as a system, follows the properties of a system, maintains balance, manages its energy, collaborates, and improves what it has. Let’s dwell on this in more detail. A butterfly:

• maintains balance | The influence of conditions, both external and internal, is constantly changing, as there is no isolated system in nature. So, balance is a necessary condition for the existence of a system. The balance of a system is based on the quality of the change of the system under the influence of external and internal conditions and determines its viability. In our life, this is the balance of the internal and external, mind and heart, quantity and quality, balancing of life spheres, and on. “Okay, but what does a butterfly have to do with it?” – you might ask. A butterfly knows how to maintain balance and a butterfly also:

• manages its energy | Balance is, first, maintaining the system’s energy balance. The general principle of minimum energy expenditure* states that any system strives for a state in which the energy for maintaining the system will be minimal. The less energy that is spent on maintaining life, the more that is left for development. This aspiration of the system is reflected in the laws of physics, biology and chemistry, and is manifested in the structure of life at the macro and micro levels: the movement of planets in orbits, in the structure of atoms, chemical bonds, the formation of DNA, the behavior of animals, and in the butterfly which is already familiar to us. The butterfly also has skills of:

• collaboration | The force of action is equal to the reaction, says Newton’s 3rd law.* If we denote the force of the system as F1, the force acting on the system as F2, then if they are directed against each other, they mutually destroy each other. For example: if there is an influence on the system from + F2 (i.e. F2 ⟩ 0), then the system directs its force in response – F1 (i.e. F1 ⟨ 0) and as a result +F + (-) F = 0. And at the same time, the forces that act parallel, and in the same direction, are the sum of these energies: F1 + F2.

One of the properties of a system is that expediency will not support the system’s viability if it does not have stability, flexibility and improvement. The basis of the system’s vital activity is the unity of interaction of all its properties, which is manifested in cooperation. So, the quality of cooperation determines the viability of the system. If a system is ready for cooperation based on its properties, then it develops along the evolutionary path, if not, it collapses, since an isolated system is not viable.

More about collaboration: our system’s boundaries themselves are relative: being unique systems, we are at the same time part of a Nature as a system. We are participants in the process of Life united by cooperation. The sum of energy is united by the coordination of actions in one direction. A ship under sail considers the direction of the wind. The rowers on the boat know the rhythm of their oar strokes 😊What unites the participants of these examples? They all know WHERE they are going. Therefore, a butterfly does not argue with the wind 😊 but knows how to cooperate with it, and knows how to:

• improve what it has | The life cycle of a butterfly pupa-caterpillar-butterfly is a transformational process going from one state to another based on balance, energy management, cooperation and improvement. The quality of our life is also a transformational process, which is determined by the quality of thinking. The quality of thinking is a manifestation of the expansion of consciousness. The expansion of consciousness is the result and process of constant improvement of thinking. Improving quality of thinking is an evolutionary process.

Even if we do not have wings to maintain balance, we have a choice to determine what is good for our development and what is not. Choice determines the result. “Yes, but we do not even have a choice” – you may exclaim. If we admit the lack of choice, then this will be a choice. And even if it seems that: “there are wings but little space”, “there is space but no wings”, or “little space and no wings”. . . while changing the order of these terms, still the sum does not change.

However, the properties of a system are the components of viability: expediency, sustainability, flexibility and improvement. And if we change any of these components in our thinking, we will be able to see the choice, which means the “sum” or result may be different. The properties of a system will help with this:

“Why?” – Why do I need this (choice, goal, decision) in my life?
“What?” – What, of what I have now, will help me improve what I have now?
“Who?” – Who takes responsibility for their choice and decision? A participant in the process. The process has two directions: development-Improvement and vice versa- degradation.
“How?” – How can I use the resources and skills that I have and how can I improve them?

Thinking skills, based on the properties of the system, help develop the skills of systemic thinking. “But a butterfly can’t think!” – you might exclaim with a smile. Yes, a butterfly does not have the same thinking as we humans. It lives, creating the future, based on the properties of its system. A butterfly is in unity with evolutionary development because it maintains balance, manages its energy, collaborates with outer world, and improves what it has.

The value of the practice “On the Wings of a Butterfly” is that it helps us learn what a butterfly does 😊

balance
awareness of creativity
collaboration
improving what we have

The evolutionary process of Life is not competition and struggle for survival, but a process of constant improvement based on cooperation. The viability of a system is determined by how well it is able to organize its activities in accordance with the basis on which it arose: expediency, sustainability, flexibility and improvement. We people have the freedom to choose our thoughts. This is a priceless gift that we have from birth. Freedom of choice determines the result and is the basis of the Quality of Thinking. Systemic thinking improves quality, based again on the properties of our system. One of the most sought-after qualities of employees are qualities based on systemic thinking.

One more P.S. A “World in Me” workshop. A large, noisy hall in a huge museum. The children stood in a circle and looked attentively at what I was taking out of the magic bag that was in my hands. I took out the paper butterflies . . . We created butterflies and stories about them. And then one of the participants, a 3,5-year-old boy, spread his arms and ran around the hall laughing loudly. “I am like a butterfly!” And now a whole heavenly flotilla of butterflies is fluttering around the hall, spreading wisdom with ringing laughter that lives in each of us.

And . . . if a butterfly flies into your garden, which we talked about in previous letters, it makes sense not to run after it with a net, but simply to observe it. It, like everything in Nature, helps us learn. Observation is the basis of synthesis. Synthesis is the basis of creativity of Life as an Evolutionary path of development, including us. Or why not spread up our arms as a beautiful butterfly? 😊. . .

Resources*: – This is a general principle applied in various scientific fields. | – Newton “Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica” page 16 https://archive.org/details/philosophiaenatu00newt/page/n11/mode/ | 2 – This is a general principle applied in various scientific fields. | The post based on “Conscious Creativity Education Technology”, manuscript ISBN: 978-1-963690-77-4; 978-1-963690-74-3 | 2025 © Olga Verasen | https://olgaverasen.com/conscious-creativity/#education-technology

7. About Flower-Wishes, Quality of Thinking, and “This is for you!”

For this practice you will need white A4 paper, colored pencils, paints, scissors and glue. Anyone from 3+ can participate. Older participants can support younger ones in workshop activities😊. The best place to conduct the practice, like all previous practices, will be a place closer to Nature, or indoors with the sounds of Nature supporting an atmosphere of creativity. This practice can be done as an art event or can become another one in unity with those practices in the previous newsletters. They complement each other. Welcome to this practice!

Olga and Conscious Creativity Team 😊

PRACTICE “FLOWER-WISHES TO EACH OTHER”

Task of the practice: together create one Flower from petals-wishes to each other that are created by the participants. For this, you will need to prepare petals from A4 white sheets. The shape of the petals can be different, but the petal lengths will be the same. Each participant designs each petal themselves as their own best wishes to themselves and to all participants. For example: “I wish all of us Joy!” If some participants don’t have the skills to write they can draw their own best wishes as a picture. Everyone is free to choose and even if all petals have one color, it is wonderful! The best feelings are Love – red, Joy – orange, Gratitude – yellow, Inspiration – green, Benevolence – blue, Respect – indigo, and Faith in the best – purple. We talked about these in our previous newsletters. Also, the resource* below will help you. Then participants unite all their petals into one flower.

As in all practices, there are important conditions:

no competition: “who is faster or who creates better butterfly”
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. And as before, the artwork, decorated by a team of participants, will be a beautiful interior design that can become a central element 😊

P.S. Synthesis as manifestation of Unity

Life is based on unity, and the system as a structural unit of the Life process reflects this unity in its properties: advisability, sustainability, improvement, and flexibility. They determine the system’s vitality only in unity with each other. Is improvement possible without advisability, sustainability, and flexibility? The four questions “Why-What-Who-How?”, that we discussed in previous newsletters, help us see the unity of the system properties in our life. It’s like the 4 legs of the chair we sit on, where: Why?” – Advisability, “What?” – Sustainability, “Who?” – Improvement, “How?” – Flexibility.

The unity of the system’s properties is reflected in the principles of its vitality: maintaining balance, managing its energy, cooperation, and improving what it has. The butterfly, which was discussed in a previous newsletter, has mastered them well. “But the butterfly does not know how to ask questions!” perhaps you will say. Yes, it doesn’t know how to ask questions, but it follows the principles of its vitality, therefore she can fly over oceans 😊

A butterfly collaborates with the wind, synthesizing the force of unity by synergy, which is discussed in Newton’s laws*. The great thinkers of different eras and countries explored the power and wisdom of life by synthesis uniting natural scientific laws and humanitarian ways of knowing the world. Therefore, the works of Plato, Aristotle, Newton, Gibbs, Maxwell, Goethe and other great thinkers of our Earth impact all spheres of life. Maxwell’s electromagnetic theory manifests itself in the structure of cells, and Gibbs’s vector analysis finds its application in both chemistry and economic research.

The World Economic Forum* research reflects that the best skills for the Future are based on systemic thinking by synthesis. Synthesis also underlies Future Job research methods that reflect the properties of a system, in this case the system is the global economy that unites many other systems. Why do I dwell on synthesis as a manifestation of unity? Our ability to synthesize is based on our ability to unite diversity in our life and determines our quality of thinking. The quality of thinking determines the result.

Force of attraction

Each process is the changes of a system in a period where its development is a movement based on the force of attraction. Maxwell’s electromagnetic theory shows the force of attraction as a physical process. Electric current as a directed movement of particles is based on attraction. The force we talked about in previous newsletters is the basis of attraction. Attraction is the basis of aspiration. Force is determined by aspiration.

The force of attraction creates atoms and determines their position in the Mendeleev’s Periodic Table.* Each of them is in the general Mendeleev system according to the force of attraction of the nucleus of that atom. At the same time, each atom is also a system whose state is a result and a process of its development.

Each electron is in constant motion, does not stand still, and has its own orbitals of rotation. “Why don’t the atoms scatter across the shelves of the Mendeleev system if they are in constant motion?” you might ask smiling. An atom as a system is based on the properties that we are already familiar with advisability, sustainability, improvement, and flexibility. They are manifested in the principles of an atom’s system vitality: maintaining balance, managing its energy, cooperation, and improvement of what it has. The force of attraction of the nucleus of an atom creates the possibility of containing electrons, and their stable arrangement, in the atom’s orbitals. Thus, in the table, each atom occupies its place according to its attraction. The same as we. 😊

Our force of attraction reflects the unity and conscious development of skills that the butterfly knows about in its life, which may at this time be somewhere happily fluttering from flower to flower. 😊The flower is also a system that is part of and contains an infinite number of other systems.

Everything that is in our Garden has its own attractive force, being part of our Garden as a system of the inner world that each of us has. If our Flowers-Feelings are in unity, without arguing with each other, they increase the attractive force based on synergy. The quality of synergy determines the quality of attraction. By creating together, the participants of this practice essentially take care of their own Garden based on the same principles that the butterfly knows: maintaining balance, managing its energy, collaborating, and improving what it has.

Each of us is a Gardener of our own Garden. By caring for the best Flowers-Feelings and sharing them with the outer world, including creating one beautiful Flower-Our-Wishes together, we invite the same into our life. And our outer world is not just a general concept. It is someone and something that is very close to us; family, friends, colleagues, neighborhoods, parks, and also what is not far away Nature, Earth, and our Universe 🙂

Thought as a resource

Even if sometimes in our life there is something that we call “bad”, it means that there is something good in us that helped us see this “bad”. What we see is the result. Feelings-Thinking-Action-Result. If we see something that is “bad”, it means that we see something that we can change.

We already have the resource for this: something that helps us to see and realize what can be improved: Feelings-Thinking. This is part of the path, but there is also a second part: Action-Result, which is based on responsibility. To achieve the result, it is important to go the whole way. Expanding consciousness is the ability to see the whole Garden as a Gardener and take responsibility for the whole path, and not complain about “bad weather, bad bugs, or the wind that brings bad seeds”.

Systemic thinking is the development of Consciousness through the quality of thinking that creates the quality of activity. The quality is determined by the properties of the system and the principles of its vitality, which we talked about above. Systemic thinking is resource thinking, where the most important resource is in each of us – Thought.

Systemic thinking helps us to see this resource, and the Why-What-Who-How questions that we talked about in previous newsletters helps us to take care of our garden and our resources 😊 Caring for our Garden is the process of developing Consciousness through Systemic Thinking, and is the process of developing the Culture of Thinking.

“Butterfly, Garden, Flowers, resources . . . how can I apply these to improve my life?” – you may ask. Feelings-Thinking-Action-Result is a process that occurs in our garden. The questions below help to organize this process. Even if we invite a landscape designer, we will not just follow their advice or instructions, but being grateful for the support, we will create the beauty of our garden based on our choices. The Garden will always be ours; its beauty and vitality depend on us. Each of us is the Gardener of our own garden and then the question: “What is the best thing that is happening in my life?” will essentially be: “What is the best thing that is growing in my Garden?”

If not only beautiful Flowers-Feelings have appeared in our Garden, we can always ask the questions: Why do I need this? How can I improve what I have now in my Garden? What resources do I have and what skills do I have to use them? What do I need to add to what I have to improve my Garden? Why do I need these changes? And… How will these changes affect our outer world? Our world begins in us: I and I, I and You, I and World, World in Me. Our own Garden is always in unity with the World.

Quality of thinking and the result

Any process is a process of change that has directions of movement: evolutionary or the reverse. The quality of change determines the direction of the system’s movement and as a result its viability. The quality of thought is determined by the quality of feelings: Feelings-Thinking. The quality of thought determines the direction of our development and our result: Actions-Result. Feelings-Thinking-Action-Result.

Our answer to the question “Why” helps us determine Where we are going. If our actions carry the best feelings and are based on the principles of the system’s vitality: maintaining balance, managing its energy, collaborating, and improving what it has, then our results will be the same.

Can we not ask questions and not answer them? Of course, we can answer the questions of others. However, the Garden was, is and always will be Our Garden. Sustainable Development begins with each of us.

The beauty of Our Garden is our development path of Consciousness, and the quality of what grows in it is a manifestation of the unity of the properties of the system: advisability, sustainability, improvement, and flexibility.

Let’s summarize this lengthy newsletter 🙂

A flower in Nature, which a butterfly loves so much, and a flower that the participants create is a process of synthesis that reflects the unity of diversity based on the properties of the system. Developing synthesis skills as a manifestation of the unity of the life process, we invite the best into our lives based on attraction. The unity of the inner world and outer world begins in ourselves: I and I, and is reflected in I and You, I and World and returns to us as the World in Me.

By improving our inner world, and wishing the best for the outer world, we invite into our inner world what we give. Conscious development begins with understanding the value of our resources, where the main one is thought. Feelings and thinking determine the quality of thought. The quality of thought determines action and result. The quality of thought determines the result. Feelings-Thinking-Action-Result.

The value of the practice is developing:

consciousness by choosing the best feelings
synthesis by unity of diversity
synergy by cooperation

As with all practices, it is based on the principles of Conscious Creativity:

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

from the “Conscious Creativity for Sustainable Development” https://olgaverasen.com/conscious-creativity/

One more P.S. This practice came from practice 😊

Early spring day. Wind and wet snow are outside. My lesson is missing two of the most restless students. The class is unusually quiet without their questions “Why” and “Why not”, of which there are probably as many as freckles on their cheerful noses 🙂 The other students whisper among themselves, glancing at the door and the clock on the wall. Finally, the door creaks quietly, the bearers of freckles on their noses cautiously look into the classroom and ask: “May I?” “Come in!” I answered.

They came . . . and handed me flowers and added sheepishly: “Sorry. . . they were a bit crumpled. . . This is from all of us!” A small village school, more than 20 km from the closest flower shop, two old bicycles. . . . Is it possible to measure the beauty of the best feelings that live in the heart of each of us and that we share with each other?

Each of us has feelings that support the Beauty of our Garden. Their light helps to see the direction of our path and to walk together in unity with Evolution, and not vice versa.

Resources*: – Newton “Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica” page 16 https://archive.org/details/philosophiaenatu00newt/page/n11/mode/ | – National Library of Medicine | Mendeleev’s Periodic Table | https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/periodic-table/ | – World Economic Forum,“Future of Jobs” https://www.weforum.org/publications/series/future-of-jobs/

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