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Daily Creativity Prompts deliver a perspective-shifting zap to your creative process.
See Grace Kerina’s Creativity Prompts Compendium for more tools to spark your genius.
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When I talk with highly sensitive people, I’m often struck by the length of their pauses before speaking. If their brains are like mine, what’s going on is an intense sorting of all the possibilities, scanning and deciding which of the many things that could be said will be said.
Sure, I love the banter of a quick-witted exchange now and again, and I can usually hold my own in such cases, but I also feel a deep relief when in conversation with someone who shares my great respect for the mind-organizing pause. In fact, I’m often more eager to hear what a pauser will say, because I know they’re crafting a response to fit the situation, digging for layers, weighing options, and preparing to deliver thoughtfulness.
I want that. I crave the deep response mined from the earth of the silent pause.
“Certain cultures, such as that of the Inuit Alaskan Indian tribes, have embedded into their linguistic structure a pause. It is natural to simply wait. Think it out. Then speak.”
~ Gary Seigel, The Mouth Trap
Flickr photo: The Moment, by seanmcgrath.
Related reading: Multilingualism for HSPs, Pep Talk | Simply Wait
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Daily Creativity Prompts deliver a perspective-shifting zap to your creative process.
See Grace Kerina’s Creativity Prompts Compendium for more tools to spark your genius.
Related reading: Creativity Prompt | 4 ~ Pep Talk | Zero In
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Daily Creativity Prompts deliver a perspective-shifting zap to your creative process.
See Grace Kerina’s Creativity Prompts Compendium for more tools to spark your genius.
Related reading: Creativity Prompt | 60 ~ We Are All Magicians
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Daily Creativity Prompts deliver a perspective-shifting zap to your creative process.
See Grace Kerina’s Creativity Prompts Compendium for more tools to spark your genius.
Related reading: Creativity Prompt | 36 ~ How to Stop Time
Where did you finally find the thing you’d lost – the car keys, the photo, the phone number? It was in the last place you looked, right? Faith fulfilled works the same way. If you stop looking before you get to that last place, you won’t find what you yearn for.
What you seek waits patiently under that last unturned rock.
When what you seek has eluded you long enough to make you question the search itself, long enough to have you peering suspiciously at your worthiness, you need the persistence of faith.
Look deep inside. Is the flame of your quest still lit, somewhere in there? When you grow still and quiet, peering at the flame and ignoring all else, does its heat warm you? If so, you must keep the faith, no matter what false hopes the journey puts in your path.
Burn through the false hopes with the flame of your certainty.
You may rage against this suggestion, but it’s likely that each false hope you burn through readies you for the final find, cauterizing the parts of you that need protection, welding the parts that need connection, crafting you for success.
Faith gives you the strength to forge your dreams.
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~{ PEP TALKS deliver a bracing blast of Grace }
Flickr photo: fire, by m_piepers
Related reading: Pep Talk | Grope, Grace Kerina’s Five Rules for Life
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Daily Creativity Prompts deliver a perspective-shifting zap to your creative process.
See Grace Kerina’s Creativity Prompts Compendium for more tools to spark your genius.
Related reading: Creativity Prompt | 63 ~ Significant Instants
If water molecules change shape in response to thoughts, maybe the water in our sensitive bodies picks up on that.
In one scene in the … documentary entitled What the Bleep Do We Know!?
, a monk blesses a drop of water, and the water takes a round shape. When teenagers yell at the water, it takes an oblong shape. Because our bodies are made up of more than 75 percent water, our thoughts can physically affect the shape of the water. So when someone yells at us, what happens? We feel uncomfortable, nauseous, perhaps just plain sick!
~ Gary Seigel, The Mouth Trap
Research by Dr. Masaru Emoto shows mind-boggling photos of exactly how water molecules change shape. Polluted water looks random and unformed, while water from pristine streams forms beautiful crystals. Water in containers with words taped to them overnight show similar differences, depending on the nature of the words.
That’s all very fascinating on its own, but what I keep thinking about is the tidbit I read somewhere (and I can’t remember where) about highly sensitive people tending to prefer to live near water. If, as Dr. Emoto’s research appears to confirm, water is a rich source of information about all kinds of things, then sensitive people may be particularly tuned to its messages – within us and all around us.
For further reading and exploration of this topic, see the following sites:
[Post-publication addendum] Dr. Emoto’s books include:
Flickr photo: Poinsettia Water Drops, by peasap.
Related reading: Crying and Staying, Quantum Physics and the Art of Manifestation
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Daily Creativity Prompts deliver a perspective-shifting zap to your creative process.
See Grace Kerina’s Creativity Prompts Compendium for more tools to spark your genius.
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Daily Creativity Prompts deliver a perspective-shifting zap to your creative process.
See Grace Kerina’s Creativity Prompts Compendium for more tools to spark your genius.
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Daily Creativity Prompts deliver a perspective-shifting zap to your creative process.
See Grace Kerina’s Creativity Prompts Compendium for more tools to spark your genius.
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I’m always jonesing for creative collaboration, and the more I get, the more I want. There’s magic when teamwork morphs into incredible synergy.
Part of the attraction is my own nature (after all, my Style Statement is Timeless Connection), but another big part has to do with the direction our collective consciousness seems to be heading these days – toward global viewpoints and collaboration at all levels.
In addition to getting my fix through working and playing with collaborators on a regular basis, I’ve been reading about the topic. Organizing Genius: The Secrets of Creative Collaboration
For more about Organizing Genius
Flickr photo: do your own thing, by notsogoophotography.
Related reading: Highly Sensitive Havens
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Daily Creativity Prompts deliver a perspective-shifting zap to your creative process.
See Grace Kerina’s Creativity Prompts Compendium for more tools to spark your genius.
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Daily Creativity Prompts deliver a perspective-shifting zap to your creative process.
See Grace Kerina’s Creativity Prompts Compendium for more tools to spark your genius.
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