Centering
January 5, 2020
From Brain Pickings: The Art of Centering: Potter and Poet M.C. Richards on What She Learned at the Wheel About Non-Dualism, Creative Wholeness, and the Poetry of Personhood
This book was a must read during my art studies in the 60’s. Richards’ musings about duality/non-duality, inner/outer awareness, and interrelatedness were seminal in my development of understanding about being and the importance of creativity in the process of being.
Maria Popova’s Brain Pickings is a wonderful site. She exhibits a brilliance with her knowledge of literature and the arts and with her pattern recognition- her awesome ability to notice and explain connections and similarities among a disparate field of writers and other artists.
Popova on Richards: “Richards explores the poetry of personhood through the metaphor of centering, drawn from the craftsmanship of pottery — a potter brings the clay to the center of the wheel, then begins the process of giving the amorphous spinning mass the desired shape.”
Automatic Drawing as Imagination Exercise
December 11, 2019
This video below shows a graphic comic artist demonstrating automatic drawing. I learned to do this in the late sixties when I was studying art. Although the artist says, “let your brain” do the work, I actually experience it as letting my body/mind do the drawing while suspending any conscious, deliberate attention. (I imagined that the energy for the movement of the drawing come directly from my heart through my arm, bypassing my head. I felt like an observer to my own drawing process.) While following along as an observer I was always surprised at what emerged. At some point late in the process I would notice an object emerging from the markings. At this point I would redirect my attention and apply deliberate action to bringing out the newly discovered object. This process of automatic drawing has been very rewarding, both as a meditative process and a way to discover new images heretofore hidden below my conscious awareness.
People Have the Power – Patti Smith and a Choir of 250 People
October 4, 2019
Beautiful and moving-
Mary Oliver on Creativity
September 7, 2019
The Third Self: Mary Oliver on Time, Concentration, the Artist’s Task, and the Central Commitment of the Creative Life (from Brain Pickings)
“Certainly there is within each of us a self that is neither a child, nor a servant of the hours. It is a third self, occasional in some of us, tyrant in others. This self is out of love with the ordinary; it is out of love with time. It has a hunger for eternity.“
“The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative power restive and uprising, and gave to it neither power nor time.”
Mary Oliver in “Of Power and Time,” found in Upstream: Selected Essays(public library).
https://www.brainpickings.org/2016/10/12/mary-oliver-upstream-creativity-power-time/
Brubeck’s Time Out Jazz Album Explored
August 23, 2019
Dave Brubeck’s iconic “Time Out” jazz album was a synthesis of American jazz and world polyrhythms. I loved this album as a boy, saw the quartet perform it live, and love it still today. Its a good example of a form of creativity. This short video from Open Culture breaks it down and explains.
www.openculture.com/2019/08/how-dave-brubecks-time-out-changed-jazz-music.html
Tuition Cuts at the Academy for Guided Imagery
April 15, 2019
Only 2 weeks left to sign up for this discount!
The Academy for Guided Imagery Announces Major Tuition Cuts On Selected Guided Imagery Courses and The Lowest Certification Tuition Ever!
No travel required! Students can now take all classes from their home or office via Distance Learning, and attend the live Preceptorships via online interactive video webinars.
For a limited time, tuition for our 13 hour introductory program (FIGI) is now only $99.95 (formerly $195). Such a deal! Even better, the tuition for our 150 hour Professional Certification Training Program (usually $3495) has been temporarily reduced $2000 to $1495 with extended payments as low as $177/month for nine months. This tuition reduction will end as soon as our 2019 class is filled and will continue no later than April 30, 2019.
Former students consistently report that their new expertise using Interactive Guided Imagerysm has been so helpful to their patients that they are now referring their friends and family members in for care.
By enrolling in Profession Certification Training, you will learn how Interactive Guided Imagerysm can be used to:
• Create and explore a personal inner imaginary place that is beautiful, peaceful, safe, secure, private, and free from pain, stress, and trauma where one can rest, relax, recharge their emotional batteries, and heal (Personal Place Imagery).
• Evoke a needed emotional quality or feeling state that will support any personal challenges one faces (i.e. how to feel more courage, skill, determination, patience, creativity, etc.) (Evocative Imagery).
• Communicate with the head of one’s inner cheerleading team who is a source of great personal knowledge, wisdom, and support, and who serves as an invaluable helper in taming an inner critic (Inner Advisor Imagery).
• Discover the etiologic source of why one feels the way they do by using Affect Bridge Imagery to return to the first time they felt that way. Once there, they can review that event from a more contemporary adult perspective (Regression Imagery).
• Resolve resistance and inner conflicts that can sabotage success in any weight control, drug or alcohol dependence, smoking cessation, or exercise training program (e.g., one inner part wants to quit while another part doesn’t want to) (Resistance Imagery).
• Meet one’s inner child or even their inner children and learn how to catch them up with what’s happened in one’s life (Inner Child Imagery).
• Teach pediatric imagery to real children to teach them how to reduce anxiety associated with medical procedures and to cope more effectively with pain, stress, and trauma (Pediatric Imagery).
• Help heal the emotional wounds in yourself or others who are survivors of adult or childhood trauma (PTSD Imagery).
• Relieve pain and other symptoms and improve tolerance of medical procedures in people with cancer, chronic pain, AIDS, and other catastrophic and life-threatening illnesses (Somatic Imagery).
• Support dying patients and their caregivers, and help family members move through the predictable stages of grieving following loss (Transformational Imagery).
To qualify for this special tuition discount, you must enroll in Certification Training or the Fundamental of Interactive Guided Imagery (FIGI) Course April 30, 2019, when this tuition discount ends, and complete all training requirements no later than December 31, 2019.
International students, those with disabilities or ongoing family or work responsibilities can now actively participate online without having to travel to Los Angeles. For more information and the requirements for attending the live Preceptorships online, click here.
If you’d like to become recognized as an expert in using guided imagery and enjoy all the other benefits of Academy Certification, we encourage you to register right away, for available space is limited and with this discount offer, we expect our 2018 class to fill quickly.
To find out more about this special offer or to enroll now, click here.
