Session 1: Water as a Metaphor for Conscious Living
April 15, 7:30 ET
Water flows in the path of least resistance. This is not a sign of weakness. On the contrary, water is one of the most powerful forces on earth. Water flows around, over and under. With the patience of the seasons, water carves its way through mountains. Water falls from great heights with nary a thought. It sparkles in sunlight and whispers to the soul on a moonlit night. Water is serene and violent, clear and murky, shallow and deep. All this without regrets.
This is the nature of water.
Water is true to its nature.
What might your life look like if you did not fight against the natural currents and rhythms of your true nature? How might your life change? In this teleseminar, we will explore how the nature of water can be our teacher and a guide to living a conscious and adventure filled life.
Thursday, April 15, 7:30 eastern time.
TeleSeminars run 75 minutes.
Can't make the TeleSeminar? No problem.
You will receive a download within 24 hours, or you can order a CD.
TeleSeminar with Audio Download: $20
TeleSeminar with a CD: $30
Register
Sunday, April 04, 2010
Sunday, February 14, 2010
Right Brain and Left Brain Dominance in Creativity: What does it mean?
A Message from Emily and Creative Soul Works
Over the past thirty years, I have worked as a writing coach with hundreds of women and men. Their journey with their writing led them to viscerally experience the creative process as a template for a living a more fulfilling, aware and meaningful life. This became the wellspring for Creative Soul Works. Here I work not only with writers, but also with people who sense the call of creativity and the spiritual journey. When relating to creativity, most people fall into three categories:
Explore these categories at: http://www.creativesoulworks.com/right_brain_left_brain_creativity.htm
Over the past thirty years, I have worked as a writing coach with hundreds of women and men. Their journey with their writing led them to viscerally experience the creative process as a template for a living a more fulfilling, aware and meaningful life. This became the wellspring for Creative Soul Works. Here I work not only with writers, but also with people who sense the call of creativity and the spiritual journey. When relating to creativity, most people fall into three categories:
Explore these categories at: http://www.creativesoulworks.com/right_brain_left_brain_creativity.htm
Saturday, February 06, 2010
The Cycles of Creativity
by Emily Hanlon
Although at its core, creativity is a mystery, the creative process is knowable, and we can use it as a template for living a more fulfilling, aware, meaningful life. If allowed, the cycles of creativity become the enduring flow of our lives, bringing with them the freedom to live life sourced from your passions instead of your fears – from your life’s true purpose rather than from your ego’s vision of security and prosperity.
The Spark of Inspiration
The initial spark of inspiration is creativity’s calling card. It can be an idea for a poem, sculpture, dance or concerto, a new garden, business or invention, a Halloween costume, a party or a gift; it can be a vision of you in a new relationship to others and to Self. Inspiration is non-verbal; it is the life-enhancing “Wow!” moment when the vision of what can be –of who you can be – carries you into unchartered territory and the land of possibility.
The land of possibility is the womb of creativity; it is here that you swim on the sea of the unconscious; your spark of inspiration is thrust about by the surging waves of the chaos. This land is not unknown to you. In fact, you visit it every night in your dreams. What sometimes makes it a nightmare is that your mind cannot make sense of this non-verbal world. Which is why mind – with its language, thought and need to analyze – should not be allowed entry into the early stages of the creative process. The mind is also home of the ego, that busy-body who will surely bully his way in and put your spark of creativity under the microscope of judgment! Now, you feel confused. The image that made glorious sense a minute ago feels muddy, vague and stupid – just another one of your dumb ideas. Out it goes!
Gestation
That is why inspiration needs time to gestate unfettered in the unconscious, in the place of mystery, where there is only possibility, not definition....
To read the full article, go to:
http://www.creativesoulworks.com/index_creative_cycles_i-con.htm
Although at its core, creativity is a mystery, the creative process is knowable, and we can use it as a template for living a more fulfilling, aware, meaningful life. If allowed, the cycles of creativity become the enduring flow of our lives, bringing with them the freedom to live life sourced from your passions instead of your fears – from your life’s true purpose rather than from your ego’s vision of security and prosperity.
The Spark of Inspiration
The initial spark of inspiration is creativity’s calling card. It can be an idea for a poem, sculpture, dance or concerto, a new garden, business or invention, a Halloween costume, a party or a gift; it can be a vision of you in a new relationship to others and to Self. Inspiration is non-verbal; it is the life-enhancing “Wow!” moment when the vision of what can be –of who you can be – carries you into unchartered territory and the land of possibility.
The land of possibility is the womb of creativity; it is here that you swim on the sea of the unconscious; your spark of inspiration is thrust about by the surging waves of the chaos. This land is not unknown to you. In fact, you visit it every night in your dreams. What sometimes makes it a nightmare is that your mind cannot make sense of this non-verbal world. Which is why mind – with its language, thought and need to analyze – should not be allowed entry into the early stages of the creative process. The mind is also home of the ego, that busy-body who will surely bully his way in and put your spark of creativity under the microscope of judgment! Now, you feel confused. The image that made glorious sense a minute ago feels muddy, vague and stupid – just another one of your dumb ideas. Out it goes!
Gestation
That is why inspiration needs time to gestate unfettered in the unconscious, in the place of mystery, where there is only possibility, not definition....
To read the full article, go to:
http://www.creativesoulworks.com/index_creative_cycles_i-con.htm
Monday, February 01, 2010
Awakening Creativity, a new Video
Check out a video based on my coaching at Selfgrowth.com.
It's called Awakening Creativity (in five minutes, no less!!)
Leave a comment or a question and I will respond!
It's called Awakening Creativity (in five minutes, no less!!)
Leave a comment or a question and I will respond!
Thursday, December 10, 2009
Free Teleseminar Dec. 15
Gift the Gift of Self to Self
Experience the Compassion of the Beloved
A Free Holiday TeleSeminar from Emily Hanlon
Tuesday, December 15 at 7-9 pm eastern time
Who is the Beloved?
You! Your Inner,True Self.
Who are you beyond ego and persona?
Where is your compassion for self? Your love and joy in self?
What is the Song of Your Soul?
Join me as we explore the incredible journey to the Beloved this holiday season.
December 15 at 7 pm eastern time.
This teleSeminar is free but you must email Emily to register.
Can't make the teleseminar? Register anyway.
A download will be available to everyone who registers.
Register at http://www.creativesoulworks.com/teleseminar_gift_of_self.html
Experience the Compassion of the Beloved
A Free Holiday TeleSeminar from Emily Hanlon
Tuesday, December 15 at 7-9 pm eastern time
Who is the Beloved?
You! Your Inner,True Self.
Who are you beyond ego and persona?
Where is your compassion for self? Your love and joy in self?
What is the Song of Your Soul?
Join me as we explore the incredible journey to the Beloved this holiday season.
December 15 at 7 pm eastern time.
This teleSeminar is free but you must email Emily to register.
Can't make the teleseminar? Register anyway.
A download will be available to everyone who registers.
Register at http://www.creativesoulworks.com/teleseminar_gift_of_self.html
Friday, November 13, 2009
Lilies and Roses In the House of The Dark Moon
I was in the garden, taking in its early August glory as I went about aimlessly pinching off the dead daylilies. Although I love all flowers, daylilies hold my heart. I have perhaps thirty different colors, sizes and shapes. I wait for their blooming each year and wander most mornings to see which beauty is offering herself to me this day. Sometimes I gasp in joy at the subtleness of colors as tender petals open and curl backwards, showing me their hearts. I talk to them. I admit I do.
“Oh, you are so beautiful,” I tell them. “And you and you! You are all amazingly gorgeous.” As I admire their profuse abandon, I try not to think that tomorrow morning each of today’s perfect flowers will have folded in on itself and begun to shrivel. Tomorrow I will be pinching off the very ones that bring me such joy today. I don’t, however, linger on the thought. The daylily has no patience for such morbidity. She blooms with all her heart, perfect for a day.
As I walk, the rosebushes suddenly claim my attention. They are blooming again and, as I near, I see that in between the shimmering red clusters are heretofore unnoticed brittle, brown dead flowers. How had I missed them?
With great determination, I reach for my clippers and, as I am about to cut off the first shriveled bunch, I stop, clippers in mid air. The thought strikes me that while I mourned the prospect of the daylily’s fate, I have no such feelings for these dead roses that mar the otherwise vibrant bush. I am eager to cut them off and dump them into the compost heap. What is the difference between the lily and the rose?
Then I realize there is no difference, except from my mind’s perspective. I saw the lily as life in all its beauty and fullness. I saw the rose as death in all its withered ugliness. But what truly amazes me is that as peaceful as the lily is in her beauty, the decaying roses are peaceful in their death. Such thoughts bring me deeply into my heart and, with love and awareness, I prune away the dead roses and gently lay them in the compost.
As we learn, with love and awareness, to appreciate our blooming, we learn to prune away with love and awareness those parts of self that no longer serve our being. The more we live in equanimity with the cycle of birth, bloom, withering and death, the more present we are; and the more we cherish the fullness of life in its moment to moment progression. Death, the pruner par excellence, becomes our master gardener. Death no longer looms as The End.
CRONE AS THE GUIDE TO EQUANIMITY
The House of the Dark Moon in this workshop refers to "dark of the moon," those three nights every month when the moon is hidden. Metaphorically, this is the time of Crone, whose province is the dark, the stillness, and letting go. To the ego, Crone and her dwelling is synonymous with death and charged with fear. To the heart, Crone’s dwelling is a place of letting go, a place that opens to rebirth, symbolized by the new moon and her rhythmic dance toward fullness.
This is a nine month TeleWorkshop Series from Emily Hanlon.
Explore the teleworkshop series
“Oh, you are so beautiful,” I tell them. “And you and you! You are all amazingly gorgeous.” As I admire their profuse abandon, I try not to think that tomorrow morning each of today’s perfect flowers will have folded in on itself and begun to shrivel. Tomorrow I will be pinching off the very ones that bring me such joy today. I don’t, however, linger on the thought. The daylily has no patience for such morbidity. She blooms with all her heart, perfect for a day.
As I walk, the rosebushes suddenly claim my attention. They are blooming again and, as I near, I see that in between the shimmering red clusters are heretofore unnoticed brittle, brown dead flowers. How had I missed them?
With great determination, I reach for my clippers and, as I am about to cut off the first shriveled bunch, I stop, clippers in mid air. The thought strikes me that while I mourned the prospect of the daylily’s fate, I have no such feelings for these dead roses that mar the otherwise vibrant bush. I am eager to cut them off and dump them into the compost heap. What is the difference between the lily and the rose?
Then I realize there is no difference, except from my mind’s perspective. I saw the lily as life in all its beauty and fullness. I saw the rose as death in all its withered ugliness. But what truly amazes me is that as peaceful as the lily is in her beauty, the decaying roses are peaceful in their death. Such thoughts bring me deeply into my heart and, with love and awareness, I prune away the dead roses and gently lay them in the compost.
As we learn, with love and awareness, to appreciate our blooming, we learn to prune away with love and awareness those parts of self that no longer serve our being. The more we live in equanimity with the cycle of birth, bloom, withering and death, the more present we are; and the more we cherish the fullness of life in its moment to moment progression. Death, the pruner par excellence, becomes our master gardener. Death no longer looms as The End.
CRONE AS THE GUIDE TO EQUANIMITY
The House of the Dark Moon in this workshop refers to "dark of the moon," those three nights every month when the moon is hidden. Metaphorically, this is the time of Crone, whose province is the dark, the stillness, and letting go. To the ego, Crone and her dwelling is synonymous with death and charged with fear. To the heart, Crone’s dwelling is a place of letting go, a place that opens to rebirth, symbolized by the new moon and her rhythmic dance toward fullness.
This is a nine month TeleWorkshop Series from Emily Hanlon.
Explore the teleworkshop series
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
On Creativity
Our creativity is most often used to birth our creations in the outer world, whether it be in the arts, the healing professions or any creative expression that is driven by our passion. Although these are powerful expressions, we are called to an even deeper level of creativity: the birth of true Self, She who was there before you came into life and will remain when the body dies. She is your center, your stillness; she is the mystery and she knows the immensity of who you are — an immensity beyond the mind's reckoning. She is waiting for you. She has always been waiting. Through her, you find your passion, your purpose and your freedom.
Creativity is the fire of the Seeker's path; it is the Spiritual Warrior's torch-giving light.
Creativity is the fire of the Seeker's path; it is the Spiritual Warrior's torch-giving light.
Saturday, October 03, 2009
This Love Affair Call Life
In this love affair called Life
I am too often a silent partner,
Hiding – in fear of what?
Could it be joy
of such an exquisitely simple nature
I mistook it for a dream.
The cynic’s shroud.
When did I first try it on?
Long ago when I gave up
on fairy wings and dancing slippers.
That wonder of being sparkling always
Beneath the comfortless shroud.
I am too often a silent partner,
Hiding – in fear of what?
Could it be joy
of such an exquisitely simple nature
I mistook it for a dream.
The cynic’s shroud.
When did I first try it on?
Long ago when I gave up
on fairy wings and dancing slippers.
That wonder of being sparkling always
Beneath the comfortless shroud.
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
The Silence
Life is born of silence.
Without silence we would not
hear the song.
Silence is the life-giving womb.
Silence is the beat of the heart.
Wear her like a crown.
Wear her like a cape.
Wear silence in the midst of laughter,
sorrow, joy and pain.
Enter her womb,
there sound is born.
Without silence we would not
hear the song.
Silence is the life-giving womb.
Silence is the beat of the heart.
Wear her like a crown.
Wear her like a cape.
Wear silence in the midst of laughter,
sorrow, joy and pain.
Enter her womb,
there sound is born.
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
A Nature Workshop
If you live in the NY/Philadelphia area,I recommend this Nature Workshop led by Doris Jeanette. I've taken the workshop and have known Doris for years. She's an excellent workshop leader and knows how to release your energy!
The Nature Workshop is in the Forest at Pt. Pleasant, PA. Saturday October 17, 2009 15 minutes north of New Hope, PA. Close to Philly and NYC. One day, outdoor workshop- 10:45 -5:00 pm. Rain date is on Sunday. Safe for seniors who like to wear purple and other living things.
A Nature Workshop lead by Doris Jeanette helps you become stronger, more assertive and expressive. You enjoy vibrant moments of being fully alive in your body. You move, laugh and play in the forest with a group of like minded people, accessing more of your human potential.
More information at http://www.drjeanette.com/natureworkshops.html
The Nature Workshop is in the Forest at Pt. Pleasant, PA. Saturday October 17, 2009 15 minutes north of New Hope, PA. Close to Philly and NYC. One day, outdoor workshop- 10:45 -5:00 pm. Rain date is on Sunday. Safe for seniors who like to wear purple and other living things.
A Nature Workshop lead by Doris Jeanette helps you become stronger, more assertive and expressive. You enjoy vibrant moments of being fully alive in your body. You move, laugh and play in the forest with a group of like minded people, accessing more of your human potential.
More information at http://www.drjeanette.com/natureworkshops.html
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