Our Autumn 2021 issue featured a wonderfully thought-provoking features from Rob Ó Cobhthaigh of Inwardbound – he explored how we can begin to create the communities we would like to see. Read his piece below.
In our Spring 2021 issue, entrepreneur and creativity coach Monica Haughey had some great insights to share about how we can unlock our creativity at this time. Enjoy her article below!
Judith McAdam is our newest regular writer and we are thrilled to have her on board. If you haven’t seen it already, make sure you check out the visualisation track we created with her – it is available to purchase on our site right now. Below, we are sharing a sneak peek of her fantastic article on negative and positive momentum, which appears in our Winter 2018/19 issue. Check here for your nearest stockist, or subscribe to receive a copy direct to your door.
By Nick Clayson
Today, I am heading out to the shed to make a wooden bowl for eating out of. I have a large beech log liberated from Coole Park after the storms last year. Lady Gregory would have approved. It has been resting and I am hoping the fungal growth on the end of the log will have left the timber spalted, i.e., marked with black flecks, but not too soft to work. The wood will still be green (unseasoned). This is essential for working with a foot-powered pole lathe. I am growing to love working in this way. What began as learning to use a traditional and ancient tool has become a small but significant journey within. I was fortunate to spend a most enjoyable two days with Sharif Adams at the Steward Wood Community project. I learned how to roughly shape a bowl using an axe and mount it on the lathe.
Then to learn the tricky bit of how to get the long hook tools to cut. Sharif is a very skilled and patient teacher. At the end of my time there, I had a grasp of the basics. However, practising a new skill with expert guidance is very different from doing it on your own once you return home. My first bowl took me around eight hours and literally blood, sweat and tears. Think of it like learning to ride a bike, all the parts have to be there together or you have nothing. Like riding a bike, once you have it you have it and it is great, you forget about the painful phase of learning to pedal, balance, steer and look out where you’re going all at once.
There is a gentle rhythm to the pole lathe, pushing the treadle up and down with one leg. The tools are long and crook under your arm. It is a soothing process once you get the hang of it. Thin shavings of wood fly off and there is a wonderful scrunchy sound to accompany each cut.
The lathe I have made is a combination of scrap timber and a headstock hewn from a beech log. In the workshop I don’t have room for a six-metre birch pole so I have improvised a return spring using one of the many worn out bicycle inner tubes that I own. Each bowl takes on a life of its own. Ash is fibrous and teaches you how to keep tools sharp. Birch cuts and shapes easily. The beech log I’m working with today is beautiful and, although hard work, I am enjoying every second. The air is cold and the bowl spins in clouds of steam from my breath.
There is no need for cumbersome protective equipment. No ear-muffs, no gloves, no special boots, no glasses, no dust masks or any other health and safety paraphernalia to separate us from the world. I can hear birdsong and hold conversations (with myself) while working. Sights, sounds, scents, tastes, feeling it is very much a whole body practice. It makes me aware of how separate from the world our lives have become because all of these things should be very ordinary and a part of the every day, but for most of us, most of the time, they are not.
Nick Clayson is an architect, craftsman and yurt maker facebook.com/bigfootyurts
Creating as Second Nature
An expanding circle of greatness.
By Dee Wallace.
Believe in miracles. Believe in all possibility. Believe in the new. During an amazing private session with one of my clients, the following information was delivered, and establishes the guiding points we need to always remain in balance and creation.
1. Am I loving myself?
2. Do I live in endless love for all energy?
3. Am I living in the Present Moment?
4. Do I know I Am the God and Creator of me?
Thankfully, there are only four main things to remember. Everything else is REmembering one, or all, of those cornerstones. When these four cornerstones are in place energetically, conscious, complete creation is happening.
This is what the channel calls “The Circle of Creation.” When these are circulating together in a continuously flowing circle, we expand and the understanding of creation expands. When they are out of harmony, it affects the others and the circle is pulled within itself, like water down a drain. It constricts, rather than expands.
Read the rest of the article in the winter 2015 issue of Positive Life. Subscribe | Stockists
Q: I really want to make money from working at something I love but I’m not sure how to approach this or even what direction to go. Have you any advice on this? Work and money can be a slow process to get where you want to be, I just wondered if you have any great insights or advice to share on this? Especially as a woman who seems to be working in things you love!
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By Dee Wallace
You have to understand that money is an emotional creation, like everything in the Universe, it is created by love or the lack of it. The more you love money, love making it, love creating it, respect it, honour it and cherish it, the more it shows up for you. Like any great relationship, it responds to you the more you want to be with it and value it.
Our society and religions teach us this is not okay, that we are “better people” to live without more than we “need,” that we have to struggle and work hard to have the right to have enough, that we are not worthy, that money corrupts our moral fiber, and many other false beliefs that limit the flow to us of the abundant wealth in this world.
Let’s look at a quick breakdown of what is going on with you. The first limiting belief to address is: “work and money can be a slow process to get where you want to be.” Why? Who gave you that thought or belief? You certainly didn’t come IN with it! You came in knowing you were all possibility! Invite yourself to expand into the new thought that there is nothing easier and more effortless than doing what you love.
Next, get clear about what that is. What rocks your boat? What are you passionate about? What gives you that excited feeling when you think about doing it? Now start exploring your possibilities about THAT. How can you begin? Let yourself play in and accept all fabulous possibilities available to you!
The last hidden belief here is that you don’t really believe that “working” and “fun” and “loving it” go together. I do a million things that others call work, but for me, they are exciting expressions of creativity that I choose to play in. Repeat after me: I love life!
Right now you are saying to money: I don’t need to love you, but I expect you to be in this relationship with me. I am making you the excuse of my lack of creation, because I am not choosing and deciding what I want. I am not taking any action to invest in this relationship. If this were a personal relationship with another being, how much do you think they would want to participate in this with you? Most of us would see the lack of intention and commitment and run the other way.
Of course, like anything, the first step in creation is loving yourself. Be the person you would want to fall in love with, and be dedicated to yourself and the love for your own being. Then you will want to give you everything, including doing what you love and making money joyfully doing that. State with clarity and knowing: I Am the God of Me that gets to create me the way I choose. And then choose. You are worth it and you deserve it.
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Dee Wallace has worked as an author, teacher, dancer and actress in film, television and the stage for over 30 years. (E.T., Cujo, The Howling). Her book, Bright Light, tells that tale and shares the spiritual lessons she has learned from a life in acting.
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How to keep the flow of creation consistent.
By Dee Wallace
I want to talk about Being Creation. You are. And when we move into total acceptance that this is an absolute truth, our bodies, minds, emotions and consciousness shift into a powerful creation machine that is basically fool proof. Sound too good to be true? Then it will be…for you. Those of us who joyfully choose to commit to the creators that we are, create the lives we want because we create ourselves first.
We choose to be the God that chooses the thought, chooses the emotion (even though we may not ‘feel’ that way in the moment), chooses the open heart, and chooses to hold the focus no matter what. We are the Gods that are in charge of our creation, and then the One Energy rushes forward to support that.
Here are all the things we need to remember about being The Creator of Us:
- It’s not a dream or a theory. It is law.
- It must be chosen now and in each moment of now.
- There are no dualities. There is the Oneness of Creation and Joy and Love. Period.
- There is nothing else to fix or know. That’s it. We are complete. It’s done.
What else could possibly be left to ‘do’ or ‘know’ if we truly know we are the creators of us? But if we do insist on keeping that belief, we have to keep ourselves creating the lack and the struggle and that keeps the very drama going that we are insisting we want to let go of. Kind of like being addicted to alcohol or sex or drugs; we can become addicted to “getting better” or “getting there”, as opposed to knowing; we are already there.
The patterns of having and not having, getting and losing etc. show up because we create, and then we stop. This happens most easily at the moment when we have finally created something we want, then we coast and stop creating! Every moment we are creating, consciously or unconsciously, and therefore we must stay in Conscious Creation.
Get up and direct your day. If you fall down, pick yourself up, get yourself out. Choose the reaction and the creation of the reality of You. Direct yourself to Know, to Be Clarity, to Be Health, Be Wealth. Be everything your heart desires. Know it’s not only possible but that you deserve it because you create it that way, consistently and continuously, ever-flowing. Take a moment to relish and experience the freedom of that. Be the frequency of Grace and the be the balance of masculine/feminine and child energy in the radiation of your light. Be the love for yourself that is the Creative Force. Celebrate you, my magnificent and open-hearted friends and people I love.
Dee Wallace has worked as an author, teacher, dancer and actress in film, television and the stage for over 30 years. (E.T., Cujo, The Howling). Her book, Bright Light, tells that tale and shares the spiritual lessons she has learned from a life in acting.
Continuous Creation
Flowing freely in blissful success.
By Dee Wallace
I want to talk about Being Creation. You are. And when we move into total acceptance that this is an absolute truth, our bodies, minds, emotions and consciousness shift into a powerful creation machine that is basically fool proof. Sound too good to be true? Then it will be…for you. Those of us who joyfully choose to commit to the creators that we are, create the lives we want because we create ourselves first.
We choose to be the God that chooses the thought, chooses the emotion (even though we may not ‘feel’ that way in the moment), chooses the open heart, and chooses to hold the focus no matter what. We are the Gods that are in charge of our creation, and then the One Energy rushes forward to support that.
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by Dee Wallace
Here we are moving into 2012, carrying our new intentions and the hopes we choose to manifest. So I ask you… are you still holding the focus and excitement of your dreams? If we stay focused on those resolutions and be emotionally joyful and excited about the energetic creation of them, we just might manifest them into physical reality.
Most of us believe, however, that resolutions are ‘those promises we really don’t think we can keep,’ but we give it the old college try. This belief has created a groove in our brain that’s called the pattern of non-expectation: we expect not to be supported and acknowledged in the creation of our wishes. I want to remind you of the rule that supersedes them all: as you believe, it will be delivered unto you. So, it makes more sense to really believe in your dreams if you want to create them.
But then, what about all those other people and circumstances that keep us from doing that? Ah, possibly the most debilitating of the limiting beliefs: it’s not up to me and I don’t have the control. So, how’s that workin’ for ya? For us? We’re creating with limited results, but that can change; it’s all so very simple if you know these rules.
Everything is light
Light is lowered into physicality by three principles: pick a thought, pick an emotion, and hold your focus on both. Whatever you pick, the light of you amplifies and radiates it out, and that choice bounces back to you as reality. So if you pick, ‘I am talented’ as a thought and feel joy and excitement, and hold your focus there, the universe has to bounce back acknowledgment that you are, indeed, joyfully talented, and the world responds.
It’s Your Choice
You also can pick ‘I am talented’ and pick ‘I feel guilty about having more talent than other people.’ If you hold your focus on that, the universe bounces back to reality your talent not being recognised because you feel guilty about it. It’s really your choice. You have to make it your choice; whether it makes sense or not. So basically, we are saying bye-bye to the way we thought the world worked because it didn’t work. We were taught the incorrect formula for creation by people who loved us and they were also taught the wrong way: the real meaning of the phrase ‘sins of the fathers.’ The sin was that they didn’t know, and passed on wrong information to those they loved, and it just kept that old genetic incorrect message going for generations. We get to change that, and only we can.
Keep your heart open
When we keep our hearts open, we can feel the truth. We trust. We know. When we go to our heads first, they do what they are supposed to do: doubt and question. If we really want to know the truth – and know that we know – we have to choose to stay in our hearts. There’s that choice thing again: I choose to choose. No one else can make the choice and decide for you.
So in these months of the new year, let’s really make it new. Everything. Let’s choose thoughts we haven’t chosen before, like ‘I am magnificent, I am worthy, it’s all possible, and I create my own life by creating me.’ Choose to remember we create by going to our heart; choosing the thought or thing we want; choosing the emotion that puts joy and excitement behind it; hold the focus on it; and let it be.
We are awesome creators. Our light amplifies whatever we focus on and radiates that out. That’s what they mean in those new-age sayings like, ‘be the change you want to see in the world,’ and ‘as within, so without.’ Basically, those are clever little ways to say this: get your act together before you take it on the road. Now that’s a little ditty Charlie Sheen should have heeded. The creation of us goes into everything we create. Be sure who you are. It’s a great and long life.
By Dee Wallace
This creation stuff is tricky business. We are so locked into the old rules and regulations of how it has to be done that we can’t see the forest for the trees. Especially because even what we knew of it a year ago has changed and expanded. If we are still holding on to the illusion that the forest and the trees are there regardless of our focus and creation of them, we are missing the newest, most unlimited thought possible.
What if God is merely energy that created for us? That energy – let’s call it the Creative Force – loved us so much that it simply wanted us to play with the creation and manipulation of It, so It could have awesome experiences of everything It could possibly imagine. And let’s pretend that It didn’t call any of those experiences bad: war was simply an exercise in the creation of war, love was dabbling in a different vibrational exercise, etc. Our world of Us would be a virtual reality game where we could create anything and everything without fear of judgment, being wrong, committing sin, losing love, or death from decision in any way. It’s a description of Freedom that is difficult to understand from the limited thoughts of a fearful society.
Our perspective is the most important creation tool in the creation process, and we have heard that principle expressed in a myriad of ways throughout the years: seeing the glass half full or half empty, “As you believe, it will be delivered to you,” and as Henry Ford so aptly put it, “If you think you can, or you think you can’t, you’re right.” These statements are all saying the same thing: reality is created by choice. Choosing the reality we want, then, should be a no-brainer. Easy. Effortless.
It appears to be so easy that it is hard to grasp. “If it is that easy,” we argue, “why don’t I have what I want?” Because you don’t believe it’s that easy! And as you believe… We just can’t seem to allow ourselves the unlimited thought that daydreaming and imagining and being happy and being joyful is all we have to do to create that in our lives. It has to be more complicated. We have to learn and study and meditate for hours and go through all sorts of machinations to create us being able to create. We are repeating the same need for rituals that old religion did and calling it New Age. Creation should be fun and joyous. Indeed, creation doesn’t happen without that. And yet, here we are, toiling away to figure it out.
So, obviously, there is a belief in place that creation is hard, and as we believe, it is delivered. You can see what awesome creators we are. We are delivering some substantial struggle in our lives.
There are five components to Creation: Know, Believe, Allow, Be Happy, Release. Let’s take money. “I know I am the creation of it. I believe the money is created, I allow it to manifest from anywhere, I choose to be happy. I release it to the Universe to deliver.”
If you can see it, you can create it; but with ease and grace, not force and manipulation. Our minds want to fight that. Our minds want to play by the old rules and regulations of power, manipulation and control. That doesn’t work in the world of virtual reality, because it limits everything and enters the creation game with limitations in place. Who wants to create a virtual world with limitations? We want the virtual worlds of freedom, unconditional love, wellness and more-than-enoughness.
The games that invite us to pick up the sword and the gun are the virtual worlds we create until we know that the greatest power of creation is Love. That is our power. Create that virtual world. Yippee!
Dee Wallace has worked as an author, teacher, dancer and actress in film, television and the stage for over 30 years (E.T. Cujo, The Howling). Her book, Bright Light, tells that tale and shares the spiritual lessons she has learned from a life in acting.
iamdeewallace.com
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