Inspired by beautiful creative vibes and energy of Gretchen Miller I joined her great initiative to take part in Compassion games 2014 with the Team 6 Degrees of Creativity 🙂
It has been an amazing 10 days adventure creating and connecting to others, oneself and the earth….It is simply beautiful how this global initiative generated awesome secrets agents of compassion to spread the message and make the world we live in a little brighter with every contribution!!!
So it all started with our daily assignments of creative deeds to make and share:)
The creative deed #1 “Show Us Your Heart!” was the perfect start to connect to the most amazing compassion vibes that connects globally with this initiative!! Gretchen had this fab powerful idea sending in photos of our cutting of a paper heart in team members’ hands. The strong message of utter empathy was right on the starting of the Compassion Games and on the Day of Remonstrance for September 11th…
Next creative deed #2 : “Chalk It Up for Compassion!”… How great to create a piece of something outdoors with chalk so the world could stumble upon …so the message can really go a long way 🙂
Creative deed #3 “Compassion WordClouding” was real fun and an introduction into wordart design:)
CreativeDeed #4 was a fab “Operation Random Acts of Creative Kindness” so operative got an opportunity to make some creative inspiring messages and spread them around….. so I though to share sockmonkey love and kindness with a take what you need flyer that could bright up the day of people encountering it…
Creative deed #5…It was about recognizing a Compassion All Star in our life & community with a creative twist! So that day I nominated a truly special person as Compassion All Star: my mom:) and my artsy awards for this special nomination for her:) This process was very emotional….Thank you Gretchen!!!
Creative deed #6 “Creativity& Compassion Quote Hunt” … So by using free online programs one I created something using a quote that deeply resonates withme…For me one can feel the endless ways of expressive arts getting to the soul!
Creative deed #7 “Compassion Cards of Awesomeness” switched on that beautiful role of being a Secret Agent of Compassion…Special Secret Agent mission to create anonymous Compassion Cards of Awesomeness to leave randomly in places… The theme to celebrate in the cards was BEING AWESOME 🙂
So while I was on the train I created some cards to distribute in a hospital…. I really loved to see the positive reactions of some people who discovered them…Of course as a secret agent I tried to keep distance LOL:)
Creative deed #8 “Secret Agent of Compassion- Nature Creative Deed”
Today’s CreativeDeed was again linked to Secret Agent of Compassion mission with the goal of showing compassion to nature & the earth…The intent was “to increase your understanding of the interrelatedness in nature” and for us in particular was to document this perspective with a photo. The SAoC mission posted earlier that week that became our mission for creative deed #8: http://secretagentofcompassion.org/2014/09/15/05-2014/
I was inspired with by grounding and earthing acts that really reconnect us to mature and the earth. In particular recalling a beautiful event back in India with a special friend when we planted spouted fruit seeds in the ground and let the eco magic happen:) So this time I sprouted bean seeds and I planted them honoring the earth:)
Creative deed #9 “Compassion Mandala”
What a great mission to create a mandala with our fav material expressing what compassion means to us… Well for me, given what I could find as was still travelling I managed to get some paints and lil creative bits together and improvized a painting on a wooden board….It kinds of builds up layers through material, in a way creating the fabric and nuances that are connected with compassion.
CreativeDeed # 10: “Compassion Stickie Note Art”
What a great mission to use Post-It/ Stickie Notes to spread around randomly creative messages about compassion!!! So much fun and good energy coming after a nice walk accomplishing this mission in the neighborhood:)
And to celebrate the last of the Compassion Games: creativedeed #11: “International Day of Peace Flag”!!!
We got to create a prayer flay celebrating this special day letting this reminder spreading its message through the wind…
I love making prayer flags as there is something special about the process and the message they carry. This time I have tried to make a paper one using few things from India and Tibet…Great to celebrate peace on the World Peace Day.
I still need to update posts from the road…getting there in due time;)
I am finally able to reconnect with the vibrant energy of inspiring creatives over at the circle of art….I have been travelling and following interesting projects and ideas but I have been missing touching base with amazing people over at the circle of art:)
It is quite interesting bringing that inspiration into the reality I am experiencing at the moment…..Thank you Petreaand everyone at over at the circle of Art!!!
Sending lots of love and sunshine especially to those in cold weather 😉
Lizzie
If you are not already a part of the Virtual Art Circle on Facebookand would like to be, just click on the link and ask to join.
It was so great to connect with inspiring artist, friend and mother Abha Bhagwat.
It is so wonderful how things brought us together… From initial cyber interactions while following an on-line course on intuitive painting hosted by amazing Petrea Hansen Adamidis based in Toronto, Canada….My recent whereabouts in India finally made us meet in person, connect and create together!!!
Her work and environment is bursting with creative ideas that just keep flowing and are so contagious:) It was an honor taking part in art workshops and experience her artwork. The amazing creative boost and the wonderful artistic environment outside the box just made me want to share the experience and this great connection….
I really wanted to introduce Abha to the amazing creative network of SPIRAL CHANNELS I am part of (an international intercultural and interdisciplinary project in constant evolution). So here it is a collaborative artwork celebrating the process and connection of two artists coming from different worlds yet finding a familiar ground to express and explore inner worlds….
I look forward to do more artwork with Abha and to see her over at the SPIRAL CHANNELS.…a great community where creative collaborations flourish and bring together inspiring people from all over the world… A great project by artist Vlado Franjevic
Abha and Lizzie’s Painting celebrating the spirit of Spiral Channels Pune, India, Spring 2014
Lani points to some very interesting research on the positive effects of pro-social behavior and relation to others! Lani had a fab idea for this week Challenge to create our own Loving-Kindness art to promote pro-social feelings….
AWESOME…a practice to keep doing every single day throughout any activities…
Loving-Kindness definitely raise vibrations and make positive shifts in energy and environments.
The force of Loving-kindness :
May all beings in existence be safe, happy, healthy, live joyously…..
This was inspired by the beautiful prompt over at the circle of Art 🙂
The Miyajima Torii is a real special place….the stunning floating gate to Itsukushima Shrine …part of the World Heritage Site on Miyajima Island.
The magic here happens following the tides cycles…when there is low tide one can get there by walking on the mud..then when high tide comes in the Miyajima Torii appears floating on the water….I feel that somehow those moments reconnects with the flow of our invisible Qi and the flow of life….
Kabir’s wisdom is so profound…It really doesn’t matter where we are at….All that matters is that any point is a starting point and we have the power to be active participants within that energy and create anything we want to ……
How great…Creating something that brings us into relaxation…
We are so lucky to have so many inner tools to create peace and quiet…. Imagination can take us everywhere and create anything we want….I think that finding a mindful way to get into relaxed state of mind is definitely an essential recipe for well-being and happiness:)
Following this Challenge I tried to create from that state of mind and here is one of my Relaxation Recipes…Lullaby.
As usual feel free to share your art or play anywhere on blogs, on Instagram #14SecretsChallenge or by adding your photo to our Flickr pool
Cara suggests a very interesting and practical exercise to get to know our real self and know if we are speaking our truth. This process of knowing when body and mind are aligned by listening to our body reaction is very supportive in times of confusions when doubts overshadows the heart… Taking time to listen to our body feelings and reaction we are able to recognize our truth and “know”…
Thank you Cara for this practice helping to tune in our inner guru!!!
Interestingly my response to the Circle of Art prompt reconnects with the reflection on tuning in the inner guru:)
Boosting the level of serotonin seems to have a positive impact on our mood, promoting good feelings and emotions…I like how brain chemistry describes our energy pathways …. As Lani explains when serotonin is balanced we experience life from a happy and healthy perspective. The positive vibes are contagious as when we share and receive appreciation, kindness and compassion there is a happy environment. Lani makes the awesome suggestion to go back to art journaling and congratulate ourselves 🙂 🙂 🙂
So let’s go ahead and review some of our life’s repertoire and enjoy the compliments….Let’s create some serotonin, enjoy the happy vibes and keep creating with anything that happen in life:)
As usual feel free to share your art or play anywhere on blogs, on Instagram #14SecretsChallenge or by adding your photo to our Flickr pool
As I was pondering on some topics on conscious evolution and a fab moment of synchronicity led me to the beautiful post by amazing and inspiring Sue Dreamwalker:Connection via the matrix !!! Sue explains and illustrate so well how everything is connected and how through our own process of evolution we can awaken to the Truth…We then have the resources to experience and explore the world as it really is rather than how we have been told to believe.. Once we get to feel the Energy and its flow we get to know the interlinked pathways of the “WEB”… Have a look at Sue great post explaining Energy Grids –Ley Lines and vortexes and how outer energy of the planet connects with our inner energy of ourselves….This even connects with yesterday’s post as our inner energy can affect the outer one and the other way around:) Looking inward to change outward
More and more people feel the global SHIFT in consciousness, we go through few energetic shifts in consciousness in our personal evolution and this is contributing to the collective evolution…It is said that we are moving towards moments of bigger shifts within the passing of physical time we perceive on the planet.
Recently I was asked whether I have a word for the new year… Time in the physical dimension is so relative…In fact some (me included) are still waiting for the new year LOL 🙂 The thing is that a guiding word, or rather the feeling of it found me… So FLOWING is the word that found me before I could even think about it….The beautiful free flow of Qi, experienced through Qi Gong, is re-connecting the balance of flowing energy in myself, towards others and the earth. By unblocking energy points, emotions feelings and everything is FLOWING. This process fosters creativity, positive thinking, feelings and actions, raising vibrations and enabling to experience and understand that WE ARE ONE. Since everything is connected so are our words and intentions….
So what is your guiding word, what word has found you?
Enjoy the journey and whatever comes across your path:)
As Sue reminds us we can direct our energy to bring balance on the planet… Mass Consciousness facilitates major change and we see that in our recent history.
Dr. Hawkins and his research show how the higher vibration of Love promotes conscious evolution and brings positive changes.
Sue invites us to join and connect via the Grid to open our heart and connect it to the world to send Love…
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