Final Collaboration of Paintings and Poetry with Gwendolyn Lawrence Alley

The last collaboration Gwendolyn Lawrence Alley and I did for the VCAC art show called Collaboration was with my painting called Water Ballet which is pictured on the left. It wasn’t one of the paintings I had chosen to go into the show. However, when Gwendolyn came over to see the paintings, it was one she was immediately drawn to. I had had it in a prior show so I emailed to ask if it could be resubmitted. They said since it was coming in with a written body of work, that it would be a new body of work so we could submit it. read...

“Serenity” Painting & A 3:15 Haiku Equals Honorable Mention

I have mixed feelings about entering  art shows. If validation comes from within, then the results of an art show can create counter productive emotions. The ego gets excited if you win and gets deflated when you lose. That is, until one is good with whatever happens and the ego is no longer triggered. So why do I enter art shows? That’s a good question. And I don’t have an answer yet.  Is it the idea of winning? Is it the prestige? Is it the belief that more people will take you more seriously as an artist when you win? Is it the belief that it would add to the value of the art? Or is it to be seen? Is it to get exposure? read...

Are Judgments Just Recycled Thoughts?

I work on watching my thoughts most of the time, especially judgments. I find it interesting that Wikepedia defines Judgment as the evaluation of evidence to make a decision. My husband, Ron, and I had gone to a party a couple of months ago. I didn’t realize how much I had been watching my thoughts. I felt really good about it because I was catching myself on things. Yet what startled me was the automatic judgments. Say what? Yes, I found myself doing these automatic judgments and I thought “whoa, where’d that come from?”.  In light of the above definition, I was evaluating what evidence to make what kind of decision?  I started paying more attention and sure enough, I caught a few more. read...

Poetry Writing: Good for Immune Boosting?

When I can, I do hospice work with Livingston Memorial Visiting Nurse Association. They do in home hospice and hospice in board and care facilities as well as nurse services. Volunteers attend a 8 week class. You learn the best ways to interact with with the patients and what to expect. It teaches you far more than you can even imagine. Once a year they have a retreat and I went this year. It’s at a beach home and it’s a lovely time of getting the soul nourished. This year they had a Registered Poet Therapist. I didn’t even know there was such a category. Her name is Dr. Perie Longo and she is amazing. She gave a great talk and did some poetry reading for caregivers. She also taught us exercises on how to write as caregivers. read...

Mindfulness or Meditation – Which Helps with Opinions?

I got an opportunity, a big one, to remind myself that another’s opinion of me is just that ,an opinion. It was their opinion of what I had done and what they thought of my doing it. My instant reaction was to feel hurt, this was someone important to me. Then I stopped and looked again. I reminded myself that this happened to bring up some old tired emotions that needed to be loved, accepted, allowed, forgiven, and released. I also saw this as a great reminder that even though the person is important to me, they were merely sharing their opinion of my actions and that’s all. They are not an expert online or offline on me. I am the only expert of me. read...

Designing Your Own Life Requires Paying Attention to Your Thoughts

Paying attention to your thoughts is so important. It affects your emotions, your feelings and what happens in your life. It’s the run away mind that can wreck much havoc in your life. In addition, have you considered how you talk to your friends when you get together? Are you complaining about things that happen in your life that you don’t find pleasing? Are you aware when you do that, you are drawing more of that to you?  Are you a captive of your own complaining? You are designing your own life whether you believe it or not. read...

Reconnective Healing™: Energy Therapy with Results Part 6

This is the 6th in a series of blogs reporting on the scientific studies conducted with Reconnective Healing™ on plants and humans by various scientists including Dr. Gary Schwartz of the University of Arizona. The one thing that is very well known is that The Reconnective Healing™ frequencies are strong and palpable. They can be felt through physical sensations tests and they have also been proven to be real in double blind, randomized studies. When I signed up for the training, I really didn’t know much about Reconnective Healing™ or The Reconnection. I didn’t understand the differences between them either. I was contacted and asked if I wished to be part of a study being conducted by the University of Arizona. I accepted. read...

Reconnective Healing™: Energy Therapy with Results Part 5

To continue this series, I’m sharing instruments information used in the testing.  I can’t explain how the healing works but I can show you how they determine the changes possibly.  I believe this will give energy medicine more credibility. Another practitioner shared  a PDF paper, Art, Science and Spirit of Electro Photon Imaging, that is dealing with energography and bioelectrography. This is incorporating mental and spiritual measurements along with the physical, a way to address the whole person in energy medicine. Dr. Konstantin Korotkov, who I’ve mentioned in the earlier blogs, has used EPC/GDV in the Reconnective Healing studies. read...

Reconnective Healing™: Energy Therapy with Results Part 4

In my earlier blogs on the scientific results done with Reconnective Healing, I talked about the studies done on plants and then I began to list some studies done on humans. Today I’m sharing a study done in Russia. I verified this information with additional research and used much of the information I found on this from Doug De Vito who was an instructor with the Reconnection and is the author of new book coming out soon by Hay House called The Upgrade. They tell us this story at the training seminars. Reconnective Healing was being taught to a team of Russian doctors, therapists, researchers and the Olympic athletes. The results were astonishing. They designed the study to give the test subjects 5 hours of teaching and interaction with the frequencies over 2 days.  I find it interesting that the Russian medical community is more open to energy medicine than here in the US. read...