The Creation Experiment Summer Party and Blessing of the Abundance Shed

The Creation Experiment Founder Members had a fabulous summer party at Judith’s on Friday 23 July following our July meeting at the regular spot, Perfect Blend, in Clapham.

The morning was taken up with updates from those that wished to share their news and in the afternoon we de-camped to Streatham Hill for the continuation of the meeting.

We had a most interesting guest speaker, Jane Puckett of DreamKnowing.com , and a fascinating talk on dreams as she explained how her life changed when she started paying attention to her dreams.   Jane is an experienced psychotherapist and long qualified, but she is now concentrating her efforts more fully on helping people tap into who they are by accessing their dreams.

Jane will be starting a 6 weekly conference call with members of The Creation Experiment in September 2010.  I very much look forward to taking part and am excited about the process of tapping in further to who I am and listening to my unconscious and the messages it has to give me.  This can be a very powerful process.

Sharon Rose, one of our Members gave a short and very interesting talk on abundance and how we can manifest this in our lives.  How we are all made up of matter and how every thought is an energy in motion.    She explained how very powerful thoughts can be and that just by thinking a thought, we set a whole train of events in motion whether positive or negative.

The afternoon took off with the traditional tea and carrot cake.  The carrot cake from Perfect Blend is just out of this world!

Kate brought along her old and trusted friend - the BBQ – and she did the most fantastic job cooking all our meats on there.  Well done Kate!  Everyone else brought food they had prepared, fruit, Pimms, Champagne, Fruit Cocktails. There was an abundance of everything.  A veritable feast was had by all.

As the BBQ was lighted and got going, we decided it was time to have the Blessing of Judith’s Abundance Shed.   Judith had her shed built some months ago and it resides at the bottom of her lovely long garden.   This is her office and she conducts most – if not – all her business meetings in there.   It is a fabulously peaceful place to be.  We all gathered in the Abundance Shed.

Gill Brabner was the instigator and organiser of the blessing and Gill brought candles and Tibetan musical instruments, abundance and inspirational cards along with angel cards – these together with flowers were laid out beautifully on the table in a pink theme to go with Judith’s colour preference.  Everyone was asked to light a candle and say something about the abundance blessing to Judith and this we did and each in turn picked a word and then a card and shared this with the group. Each word and card had a powerful meaning. Some of us read poems.   It was altogether a lovely affirming blessing ceremony and we hope that Judith has many abundant happy days in this very special place.

We are all more powerful than we know

March is NOTICING month on The Creation Experiment and so on this very theme I want to share something with you.

A few days ago I was in a meeting and Judith (who was at same meeting) said to me “you don’t realize how powerful you are” and I didn’t really know what to make of that to be honest.    I thought perhaps because I have been told that I have a sunny light and extrovert personality and am quite noisy fairly often, she was referring to that.

This morning I received a message on Facebook from my cousin’s daughter Maria.    Maria is in her late 20s now; she comes from Austria and is a total free spirit, she cannot seem to settle in one place and just loves travelling the globe, exploring, discovering and meeting people and so in between her work as a nurse in Austria, she jumps on planes as often as she can and goes exploring.    This is quite unusual for the Austrians that I know for they are usually home birds but I should not wish to offend any Austrians reading this blog who may well be world-travellers.

In a few days Maria will be passing through London on her way to exotic South America and this morning she sent me this message “I don´t know if you can remember but once you sent me a quote from Mark Twain and I have never been able to get it out of my head :  “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the things you did do.   So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor.    Catch the trade winds in your sails.  Explore,  Dream. Discover.”

I have absolutely no recollection of having sent this quote to Maria but the fact that it resonated so strongly with her and that she reminds herself of this regularly moved me unbelievably.    I have to say that I was taken aback when I read her message and actually I felt extremely emotional and I have been trying to work out why this is.    I think it is to do with the fact that I have made a difference to Maria, that having sent her this quote when she was a young girl, validated who she is, the free spirit within her and that I encouraged her to do what her heart told her which was to keep on exploring.    Today I feel quite proud of myself and privileged and I have today patted myself on the back for this is a trait I want to have, am pleased to have, both as a coach and all over my life actually, to know that I have made a difference.

So today I realize what Judith might have meant when she said those words to me and I say thank you to Judith and to Maria for making me realize that I can make a difference, that I am powerful and that I can take this and use it for the good in building my business dream.

We are all more powerful than we know – we just need to exercise our skill of noticing.

And Carole’s January Tithe goes to Starfish Malawi

Carole is our Founder Member who was chosen alphabetically to decide where our Creation Experiment tithe for January goes.

Starfish Malawi is a schools linking scheme between the UK and Malawi.

Listen to Carole’s interview here

And read more about Starfish Malawi here

Bianca’s Tithe goes to Buiga Sunrise school in Uganda

Listen to Judith interview Bianca on our radio show about where and why she chose to send her tithe for November on behalf of The Creation Experiment.

Click here to listen to Bianca.

Click here to read more about Buiga Sunrise.

Follow Your Bliss by Joseph Campbell

Follow your bliss.
If you do follow your bliss,
you put yourself on a kind of track
that has been there all the while waiting for you,
and the life you ought to be living
is the one you are living.
When you can see that,
you begin to meet people
who are in the field of your bliss,
and they open the doors to you.
I say, follow your bliss and don’t be afraid,
and doors will open
where you didn’t know they were going to be.
If you follow your bliss,
doors will open for you that wouldn’t have opened for anyone else.

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