Welcome to the Alive! With Creating E-Newsletter for people who are
passionate about life; creating their lives as living works of art!

The purpose of this newsletter is to inspire you to explore, unleash and deepen your innate creativity, and follow the dreams of your heart so you can remember the essence of your magnificent True Self.

Volume #17, March 2001

I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness
for it shows me the stars. Og Mandino

Table of Contents
1. Welcome Notes from Carol
2. Inspirations from our Creative Community: Kudos and Poetry
3. Ask Your Creativity Coach Carol: Balance through Discipline and Spiritual Practice
4. Sound Tip: Hum to release anger and fear
5. Schedule of Creative Events and Retreats: Carol's California Schedule

1. Welcome Notes
Aloha and welcome once again! Thank you for passing this newsletter along to
others you know who would be inspired by Alive! With Creating. We are a
community of approximately 1,000 readers now. To unsubscribe, hit reply and put unsubscribe in the subject line. To receive back issues, email me for a copy or check out my website at www.selfimages.com/newsletters.

I was incredibly inspired last month by an extraordinary fifteen year old artist named Alexandra Nechita. Her colorful, abstract and soulful paintings are exhibited at the Dolphin Galleries here on the Big Island as well as at museums and galleries all over the world. Alexandra has been creating monumental art since she was seven years old! Her wisdom and self-knowledge truly inspire wonder and awe. Of her painting entitled The Best Place to Be, she writes: Through this piece I tried to bring peoples' state of mind to reach their utmost sincere and intimate level of pondering to what and where is their Best Place to Be. It is having the freedom to confess what they feel, and who they really are. This is the essence of art and creativity, no matter what the form. If you ever have an opportunity to view her work, treat yourself and go! And in the meantime ask yourself where is my best place to be?

2. Inspirations from our Creative Community

Comments from readers:

As always it is a delight to receive your news letter. My life goes on at a steady pace and some days are just that, days. However, when your newsletters arrive I am once again reminded of the wonderful capacity for life and love that abounds. Your inspiration and joy stays with me for days and I keep your letter to read again later for more inspiration. Thank you for the wonderful gift of aliveness and I do look forward to working with you again in the future.
Light and Laughter,
Susan, California

Wow! Susan, Thank you soooo much for writing me about the newsletter! You have made my day! Truly, it is fulfulling to know that it is an inspiration and that it makes a difference in your life!
Light and Laughter back to you,
Carol

I loved the piece on how to spend Valentine's day if you don't have a special
valentine. I passed it along to a friend who was dredding this day.
Thanks. Doreen Marino, California

I just received my Soul Creation sarong and scarf. What a beautiful work of soul art! Thank you so much!!! I am sure that this is only the first of a series!
Love and blessings,
Marisa Morin, Medical Intuitive, New Hampshire

Just wanted to say hi and congratulate you again on your passionate,
gorgeous website and work. Just looking at your designs and then reading
your ideas and language resonates so deeply within me, and I am instantly
impassioned myself! So glad you are clearly doing what you are here to
do!
Dana Curtin, Change and Creativity Coach, California

This beautiful prayer was forwarded to me. Enjoy! Carol

Prayer

by Lisa Colt

May we reveal our abundance without shame.
May we peel back our sleeping wintery layers
like snakeskins, like the silk chrysalis,
May we unravel with abandon like lover's knots
before knitting ourselves back to the heart.
May we settle into our own rhythms as tides do--
within the borders of the moon's calling.
May the music of our souls
be accompanied by grand gestures
and the persistent clapping of hummingbird's wings.
May the milky fingers of the moon
reach down nightly to cherish and unveil us.
May we turn our bodies generously in its light
like tranquil fish glinting underwater,
like precious stones.
When we open our mouths to sing

May the seasons pause in their long journey
to listen and applaud.

LET'S SHARE and INSPIRE EACH OTHER! Please send me YOUR creative writing, articles, poems, stories, songs or experiences of your creativity.

3. Ask Your Creativity Coach, Carol

Question:
What keeps you creating on days when you may not feel like it?

Answer from Creativity Coach Carol:

Maintaining balance of being with my inner self and doing in my outer world through discipline and my spiritual practice.

Each day I choose two or three spiritual exercises to practice. These might include writing morning pages (ala Julia Cameron's The Artists' Way) lovingly done for 6 years now, expressing gratitude, moving meditations like yoga and swimming in the ocean, the use of my own self-made guidance cards with images that speak to my heart, reading my vision and purpose, energizing my intentions, listening or dancing to inspirational music. These help me stay in touch with my inner self. From feeling centered inwardly, creativity flows easily.

When I am tired or stressed or low energy, I don't push myself. As a professional artist, I have production deadlines to meet and so discipline is a must. I show up in the studio every day and do something. It may not be a new design, but I have projects going on at different levels of development and there is always something that I can do. Then, often once I get going, the creativity begins to flow again.

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4. Sound Tip of the Month

Referring again this month to The Humming Book, by Elisa Lodge, our exercise with sound is Emotions in Motion, using sound to release emotions we have trapped in our body. The first exercise is a release of our anger. HUM out anger and frustration with vigorous large muscle shakes. Allow yourself to get into it. Elisa suggests we play to the hilt the emotion of anger. The sound to make while moving your body is gggrrrrrrr!

Next HUM out fears by encouraging your body to tremble and quiver all over. Let your humming tones sky rocket to the rafters. The sound to make while moving your body is eeeeeeeeekkkkkkkkk! Notice how you feel throughout the month as you use these two powerful exercises with sound and movement.
Namaste,
Peggy Black, Sacred Sound Salutarist
e-mail peggyblack@aol.com or www.healingmusic.org/PeggyBlack.htm

5. Schedule of Creative Events and Retreats

I am in northern California now from March 7-19. I will be doing personal color and style consultations, spring personal shopping, creativity coaching and showing my spring silks, Flow into Spring. If you would like to set up an appointment for any of the above, or say hello, please email me ASAP. I will be back again this summer.

The Alive! with Vision course can now be done by telephone.
Discover your vision and purpose and create a life plan to create and
manifest all that your heart desires. It can be done one-on-one
or we can form a group. If you would like more information on this program,
check out the coaching page on my website at selfimages.com or email me.

WISE WILD WOMEN CREATIVITY RETREATS (note new name)

Third Annual Wise Wild Woman Creativity Retreat in Hawaii.
Make Time for YOU!!
May 19-26, 2001 (week prior to Memorial Day weekend).
On the Kona coast of the big island of Hawaii, at beautiful Kealakekua Bay,
the retreat offers dolphin swims, mask making, deep relaxation, visits to
sacred sites, music and story telling of Hawaii. SEND $250 DEPOSIT NOW to
hold your space. There is room for 8 women. There are 4 spaces open.
Early registration by March 1 $1595. After March 1 $1695.
See retreats at SELFIMAGES for more information and photos.

NEW UPDATE for June Retreat:

Now FOR MEN AND WOMEN with a new title and co-facilitator

Merging with Soul

A Transformational Retreat to

Move into Union with your Divine Nature
Awaken Creativity and Intuition

June 16-23, 2001.

Unleash your creativity, deepen your spirituality, development your intuition and release the divine artist within. Join us for a week at Paradise Point, overlooking the ocean on the Kona coast on the big island of Hawaii. Journey for self discovery, deeper creativity, aliveness, joy, love and healing. Dolphin swims, massage, visits to sacred sites, and Nature's gentle nurturing.

Co-Facilitator Ahriah Vocare is a Psychotherapist, Certified Coach and Teacher who assists others in remembering that they are God in form. She supports others in opening to soul wisdom, light body activation and being their fullest expression of passion, desire and intention. She is a resident of Mercer Island, Washington.

FOR MORE INFORMATION: email selfimages@aol.com.

To REGISTER:
Send $250 non-refundable deposit now to reserve your space.
Early Registration April 1st $1595. After April 1st, $1695.
Space for 12 participants.
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THANKS FOR JOINING US THIS MONTH!

Enjoy the new awakenings of Spring!
Warmest Aloha to you,

CAROL
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