love love love love love love love, repeat after me, love love love love love

a beautiful friend posted this right when i needed the encouragement:

"as a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. to make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. to make a mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives."

--henry david thoreau

i want to think of positive, loving, abundant, selfless-giving thoughts

i'm in transistion right now, going from one movie to the next. i'm excited for this next film, i've been manifesting it for awhile. a fun adventure film, where i'm surrounded by loving & nurturing humans with beautiful souls. i'm learning new tricks & taking better care of my whole being. i see new landscapes and environments that i've never found myself in before. 

it's nice when we get to hit the refresh button on the life we're living. what a blessing it is to have the gift of choice and also, the gift of now. i feel like when i'm open to the power of now, choices present themselves to me in a way that makes choosing easy. nothing is difficult when you are aware of the universe's offerings, heart open, and present. 

where the wild things are

in our society we stifle creativity. we say "chose a career where you can find a steady job." "good luck working in a creative field."

why? is it too much to ask of ourselves as humans to actively encourage the creativity of ourselves and of others? 

more often than not, when i hear a child making noise in public i recognize the yelps, monster noises, and loud laughter as a naturally imaginative mind coming to life through a small vessel. 

the next thing i hear is an adult who has thrown their imaginative mind to the wayside as their body has gotten bigger shush the child and ultimately shush the creative impulse that runs deep in all of us. 

what i have been conditioned to believe is annoying, has slowly become beautiful as the past year has gone by. hearing children play and express their trues selves has become one of my favorite ways to indulge in eavesdropping/people watching. 

and while the adults around them choose to give the children negative energy by diminishing the beautiful, creative mind of the human in front of them, i choose to send these children all the positive energy i can muster at that point in time.

annoying? maybe. loud? certainly. creative? indeed. 

"We worry about what a child will become tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today."

~Stacia Tauscher

 

"There are no seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child.  There are seven million."  ~Walt Streightiff

far too often when i was young, i was told to be quiet,  sit still, and to 'CHILL OUT'. 

i always thought...isn't that what old people do? i always felt like my creativity was being stifled and as a result i find myself lacking in confidence to show my creative abilities to the world now, as a young adult. we shouldn't operate this way as a society. we should be empowering children to follow their heart's passion so that when those children become adults, they continue to encourage and support one another. there's a place for everyone to put into action their passion and creativity. it's our responsibility to our brothers and sisters to nurture each other's passion and creativity no matter how silly it may seem. 

these are just some thoughts i've been having recently and wanted to share. 

 

there is a great TED talk that elizabeth gilbert, the author of "eat, pray, love"; where she speaks about nurturing creativity rather than discouraging it.