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Gale Minchew, PhD

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A Time For Spiritual Creativity

This July is slated to be quite an auspicious time for creativity and expansion in our lives. So many spiritual indicators are pointing to this month as being a great time to get those creative juices flowing! Whatever your preferred method, why not use it to your advantage? What projects have you been considering? What creative force would bring happiness and joy into your life at this time?

Fortunately, creativity comes in many forms. The possibilities are endless! Here are a few examples:

Painting, Drawing, Coloring, Building, Sculpting, Singing, Playing an instrument, Photography, Website Design, Fashion, Crafting, Decorating, Interior Design, Sewing, Dancing, Gardening, Landscaping, Writing Daydreaming, Visualizing, Organizing, Dancing, 

As you contemplate the possibilities, why not take this opportunity to increase your potential? Perhaps you could try some great essential oils to improve focus and enhance your creative edge. (If you’re interested, you'll find a great recipe to try later in the newsletter). Or maybe you could use a little meditation to bring the perfect idea into your awareness. Then again, a peaceful walk in nature could help clear your mind from the chatter and encourage those creative juices to flow. In addition to these ideas, you can always call upon the angels for help…and more specifically, Archangel Jophiel. As the angel of wisdom, art, and beauty, Archangel Jophiel can help illuminate that creative spark within you. This angel’s name literally means the Beauty of God. How perfect is that? Among her many gifts, she can help you bring more beauty and creativity into your world. Connecting with her is as simple as asking that she come into your life today. I hope you’ll enjoy this Spiritual Request to Archangel Jophiel for assistance with stimulating the inspiration, enlightenment, and creative spark that you need to set this month on fire!

Dearest Archangel Jophiel,

I call upon you now to bring beauty and inspiration into my life. When I feel stagnant or unproductive in my endeavors, guide me to the many possibilities that await me in life. Where I see only chaos and disruption in the world around me, help me to create a sense of order and beauty within my own little piece of the planet. If I begin to doubt my gifts and my ability to create the life I desire, encourage me to trust in myself once again. Should I forget the miracle of this life, show me the beauty that lies within me and around me each and every day. And as I awaken to all of the opportunities available to me, inspire me to share my creativity and beauty with everyone I meet.

Thank you for your love and guidance, today and always.

You may wish to repeat this request any time you feel blocked, any time negative energy interrupts the flow of ideas, or any time you need a little inspirational nudge in your life. Try it in combination with the other tools mentioned above or with any other techniques that help you improve your focus, enhance your clarity, and increase the flow of inspiration and ideas into your life. May your July be filled with beauty and creativity!

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The Sidewalk Ends Here…

May 11, 2011

I don’t remember any books from my childhood.  At least, that’s what I thought.  When I first tried to conger up memories of reading, I drew a complete blank.  Yes, I couldn’t think of one single book!  So, I decided to delve a little further into my mind and came up with the cute teddy bear board book my mom read to me as a toddler, Cinderella, and The Princess and the Pea.  I still have that little teddy bear book and will always cherish it.  But, can that really be all I remember reading as a child?  Pulling those memories from the frayed edges of my mind soon buried me under a wave of book covers and authors.  Oh!  What about the Sweet Valley High series by Francine Pascal?  I read that series incessantly during my teen years.  I remember spending so much money on those books…and it became a challenge…buying, reading, and arranging all those books on my shelf in chronological order.  Then, a little further back I remembered some required reading from middle school…Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret by Judy Blume and the life and writings of Edgar Allen Poe.  I admit, I didn’t care for Judy Blume, but I was fascinated with Edgar Allen Poe…The Raven, The Tell Tale Heart, The Masque of the Red Death, The Pit and the Pendulum, and so on.  But, I still wonder why they had Poe as required reading for a 13 year old!  It was probably my fascination with Poe that led to my interest in crime/suspense/mystery novels.  So, it was only logical that by high school, I had moved on to Dean Koontz, Stephen King, and Anne Rice. 

I continued to ponder the books I read as a child and found that with all the authors, titles, and genres flowing through my mind, I continuously returned to fourth grade.  It was a magical year, I suppose…a time for trading stickers with my friends, staying out of the clutches of boys chasing girls on the playground, and my first introduction to poetry.  Now, I admit I would have done almost anything to not go outside for recess, as you can imagine!  Quite coincidentally, my fourth grade teacher, Mrs. Joyce Sigler, had an exciting project for me and a friend in lieu of play time.  At recess, she would tape a large sheet of white paper on the wall and place the overhead projector in just the right spot for maximum size.  She would then place a transparency on the overhead glass, and my friend and I would carefully trace the letters and drawings onto the plain white paper.  That simple job made me feel important!  And, unbeknownst to me at the time, I learned about poetry and how to make that funny little lower case ‘a’.  I mean, who really writes an ‘a’ like that?  Ultimately, I ended up reading the entire book from which the transparencies were made.  What an exciting experience at such an impressionable time in my young life!

You may wonder what poetry could possibly fill a fourth grader with so much excitement.  This poetry was magical, complete with funny drawings…a book filled of stories such as Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout who would not take the garbage out, a crocodile who went to the dentist, and little Peggy Ann McKay who was so sick she could not go to school today!  Yes, Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein became my favorite book that year.  That year became one of my most memorable years in school and, by my estimation, served as a catalyst for my growing love of books.

I now share Mr. Silverstein’s books with my own children.  Not only Where the Sidewalk Ends, but A Light in the Attic, Falling Up, and The Giving Tree, as well.  Will my fourth grader have the same memories about reading these books as I have?  Probably not, but I hope to make an impression as great as that given to me all those years ago by one very special fourth grade teacher and Shel Silverstein!

*This entry first appeared as a guest post on basicallyamazingashley.com in May 2011