The Creative Life A thru Z~K= Kick it UP

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The Creative Life A thru Z

~K = Kick it UP 

 Week Twelve 

Welcome, 

Key to your desires, Jean Hart 

If you have just joined me here at my Healing Arts Creative Life Journal, feel free to join in. You can start here or go back to the first week,"A". 

http://jeanhartartists.blogspot.com/2017/06/the-creative-life-thru-z-week-one.html

This is a work in progress and I add thing to it as I think of them. 

Kick it UP!

The season has changed here, it's Fall where I live . 

I love Fall, and I'm not sure why this is but September has always felt more like the beginning of a new year, not nine months into the year. Maybe it's because our schools start in September, and school has always been about newness and starting again. 

Do not underestimate the power of a routine!

Yes, I said routine. I know routines can be boring, however, with the best routines in place you can get a few things done on autopilot. 

On autopilot you can feel like your getting things done even on those days that you are just not feeling like getting out of bed. 

The best information I took away from the class,  Preventing Chronic Pain, was the acronym B.L.E.S.S.ME.

Which stands for Body, Lifestyle, Emotions, Social, Spiritual, Mind, Environment. 

If you can find time in your week to attend  to each one of these categories you will have a well balanced life. 

Activity for this week:

7 Day Challenge

B.L.E.S.S.M.E.

1. Go to your journals, assign each day of the week with one of the acronyms. 

2. Place it in your morning routine, or evening routine. Whenever you feel you have time to donate to this new activity. 

Having a good regiment for your own peace of mind is a blessing and takes discipline. 

Art Journals:

Kicking up your life means that you understand where your life is going. What you need, where you are going, Why, and with whom . 

1. Draw several a keys, your choice how many,  on card stock....make them all different styles and sizes. 

2. Trace them onto your journal page. 

3. Color them in with colored pencil. 

4. Next, give each key a goal, or activity, person, or place. ( think person, place or thing)

These keys represent your key events in your life. 

and the size of the key will give you the importance of these events to you.  

Writing Journal:

1. Look at your key drawing, start with the largest key. 

Write why this is so important to you. 

Is there something you can add to it to make it better, or change in anyway.  Are you happy that this key is the biggest thing that's KICKING UP YOUR LIFE. 

2. Do this with each key until you have written something for each key. 

As always, have fun with this weeks assignments. 

Like, Share, and comment. 

Be Inspired,

~jean 

Creative Life A thru Z ~J is for Join In

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The Creative Life A thru Z

~J is for Join IN

 Week Eleven

Join In and enjoy !

Join In, with Autumn just about here, I've been looking over the calendar for Fall events. This is the season when Festivals are everywhere .

I've been in the garden cleaning up the summer flowers and wrapping up the hoses. 

There's been a lot of talk about Nutrition around my house. Since we are coming to the end of Farmers Markets, I've been grabbing up all the fresh vegetables and fruits. I'm not saying I'm now a vegetarian, but my plate is about 3/4 vegetables these days. 

Fall is also a good time to think about joining a book club. 

I belong to several on line book clubs. I always enjoy reading the reviews and adding my own comments. 

Art Journal Assignment:

Juxl puzzle, Earth, Jean Hart 

Juxl Puzzles. 

http://www.wikihow.com/Create-and-Work-a-Juxl-Puzzle

  If you are in a group this is a fun way to create a co-art piece of artwork. Just start with one line and pass it to the next person, who draws one line, passes it on again until you have drawn all the lines. Continue with the connecting the lines and pass it on until the picture is complete. Then color it up any way you wish. 

Writing Assignment:

Joy, Joy, Joy....What does it mean? 

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"a feeling of great pleasure and happiness."

"Don't cry because its over, Smile because it happened. "

Dr. Seuss 

1. Write what Joy means to you?

How do you get it?

Where does it come from?

When does it happen?

Why is it important? 

Music please!
Jazz music that is....

Have you listened to Jazz music? 

If not your missing out on some amazingly talented people. 

This is a little Ted Talk to explain the heart of Jazz music. 

How Jazz Wisdom Will Change Your Life | Niels Lan Doky | 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ee-XROfON0

Go to your source of music and switch it over to a Jazz station and listen, move, journal, or just BE with it. 
Some of my favorite Jazz musicians.
Melody Gardot
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ee-XROfON0 

Start here and then just keep exploring.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYGq-AA8Ksk

As always, have fun with this and join in, like, share, comment. 
Pass it on. 
Be Inspired,
~jean 

Creative Life A thru Z I is for Imagination

The Creative Life A thru Z 

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The Creative Life A thru Z

~I is for Imagination 

 Week Ten

I would like to express my gratitude to all of you who have joined me in this healing journey of creating a more creative life. 

It's been fun for me to come up with activities for each letter of the alphabet. I have so many ideas that they don't all make it on this blog but are written in my printed pages.  I'm sure by the end of this project it will all be filled with fun activities and helpful projects so everyone can live a greater expression of their own creativity. 

       I is for Imagination

" The imagination is the golden pathway to everywhere." 

Terence McKenna

I love the idea of a golden pathway. 

Just like the Wizard of OZ walking on the yellow brick road. 

For me, it has been about curiosity, that is the seed of imagination. 

Asking questions begins a whole snow ball of ideas. 

Golden path to a new vision, journal page Jean Hart

Change.

 I've felt the strong sense of change since the Eclipses!! 

What has been happening for me is a lot of questions about my beliefs, my work, my life. 

It of course starts with what do you want your life to look like. 

How will you get there, and When. The When is important to me especially because I like deadlines. But, then again, maybe that's something I might think about changing. ....

Art Journal Assignment: 

What's on your Golden Path

1. In your art journal, arrange your page to make a golden path. 

It can be straight, crooked, up, down, across.  Anyway YOU want it. 

2. Next, create all the things you want to experience along your path.

3. Create landscapes, texture, people, places, things.

4. Let go and IMAGINE!!

Writing Journal Assignment:

"It's Here...!"

1. Complete this sentence. 

2. Write a page of what your imagination has brought to you on your Golden Path. 

3. The imagination works on all your senses, try to use words that help express the whole experience. The more verbs the better for this assignment. 

I is for Informed

 Change the channel, and watch something you have never seen before. 

This week, change how you get your information. 

Pick up a new magazine, new genre in books and movies. 

See if you can do this once a day for 7 days. 

I is for Ice Cream

Summers not over where I live. 

According to Baskin Robbins there is 31 flavors of ice cream.  I have yet to try them all. 

So, before the summer is over I plan on trying a few new flavors. 

How about you? 

Meditation is one of the purest ways for me to get in touch with my true self. 

Just before creating I sit in nature and be still. 

This helps me open my mind to all new ideas. 

Last week I went up to Lamoille Canyon for a last summer picnic. I made a video of sitting by the stream listening to the water. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mmtu1hINgUY&t=23s

Please enjoy, relax, and 

As always, have fun with this. 

Be inspired, 

~jean 

Creative life A thru Z ~ H is for Honor Yourself

The Creative Life A thru Z 

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The Creative Life A thru Z

~H is for Honoring Yourself 

 Week Nine 

My Heart, Jean Hart

"If you want to soar in life 

you must first learn to F.L.Y. 

(first love yourself).  Mark Sterling

Welcome back. It's a beautiful day where I live. It's August and still summer here. 

I just couldn't handle the heat anymore,

 so I honored  myself  by taking a trip to the beach. 

H is for Honor Yourself

I was stumbling last week with H. I just couldn't come up with an activity to help my heart....Then this morning, this very morning it came to me. 

Honor Yourself~Love Yourself~Respect Yourself 

With the Solar Eclipse happening this Monday, the energy level all around is charged. 

I looked up my astrological sign and it said I was in for a whole belief system transformation!! 

I'm not sure I'm ready for that, but I certainly am ready for a change. 

Last year I asked for a more "creative life"  and was given this opportunity after taking a healing arts class. 

A creative life means different things to different people. In my life I wanted it to mean expansion of life, ideas, adventures. I also wanted my creative life to help me understand the moments in life and be grateful for them. 

I almost panicked myself last week when I realized that it's peach season and I haven't made a single peach dish!! Then I took a big deep breath and saw that it's August and I have time.  Learning to stay present and 

be still is a creative art. 

Journal Assignment:

I asked a big question on the last blog yesterday.  

What's the best part of your life right now? 

Take some time a think about this.

 It will help to keep you in the present moment, 

not past achievements, or what's ahead of you. 

Here is a Two Minutes in Nature video to help you be still and meditate this question on. 

Two Minutes In Nature~Redwoods 

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViBeZg7CigY&t=24s

Green is the color of the heart charka . When I was hiking in the Redwoods I filmed this  because the greens were so brilliant, so many different greens. I felt this redwood forest had to be one of the most healing places I have ever walked. 

Art Journal Assignment: 

Materials:

1. one heart cookie cutter

2. blank paper no lines

1. Take the heart cookie cutter and start tracing its shape. Make as many hearts as you want. Overlap them, keep the separate, turn them upside down. 

You are only limited by your own imagination with this. 

2. Write what you are grateful for in each heart. 

3. Color in the hearts, fill the whole page with color. 

 Activity:

I don't know how I can have a week of H without it meaning Home.

This week take a good look at your front door area.
Both inside the house and outside. 

Does it look welcoming? Friendly? 

Think of ways to clean up, clear up, and warm up this area in your home. 

It soon will be fall, I'm planning on having a new Fall wreath this year. The one I've used for years is getting a bit old and dusty. I want to invite new energy into my home. 

As always, have fun with this. Feel free to leave a comment, share, like and subscribe so you don't miss any of my post. 

Be Inspired, 

~jean 

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