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151. You can stand on one leg and grow

Like and airplane that grows to fly

Like an airplane that grows to fly

I want to invite you

For fun

And in this seed of thought

Everything in the universe is included

Come hold the world

With one eye closed

You may feel that you want to hold it tight

But I want to show you

How you start from a seed

And always remain flexible

This is our morning exercise of the heart

Start the day like an airplane

That grows to fly

And you can go in many directions

I want to show you

Oh, how much

I want to show you

That you can stand on one leg

And grow.

149. The next turn

Sitting near the river

Sitting near the river

He is sitting in meditation

A bigger friend from many lifetimes

Is sitting with him

It is near the river

And you can see the water flow

Through his body

The mountains are really waves

Of soft energy

Warm in the summer’s afternoon

Taking his heart out with them

To the next turn of the river

It is a wonder

That there is still

Some of him

Here.

148. One

Crossing over

Crossing over

I am coming in carefully

Habituated into making certain movements

Smooth and strong

Listening in the ways that I have learned

Meaning to just cross over

To the other side

But doing this

I have to step on some accepted wisdom

Of the locals

Graceful and wise

They let me pass

Pretending not to pay attention

While they send me a smile

From the corner of their eye

Time passes

With dark nights and windy rains

In spite of being separate

We get wet together

And we realize

That in our separateness

And in the ways that we communicate

We are playing one game

And we are not two

But one.

147. Talking to you now

 

Movements made of mistakes

Movements made of mistakes

It suddenly came to me

To ask the space to talk about what he sees

That happens in it

 

It seems like the most surprising act of circus acrobats

He says

In movements that look as if they are all mistakes

And falling down, attempting some spectacular show

The acrobats manage to put up in the air

A variety of movements

That express running and flying

Longing and trying to hold on

To just anything

Culminating in the unfolding of the sweet unknown

Which, of course, is me, the space

Who is talking to you

Right now.

145. I

This is what we can do and this is what we are here for as therapists or healers or whatever.

We only have to assist everything that comes from inside of us in going its way out. It will go if we let it go.

It is all so simple.

So here is what I am letting go of today, this morning, after a night and after a day and after a night and a day and a week and a month and two month and seven years of pain that crawls on you at night and crawls on you in the day and makes you tremble, and makes your nervous system shake day and night, and who makes your body tense, even as you sleep. There is not much that I can do directly with the pain, I have learned this already. I can work at it as we work on changing the direction of a rowboat in the water. We stop rowing in the way we did. We start rowing in the direction we want to go. The boat will still go some more in the direction it was going before, because of the momentum. But eventually, at some point, and it is hard to know exactly where this point is, the boat will be going in the new direction. Not exactly as we planned, but still, in the direction that you want to go. Maybe it will turn out to be even better than you thought?

And how do we let go of things? How do we let go of the old direction?

We just see them from a deeper state. That’s all we have to do. A deeper state means that it is the energy of the truth of who we are. The endless love, the endless joy.

And how do we start rowing in the direction we want to go?

We just stay more in the energy of who we are.

All is a play.

And what a wonderful playing it is.

Go ask Gaugin

Go ask Gaugin 

I

With the beliefs that I have made

With the trees in me

With the beauty and craziness of it all

In me

I

Take the trees for example

Growing from the hard earth

Like habits

Drinking the blood of the fields

I

Look at the grimace on my face

It is coming out now

From memories

Of colors in the past

I.

144. How can I resist?

Baby of ideas

Baby of ideas

He is

Playful

Funny

And shimmering

He is 

An angel

A light being

The baby of ideas

Always free

You called me

He says

Do you want to play

Together?

He is loving like a child

How can I resist?

 

 

141. Flying is daring

I came to my desk at around 5AM again. I made the drawing that you see here. I wrote what parts of the drawing conveyed to me. I scrambled the sentences and rewrote them in a new order. I read. It did not make much sense to me, so I left it on the desk, to see it in the morning.

In the morning I immediately saw that it was a very coherent advice from my intuition. I want to show you how these things work, because you can do it too. Maybe at first it will feel strange and untrustworthy. But as you do this more times you will start seeing that it never fails to deliver something of importance, assisting you on your path. I am not the only one who has a guide inside of him. Everybody has. Listening to this guidance, you know that you are never alone. You know that you are loved. Basically you realize there is no problem anywhere. There is only your free will, choosing to allow the flow of who-you-are, or resisting it.

Trees do not think

Trees do not think

Be very forceful and decisive now

Thinking is like flying to places

It is hard to hold all this in your head

Look at your neighbor the tree

This is the way the air goes through it

The pipe is open and listening

And remember:

Flying is daring.

Now if you look at the drawing you’ll see the little tree near the base, in yellow.

The flesh color part, as if turning toward something, which is outside and being strong and with a specific intension, made me write the first line.

The green shape in the upper right, made me write about flying.

The violet and the dark pink, looking like a living thing breathing, made me write about the pipe, open and listening.

The circle in the upper middle part of the drawing made me think about a head that carries everything.

The flying part brought another sentence about thinking as flying.

The light blue little balloon-like shape, under the head and slightly to the left, made me write the sentence about air.

The tree is a being that has no thoughts to block the flow of what-it-is.

Now when I read the poem, this is what comes to me from the reading:

I am still in the process of healing. It has gone well. Maybe it is the last step. I have to be decisive and keep my focus on being healthy.

My thoughts will take me where I want to go. They will fly me, as it came in the original sentences.

It is hard to do all this from the head, meaning through thoughts of the limited “I”.

This part knows only about differences among things. If you want to go west, thoughts about the east will come up too and the two directions will have to fight with each other. The fighting makes you tired and you lose the focus.

The only way to do it right is through the heart, meaning, opening your mental and emotional being to become a non-resisting pipe, to allowing who-you-truly-are flow through you. This flow, if not hindered, is the solution to everything. It always has a focus and since health is inherent in it, it will bring health, if you want it.

The daring has to do with trusting the unknown to guide you.

When you see in your experience that the unknown loves you and can guide you if you are willing to be guided by it, the trusting becomes easier. The daring becomes a habit.

140. All is good now

The strong air taking over

The strong air taking over

And now not going anywhere

Dead body is struggling

Against the beautiful

I’d say he’s scared

He’s sweet too

And light

But doesn’t know it

Who is breaking and falling apart

Becoming brittle?

Does the beauty break?

Or is it the strong air taking over?

Disappearing is the struggling body

Just as it was going up

To better places

All is good now

Only pleasure.

139. Walking in the rain is the right thing to do

I sat at my desk at 5 in the morning. I slept well till then and it made a big difference.

As I made the lines in this drawing I knew that I was very patient and that I listened to every line as it was made. There was no decision about where the line would go until it went, and I would change direction in the middle of a movement if I felt that this was the truth of the moment. I felt very clearly when it was time to end and I did not touch the drawing any more after that.

I looked at every color and collected the sentences that came to me when I looked at them. I mixed the sentences and fixed them a little until they made sense.

This is not new. I just wanted to say these things to those who came late to this blog. It is a process of looking in and connecting with intuition, to see what is going on in my subconscious or the dream state. The dream state always goes on, even when we do not dream consciously. It has a mixture of programs that are active now in the subconscious and can be released, plus ideas in support of our growth and expansion. If we listen to it, we always benefit. It is the place where our life is being created, the factory of manifesting. Everything that we see there while being in this deeper, intuitive state that enables the seeing is being released, just by having been seen. Its power to create ends. We create less and become simpler.

Being simpler means that we have less filters in our subconscious and allow the truth to come to us both from the word and from within. When it comes from within, this is intuition.

Here is the drawing I made:

Trees upside down in th rain

Trees upside down in the rain

And these are the words, after some playing with them:

Though forms of the non physical

Argue very softly and transparently

That nothing is real

Blood pouring softly as curtains

Is just a story

That does not want to leave

The fact that the trees went upside down

And the sun is coming as showers

Shows that every thing

Comes to bless

Everything else

Memories of wet mud

Are just eternity speaking

Walking in the rain

Is the right thing to do.

134. Diversion

Diversion

Diversion

This entry has nothing to do with the usual direction that this blog takes. It has to do with my support of a friend, Tamara Suttle, who has a blog that supports therapists in private practice with ideas of how to make it work. She has asked me to write a short entry to her “Blog Carnival” about my pricing policy. I have found a way to make it possible for clients to control the amount they spend monthly on therapy, and still pay me the price that makes me feel good.

Here is my little article:

Pricing Policy                                                                       

I had people who came to me and wanted to do therapy but did not have enough income to pay my price. I am sure this is a familiar experience to many readers.

One woman is a good example. She is deeply spiritual. A spiritual therapist who did therapy with her recommended that she come to me. He wrote me an email about her. In the initial meeting I told her about the way I work. I told her what to expect. I heard from her how she felt about her life now, how she trusted me as a result of her former therapist’s recommendation, and how she now felt she could trust me as a result of our conversation. But she did not make enough money to pay my price.

It was her idea that she would take shorter sessions, and then space them to one session every two weeks. I agreed. I knew that the method that I use is very effective and even half an hour every two weeks would have an effect and she would change.

When in sessions, I made sure that we did not waste a minute. We just worked with the method and with what intuition brought into the game. It turned out she had a good skill that could bring her enough money, but she worked at a place that did not pay her enough. She considered opening her own practice, but something in her did not agree with that. She had another calling. After a few sessions she started to trust in what she felt more than before, and she started going to an ashram on weekends. She felt very good there and became more involved. The people of the ashram liked her too and this led quite easily to her decision to live there and devote her life to her spiritual pursuit.

I consider this to have been a successful therapy. We only had some twelve sessions, and they were spread thin along time. But she had accomplished what she came for. She became more clear and able to trust herself. The result was that she changed her life into what was natural for her.

This made me think about possibilities with money and time. Naturally, I do not want to make less than what feels right to me. Usually we decide on a price for our work per hour. If we stick with this, many people who come to us wanting to be helped, knowing our process and willing to do it, will end up not doing it, because they cannot pay our price. We can reduce the price, but then we do not feel good about our work, and we end up struggling for economical stability. But if we charge by the minute, we can let the client choose the length of the session and the frequency, and two things become possible: The client can pay our price, and we make enough money to feel good. I won’t agree to a session that is shorter than half an hour because I know it will be too short. So half an hour is my low limit for the length of a session. And I won’t agree to more than two weeks between sessions because I know that the momentum wanes out and it will be like starting again every session. So these are my limitations. But every arrangement that makes use of anything between these limits and a full session every week, is acceptable to me.

If you want to see how I present this to my potential clients through my website, you can use this link that will take you to the right page.

http://www.psychotherapythroughart.com/page14aa.html

I hope this is helpful to you.

If you are interested in reading more creative ideas about private practice, here are links to more articles by other therapists.

The first link is to the Blog Carnival

 PPIO Blog Carnival #1 – Creative Responses In Building A Private Practice – http://www.allthingsprivatepractice.com/ppio-blog-carnival-creative-responses-in-building-a-private-practice-2/

And here are four more bloggers’ ideas

 Kat Mindenhall, LCSW  – post is Why You Should Reinvent the Wheel – http://www.apeacefullifecounseling.com/creative-private-practice-marketing

Anne Barker, LIMHP, LCSW – post is 6 Creative Comebacks to Combat Your Inner Critic – http://barkertherapyarts.com/self-esteem/

Nina Danhorn, MS, NCC post is Self Care for Healing Professionals – http://www.laskacounseling.com/1/post/2011/10/self-care-for-healing-professionals.html

Kate Daigle, MA, LPC, NCC  – post is Nourishing Growth and Giving Breath to My Hungry Private Practice – http://www.katedaiglecounseling.com/2012/10/25/nourishing-growth-and-giving-breath-to-my-hungry-private-practice/ 


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