I've been practicing this exercise called 'star charting'... it is described in various books and called various things, but the gist of it is that you spend some time being quiet in order to reconnect with your 'real' self and let your mind/thoughts rest and allow your imagination/observer self..what ever you call the part of your intuition brain...to have an opportunity to say stuff. This is usually communicated (in my case anyway) in the form of pictures, or visions.. sometimes these pictures make sense and sometimes they don't, but the point is to just go with it. It is like dreaming but you are not asleep.
I did this a while ago and then just began flipping through magazines and pulling out images that caught my attention or caused some sort of reaction/feeling and pasted them onto a wall... no real rhyme/reason or meaning that I could see then...just stuff I liked.. pictures of books, beaches, stainless steal appliances, a grand piano... all things that appeal to me. In the middle of this collage I pasted a tiny square photo of my favorite self help author "Martha Beck."
Several months go by and I don't really pay much attention to my star chart/collage creation. I am out running and notice a photo of Martha Beck in the top corner of the front page of a newspaper in a newspaper stand. So, I stop and read the cover. She is coming to Calgary for a women's conference and the newspaper is giving away tickets in a prize draw. I ran home immediately and entered the contest on line.
Several weeks go by and I get a call. I won the tickets! I got to go to the conference and see one of my idols live and in person. I thought that was pretty cool and maybe even related to the star chart thingy.
Several more months go by. My life as I know it begins to unravel. I seriously delve into my Martha Beck self help books hoping to find some guidance. I began meditating as a regular practice in order to stop the frantic thinking that occurs during times of crisis. I began to get visions that I could actually draw myself. I started drawing in my very own sketch book. I have not drawn a single thing since Grade 12 art class! This was cool.
I again made a star chart, this one with images that I had actually 'seen' in my mind's eye - most of them unexplainable, like a banquet room(?) and again, Martha's picture went on there, because I felt she was my very own personal helper.
Shortly after that, I enrolled in her Life Coach Training Course - which I am currently participating in.
I just returned from a life changing Life Coach Training Seminar in Phoenix Arizona that was facilitated by Martha herself. (there is a whole other blog post to write on this...!) Not only that... She sat right at my table..Oh yes she did!... in guess what?... the banquet room I imagined and posted on my star chart... AND I now have a picture of myself with Martha and she autographed my (well, her!) book...
How cool is that?
