Reading Time: < 1 minute Artspirations Story Alchemy   “Story allows us to experience the imagined, turning it into reality.” Maria Mar Extended Tip: “Stories are the only imagined structure that can lay down actual memories, as if you had experienced the event directly in real life. This gives story the alchemical power to rewrite reality.” ~Maria Mar~ Got Questions? I have answers. Got Answers? I have questions. Share in the comments below. Stay tune! Subscribe to my Weekly Blog Digest to get them into your inbox once a week. Do you want to receive only the artspirations, poems and inspirational words? Save Send to Kindle

Reading Time: < 1 minute Artspirations Freedom “Choice is freedom. Habit is prison.” Maria Mar Extended Tip: “Make sure that you are responding from Free-choice and not from Habit-choice. The later is simply your Primary Response, a learned behavior. The former requires reflection and examination and perhaps transformation. The later is easier. You stay in your Comfort Zone, within the familiar. Yet, you are trapped in the Tiny Story that limits your brilliance. The former is harder. You need the courage to see what you may not want to see and then to change what needs to be changed. But it sets you free, as you can choose the response that is congruent with your brilliance and in so doing, you become your Sacred Self, an expression of Divinity.” Maria Mar Got Questions? I have answers. Got Answers? I have questions. Share in the comments below. Stay tune! Subscribe to my Weekly Blog Digest to get them into your inbox once a week. Do you want to receive only the artspirations, poems and inspirational words? Save Save Send to Kindle

Reading Time: 2 minutes “Judgment is jail. Guilt is the gag. Blame is the blindfold. Shame is the shackle” From Diary of Now 2017 Maria Mar (c) 2017 Extended Tip: No matter how self-righteous you feel when you are judging others, judgment is the work of the Shadow (fear-based defensive Inner Self). The Shadow talks in absolutes, in right vs. wrong and good vs. evil. It imprisons you in concepts devoid of compassion and humanity and prevents true understanding. If you are judging yourself, you are probably repeating a story you learned as a child. It’s just a label. It’s not who you are. It does not help. Judgment is usually accompanied by more bullies: guilt, blame and shame. Guilt gags you and prevents you from speaking your truth from the heart, so that you can forgive and be forgiven if it is truly necessary. Blame is a blindfold because it distracts you from seeing the complexity of a situation, focusing your attention in whomever you decide to blame. Shame is a shackle because it binds you to it, acting as a glue that [Read more.]