IDENTITY: SERENITY?

What NOW?

I had two more dreams!  Great visual positive dreams that got me back in touch with "myself." 

Beach and Sky:  WHO AM I?

Years ago, a friend said to me: 

"Artist

Healer

Teacher

Friend:

Thank you for coming into my life."

"Do you think of yourself in these ways?"

"No," I replied:  "I only think of myself as artist."

THINK AGAIN~

Artist/Writer at play

Teacher

Tai Chi on a Mountain

Friend, 

"The friend is here," Rumi

Healer?

The Flying Rainbow

Recently I came to realize I had lost most of my identity.  Retiring after 22 years as a certified Tai Chi instructor is very difficult.  Also, the painting that so nourishes me changed form and practice methods.  Insights came in mysterious ways.  Gradually I gently felt more like reconnecting and recharging my creative self.

 How?

"I am calm, I am quiet, I am grateful, I am creative" positive self talk works.  

Alone time in quiet is also constructive, so needed to clarify thoughts and feelings.

Keep connections thriving.

Listen:  Ask a question then be quiet.  Gentle Listening can so help someone.  And someone can listen to you in return.

The Dreams I had? 

One was a Tai Chi Teaching Dream!  A room of younger people I did not know were practicing with me in a quiet room with soft lighting.  So positive and calming.

The other dream on the same night was in a sunny sunporch setting with many green trees outside.  Many people of all ages were there and smiling.  There were framed paintings on the white walls of various styles, sizes, and colors.  

Someone spoke, "Who painted the pictures?"

I was sitting quietly by myself (no surprises there) and I looked up, jumped up and exclaimed,
"I painted them!"

Next I went around the room, telling each painting's name and brief history!  Viewers asked questions. WOW!  The paintings glowed!  They love showing off~

So much gentle energy here. 

 When I woke, I felt like myself again!

 "Paint Your Dreams."

On the path of recovery/discovery "teacher" was a surprise.  Friends/Students poured into my life and stayed true and honest, sharing and caring people "hear and now."

Healer? 

"Creativity Blesses Your Soul."  As you reach out with a painting, sketch, poem, story, idea, play, script, a song, a photo, a musical performance.  Helping family, friend, neighbor or pets and so much more is here for us.

Furry Friends are Family Members!

Positive Shared Energy is a Form of Prayer:  

Silent or Spoken, Sung, Written, Painted, Danced in Groups or Alone,  sending and receiving all in balance.  

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XOXO create your own quiet world in your imagination

A Strong Clear Vision

The Flying Rainbow

The Painted Word

Up and Running, running a race in my dream

Wander and Ponder

Thin Ice

Tasks at Hands

Stopwatch and Listen

Silent Speaking

Dahlis Roy: Visionary Artist, Author, and Tai Chi Practitioner

Images by Dahlis except *

Beach and Sky, simplicity, oil painting

Cheetah Figure: "paws" for creativity

* Tai Chi on the Mountain, photo by Paul

Soul-full eyes of furry friend, detail of oil painting

The Flying Rainbow, in the shape of a crane she came

THE MESSAGE FROM NOWHERE

 "I had a dream....and then I woke up!"

What Is It?

A mix of white, grey and blue and clouds?

STAY TUNED!  More is on the way~

In the Dream:

I clearly saw an arm reaching out to me.  The arm was clothed in a denim blue soft color.  Misty white/grey clouds surrounded the outstretched arm.  A "human" hand held something out to me.  It was a folded medium sized piece of soft  paper, light grey in color.  It had a message for me!  

In my dream, I lifted my left arm and reached out my hand to receive the message and read it.   

Then!  I Woke Up!

But not entirely "awake."  

The message and messenger had vanished.  I looked at the clock, 4 AM Oct 29, 2021.  I got up and walked around a bit, coming to full awakening.  

OK, Now What?  

I wondered what the note might have said?  Was it handwritten?  What language might it have been?  Perhaps it was a drawing or a scribble?  

I settled back asleep and woke the next morning to greet the sunrise.  What beautiful sun and clouds! Turquoise, choral, pink, purples, blues, green and gold leaves shimmering in the Autumn Morning~ PICTURE IT

The message?  I got a nudge to make three short phone calls that clarified questions I had wondered about.  Later that same afternoon, I got a call that needed answers that the morning calls had actually addressed!

What are the odds? 

Post Script: Today some words came in:

* "Let go of schedule, agenda or outcome, and the universe/cosmos takes care of the details."

* "Now is the Moment that Never Ends."

** Robert Ingersoll: "We rise by helping others."

*** "Creativity Blesses Your Soul."

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Already Done

A Strong Clear Vision

Time Lapse Memory

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A Jar

Stopwatch and Listen

The Painted Word

Fully Present

Resources:

* first two quotes by Deepak Chopra, M.D.

** Robert Ingersoll quote mentioned on LinkedIn 2021

***   A Friend Suggests, "Creativity Blesses Your Soul."

Dahlis Roy: Visionary Artist, Author and Tai Chi Practitioner

Images:

Silver Light under door at night sparks electric blue carpet, photo by Zoe, used with permission

Dahlis' images: 

Muted Mix of Colors, photo

Autumn Morning, oil painting

OVERNIGHT COFFEE

What is Overnight Coffee?  Glad You Asked~

I saw a food show episode called Cold Brew (coffee) with Alton Brown.  I watched with interest.  I had quit drinking coffee years ago because of caffeine sensitivity.  I definitely do not need extra stimulation in brain and memory functions. 

Coffee Cup with morning sunlight stripes and spots. 

I need "Calm and Quiet."  

Triangle Angle: ** White Space

Through the "years" once in a while I would "brew" a small amount of coffee with boiling water whole beans placed in a small custard cup.  In the kitchen, I could enjoy the aroma of fresh coffee as I completed tasks at hand.

The Cold Brew show interested me because "I could try that!"  I could take a medium amount of whole coffee beans sprinkled in their custard cup and add (breathe) 2 medium sized pieces of ice cubes.  The ice would melt gently overnight.  An aroma might be released in the bedroom!  Alton Brown stressed that the cold brew coffee, might taste sweeter and less acidic.  

The cold brew is so easy to make!  It is calming.  No scorching water to boil!  

I tried it!  

The cold brew "coffee experiment" gave me a gently pleasant aroma during the night when I might wake up for a few minutes.  Yes!  The cold brew definitely smells sweeter to me and longer lasting aroma release. The "therapy" did not agitate at all, but was pleasantly relaxing (for me).  I'd go right back to sleep.  The aroma seems to be variable in strength depending on the time of night or AM, or a fan running, or, now in Fall, a bit of heat circulating.

I personally liked this better than essential oils.  They were pleasant but a bit strong for me.

Meditation at night has helped a lot!  Just a little bit calms and focuses me.  I sleep better and wake up earlier (new for me) but I am feeling better.  The cats are calmer too and quieter over night. 

"All is well~"

"My Science Experiment" opened a quieter night and greeting the daylight is a new awakening.

*** "Through Space and Time always another show~"

Pillar of Natural Blue Light, use your imagination!

Blogger Search Key Words: Coffee, Chocolate, Teas, Herbals, Natural  Aroma Therapy

Resources:

* Alton Brown, Good Eats, many topics

**White Space, GMA3 on ABC TV Positive Words and Wellness Tips from Jenifer Ashton, M.D. 2021  Create White Space, think of "nothing" for even 30 seconds at a time to help reset your focus.

Music:

*** Journey's song Faithfully, lyrics in space/time

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A Jar, filling Mason water jars with fresh filtered water brings a feeling of order and accomplishment.

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Time Lapse Memory

Wander and Ponder

Dahlis Roy:  Visionary Artist, Author, and Tai Chi Practitioner

Images by Dahlis:

Coffee Cup in AM Sunlight, photo

White Space, the blank canvas, the open book, " A Highway with No One On It"  (Lyrics by U-2, song is All I want is You), photo

Pillar of Blue Light, detail oil painting called Under the Waterfall

SILVER/BLUE INSPIRATION

 "WHEN YOU WISH UPON A STAR...."

SILVER

BLUE:

"LIKE A BOLT OUT OF THE BLUE...."

SILVER

From the stars we came.  

Silver, in the night of Sept 23,1985.  That's 36 years ago!  How can that be? You came in a waking vision of light beams from the full moon flickering on my wall through the window.  Breeze blowing gently through the trees created a "Butterfly,  Angel, Dove" shape evolving figure.  Waves of light inspired me, I grabbed a notepad and wrote and wrote about the ever changing light.  Later, I painted you, one brush one color with white canvas as "white space" instead of paint.

Later a friend suggested "That's a Book!"  And so, Silver Butterfly Create a Vision was born, gradually and over time you came to life in bits and pieces, of dreams, paints and words/worlds of adventures.  Fun and questioning, forests and mountain tops, clouds and rain a blend of action and rest.

BLUE

Blue, you came to me in a bolt of blue, I "saw" a figure of a giant blue butterfly in a Tai Chi class as we imagined a "white black board" and "what might appear on it?"  After class I grabbed a paintbrush and hastily carved out the mental image on canvas before it vanished. Again, one brush, one blue color, and leaving white canvas as white space.  Then I wrote to a friend in the UK, she answered.  "I have been seeing a blue butterfly in front of my eyes for several days now!"  Where was the source, she wondered? 

With help and encouragement, OUT OF THE BLUE went live on Today Sept 26, 2010 as a blog on Google's Blogspot.  My whole world of butterfly wings expanded and grew to inspire creative thinking in a positive way for readers and writers, photographers, and musicians and dancers, teachers, and students and more to create their visions and expand vistas of sunrises and sunsets, of cosmos and clouds of light, visible and invisible.

Thank You!  Birthday Girls~ Silver and Blue for your wonder-full world of limitless imagination fun, awe, surprises. change, and outreach.  Have a Blue Ribbon Celebration!

I Had A Dream:  I am walking down in an art gallery, all alone (I like that) and my paintings and prints through the years are lined up, displayed on both sides of the long hall.  I greeted each painting and drawing, sketches, coded notes and scribbles with smiles and delights.  At the end of the hall, there was a there was a very large white canvas resting on a wooden easel.  On it, someone had scribbled in black paint with a big brush:  

PAINT YOUR DREAMS, DAHLIS  

and so it is~

WHITE SPACE:

* "I honor change and welcome it," Debra Basham   Do I ?

** "Think, but not too much," William F. Emory, M.D.   I overthink a lot

*** "I am calm  I am quiet"  Neither, but working on it

**** WHITE SPACE, do nothing, even  30 second bursts can help reset the brain.  Getting Easier!

+ Nature Walks Are Much Better Now

Gratitude

"When You wish Upon A Star, Your Dreams Come True~"

Dream Big!

Resources:

When You Wish Upon A Star~ song of long ago.  

* Debra Basham, Imagine Healing, Healing Touch Therapy, and more, with Joel Bowman, Ph.D.

** William F. Emory, M.D., medical knowledge, "Science and art are one~"

*** "Calm and Quiet" a friend suggests this

**** White Space, prescription for wellness segment, Jen Ashton, M.D., ABC Medical Advisor GMA 3 Sept 2021

+ Nature Walks, "Nature Does Not Hurry...." Tao teh Ching  

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Silver Butterfly Create A Vision. Out of the Blue blog, various references

The Blank Page

A Strong Clear Vision

Silent Speaking

Wander and Ponder

Stopwatch and Listen

Attitude/Gratitude

A Jar 

Dahlis Roy: Visionary Artist, Author, and Tai Chi Practitioner

Paintings by Dahlis:

Silver, oil on canvas, Silver Butterfly

Out of the Blue, oil on canvas. Blue Butterfly 

White Space, blank triangle canvas, easy and fun...."everywhere the light touches," The Lion King Walt Disney Productions

ATTITUDE/GRATITUDE

 Attitude? Gratitude?  What's That?

Blue Vase, Blue Lace Agate and Quartz

Lately I have been thinking:  

"I am Calm"

"I am Quiet"

And picturing those attributes in my inner self.  The "quiet" is more difficult than the "calm!"

Blue, naturally is my go-to color of choice, imparting energy and quiet combined.

Butterfly Wind Chime Named Iris

* Then I saw a short health tip.  I pricked up my ears:  

The Gratitude Attitude

 

Being Grateful Actually Increases:

Improved Immune Function

Less threat Sensitivity in terms of brain response

Fewer aches and Pains

Better Sleep

"I can do that!"

This is working!  "Today I am grateful For...."

name, write, or think your favorites

"Imagine music and singling in your inner self."

I feel more positive.

I am grateful for "Today" and "Tonight" as they unfold~

I am grateful for "first Light in the morning."

I am grateful for the fragrance of fresh coffee.

"I am in perfect health!"   Think and Believe! 

** "Let go of schedule, agenda, or outcome, and the universe takes care of the details~"  Deepak Chopra, M.D. online meditation, music therapy, and more 

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Tonal Vision

A Strong Clear Vision

The Painted Word

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Silent Speaking

Resources:

* Jennifer Ashton, M.D, GMA 3, ABC TV, "Prescription for Wellness" Sept 6, 2021

** Deepak Chopra, M.D. online meditations and music to improve your wellbeing.

Dahlis Roy:  Visionary Artist, Author, and Tai Chi Practitioner

Photos by Dahlis

Sparkle Plenty

Iris the Windchime 

Light Speed