Never Did I Imagine…
Imagination. A tool used in multiple tenses. For instance I am experiencing imagination in the past tense as in, “Never did I imagine the negativity and bullying my current vulnerability could evoke”. Never did I imagine that circumstances outside of my control, coupled with my need to directly mitigate them would result in others questioning my integrity, nor the outright impersonal attacks I have received from people I don’t even know.
Imagination + Learning + Creating = EVERYTHING!
Why do I share this now? Because timing is EVERYTHING and this week’s Master Key lesson #20 helps me imagine, creatively, what comes next! Through all of this I am learning and I am creating.
Imagine yourself as a sculptor in your own workshop. Your workshop is your special, peaceful, magical haven. It saturates all 5 senses of anyone who enters with the very essence of everything you are! It is your personal space of solace. I especially sense this in my own workshop!
“You are a visualizing entity. Imagination is your workshop.” -Haanel part 20, sentence 9.
Close That Door… Do It Now!
With this in mind, would you invite someone or something into your workshop that would change that? If a strong wind blew and sand and garbage were flying through the air, would you leave the door open so your environment and your art would be contaminated by debris? How about a stranger who is speaking poorly of you and your work? Is there an open door policy to your workshop for them? Of course not! So, why treat our inner workshop, our imagination, any different?
In the past I have absolutely internalized rude comments, sour sentiments and thoughtless criticism. Surely my number of cycles around the sun have helped me let those things roll off now. But I know what I am currently experiencing and the way in which I am not responding can not be credited only to that.
Sow In That Rich Soil- Only GOOD!
Our imagination is likened to the soil in a garden. The soil doesn’t care what seeds are sown, be it a deadly nightshade or a delicious heirloom tomato. It performs its duty for the seed. Our imagination, our inner workshop likewise does not care which we choose to imagine. We are always manifesting. If I am abundant in grief and trouble, I first look inward for the source.
One may say then that I must have manifested what I am experiencing. Actually I am manifesting my best inner peace and positivity in this storm. My workshop door is closed to these forces to protect the beautiful environment I maintain therein.
“This power of thought, if understood and correctly used, is the greatest labor-saving device ever dreamed of, but if not understood or improperly used, the result will in all probability be disastrous, as we have already seen…” Haanel part 20, sentence 13
Create Only Beautiful Art Of Your Life!
The greatest understanding one can obtain is this: the inner self creates the external circumstances, always! The external does not create the internal. There are moments when protecting your inner imagination workspace from the outer environment is necessary. How do you confirm that you have established this inner peace? It is tangibly evident when peace defies what’s happening all around! I am there, and I hope for the very same for you!
This Master Key Experience is amazing! Don’t just take my word for it! Check out Derek’s blog right here!
Yes- protect your inner world! It is precious! I like your metaphor of the debris flying into your inner world. Shut the door to that! 😀 I try to remind myself of this and now I will do so with your wonderful metaphor! Thank you so much for sharing your thoughts so elegantly.
Thank you for sharing, Laura! I’m so glad you have found a valuable metaphor to use here!
A great reminder that our conscious mind needs to protect our workshop. Keep that inner peaceful feeling! 🙂
True, Laura! And this writer gets to go back and sip on her own medicine! I’ve been letting the dust blow right on in the past couple weeks!
PS I love your press release but I couldn’t find a place to comment there.
Thank you, Polly! As I am about to write for week 22, much is about to change- my press release, DMP, etc.
This is so beautiful Rebecca! You are amazing at putting up a visually inviting blog and also an insightful and inspiring commentary. Imagination was my virtue to notice this week too and I hadn’t even thought of the down side of imagination but it is absolutely true too!!
Great Point, Polly! That’s so neat when we find new facets in our ways of thinking and observing!
A great reminder to be selective about what we allow into our workshop! Congrats on establishing an inner peace–that’s huge! 🙂
Thank you!
Thank you for your blog on imagination . It was very creative and interesting to read
Thank you, Philip!
Haters gunna hate! I too am amazed at the absolute hate spewing from “Un-Social” Media these days.
But where we place our focus grows! I love looking for the zany animal posts and funny stuff on social media. Those other things are there for sure. I just like to picture myself syphoning the fuel out of them by ignoring them the best that I can. 🙂