| September 8, 2010
NEW POSTING!!
It's been awhile since I've sat down to update
the blog. I've done it a thousand times in my head, wanting to
express the changes that have been going on in my crazy creative
mind. It has been a time of completions, with the reveal of my
newest poetry book, VISIONS, and times of change, with
The Melodies
taking exciting turns ( to be revealed later) and
times of identity crisis, which is what I'm blogging about today.
When I first started Dharma Place, it was
the beginning of creating the Dharma Place dream, the dream of
creating a place where children and their families, mothers,
aunts, grandparents and the like could come and find out who they
are and
learn to fulfill that purpose in their lives. My belief that if we
are all doing just what we are meant to do, fulfilling our own
unique purposes in life, the world would be a more peaceful, happy
place. I summed it up in the Dharma Place slogan: "For when you are
in a better space, the world is a better place." And indeed, Dharma
Place did help me fulfill my purpose at that time. It was a place
for me to spread my spiritual wings, a place for me to find my
Dharma, to find myself, to share who I was with the world through
writings and meditations, Reiki and Zen. It gave me a place to have
a voice and to find what I needed to be in life. It allowed me to
fill those needs in that time.
But, times change, and so do people.
I've spent the last few years growing so
fast I can barely keep up with myself! It's been a whirlwind of
reinventing who I am and what my purpose is in life. And through it
all, I have come out of my shell and opened up spiritually to the
world and all the wonders present. But, as I've discovered my
spiritual gifts, I've become more and more protective of my identity
and that spiritual
self, and my spiritual life. And my dharma has become more about
taking care of myself and more about letting others go and find their own
true Selves.
It is now time for me to separate my work
into their rightful places. I will spend the next year ahead working
on creating new spaces for all my projects. The Melodies is
undergoing a renovation and that site
www.melodies4kids.com
will reflect that. DharmaPlace will become a simplier site for my
Guided Meditations, Zen Quotes and Dharma Designs (which I am really
excited about!). This site will continue to have Guided Meditations
available free of charge, but I am also working on getting out a few
CDs with new Guided Meditations!
I will be going undercover with a new pen
name for my spiritual writings that will have their own place and
time. (to find out that name, sign up for my newsletter and you will
be notified that way.) I am also starting a new business supporting
Lake Michigan, in addition to continuing the promotion of our Open
Water Online site
www.openwateronline.org (The big joke around here now is "How
many websites you got now?".. from In Living Color. .. am I aging
myself now? ;)
With all the newness and work at hand, the
blog phase of my life is ending. Facebook has taken over the
little
inspirational updates and comments. (Find me on Facebook! I'd love
to be your friend.) I post new poems on my Jeannine Proulx's Poetry
Pages facebook page. The ease of that, verses updating the website
is just too much to ignore. There is great power in innovation!
I will continue to write little essays, as
I like to do, but perhaps they will find another home in another
time. The only thing constant is change is my motto these days! And
letting go and going with the flow is my daily practice to
keep up
with it all.
And so, on that note, I am off to get to
work on all the wonders that await me and I step into the
creative
season of fall and winter.
May you find the changes in your life and
be able to go with your own flow, find your true identity and work
that not only treats you right, but fulfills you in ways you only
dream.
Much love and light to you!! See you in a
few months when the new site is complete!
Namaste' all ~Jeannine
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