Designer Faith

Designer Faith

Hey everyone! Great to be off to another exciting Designer week.
I feel like every day is so full of such tantalizing stuff, that I am overflowingly joyful and thankful. I find excitement in the most basic things, which brings me to this week’s focus: Designer Faith

Now, every so often, more often than not probably, I’m going to use words that some people will have all manner of mixed connotations attached to. It is never my intention to offend anyone. I accept everyone and whatever terminology they wish to use regarding their spirituality and the beliefs. Words, like life, are full of whatever we ascribe to them. Choose to ascribe well.

What is Designer Faith? Just ask any dog!

I’ve heard people say that dogs love humans unconditionally, but they are great with faith too. The two go hand in hand.
Now, when I arrive at the beach, it’s usually before the lifeguards have set up flags. In the earliest part of the day, doggies are allowed-on a leash, of course, but once the flags go up, these signs telling all the puppies to “Keep Out!” are erected too. No dogs near the bathers.
I kinda laughed to myself thinking about the fact that dog s don’t read. Nor, I venture, would they care. But there are repercussions if the message isn’t heeded.
The dog doesn’t concern himself with reading and/or obeying the signs...he just stays connected to his owner. He has absolutely NO FEAR or thought about where they’re going and as long as he’s with his owner, he doesn’t care.
Designer Faith is about staying consciously connected to the Creator within me, giving me absolute assurance that I am on the right path for me. Knowing I am loved, I learned to trust, and when I learnt trust, I began loving others-FEARLESSLY-Completely and unconditionally. Just like a dog.
Designer Faith for Life’s Essentials

I see Truth and Love in everything. I saw it in a seagull this morning.
It’s a bit hard to see, but this bird has found an apple core. How hard do you think that bird had to work to get that provision? Did sow the seed or grow the tree? Did it even pluck the fruit from the bough? No.

The bird just KNOWS it will have the sustenance it needs. “Consider the lilies of the field...” Nature presents us with the cues to follow. They are all around for those who ‘see’. When I’m consciously connected , I know my provision is certain. When I let my focus slip...then the conscious connection is broken, and stress, fear, doubt and lack are there, crouching by my door. I found my way into ever deepening understanding of these things because I had ‘reasons’ to feel afraid, but I hated the feeling s of fear and worry. I wanted to be free of them. I wanted to master the art of Abiding in God, and knowing the Power of the Universe lived inside me.

Sure, I slide in and out at times, but I am MUCH more often “in’ that place than ‘out’ of it, and here are some tips to help you learn this art too, and be free of the kind of mental torment that made my hair fall out!

And the best part? KNOWING “all things are mine”, gives me great confidence to jump at opportunities, and run at giants and boldness to claim my dreams-my Designer Life.

Designer Faith For Having Our Desires Fulfilled.

Once again, we can learn from the doggies around us. This Doggie is called Kane and when his owner, Ms J, takes him along the beach, they play with a thick stick. Once Ms J picks up the stick, the dog’s eyes never leave it. Kane’s gaze is FIRMLY FIXED on the object of his desire. NO distractions get his attention. He wants that stick. He doesn’t care about ANYthing else. And you can bet, he’s not entertaining for even a ‘split second’, the idea of NOT having that stick.
What do YOU want? How MUCH do you want it?
And don’t say ‘money’! That’s a cop out. Detail the life you feel money will make available to you.
How much time do you spend doubting your ability to achieve your dreams? It’s a massive energy leak. Focus all that energy on the already having of your desire-the home, the lifestyle, the travel. Become ‘obsessed’ in the best possible way, but do it from that place of connection where there is Joy and Peace and Love, rather than willpower, sheer grit and striving.

Life is only as hard as our resistance makes it. It’s as hard as we believe it has to be. It’s hard coz we think we DON’T-can't- have it.

An immediate way to improve things is to find reasons to be grateful and moments to take pleasure in. When you really do this, you align to Source. You connect. You FEEL better and you’ve begun to create something better. You also ‘see’ more clearly, and sometimes you feel prompted to take a certain action that becomes the pivotal turning point.

What “Designer Faith” means to me.
I love God.
I don’t think it matters what name you give, or don’t give, this Being. It is KNOWING the Being that counts.
“that which we call a rose...by any other name, would smell as sweet”...William Shakespeare.
God, no matter what you call him is glorious! Source is LOVE. The power of All-That-Is, the energy of all things, is LOVE. The Universe reeks of LOVE. My designer faith allows me to believe, touch, experience and savour this LOVE-In everything. It is in everything and everyone, as it is the very essence of all that we are-Energy

I feel like I’ve become an expert at extracting love from all around me in my life, through my Designer Faith. 

For Me-It's Got To Be Designer!

GOD!! I love this time of year...not even 7:30 a.m. and I've been up for almost 3 hours living a full morning!! dawn comes early here now...YAY!!!

SO...TO CATCH YOU ALL UP...

Here's how my calendar started...
I was doing stuff I didn't wanna be doing, and wondering why I was so willing to do that, over choosing my won designer Path...I was choosing familiar discomforts of financial difficulty (after flourishing so well earlier). I wanted certain things to ebb, so I could move into my dreams, but still felt all the fears etc. I wasn't making the vibrational connections I needed to , and I was feeling FRUSTRATED. It is in the intermittent blogs thru Sept/Oct.

One day, as I was driving and whinging...I heard the usual "well, what do you WANT?"
I answered "this isn't how I want my life to look." "How do you want it to look?"

Of course, once I get to that point, I'm off and running! It's the same as asking, "well, what would it take to make you feel happy RIGHT now!" And if I'm honest, it's usually attainable, hence the "ALL THINGS ARE MINE!"

I got to my destination and began straight away on the idea of what I wanted my life to look like. I started with a week-at-a-glance deal...but soon turfed it, as I need more space, coz I want LOTS of diversity, and it won't fit into a week!

So, I settled for now, on a month...and began to shape my template.

The idea of the Template, is that it's kind of generic, naming areas of experiences..such as work, family, events, holidays, activities...
I felt like I'd become so absorbed in preoccupying over getting business stuff moving, I wasn't taking time to do other things and enjoy people, places and 'parties', so I wanted to restore balance to my life.

The next stage was starting to shape how these things might look. Which aspect of my work:singing, drawing, workshops, writing/written merchandise, recording/recorded merchandise, video-ing,business gatherings etc. What kind of outings...hot air balloons, family/friends gatherings...Events: retreats, rainforest walks, Beach BBQ , family dinners...you get the idea. Romantic interludes...haven't got a partner, but I want these things...so they go in! Activities where my family and my lover are altogether and enjoying life with me.

Some things I was SURE of and added, like wanting more Crowne Plaza gigs.
I must resonate easily with that, the next morning, I had FOUR more dates at the Crowne.

I looked at the kinds of workshops I wanted to run...and I began a third version which was my actual life unfolding...by this time, I was seeing stuff that had me SO Buzzy! I stopped midway andmoved to a large sheet of heavier card, gridded it up and got REALLY involved in this new style of specific and intentional "Vision Board Cum Diary/ Calendar"

Wait till you see what happens.... :-)

the Shift-thinking BIG


So, this photo shows where my calendar sat for a couple of weeks..after which it began to dawn on me, what was playing out in my life...WOW!
Don't get me wrong...I've been a Goal Setter, I LOVE to have purpose and direction, and I've had several layers of collaged vision boards and many things. These are life practices for me..this is DIFFERENT And as a writer, have written out, with incredible detail, the life I want, AND I've drawn and SUNG things into being-this is still different. All of these work for me and to quite good degrees as they engage all my concentrated energy in the creative process. Whatever enables you to do that will work. But I still think this way is the BIG KAHUNA.
WHY?? Mainly coz it's DOABLE for everyone and requires no academic or intellectual or artistic skills. You don't really have to strive to think. It's so easy, so natural, so authentic and SO revealing.
And it is PURE CREATIVE POWER

ORGANIC!!! This process will work


So..MY CHALLENGE...

I'll blog again to catch you up on what happened next...that is, this past 10 days.
I'll start an album too, to depict the progressive shots of my calendar. But I plan more than that. This is a MAJOR artwork.

This is a 'month in the life of Lisa'
What I plan to do is use my long mornings to do whole pages that depict each event/activity/experience-SERIOUSLY engage with each element. Scan and print to scale, for adding not only to my month...but my 2010.

Then, I'm living it all out NEXT YEAR. lol watch me!!

FOOD FOR THOUGHT

What I propose to you,and everyone else, is that this apparently LONGWINDED way of doing things is actually the SHORTCUT!! I want to show how valuable and worthwhile doing things this way REALLY is. I want to validate the Arts and the Creative Process as being the tragically overlooked and neglected, yet utterly PERFECT way to hone all the intrinsic and inherent skills to empower people to be ALL they can imagine...whilst expanding their imaginations even further.
This is WHOLE BRAIN creativity that draws the WHOLE BEING into its own beauty-rather than the deformed, distorted version of a contorted soul under pressure and perceived limitations.

So...:-) please come along for the ride. Feel free to be sceptical. :-) It won't bother me a bit!