Welcome to Moments Photography by Sandy's blog about photography and creativity. Always on the prowl for ways to keep learning, trying, inventing and shooting pictures. I will share my adventures, addictions, and antics below. Come visit often and share what you will. Live abundantly, giving, sharing and loving. . .
Free to Fly
She learned that when she lived like she was loved, she became free. Free to be exactly who she was always meant to be. Free to release all the love and joy that lived within her realms of dreaming. For once she also loved herself, it was easy to love life and have compassion for all of life. Thoughts for the kingdom of animals, and plants are now revered and a growing respect for the elementals of fire, earth, air and water. grows within. And along with the wings that come with every dream, she finds that the present moment encompasses all possibilities.
Pink Light of Love
Pink light of love comes to Earth. Breathe in its essence. It is not bound by conditions. You do not earn the love. It just is. You cannot lose this love for it is constant and unconditional. Feel also the goodness of the pearlescent light which contains all colors. Be healed with the giving and receiving of the green light replenishing and balancing life. Embrace the violet light of transition, transformation and transmutation so that all your experiences are profoundly moving. And bathe in the purple light for wisdom and spirituality. Awaken to this resonance within, transcend judgement and negativity. This awareness and release will allow more space for the light to come in as there is no void in the universe. You can choose what fills you up. Choose love.
Through You
Through you comes the day. When we realize that our thoughts, perceptions, persona and beliefs bring us our day we quit being victims. We begin to embrace the powerful creator that we are and how our statements of "I am" command the body and mind to act. It is this marriage of thoughts, feelings and emotions that make a powerful triangle of energy. Thoughts emanate from the mind, feelings from the heart and the combination of the two make emotions. Thinking about our feelings is what makes them emotions. Feelings are neither good nor bad until we quantify them with thinking and evaluate finally making a summation that yes, that feeling was good to me or no, it was not a good feeling. The heart just feels. It accepts the feeling as it is. The mind defines the feeling into the categories, thus making it an emotion. In combination, you are all of these and this is the recipe for your light that you bring to the world.
Seeing With Your Eyes Closed
Seeing with your eyes closed is an innate ability. And although you are born with this knowing it is more commonly seen as coincidence when you "know" something that you can't be sure why you know it. It is also called intuition. There are ways to cultivate this knowing. It helps if you are able to meditate. But if you have "monkey mind" that jumps around from one subject to another, you really should consider some exercises to regain your power of the mind. One simple exercise is to place a candle on a table in front of you. Stare at the flame. Just be an observer.: looking only, no thoughts about the flame. When any thoughts come to you, acknowledge the thoughts and send them away with gentle statements as if talking to a small child. You might only be able to get a small window of time, (as small as seconds) when you are not thinking. Rejoice in any amount of time you get. The time will increase with practice. After you have looked at the flame, do one more thing before you go back to other activities in your day. Close your eyes, and place the palms of your hands over the eyes. In your mind's eye the flame will be created or it may only appear as a point of light. Again just observe it. Sometimes it moves and flickers but just keep looking for it. It can disappear but if you remain calm, it will sometimes come back. Make a practice of doing this a few times a week and you will begin to see progress. This practice will help you to calm your mind. It will help you to then be able to meditate. And meditation helps not only the mind but the connection of mind to body. The book "30 Day Yoga Meditation Plan" by Richard Hittleman is a completely illustrated day-by-day plan for experiencing the benefits of meditation. In addition, you can also learn to calm the mind using the body by practicing Yoga. If you are a self study I would recommend another Richard Hittleman book, "Yoga 28 Day Exercise Plan". That is where the candle exercise was introduced to me. The author had a T.V. show in the 70's which cultivated my curiosity and prompted me to buy the book, but I did not retain a daily practice until twenty years later in the 90's. I have now learned that when you can visualize a rose you can ask yourself questions and the way the rose looks and "acts" helps to reveal answers. I'll write more about this in a later post.
Japanese Weeping Cherry Tree
Pretty in pink is definitely this tree, the Japanese Weeping Cherry Tree. And what I beautiful tree it was! I have loved this tree for the 23 years it adorned my front yard. This image was taken three years ago. It has not bloomed much over the last few years and I worried that it wasn't getting the sun and water it need because it grew near a Water Oak tree planted at the same time, 3 years before I moved in. The larger tree was trimmed back but it didn't help. This summer the leaves turned brown and I knew it had lost its life force. I mourn the loss of this life. I shall miss its seasonal beauty and unique shape. I have many memories of the bright spring light shinning through its lovely colors. And I have these images and many more with my daughters in their prom dresses. I shall focus on the good. Although the sadness of its passing is still in my heart.
