Making a Podcast a Visual Thing
Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.
John 20:29
I’m blessing Dana Lloyd today.
Dana is a leadership coach who has a lovely spirit-filled podcast called Soul Sisters Conversations. She invited me for a chat about Intentional Creativity, it’s power to heal, how self expression is vital for wellbeing, and how to create new realities through art. In a bit of irony though, the invitation gave me pause for a moment; using an aural medium to explore a visual practice.
Poets have been doing this forever.
Surely I could too.
I knew I had found a kindred spirit when I read this about Dana’s upcoming book Soul Prescription: Encouraging the Woman Within - "When women start living the fullest expression of their lives, they will change not only their life, but the world around them."
It seems Dana and I are working on parallel paths!
What I am learning as I explore the fullest expression of my life through the creation of art is that the imagination is the most powerful visual tool we have, not our eyes. Our eyes can deceive us. Just check out many of the great optical illusions you can find. And as someone who spent years in television, I’d be able to retire comfortably if I had a loonie for every person who commented on the size/shape of our set/host and how it didn’t match their perception on TV! Our eyes reflect what they think they take in through a complicated system of lenses and light refraction. But our imagination works from the inside out. Our imagination creates things that don’t already exist. That’s power. That’s power for change.
“Everything you can imagine is real. ”
If you think this is just a re-expression of the manifestation principle, you wouldn’t be entirely wrong. What Intentional Creativity does though, is enable you to take what’s floating in your imagination, and give you a tool to turn it into something you can observe. It allows you to make those ideas tangible, even if it is in symbolic form. Then you can work with them. I love that Dana picked that up in our conversation in the quote she used above.
Would you be interested in giving it a try? I have a class coming up in January where you can put Intentional Creativity to work for you to help you make a map for 2021. My Co-Creators New Year Check-in Book could be done at any point in the year, but folks have a tendency to take stock when the calendar changes. In case you’re wondering, this is not goal setting or resolution setting. Those often end miserably. This is intention setting. I’ll explain the difference then!
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