Thirty years ago I got introduced to meditating by Ian Progoff through his At a Journal Workshop. The suggestion was to find three words (with seven syllables) to become your mantra.

I chose “moving - flowing - flowering.” I find that I am my most creative when I am MOVING. From Csikszentmihalyi I learned about FLOWing. If I am moving and flowing, then my creativity is FLOWERING.

When all the noise in my head is calmed down and my breathing has slowed, a wonderful state of enchantment occurs. If I really want to heighten this state, I immerse myself in nature.

Louie Schwartzberg captures this moving - flowing - flowering in his TED talk on “Nature. Beauty. Gratitude.”

As we enter the tenth week of the TELL process, Gifford Booth of the TAI Group gives us our homework assignment. We are to create a private environment of enchantment and a private moment of enchantment.

The light of nature and refracting/reflective glass transport me into the elemental nature of water, wood, fire, earth and metal where I can move, flow and flower.

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