Fire Together -:- Wire Together #807

Ever since I was a little girl

I remember my teacher and mother of my heart,

Sue, talking about synaptic junctions

and repatterning my brain.

She wanted me to understand that creativity

was the way I could invite co-creative repatterning.

As I got older, we would watch Stephen Hawking

and have tea by the fire (we call this ‘cafe’).

He said:

“Even if there is only one possible unified theory,

it is just a set of rules and equations.

What is it that breathes fire into the equations

and makes a universe for them to describe?”

We would talk and draw for hours

about being at cause for making change,

with the body as an integral part of the process.

She taught me a lot of things I use every day.

One of them, is this:

“You don’t change your brain by ‘thinking’

about your brain

or just sitting on your zazen pillow.

You change your brain synapses through

repeated physical activity,

paired with mental activity and intention.”

She taught me what Donald Hebb said in 1949

“Neurons that fire together, wire together.”

Hebb was a neuropsychologist best known for work in

the field of associative learning.

Our exposure to negativity,

responding to pattern in our

life circumstances,

is, as you know,

literally shaping our brain function.

In order for neurons to

fire together and wire together,

what must one do?

My experience is that inviting

a firing and wiring together experience

is a lot easier than we “think”.

What if instead of thinking,

we actually DID something with our body

in collaboration with our brain?

But what do you do? You might be asking.

How do you repattern what feels like

a deeply embedded childhood pattern?

If we could change it by thinking about it

we would have already done that

once we identified the issue.

But we aren’t seeming to

be changing that way, are we?

It can be a little disappointing

for those of us

who try to change through thinking.

To change through thinking

may take more mastery and

Much more time

than working directly

with the senses and the body.

The patterns we are working with are not just in the

brain, so why limit our belief in our ability to heal

being connected to that place alone?

The body and field must be considered, together.

This IS what we do in Intentional Creativity,

inviting our students to initiate a process which

fires together and wires together through art.

The results of these changes are pure joy to behold.

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drawing by Shiloh Sophia

Intentional Creativity, our study and practice of

creativity as a pathway to transformation

is largely based on Sue’s initial research

as a biological illustrator

(for textbooks and at Stanford University)

as applied through creativity in action,

what she called to

“commit art”

We invite our students to be at cause for the change….

through literally drawing the repatterning

and initiating neurons to fire,

and painting the change we wish to see,

while feeling it happening in real time.

Through art

the senses initiate

the mind designs

the body makes

the eyes see

the brain believes

and

the repetition enforces

the change over time.

You don’t have to wait for a trauma

to make this change,

although most of us do.

What if you could do art instead?

That is what thousands of women a month

are practicing together,

bringing the idea of

Firing Together -:- Wiring Together

to a whole new level inside

a collectively held field.

Consider that a few weeks ago in Hydra’s Flare

(a painting class)

we had thousands of women

creating together

over a few-day period.

Could it be possible that

because of the collectively held field,

our capacity to transform is amplified?

Science and spirit agree,

that it cannot be otherwise.

We are helping each other transform

through impacting a shared field.

Our chosen awareness is what make this possible

I am not a scientist, I am an artist.

Yet I have studied and created results for close to 30

years through a devoted, daily practice in one area:

How Creativity Heals and Transforms

My life work had been devoted to reverse engineering

what I have experienced about how this works and

sharing it with you all of you.

Once Jonathan came into my life,

he offered the added

quantum approach I needed

to give language to what

I already knew and was practicing.

We can change.

It isn’t that easy

and it isn’t that hard.

You have to show up for the work!

I am interested in working with women

who are willing to show up for the work and do

what it takes to enter new territory.

What happens when flow and form come together

for our good? More than you can imagine…

Experts say, that depending on the kind of activity

being practiced the brain can begin changing

within a few days to a few weeks,

depending on the focus area.

Imagine WEEKS devoted to this change,

and what might be possible!?

It’s really exciting and I love

geeking out on this stuff.

Let’s be at cause for waking up – together.

Joe Dispenza says this

“If you want a new outcome, you will have to break the habit of

being yourself, and reinvent a new self.”

That is pretty much our cup of tea at Musea : Center for Intentional Creativity.

Blessings where you are, from where I am!

~ Shiloh Sophia

Red Thread Letter #807 Fire Together -:- Wire Together

Sue Hoya Sellars 1936-2014 Frameworks Unfinished

“If we understand the ‘wires’ in the rewiring metaphor to be axons, then it is important to understand that the brain’s wires barely move. What gets modified through plasticity is primarily the connection between the axon of one neuron and the cell body of the other — the synapse. Its size, shape and biophysical properties change as a result of behavior, experience, and other factors including bodily state and health.” Quora Quote

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