Enhancing Creativity

Painting

Story from S.G

I paint watercolours in Alpha. I used to be negative about my work, believing I wasn't good enough to be an artist and that I wouldn't be able to sell any of my paintings. Now I have positive feelings and confidence in my ability and find these feelings reflected in my work so successfully that I sold 5 paintings in one month. With CALM I can open up and be in touch with my inner creativity.

Painting

Story from O.G

I realise that I have my painting style – it’s here, it’s part of me – I need to go nowhere to find it and what I’m doing is worthy. I have taken giant steps towards my dream of travelling the Murray and Darling Rivers in a steam powered craft.  I now own the craft and have commissioned some internal rebuilding.   I found by clearly focusing, letting go, communicating and trusting – that things just happened – fast.  So I’m living in the now and enjoying it.

Painting

Story from T.G, NSW

I discovered the techniques to “change my mind”. Using and building on Sandy's mind power methods has meant that I am now in control of directing my life, and am achieving heights and goals that once I never thought possible.

For my artistic expression I use PP meditation, guided imagery and positive affirmations, and my creativity and inspiration are unbounded.  Opportunities are opening up for me in so many areas.

Singing

Story from O.J

Writing

Story from M.J

Writing

Story from B.J, VIC

I learned how to tap into my creative self through a very specific meditation guided by Sandy.

Writing

Story from Y.M

Last year I entered the Society of Women Writers Short Story Competition on a Biography or Autobiography of an Australian woman’s way of life. I wrote about my last 30 days in South Vietnam in 1968 which were traumatic to me personally.

Anyway, I was advised by phone I had been short-listed with 9 others.

For the next 10 days I imagined I could walk freely from the station (previously I had been getting a taxi once I got off the train, due to RA affecting my feet). I then imagined myself in the usually crowded room, sitting with people I wished to be with (one never knows who will be turning up when.) Listening to Judges comments, and then making my way to the rostrum to collect the award. I imagined I would be asked to read the story.

All this happened as I imagined. What I didn’t imagine or make allowances for was the emotional tears and quivering — the highs and sometimes a few lows which were quickly filled with helium to get back up there again. Oh what a feeling!

At the present time I’m short-listed for the Henry Lawson Short Story Competition.

Writing

Update on above story

Just thought you might like an update on my last letter so that you can ponder whether it’s G.I. or talent – but I have won the Henry Lawson Adult Short Story Award and the 30 inch statuette of Henry Lawson is sitting on the mantelpiece just as I imagined it to be. I think myself it’s a combination of G.I. + talent + I’ve given myself permission to go for it.... Best Wishes.

Fixing a car

 Just a little story on the power of the subconscious.
I was performing a ser vice on an old vehicle I was doing up. I finished the service but no way was it going to start. I had isolated the fault to an electrical problem but I had absolutely no idea what it could be. I went to my PP and invited "Joseph Kettering" into my PP (well what I thought he would look like. He's the bloke who invented the electrical system for the early cars. I 'gave' him the "distributor" and asked him to fix the problem. He 'told' me to give him 5 minutes. I went back out to the car and continued on with the service. I was just wiping something down when a thought popped into my mind and I "KNEW" what was wrong with the electrics. About 30 seconds with a screwdriver and the car was purring like a kitten. and yet 10 minutes before that I was prepared to pour petrol over the whole thing and throw on the Zippo. Astounding!!!
Sandy and Clan, Thank you so much for giving this system to the world, God knows we need it. Kind Regards B.S. NSW

manifest a successful and positive outcome

The goals that a CHI "Graduate" set, during CHI, keep on being reached:
I wanted to let you know another of my stories had been published - it was a commissioned story by the Victorian Emerging Writers Festival which puts out a publication once a year. 
I am now working on what I hope will be the final draft of my completed novel after my mentor went through it with a fine tooth comb as part of her assessment. That will keep me busy over the next month or so then in February I start looking for an agent. I keep using my Peaceful Place to manifest a successful and positive outcome. I use it every day before I start writing and every day that I write I start off listening to my most treasured CD, No 1 Instrumental. I used my previous copy so much I wore it out and had to buy a new one! It always takes me back, just for a moment, to the wonderful times I spent in CHI.  PS, TAS

extraordinary power of the mind

The time I spend doing your seminar was a wonderful time, learning to meditate and experience the extraordinary power of the mind that is accessible in such a quick and delightful way.  I often quote your abilities Sandy, in making life work well for you after some excruciating experiences. Your books have helped people work through some of their issues as well.Thank you for the skills you introduced me to, that have continued to work to enhance my thinking, to increase my creativity and help me to find a soothing place to rest, all within me.   S.H.  Tas.

keep it playing all day as I write.

Life is good and of course, Peaceful Place plays a daily part in my life. Each morning when I sit down to write, I play my Peaceful Place CD and do a short meditation and PPP goals and then into my writing for the day with the remainder of the CD playing and quite often I keep it playing all day as I write. No wonder I wore out the last one! I am in the last days of revision of my completed 80,000 word novel and I'm looking forward to working with my mentor to compile a submission to agents/publishers. I have also just commenced a one semester university writing unit this week with the possibility of commencing a Masters in Creative Writing next year - I'll see what unfolds. I want to continue building my craft. So all good. I hope you are too and that your work flourishes.   Thank you for keeping connected.  P.S.  Tas.

one-man art exhibition

I attended a two-day workshop with Sandy MacGregor, seeking out an increment in my level of self-awareness, particulary increasing my creative talents. At Sandy's workshop I was encouraged to identify some goals and through Sandy established a method by which I could achieve those goals. My two goals were, one to become established in my artistic style and thereafter proceed to a one-man art exhibition; and two to construct a 25 foot steam launch. Within a matter of months my artistic style was found to be established and I had 3 one-man exhibitions in one of Sydney's leading contemporary art galleries. The matter of the steam launch presented some most serious difficulties for which I really used my creativity. The challenges included finding the unique timber necessary for the hull, without demolishing a further forest to find an appropriate steam engine, boiler and thereafter ship-right. All of these demands promptly fell into place and I have the engine and boiler in hand and the boat should be completed in 12 months. Sandy taught techniques as to how to set and achieve goals and how to tap my creativity.O.G. NSW

Writing - the whole plot appeared in mrditation

 During a CALM seminar conducted by Sandy MacGregor, Sandy showed us how to tap into our creative selves through a very specific meditation routine guided by him. We had already learned how to build and access our "Peaceful Place", the Peaceful Place we create in our subconscious, and from there we went deeper into the dreamlike state - the Theta state. Wow! Suddenly the room, the sounds, the people around me disappeared and I was alone, seeing only a part of a novel in progress that I was seriously having trouble with.
    That part of the plot was all spread out beneath me. My hero and heroine became alive, they "told" me what they wanted to do, how they wanted their story written. I sat up and started writing, without much conscious awareness of what I was doing. My hand found my paper and pen and I mapped a mind chart of the "goings-on" of my hero and heroine. I could feel that it was right. I was writing without stress.
     As I reached the end of what my subconscious was telling me, I found the seminar still going on around me, people were doing other things and I was scribbling away, with Sandy trying to attract my attention and our "music-maestro", looking at me strangely. Well, I had been somewhere, and found something. Now I know what that was. It was the power of subconscious thought and it works! Now when I sit down to write, it is a joy and so very soothing. I won't say it's easy, writing is a learned skill, but what I want to write about is in my subconscious mind, just waiting for me to find it. The world around me goes away. I don't hear anything or feel any stress. Distractions fade away and I am alone in a very private world, a world of stories and poems, sometimes some forgotten French verbs! Yes, it is all there waiting to be used. All I have to say to myself is: "Hi, let's do it!" - and we, my inner spirit and I, do it. Learning to use the subconscious mind, the inner spirit we all have, becomes easier with practise, and I can most sincerely recommend this method to all. J.B. VIC

Success, Sandy, success!

I hope this email finds you and loved ones well. I had so hoped to see you again with the possibility of a retreat, and alas it was not to be. As you know, I have always deeply appreciated all that I have gained in my life from the opportunities you provided for self discovery, insight and a deeper connection with my spirituality. For that, I am so grateful.

I am also very grateful for another contribution YOU made to my success, Sandy.
I am writing to let you know that I have had a publishing offer for my first manuscript! Success, Sandy, success!
My Agent (you introduced me to her), contacted me to let me know and then I spoke with the publisher yesterday and now I have just come off the phone from her having discussed some of the details. I am still floating a little bit off the ground.
The publishers are also interested in looking at my current work in progress that I have been researching for the past two years. So, a very clear future focus for my writing.
Well, Sandy, what a delightful outcome to that journey to become a writer, where the first significant step taken was at your retreat in 2006 at Coogee, where I came to the understanding that this is what I now wanted to do. P.S. Tas