Creative World Way  
Newsletter No3. - July 2006

Don't forget to pop in and say hi in the guestbook or have a more serious chat in the forum. Its really important to know you are there.

Inspired by the streaming sounds of Barry Eaton's 'Radio out there", I've added some music from my "Songs of a Journey" CD so if you wonder what I might sound like in full song and music just look around the site for a nice selection.

This newsletter has more interesting comments from members. Margaret Eley has sent in a very well written review of the book. I'm pleased because she likes it, but I look forward to all your comments. We can create something with everything that is said.

My article comes straight from some email conversations I have been having with my children. Joel is travelling in England and Europe and Jess is launching herself into an important political interest with our renewable resources. I think these emails give an insight into the way that the Creative World Way creates a fresh and usable perspective on just about everything. Let me know what you think.

I don't want to press, but I will a bit ... It is really important that you forward this to friends, family and those you think might benefit. The only way that an idea survives is if it spreads. Don't be shy with contributions either. The idea of the Creative World Way needs your help to survive and prosper. Thanks

And now to announce our second giveaway...

The LEURA ACCOMMODATION GIVEAWAY happens in September, but in the meantime we have lots of goodies to share.

We chose a name from Sydney so we are giving away a Gift Certificate to the Davis Health Centre. This could be a wonderful healing massage, a therapeutic massage facial, it could even be a session with me and includes some of our wonderful healthy products! The gift certificate have been kindly donated by The Davis Health Centre where I have my counselling practice and my wife, Susie, heads her team of remedial massage therapists www.davishealthcentre.com.au

This has a value of around $100 and we'll post this out soon. Remember, you need to have registered your email on the form here or on the website. Many of you may not be registered and I know there has been some technical difficulty with the forms so please try again or just send an email with your name, city, state and email address. register here

Our second happy recipient is: Cameron MacDonald from Sydney. Hooray!!!

                                SPECIAL GIVEAWAY IN SEPTEMBER!

A weekend's accommodation in Leura, The Blue Mountains, for up to 8 people staying at "Craigend on Leura Mall" which is a beautiful 4 bedroom Federation house just 200 metres down from the famous Leura Mall shops. If you are unable to travel to the Blue Mountains you are welcome to give it to someone else or even onsell the gift voucher. This has a value of over $1100. Have a closer look at Craigend on Leura Mall. Notification of the 'Craigend' giveaway will be in the September Newsletter and the lucky recipients will receive confirmation by email and/or phone.

Elayne Boosler

Trying to win by taking something away from someone in the Creative world is like throwing petrol on a fire to douse the flames.

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Life Tip

There are Life Tips on the web site, but we'll put more here.
It might be on the site, it might not. Check it out.

                                                                GENEROSITY
(This was written in 2002. It is just getting worse!)

           The price of petrol goes up on Wednesday. 10 maybe 20%! Something interesting:
           Thursday is usually payday. What a co-incidence! Feeling a healthy dose of
           cynicism? Well we just assume big business is out to rip us off. If someone
           were giving money away on the street corner you might just hesitate: What's the
           catch? But if some TV show asked you to jump into a vat of baked beans for $50,
           that's OK, but to give it away? Too easy! So we get into the habit of not
           accepting or giving anything for free. Things that really are free get caught
           up in this. Things like sharing a smile; saying g'day; helping someone; returning
           something found; showing respect. Cynicism breeds contempt and this breeds
           disappointment and blends it into our world. Be wary of what you believe; be thoughtful
           about what you doubt; be the independent owner of your good nature and happiness.
           Leave cynicism to the takers. Happiness is in the generosity of spirit both to
           give and receive those things that are genuinely FREE.

                                 Listen to Richard's song "For Free" on the website.

                                                What's Coming Up.

                                AUGUST - SEPTEMBER IS TALKING TIME!

                SEMINAR - IS THE 'REAL WORLD' DRIVING YOU CRAZY?

What can we create together to spread the message?

Register now for a place at one of a series of seminars during late August and September.
register your desire to hear Richard speak

These seminars will range between half a day to a full day depending on what is possible. All the issues in the book will be discussed and expanded. There will be loads of participation, discovery and release. What do you want to learn most?

The Creative World Way is in its early days and so I really need to know what you want, what you can afford and how many people are interested so that we can hire the best venue for our needs.
share your ideas and suggestions

I am happy to come to private houses and speak to your group of friends, associates, work mates, interest groups etc. Self-help groups, support groups, mothers groups, teenage groups, book clubs, whatever your gathering may be. If you have a group of at least 15 and can host an evening or afternoon at your home, club or community centre then I will be there. All you have to do is let me know. I can do this in Sydney first, but let me know if you are from Melbourne so that I can plan a trip down to you when we know we will be chock full of events.
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Please send your reviews. It doesn't matter how many words. One word will do, but we all will benefit from knowing how the book has affected you.
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I received a cracker of a review from Margaret Eley. I'm pleased she likes the book, but more than that, she has captured a way that really makes the book work for the user.

Richard Hill is well known for his work with and within the new age movement. What isn't so well known is that this actor/ singer/ numerologist, to name but a few of his abilities, has turned his talents to writing a remarkable book that provides both scholarly insight and solutions to our troubled modern times.

He draws his insights from his own studies in Linguistics, Neurobiology and his experiences as a professional Counsellor. His book also references an impressive list of scholarly articles and books which leaves the reader with many avenues of exploration after the book is finished and your mind wants to know more.

So what is this book about? It begins with a scenario of our modern world which is so familiar. As the title describes, this is a world where stress, work pressures, personal pressures and general self expectations are literally "driving us crazy". He describes a world where courses in how to be happy, self improvement and the like are in abundance. In this world, he notes, these courses provide only temporary solutions to our pursuit of happiness and relief of ongoing stress.

Richard then goes on to dissect possible causes of a modern society under stress. In this book it is the dichotomy of a winner/loser mentality that is literally driving us crazy. He describes this succinctly by describing them as the seven demons. One such example is that of being right (a winner) or being wrong (a loser). He connects this to the well known flight or fight biological instincts of survival. The result, according to Richard Hill, is constant stress as we equate everyday winner looser scenarios with our innate instincts to survive.

Most good self help books offer a solution. Where this one differs is that the solution is offered without having to withdraw, take on strange rituals or without trying to change this winner/ loser world. It is a paradigm shift in our own perception of the world and ourselves that it creates.

He does this with six simple practices which are the cornerstone of the paradigm shift in perception. Through these he shows us what he calls the "creative world way" to living in our modern society. He begins this creative approach by seeing a problem as a message and looking at what can be created with that. In a winner/loser world, where the problem is often a measure of our self worth, this is a liberating shift towards a world of possibility.

Richard Hill has provided a superb self guide to determine if your new creative way is moving you in your right direction. Simplified to the word "HARMONY", each state of being corresponds to a letter in that word. He draws on the Nobel-Prize winning work of Ilya Prigogine with his work on Entropy to draw parallels to interactions between people and a natural tendency to seek harmony.

I found this book exciting both in implication and as intellectual food for further thought. It is easy to read and simple in explanation with many humorous anecdotes and examples. It is a book you want to read again. This is a book for a new creative world way.

Margaret Eley, Sydney. July 2006

For some of the best knowledge about mind/body healing the best source is, of course, Ernest Rossi. You can see his work at
www.ernestrossi.com

As I mentioned in my opening comments, I have been correesponding with my children, Jess and Joel about the issues they're dealing with at the moment. My daughter is finding that there is a sudden shift in what is happening around her after researching and writing an article on nuclear power for Vive magazine. My son is having a completely different experience as he travels through Europe and England, but he, too, is feeling a series of shifts. For him this is more to do with his inner sense of himself. The interesting thing is that the Creative World Way was relevant in both cases. So much so, that I blended the two emails to send the same message. I'm hoping that you will read this and find that it applies directly to a situation you are involved in. This will show the enormous scope of relevance that the Creative World Way has and how it is, indeed, a broad overview of everything rather than only applicable to certain circumstances.

As background - Joel, quite expectedly, has been feeling a bit down as he tries to cope in a foreign land on his own...

Hi Joel,
... I would like to think you are a bit more sane with me, but I wouldn't like to think that you are not 'telling me everything in your head'. There is no great drama in feeling a bit depressed.

The main message from depression is that the ideas and beliefs that we have about what is inside us is not being able to be expressed in the outside world. This leads to a sense of disconnection from the world and either a sense of personal dissatisfaction or a dissatisfaction with the world (sometimes both). So, depression is a very helpful mood to indicate that we need to look carefully at both who we believe we are and what we believe the world around us to be.

My whole theory of winner/loser stuff, is that there is always some level of being let down or some reason to be dissatified with the outside world when we are in the grip of the winner/loser game. This also goes for our inner feelings and beliefs, but in a slightly more complex way.

The magic of the creative world way is that you don't seek to overcome the disparity between the inner and outer worlds, you seek to find what you are needing to create. this means that you will look for, or even better, allow, change.

Some people call that growing up. In the winner/loser world way it is sometimes called giving in. In the creative world way it's called accepting what is available (both inside and out) and creating something that feels good. What feels food is recognisable when you can have some energy in all 7 of the elements of harmony - Happy Able Receptive Mindful Open Nascent Yes.

Sometimes these elements seem to not be happening. The message is to change your focus or direction or attitude or expectation until they do start happening. So even if you have lost all perspective and the winner/loser world is grabbing you without mercy you can trust the H.A.R.M.O.N.Y. system to find a better place.

This might mean changing without any idea of where you're changing and why your changing. That starts to sound like you are acting with 'faith' or 'belief'. The cool thing in the creative world way is that you are placing your belief and faith in yourself and your body's natural capacity to know when harmony is happening. I was writing to Jess about this stuff too so I'll just cut and paste some of my email to her -

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"When elements interact they will seek to integrate toward a harmonious outcome" (to quote someone very clever-ish :) Perhaps it's not so much a flow we go with, but a seemingly chaotic storm of possibility. Yet, right in the middle of the storm, just where you think it would be impossible, there is the amazing calm of being centred.

When the wheel spins around you there is stability and control. It's only when you are on the outside of someone else's wheel, hanging on for grim death while they seem to play with your life, that it all seems like a tragedy. I figure that in the winner/loser world you're mostly on the outside of the wheel trying to figure out what is the 'winning thing'. In the creative world there is no winning, just the harmony of being in the centre regardless of the surrounding chaos. Chaos is, strangely, the most common natural state. This is because every time a new element is added there is an increase in complexity which changes the balance. This means that the calm centre will keep moving with the changes. So, harmony is not about rigidity -finding a safe place and staying put - but flowing with the inevitable chage in your 'stable centre'.

When I was in Melbourne I was able to do the harmony test thing with people's voices. In Sydney I did the thing where they stood in the space and then moved around to find a harmonious position in the space. With the voices, I have the group start singing the same note (to an ahhh). That shows rigidity. Then I ask them to cover their ears and sing whatever note they feel like. This is disengaged, separate behaviour and shows unresolvable chaos. Then I ask them to uncover their ears and sing a different note to the other people, but one that they feel 'good' about singing. It is absolutely magical. Harmony forms spontaneously. Someone changes a note and everyone changes into a new pattern. For a brief time their seems to be chaos, but then it all falls into place again. Even some periods of discord are considered by the singers to be harmonious and that is what the audience feels too. Also, people at one end can't hear what is happening at the other end so there is a wavelike motion of the harmonious music where some parts of the group are in harmony and other in the transition state of chaos. This exercise is a complete blowout. Much of its deeper meaning is lost or not understood, but I can't wait to do it again. Very interesting.

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Now, back to you Joel. All that is a lot to read and digest. I am hoping that your difficulties are your opportunity to find what it is that is not happening in your experience. The thing that I have been talking to you about for a while is 'engagement'. The difficulty for you is that you have no difficulty in engaging with people, but perhaps it is mostly on your own terms. Those people or things that you don't like, you choose not to engage with. That can be for a lot of reasons that may differ each time. Sometimes it is because we are afraid and don't want it to show. Sometimes we think it is up to others to do something first. Sometimes it is arrogance. Sometimes caution... the list goes on. The key to engagement in the creative world is that it is not dependent on what is given back. That is the difference between interaction and transaction. Acting in a transacting life can be very limited and present an unbalanced view of the world.

To truly engage is to engage on no set terms or conditions, but to engage and see what is created. If, however, you are on the outside of the wheel then it is, certainly, very scary as to what is being added to your experience. The danger is constant and palpable. In the creative world the danger no longer exists because you are at the centre with no fear of being dislodged.

This is just about another book so I'll stop now and let you contemplate.

Love you. Dad

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