Nurturing your imagination!

Nurturing your imagination is not just whimsical thoughts of fairies and viewing the Universe through rose colored glasses. It is seeing with a changed perspective...those things which may seem impossible in our present belief system. It is where great ideas come from....music, art, science, philosophy. Rational thinking, empirical evidence will never require you to go beyond your present reality into your imagination. Nurturing your imagination requires like Alice In Wonderland, diving into the rabbit hole.....making a place for the unexpected visions and new realities. The world of your imagination is a wonderful playground....not to be feared, but embraced with the joy you felt as a child watching the clouds. As an adult, this playground of the unfamiliar my be threatening.....many have lost their child like ability to naturally create out of their imaginations. One time I was helping pre-schoolers in an art session. I say helping rather than teaching because they often were my teachers. One little girl brought her creation to me.....delicate little blue slash marks with big brown circles on the bottom of the page. I made the mistake of asking her what this was and she put her hand on her hip and with disgusted tone of voice said, "It is meatballs in the rain, of course!" Meatballs in the rain was not familiar to my reality, but it made perfect sense after she showed me her imagination. So since it is Easter weekend and rabbits are in style.....let yourself dive down the rabbit hole and see what worlds are waiting for you in your imagination.