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Wednesday, April 04, 2007

CHAI OVERLOAD

Have spent the largest part of the last few days sipping chai. This week, like all weeks in the middle of exams, has been fruitful, in many many ways.
I discovered Sophie's Persisting Stars , loved it, and discovered DevilMood via hers and loved that too (With a very cool blog header!).
I mave many, many SoulCollages (which will be on flickr shortly) in the process of dealing with something painful and tough. [ Kerry talks of something similar here]. Sometimes its such a delicate thing, Trust; sometimes you just miss the transition between trust and mistrust, trustable and untrustable.
Speaking of Soul Collage, can you let another person use your cards? Does that reveal an intimate part of you to them or will they find a mirror of some part of themself that needs to be voiced? Regardless of the answer, I let Surabhi draw a card for herself last night and journal. I don't know what she got or what she wrote. But it made her think and write pages!
Anyhow, my 37 days list is up here so that's something I've been following up well. Althought I'm not really the kind to get into commitments I don't want, this has helped when those sneaky "opportunities" to overcommit come my way.
Have my English grammar exam coming up- wish me luck!!!
In the midst of all this, I want to take time out to appreciate, so here's a small lost of thank you's. To:
  • Bombay, for it tremendous possibilities, memories, and 3 fruitful years.
  • LAMY, for my lovely, trusty, constant companion, the LAMY SKY fountain Pen, and my current favourite Turquoise Blue ink.
  • Trust, for its emormous capacity to set things straight.
  • Pallavi and Surabhi for forcing me to study.
  • All the Bloggers I've discovered recently, connected with, and learnt from (see link lists) for the inspiration,insights, and honesty they offer.

I've been fairly inaccessible the last few days, so Thank You also to solitude, creativity, and everyone else who's had to put up with me. :)

8 comments:

Jen said...

Hi Mahima,

Tried to leave this comment on your most recent post, but couldn't link to it for some reason.

Thank you so much for your comments. I appreciate your comment about how my interests, no matter how fleeting are important.
And thank you for your offer to help me understand more about scanner types...

I am going to look for that book that I think is in a box in the garage since the time we moved, less than a year ago.

would love to hear any thoughts you might have for me...don't know really where to start or how much to mention...and I see how busy you already are...by the way, hope your english grammar test went well for you.

So thought I would start by looking for the book and seeing if this time anything clicks with me...I suspect if I hadn't started out on the course that I did...that I would have had more time and energy to get interested in more things and that I may tend towards the Sybil type myself.

I might try to write a bit on my blog about the course I was on...as a way to "honor my past"...and to take a break from focusing on not knowing for sure what I am to do in the future.

I definately think that even as I have accomplished things, I have struggled to do that...and so have felt generally negative about myself...thinking that I could/should have done it better.

Your blogs are really incredible..
I have looked at your art swap one and see that many are "ongoing"...what type of art do you enjoy sending/receiving the most? I'd like to try this.

I see there are some links on the side bar for travel abroad.do you plan to travel...will have to check them out(i love travel, like to meet people from other countries/cultures)

Seems like a good idea to click on the "Explaining my links" link , too : ) --thanks much!--Jen

Caroline said...

Hi Mahima

Thanks for visiting my general blog - I've been having a rest from making SoulCollage® to do those kaliedoscope mandalas. (My cards are in my card blog)

Long ago I was given the empowering label of Renaissance Woman which is a kind of scanner as I understand it. My form usually involves getting deeply into something, achieving a certain level of competence and then moving on. I've occasionally revisited but often don't and feel that whatever I have done feeds into what I currently do even if not obviously.

What kind of scanner are you?

I have, of course, got a SoulCollage card for "Renaissance Woman" but its not one of my public ones as I'm very wary about which I publish for copyright reasons.

BTW your link to the soulcollage site doesn't work.

And yes I think one can use anothers cards but making one's own adds such a beneficial dimension.

When I visited Imelda recently we played around with each of us drawing and comparing a card from our own packs - that way we found many similarities between them.

Phew long comment - sorry about that!

MAHIMA said...

jen:
i'm not too busy to be of help! let me know if you have anything in mind. meanwhile, i'll get out the scanner book and start looking! :)
ah,
english grammar
it wasn't bad...although i can't be sure. lol.
sybils, essentially (there are many variations even here) are scanners whoi have interests whoch change and vary but who also return to their old interests periodically.
serial specialists on the other hand, master one skill after the other and rarely return to an old passion.
there are also others which i can't remember off hand. tell me if neither of these souinds like you and i'll be happy to look up the book for you. :)
love,
m.

MAHIMA said...

caroline:
thanks for dropping in. i just visited your soul collage cards blog and your images are beautiful! ill be posting mine tomorrow.
your mandalas are phenomenal too!! i'm amazed by them as much as i am amazed by your soul collage cards.
Renaissance Woman is a lovely term to be identified by!!
I guess in terms of scanners you'd be a serial specialist? i've mentioned it briefly in the above comment to jen.
but i like the sound and implication of Renaissance Woman more. :)
i'm a kind of Sybil Scanner, as Barbara Sher calls is. basically it means i have a range of interests and they're always changuing but i also periodically (almost cyclically) return to my old passions.every little while i'll learn and master and practice one skill. then leave and do soimthing else. and return to the old skills every once in awhile in bursts.
on soul collages:
making one's own soul collage cards, i find has a much more intimate dimension to it. other than the fact that you're making it intuitively etc also the fact that these images are picked by a part of you which is often unseen, heard, and you don't even know sometimes why a certain image is pertinent but you pick it nyway so when you get that card and work with it it opens you a whole new side to yourself.
i find it invaluable as a tool for discovering more about myself, aspects of myself, root causes of emotions.
i haven't read for anyone else though.
i read tarot cards and for reading for others i use those instead of my soul cards.
gla to meet another scanner and soul collage maker!!
p.s. thanks for letting me know about the link. ive corrected it.

Caroline said...

I've read tarot for a long time too! But as is the way of it I am currently only reading soul collage for myself. I occasionally read cards for others but only when I get "energy permission" to do so - I trained as (but am not working as) a Health Kinesiologist and the part of this which has stayed really useful is the ability to get into balance and to check for energy permission + other things - again far too long for just a comment! Anyway I've not had permission to read cards for others since I got into Soul Collage - I'm expecting at some point to be making my own cards that are for reading for others... hasn't happened yet but I know they will appear sometime and then that will be what I'm doing for a while!

Good to meet you!

Devil Mood said...

Hey, thanks for mentioning me. :)
I hope your exam goes well - have you done it yet? Well, at least you're practising while you're blogging, right?
I'm going to check out uberglucklich (I think I have mispelled it) now. And I'll be adding you on Flickr too, if you don't mind :)

MAHIMA said...

DM!
a pleasure to mention you here. i'm so thrilled with your blog (and now your flickr too). lol.
exam was good, good, good.
i think all the bloggin does more good than harm! :)

Devil Mood said...

Great! Yes, I think so too :) Blogging is good for the soul and all else ;)