Color Your Spirit

If you're not having fun don't do it. I live my life that way. How about you?

Do you ever wake up in the morning and you find yourself wishing for a different way to spend your day or suddenly you're attracting new and different experiences, new and different feelings, attracting new and different people and you're saying, oh, I like this. 

Well, what do you do with that?

Rev. Ali Bierman talks with Cynthia Lees, You have seen her here before - twice, actually. And today she is back with her newest adventure into exploring your spirituality - in fact yours and also introducing spiritual exploration to the young people in your life.

She takes you on a tour of coloring books with art work teaching gratitude and self image. How are people using these delights with even young children? And even creating MeetUp groups who color together. 

Exploring one’s possibilities, people of all ages take a look at the side of life so few take time to honor - taking a break from  the hectic non-stop pace of life in the outside world.

Find the coloring books by Willow Sage 

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Transcript

One of my really good friends gave me a note that I keep in front of me all the time if you're not having fun don't do it I live my life that way how about you? 

Do you ever wake up in the morning and you find yourself wishing for a different way to spend your day or suddenly you're attracting new and different experiences new and different feelings people and you're saying, "Oh! I like this feeling!"  What do you do with that ?

Well I have a very good friend joining us today who, like me, is everything that I just described and it's so much fun talking with her because I'm never sure what she's into but what I know for sure -  it's always cool and interesting and I want to know about it. And so I want to share with you today my friend Cynthia Lees. "Thank you very much for having me back, Ali and and yes I am in yet another Incarnation: a new pen name, um a name that honors ancestors which is important to my spiritual beliefs and practices. And something that you just said, um well okay, so if you find you're not  having fun don't do it.  I've made a huge spiritual shift in my life over the past four or five years and especially since following the spiritual practice and reading the teachings every day. 

Recently I was on a cruise and my roommate and I were out and about the first night and I was interacting with people and having a great time and connecting and connecting and connecting and we got back to the room and she's like, "Wow! There was something  - I mean you  - wow!" And I thought about it and I pulled out my prayer book and I said you know um there's a line in here, "You can become a person who makes friends easily and is loved by everyone. You'll be able to show compassion to others and give them a smile." And I've been living these teachings and apparently that's what I have become and I really like it.

 Do you do affirmations ? Do you think that's what's taking you on paths or is it the paths are showing you what's confirming them? e

Either or um at this point I am not doing affirmations although I've just found a series of trainings that I may try out for for building affirmations and mantras and um I'm excited by that but I've been just studying Divine teachings, studying the teachings of the spiritual practice. It's not a religion um and the teachings align with all of the world religions when you go back to the roots where the roots said love everybody you know and when you come at it with God is love and you know yes, God has put us here with certain intentions and knowing that there is going to be Wars and Discord and and that's part of our growth process and so welcome them. Be thankful for them and and be accepting of you know how can deal with this not by combating it. 

I often say that we are the ones we've been waiting for so we've been on our journies looking for who can I follow, who can I follow? But we're the ones who are doing just what you described as we're the leaders for ourselves. 

This morning we were we were reading teachings that were penned in the early 1960s about this time is coming, a time in which human history will be rewritten and the discussion was fascinating but it also includes let us transform our souls into jewels that follow God's laws and one person said, "You know I can't,you know I'm excited for you know this new era." And another, "Like you know I can't wait for this to happen." 

I'm like well that was back in the 1960s so doesn't it stand to reason that since those times have come? Some of us here on this call are those jewels and and um and somebody else pipes in with, "Well you know ,I know it takes, you know, thousands of years and millions of pounds of pressure to make those diamonds." And so that's some of the stuff that we're going through and the struggles that we have whether they be physical, emotional, or financial whatever and to be grateful for those knowing that they could be so much worse if we weren't going out being god- centered raising our hands offering light and love to everybody around us. it would be worse yeah and um offering light and love to those around us. 

It's not like we even need to speak it. It's just who we're being. It's in our energy and for people who didn't listen to my last show  - that's what I was talking about. I'm aware that everything that goes on inside me, it's not just me. It's who I'm picking up and time and distance don't really exist so who I'm picking up could be on the other side of the world. 
And and time is now, past, and future. if you want to get you know yeah cool. 
I know and we were talking the other day and you were showing me some really really beautiful books and I know that you're a prolific author and those were really cool books and I was especially interested in the possibilities of focusing everything that you just described toward very young children because the world's so crazy these days and I'm just not aware of enough emphasis going to the spirit, not the religious, with the spiritual side the heart of that younger generation. 

The messages,  the the first book in that series um they're, they are gratitude journals and coloring books and it's a gentle way of be building that gratitude muscle by coloring and focusing on gratitude, what you're grateful for today and then journaling just about three things and then there's more to the process that teach them to map and change but in the first one, the um the Prototype that I was building most of the pages, they have a little bit of a message like gratitude, thank you, gratitude for pansies, I'm just flipping Pages. I'm so filled with gratitude. I'm so very grateful.  I mean they're very thankful. And the next iteration um yes okay so the first page I opened simply says gratitude but but I am brave, I can overcome anything. I am confident. I love myself. I am worthy. Thank you. I believe in myself. My spirit resonates with Divine Harmony. I am enough. 

So those were, I mean those aren't religious but those are getting in touch with the spirit inside. 

I'm actually aware there are some children's authors I'm aware of who have books like that and I don't really shop for coloring books often but I think making it a coloring book... I know my grandchildren like to color and I think that takes it inside you and gets a message inside you.

One thing I'm very aware of is as a parent, which I did when my kids were little, and it's, "Well so and so gave you a gift. Did you write a thank yo.u I I would love to have you share how these are used with young children. 

I have some people who have told me they're using them with their niece or their grandchild in, you know they color one and then the other one colors one ,and and uh so they share the experience. And they talk about it, which yeah um, I mean there's so many ways that it could be used. 

What I would teach reading - I mean if parents read the same books, you know ,so if you got two copies and you each color together and and I have a friend who wants to do monthly coloring parties with these books to to to bring you know to give people the space to do it together. 
Somebody gave a book to somebody who is on her way to a standard Meetup where people brought coloring books to coffee and coloring. So I mean for adults too but yes I would really like to get children to know this.

Would you be okay, do you have one handy so he could see some of the pages so people can get an idea of...

Okay this was my trial pages of the same one be grateful um and I liked how when this other person did it she added more words about what was going on. With her you know: be grateful for helping others, for receiving, for alignment, health and wellness, recreation  - you know so I mean she did so much more in there and and there's one that I'm very pleased is that same be grateful page and it went across the pond and Beyond. And here you have the Gratitude message that the person has written so the idea is that you color for however long it takes you to color and you think about what you're grateful for for the day and then here this message is in Farsy. Um she was so grateful that her daughter had brought this coloring book to her from America to spend time with her before she had uh surgery.

 I really love is what you just said, when they're coloring it's sinking in without a conscious awareness that that's what's happening. That's like  I just think that's brilliant. 

This is the cover of the initial book Cultivating Gratitude, my personal mindful coloring book and journal with Garden images and everything in there is a garden image. And then soaring gratitude, my personal mindful coloring book in journal with wind images. I've got the more advanced messaging.

How did you find a graphic designer who understands what's in your heart your intention?

I think it's a matter of who you attract. Um I think I found her on upwork oh for a totally different pen name. She was doing covers and I was just - we connected more on the Heart level and so I talked to her about you know I'd like to do this. And so my book publishing and doing covers is kind of paused because I'm focusing here and and yeah. I have I have a cover that I designed myself in a volume one for something by Cynthia Leeds that's just this close to being published and it's not getting there because my attention is elsewhere. 

Oh, I know about that. I remember probably 20 years ago I was thinking I'll do this activity on Monday and Tuesday and this other one on Wednesday and Thursday. That doesn't work! 

No. On our on our daily prayer call um one of the prayer leaders who often ,who usually opens the call for morning prayer said something about you know, thank you for allowing us another day you know, to live and serve and go forth in joy but um we had plans for today. Thank you for all the surprises that you're going to bring us.
Wow! I Love that! I'd like to see a poster or at least a a little poster on that.

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Okay sounds exciting 

I used to spend an hour putting each of my kids to sleep at night because with  my son we talked about his dreams so I was especially fascinated by The Soaring Gratitude in the dreams because I wrote him a song about his soaring and flying because that was one of the things he wished for. Both my kids are artists but my daughter, she's a great artist now, but when she was little she didn't care about lines. She didn't care about colors. She just did what was inside her so even if it's intricate, the kids are going to do it in their heart. And for the parent to let them be free - it would probably free up the parent or the grandparent and I just think that's such a gift to give the world. 

And I just want to stay current with where people can get all that stuff from you. w

Where they can get the coloring book journals is on Willow Sage's author Central page. 

What is the best way if people want to follow you to stay whatever you're doing. If you've been sticking with us through our adventure here today you know Cynthia is somebody you want to keep track of because she's always into something that's really really cool. 

Okay I would say at this point the best place to find me is on Facebook. 

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