Bridges of Possibility

A friend asked me, recently, so much needs to change now, where do we even start?

I immediately thought of one of my favorite quotes from Buckminster Fuller:

“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”

And, how do we build a new model? With question, choice, asking for possibility and receiving the contribution from the universe, even if it doesn't make any sense....
Fighting the old model will sustain the old model.... Are you willing to give up the fight?

Are you wiling to receive the space of possibility? Or do you choose to keep the space of impossibility? Which is pretty much this reality. The moment we say 'It's not possible because ..... (xyz)! is when we feed the space of impossibility. The moment you say 'I don't have the money, I don't have the time, I don't....' is where you are extending the lifespan of this reality.

Instead, what could you choose?
Here are 5 steps:
1. Recognize the moment when impossibility shows up and shows its familiar and oh-so-beloved face. Just recognize. Ah, there you are again.
2. Notice how impossibility feels in your body. Where is it locked in your body?
3. As much as you would like to go down the familiar road with your old friend named 'impossibility', choose different. Choose different. Choose different.
'No, I'm not going down this road with you again. Good-bye!'
4. Ask 'What else can I choose right now?'
Say: 'I'm a powerful, potent infinite being.' Say that 100 times.
5. And then: 'As powerful, potent infinite being, what can I choose?'

Go through these steps any time Impossibility shows up.
Be vigilant.
Be aware.
And each time, choose different.

This will create new energetic pathways for you and your being and your body. It's like building a muscle. We have instead allowed for impossibility to grow like a weed and take over our entire being. Like pulling weed, it takes determination, stamina, strength, patience and diligence. We might have to do it several times, and over and over again. It WILL get easier. Your muscles of possibility will get stronger. Circuits had been severed and broken. Now we must build them, better than ever! More powerful, more beautiful, more joyful.
We have to build the bridges of possibility.

And remember: One of the most amazing tools of Access Consciousness®:
"All of life comes to me (to us) with ease and joy and glory."
Say it 30, 50, 100, 3000 times..... until you have the sense of your lightness and your joy.

 

My grandpa taught me to never give up and to never look back. So, I don't look back, and I let go of the past. I never give up. Yes, I trip over the many obstacles, yet I stand up and keep walking. It WILL get easier.

Looking forward to seeing you soon, somewhere! Maybe in class?

Are you Ready to Step through the Open Gate and Fly?

What if we never make other people's realities more valuable than ours?

What do you do when one of the most diverse and artsy cities doesn't inspire you any more? Sounds strange, or familiar? My family never understood why I chose to leave Berlin behind. They thought the city had everything one could desire, and I had a thirst for .... change, seeing other places, I had a thirst for nature and space. A different space.

Many of my artist friends never got it why I left New York City and went to live in the country. I had to be closer.... to nature. I'm so grateful for the cities that gave me so much, and I always knew they would be a chapter, not permanent.

Here is an excerpt from a recent interview with Nancy Freier in "The Inner Voice" Magazine:

"Living within
the confines of a wall in my home city
carved in me a drive for freedom and a
desire to live life with joy and gusto. I
learned to thrive on contrast and, later on,
marveled at impressionistic and
expressionistic art, especially the search
for color and light."

While, of course, nothing is permanent, and certainly nature an example of impermanence, nature has been gifting me the space of me and has allowed me to acknowledge that my being (and my body too) is very much resonating with nature and thriving in natural surroundings rather than cities. There is a 'well' humming and buzzing so palpably in nature that is constantly providing impulses and whispers. Like a symphony that is stirring my curiosity.

Show me a flower, and I smile.
Show me a tree, and my heart jumps.
Show me a lake, and I relax.

Here is a picture of Lake Michigan that I took in Door County.
Look at the shapes, the shades of green and the gentleness of the light.
It was an early morning before starting my day. Such a gift! I took a series of photos and knew that, one day, I would create paintings.

The imagery went into my 'creation space', like seeds. And here is what showed up a few years later:


Green Wealth, Acrylic on canvas, 18x18


"Deep Earth" Acrylic on canvas, 24x18

And, who knows? Am I 'done' with this imagery from the magnificent Great Lake? I'm getting a 'no!'. 

Do I force it? No. Do I dance it? Absolutely!

I dance the dance of creation with my paintings, silks, with my song and writings (and what else?🙂). My dream is that it inspires you! To create! To play! To try things out! It's by trying things out, by messing it up, by tripping and standing up, by keeping walking, by never looking back, by letting go of our past, by letting go of our best choices and our worst choices, by choosing each second anew, by breathing, wondering, celebrating, savoring life, that we will get to these places and spaces we never imagined we could have and be.

We will never find out unless we start flying.
I heard this from the Bees.

What is your space? What do you know is possible? What do you KNOW from deep in your heart, with such a joyful conviction that it makes you smile?
THAT! Yes THAT!!!!

Never ever ever ever ever ever give that up
Keep asking questions!
Such as: If I never gave up my knowing and knew and trusted that I dance with the entire molecular structure and that the universe has my back, and that the earth has my back, and I knew that I can ask for what I require, what could I ask for?

Stay in touch!

Joyfully,
Bettina

 

P.S. Read the full Inner Voice Interview HERE

 

                                                             "Phoenix for a New World"

 

How much have we all fought? In all these lifetimes? And it sucks our energy.

 

There is a slight difference between fighting against and fighting for.

What I found, personally, on my journey is 'expanding beyond this reality'. Meaning I include this reality and I'm way more than 'it'. A lot of ugliness is coming up, currently, in this reality, things that were hidden, all these secret agendas and abuse. It is all very upsetting and unsettling. We have been made to believe that 'all is well' and find out now that it is not and has not been (and we have known it for a long time, yes?). 

 

To me, allowance is the 'key', which doesn't mean I approve of everything. I don't approve of certain creations, and I'm being 'Not on my watch! This is changing now!' And this is a demand, and I clear out, each day, where I tend to go to fighting. Allowance is where I don't have a fixed point of view, where I don't get sucked into the polarity ('they' constantly put out bait for us to get tangled up in polarity). When I'm in allowance of everyone's choices, the good the bad and the ugly, when I can see that it is a choice, then I don't have to fight them. I walk around them, and I create the reality I know is possible and that I came here to create.

 

And, it is darn uncomfortable. .... I fight for, stand for, the reality I know is possible, with my actions, being, space, words.

And, didn't we all know that this exactly is what we came here for? Cleaning up the mess (which is messy! 🙂) and creating a different future?

We all choose different actions. We all be a different energy and space. We take actions, make choices, and they change the future as we go.

Standing tall like trees. Trees don't have a point of view. They don't yell. They don't fight. And, in their silence, they nurture the other nature beings, feed each other, communicate, contribute to each other, plant seeds. They are creators of future of magnitude. What can we receive from them, be with them, gift to them?

I very often turn to trees for guidance and support in these crazy, wild, upsetting, exciting times.

We are creating a new reality, while around us a wild storm is blowing away our illusions, walls and ideals so we can see the beast, acknowledge it and create around, through, beyond it. Revealing where we have 'been that done that', practice allowance for that, and choose again and again.

So, here we are, joined together in each of our own struggles, battered by the storm, yet flexible, yielding and growing stronger, together.

 

Gardens get flooded at times, rocks get washed away, trees blown over, yet the earth still is. We are the earth. We still are here. Made it through all the loops and hoops, rings of fire inside out.  Gardens change, life is a line-up of pearls of change. Crisis, in Greek, holds within it the word 'possibility'. 

What is possible now, to create, that has never been possible?

What beauty lies underneath all of this?

What more beautiful future and reality did we come here to create?

Now is the time!

Let's spread our wings and use them!

We will find out that we can fly.

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Fine art prints of "Phoenix for a New World" are available.

Phoenix Recharged

 

                                                  'Phoenix Recharged' Acrylic on canvas, 20x16

Rising from deep within, breaking through to the light, with a feather touch, winged breath, glistening eyes, that which had always been, never lost, re-emerging fully in the recalling and awakening everything in a dance of fiery golden light.

"Phoenix Recharged" Original painting by Bettina Madini, Acrylic on canvas. 20x16 (inches)

 

What made you believe he was lost? 

Can the infinite joy ever be lost?

Do you believe you are lost?

This is a funny idea.

Do you know?

You hold within you a seed... a magnificent, unique seed that has magical power. But you, instead, believe you are tiny, you have nothing, you most obey the rules that insist upon your weakness. 

 When will you wake up, turn away from the chimes and robotic perpetration of algorithmic patterns? 

When will you summon your powers, stand up from the dust of the machines and look at the earth that is calling from deep within? 

You say you don't hear it? You are a liar. 

You hear it. You know. 

Your body knows. Why is your body aching? Can you imagine the possibility that your body is communicating with you? Speaking louder and louder and LOUDER? 

Yet you muffle the sound with bandages, pills and courteous ignorance.

Wake up!

Wake up!

Wake up!

Dreamer of potency!

Creator of magnitude!

You have wings! You know! You are here, why?

Did you come here to be comfortable in your plush armchair of blindness?

Or did you come here to change the game board?

You know.

You have recharged your batteries for eons.

Your heart has been rumbling.

You are more like a volcano than a sleepy mouse. (sorry, mouse! you get what I'm trying to convey! they get it!)

 

You have been on the wheel of time.

Following the clock.

24-7

Tick-Tok-Tick-Tok.

Monday through Sunday.

Tick-Tok-Tick-Tok.

Well, it has run it's course.

The wheel is melting.

Look up from the dust.

And acknowledge the sparkles around you.

 

What-did-you-come-here-to-CREATE?

 

 

 

What is Beauty?

 

Have you ever wondered? What is Beauty?

And, what's coming up for you right now? Appreciation? Resistance? Avoidance?

 

It is a Space of Being with everything. 

 

It has been twisted and mutilated in this reality into image, outer appearance, idols, and attached to time. Time is not real. It's a construct. True Beauty is absolutely timeless, it exists beyond the matter/time continuum. It moves us. It opens our hearts. It makes us stop, in wonder. A majestic tree. An animal. The way we walk with the earth. Art. Beauty in the ways we create. It's the honoring of the detail. 

 

When I look at silk, my heart beats faster. I find such beauty in this fabulous material. Why was it traded and exchanged for the most desired spices and goods? 

 

Beauty is also the ways we live our lives. Beauty is in the small things. The dandelion blooming, still now in November, snuggled into grass and fallen leaves. The way trees grow their bodies during winter. What do they know about beauty, true beauty? A horse. Such Beauty in their elegant movement. The way they are in and with their bodies. 

 

Kindness. 

Respect. 

Honor. 

Vulnerability. 

Gratitude. 

Allowance. 

 

These are all elements of Beauty. They exist beyond time, outside of time. They are real choices we can make. And the more we become them, the more we treat everything with regards, find gratitude for the tiny pearls, lower our defense walls, honor ourselves and other's choices and practice kindness with each part of our creations, what Beauty will we be in the world? 

 

Can you see how we will change what is and create a different reality?

 

 

You Are Color. You Are Song. You Are You.

'Devas of the Blue' by Bettina Madini

There are gifts that we all have, gifts that we usually ignore, gifts that no one has ever pointed out to us. And as no one ever mentioned it or supported that in us, we think and conclude that we are not gifted. Yet, we all are powerful creators.

Imagine, in your earliest childhood, you would have been surrounded by people who saw your beauty. People who treated you with great respect, as the infinite being you are, and marveled at what you might be choosing and how they could contribute to you. Who were curious as to what gifts and talents might be showing up in the years to follow. People who paid attention to you.

How would this have been?

Imagine.

I’m not looking at making anybody wrong. Our families were not wrong. They did the best they could, with the tools they had available. Most probably, they were not being paid attention to, marveled at and supported. And, what if we can be that now for ourselves?

Can you change things for you? Paying attention to you, now? Marveling at you, just simply as you are? What if you were present for you? Imagine?

What would be different?

What would be different if we had no past?

     "If you have no past, you have no judgments. If you have judgment, you’re living in the past." - Gary Douglas

If you knew you are a color, if you knew it in your heart that you are a song, that you are beauty, that the stars in the sky marvel at you, as does the earth, what would you choose?

What colors would be your colors?

The journey of discovery is magical. Nothing is lost. You are not lost. You might have wandered on a grey road for a moment. And now you are here. You are reading these lines that are flowing to you as energies, like flowers dancing in the breeze.

You have gifts that you have no idea you have.

Is now the time to un-cover, un-ravel, chisel at the marble to find the you that has always been there?

So, what are your gifts and talents? What are you really good at?

Usually, it’s these things that are too easy for us. The things we always ‘just do’, and it’s no big deal. Like small sketches while we’re on the phone. We just draw. Do you think ‘Oh, it’s nothing! I just do them. And then I toss them away.’ Have you ever looked at these drawings? Whatever it is that is so easy for you to do that you disregard them, this is where you do NOT acknowledge you and your gifts.

What is so easy for you to do? And what is fun? Do you just sing, just because? And you make up a million songs and never write them down? Is this ‘just’ what you do on the side?

What if you started paying attention to these? The sketches, poems, songs, writings, graphics, cooking recipes, all these things that you come up with, that you invent?

Write them down, make a list of these ‘too easy’-things.

And then ask “Is there a gift that I have that I have never acknowledged?” (if this question makes you smile, it is a truth for you. It is a gift that not everyone has) We assume, that, because it is so easy for us, everyone can do it. And that is not true.

We assume it’s ‘nothing’ because no one has ever pointed it out to us.

So, everywhere you have ignored your gift, and the gift that you are, will you now please change that? Everywhere you have made you a 'just-person', will you let that go?

And how do I change it?, you might wonder?

1. By writing these easy things down.
2. Then, acknowledge them. Really get it that it is YOUR GIFT.
3. And then, ask ‘How can I use these gifts to my advantage? What income streams can I    
    create with them?’

And see what shows up. Notice how you might be different. And always ask for more.

You are so much more brilliant than you have ever given yourself credit!

What is it that you can add to your life, that will give you a sense of joy and satisfaction, ease and lightness? What if generating income can be too easy and too joyful?

Can you publish your writings? Can you start a blog?
Can you draw more of your drawings, or paint more and larger paintings?
Can you write down your songs, or record them?

How much fun can you have?

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Bettina Madini is an artist, singer, writer and workshop facilitator (and so much more). Find more info at https://www.bettinamadini.com/ and Bettina's workshops (Online and Live) at https://www.bettinamadini.com/workshops .

Creating with Everything

                                                             "Into the Light" Acrylic on canvas

 

What does 'Creating with Everything' mean?

 

'Creating with Everything' is never giving up on what you know is possible. It might require something in your universe that is not there yet. Can you trust that it will be available? 

 

The universe might have to rearrange itself, and many people might have to make many new choices, in order for you to create what you know is possible. It requires YOU to make many different and new choices. 

 

Those choices could be:

• Trusting you.
• Not giving up.
• Having your own back.
• Go where no one goes.
• Walk your walk.
• Being grateful for everything.
• NOT JUDGING YOU or anything.

These are choices. And it starts NOW. 

 

What can you engage with right now, what can you invite, what can you start creating right now that will be this amazing thing in the future? 

 

If you know something is possible, it is. 

 

It might require the entire world to change. What can we breathe into that we will be creating as we are becoming who we truly are?

 

We will not know what is possible until we embark on that journey, and we enter the river of creation. 

 

And that river of creation has yet another river and another one. And these rivers are not just branching off in a horizontal way, but there’s a vertical perspective. There’s a river underneath the river and underneath the river and above the river. It’s this incredible, beautiful universe of creation, and the earth is such a fabulous planet! 

 

It is a magnificent space of creation, and I invite you to embark. Judgment will stop you. Concluding that it’s not working will stop everything that you have started.  

Here is a video that I created for you, with the "Monday Morning Inspiration - for the Joy of Creation".

Video-watch-link: https://youtu.be/VmdpzT3L860

And, if it would be joyful for you, play with us in my workshop "Painting with Earth Beings" on September 11, 2021 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. More info here: Painting with Earth Beings Sept. 2021