The Pottery Farm

02/07/2021

We all, or at least those of us familiar with the frozen north, hear endlessly in the winter months about the miracle of how every single snowflake that falls onto our beautiful frozen landscape is completely unique. And this is true. For as many snowflakes as there are in the world, there are that many different and completely unique designs.

Believe it or not this is true also for how every single one of us, meaning humans, perceive, interpret, and understand the world. In NLP we refer to this as each persons unique map of the world.

Because of our extraordinary ability to use language to communicate, we actually use this skill of language to organize, understand, and measure what we value, believe, and how we feel about events and other people in our lives defined and understood based entirely on the words we used to explain the person or event to ourselves.

So in a very empowering way, how we experience reality, is literally how we translate it to ourselves in our mind with words. Imagine what the world becomes when you gain skills and tools at translating the world around you in a positive way! It is endlessly empowering and produces limitless resources and opportunities for responding with who and how you want to be!

Another amazing side effect of being aware that every person has a completely unique map of the world gives us flexibility and understanding when experiencing others responding with different words, actions, responses, emotions, and choices than we would, we can call on our curiosity rather than anger or fear.

What has to be true for that person to be responding that way? What must their map be interpreting differently than mine?

Imagine the resourcefulness of responses when you are coming from a place of curiosity, patience, understanding, and compassion!

Every map is completely unique and so is how each map interacts with others. I hope you are empowered to familiarize yourself with the language you are using to create your map and to notice how you are interacting with the many beautifully different maps around you!

I see and rejoice and honor every unique beautiful snowflake, and see and rejoice and honor every unique and beautiful map of understanding of the world. Happy mapping friends! Namaste!

02/06/2021

Just a fun example of some of the cool education and topics I’m teaching and coaching with these days!

Breath can hold such beauty on these brisk, refreshing, winter days! It's magic is so often invisible, but when the miracle of breath enters this frozen world it dances and spins and expands in ways that we can actually glimpse the miracle of it's movement.

What magic you ask? Everybody breathes, thousands of times a day. It's not special. It's a right of being alive, to breathe and get to ignore the process because our brilliant unconscious mind monitors our inhales and exhales for us. we just glean the miracle of life from the process.

I see the magic dance of the breath in this picture and in so many other situations in life because it's beauty and power amazes me. What can a single breath offer to us?

The breath is one of the most powerful connections we have to our nervous system. Our nervous system being the instrument through which we interpret and experience the world around us. We can actually breathe in such a way that we can either have a direct line to the nervous system telling it to get up and ready and on high alert. Get ready to run! Get ready to fight! Things are about to get rocky here and survival is not guaranteed.

Or we can use our breath as a direct line to the nervous system to tell it that all is well. I am relaxed here. I am resourceful here. My options for a response and solution ABOUND! And the more we use our breath to calm and relax the nervous system, indeed the more and more resourceful we get! The more we can notice. The more we can sense. The better access we have to our resources and tools and skills.

In the span of just one single breath we can decide to hold our breath in fear, or we can decide to let the breath move, let the resources flow, let the options abound.

When we breathe slowly and using the full capacity of our lungs. When we let our breath relax our face, neck, jaw and muscles throughout the body we can see more than tunnel vision of fear. When all we can see is a strait tunnel to the problem, in the sympathetic (fight or flight) nervous system, we cannot possibly see all of the resources, options, and tools and skills all around and within us. If we are focused on the problem we forget our access to solutions.

When we practice bringing our awareness out wider and see solutions and tools everywhere we look we become relaxed and resourceful. We can literally breathe this state in and out around us with the breaths we take. We can notice that as we slowly breathe in through our nose and out through our nose that we can see so much more of the picture and situation when we are relaxed (in the parasympathetic nervous system) and resourceful and noticing everything we need to notice to find a solution.

The breath is a powerful tool to connect us to our relaxed selves holding so many resources and from that state options abound!

If anybody has fun and cool pictures of the magic of breath that you feel like sharing I'd love to see them! Knowing now all of the power and the miracle of the breath seeing the frozen dancing breath in the refreshing cold air really turns it into a work of art!

Happy beautiful and relaxed breathing friends! Namaste!

03/11/2017

Beautiful Ladies Day In cups ready to go!!!!

02/19/2017

THIS is why we visit museums. Art is life. Pass it on!!!

02/09/2017

Valentines Shopping you say?! Good idea! Yes you gentlemen!!!....and ladies! Ladies AND gentlemen! Pottery is buy one get one half off OR buy 2 get the 3rd FREE saturday at Fill Your Cup Self Love Valentines Soiree!!!

02/09/2017

SATURDAY is Fill Your Cup Self Love Valentines Soiree!!!!!

02/07/2017

CALL FOR ARTISTS/ Vendors/ Teachers/ Event hosts and planners!!!

Three Sisters cooperative is in the business of helping empower and lift local entrepreneurs, artists, teachers, presenters, and farmers! We host a variety of special events, sales and service events to help promote you and offer an opportunity to sell your product, and market your service or skill to share. Get out during the February sales slump and join us in community at The Pottery Farm in Maple Lake, Feb. 11th from 10-2. Join us for some shopping AND an artist, vendor, and teacher Open House to see what we are about and explore our space and the opportunity to collaborate on a project, sale or event! And enjoy a cup of coffee and meet some like minded entrepreneurs!

02/02/2017

don't be sad you missed the fun. join us for Fill Your Cup Self Love Valentines Soiree

01/31/2017

What could you accomplish if you could see yourself for how powerful you are? For how beautiful you are? For how amazing you are? See yourself through new inspired eyes and learn some belly dancing inspired moves to change your posture and your body appreciation in our body positivity class at Fill Your Cup Self Love Valentines Swaray and everyday in your home! taught by Ezra Muse!

01/31/2017

01/21/2017

Downtown maple lake when the pottery farm throws a party!!! Not a parking spot in sight!!!