Comments on: Imagination, intuition … and small steps? http://dinamehta.com/blog/2009/03/07/imagination-intuition-and-small-steps/ Creative Chaos - Dina Mehta's Weblog Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:31:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jo http://dinamehta.com/blog/2009/03/07/imagination-intuition-and-small-steps/comment-page-1/#comment-1265 Jo Sun, 15 Mar 2009 04:41:20 +0000 http://dinamehta.com/?p=284#comment-1265 Kiaora Dina, thank-you for visiting my blogs and leaving such filling (fulling, fulfilling) words of peace...I also went and checked out the full article and it is very beautiful. I've had a look through your website and there are so many sides to you as well! Your work sounds really interesting and amazing at the same time! I don't think that you came to my session on indigenous communities at Sukabumi but I talked about an exhibition project that I am working on for indigenous people around the world and part of that project is to create an online community where indigenous people can share conversation and stories about colonisation and the effects that loss of land has had on their communities. The main objectives of the exhibition are to: 1. give indigenous people a voice to tell their stories through moving image, photography and artforms and 2. for these communities to move forward and look at solutions. 3. educate the rest of the world on indigenous peoples, our histories and our cultures. It has been quite an organic amazing process and Sukabumi was very much a part of this project for me. Over the next 3 years I will be doing a lot of travelling! I've mentioned it to you because I have been researching what might be the best way for these conversations to take place online as another way to connect and share these many indigenous communities around the world in addition to visiting different places and giving communities the tools to share their own stories. I could go on forever to share more of the project with you but would love to know your thoughts on this and in your experience what is the best way for these conversations to take place. Info-activism would have been amazing especially with so many different people from around the world sharing their stories. Thanks Dina, so cool to connect with you on Twitter too! Arohanui, Jo :) Kiaora Dina, thank-you for visiting my blogs and leaving such filling (fulling, fulfilling) words of peace…I also went and checked out the full article and it is very beautiful.

I’ve had a look through your website and there are so many sides to you as well! Your work sounds really interesting and amazing at the same time!

I don’t think that you came to my session on indigenous communities at Sukabumi but I talked about an exhibition project that I am working on for indigenous people around the world and part of that project is to create an online community where indigenous people can share conversation and stories about colonisation and the effects that loss of land has had on their communities.
The main objectives of the exhibition are to:
1. give indigenous people a voice to tell their stories through moving image, photography and artforms and
2. for these communities to move forward and look at solutions.
3. educate the rest of the world on indigenous peoples, our histories and our cultures.

It has been quite an organic amazing process and Sukabumi was very much a part of this project for me. Over the next 3 years I will be doing a lot of travelling!

I’ve mentioned it to you because I have been researching what might be the best way for these conversations to take place online as another way to connect and share these many indigenous communities around the world in addition to visiting different places and giving communities the tools to share their own stories.

I could go on forever to share more of the project with you but would love to know your thoughts on this and in your experience what is the best way for these conversations to take place.

Info-activism would have been amazing especially with so many different people from around the world sharing their stories.

Thanks Dina, so cool to connect with you on Twitter too!
Arohanui,
Jo :)

]]> By: Dina http://dinamehta.com/blog/2009/03/07/imagination-intuition-and-small-steps/comment-page-1/#comment-1248 Dina Wed, 11 Mar 2009 06:42:12 +0000 http://dinamehta.com/?p=284#comment-1248 Shefaly, I do I do :). Cope with uncertainty I understand. Cope with Imagination and Intuition?? Yusuf - you're not alone in feeling uneasy. Trust and believe it can only get better. Chris and Russell - thanks very much for taking the time to share your perspectives! Praveen - to see it and then think about how to face it, not right now alone, but also in the future Shefaly, I do I do :) . Cope with uncertainty I understand. Cope with Imagination and Intuition??

Yusuf – you’re not alone in feeling uneasy. Trust and believe it can only get better.

Chris and Russell – thanks very much for taking the time to share your perspectives!

Praveen – to see it and then think about how to face it, not right now alone, but also in the future

]]> By: Praveen http://dinamehta.com/blog/2009/03/07/imagination-intuition-and-small-steps/comment-page-1/#comment-1246 Praveen Tue, 10 Mar 2009 11:40:54 +0000 http://dinamehta.com/?p=284#comment-1246 Personally believe that this so called recession is the greatest thing to happen as it provides opportunity to rethink a few fundamental blocks of life that we so easily take for granted. There is providence in calamity, we only have to see it. Praveen Personally believe that this so called recession is the greatest thing to happen as it provides opportunity to rethink a few fundamental blocks of life that we so easily take for granted. There is providence in calamity, we only have to see it.
Praveen

]]> By: Russell Small http://dinamehta.com/blog/2009/03/07/imagination-intuition-and-small-steps/comment-page-1/#comment-1245 Russell Small Tue, 10 Mar 2009 05:50:14 +0000 http://dinamehta.com/?p=284#comment-1245 There is nothing wrong with having grand plans if that is the nature of the SELF. The problem is when grand plans are created out of the EGO. We are coming to the end of the ego and entering a time where using our imagination and intuition will become natural skills that we honor once again. Thanks for the interesting post and for starting this dialogue! There is nothing wrong with having grand plans if that is the nature of the SELF. The problem is when grand plans are created out of the EGO. We are coming to the end of the ego and entering a time where using our imagination and intuition will become natural skills that we honor once again. Thanks for the interesting post and for starting this dialogue!

]]> By: Chris | Intuition Zone http://dinamehta.com/blog/2009/03/07/imagination-intuition-and-small-steps/comment-page-1/#comment-1244 Chris | Intuition Zone Sun, 08 Mar 2009 04:00:04 +0000 http://dinamehta.com/?p=284#comment-1244 I used to have a lot of conflict about my intuition - it always told me to do things that didn't make sense... after a decade of not listening... and getting into trouble, I finally learned to pay attention. :) In my experience, I usually hear my intuition the clearest about very very big things. So for me, intuition often causes jumps, leaps, and bounds moreso than incremental improvements. There's still the little clues that keep me moving along. How this relates to change in the world? I don't try and hide my intuition. When I feel intuition, I let other people around me know what's going on - especially if it's leading me to make big life decisions that others are concerned about. In other words, I lead by example. I let others see that intuition doesn't have to be feared just because it's misunderstood. The less we hide behind intuition, and the more we bring it to the forefront of our lives, our conversations, and the experience that *OTHERS* have of us, the more others will begin to see its value and give intuition a try. I used to have a lot of conflict about my intuition – it always told me to do things that didn’t make sense… after a decade of not listening… and getting into trouble, I finally learned to pay attention. :)

In my experience, I usually hear my intuition the clearest about very very big things. So for me, intuition often causes jumps, leaps, and bounds moreso than incremental improvements. There’s still the little clues that keep me moving along.

How this relates to change in the world?

I don’t try and hide my intuition. When I feel intuition, I let other people around me know what’s going on – especially if it’s leading me to make big life decisions that others are concerned about.

In other words, I lead by example. I let others see that intuition doesn’t have to be feared just because it’s misunderstood.

The less we hide behind intuition, and the more we bring it to the forefront of our lives, our conversations, and the experience that *OTHERS* have of us, the more others will begin to see its value and give intuition a try.

]]> By: Yusuf Kirmani http://dinamehta.com/blog/2009/03/07/imagination-intuition-and-small-steps/comment-page-1/#comment-1241 Yusuf Kirmani Sat, 07 Mar 2009 13:38:16 +0000 http://dinamehta.com/?p=284#comment-1241 It,s pity. We all are living in uncertainty. I don't know much about all this. But I am feeling uneasy. It,s pity. We all are living in uncertainty. I don’t know much about all this. But I am feeling uneasy.

]]> By: Shefaly http://dinamehta.com/blog/2009/03/07/imagination-intuition-and-small-steps/comment-page-1/#comment-1236 Shefaly Sat, 07 Mar 2009 06:13:53 +0000 http://dinamehta.com/?p=284#comment-1236 Dina: Interesting questions which are pertinent for many whose numbers will grow in the next few months, I anticipate. Your question: "How does the rational mind cope with these when we are facing the barrel?" made me think immediately that in fact, only a rational mind will cope with uncertainty well. Why? Because a rational mind remembers that economies are cyclical, that amplitudes of troughs may vary but it will recover into a crest, that we cannot control time but we do control what we do with it, that we may not have thought deeper about the skills we have not had to use when times were good, that fear is that it is just another name for uncertainty. Spoken rationally, of course, but you and I have had long conversations about this so rationally, I expect only you -and a handful of others - to understand :-) Dina:

Interesting questions which are pertinent for many whose numbers will grow in the next few months, I anticipate.

Your question: “How does the rational mind cope with these when we are facing the barrel?” made me think immediately that in fact, only a rational mind will cope with uncertainty well.

Why?

Because a rational mind remembers that economies are cyclical, that amplitudes of troughs may vary but it will recover into a crest, that we cannot control time but we do control what we do with it, that we may not have thought deeper about the skills we have not had to use when times were good, that fear is that it is just another name for uncertainty.

Spoken rationally, of course, but you and I have had long conversations about this so rationally, I expect only you -and a handful of others – to understand :-)

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