Permission Slips

I keep a lot of little reminders around me: stones, jewelry, trinkets, little cards with affirmations written on them, journals that are only half used, books, cd’s, emails from people on internet lists, websites I support. I used to collect stuffed animals, they bring out my inner child. I have given most of the little furry things away but my world is filled with permission slips, reminders that the true me, the higher part of myself wants to express in many different ways. There is Vera the poet that hasn’t been heard from in a while. There is Vera the artist that expresses through making things: jewelry, scrapbooks, crocheted or knitted things. All of these pieces come together to form my unique point of view.

I learned the term Permission Slips through a mentor. I had formerly thought of all of this stuff I surround myself with as toys. My playthings in this game of physical being.

We are free to choose the permission slip that excite us. These are the things that bring joy into our experience.

Sometimes I look at a stone or a flower or a piece of jewelry that I have made and allow that to be the thing that brings joy into that moment. Its very simple. Our work of creating our reality is done in the single moment. We create in the now. The single moments form a chain of more and more positive energy being created in our little piece of reality.

I look around me and see that I am surrounded by permission slips: things I have been collecting to remind myself of some aspect of reality I want to explore.

Today I made a crystal bracelet to match the necklace I made on New Year’s Day. I want to sustain the energy I spoke of then. This is a permission slip to do just that.

As I made the bracelet I finished listening to the audio book of The Secret.

http://www.thesecret.tv/

This is a very powerful presentation. It encourages me onward to use the permission slips which seem to show up everywhere in my life.