The Fertile Unknown

A Child's Creativity

For the child in all of us...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_hGQuTjI3U

A New Year's Blessing

May this year contain happy surprises
Transcending that which you now can see ~
Opportunities in challenges' guises
Calling you forth into all you can be.

May you create from divine inspiration
Joy-filled from within your heart's depth ~
Discovering with engaged fascination
Alive beauty which captures your breath.

May you delight in a lightness of being
A remembrance that life can be fun ~
Reconnecting to all that is freeing ~
Radiating the shine of your sun.

I wish you a soulful '07
A year of your unique voice expressed ~
The emergence of a creative heaven
In which you feel you truly are blessed.

Happy New Year!

Warmly,
Michelle

Creativity Portal Calendar

The printable 2007 Creativity Portal Calendar is
now available to download for free:

http://www.creativity-portal.com/calendar

Laughter is Contageous

Anyone who has experienced deep connection through laughing already know this, but it's great that more and more literature is emerging to back the life-experiential findings up. World Science just put out an article on the resonant power of laughter:

Researchers at University College London and Imperial College London have found that positive sounds such as laughter or a triumphant “woo hoo!” trigger a strong response in the listener’s brain...“It seems that it’s absolutely true that ‘laugh and the whole world laughs with you’,” said Sophie Scott of University College London, one of the researchers...The research team played a series of sounds to volunteers while scanning their brains with functional magnetic resonance imaging, a technology that measures brain activity based on blood flow in the brain...Some of the sounds were positive, such as laughter or triumph; others were unpleasant, such as screaming or retching...the response was greater for positive sounds, suggesting that these were more contagious than negative sounds, according to the group...“This response in the brain, automatically priming us to smile or laugh, provides a way of mirroring the behaviour of others, something which helps us interact socially. It could play an important role in building strong bonds between individuals in a group.”