SpaceClear Reflections

The Spacious Ways of Lincoln and Einstein

Posted on24. Aug, 2010 by Stephanie Bennett Vogt.

“Once we change the very way we see, we may begin to experience the connections that tie us all together.” –Lynne McTaggart
What do Albert Einstein, Aldous Huxley, William James,Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, Eleanor Roosevelt and Albert Schweitzer have in common?
Lynne McTaggart, author of The Field answers this question in a blog post entitled “Transcending the [...]

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The Truth of You

Posted on13. Aug, 2010 by Stephanie Bennett Vogt.

Beautiful video. Gorgeous images. Timeless wisdom.
Use the flaws  (i.e. misspellings) as another opportunity to observe attachment and… let it go!
Passion. Not perfection.

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Managing Paper, Piles… Overwhelm

Posted on30. Apr, 2010 by Stephanie Bennett Vogt.

“Every time you feel overwhelmed, reduce the task. Every time you feel overwhelmed, stop and feel.” – Your Spacious Self, p.99
A really good question I received in this blog recently:
I have a question I have wanted to ask for  a while now. I am doing the practice of clearing one thing each day and I am still [...]

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Simple Rituals of Clearing and Letting Go

Posted on12. Apr, 2010 by Stephanie Bennett Vogt.

“To the unconscious mind, ‘real life action’ and and ‘conscious intentional ritual’ are the same thing!” –Your Spacious Self
If you think of dreams as the way that your unconscious mind communicates to you in special symbolic code while you sleep, ritual is one way you can consciously communicate back to your unconscious while you’re awake. To [...]

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Lost and Found in Letting Go

Posted on06. Apr, 2010 by Stephanie Bennett Vogt.

“An organized clutter of thoughts consumed me – pulled me through the fog of grief that had settled….and then the memorial was done.  There was nothing left to organize, nothing left to do…” –Reflections from a reader
Recently I was invited to guest-blog for a week on DrGreene.com. As part of my series on “cultivating spacious detachment,” [...]

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Who Are You, Really?

Posted on12. Mar, 2010 by Stephanie Bennett Vogt.

“When how a person occurs to himself alters, everything else shifts as well.”
I believe that “spaciousness” is something that expresses itself in infinite ways. Here’s an example. Enjoy this beauty of a piece:
Colin Wilson, the prolific and influential British writer, was born to working-class parents from a relatively poor community in Britain. Although his [...]

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Where The Mind Goes, Energy Flows

Posted on02. Mar, 2010 by Stephanie Bennett Vogt.

An old Cherokee chief is teaching his grandson about life:
“A fight is going on inside me,” he said to the boy. “It is a terrible fight and it is between two wolves. One is evil – he is anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, self-doubt, and ego.
“The other [...]

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Perception

Posted on02. Feb, 2010 by Stephanie Bennett Vogt.

“We don’t see things as they are. We see them as we are.” –Anais Nin

In a common place environment at an inappropriate hour, do we perceive beauty?
Do we stop to appreciate it?
Do we recognize talent in an unexpected context?

These three questions were part of a study conducted some years ago.
I learned about it in an [...]

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Thought Clouds

Posted on29. Nov, 2009 by Stephanie Bennett Vogt.

Wondering what a thought cloud is? Set a timer for 60 seconds and write down every thought that goes through your mind without censoring it. Phrases, single words, repetitive grunts, random thoughts, brain farts…. write it all down. When the bell goes off, draw a big circle around the words. There it is: your thought [...]

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Gratitude: A Visual Feast

Posted on24. Nov, 2009 by Stephanie Bennett Vogt.

“There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.” – Rumi
‘Tis the season. Gratitude in pictures…and a movie. What are you grateful for? How does gratitude make you feel?

Happy Thanksgiving!
Credits:

“Gratitude” Album Cover by  uulyrics.com
“Love and Gratitude” Photograph of Water Crystal by Dr. Masaru Emoto
“I am Grateful” Video by igetrealtv

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Consciousness, Creativity, and the Mind

Posted on22. Sep, 2009 by Stephanie Bennett Vogt.

I love to mix things up when it comes to this blog. Practical tips. Inspiring poetry. Beautiful photographs. Funny cartoons. Good stories. Helpful resources. Wonder questions… My only caveat is that it be quality content that either raises our energy level, or our awareness, or both.
When I see something that  illustrates and clearly explains the nature [...]

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Minding the Chatter Clears Clutter

Posted on11. Sep, 2009 by Stephanie Bennett Vogt.

“There is nothing either good nor bad,
but thinking makes it so.”
–Shakespeare, Hamlet
Have you ever stopped whatever you were doing to simply observe your thoughts? Yes, to do nothing else but watch the nonstop activity of the mind without doing anything to fix or change what’s going on in there?
If you took that experience and multiplied [...]

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Changing Our Story Around Money

Posted on30. Jun, 2009 by Stephanie Bennett Vogt.

“What you’re living is the (temporary, in the moment) indicator of your vibration.”
–Abraham-Hicks
This YouTube video says it better than I ever could. It’s very funny too! The way Abraham-Hicks portrays the nonstop (and annoying) chatter of the Monkey Mind is priceless!
I found myself laughing and cringing at the same time – aware of the tightness [...]

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The Mind is Like a Toddler

Posted on28. Jan, 2009 by Stephanie Bennett Vogt.

This is Message #14 from my Free 30-Day Email Series. Enjoy!
The mind is like a toddler with a short attention span who goes after anything interesting and reachable. After a few minutes, he’s bored and goes on to the next thing. Without his parents’ constant attention, a toddler will go after stuff that isn’t exactly [...]

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