Holiday Fun 2022 at the Energy Spirituality™ Blog. Don’t we deserve that, after such an incredibly intense year?
Holiday Fun 2022 RESOURCES now at the Energy Spirituality™ Blog. Discover some unexpected ways to celebrate. For YOU, a seeker of growth. Because you’re not just anyone, doing just anything. Right?
Contest News
Yes, we’re finally doing a contest here at the Energy Spirituality™ Blog. I’m adding this news on February 23, 2023. Because the contest can be found at “Fame Karma of Claire Danes.”
Come have a look. this is a good one. :)
People Expressing Themselves with (Outdated) Mainstream Cliches
In the aforementioned session with Gladys, I made a reference to this paradox. (AKA, simply an annoying thing.)
- Popularity in mainstream thinking, Collective Consciousness. That’s one thing. One thing that shows up in Google hits.
- Saying things with a High Truth Value is altogether different.
- In general, whatever is most popular has the lowest truth value.
Hey, that’s how it is, folks. Keeps us busy spreading the word about innovations in the Age of Awakening, right?
Just this morning, see a detailed example over at this blogpost, Comments #251-287!
Gladys told me, “Every day I hear so many people using outdated expressions that aren’t the least bit helpful.” Examples I’ll add here:
- “I have to chill.”
- Or “Even if you don’t feel happy, just make yourself feel positive. Turn that smile upside down!!!”
Exactly! Happens every day, right? And thus a contest idea was born.
- Now let’s continue with the original blogpost…..
Your Holiday Fun 2022 Resource #1. Shaping Our Next CONTEST
Long-time readers of this blog may know we’ve run a lot of contests here:
- One of my favorites led to the development of the Energy Spirituality SENSITIVY SCALE.
- Originally that contest explored whether or not various celebrities were empaths. Leading to surprises galore!
- Besides that, our Fake Smile Contest from 2019 proved a standout, didn’t it? Highly educational this was to many of us, me included.
- And our Zesty Smiles Contest currently holds a position on our list of Most Popular Posts (at the right column).
- Now that I’m blogging just once a week (usually), rather than three times weekly, sigh! Naturally, you’re not finding as many blogposts with a contest. So far, in 2022, exactly none! Toward the end of this year, let’s include one: A Monday Blogpost where you’ll get to enter and request some kind of info or reading. Maybe I’ll choose three winners for a longish prize. Or possibly every entry will win a smaller prize.
Probably You’ll Choose a Contest Topic Related These Energy Spirituality Specialties
(Although Not Necessarily.)
- Maybe an Aura Reading Contest where you nominate public figures. (Prizes might include my researching one or two chakra databanks on nominated public figures.)
- More specialized would be Aura Reading Contest where we highlight one “Array of Chakra Databanks” of special interest to you.
- If you ask me nicely (and the quality of COMMENT is something I love about hosting this blog)… Then I just might be willing to host a contest where you nominate public figures… And this version of contest has me doing a Skilled Empath Merge (mini-sized) on each nominee.
- Fans of Face Reading Secrets® appreciate how accessible this kind of info can be. Such depths of practical knowledge about personal style! Wouldn’t it be fun to enter that kind of contest and receive a physiognomy treat?
- As an Enlightenment Teacher, my latest discovery involves researching a performer’s… Or a newcontest could involve a writer’s… Favored Vibrational Frequency for communicating in that art form.
Alternatively you may come up with a completely different idea.
Simply COMMENT below and tell me which kind of contest you’d like. If you’d like. ;)
I’m inviting you to weigh in with your choice of contests by December 15, 2022.
Your Holiday Fun 2022 Resource #2. Our Annual Holiday Poem
When will I write this one for 2022? On a day when I wake up with a certain kind of singing joy.
Somehow, amazingly, those poems arrive once a year. Otherwise, you’ll mostly find them only at the start of most of my books.
Here’s an example, the Dedication for “Seeking Enlightenment in the Age of Awakening.”
Note: At that unusual blogpost you’ll find a little video of me reading it. Plus, the words are there for reading aloud, if you’d like to declaim them like a latter-day Dylan Thomas.
Not everyone adores poetry. Not everyone even tolerates it much. Maybe I could compare poetry for adults to eating durian. Only that wouldn’t be honest, since I’ve only read about that uniquely delicious, stinky, kind of fruit. Not yet tasted it.
Nonetheless, some of you might enjoy that upcoming poem — whatever it turns out to be. Incidentally, the link just provided will take you to previous poems that I’ve published here, during holiday seasons past.
Best of All, on that Poetry Day at Deeper Perception Made Practical
As always, you can COMMENT below the main post, once it’s published.
A grand place for you to cut-and-paste any poem that you’ve written this year.
Yes, I’m looking forward to reading your creations, Blog-Buddies. Let Today Be a Holiday! A holiday when we can celebrate your creativity.
Finally…
Comment below to share anything you that could help with your engagement at this blog.
- What here has meant most to you in 2022?
- For instance, do any favorite blogposts come to mind?
- Is there anything you’d like to see more of next year?
Do tell, Blog-Buddies. And, as always, thanks for reading.
How can you sign up for Goodreads?
Hey you digital natives will figure this out for yourself in seconds, no doubt. For the rest of us? The link just supplied can help.
I think this is sweet. Thank you for thinking of new ways to make this blog even more fun.
You’re welcome, MELISSA. I felt happy writing this post.
So many emails are coming in, daily, about Black Friday this and Giving that and Buy-Buy-Buy. I wanted to simply offer something.
Happy Holiday Season, Rose!
I loved what you said about your annual Christmas Poem, how the day you write it you “wake up with a certain kind of singing joy.”
It’s so lovely that you can count on it every year. And it can count on you!!
As for type of contest, #1 and #5 are my favorites, but I will be sure to enter any type of contest that you host!
Thanks for helping to make this blog so lively, JASMINE.
I’m so glad you appreciate the concept of “singing joy.” To me, that’s the inner voice of poetry. (Each genre of writing has one or more voices, to this writer.)
Also, JASMINE, thanks to your recent comments — and other enthusiastic Blog-Buddies here — we’ll likely reach a new comment milestone in a week or less.
Happy December, everyone!
Wait, what do you mean about genres of writing having inner voices?
That is such a beautiful idea!! Would you please, please, please give another example?
Oh my, JASMINE, it’s good that you asked.
To be clear, I do not mean different voices, as in that psychological concept of “different parts of me.” Where “parts” are more like how people talked about themselves while doing self-help with Voice Dialogue.
Voice Dialogue was popular during the early New Age Years; as I recall, my friends and I were into it around 1984.
For example, you’d have a conversation with your Inner Child.
Or perhaps if your stomach hurt, you’d talk to My Stomach. You know, as in, “My Stomach, what is hurting you? Tell me about your feelings.”
Seriously!
My friend who was the most into Voice Dialog wound up working as an actor in dinner theaters. A sweet guy!
The rest of us probably didn’t need practice at using different voices via Voice Dialogue. ;)
Also, as somebody who lived as an active spiritual seeker during the New Age Years, I sure don’t mean an inner voice as in channeling. During the Esther Hicks era, many folks were into talking to their spirit guides and even channeling.
Back then, I remember one fellow, “Sam,” who told me something like this:
“I channel Jesus, but afterwards I feel sick for three days.”
Hint: That wasn’t Jesus.
To my knowledge, no Divine Being or Ascended Master takes people over — channeling in the style of Abraham taking over Esther Hicks, or Kryon taking over Lee Carroll.
Incidentally, would any of you like to see yet more evidence…
Tthat channeling and mediumship are bad for people, now that we’re living in the Age of Awakening?
Lee Carroll now even CALLS himself Kryon Lee Carroll. As in this YouTube video, which I don’t really recommend that you listen to or watch. But you can find his channel just one icky-clicky away.
When I find this kind of mess going on in somebody’s aura, I don’t need to be informed via an announcement via YouTube. (Though I guess that videos like this could serve as a warning to practical people who don’t yet have energetic literacy.) By definition, this person is living the Astrally Compromised consciousness lifestyle.
So, JASMINE, that’s not what I mean by an inner voice of singing joy.
Nah, I mean something far more mundane. :)
Maybe, back in the day, when you were a kid your mother would sometimes tell you:
Pipe down. You’re talking too loudly.
You’re using your outdoor voice. We’re with other people now. So use your indoor voice.
Voices can be a social thing, you know, JASMINE?
So when I feel that singing joy, that’s how I write for other people who would like to read about cocreating with God, or feel like they’re in God’s House. Only poetry will do.
By contrast, when I first-draft my books, or edit them, it’s more as though my voice carries in a large space where many people may enter. Like the venue for a rock concert? Not so much. (Inwardly I cringe just at the thought.)
More like a Greek or Roman amphitheater, outdoors when the weather is warm, and audience is gathered for inspiration: Be it the catharsis of a Greek tragedy or — in my case, something far happier, although not a comedy.
Blogging? That’s a different voice. As though my house is filled with Energy Spirituality friends, and we’re having a party.
Commenting on Facebook? Among my 5,000 FB friends, not only are my literal neighbors there with me, including two friends from my block, and a mom-friend I still have from 25 years ago, through my babysitting coop.
There are so many other good people I know only from Facebook.
You know how you talk with your friendly neighbors, right? You do neighbor-talk, not too fancy. And you do a lot of listening.
Famously, Jesus advocated, “Love thy neighbor.”
I don’t go that far with most of my Facebook friends, no more than with most of my neighbors in Sugarland Run, Virginia. But I’m interested in them. I care about them. I share the sort of ideas that might interest them.
Commenting at Linked-In? It’s a businessey crowd, often pushy in a way. Differently put, a lot of the communiques have a gimme quality.
At least that’s how it seems to me, somebody who loathes aggressive sales tactics.) You know the saying, “It’s just business”? I don’t believe that is true; life is far more than making money. Probably I never will believe in “It’s just business”, not for the rest of this lifetime.
Networking on Linked-In, and even posting occasionally, is good for me. Or so I tell myself. After all, technically I run a family business.
Following in the footsteps of my father, Ernie Rosenbaum, as I wrote about him in “Bigger than All the Night Sky.” Another unlikely business owner!
As for Twitter, I have multiple accounts to support different voices.
My writer’s tweets are snappy, like a cross between old-fashioned telegraphs, fortune cookies, and competing in a cleverness competition. (Between you and me, 9 out of 10 tweets about writing make me cringe.)
My outspokenly political Twitter account brings out a social voice as an empath who is pretty darned rugged, keeping my wits about me. Aiming to make a difference in this world.
In my own little way, maybe I’m showing the world how an empath with Empath Empowerment® skills — a Skilled Empath — can speak in ways that are down-to-earth, perceptive, practical, politically engaged.
*Maybe the voice you’d use if chatting with fellow protesters at a political rally. (In Boston, I protested the Vietnam War.)
* On different occasions, using the more triumphant voice when greeting fellow voters at a presidential inauguration. (To the best of my recollection, I’ve been to one for Clinton and one for Obama.)
You get the idea, JASMINE: Many writing voices are needed for different genres of writing, because writing for other people is always a social occasion, unless you’re keeping a diary….
These voices have nuance because, as adults, we’ve learned more finesse than a typical a five-year-old who — unless growling or crying — mostly talks one way and at one volume: Loudly. And about Me-Me-Me.
JASMINE, thanks for asking.
Hi, Rose! This is so sweet, that you find more to give at the end of the year!
This blog gave me a lot this year. I was surprised to read that there hadn’t been any contests in 2022, because posting at the Karma thread feels like an ongoing, always winning contest!
That has been my absolute favorite thing at the blog this year.
When it comes to the type of contest you have, I love all of the ideas, but especially #5:
“As an Enlightenment Teacher, my latest discovery involves researching a performer’s… Or a new contest could involve a writer’s… Favored Vibrational Frequency for communicating in that art form.”
This is such a mind-boggling new discovery!!! It’s so enriching for my understanding of art.
As a point of curiosity, could this type of research be done for visual artists as well? Thank you!
OSCAR MANUEL, thanks so much. Your important vote is noted.
Excellent question in your Comment #38. Yes, of course.
Another thought on that voice theme begun by you in Comment #8, JANICE.
Still another kind of writing voice, for me, is my newly discovered social media platform about books, Goodreads. I enjoy having a place to list my books, in addition to Amazon.
To get a sense of the difference, compare:
* The mess of my Author Page at Amazon, a listing where I have almost no say in the matter.
* Versus the clean, interactive, accessible listing for my Author Account at Goodreads.
I’m just thrilled to be able to write book reviews on Goodreads, and I very much like that you don’t have to have purchased the book to review it there (as has been my experience in recent years with Amazon).
If you click on that last link you can open up any of the book reviews I’ve posted so far.
You may find a kind of freedom to my voice there, because it’s such a relief to be talking to people who love reading books.
Although nothing can compare to the joy and fellowship to my voice when I’m commenting here, at the Energy Spirituality Blog.
First I want to say how grateful I am for this Energy Spirituality Blog. All you Blog-Buddies and Rose! Thank you so much.
Then I vote for Contest idea 5. What Oscar said. :)
Sweet, KAYLA. Thank you.
The only way I can know what you Blog-Buddies prefer is if you let me know. Around here that means objective reality, not telepathy.
I love this, Rose, thank you!
I vote for Contest Possibility #6. I would love to see lots of different cliches and outdated ideas dismantled in the comments.
Hooray! ANNE, you’ve read that new contest possibility. Today I’m going to be publishing some comments from the Blog Monitor’s Queue that landed before adding Contest Possibility #6.
I’m so glad you were the first to vote for this new option.
Thank you for describing all those writing voices, Rose.
Something new and inspiring to think about.
You’re welcome, JASMINE. Getting a working author page on Goodreads has really reminded me that I think like a writer, so why not write about that occasionally? ;)
This has been a tough year. I’m grateful to everyone at this blog who has kept this light shining.
Any contest would be a plus, Rose.
RYAN B., I’m touched. I’d like this Energy Spirituality Blog to serve as a source of community, as well as a resource for practical skills for making life better in this Age of Awakening.
Instead of a contest, could I have the very cool gingerbread house in the picture? I’d settle for all those beautiful fresh cherries.
Seriously, thank you for this blog Rose. It has been a gift to me all year.
Smiles back atcha, ADRIENNE.
Keep reading, keep on commenting.
Yes, I’ve been surprised at how fascinated I’ve been by your recent comments about writing. I hope there are more.
You’re on. :)
This has been an amazing year for discovery here at the blog.
If anyone hasn’t seen it lately, there are now 67 different innovations at “Leading-Edge Discoveries for Your Personal Growth and Spiritual Awakening”.
Last among these discoveries is what’s relevant to contest idea 5, so that’s the one I vote for.
Thanks, EMMA, your the shout-out about “Leading-Edge Discoveries for Your Personal Growth and Spiritual Awakening.”
And also thanks for your contest preference. Since you wrote, I added a new Contest Idea 6 that you might like as well.
Rose, I choose any contest where I can nominate Liz Cheney.
Seriously, I appreciate all the blogging you did this year on the Jan. 6th Committee. Deeper perception makes all the difference for bringing hope to me and others who follow American politics. Thank you personally, Rose Rosetree.
Sweet! Thanks, TONY H.
Rose, thank you for this latest generosity here at your blog. My preference is for a contest with Skilled Empath Merges, although I’ll be more than happy with whatever you give us.
Everyone here, I wish you a Happy Christmas. (That is, whatever kind of “Christmas” you celebrate. Consider that term a generic but “Happy” to be very specific to you.)
Wonderful, NICK CASEY. You’re so welcome.
This year I have learned more than ever while following this extraordinarily intelligent blog.
Before responding to your question about preferred type of contest, I must congratulate you on the “Seeking Enlightenment in the Age of Awakening.”
To me, this is your best book by far, and I have long considered you to be the finest self-help writer around, as well as what we’re all learning to call “A thought leader”.
Regarding the contest, new Contest Idea 6 is my first choice. This sounds delightful.
MARTY T., thank you for all of this, including a compliment that is very meaningful to me.
For anyone who’d like a link, here’s how you can find “Seeking Enlightenment in the Age of Awakening.”
And I’ll throw in a link to your chance to win a free copy of this how-to about personal growth…via my experimental Goodreads Giveaway.
If you’re on Goodreads, might I suggest? Enter today. That giveaway won’t last much longer. Currently, your odds on winning are better than 3:1.
Happy Holidays, everyone! I’ll cast my vote for Contest Idea 6.
Reminds me of a blog conversation we had lately about Human Talk. I loved reading those comments.
You’re right, TRACIE. Those Comment Conversations were such fun over at “Why Human Talk Matters.” Good reminder!
And, TRACIE, I’m wishing you a very wonderful time of the year.
I just found this blog through GoodReads. I’ll vote in this contest.
I like the idea of the new one, Choice 6. Thank you.
Welcome, RACHEL D. A warm welcome to you, and your contest preference is duly noted.
Just two days left for your votes about this contest, Blog-Buddies. If you’d like to weigh in, please “cast your vote” here by commenting by Dec. 15.
And thanks to all who have participated so far.
Decided then. Our next contest will be Choice #6. You can find details by taking a look at the main blogpost.
Besides that, I’ll be officially opening up this contest on Jan. 1, 2023. You can find full instructions then. There will be a one-day entry period, and all who enter will win.