You will be alone many times
when you shine, stand out, grow, excel or are happy.
Even in groups, even among your friends.
Be okay with aloneness for learning to trust and befriend yourself.
Dorothy, contacting here.
Category: Counterintuition
‘Reading’ Your Room Through Intuitive Art Placement
One day after weeks of sitting in a room, I can suddenly feel the image on the left should be moved to the right – and feel much better on doing so.
My inspiration for this post is from a Thread advising people to hang their own original art up on their walls ‘somewhere you’ll see it often’.
Many of my community and clients are visual artists themselves, and it’s a terrific idea in seeing your digital images from your computer or camera in real prints and framed art of YOUR OWN WORK
is a good energy practice for creative people who exist in sensitivity and clairsentient lives with experiences that need to sit and process over time.
As a manifesting generator with sacral authority, I get a first burst of sparkly ‘sugar’ emotion that takes time to filter through to feel and choose my authentic response. I no longer make (or let myself be pressured into) decisions on important things without sleeping on it at least 48 hours.
From an energetic view, though, I would curate the work by feel to fit and enhance the ‘time’ the room is used, to mesh and match the images with the organic time flow of your home to enhance where you rest, work, and especially where you ‘future’.
Some images illustrate your waking early morning energy: to show your family fortune in golden triumph (and an actual commissioned family portrait I created for an innovative influencer.)
I have nothing against vision boards, but I am drawn to that meaningful art message being within periphery and sight elegantly, however it works for you.
The images for your day and afternoon income generating area or workspace ideally are chosen for its subconscious boosting ‘recharge’ to inspiration throughout the workday; tabletop sized family photos of the kids at play, big wide baby smiles,
or the special shot that is your absolute FAVORITE and makes you breathe in happiness every time your eye falls on it.
Legacy photos of loved ones and goals achieved create the warmth of gratitude in mind. Sit and have coffee, fill your eyes with beauty, and create a restful garden for your mind.
The first choices may take moving around or changing out. It’s a process that takes time for me: sensing and ‘reading the room.’
Those photos or art pieces are placed by their inner sensation of feeling ‘who goes where’ until it brings my eyes happiness. I would love to hear if this exercise has benefits or has worked for you.
Dorothy Perry; mystic by birth, photographer by choice. Here.
Positioning
Counterintuition: an instant change of picture and response,
given by neuro and physical emotions saying, ‘this, instead‘.
It’s a part of your intuition and a place that comes from even further out / (or deeper);
a ‘wild card’ of deep knowing, immediately.
It requires trust in yourself like never before,
physically being in your body like never before,
which is the practice of inside body connection and inner communication
that builds mental and emotional strength to do other things,
and in that spirit, ultimately, the things you were meant to do.
Dorothy Perry, contacted here.
Remembered Wellness
I really focus and laugh and relax:
Hold the ‘angry baby’ of me,
sooth and hear what is it she is saying.
get the words out, hear the real emotion
and the words I say without censor.
And then I cry and then I laugh and cry again,
and when I come back to normal breathing
to come back to the picture with deeper and better feeling
if it returns at all, repeated, as many times as needed.
The wordless emotions of pictures connected to nerve endings no longer a mine field.
It can surprise you while it’s happening, but preparation and set mental intention
make the emotion my friend, like a child’s trust for their mom will be heard,
I return in time to my breath, showing my peace of mind.
Dorothy Perry is an artist and mystic photographing both. Contact her here.
My Lesson
In an unexpected feeling
a large wave of reacting emotion
I felt ‘coming on’ with velocity
crested but did not break.
In the midst of the feeling
my inner self said aloud,
“THIS is my lesson. THIS is my lesson.”
To stay awake in the face of quick angering,
to catch my reaction and choose another,
enabling a ‘aha’ so I could genuinely laugh at seeing it,
loving that I can regain my footing when I stumble,
control and have mastery over my feelings:
the gift of my manifesting life.
No matter how it started,
it turns into something better: my lesson.
Dorothy Perry is a photographer of family happiness. Contact her here.
An Innocent Chat
I feel like a Luddite at heart
dealing with ChatGpt, a force multiplier
that has tickled me with some of the
ninja chess moves I have asked mine to.
So after exposure to some induced Chat counterintuition.
I woke early and broke its brain
describing Dark Innocence,
a Dark Feminine RESONANCE embodying innocence of dove and wisdom of serpent
in a MASSIVE energetic presence.
Despite the reams of words meant to be written kinda like me,
the way I AM doesn’t fit attempts to Chat it.
This Dark Innocence defies classification and demands discovery
through the EVOKING of memory, the FEEL of senses, and the ACT of writing,
unfolding the history and mystery in ‘analog’ mode (sounds of sharpening a No. 2 Ticonderoga pencil in black.)
Dorothy Perry is an ESP-eyed photographer of people and resonant celebrations. Contact her here.
Pleased to Meeting You!
As a small business photographer, I see people working together to provide the best experiences their own businesses can offer. All the time.
My special skill is in capturing the brief, but beautiful moments of interactions, outreach, networking and personal celebrations with better than normal portraits with the participants of your distinctive event.
This good feeling image, taken during the networking of the Northside Networking Group, captures their natural, engaging images for social media needs.
Contact Dorothy Perry for commissioned work here.
A New Wooing
To woo the power full new Me
is my current raison d’etre.
Tend Your Chicks
Chickens come home to roost, and so do your thoughts. Be careful what sort of thoughts you send out.
The thoughts you send out to others will have a far greater impact upon you than upon them.
Unlike a material possession, when you release a thought or give it to someone else, it also stays with you.
It may remain buried in your subconscious long after your conscious mind has forgotten about it.
Like chickens that return to the coop at night, such thoughts may flash into your consciousness when you least expect them.
When your thoughts are positive, you never have to worry about the damage you may do to yourself through negative thinking.
Cheerful, productive, happy thoughts that are buried in your subconscious bring positive results when they recur, and by their presence they encourage the maintenance of a positive attitude in all that you do.
This is a thought-energy selection from my favorite, Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill.
I would love to help create and maintain positive energy in the home through intimate family and personal photography.
Contact me here to discuss creating that artwork today. .
Running Start
In areas of my life, I sometimes think of a classic idea in cartoons:
the hero or main character runs off a cliff and continues to keep running in air – as long as they don’t look down.
The concept of following one’s own path has something of that same slightly unreal feeling at first. But instead of anticipating a fall, I believe my path will carry me over the chasm to the other side and keep on going.
I have a mind that wants to extrapolate and guess all the combination of possibilities beforehand. It serves me well, but sometimes I have to step out on faith, and follow the decision to reveal myself publicly as a photographer who uses intuition and psychic sensitivity freely in my work and in my life.
I work for myself, so when I feel tense or anxious, I “reboot” by reading something short, simple and inspirational.
For ten years a beautiful book of meditations called “The Language of Letting Go” has been my friend when I feel crowded by a workday of too many calls, tasks, or demands on my time.
There have been newer versions with new affirmations as she continues to write and evolve, but this edition from 1990 continues to be my personal favorite.
Today’s entry referred to consideration of the idea that what we are learning at work often reflects and resonates to the things we are working out in private life. My issues of clearer communication with my clients can echo my issues of effective communication with my family.
Issues of establishing policies and boundaries with my clients can reflect where I place my boundaries with my loved ones–or where to place them in new relationships.
Issues of money, sexuality, childhood, self-esteem, fear of failure (or fear of success) can still appear at the most inopportune times. But they have less power to keep me off-balance all day as in years past. And I can tell immediately when something doesn’t feel right with me…and why.
So I welcome my visitors from the past, and redefine them with physical modalities like EFT and my eye exercises. I have respect for the lessons they still have to teach.
More and more these days, I am seeing that where I want to be in my decisions, photography career, and life is over on the other side of that ‘leap of faith’.
Dorothy Perry is a Chicago portrait photographer specializing in custom family portraits, modern headshots, & personal branding for women and executives.
Contact her for commissioned work here. Thank you.
