Be seen.
Schedule a time at your home for a really good photo of your family –
and enjoy it every day afterwards.
Dorothy Perry creates purposeful portraits in beautiful daylight. Contact her here.
Seeing the Big Picture
Tag: Energy
Elevenses
11:11 am and 11:11 pm
summons powerful energy during the minute,
a conduit for positive light and prayers
for all present and gone.
Dorothy Perry is a Chicago natural light photographer of intelligent, soulful portraiture for families and creative entrepreneurs.
Show of Hands
I photographed their parents elopement portrait
and their blending families,
and amongst the official moments
of this special day, of a new life,
they created a new portrait
especially for me to see.
I wish their big, brand new family
many moments of unity, amity, and love.
Perry Portrait Art captures real families and their good energy.
Complete the Contact Page to envision yours.
Imagine It
For the scholars, teachers and parents staring a new year, one of my ‘oldies but goodies.’
‘Enjoy’ a bowl of soup in a different way to connect (and reconnect) with the calm inside.
This uses a visualization technique called imaginating, a great tool for managing and mellowing real life situations.
The key is to let your hearing, sense of touch, sense of smell and taste engage naturally as you ‘hold’ the warm spoon and marvelous chickeny goodness in hand.
Try it, play with it (!) and apply it in different situations to see it work for you!
Dorothy Perry is a Chicago natural light photographer interested in the illumination of the inner life. Contact her here.
Like Attracts Like
The mind attracts the thing it dwells upon.
Dorothy Perry is a Chicago natural light photographer of intelligent and spiritual portraits, personal branding for women entrepreneurs, and intimate family documentary.
Old Car, New Car
This is a little story of the application of abundant thought to creating a new auto. In short, this is how I made my new car happen!
I am a fan of the Volvo 240GL car – it is a very unique and beautiful car to me, and I have already owned four!
My current 240 was classic and beautiful, had deep sentimental value, and ran like a champ. But 3 years ago, a motorcycle hit and run damaged its side, and my energetic pleasure for this car decreased when I looked at it. The quotes for body work alone were more than it cost!
I was reading a new book for creating abundant situations in daily life, and chose to test their ideas with my car situation.
In meditation, I felt how I looked and thought about it in a continual state of dissatisfaction.
I did not want to feel this way about this car, which was great in every other way.
So I began to really love the heck out of this car just the way it was,
seeing memories of its dependability and protection in my mind,
memories of washing and cleaning it,
happy moments driving in the beauty of nature, and talking with loved ones,
saying that it would resolve itself in an even better way than I can imagine,
and most importantly, leaving it alone, and not dwelling in doubt that my desire would be granted in its own Divine order.
I blessed the situation with this confidence and abundance mindset for four months to see a change in the situation. It happened quickly and happily.
The Fourth of July saw a rash of gunfire in the area where I was visiting, and my car window was shot out by a stray bullet. No auto glass places, even the ones famous for older models, could find a window for it.
I lost my mind a little in the energy of ‘fixing it’ – activity that often makes things more expensive or worse! – searching want ads, frustrated at the communications with strangers, while dealing with the realities of errands without a car.
I forgot I had to speak what I desired into effect.
Now with sanity restored, I looked at the photographs of my car and thanked it for its’ years of dependable, safe operation, the memories driving loved ones, and its dependability, and wished its next owner years of pleasure and safety in driving it.
I then began to describe a beautiful auto of the same style that had been well cared for, and would be a stable, good running vehicle for myself and my family.
The change in the situation happened the next day. My searches led to a new auto website, and the details of a car lovingly cared for came on the market four days ago! Within a week this lovely gold 240 was mine!
From stating my desire to seeing it in the energetic presence of a new car took about four months. It is exactly what I desired, and I enjoy owning it even more, knowing it came about in this manner.
I believe to send those you know and don’t know uplifted thoughts of love, acceptance, and abundance is a shift in mindset that assists that bringing about the good you desire.
Now the car is here, I have changed the statement that everyone who saw, heard, touched, or even briefly heard of my car and story would be blessed, enriched, and have doors opened for opportunity and abundance in their lives!
See you around Chicago!
Dorothy Perry is a Chicago portrait photographer specializing in custom family portraits, modern headshots, & personal branding for women and executives at home and on location.
Please contact her here for commissioned work.
Head in the Clouds
A counter-intuitive inspiration for today:
Any energy you ‘fight’ you are actually feeding.
If you are pushing something away, you are actually inviting it to stay.
To get the wisdom of a lesson, practice allowing
emotionally charged or upsetting feelings to happen
and then continue to pass through you like clouds.
In time the feeling could be re-framed as your internal signal
to get into quiet or nature, or to pay attention to the part of yourself
calling to you for attention, compassion and healing.
Contact Dorothy for custom photography here.
Good Vibrations
One positive thought produces millions of positive vibrations.
John Coltrane
Send out a little ‘good vibration’ wherever you go!
Thoughts of your relaxed state, enjoying a beautiful song, enjoying nature, enjoying a cafe au lait in Paris,
feeling the air, sensing smells and sound until your body connects with the vision.
The key is increasing gradually the amount of time you can sit in this uplifted memory energy. Believe me, it feels great!
Can’t think of something right away? Get them all together and ready in one spot to go from one memory to the next.
Buy a special journal just for writing your good memories down
so that you are able to access your playlist of incredible whenever you need it!
This is specifically for memories that elicit feelings of love and happiness for you.
Some of mine are: My cat on my lap
Seeing rainbows during thunderstorms
Walking on the freshest green grass
Seeing a cardinal in a tree nearby
Seeing videos of my tiny granddaughter singing, etc…
This book is for your list of good memories; do not record ones that have tearful, regretful, or sad feelings.
Practice seeing the moments in your ‘mind’s eye’ until your body responds.
Whether or not it influences your environment immediately, you will be more awake and attuned.
The effects will emerge in awareness, improved experiences and a different quality of conversation.
Cheering for your success, Dorothy.
Dorothy Perry is a Chicagoan creating personal photographic portraits at home or on location. Contact her here for commissioned work.
Loving Cup
With good will and applause,
I introduce my signed, special edition ceramic mug,
It beams out an artistic image of energy
to hold dark roast or Darjeeling.
I make it in single, a set of two,
and a set of four in which all have different energy designs.
Coffee is life. And energy.
I love making both.
Email perryportraitart@gmail.com for price.
These are a limited edition of eleven each.
Thank you for supporting a local artist.
Keep it Fuzzy
A valuable skill in our sensitive, seeing world
is relaxing the eyes’ focus (letting the eyes ‘go fuzzy’)
when waiting or resting.
It rests more than your eye muscles:
it also gives the ever-spinning wheels of mind a rest, too,
and lets your intuition come through
to show you how to see something new.
Dorothy Perry is a Chicago portrait photographer specializing in custom family portraits, modern headshots, & personal branding for women and executives.
Contact her studio for commissioned work.
