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2013-03-24 05:51:44 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

2013-02-18 20:52:38 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

"It Will Unfold Before Me", a new photo of a sunset, with clouds below and above.  The title comes from this quote:

"I perceived that I wouldn't have to go out and search for what I was supposed to do, It would unfold before me."-Anita Moorjani, Dying to Be Me

2012-12-22 02:08:33 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

New post: Stepping onto the path of compassion for Sandy Hook. 

2012-12-21 03:08:00 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

New photo. No title yet.

2012-09-26 02:54:12 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

2012-09-26 02:52:51 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

2012-09-26 02:51:46 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

2012-09-26 00:18:11 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

The Sun Kisses This Too

2012-09-10 14:05:50 (5 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Inspired by Women Who Run With The Wolves...

2012-08-09 06:31:29 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

I took my son to get a sonogram and watched the imagery on the machine as he took deep breaths and exhaled. It reminded me of the most powerful, life-changing guest I ever saw on Oprah and what he shared with us about life and dying. 

2012-08-06 19:18:08 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Still in beta but looks interesting

2012-08-02 11:56:47 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Have you ever wanted to give up on a dream because it seemed unreachable?  Then this week's story about a funny/dumb thing I did in New York is for you...

2012-07-26 04:01:12 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

3 Steps Women Need to Take to Play Big.... Or Why You Should Be at KC Baker's School of Well-Spoken Women LIVE Event this weekend in New York.  
In this week's video, I share 3 steps women need to take to play big, and all three are embodied in this event on Sunday. Tickets are only $75 and include dinner, drinks, a reception, and an evening of powerful Ted-Talk- type speeches from women who are changing the world!  I'm a proud sponsor. Hope to see you there! 

2012-05-22 13:11:52 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Using the 4 Levels of Awareness- in this video, I add Michael Beckwith's levels of awareness to David Hawkins' Map of Consciousness and explain how the life/god views affect how you feel and how you perceive the world.

2012-05-16 23:56:34 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Get bonus resources at http://caramoulds.com including pdf's of Abraham-Hick's Emotional Scale with Hawkins' Log Levels AND the Emotional Scale overlayed with the full Map of Consciousness.

On today's video, I combine Dr. David Hawkins' Map of Consciousness vibrational levels with Abraham-Hicks' Emotional Scale and show you how to raise your level on the topic of money from fear to optimism using a simple strategy.

Using this technique REGULARLY, you can raise your overall level of vibration. If you practice this for every area of your life that is currently below 200, you will soon hardly ever be in those lower frequency levels for very long. Certainly not long enough for it to significantly impact your life. You will stay in the "flow", things will come easily to you. CONTENTMENT is a good place to be! And from there, you can more easily move into... more »

2012-05-07 17:21:01 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Today's video explains David Hawkins' Map of Consciousness. I've also included a FREE downloadable pdf exercise you can use to analyze your energy levels in four key areas of your life.

2012-05-07 04:21:10 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

This week's video plus an activity for you to rate your energy levels in four key areas of your life!

2012-04-30 15:46:19 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

2012-04-28 20:26:26 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

♡♡♡..Love is the only flower that grows and blossoms
without the aid of the seasons. ~ Khalil Gibran

2012-04-28 17:16:02 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

New photo on StillPointe Photography

2012-04-28 14:45:14 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Great short book review for business inspiration. Love the title. I think I need to read this book because I'm spending too much time getting "ready" and "aiming."

2012-04-24 01:13:51 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

I was so excited when this book arrived this weekend!
My new nightly ritual: Glass of wine. Silence. Bentlily poetry. Ahhh.
(You can get yours at http://bentlily.com and read a poem a day. Just for fun... and wisdom... and breaking free.)

2012-04-23 13:30:15 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

#creativity #neuroscience

Excellent Charlie Rose interview with Jonah Lehrer

What is creativity?

2012-04-23 13:26:29 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

This week's Spirituality with Bling... If perfectionism is preventing you from finishing projects you want to do, like launching a product, publishing your writing, or painting a room in your house, you need a new strategy to make your perfectionism work FOR you. Perfectionists value excellence and high quality, which is great. But excellence and high quality only matter if the project gets finished! Watch the video to see my strategy for making my perfectionism work FOR me rather than against me.

Share YOUR bling! How do you overcome perfectionism that turns into procrastination?

2012-04-17 14:27:48 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Intriguing video. Love the opening dance sequence

2012-04-10 17:57:45 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

2012-04-02 15:52:00 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

The Commute

Orange County, CA

#KnottsPhotos

2012-04-02 15:48:53 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

This week's video for Spirituality with Bling from The StillPointe...
(Subscribe to be entered in the Weekly Giveaways. Next week's bling is three bars of handmade goat milk soap from The Old Colony Company.) http://theoldcolony.com

2012-04-02 15:42:09 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Friends :)

2012-03-27 04:02:50 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

My first video!!

2012-03-22 03:00:48 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Playing with daffodils tonight.

2012-03-12 02:29:07 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

New post on the importance of following your passion, featuring a TedxTalk by Larry Smith to college students.

2012-03-11 06:11:55 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

New orchid photo

2012-03-01 20:44:23 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

My 50th birthday is Monday!
I decided to have a great birthday bash by giving away books I love and prints for 5 days.

I'm giving away three copies of Danielle LaPorte's The Fire Starter Sessions, one copy of Wayne Dyer's new book Wishes Fulfilled, one copy of Samantha Reynolds Limited Edition Bentlily: A Collection of Poems, one copy of Karen Walrond's The Beauty of Different, one copy of Peter Diamandis's Abundance. Plus one free 11 x 14 print of your choice from StillPointe Photography each day.
Subscribe or Like the new Facebook page to enter.

I'm going to make this a party to remember for the next 50 years!!! :-))

2012-02-29 03:55:25 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 2 +1s)

Download Central Park Lake for $10

2008. Central Park Lake. San Remo towers in background. In 2008 I began to shoot with digital infrared. This was done with a camera that was modified to only transmit infrared to the sensor; at a spot by the willow trees where I like to sit down and get away from the noise and rush of the city.

http://www.beckermanphoto.com/central-park-lake-infrared.html

Pixels: 8640 x 5760, $10 for High Rez file
Price is definitely going to change.

2012-02-27 16:41:49 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 1 +1s)

"The connection economy destroys the illusion of control. Students have the
ability to find out which colleges are a good value, which courses make no sense, and how people in the real world are actually making a living. They have the
ability to easily do outside research, even in fifth grade, and to discover that the
teacher (or her textbook) is just plain wrong.

"When students can take entire courses outside of the traditional school, how does
the school prevent that? When passionate students can start their own political
movements, profitable companies, or worthwhile community projects without
the aegis of a school, how are obedience and fealty enforced?

"It’s impossible to lie and manipulate when you have no power."
- Seth Godin, Stop Stealing Dreams

Can I get an amen?

2012-02-27 16:27:07 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

"Transparency in the traditional school might destroy it. If we told the truth about
the irrelevance of various courses, about the relative quality of some teachers, about the power of choice and free speech—could the school as we know it
survive?" - Seth Godin, "Stop Stealing Dreams", his just-released 30,000 word manifesto on education

2012-02-27 16:02:48 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

I just started reading Seth Godin's Manifesto "Stop Stealing Dreams" on what's wrong with our educational system. He wants to start a movement and increase the dialogue in order to create real change, finally.

As a 20-year teacher and administrator in the public school system, I EMBRACE this Manifesto. He is dead-on with what is wrong with even the best schools in top school districts. Here's one truth:

"School has become an industrialized system, working on a huge scale, that has
significant byproducts, including the destruction of many of the attitudes and
emotions we’d like to build our culture around.

In order to efficiently jam as much testable data into a generation of kids, we push to make those children compliant, competitive zombies."

2012-02-27 02:24:02 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

How cool is this? Someone just bought the t-shirt I designed with my dog's picture on it.

2012-02-26 00:17:03 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 3 +1s)

Harry Potter fans might recognize this hallway, where several scenes in Hogwarts were filmed for the movie series. This is the interior of Gloucester Cathedral in Gloucestershire, England. An architectural beauty, and as some commenters have pointed out, built by hand!

Prints available at www.meleahreardon.com

#HDR #photography #PlusPhotoExtract

2012-02-26 00:11:53 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

if you think about it that way .... savour it.

2012-02-24 00:41:19 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Reading about eidetic imagery, this quote from Ivan Pavlov gave me pause: " there are “two categories of people—artists and thinkers. Between them, there is a marked difference. The artists…comprehend reality as a whole, as continuity, a complete living reality, without divisions, without any separations. The other group, the thinkers, pull it apart, kill it. … This difference is especially prominent in the so-called eidetic imagery of children. … Such a whole creation of reality cannot be completely attained by a thinker.”,[3]

Are you an artist or a thinker?

2012-02-23 16:39:21 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Photo by Henri Ton.


flickr.com/photos/henriton/5805647912

2012-02-21 20:23:47 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Art is magic... But how is it magic? In its metaphysical development? Or does some final transformation culminate in a magic reality? In truth, the latter is impossible without the former. If creation is not magic, the outcome cannot be magic.
-- Hans Hofmann

2012-02-20 00:48:20 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.
- Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama

2012-02-19 03:46:15 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

I just purchased my copy of the +Plus One Collection Limited Edition book. Each Limited Edition will be numbered and include an individual print from the book as well.

Some facts about the limited edition:

- 193 artists is in the print book (but remember, ebook is on its way and all 523 are in!)
- 200 pages long
- This version is only available for the next 10 days, and will not be sold ever again
- Limited Edition is printed on fine art paper, and includes tipped-in print, made to museum standards
- Limited Edition will ship in early March
- $50 of the $200 limited edition price goes to Kiva a non-profit charity organization.
- It will be large landscape fine art book (11"x13")
After the 10 days, a smaller lower priced version of the print book will be available through Blurb.

This book was made entirely by the G+ Community. ... more »

2012-02-16 15:14:21 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

She will donate $10,000 to her Kiva Lending Team if she wins the Shorty. She is in 3rd place right now. Voting closes February 17th.
I have been following her for over a year and attended her Rich, Happy, Hot LIVE conference last October. She is a genuine, down-to-earth, spiritually-centered business woman who inspires others to follow their passion and create socially-responsible businesses that benefit the world.

2012-02-07 04:03:44 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 2 +1s)

2012-02-07 03:51:17 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Here's my week 3 response to A Year With Myself, which includes a new photo.

2012-02-07 03:48:21 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

It's not too late to join A Year With Myself. I'm only on Week 3 and there are plenty of people working at their own pace. The prompts are incredible, it's free, and there's a supportive, intelligent community of women participating.