a capellaSoul: SoulCollage® Reflections

Through SoulCollage®, an intuitive collage process created by therapist & free spirit Seena Frost, a personal deck of self-discovery cards is created. Each card reflects a different aspect of your "self" and your life. Engaging the card-energy, verbal&written, the soul speaks. Integration ensues. Messages come through plain & simple in a beautiful flow...like singing “a capella”, yielding bountiful awakenings, curiosity, clarity ...and rumbling insights of shadow and light.

The cards shown here demonstrate a basic part of the SoulCollage® process: Engaging and working with the energy of the cards, also known as the "I Am One Who..." process. To learn more, the award-winning book, SoulCollage® Evolving by Seena Frost, is a beautiful account of the process and an excellent place to start! Seena writes about: the history, how to make cards and work with them; using the process in celebration and blessing, rites of passage, personal retreat and much more; as well as how SoulCollage® has changed the lives of thousands of people, worldwide.

February 13, 2007

My Intuition

I am one who knows before you know.

I am one you can count on. I am your gut instinct, facts don't matter to me.

I am the one who tells you your truth, and dances in delight of it! ~ I am the feeling in your heart and deep in your bones that you cannot let go of.

I am your guide in the darkness and the light. I am the one who celebrates when you listen to me!

I want you to continue heeding my call, and trusting what I communicate to you. ~ I bring you messages from your deepest self.

Whenever my voice is faint, seek quietness until you once again sense our union. I want you to know you can ask me anything, and I will answer.

I give you everlasting reliability. Remember I am always here. I give you insight, and peace. I give you your most unequivocal self.

6 comments:

Taelia said...: I really love all your cards. I can identify with aspects of all of them. Very inspiring, and now this vision statement too you posted on your other blog!

Ok~ card first.

Then must make to do list second!

Have a great night :); March 10, 2007 10:39 PM
sharryb said...: Hi Cheryl,
It has been a joy to get to know you better through your cards and your postings to our forums. I consider you one of the most inspiring SoulCollage Facilitators offering the work.

I'm working more and more with my own intuition and loved seeing your depiction on this card.

Blessings,
Sharry; April 28, 2007 6:43 AM
Cheryl Finley said...: Hi Sharry,
I am so glad you stopped by; and I am honored to be paid such a compliment. Thank you very much. I do love this work. I look forward to our getting to know each other even better.

I love that you include links in the interpretations that pertain to the card's message; like in your "Longing for Sweetness" card. That is so helpful and creative! I will be visiting those links again.

Ahh, our Intuition really is something...I feel like She's waiting in the wings for our letting go so she can fly and do what she does best.

Keep shinin' your bright light Sharry.

Blessings to you always,
Cheryl; April 28, 2007 10:10 PM
Cheryl Finley said...: Hi Lucrezia,
...I am just so excited that SoulCollage has gotten a hold of you! -- I can't wait to see your next card...and to hear about your interpretation experience.

Goodness abounds!

Cheryl; April 28, 2007 10:19 PM
megan said...: Realizing that this isn't a recent post, but (lucky me) I'm just now beginning to explore this site. Had to tell you how much I love this particular writing about intuition. The knower inside that becomes easier to hear the more we listen. I especially liked (and will be helped by) the reminder to use quiet solitude to re-connect with myself. The outside world can get really loud sometimes. Thanks!; June 24, 2007 8:17 AM
Cheryl Finley said...: Hi Megan,
Thank you for sharing your thoughts. Yes...the Knower Inside whispers and the "quiet solitude to reconnect" as you say... is invaluable in our culture of sensory overload. I'm glad this post was a helpful reminder.
You are welcome!; June 24, 2007 10:37 PM

a bit about me -- my story...

I am a free spirit & creative soul exploring my inner and outer worlds through creative, contemplative activities and practices. As a result, I discover more about myself and live from a deeper, richer, insightful and more treasured realm. SoulCollage® has been a part of my life since 2005. The benefits are bountiful.

I am a mom, daughter, sister, friend, writer, artist, jewelry-maker, passionate resource for others, lover of life... and mindful knitter for the Mother Bear Project...(MBP) - and share the teddy bears I knit for children of the MBP at my blog: Yarn Jones.

I am a nature and animal lover, an avid reader and I am fascinated with learning and exploring what interests me!

Although words simply describe and are not "the thing itself", may the descriptions above and below offer a deeper glimpse of what has called me into deeper study and practice. Perhaps one will be a catalyst for you as well. So on that note, here goes: I am a trained and registered SoulCollage® Facilitator, taught personally by Seena Frost and the loving SoulCollage® mentors at SoulCollage®, Inc.; and also certified in Soul Coaching®, trained and personally mentored by its creator, the luminous, immensely generous and beautiful spirit, Denise Linn.

My inner-explorations have revealed that I love creating free-form mandalas - or "Mandala Medicine" as I call it! Over a period of 3+ years I created over 200. That practice helped to save me at a critical time in my life. My interaction with other creative spirits online was a source of connection and inspiration. I was inspired to share the mandalas on my Mandala Oasis blog...as well as to create the Yahoo Community which has brought together mandala enthusiasts from all over the world, each of us creating mandalas in our own unique way, and connected to one another by the over-arching Creative Spirit.

In 2008, I had the honor and pleasure of moderating an 8-week series of Mandala Webinars with Mandala Process pioneer and luminary, the late Dr. Judith Cornell. I loved every bit of getting to know Judith as we worked together... and was deeply saddened to learn of her passing. May her eternal soul rest... yet soar in love and peace.

Also, I am a Certified Empowerment Coach (via IPEC). I also trained in-person with Jill Badonsky to lead a variety of powerful creativity and expressive-art workshops known as "Muse Groups", and completed Jill's Kaizen-Muse Creativity Coaching training. I continue to reap the benefits of Jill's comprehensive, insightful and playful-yet-powerful work...to this day! Even though I opted-out of pursuing certification, I practice the principles and methods personally and in my work with others.

Through my luminous soul sister Lisa Sorce Schmitz, founder of Whispers from the Moon, and her Soulful Creative Offerings, I've also had the honor and delight of studying, working with and getting to know artist, teacher, art therapist and author Pat B. Allen. Her Studio (Pardes) Process of conscious intention-and image-making, and witness writing have not only deepened my my creative process, but has also enhanced my personal awareness, and life overall.

In October 2012 I was introduced to Process Painting. This painting process is opening my heart and awareness and opened me from the inside out, allowing release of old "stuff". It's akin to my spontaneous, free-form Mandalas, each one it's own one-of-a-kind jewel in my unfolding journey.

Each act of intuitive & spontaneous creativity is a precious gem-of-an-experience for which I am immensely thankful.

May your creative play open your heart wider, and bring you even more insight, joy and deep awareness. Ahh... "awareness" - that lovely place where choices are born.

Cheers to our vivid, creative, ever-blooming life! May the Creative Force be with you... :)

Important about SoulCollage®:

Using SoulCollage®, as developed by Seena B. Frost, a person creates a deck of collaged cards from found images. The cards are arranged in suits for the primary purpose of self-exploration and self-acceptance. (It is understood that in some group populations one or more of the suits may be emphasize while others may be omitted as not appropriate.) SoulCollage® cards are collaged from images found in purchased or donated magazines, calendars, books, cards, etc. and from stock photos and/or personal materials (e.g. photos, one's own art). SoulCollage® cards are not sold, traded, bartered, or copied as stated in the “Principles of SoulCollage®”.

Where SoulCollage® cards are available to be seen by others, it is for the purposes either of demonstrating the SoulCollage® process or sharing the card-maker’s inner process in the context of community. SoulCollage® is grateful to the artists and photographers who make this deep awakening process possible, and in all ways SoulCollage® seeks to be respectful of their rights.