Transition to Inspiration

I have a friend, Sandy, who creates the most amazing lampwork glass beads. Truly each one contains has that spark of great beauty such as is found in nature. For years now the bookstore, where I work part time to supplement my book addiction, has sold Sandy’s one-of-a-kind jewelry. Over and over I’ve seen a piece sit unnoticed for a period of time and then one person comes along and tries it on, and each time it is astonishing how the piece seems custom made just for them. How does she do this? How does she create something so singular that it is apparent to me, a relative outsider, the perfection of it all?

I have witnessed this with poems that leave me cold, but shift the reality of person next to me so deeply that a whole life is changed forever.

In my home is a painting that grabbed my heart while browsing through booths at an expo, and every single day when I look at it, there is some reminder of who I am and who I hope to yet become.

Inspiration. When we are in the flow of our creative nature, we connect to something unifying and authentically belonging to the Great One. How could such inspiration help but find its target? Yes, sometimes it takes time, days, years and decades even. And sometimes that target is simply our own creative self.

Three years ago I began a major transition in my life. A check with an astrologer only confirmed what I already knew, that this would be a time of shifting and changing. When I saw a necklace Sandy had created, a new design she was working to perfect, I had to have it. The glass orange flower had a silver casing and stamped onto the back she put the single word, “Transition.”

I’ve worn that necklace almost exclusively until two days ago.

We had just moved our daughter to graduate school in Madrid and then in New York City we had settled our son into his dorm at NYU. Sitting at a diner on Madison Avenue the clasp of the chain I’d put the Transition bead onto broke and the bead fell off. I tucked it safely away in my purse.

The next day my husband gave me a gorgeous necklace created by Sandy as an anniversary gift, again a lovely bead, but this time a swirl of greens encased in a silver setting. On the back, she stamped “Inspiration.”

I wore it today while I conducted four hypnotherapy sessions and in each session, I found my hand at my neck, caressing the bead, and being reminded again that in each session there is indeed inspiration.

We are creators who bring change and inspiration to others. Whether that creation is a healthier physical body through hypnotherapy or a lovely glass bead, we are always creating. And this is one of the grandest things I know.