Something often overlooked and equally important as receiving the medicine, is the integration of it all.  There comes a point, where we must give us ourselves the proper space to USE the medicine we have been given and take action. 

My Kinda Medicine is truly integrated action.

Some of the biggest medicine to swallow in these times is Trust. That perhaps we can trust that What is meant to be shall be and that there's an order to the seeming chaos.

Collectively it feels like a time to Rally.

The world needs as much of all of our individual medicine right now as we can spread, our love, despite fear, is a remedy in itself.

So here's some of my love for your Moon day. 

I hope it brings you some of what you need right now and the encouragement to share your particular flavor of medicine with the world right now. 

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My Kinda Medicine Mix

Today, let's notice how our perfectionistic tendencies are stifling productive action.

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TODAY'S INSPIRATION FROM JULIA CAMERON

Tillie Olsen correctly calls it the “knife of the perfectionist attitude in art.”
You may call it something else. Getting it right, you may call it, or fixing it before I go any further. You may call it having standards. What you should be calling it is perfectionism.

Perfectionism has nothing to do with getting it right.
It has nothing to do with fixing things. It has nothing to do with standards. Perfectionism is a refusal to let yourself move ahead. It is a loop—an obsessive, debilitating closed system that causes you to get stuck in the details of what you are writing or painting or making and to lose sight of the whole. Instead of creating freely and allowing errors to reveal themselves later as insights, we often get mired in getting the details right. We correct our originality into a uniformity that lacks passion and spontaneity. “Do not fear mistakes,” Miles Davis told us. “There are none.”

Instead of enjoying the process, the perfectionist is constantly grading the results.
The perfectionist has married the logic side of the brain. The critic reigns supreme in the perfectionist’s creative household. A brilliant descriptive prose passage is critiqued with a white-glove approach: “Mmm. What about this comma? Is this how you spell ... ?”

To the perfectionist, there is always room for improvement. The perfectionist calls this humility. In reality, it is egotism. It is pride that makes us want to write a perfect script, paint a perfect painting, perform a perfect audition monologue.

Perfectionism is not a quest for the best. It is a pursuit of the worst in ourselves, the part that tells us that nothing we do will ever be good enough— that we should try again.

No. We should not.

That is a normal part of creativity—letting go. We always do the best that we can by the light we have to see by.

(The Artist's Way, 2016, p. 119-120)

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📣 TODAY'S AFFIRMATION

Read the following affirmation out loud with purpose and intent:

I let go of needing perfection and enjoy the process of my creative endeavors.

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💪 TODAY'S CREATIVE EXERCISE

Collect a stack of at least ten magazines, which you will allow yourself to freely dismember. Setting a twenty-minute time limit for yourself, tear (literally) through the magazines, collecting any images that reflect your life or interests. Think of this collage as a form of pictorial autobiography. Include your past, present, future, and your dreams. It is okay to include images you simply like. Keep pulling until you have a good stack of images (at least twenty). Now take a sheet of newspaper, a stapler, or some tape or glue, and arrange your images in a way that pleases you. (This is one of my students’ favorite exercises.)

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💬 TODAY'S QUOTE

"Cerebration is the enemy of originality in art."

– Martin Ritt

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📓 TODAY'S JOURNAL PROMPT

What is the next best step you can take on an unfinished project?

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PERFECTIONISM - not losing sight of the whole - The Artist's Way (Week 7, Day 4)

Live 2 hour mix featuring some of my fav tracks from my 2021 Summer Solstice ecstatic dance tour around California.

SETLIST:
Sacred Earth – Breathing Space
Aether – Flowerdance
Rohne – Phase
KR3TURE – On the Brink
KR3TURE – Flicker 
Ryan Herr and Jesse Jendricks – Mycelium (Moontricks Remix)
VOLO - Faithkeeper
KR3TURE - Home Is (UNRELEASED)
feral fauna - Tincture (KR3TURE Remix)
KR3TURE – I Wanna Be Like You 
KR3TURE – Flying
Lulacruza – Comandante (KR3TURE Remix)
KR3TURE - Only One 
Catching Flies – GLY
Boozoo Bajou – Lady Killer
Sofi Tukker – Drinkee
Sofi Tukker – Purple Hat
Basher Toe – Rainbow Serpent
Boombox Cartel – Remember
Zhu – Working For It
The Funk Hunters + Stickybuds – Empire
Clozee – Winter is Coming (Rome in Silver Remix)
Ofenbach – Rock It
Elephant Heart – Africa
Troyboi - Corneta
Elephant Heart – Lenguas
Jael – Oye Como Baile
Disclosure – Energy
KR3TURE – All in Time (feat. Heather Christie)
KR3TURE – Anthropocene
KR3TURE – Inflorescence (feat. The Human Experience)
Yeahman – Miniyamba
Troyboi – Clear Waters
KR3TURE – Slowly (feat. Kayla Diana)
KR3TURE + Joaquin Sun – Falling (feat. Bee Born)
KR3TURE – Coming Home
Slow Meadow – Grey Cloud Lullaby

Ecstatic Dance • Vol. 5 • When Days are Long (2hr mix)

“A tree's beauty lies in its branches, but its strength lies in its roots.”
- Matshona Dhliwayo

The main curator behind Living Prism, Dar Sernoff, is a seasoned, intuitive, and diverse ecstatic dance DJ. He brings his arsenal of immersive sounds from all around the globe and quintessential mixing skills to move people in powerful ways across various dancefloors. This set was recorded live at the Lost Valley outdoor event Back to the Roots in the Summer of 2021.

The tracklist will be posted and the set will become available for free download when the set reaches 111 'hearts' and 33 'reposts.' <3

In the photo: Dar captured by photogrpaher Melissa Robin 

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ĐÅR - Back To The Roots (Ecstatic Dance Set)

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