Searching For Self Through Creativity
streams April 13th, 2008
G Gioia (Gigi) Dasovich,
Living Well, with Love and Intention
Important To Remember:
- Breath Deeply, inhaling through your nose.
- Focus on what you want, not what you don’t want.
- Set an intention in the morning and when you go to sleep.
- Drink lots of clean water and eat fresh organic food, avoid chemical toxins.
- Correct your posture and rotate your neck and shoulders.
- Witness your life.
- Acknowledge others–you show your class and warmth by how you greet them.
- Relax with Acceptance, as Resistance is Stress.
- Meditate
- Be authentic and mean what you say.
- Do what you say you are and Never allow lies to represent you.
- Practice compassion and openness.
- Share laughter and joy.
- Never gossip.
- Let Love be your guide.
- Understand that the entire Universe conspired to put specifically you, here, out of a field of infinite potential.
- Delight in the bounty of it all.
About Me, G. Gioia,
For as far back as I can remember, the one and only thing that has always been the most interesting to me to think about and explore is where, who,
what, why, when, and how am I?
I read that my physical life experience is a space-time event. I remember when I was very young, I wondered where was I in relation to the stars I saw in night sky and where was all that I could see in relation to the Universe. I wondered, what was beyond the Universe? It dawned on me then that Time does not exist except for as a tool for comparative measurement. The tool of Time helped separate moments for comparison even though all there really is, is the present moment. So, I wondered and reasoned that somehow the physical world also separated me. But from what? Was I on the outside of a system looking out towards other systems or was I on the inside of a system looking out toward more of the inside of myself? It’s looking now, at 47 years that it is both. My creativity has taught me almost everything I know about Being. Now, everything I do teaches me how to do it better.
As part and parcel of my life-long search for what, who, why and how I Am, I have a
B.A., English Literature & B.S. (premed, psychology) from McGill University, Montreal, Canada,
an M.A. in Anglo-Irish Studies (thesis on S.Beckett and W.Blake)
and I have an announcement:
Presently, I am pursuing a Master’s Degree in Mental Health Councelling with the hope of reaching more people and to widen the techniques available to me. Currently, the methods I use to maintain a happy and healthy lifestyle, free from the monkey of addiction are rooted in Love and ancient wisdoms, such as the Vedanta philosophy, based on the Vedas. Your own thinking, if you are engaged in addictive behavior, is self sabotaging, and it happens within levels of cognition that you don’t even know are there. With the methods I have developed, I can unravel the metaprocesses of your core beliefs and values so that you can clearly see how your decisions are made. Past decisions are the realities of your life today. If you are unaware of what is fueling them, then no matter what you do, the outcome will never change. Although it is basically wisdom, common sense and accountability that I practice it is the only path that will ultimately bring you to the helm of your new joy filled life.
So, in order to be available to more people and for those who prefer a therapist with mainstream professional degrees and “proper” credentials, I am on my way. In the mean time, if I can be of service, please email me at : ggioia0@gmail.com.
With Peace and Light, G. Gioia
As for my art,
I now primarily take only commissioned requests. I have been selected to appear in several group shows in Europe and the USA and I also have had three individual shows (fine art paintings in oil) ‘87-’90.
Then came my two
wonderful children, Nicholas and AmeliaBelle.
Now I am the owner and director of an historical art renovation project at 64 Park Avenue, in Centerville, MA, and so far, have more than doubled its value to nearly $800,000.
My passion, whether it be of art or psychology, is the discovery of the self”s true nature and purpose through the process of creativity; or What becomes revealed on the “inside” as a result of expressing what is on the “outside”. I believe quite simply, this query is inherent to my nature, that it holds the ultimate truths, and that it is the path to the self you want to be. I do already have ten plus years of successful addiction recovery and self-awareness techniques and it is right here, that I hope to help others to also embrace their joyful inheritance and find true, purposeful, sustainable sobriety and good health. Addiction begins, almost always, by looking for the right thing in the wrong places. This is the right place. This is where I promise to help love to wake up in you.
Keep checking the sections “Addiction and Recovery”, “blog” and my essays, for my tips and understanding. Again, if you have any questions or comments, please email me , ggioia0@gmail.com. I will return each and every question personally and within 24 hours. If you are in dire need, you should dial 911 for an emergency.
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Beauty, Truth, Love and Charm and Why Quantum Physics Believes In Me–An essay –
It was in an AP Physics class in high school, that I first learned about Quantum Physics. In a way I cannot explain, I know in my bones that there are mighty Truths there. The quarks got thrown out when science lacked the ability to keep track of and predict their behavior–things suddenly disappearing and appearing and not following the generally accepted “rules”. Apparently there were to many “quarks in the Quark theory. Nowadays, the language has changed to probability waves, vibrations of possibility, and /or quantum wave function. But I’ll never forget the happy way I felt when these first quirky subatomic particles were named Beauty, Truth, Love an Charm. After all, aren’t those words more associated with philosophy and spirituality? At the root of both science and spirituality is the quest for understanding and meaning? It’s just that the languages don’t always sound the same.
I have always been convinced that in some weird way, the truths and pursuits of spiritual philosophies and of Quantum Physics are virtually one and the same. It is no surprise to me that as you pare down the layers of life, no matter what form it is expressed in, you will arrive at the same understanding. Things manifest by witnessing them and in Quantum Physics, at its most reduced, the space or tension between two seemingly opposites where one cannot express without the other, like man and woman, is held together by a kind of energy osmosis that is both synchronized and randomly expressed. That’s what the quarks are and they have been named :Beauty, Truth,Love and Charm. I think later they found many more quarks, so the whole quark theory became impossible to predict.
What is Christianity? What has Christianity got to do with God? While watching Bill Mayer on HBO, one of his guests … The problem with this guest is that he, like so many, is blinded by his beliefs. By belief, I do not mean faith. We have certain “agreements” that we freely use when we are evaluating sensory information. For example we believe that if we work hard, we will reach our goals. Since we have that belief, we then also value anything that amounts to hard work– assuming you want to reach your goals. According to him, the “stories” of the bible aren’t true, and that therefore, the whole God thing must also be false. And, the lessons within the stories , therefor, have no value. The Church and God are not one and the same. Surely God exists independently of Christianity. His logic is erred and the problem is fundamental. He assumes that The Church has the real and exclusive rights to God, to God’s presence and understanding. Simply disproving the viability of the “stories” of the Bible does not, by extension, disprove God. Indirectly, science has simply shown that the stories are metaphors . Literal testimony is impossible if you “believe” what science has proved about natural law. Maybe the question I should be asking is what is the relationship between God and “organized” systems of thought? What is the relationship between Love and the Ego? Is it in the On and the Off?
I keep learning that I am not my thoughts. My thoughts come and go, while I do not. I am always here in this eternal moment. If I disprove my ego, and I can, I still have my ‘me’, my soul. I witness thought as communication or intelligence between the physical plane, or field and the observer of the thoughts, the “I”, who is not my body. Also steeped in ego are our thoughts and ideas. The Church, and Christianity are created by distinctly human thoughts, beliefs, and values etc.. The powerful ego, without which we could never survive this physical ordeal, identifies with the physical world and all the thoughts and beliefs that go along with it. It is natural, indeed it is a function of Ego to identify with thoughts, and so many people believe that they are their thoughts. Take away all of Christianity, and still there will be Beauty, Truth, Love, and Charm. Love, or God, reside outside of the realm of the ego. God, or Love, is in all things. Christianity is an organized school of thought based on the teachings of Jesus Christ. God consciousness is the source of all, and thank goodness we do not have the daunting task of organizing that.
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