Blowing Bubbles, Exploding Patterns, and the Myth of Stuck
Yes, bubbles.
Big ones, little ones. Bubbles that float and merge, shimmer like rainbow globes and dissolve into thin air.
Start with a jar of bubble solution, or make your own with dishwashing detergent and water. Make or buy a couple of wands of different sizes.
The next time you find yourself stuck in a mental loop that goes something like…
I knew this would never work
or
I just want to stay in bed and hide under the covers until roots grow out of my hair
or
What’s the use? Nothing ever really changes
or
I should lose weight/eat more vegetables and chocolate/exercise every day/stop hanging out on Twitter all day/find a more decorous way to pick my nose
…get out your bubble solution and wand and blow bubbles.
It’s hard to hang onto fixed beliefs when bubbles are shimmering, sparkling and popping in glorious rainbow colors all around you.
Thoughts, beliefs, mind-loops, are patterns of energy.
And energy is infinitely malleable. It changes quickly. Your intention and imagination are your allies in transforming energy.
A pattern is more resistant to change because the energy of which it is composed is locked into a rigid structure that seems impermeable to change.
Blowing bubbles is both a metaphor for transformation, and a means of creating rapid change in an energy structure. Energy is being created and destroyed and re-created constantly. Bubbles remind us of this.
They destabilize a rigid structure by following the natural flow of energy, which is in a constant state of flux.
The patterns you despair of ever changing because they seem so stubborn and intransigent are in fact composed of energy quanta that dance and twirl in a continual stream of fission and fusion, creation and destruction.
Bubbles.
Their airy transmutability is at the heart of the dark goddesses: Kali, Inanna, Demeter.
So the next time you feel stuck in a familiar groove, create and destroy and create and destroy by blowing bubbles. Literally. Or in your imagination.
Either way, the energy will shift. Old patterns will dissolve. New ones will emerge, to dissolve in turn…
Bubble therapy!
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Good about this: “Your intention and imagination are your allies in transforming energy.” Because, I got me some of those.
Last night in my dream a bunch of us women were leaving a building by way of the fire escape. Not b/c we had to but b/c we’d chosen, for some reason. It was slow-going, and backwards. Until I turned around and found out I could leap forward. Cool, huh? Bubbles.
xoxo
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Very cool, Heidi. Happy leaping! :-)
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This is my first time here and I have to say, I love your logo!
On to the post: I like this a lot. Love the idea behind it. I think I’ll stop in the Dollar store for bubbles tonight :). In the meantime, I’m going to add your site to my blogroll!
Yours,
Megan
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Just reading your writing makes me energy shift!
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Thanks, Jen! *hug*
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Bubbles!
I have quite a few bubble wands and solutions to hand because my cats LOVE them. Love to watch and bat and pounce.
Yet another demonstration that cats really do know a great deal about the nature of the universe ;)
Thank you for this simple yet powerful de-funkifying practice Hiro!
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Long after the Pustefix bubble bear lost a little of its magic for my children, I find it still has its place on my kitchen shelf. Hmmmm–perhaps I was buying it for me all along!
Oh Hiro! I love this post! I keep bubbles around the house always because they are absolutely irresistible to people of all ages. Not only do they shift the energy in people or situations, but I have also used them to clear the energy in a room after an argument or an illnesses. (And during an illness as well.) Thanks for sharing this great tool with so many! xoxox
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Havi keeps mentioning you, and sometimes I wander over; I’m so glad I did today! I needed this, and I thank you. I am stuck in a pile of stuckness, and one small thing could let go, and maybe help.
I always have bubbles, and I’m going to go play. Now.
Thank you thank you thank you!
Oh this is wonderful. Exactly what I needed a reminder of as I sit here, so stuck, and feeling like I haven’t made progress on a single pattern in years.
I think I’m just going to keep re-reading this until it sinks in.
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Hiro,
I just wanted to let you know that the day after I read this my son was having one of those terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad mornings. There was frustration about getting dressed, grumbling during breakfast, and actual tears while his dad checked his math homework and suggested that some of the problems needed to be re-worked.
It was no fun and I hated to send him off for the day in such a state. Then I remembered the bubbles…
Well luckily we have a bottle handy so while we were brushing teeth (and all the while he was insisting that he was NOT going to school today…) I said I understood that he was having a really hard morning, and maybe we could do something about it.
He was curious, but skeptical that ANYTHING would help. I had him stand near the door and just started blowing bubbles all around him. Needless to say, his mood shifted immediately. He started blowing them higher, catching them on his fingers and popping them. It was fun while it lasted, and then it was time to go to school.
While we were driving to school he asked me why I’d done that. I told him that first, it was just fun, and second, that bubbles can remind us that nothing hard lasts forever. They are here, then they pop.
I can’t say the bubbles made him thrilled to be going to school, but I’m certain that his frame of mind was significantly better!
Thanks for another lovely post!
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“I told him that first, it was just fun, and second, that bubbles can remind us that nothing hard lasts forever. They are here, then they pop.”
Wow, Liz, that’s some powerful parenting!
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Ah, what a wonderful intentional way to create more of the good energy we want. I need more exercises like this in my life.
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Thanks for the reminder, Hiro! And what a wonderful way to deal with feelings of being “stuck”–creative play! Maybe if we all played a little more, we wouldn’t feel so stuck!
Change is inevitable, right?
Your words INSPIRE, as always.
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I happened across this wonderful artwork of a bubble lady:
http://www.redbubble.com/people/mrlone/t-shirts/3458903-2-bubbles
which I bought. It makes me feel happy when I wear it, thinking of your post. Thank you for sharing your understanding. x o