Talk Back with Ellen Wood

      My birthday was November 18 and I feel great!! I’m in excellent health (although occasionally sleep is an issue). I’m still the ad agency for the local tire and auto company and run an AirBnb, in addition to writing my newspaper columns and painting up a storm. Here’s me (on the right in the 1^st photo wearing my Picasso dress) during the 2023 Questa Art Studio Tour (my house was a hub and will be again next year) with my friend Shera who bought a painting and some notecards.

      Yesterday I hung my paintings at Taos Artist Collective, an excellent gallery in Taos and I’m surrounded by my art in the doorway in the 2^nd photo. If you live anywhere near Taos, New Mexico, stop in – it’s next door to World Cup Coffee (opposite Kit Carson Road) on the main street through town. There are quite a few other artists as well and their paintings, sculpture and jewelry etc. are sublime.

Writing and painting have transformed my life. At its highest expression, transformation is an inspired art where you are in communion with something bigger; where something fresh, alive, and meaningful is being birthed through you. So many of us think we need to fix ourselves. True transformation, though, comes when we surrender critical thoughts and are open to inspiration. You are in-spired – literally in Spirit!

The “how to” part is just permitting creativity to happen. No judgment. No criticism. Just a little prayer for empowerment works wonders for creative transformation.

Being in that living creative flow feels so good, it’s often deeply meditative, and it sends ripples of joy through you. That’s what happens to me when I write – but even more so, when I paint. I know it wasn’t my logical mind that gifted me with a unique painting style. I’m not aware of any other artist who imbeds images into the five basic shapes of sacred geometry: spiral, square, straight line, circle and triangle. I just allowed it to happen without conscious thought and those paintings are my most successful ones.

Of course, I must also credit my big, wonderful family and my soul sisters for my fabulous life. They help keep me even-keeled and loved.

If you’d like a Word document with all my affirmations to grow younger or an mp3 you can listen to and repeat after me, just email me at ellen@howtogrowyounger.com and I’ll send whichever you choose.

I must tell you that I’ve heard stories of mini-miracles with these affirmations. Two people had the same story: a fight with their spouse in the morning, drove to work and listened and repeated the affirmations and by the time they got to work, they felt completely different. I hope they’re successful for you. May all your dreams come true.

Love and Blessings,
Maruška aka Ellen

  Author of Book “The Secret Method for Growing Younger: Volume 1 –
  My Journey Through Alzheimer’s to the Fountain of Youth Using the Law of Attraction” $12.95
  Click to buy on Amazon.com: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1723485527
. Formerly titled: “Think and Grow Young: Powerful Steps to Create a Life of Joy”

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