Beans and Berries is opening tomorrow at the downtown Asheville YMCA and this afternoon I painted some more of the mural that decorates the walls. Beans and Berries is my kids’ and their partner’s smoothie coffee café http://beansandberriesavl.com. I created their logo and branding, painting a mural at the first 2 locations. As I painted today, I was within easy earshot of a man talking fairly loudly on his cell phone. I found it be quite distracting and tipping over into annoying when I realized that I was becoming angry. His conversation was tinged with a lot of looking at things from the darker side. Generally I don’t think like that and do not want to have someone else’s point of view, particularly if it is negative, thrust upon me without my consent.

I began practicing in my mind what I could say to him that would help him to understand that his conversation was meant for someplace where only he and the person he was talking with to participate in. And then instead, because I couldn’t trust myself to not sound irritated and I would have been representing Bean and Berries, I decided to say nothing, making a little prayer that he would stop talking soon. After that I tuned him out and pretty quickly said his goodbyes to his mother.

What helped to muffle his conversation were the people who were passing by, making appreciative comments about the mural. One woman said it makes her happy as she comes down the steps. A man told his daughter that mural would be there for many years. In helping my daughter out, I find myself creating a different kind of inspiration.

There are different ways to achieve a desired feeling. All wishes have at the core a desire to feel a certain way. And that feeling is described as we seek to find love, the big love. Not talking about the romance, I’m talking about that place where we all find commonality.

The law of attraction teacher tell us that we must focus on what we want in order to get it. That’s step 2. Step 3 is to ask for guidance. Step 4 is pay attention to guidance, creating time to sit and still the chatter of our lives. Step 5 is to take action based on that guidance. Step 6 is to stay with it through the jello wall. Step 1 of course is divine inspiration and our interpretation of it.

The jello wall is my metaphor for the imaginary blockage standing in the way of achieving a desire. If you try to barrel through, it is probably going to be a bit messy. A better way is to use a sharp intrument to slice through and let the wall fall away. Another way is to wait it out as it melts, but that again creates a bit of a mess and one that lasts a long time in the process.

More on that another time maybe.