5 Things I learned As A Street Artist

1. Appreciation – here check this vid, that world-explorer Amber shot in 08:

2. use some scientology to communicate – ARC

• a. show affinity (love)
• b. duplicate reality (literally ground the person you are talking to, by acknowledging something real to him
• c. Then Communicate

3.  My buddy, a rapper, who sells CDs on Lincoln Road in South Beach taught me: People aren’t buying your painting, or CD, or movie  (I’ve sold all 3 while on my roller blades), they are buying YOUR STORY. Share your story, and people resonate…

4. Give it away… but let them pay for the packaging…

5. Always leave ‘em smiling. It’s not about the sale, it’s about loving people.

BONUS:  More Appreciation. After my first “Vispassana” (a 10 day silent meditation), I realized that all we have is our consciousness reflected in the world around us. And what we perceive is based on the filter of our stories and thoughts which lead to attention. Attention on appreciation creates possibilities. Attention on trying to fix stuff (a bad habit I had), allows perceptual filters to be on  MORE STUFF TO FIX. Does this make sense? Let me state it a few more ways..

A. Focusing on feeling gratitude about something tunes your radar to see similar colors, sounds, word patterns, possibilities… And the world conforms to those thoughts. If you think “I am grateful for how loved I am”, you will see people smiling at you. If you think, “I better ‘get her/him back’, then you will see everyone who is leaving you…

B. Here is another version: If you have been wronged: say a lawyer is using his legal skill  to collect estate and trust fees by manipulating the law, and you try to seek justice by having him disbarred or going to the press, you will simply be developing the muscle for finding conspiracies elsewhere. Whereas if you are GRATEFUL, that you have c0-created this tricky circumstance, and you look for the place to be of service with the challenging lawyer, like say… writing a book on how families can protect parents and the elderly from being manipulated, then you have a winner… As a matter of fact, I’m writing a chapter right now on this for my new book “The NOW Age:  Stem Cells & Preparing For Death”. Yes, it was called Stem Cells & Presence. But, once you receive a miracle cure, isn’t it up to you to make your life purposeful, in the grandest of spiritual senses? Which title do you like?

Here is a possible chapter from the above book idea:  In a society where there is no more village, no more tribe.. we allow isolation of the most valuable aspects of our lives, our golden years, and then hand those years over to a ‘for profit’ system which in turn isolates us from what in the most experienced of cultures, our true calling should be: preparation for a conscious death surrounded, or not, by loved ones.  The process of aging and passing on should be a revered time where elders are celebrated and supported in daily life to help them build the muscles of lucid transition into the next energy experience, don’t ya think?; otherwise what are we here for? To sleep our way through life with as much fake security as possible…? So, with this as the particular subject matter paying in my field of possibilities right now, I look towards gratitude at having written DolphinOlogy and expanding it so that ideas on community and meditation and preparation for beautiful transitions, both creative ones, and the ultimate creative one, can take place with like-minded DolphinOlogists frolicking, meditating and playing music  by the sea…

What are your thoughts on this?