The Pool of Possibilities
Truly accepting and loving ourselves has a ripple effect beyond comprehension.
For the past thirty years I have been photographing sacred sites and landscapes around the globe. In February of 2000, I took the opportunity to choose my favorites and found that my most evocative photographs were right at my own doorstep — reflections of the autumn foliage in my outdoor pool, that looked like Monet paintings. This discovery has become the most pivotal moment of my career. Since that “Eureka” experience, I have found thousands of sublime masterpieces of the surface of the pool, etched by the elements on the water, snow and ice. The nuances are infinite, creating a seemingly eternal dialogue with the Source of Creation.
One great influence on my work has been David Hawkins, and his Scale of Human Consciousness, which he validates through applied kinesiology. I have used this to measure the resonance of the pool, and my images. Another is Masaru Emoto, for his discovery that water has consciousness, memory, and miraculous healing powers to help us reach our highest potential. And when it is shown positive words like “Happiness” or “You are beautiful”, the water creates magnificent ice crystals observed through a microscope.
Last July we installed a symbol in the pool that reads “Love and Thanks” — and the pool has responded in amazing ways. First we and our friends noticed the water turned to a velvet-smooth texture exquisite to the skin. And flower reflections glowed with an otherworldly luminescence. Then at the first freeze-up the water produced amazing shapes — some resembling exotic plants, and others like crop circles in the newly formed ice. A month later magnificent tiny islands of ice crystals formed over the whole surface, just like those in Emoto’s microscope.
Last autumn, armed with Marcel Proust’s quote: “the real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in seeing with new eyes”, I conducted a workshop with fifteen participants, three hours a week, with daily assignments in between. The purpose was to explore the many ways of seeing and experiencing the pool — and the world around us — in order to become more conscious, more intentional architects of our own lives. We moved slowly, observed closely, chose wisely, and supported each other by listening deeply.
The journals kept by the participants testify to the many significant shifts they made towards empowering their lives.
This, I believe, is my core ideology — to reveal life’s unfolding mystery — not to try to solve it. In so doing, I not only help myself but also others to connect to their joy and passion. I believe that for each of us, the presence of our being is the greatest gift we can give. Truly accepting and loving ourselves has a ripple effect beyond comprehension. I found the path to myself through my camera — it led me around the world and home again, where I learned to see with new eyes. Now the pool teaches me about infinite abundance, and gifting me with indescribable bliss. But I would not have found it without first following my heart.
For This I Believe, I am Courtney Milne, in Grandora Saskatchewan.
