Yes, that’s right. A little something for your weekend, sirs and madams.

I’m introducing something diffirent for Fridays, both here on my regular blog about hypnosis and hypnotherapy and over at my Wordsauce blog at http://wordsauce.com/blog

Each week, I’ll post up a special helping of Wordsauce: a photo of something I’ve found interesting over the last few days along with lines from a poem or a song or a piece of prose.

Those of you who’ve been following me on my blog and also on my free weekly ezine, Sophie’s Secret Sauce, will know that words and metaphors are an important part of the work that I do and the way that I choose to live my life.

What do I mean by that? Well, I believe that we are all creative beings of one kind or another. We need room to play, to explore and express our creativity, to make things, whether that’s a cake or a piece of research, a garden or a new bio-fuel, a journey in our mind’s eye or a marathon.

I also believe that words are a kind of magic and that we all structure our experience of the world through metaphors of one kind or another. Being able to recognise any unhelpful words or metaphors that we might be using to ourselves inside our own minds and bodies is an important part of any kind of personal development process.

The magic of words and images is not just for writers and artists. It’s something that can enrich anyone’s life. Learning to look at the world in a certain way, taking some time to slow down and really look at the world, is a kind of self-hypnosis or meditation.

Inspiration to make meaning out of our lives and to experience a deep sense of well-being is all around us all of the time. I don’t know about you but I love to feed myself with other people’s words and images and thoughts and ideas. It makes me happy. I also like making things and sharing what I make.

I love teaching my Wordsauce Online Programme because it creates this wonderful interconnected community of people who write and inspire one another and make things and share them with one another.

So, it’s in this spirit that I’m going to be serving up a regular Friday helping of Wordsauce for your weekly delectation.

Please do digest slowly. Let the flavours mingle on your tongue. And, should you feel moved to respond in any way, please feel free to do so in a Comment. I would love to read you.

Have a wonderful weekend.

Friday Wordsauce

‘I ate the day

Deliberately, that its tang

Might quicken me all into verb, pure verb.’

 from ‘Oysters’ by Seamus Heaney.