I like to keep the toilet lid closed as part of my feng shui reasoning that I picked up from one of Karen Kingston’s book on the subject, she says “don’t let your wealth flow down the pan”, I say, “keep the fun in your space”. When you know happiness is a normal state, start to keep it that way. How long can you maintain happiness before creating a negative emotional outburst? Think about it. Taking it that, we are co creators of our universe. I am exercising my will for complete uninterrupted happiness, it remains with me now even when I cry, crying is a joy for me, releasing the feelings as they occur. I say what I feel as soon as I realise something is not sitting right with me. Maintaining my heaven on earth is my goal, keeping it fresh and positive, honouring my gifts and giving them. Stuff still hurts but I don’t associate my hurt with a sadness anymore, I just try to accept that everything is as it is meant to be.
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Expanding Our Capacity For Joy
Thursday, January 22nd, 2009Emotional Maturity
Thursday, January 22nd, 2009Take responsibility for your feelings. Always look and see if there is something you can do to help your situation, or think about it from the bigger picture to give your self another perspective. The bigger picture is when you look at life from a bird eye view, taking in the greater scheme of things from above, another perspective can be from upside down, hanging or a head stand, look at how your actions effect what is going on around you and where your life is heading. (more…)
Art Can Be Anything We Want It To Be.
Wednesday, January 21st, 2009When approaching the making of new piece of art, we want to be in tune with our higher selves as much as possible, to be conscious of what we are about to do. Feel the love resonating in our hearts and open our minds and keep them open to the infinite possibilities that await us, think about what it is we really want to put our energy into, keep it simple with achievable goals. We are aiming to integrate original thought and intuition to become part of our decision making processes. (more…)
Preparation
Wednesday, January 21st, 2009Spiritually, to help ourselves prepare, we can meditate, pray, chant, ask for guidance, ground ourselves and be in the present moment or whatever other techniques we are used to using, that work for us. Also we might need to turn off our ego´s or root beliefs, especially if its like mine and says things to me like, “you´re rubbish, why bother? everything you do is rubbish.” (more…)
Expression
Wednesday, January 21st, 2009Creative self expression can cause our emotions to rise up before us, we can look at them, feel them, get to know them and let them flow right through us and away, in a safe and directed manner. Emotions are reflected back to us, in what we make. I can always see myself and how i´m feeling deep inside, in what i make, just as i am now. Some of these emotions or feelings may not be able to be accessed in any other way. Once fluid in our self expression our emotions can be acknowledged regularly by observing our art as therapy or our art can be evidence of us clearing stuck energy, both of which are perfectly valid and an interesting content for art. Once clear of old trapped emotions our hearts can sing with the golden light of the sun and thus our art will reflect this new found freedom of expression.
Play
Wednesday, January 21st, 2009Play is one of the secrets of art, it shows in the final product if the artist has had a nice time and is good at playing. Loosing all sense of ourselves and time and being absorbed into the process is an excellent example of play. Being totally free, with the feeling that nothing else matters. The more we practice playing, the better we get at it.
Materials
Wednesday, January 21st, 2009Be guided by the materials we have to hand, using our intellect and hearts to decide which materials suit our needs best, what we enjoy using and doing, and what is suitable for embodying our ideas. Look around your immediate environment to see what is there.
The kitchen cupboards can reveal exciting textures, shapes or products with graphics and colours on for instance, reflecting societies fashions and needs on the packaging. Also the bin is a good source for recycling rubbish into papier maché, sculpture, assemblage, collage or montage. (more…)
Vision
Wednesday, January 21st, 2009Another starting point is a vision or idea, embodying ideas, making them come to life. We can stick obsessively to an ideal or we can observe that it is just a starting point to lead us onwards in developing our train of thought. Knowing when to go with the flow or keep on the track, is all part of the creative decision making process. If things are not happening as easily as we predicted, we can take a step back and look from a distance to get a bigger picture, look at it through a mirror to create more distance or even leave it for a bit of time and come back later and look at it again. (more…)
Inspiration
Wednesday, January 21st, 2009Inspiration can come from anywhere, a thought crosses my mind when i´m half way up a ladder working on something else entirely and i climb down and write a note to myself in my sketch book, or i watch the best circus performance in the world and wish to emulate something just a beautiful. On one invitation to an exhibition it was written, “talent borrows, shit copies and genius steals”. If we use this quote in relation to our inspiration and how we act upon it, even if we do try to copy, borrow or steal an idea, it would never come out the same because of the individual framework and the constraints each of us is working with, so always have a go. On the other hand its quite polite to acknowledge our sources.
Original Thought
Wednesday, January 21st, 2009We are all capable of original thought, if we allow ourselves to access it, by accepting that our route through life is worthy of rendering. See how an idea arrives, through our personal history, the people we´ve met, places we´ve been, things we have experienced, everything in our worlds that lead us to this point, be brutally honest to yourself, confess all, get it off your chest, what we love best, what is the greatest thing we can think of…that´s it, lets use it all.