Express Your Feelings

Express Your Feelings in a safe way. Art does that for me. From impatience to pain, and happiness to overwhelm, art is the greatest emotional outlet. You can fill a paper with angry or ecstatic thoughts, colors of agony or joy, and shapeless or realistic forms symbolic of your experience in the moment, and then burn it or frame it forever. The work takes on your feelings in the moment. Your art can open doors to move you forward either way.

Art can be the ship that sails to enlightenment and healing.

Express your feeling in art when there are no words.

I didn’t know in words what I was feeling, so I did the above painting instead. The phrase ‘grey-green mountains in the distance’ kept coming up from a book I’m reading. That’s where I started.

Next my non-dominant right hand just created the moody sky, even turning the mountains into hills. The body and art created its own direction. Color flowed down. I was thinking bay and beach, but my body was creating roaring river, rocks, and turbulence.

Express your feelings and Make a decision!

It took awhile before I realized I was in overwhelm. The painting reflected that. I hit ‘too much’ when I had too many choices, major ones, to choose. The only way out was to make a decision, then my chaos became calm. The turbulence became a direction to follow.

My body needed care above all else. As with other things, I had to slow down and be patient with myself, my healing, and my moving forward in life. Rest, careful exercises, and thoughtfulness in life was required instead of doing it all now. ‘Take the time you need’ my inner voice shouted! I’ll take the vaccine in its own good time.

Clarity took over. I moved from craziness to inner peace. My next painting was full of beautiful tones, and became my Inner Wisdom. Art creates magic in life and reveals a path to follow. What do you do when overwhelm hits? How do you find clarity? I’d love to hear from you.

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