Hello, creative voyagers, and welcome to 2012, a year of transition and wonder.
In this post, I invite you to settle back and join me in a guided visualization which will help you to either validate where you already are with your art works, or it will help you make changes, whether they be subtle or sweeping. And all of us can benefit from a tweak here or there.
Grab a notebook and pen and place them on the table in front of you or in your lap, sit back and relax, while you read the following visualization. Allow it to guide you to new ideas and feelings about what could best serve you as you pursue your artistic reality.
Allow your hands to go limp.
Allow your jaw to loosen.
Allow your eyes to sink back into their sockets.
Allow your whole body to become soft and receptive.
Picture yourself doing your art, what ever it may be, in the space in which you usually do it.
- What colors and shapes are dominant there?
- Imagine the feel of your tools in your hands, the familiarity of them.
- Is there a smell associated with some of the materials you use? A smell that reminds you instantly of your creative pursuits?
- If a person were to walk by while you were doing your art, what would they hear?
- Is there a food or beverage that you usually have with you when you are doing your art? Can you imagine the taste of it?
With all of your senses engaged, look at this scene in its entirety. Feel the scene inside yourself.
Now, as if this scene had been painted with watercolors on glass, see a river of water pouring over it and washing it completely away. See it all be swept away, leaving only a blank surface with a few drops of water on it.
Notice how the water droplets sparkle in the sunlight.
Something different has entered your awareness, something that you have been considering or which has been calling to you to be brought forth from that deep pool of creative possibility inside you.
What is it?
Let it dance before your mind’s eye.
Let it flesh out and shine.
Anything is possible.
Censor nothing.
Lay this lovely new vision gently onto the blank surface. The water droplets will help it adhere.
- Can you see colors, shapes and textures?
- Can you see and feel the tools and materials?
- How is your body moving with this altered focus?
- What is the space in which all this is held?
- What sounds will this space be filled with?
- What will be in there to nourish your body while it’s working?
- Are some of the elements the same as your old vision?
- What is different, and how do those differences feel inside of you?
Reach out and pick up this new vision and wrap it about your body like a cloak.
Let it hold you.
Let its wisdom seep into your very bones.
Let the excitement of its newness energize you.
When you are ready, take a deep breath, open your eyes and allow your face to relax into a smile.
Hold your pen in your hand for a moment, feeling it grow warm in your fingers. Imagine that it is a conduit for your highest, most powerful intentions for your art work.
Knowing that anything is possible, if you believe in it with all of your heart, set your pen down on the paper and begin listing/naming all the ways in which you want the beautiful world of YOUR art to be.
Maybe most of it stays the same.
Maybe most of it changes radically.
Consider these questions:
- What will that look like? … right down to the knobs on the doors that you will close to preserve the sanctity of your artistic space?
- What will the sunlight look like coming into that space?
- Will your body feel different with these changes?
- How will pursuit of this new vision change your life?
- What hurdles will you probably need to fly over? And who or what can help you with them?
Write it all down …
Every detail.
Every nuance.
When you have recorded everything that has leaped into your head, set your pen down and walk away.
Don’t look at this again until tomorrow or the next day and see what other innovations bubble up from your creative pool.
Be brave now.
You are on a journey.
Yours in new beginnings,
Terrea
Ordinary people believe only in the possible. Extraordinary people visualize not what is possible or probable, but rather what is impossible. And by visualizing the impossible, they begin to see it as possible. ~Cherie Carter-Scott
It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end. ~Ursula K. Le Guin
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