Today, let's use our creative journaling session to uncover patterns and conditionings that want our healing attention.
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I intentionally use my creativity to become self-aware and to heal.
Art opens the closets, airs out the cellars and attics.ย It brings healing.
โ Julia Cameron
People have been relying on the arts to communicate, express themselves, and heal for thousands of years.
We think of the creative journal as a “new” form of creative expression but visual journaling has been a way of documenting ideas, questions, and observations since there has been paper and writing media. ย Leonardo da Vinci was probably the most famous in the late 1400's.
AFFIRMATION
I am the artist of my own life.
It is possible to use our daily creative expression for greater self-awareness and healing.
Being able to express visually allows us to say what needs to be said without actually saying the words. ย That can be useful when the words might be hard to say. ย As we observe, we uncover our patterns and conditioning and begin to understand the changes we could make. ย We also begin to realize that embracing ourselves-all of ourselves-both the dark and the light of ourselves, is a necessity. ย We can use our journal to integrate. ย Along with gaining balance, reducing stress, releasing traumas, and a host of other benefits expanding our creativity can help us heal. ย We are just beginning to learn the full scope of how a daily creative expression can enhance our lives.
Have you seen benefits-emotional, spiritual, physical, or mental-from your creative practice?
We may not be able to express our creativity like Leonardo da Vinci but we do have many creative ideas daily.
Let's do a page of ideas, ย poetry, quotes, brilliant musings with simple sketches or doodles. ย Just let your ideas flow freely.
If no ideas come to mind practice sketching things around you. ย Eyes, cups, grapes, paintbrushes, body parts, smiles, balloons, tools…the possibilities are endless.
Write little tidbits of brilliance around your sketches.
I Am Grateful for
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