I have a gift that I discovered in my twenties. I could read art and know how the people who made it felt when they made their art. This gift has developed a great deal since I started working with people to lessen their suffering, using art-making in the process. Today much more information comes to me through people’s art. And more still comes through my own art-work, done in people’s presence, or when I am aware of them.
I used to be a graphic designer and an illustrator. I wrote for children and a little bit for adults. I came to NYC in 1985, 40 years old, married with three children and started a new career as an illustrator only. A few years later I became involved with Chan Meditation Center and studied meditation and Buddhist knowledge with the late Master Sheng-yen from Taiwan. For twelve years I was in a process of deepening my meditation. I had many more experiences and insights and my life changed. After having illustrated more than 40 children’s books and writing two of them, I left this career too and went to NYU to study art therapy.
ByGiora Carmi
I do a drawing. I listen to an interview with Sandra Anne Taylor. What I hear makes sense to me. There is a place to put a question in, like in a chat box. She will answer some of the questions that will be put to her. I write. I know she will answer me….
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Thought bubbles I watch thought bubbles And water waves Over Green land. I watch holding clay In my mind’s hands Thinking into being Clouds over the mountains Relaxed and flowing. I used to be a graphic designer and an illustrator. I became involved with the Chan Meditation Center and studied meditation and…
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It is late evening. Before I go to bed I draw the pain. It is a night with many waking hours. The pain just does not respond to all my tricks and I do not fall asleep. I meditate so as to get into a state where the body relaxes completely. At least there will…
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I am shaking and am twisted from the pain (says the red) I am so strong and overwhelming that I need to say the same thing several times. (says the red) I include contrasting colors to show that there are many aspects of me. (Says the whole picture) There is even a light aspect of…
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I got an opportunity to buy the whole Sedona Method, made of three courses, with many CD’s for a very low price. I can use the Pay Pal account to pay for the first installment of three, really very possible, installments. And it is very alluring. It is a chance to have the complete course…
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I decided today to do a third part. I love doing it too much to stop now. I do not even have to have a subject or a direction. I do not need to deal with a specific issue. It is just the way I live, the way I communicate with my intuition or higher…
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This continues the previous posting. It is 5 in the morning. I want to know how intuition sees my life now. I feel fear and awe at the same time, or so it seems. It is almost overwhelming. I feel I could use some help. I go to the watercolor box, to speak with…
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My teacher of meditation told us to never meditate after sex. Wait for an hour at least or more, he said. On the other hand when you start to understand what happens in meditation and see that, while meditating, you release habits of thought that block you from seeing the truth and when you…
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In my fourth year in America I illustrated a small children’s book. In it, a little girl could not fall asleep at night because she heard sounds. The sounds came from a little mouse who lived in the wainscot. The story did not tell why the little mouse made that noise. It just gave the…
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I am listening to Charles Ives playing his piano, singing and shouting sometimes with unstoppable joy. I find him so sensitive and rich in his music. I find him playful as a child. Sometimes he is a naughty child, breaking all the rules of music in his time. But he does it because his heart…
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The tree of light inside the pain The yellow matures inside of pain It grows like a tree Made of all the personalities that I gathered But losing them all in the light My background is pain and freedom mixed together Green is my mother Pain is my father And water is my soul. …
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It is not it. It is what experiences it. The pain continues to kill me. I do not understand why. But it is not it. It is what experiences it. I did everything I had to do. I develop more and more depth in the meditation. Somehow I know that the clue is in that,…
