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 drew the pain in a way that I never did before. It is a red angry energy, eating away from something green. When I look at the green that is left uneaten it gives me the feeling of the remains of genitals, after an attack was made against them. There is a whole lot…
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The drawings were done in different times. They are arranged from the oldest and were drawn over a period of 20 days. I chose them from among many others because they represent a direction and because I like them. Here is the first: My relentless picture reemerged My heart arises desperately…
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I decided to do some work on becoming free of the pain. I wrote down in a goal statement way: I intend to have healthy feet that feel good. As I was writing this I felt that there was some resistance to what I was writing. I asked myself: Can I imagine myself without the…
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I remember another drawing from not so long ago that had some of the same characteristics that the drawing from this post had. It had a different meaning, when I went-in-with-words, but I start to see that something is appearing in my drawings, which has not gotten all the attention it needs to get. It…
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I have been away for a few days. Before we left, I did this drawing. Angry cloud Maybe I did it in the small hours of the night. It is about pain. I still have the pain and it is in its worst power ever. I also have waves of numbing of the feet and…
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After the theoretical beginning, this will be the first step in part two. It is early morning. I pull up the shades and look at the flower boxes, where I spread the seeds of wild flowers a few days ago and I am waiting to see them grow. I touch the earth with my finger…
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In the first part I dealt with what we can call healing. We realize that we suffer and we find a way to lessen the suffering. I showed you how you can heal yourself and others emotionally, using intuitive flow. I even said that you can heal physical problems, because all of them are results…
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We are starting a new adventure. The call of the now is the name of the second part of this blog. I thought of choosing to do the second part about abundance. Then I thought of making it deal with the feeling of want that I still experienced. The feeling resided in the upper chest…
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For two days I printed out all the postings to the blog, collected all the drawings that belonged to them and placed them all together in a box. I thought that the blog would be a book one day. I planned to do this printing and collecting in a slower pace, but something got into…
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On the one hand I am starting to teach the method, which has been so good to me and to many others, and this activity feels very good, as you saw. On the other hand everything else crumbles. I don’t have enough patients to sustain a practice. Almost every single patient that I have ever…
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The eagle and the boy The eagle is putting his hand on the shoulder of the boy The eagle has a powerful golden crown, good for wars The boy has a soft, dreamy, eternal blue-sun hat The eagle holds a golden rod And is the owner of many rods The boy has hands of…
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The pain has become constant. Day and night the currents of energy going through both my feet seem to tear my flesh as they pass through the nerves. This night there was nothing that I could do to stop the pain. I could meditate. I did. I paid attention to all my experiences. All the…
