ByRobyn Harris
I’ve started to write this blog in my head so many times but not yet had the opportunity to ‘put pen to paper’ – or as I do more often these days, put fingertips to keys! Each inner draft has seen the content shift and change, reflecting my sense that everything around me is shifting…
ByGiora Carmi
Being tired and in pain I became sad. Pain is a simple thing but living with it creates additional problems. Now all of them weighed on me. I thought: I can’t go on like this any more. I did not even paint yesterday and today. My friend from Germany called. We started to talk and…
ByGiora Carmi
Be the light in you Beyond the clouds of thinking There are playgrounds With no words The sun will speak with you Of being wild and transparent Look The sun has made a boot for you And on the boot it wrote: Come. I used to be a graphic designer and an illustrator. …
ByCatherine Green
There is a lot to learn about energy healing. When I first began to explore holistic health and mindfulness about fifteen years ago, I found energy healing practitioners with all sorts of specialist systems. Some had developed their techniques using reiki practices combined with psychic guidance. Others developed more scientific methods, utilizing crystal technology, computer…
ByGiora Carmi
I look at my last drawing. The shape in the middle feels like a heavy package with several parts, almost floating heavily in a space that seems to be organized like a room on stilts. There is night in the window and a warm light is reflected from the floor. There is something that looks…
ByGiora Carmi
It is on the longish side today and a bit psychological. I started to draw when I had a very strong pain. I held on to the act of drawing as to something that saved me from sinking in a bog of pain. I did not want to loose my humanity. I also held on…
ByGiora Carmi
It looks to me at first that I have nothing to say. Then it comes to me that the balance is important. It is like a very complicated collection of so many different shapes and colors, and it all has to be in balance. What do I mean by balance? I mean that when you…
ByGiora Carmi
In this painting there are three major systems: The lines, which are in purple, olive green and one little line is in blue. The areas of color that appear to be behind the lines. The red areas that are inside of shapes, delineated by some of the purple lines. Many times it is enough to…
ByGiora Carmi
The intention was to paint the inside of all the shapes in the drawing, And to come out with the colors at the top of the shapes. First let me do the way that each color comes out and up a little bit from its designated area, I said to myself. These are the tricky…
ByGiora Carmi
It has a sense of order. It has a sense of belonging (parts belong together), of keeping harmony. It has a sense of playfulness. Cleanliness. Clearly it speaks about front and back. But they are very close to each other. There is no depth here, except in the white that may go to eternity. There…
ByCatherine Green
I have been practising meditation for over ten years now and have reached a point in my spiritual journey where I feel peaceful almost all the time. Yes, I do feel stress because that is what happens when you live in the modern world. My husband is facing redundancy and job insecurity, and because he…
ByRobyn Harris
Following on from last week, where I looked at physical ways that we can support our wellbeing and happiness, I will now turn to exploring the more emotional and ‘spiritual’ aspects. Perhaps it would be good to start by explaining that, when I say ‘spiritual’, I don’t mean in any religious sense. That might play…