ByGiora Carmi
As it happened to me many times before, I was planning to paint big parts of the picture and use a few different colors to help identify different entities or things that happen in the picture.Still with the same intention, it came to me to jump to a different portion of the drawing, near what…
ByGiora Carmi
It is hard to not be able to sleep because of constant pain. It is even harder when the pain keeps coming in waves. You may wonder what is it. It is possible to see it as strong movements of energy through places in my legs that refuse to let the energy pass. It is…
ByGiora Carmi
I felt I needed to take some distance from the blog and from continuously describing my experiences, so that I could walk my path for a while without the notion of communicating what I go through.I see now that it was helpful. There was an anger that wanted to come out. It is hard to…
ByGiora Carmi
With all his knots he found himself flying above the landscape He was a line who wanted to flow in curves he was a thought that wanted to open up to thoughtlessness Then, a feeling in the middle of the body turned into a mountain range with trees And emptiness as it has always done…
ByGiora Carmi
Maybe you wonder who is this little line in the picture that I called the baby with the orange light? He represents, for me, awareness, which is always newly born. Right now it is looking at the rest of the painting in a previous blog, where there is some struggle. But he is from endlessness,…
ByMichelle Adam
Where does FEAR and TIGHTNESS come from? Why is it that back in 2001, I had so much tightness in my body that I could barely move without great pain? What had paralyzed my legs and the rest of me far beyond the groin-pull injury I had begun with? As I lay on the floor in…
ByGiora Carmi
And how does the last entry relate to my despair? Like Jonathan, I want to have my feelings acknowledged, so that I can let them go. I show my moods, my feelings and my beliefs to myself, when I paint. Before I start, I always ask that the painting will show me what is going on…
ByRobyn Harris
Gratitude Gratitude has been scientifically shown to improve our physical and mental wellbeing. When we take steps to include this in our daily practice it uplifts us and supports many of the other points that I’ve listed here. What’s more, it’s so simple to do, doesn’t have to cost anything or take up any extra…
ByGiora Carmi
This is the beginning of the answer that I asked in the previous post.I sat with the eleven years old boy in the art therapy room. Let’s call him Jonathan. Christmas was coming and he wanted to draw a Christmas tree. I have been working with him for a few weeks by now and noticed…
ByCatherine Green
I joined the social network for A Chronic Voice because I needed to find people who understand what life is like with chronic illness, people like me. Today I have written a post using the July link-up prompts, to show my experience of living with a chronic pain disorder. Click here to find other blog…
ByRobyn Harris
If you’ve been following my blog, you might have seen an earlier post of mine where I explained that our inner state of balance is not a static thing. It’s just like keeping your balance on a bicycle, surf board, or anything else – it’s dynamic and responsive, requiring us to be fluid and flexible…
ByGiora Carmi
I have been on the spiritual path from the day I was born. Calamities happened and revelations were revealed. I have experienced the highs and the lows of human experience.The tendency is to push toward the highs and use any method that I can find, to eliminate the down turns. These days I wake up…