Going High
I don’t think I have to elaborate on the meanings in the poem in the last posting. It is clear enough. The most important things are the feelings that came through this work and I can list them here:
- Loss of control
- Asking for help
- Self-pity and self-criticism
- Fear
- Shame
A wise thing to do would be to release the energy of these emotions, so that they will be weakened.
But just having gone through this writing, through the next two drawings and through the recognition of what they represent for me, even if I did not write about it, started to have a magical influence. It happens a lot in every process of healing.
Just looking at these subconscious entities, just being in a deeper state and looking, was enough to start them moving. They lost some of their grip on the idea of “me”, and as soon as they started to move and shuffle a bit, some fresh air came in from deep inside of me. It is the wind of who I am, and it was experienced as happiness. A wind of happiness and child like wonder came through me. I experienced wanting to do another drawing and here it is, with the poem that came along with it:
They dance like autumn leaves
But stay up in the air
As if they’ve learned to fly
By throwing violet lights
At each other.
They grew out from a magical red pain
In my foot.
Whether they are real or not
Is not a question that they ask.
They have been loved
From the beginning
By the good green
As can be evidenced
From the nectar drops
That they carry.
And after this there will be a seesaw of elation-despair, elation-despair.
I used to be a graphic designer and an illustrator. I became involved with the 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 New York University to study art therapy.
You can see more about Giora’s work on his blog and website
