"I am going to tell a story with great meaning. I am going to make you cry, then make you laugh."
~ me to myself after dreaming strange things.
In my past I have created things (comedy, paintings, writing... even relationships) from a hungry place so I could feel worthy. Creation to fill emptiness, though still good stuff, is weighted down and stained. It is like taking a breath that is less than full with lungs hobbled by years of tobacco smoke.
What would it be like to create from a different place - a clearer space - a place that was not so stained?
What would it be like to be free of this addiction, this need to fill an emptiness, to get love, to feel OK? What would it feel like to create from a pure place of being?
I want to create from this space of already knowing I am loved, already knowing I am worthy, already knowing I am whole. I wonder what those creations will look like? I wonder if they will be different? And I wonder what that would feel like? I wonder when the screen of broken-ness is removed from my imagination would there be more clarity, more joy, more flow - more art?
I wonder how is this done?
Here is one idea...
Here is one idea...
"Very closely allied to the intuition is the faculty of imagination. This does not mean mere fancies, which we dismiss without further consideration, but our power of forming mental images upon which we dwell. These form a nucleus which, on its own plane, calls into action the universal Law of Attraction, thus giving rise to the principle of Growth.
The relation of the intuition to the imagination is that the intuition grasps an idea from the Great Universal Mind, in which all things subsist as potentials, and presents it to the imagination in its essence rather than in a definite form. And then our image-building faculty gives it a clear and definite form which it presents before the mental vision, and which we then vivify by letting our thought dwell upon it, thus infusing our own personality into it. So providing that personal element through which the specific action of the universal law relative to the particular individual always takes place." ~ Thomas Troward
The relation of the intuition to the imagination is that the intuition grasps an idea from the Great Universal Mind, in which all things subsist as potentials, and presents it to the imagination in its essence rather than in a definite form. And then our image-building faculty gives it a clear and definite form which it presents before the mental vision, and which we then vivify by letting our thought dwell upon it, thus infusing our own personality into it. So providing that personal element through which the specific action of the universal law relative to the particular individual always takes place." ~ Thomas Troward
Dude - why to manifest!
What kinds of things do you wonder? Do you wonder things?
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I do think that studying art's principles, elements and themes in history are important to developing your eye. Learning color theory, how to draw, etc. But to only paint to please others and prove you know the rules and have developed your skill is one thing. Learning to listen to your own inner promptings and what excites yourself and being free from the dictates of others allows you to freely express yourself for the joy of it. Others may not approve, you may not win a ribbon in a show, but you will know the joy of pleasing yourself, and may be surprised that others enjoy it too in spite of your doubts. A musician studies music of the masters first before composing his own music. Not everyone gets it at first, but they may be breaking new ground, or expressing something that was never quite expressed the same way before. Rules are made to be broken...once you know them. You reach a point where empowering and expressing yourself is more important than pleasing others with the same ol' tried and true art formulas. :)
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