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Paint brush - a magic wand?

I got inspired from one text I was reading on sacred objects. I translated it freely from finnish to english.

It is a message channelled by Jen Eramith M.A on february 2011. She is answering the question; Are some objects more sacred than others? (www.akashictransformations.com). The important thing is that everything in this world is sacred but the way we use the objects is a road to sacredness. It is possible that everything what we touch can become sacred. Our goals and aims towards objects have an impact. It is important to become more clear and aware about the aims towards things we are connected to. You can use some questions for this to get it more clear; How can I use this object for love? What is enlightening about this object?

So objects take in energy from the way they are being treated. A monk hanging a monastery bell every morning with the goals of sending love and hope to the people charges the bell eventually with those vibrations. So if we are aware we can appreciate those objects more which are activating feelings of love inside of us. The thruth is that there is a huge amount of energy in aims and goals whether they are made consciously or not. We have the capacity to change the energy of one object instantly.

That energy in those atoms is the divine energy and it matters how you use it. There is a way how to understand this sacredness of all things.  You can start to have a conversation with some objects you have in your life. Ask them what they desire. It helps to increase telepathy and intuition in yourself. During 5 minutes everyday think as every touch to something being a question to the object. This is one kind of medidation practise.


This led me straight to think about my art and painting process. My goal in painting is to infuse the painting with as much of love and light as possible. And if possible I start the painting process with meditation to clear and concentrate. I might move and dance since the body is always fully with me when I create. This is my physical tool. So my body is cleared to be a channel for light to come in.

 

How is it with the tools; paintbrush, water and different colours? Well, Eramihts article led me to an idea of blessing and concentrating my tools also. In my past I have been interested in witchcraft, paganism and magick and learned a good basis for my english in my teen years from books I ordered outside the country since they was not available here that time. My imagination is spiced therefore with magick and witches, fairies and goblins. That is where I am naturally drawn to and child in me seriously belives in them.



 

 

So as a basis knowledge of rituals and magick I did walk to a forest one day to dedicate and bless my paintbrushes for the work they was going to be doing. I have a special tree in the forest in my childhood home where I dont reside anymore but that day I was visiting. It is a huge and old spruce tree and it was such a pleasure to meet this wise being after some time again. I sitted beneath its trunk for a while relaxing and infusing myself the flavors of nature. Then I started my ritual with hanging each of the paintbrushes with a cotton thread on the branches which were not lower than my own height when Im standing. Then a spoke a short prayer for each paintbrush and asked for purification and initation for this tools to be tools for light and love. Then I left the tools there hanging for over night for them soak in the powers of nature and let the fairies to do their own magick on them. Little child in me was so exited and happy for this. It is a play, a game which no one should not take too seriously.

 

I believe that all this ritual done on my tools has an effect on my subconscious mind where the inner child also resides. As a connection to the article above the way you treat things has a huge impact. So when I paint it gives me a feeling that the brush is a magickwand and I can create unbelivable things with it. I can make magick. So I think this is a good game also for anyone who doesn't trust one's talents enough and can remind oneself that anything is possible with the "magick wand". Maybe good game for children also.

 Have a magical day and have fun!

Laurelina

Birth

I continued the painting I made since the last post and this is what was born. The painting´s name is Earth dance. Colors don´t get their right shades in the photo but I will be continuing the painting still. My birthday is today so during the painting I was thinking about this...how amazing moment it is for the first time in this body the step on the earth and dance our dance through life...What kind of step we are leaving and what kind of path we was designed to take? Each one is unique. And below mother earth is supporting each step and sending her love.

As before I again just started to paint even though I could have made many excuses and had actually some real excuses why I should not paint. Anyways I stayed guided and my essay was left behind and now will have delay but more important is that I painted from my heart and it gives me so much more pleasure than any other accomplishment which is expected from me from outside world.

I owe much gratitude for the Goddes CoraFlora who´s music inspired me deeply and her sharings in you tube awakened my heart and stirred my soul. Thank you soulsister for your being and your love. I can see you and feel your love <3

I want to to tell thanks also for my mother who´s love made me strong and who gave me this amazing body temple for my use. This is my birthday but also celebration of her.

http://www.youtube.com/user/coraflora888

Blessings for the day

xxx

L

Creative blockades

It is something I have been dealing with all of my life, creative blockade. There is always deep need of expressing and creating but many times there is this "something" which is stopping from even starting. There might be so many reasons for this block and also many things to open up way back to creativity. I am starting to explore from now on these different ways. But I think it is important to point out that in some part in the life there might be times when you just feel empty, in a space of nothingess. Then it is important to free yourself from the pressure of creating something because that space in the life is sacred and it is a place where new thing will be born eventually if enough time and nurturing is provided. This might be time of huge deppression or something else which teaches about the sad and dark side of the life. It is like mothers womb which is empty before there is miracle of creation born.

I am so so so interested about this topic and been delving with it for a long long time. Today which got me started was an amazing inspirational video on TED by Elisabeth Gilbert about nurturing creativity (http://www.ted.com/talks/elizabeth_gilbert_on_genius.html). I must say thank you for facebook because without it huge amount of important information would go pass without my notice.

Anyway what she is telling that in creativity it is very good to think that you are not alone when doing creative work. She´s been studying the ancient Rome and creek and what they thought about creativity. They had an idea that always when artists are creating something new there is these angel/fairie-like beings helping and giving the inspiration for the work. Creeks called these beings daemons and romans called them genius. Socrates believed that he had a daemon which spoke to him from a far. Romans believed this kind of entity lived around in the walls of artstudio and would come and assist the artist in the work.

The point about this notion is that this is very good psychological construck that protects you from the results of the work since you are not totally responsible of it. In this case you won´t become too narsistic about your work or if the work is not that good it is not totally your fault. Good, eh? This is clearing a lot of pressure the artists has been dealing with for centuries. SO first thing the artists has to do is just to show up and do the work and the rest will follow. And if not it is so important to keep painting, keep dancing or keep writing what ever that might even if the fairies dont show up. And when one day they will you are prepared and done your part. I myself would add to this that it might be vital in the start of the work make always a request or a prayer for these beings or what ever one wants to believe in and in that way create this cooperative and open minded attitude towards the creative process. Also it is about surrender...

Also I watched one more video about creativity on TED and the sentence which strike me was the notion that "it is important to be prepared to be wrong and not be afraid to be wrong. That brings in the originality" Ken Robinson-creativity expert. http://sirkenrobinson.com/skr/

So with these amazing new perspectives I bought today three canvases for oilpainting and I decided to start to show up. Rest will follow. Also here in the blog.

Brightest blessings.

L

Presentation

Here is a world of magic and imagination. I am studying different aspects of activities for accomplishing creativity and healing through arts.

I will be dealing mainly with visual arts, but also dance and movement, sound and other bodily expressions to create art. I am connecting meditation, yoga, healing matras, Vedic-art and expressive art therapy. I am not a professional-yet- but interested and motivated student of all of those.

This blog is a workspace for me to find my way in the world and test different kind of activities which free my spirit, help me to find my wisdom, bring joy, love and creativity in to the world. And to serve others.

I am also open to all kind of cooperation with similar minded beings. Please don´t hesitate to contact me in any matter. ;)

LOve,

Laurelina

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