Drawing to heal

Ever thought how healing can ever happen? For healing to happen one needs to know what we are looking at. What emotions is being shown to us in this moment? What recurrent pattern is being exhibited to us in our lives? Is it repetitive physical pain, or repetitive emotions of anger or sadness, maybe its fear of rejection, or emotions of worthlessness? All that we experience is there is to show us something we need to learn from. All our little or big pains come into our lives to awaken us, and allow us to learn.

Yet, how can drawing help us to heal?

Drawing provides us a means to express what we feel even though we cannot use words to express them. Inside us we live within a community of cells, and memories and traumas and emotions, all yearning to communicate within us and with us. Yet, often we find it complex to use words to express with others or with our own self what we really feel. Personally, I feel that this happens because we are not content based but we use words which are content based to try to express that which lies deep within us. Trying to use words can create further difficulties and confusion. Drawing allows to express without the need to use words. We are able to express that which we feel so complex to share.

Expressing ourselves is the key to start the healing process. What was so much buried within us for years needs to be seen, given attention with loving kindness and only then we can look at it from a different perspective, that of the gift that it was all about from the very beginning. Even if often all our pains and sorrows are too difficult to handle and live with, they are in fact gems hidden within us waiting for our consciousness to look into them as the gems they truly are. Drawing allows us to see these sorrows we live with for so many years as the gems they truly are as we are able to allow our body to feel the colors and draw the patterns/designs as the body feels best to express the emotion that makes us feel so.

Expressions in color needs no understanding by others, needs no previous knowledge or experience. Expression in color come in naturally as long as we are ready to see what our body shows us in a drawing. There should be no, "how will it look", or "will it be pretty", "can I color in this way ..." sort of questions. Expressions to heal are just what the words mean; meeting our emotions with colors in our hand, an empty mind, and a loving heart awaiting to see what our hidden gem is all about.

I invite you to just try out and reach here to ask for more information to this process.

With loving kindness,

Amanda

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