Posted by 64bowtie on January 27, 2005, at 12:50:03
In reply to Re: Who me? I don't have an *unconscious* mind!, posted by Pfinstegg on January 27, 2005, at 0:00:49
> I find it very exhausting and scary, too,
>and
> It's been 12 hours since the art therapy was over, and I still am so exhausted that I can't seem to make it into the bathroom to wash my face and brush my teeth!
><<< The unknown can be very scary... and internal conflicts telling your mind that you are always wrong and 'someone' else is always right, except there are many other 'someones'... can all be very exhausting since you are running as fast as you can to keep up......! I know! I've been there!
> The art therapy, which I had today, helps a LOT with this process, because you can draw without any planning, just seeing what takes shape on the paper. It's as though all ones' fears, nightmares and traumas find their way right onto the paper, I am in awe, now, at what comes from my mind, and how little I really know about myself; before, I thought I "knew it all".
><<< Then, if this is true, that something deep inside you is trying to come out, why dismiss my new information I have gathered and am passing on freely, by saying we must disagree? I agree fully with what you are saying.
Sometimes things that defy explanation arrive at awareness. In your art-work, something from inside you arrives at your awareness, and ends up as your work of art. All I add is, "Yep! That's the collection of input from all your senses being manifest as one work of art, today. Tomorrow it will be all different, maybe, sorta, or doesn't have to be! We haven't been in tomorrow yet."
Your propriaceptive sense moves your hands over your artwork to where its "muscle memory" says would be best, while your balance (vestibular sense) provides comfort by recognizing the harmony in your art. Your gut (visceral sense) decides approval/disapproval of any changes and appropriateness of the features, while your vagus nerve is monitoring wellness (you don't have the flu, do you?). Your other five known foreground senses also have input to the creative process, your sense of sight being the most powerful and profound of all your senses.
> Bowtie, we'll just have to respectfully agree to disagree...
><<< I'm glad you're here... I choose not to disagree with you, so I see the point of agreeing to disagree remaining moot, for me at least.
A good friend passed on to me 19 years ago, "Hard work, pays off!!!" I hope my successes pay honor to his motto!
Rod
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