Making art is my absolute favorite tool to use in consciously creating my life. It helps me understand myself better.
Recently, my therapist guided me through a “music and imagery” session. First we talked about what I wanted to focus on. Then we found a song that felt right. She guided me in a brief meditation, and played the song on repeat while I used my watercolor pastels and pens to create whatever came up until it felt complete.
Here’s the result.
That’s me in the center. As I am falling, I am growing wings. There’s a great big thought bubble, busy with ideas. The purple surrounding me represents the unknown as well as my intuition.
The wings do not mean I am becoming angelic. It doesn’t mean in the future I will be immune to gravity. I will still be falling into the unknown, but perhaps it will feel more and more like hang gliding. There will still be risk, but as my “wings” get bigger, as my toolkit expands, as my awareness of what is and is not in my control grows, I will navigate the sky with more confidence and exhilaration and less panic.
This image doesn’t only represent me, but a universal experience.
We are all falling into the unknown.
Depending on perspective, that can be scary, or exhilarating, or both. We are falling forward in time. We are learning and growing as we fall. We may try to construct a sense of certainty, but in reality there is a lot we don’t know and can’t control. AND that is neither good nor bad. It is simply reality.
This week’s podcast episode is about Consciously Creating new habits, experiences, and beliefs. With all the stress and uncertainty in daily life, it’s easy to keep doing what is most familiar. It’s easy to be reactionary, putting out fires with quick fixes. But what if, through developing self-awareness, some of those fires could be prevented?
What if instead of panicking as we fall into an uncertain future, we learn to glide?
This change doesn’t happen overnight. It takes persistence. It takes experimentation. It takes self-compassion, rest, community…
You have everything you need to consciously create your life, to fall in the direction you want to go, AND it’s a lot less scary with support.
Listen to Step 3 of the Creative Life Process here to learn more about how to consciously create your life.
Embodied Life Creation 