Art-As-Therapy Experience

When one is tune with the nature of his/her own business, he/she is oblivious to the other matters transpiring. To be so fully engaged in the glorious rapturous moment brings with it a replenishing peace that passes all understanding. Nothing matters as much as being totally involved in the present moment. “Graze your grass; it’s particular taste is designed for your palate, alone.”

Trees have roots; that’s what makes them grow tall and extend out. Dependent upon the marred complexity of our family roots, do our unique destinies flourish. It was Emerson who said”…the height of the sail is dependent upon the depth of the base…” (paraphrased) No matter what shame or discomfort we maintain within the family tree, we must in essence be grateful from where/whence we originated. IT is the rich manure we needed to grow the fragrant roses we enjoy!

It is, what it is, and what it is don’t concern me. What pathetic liars we are! We are no longer interested. Yet, we refuse to accept our part in it. We indifferently continue to push, strive, contend, manipulate and coerce- in vain hopes-that something-(it) will change and stimulate an energy of some sort that matters.. But, the fact remains, we have lost the inspired zeal of divine thrust in the direction we are headed. We are so hypnotized by the auto pilot setting we usually run on, we can’t recognize that our flame didn’t just flicker; it went out! In other words, the winds shifted while we were busy conspiring over the outcome. Instead of acknowledging the ‘change of venue”, we try to force our plan, forge our way, shove our ideas, {with absolutely no enthusiasm} pound our point past the realm of obnoxiousness. We get angry and don’t exactly know why or with whom. Ha. When we wimp (sulk) we limp (fill with superficial hype). Why not just accept the morbidly cold/numb facts: We changed our minds!

We see what we want (based upon personal experiences, emotional episodes, language syntax, vocabulary of internal meaning) to see; nothing more, nothing less. In actuality, we don’t see with our eyes but with our brains. Though complicated and complex to explain, the idea is we pull from an incredulous memory bank ‘of sort’ to identify and relate [ the object being viewed] for our personalized interpretation. In other words, our vision is highly distorted, biased and preferential. Our eyes betray us all the time! What do you see?

You are exactly where you need to be for reasons you cannot see. You can be nowhere else except where your feet are planted. You are where you are because you are supposed to be there and nowhere else. Can you get with that? Your feet have brought you to this particular place in the here and now. Cannot run, cannot hide, cannot quit. That is not an option. This is it! You can be no other place, no matter what you would like to tell yourself.

It was here before we got here. It is here while we are here. It will be here after we leave. We must get with it. It will not get with us. It remains constant. It materializes. It dissolves. It appears to change in the midst of finding its new rhythm and form. In the process of expansion, it remains still, unmoved and unaffected by apparent progression and development. It is life and life more abundant. It is death and death more pronounced.

No act undertaken by man is without guile! We are always looking for the benefit, no matter how deliberately devious and clever we suppose ourselves to be in setting up the convenient, subjective convincing parameters of our paraded goodness. We want to believe we are guileless and that are motives are pure more importantly, we WANT others to believe it; but, nothing could be further from the truth. We say we are generous. But, WE are the ones who decide how, when, why, where, in what way and just how much our generosity will be dispersed. We only give away, what we no longer want, didn�t want to begin with, no longer have need of, or whatever will not place us in a bind by doing so. Our immovable-what is in it for me-resolve is indelibly stamped upon our character and will show its undeniable, irrefutable staged performance, in due space, on time, with expedient self-generated persuasive glory and much needed appreciation, hailed attention; and certainly, not without: a desired heavily applauded delivery

When we are so united with the thing we are doing, that we cease to be; we have come to place of sublime surrender. Nothing else exists to excite or distract the mind! The exhausting chaos of proposed reality fades into sweet oblivion; we are set free. Our mind releases its determined intent of functional purpose ‘to find and solve problems’ and in its place, an indescribable delirious soulful joy descends. “Seek The Water”, always! Recognize, accept and honor the sanctified unity of wholeness, health, wealth, prosperity and peace undulating throughout.