Hello and welcome to this episode of Practically Magick. You are going to be seeing a lot of my hands. Luckily, I just got myself a manicure, so that will hopefully be a lovely view for you. Today's episode is gonna be a demonstration of a healing through art workshop that I do with adults, typically. I have a variation of this that I do with Prism Healing, where I will do this with children or with teenagers, only what is developmentally appropriate for that age group.

So I have various forms of this workshop, but today you're gonna be watching an episode where we are gonna walk through it together with you. And you can actually follow along if you have materials at home. And it's not gonna be exactly the same or probably as well as we normally do it. So if you're listening to this, you can still listen along and get an idea of what the workshop would be like and how the process works. You're also gonna get a demonstration on how to do some techniques with the art.

We're using watercolor today, but we can also do this with acrylic or watercolor pencil or oil pastel or even crayons, if you would like to try it with us. So we're starting today's episode as we normally do with a card poll. Today I am using my Inner Child Oracle Deck. Not tarot, but this will be the card that is meant for us today. Whenever you are listening, whenever you're watching, this is what card is needed for you as we go through this process.

And if you are following along with the art demonstration today. Hey, one more shuffle real quick. And pull the card of transformation. Absolutely appropriate. This is the Inner Child Oracle Deck because when I do a healing process or emotional process, energy healing session, oftentimes we are working with an inner child as we're doing this.

And I firmly believe, and if you've listened to any of the previous episodes of Practically Magick, you'll know that I firmly believe that a lot of healing can take place when we go into our inner child. When we seek guidance or seek awareness or seek witnessing what our inner child has to say. And a lot of the cycles of healing and what we're working through when we're going through an alchemical transformation is just that, it's a transformation. It's turning light into gold, but in a more metaphysical way. So I love that this card almost brings that up as it has these little, you can look close enough in the video, these little tiny versions of her.

One is doing ballet and it kind of writes this little story as she goes into, from her birth and from her mother's womb into her childhood, into her teens, into becoming a mother, into this almost warrior alter ego, which I love when we're working with solar plexus energy and healing, is to bring out that warrior. She's got a bow and arrow. And then the transformation of becoming. Here's her, and she's almost in her crone era, but yet she still looks like a maiden. So you can interpret it a lot of different ways in this card.

But one of the reasons I love this deck is because of the artwork. It's so colorful and vibrant and creative. And because I encourage that when we're working with color and we're working with art, today is not about what is the end product that we're going to have. Most of us are not going to create some type of art that may hang in a gallery someday or even something we would hang on our own wall. That's not really the point.

So I want you, if you're listening now and you're feeling kind of that sticky cell part of you that says, oh my gosh, art, no way, I'm not doing art. Yuck, I cannot do art. I don't like what I make. I don't know how to make anything. I can't even do stick figures.

I've heard it all, people, okay? Just to let you know, I have heard it all. And that's not gonna be the point. The point of what we're doing here today is to engage in our color magic. And you can do that with some simple tools.

Again, this is not about creating a masterpiece. So whatever you put in front of you, it can be a blank piece of copy paper. It could be watercolor paper. It could be a canvas, ready to do acrylic. Whatever it is, just think of it as I'm going back to honor my inner child and let my inner child play with the colors, play with the feelings and emotions that come out.

So the first thing that you will need, I'll kind of give you a list of supplies to have ready. You want something with colors. Today I have a good old fashioned palette of the primary and secondary colors on watercolor. Usually watercolor will not have white. Sometimes they come with a little tube of white if you want to add white, but usually watercolor will allow you to have white where the paper is.

And so you can brighten or lighten your colors based on how much water you use. Or in the absence of color, it will leave white from the paper. So know that when you're doing watercolor that you may not have white, and that's okay. There's still gonna be white that you're going to have available with the paper. Or you can use acrylic.

Acrylic, you can add a lot of water to acrylic and it will still be really watery and runny like watercolor and you would just have to squeeze out a little bit of each color on a paper plate or on a palette if you have one. Something like this. I will show you. Okay, so we squeeze out all the primary and secondary colors, white and black, on something like this plastic. And just so you know, I like to let my acrylic dry and then I peel it out so you get, here's what acrylic is like when it's dry.

It's like a rubbery, plasticy kind of feeling. And then just throw these away. But just wanted to show you what that's like. So that's a lot different than watercolor because watercolor will dry and then it can be used again. You just add water to it and it's ready to go again.

Acrylic, whatever you squeeze out, whatever dries, it's done, it's dry. It's pretty much garbage at this point. I have students that like to play with it and want to create art projects with dried acrylic pieces. More power to you if you wanna do that. But you do not have to have paints.

If you have a box of crayons and a stack of paper, you can do this process with us. Again, it's not about the product. We are not creating a masterpiece here. We are just learning how to express our emotions through paint. I'm not giving away all trade secrets here today.

I am going to show you what the process of one of my workshops kind of looks like and how you can do some of it at home when you're working through something difficult or when you wanna unblock some creative blocks that you have. Maybe you're a writer, maybe you're a poet, maybe you're just working on a business and you just feel really stuck. This is some ways that I use color magic and art magic to help unblock those things. That being said, if you were to do a workshop with me, the reason I don't just record my workshops and have everybody do it at home is that it really does matter. It does give you a lot more to have someone there facilitating the healing with you, asking the questions, watching what colors you paint out and then asking follow-up questions based on the colors you choose.

And that is something I cannot do through the camera to you right now. I can only show you how to use this in when you are stuck and when you're alone, how can you kind of utilize the colors we've talked about? And of course, there are episodes in previous seasons of Practically Magick where I discuss art and why art is such a powerful tool for healing because that feeling that a lot of you have when I mention art or that we're gonna be doing art and you say, ew and yuck and oh no, that is absolutely correlated with the feelings you might have about things in life as well. I cannot stress this enough, my beliefs are that whatever way you look at a blank canvas, it can also be translated as the way that you look at life. Do you find yourself being a participant in the creative process that is your life or do you feel stuck?

Do you feel blocked? Do you feel inadequate? Do you feel that you don't have that spark of inspiration and creativity and enthusiasm that it takes to engage in life and towards the goals that you wanna make for yourself? And so I think doing this activity can really open up a lot of powerful healing. And with that being said, let's get to it.

So we're gonna be using watercolor and so I'm gonna show you some of the techniques with watercolor. But again, if you had watercolor pencils, you would just be coloring this out. And the thing that I like to do is I like to go through some emotion points that feel heavy in the body and ask what sort of feelings am I having? If I had any fear, fear is a good one to start with. If I had any fear, what would my fear be about?

And what I'd like you to do is whether you're using a journal or whether you're using your language and you're talking to someone or if you're just putting words to the thoughts in your head, I need there to be actual words taking place here. There needs to be some sort of labeling of the feeling. I feel fear because I'm afraid I don't have enough time. I'm afraid that I won't be loved if I show up as myself. I'm afraid that my business will never take off.

I'm afraid, these are just some examples, but I want you to actually take a moment. If you have to pause the video or you have to think about it or you have to journal it, what would the fear be like if it was coming out right now? And the first thing we're gonna do is we're gonna language it and then the second thing we're gonna do is we're gonna choose a color to go with the fear. Okay, that fear can feel like any color. There's no right or wrong answer here and it's really important that you go with your first instinct, okay?

Because we're kind of trained as children that certain colors are associated with certain emotions and that's not always true. So for example, my fear could feel blue, but if I'm talking about a specific fear, I don't like my fear of not being enough in a certain situation, well then that fear might feel orange. That particular fear is whatever color it feels like. So I need you to associate that fear with an actual color and then what we're gonna do is we're gonna represent that color on our paper in a certain shape and size. So I like with watercolor and with acrylic, I like to get the area that I'm thinking of the fear, I like to get it wet first with some water and this is some painting technique.

So you can't see it on the camera, but you can see that I'm just painting what looks like clear, just water. Okay, and if you're doing some painting with me, just know that I chose a medium-sized brush and I'm gonna use the same brush for the entire painting. This is not about switching around to like a smaller brush with more detail or a larger brush. You could maybe pick a larger brush if you needed to really cover a lot of space in a short amount of time, that makes sense, but for the most part, I'm gonna pick a medium-sized brush and I'm gonna do my entire painting that way because again, I'm not concerned with it looking a certain way or being of a certain thing. I just want my fear to paint onto this paper whatever shape that it's in.

So I like to get the area wet first in the shape and then I'm gonna choose the color that goes with my fear and I'm gonna dab that, apologize if the camera keeps going in and out, trying to be mindful of what you can see on the camera here. I'm just going to actually let the color that feels like my fear swim and sploosh into that water. I'm not concerned with whether it spreads because it's only gonna spread to the edge of where my wet goes and then stop and that's fine. I can make it really splotchy or I can really paint it out and fill that area, either way, I'm not wrong. You get to decide how you want it to look and how you want it to feel and if it goes awry and you're like, whoa, that totally splooged out everywhere and I didn't want it to do that, I don't want you to worry about that.

I want you to imagine that the color represents your fear and it is just coming out of the body, through the arm and onto the page. Remember magic, we've talked about in other episodes, magic energy follows intention. So this is our intention, we are moving this heaviness out of our body into color and I love when it gets really liquidy and sploogy and it's gonna kind of, now some of it, if it's a little too dark, I can add more water to it and then let it sort of spread a little more. I can let that become whatever it is. I have started this painting with absolutely no plan and that's kind of how I want you to do it when it comes to this type of thing, healing through art.

I do not want you to have a plan in mind, like it's gonna look like this and it's gonna go this way. I just knew that this shape that you're seeing on the camera right now, all I know is that's what my fear feels like. It feels like this shape and this color. It also doesn't have to be any particular color, okay? Like one color.

I chose orange for my fear because it feels a little bit like I feel stuck, I feel a little blocked, I feel like my fear is associated with kind of like that feeling of I don't know if I'm ever gonna be able to do what I wanna do. I don't know if I can do it and that just felt orange to me for no particular reason. Just felt orange and then the shape just came out. Like it was no plan of mine really, just this is the shape of that feeling. That's how I want you to do it.

Yours might be more than one color so you can add colors to that. And then I want you to ask the question, if I felt any frustration or that feeling of frustration, I'm so frustrated because, and then go ahead and finish that sentence. I'm frustrated because, and then you can go ahead and journal that or you can take a quiet moment, pause the video, say what am I frustrated about most right now? And then again, we're gonna choose a shape. It might be right alongside the shape you just did.

In that case, if you get that wet, it will start to blend. It'll start to, whatever color it was that you had, it's gonna start to like fill into that. And then I'm gonna give it a color. Now what we're doing, and this comes from my training at the Institute of Healing Arts, the integrated processing technique that I do, what that means is integration of right and left brain. So we are languaging the feelings, we are languaging the emotion, but we're also representing it as a color.

So in doing that, we're engaging our right brain. So our left brain does the language, our right brain does the color, and we're combining them to represent and to express a very valid, very real emotion in our body. Emotions are just energy in motion. So here is my energy in motion. My frustration feels green.

I don't know why, can't explain it, don't have to. It's not my job to explain it right now as the participant. As the emotional healer, it is my job to explain it, but set that aside, that's not your job, participants. Okay, and you might just be representing that emotion as a color, and you know, not all of it blends. It sometimes just feels really spotty too, and I'm leaving some white spots as I go, because that's what feels right to me.

The more paint you add, the darker the feeling, the darker the color is gonna be, and look at how it just like swims. Now, anywhere where my watercolor dries, it's gonna create lines, it's gonna create those watermark spots. And this is why I teach watercolor this way. I teach it like with just playfulness and playing around with it, because the best way to learn how to watercolor and to control where that watercolor goes and what it does is to first learn what it's gonna do. This is what I do with children.

I say, you know, there's no mistakes, there's just learning, so we're just learning how to do it. You can now see some differences, like some of these spots are darker where I added more water, sorry, where I added more paint, and some of the spots lightened where it was more watery. If I was doing a painting where I actually wanted to shade or make it real, real intentional, real deliberate where I wanted that color to go, I would be better at it because I did this. But for today, for this, we're not concerned with what it looks like, we're just going based on feel, entirely by feel. Ooh, so you might start to feel that energy shift.

You might yawn or sigh or feel like, okay, I'm really feeling a lot of this coming out onto the paper. What's the next feeling or emotion? Once that shifts, I can move on to the next emotion point and say, all right, the next emotion I feel might be anger. Maybe you're not ready for anger yet, that's okay, but eventually somewhere in the process, I make everybody do suppressed anger as an emotion point because it is my experience and what I have been taught by many facilitators who do this processing, that suppressed anger is a must. It's in there, it's happening, you may not feel it yet, but it'll come eventually.

So pay attention to when it does. If you're not ready for suppressed anger, you could also ask yourself about that out of control feeling. Is there something that feels out of control here? What does that feel like? What does that look like?

And you know, actually, for me right now, that's feeling like two different colors. So I'm gonna add in some red, and while it's still wet, as I paint this area that I just happen to get wet, it's like, this is my anger. Some of this is my anger and some of it is my out of control. Actually, some of it is really just kind of mixing. And then I want some purple, so I'm adding blue in there because my palette doesn't have a purple, means I have to create it, which is awesome.

It's even better. Ooh, I like that in between there. It's mixing with the orange now. I'm gonna add a little water to that so it just splooges a little bit more. That's my own word, by the way, guys, splooge.

Now mine is feeling very like it's really starting to integrate into each other. That doesn't have to be what yours looks like. Like I said, when we started this, there's no plan. It is all how you feel. So I want you to pay attention to how it feels to you.

If you don't like this kind of like watery sploogy, there's a lot of like, I'm leaving a lot of white spots in between things because that's just what I wanted to do. I have seen a lot of clients who have done this work and they have done it very compartmentalized. Like they have shapes, a circle, a triangle, a square, a rectangle, a star, and all of them are very separate and very much like, here's my anger, here's my resentment, here's my out of control, here's my guilt, here's my shame. And they go through all the emotion points just very compartmentalized. And you know what?

There is absolutely nothing wrong with that. I think everybody is gonna do it exactly what feels right to them. So don't worry at all if you feel like, oh, hers looks like way different than mine. I would even rather you not like watch my video unless you just want some tips on technique. I would almost rather you just take your own colors and your own way of doing it and do it entirely your own without an example to look at.

But if you'd like some tips on how watercolor can be very fun to work with, then watching what I'm doing is a unique experience. You could do that as well. You can see how fun watercolor can be when you're not actively trying to make something. I think watercolor can be frustrating for new artists just learning because they think, I don't know how to control this. It's just like when something's wet or when something's dry, it starts just mixing everywhere and I don't know how to control.

And it can be frustrating, which again is part of the healing. Like, hey, let's get frustrated sometimes, right? I see you're frustrated. I validate your frustration, all that. So in an inner child healing through art workshop when I'm doing this, we're not actually working in present day emotion points.

We are looking at what does that inner child feel? And it's whatever age happened to come up for you. My red is starting to look like spots of blood everywhere and I'm here for it. Kind of loving it. And you know, some of that red just feels like it needs to come in here.

This is already dry. So now when I add this color to it and I'm adding some more red to it, it's going to stay where I paint it and it's gonna be really bold. It's not gonna spread and mix with the green that I put on there earlier. That's another kind of cool thing you learn about watercolor is how to control the wet and the dry to get the looks you really want. What is it gonna look like when these mix or what are this is gonna look like when I paint on top of it after it dries?

It's kind of just an experiment to see what happens. And my red is sort of taking over. It just feels like it wants to be a part of this whole painting, I guess. It's all right. No problem.

Here we go. And then we're gonna start to work on the Sometimes an image will start to unveil and unravel itself in this and that's fine too. Don't worry about it. Don't think about it just yet. That comes later.

All right, friends. Next emotion point might be self-image. What do I feel about myself right now? What feels heavy in the way that I see myself in the way that I'm understanding myself? You know, am I feeling good in that self-esteem and that self-image emotion?

Or is there something about that that feels heavy? Ooh. And as I'm doing this, I'm just following my intuition on it. And where does it go? I'm actually feeling it take a little bit over, actually.

So instead of doing like that nice little dotty dot dot thing that I was doing earlier where things were splooging, I'm covering a lot of the area with yellow. That felt like the color that self-image was coming up for me as I'm, there's some things about self-image on that emotion point that I'm frustrated with. And so yellow just feels a little overwhelming actually. So overwhelm is another emotion point that you can ask yourself, what am I feeling most overwhelmed about right now? And when overwhelm comes up in my painting, it takes over.

It just starts to take over everywhere. For some people that's anger. Now don't worry if your paper starts to curl because we're getting it wet. We can fix that later too. Some people like to tape it down and some people don't.

I don't usually tape it down, but watercolor artists that like to, it's fine. Notice how this side of my painting is looking different than this side of my painting. I'm just noticing that, I'm observing it. I'm saying, huh, how interesting. Almost as if it's somebody else doing it.

And that's fine too. Okay, self-image. You know, one other emotion point that you might ask yourself about too is, as we do this, is resentment. And shame and guilt. So anything that feels like it needs to have a moment to be expressed, language it, journal it, paint it.

That's kind of what we're doing is working through some of those things. I'm just kind of like accidentally made a puke orange color here and that isn't very pretty. But it absolutely fits with the emotions that I'm feeling. So it will be pukey looking and that's okay. That's great.

Remember we're painting, we're healing. We're painting out kind of ugly feelings and ugly thoughts and ugly. You know, they can be kind of ugly. So if it turns out looking ugly, then it serves its purpose either way. Another cool thing that you can do, I want to just ask you if it feels right for you, you can do this.

You can make the paint really wet and really sloppy. And then if you wanna pick up your paper and let it drip, it can create a cool effect. It's just fun to kind of let that happen. So let it happen. You can also leave any areas white that you feel like that represents a feeling or an emotion as well.

If you're like, it feels white to me, then that might be like what you want that to look like. So we're getting towards the end of the painting process of this. And I'm going to let you pause the video. I'm gonna finish painting out mine and then we're going to actually let this dry. We're gonna let the end of this painting finish what we want it to do.

If you're coloring with crayons or anything, you can keep flipping the page as you scribble it out. Whatever color and shape, you can just grab crayons and say, okay, this is an orange and this feels like resentment. And then you can just scribble it out. Scribble, scribble, scribble until you feel like all of it has left your body. Then you turn the page and you do another page.

You're gonna end up creating a whole book. And by the way, at the end of it, if you don't wanna keep your book, that's okay too. You can burn it, you can let it go. Whatever feels right to you. It all works.

If you're using watercolor pencil, don't add any water yet. At this point in the process, you just use the color pencils to color out shapes and add coloring or detail to it in the colored pencil, knowing that we are going to get it wet later. I can do a demonstration of that on another video another time, but watercolor pencils are actually really cool for this process. It turns out really awesome. And I'll kind of explain why as we get to the next point in our process.

But first, we do need to finish painting out all the heavy feelings. Paint until the heavy feels, not so heavy, until you feel lighter, until you feel that it's come out, whatever it looks like, whatever it feels like. Pay attention to your body and how it's doing. If it feels like you need to do a big yawn. That just felt like that's what needed to happen there.

It almost looks like a volcano is exploding now. All right, so pause the video, finish your painting, and then we will talk about what to do once this dries. All right, as we're waiting for our painting to dry in the Healing Through Art and Emotional Process sessions and workshops that I do, we use the time while this is drying to do a little bit of journaling that I help guide. I have kind of a worksheet workbook that I guide my clients, my participants to kind of go through and analyze what colors they have pulled out, what they have used to represent the emotion points that we've talked about, because there is a color guide. And I kind of adapted it from some of the work done at the Institute of Healing Arts, where they give us a color guide to help guide what sort of colors that a client might be pulling out in a session.

Obviously, in an integrated processing technique session, we wouldn't be doing any painting, it would be totally visualizing colors as we pull them out, as we identify what color an emotion point might be. So we might say, that feels really yellow, I'm pulling out a lot of yellow as we're visualizing it. I have adapted that into an actual art experience, but it doesn't have to be. So to give you an idea, I'm gonna show you some work that we've done in some other Healing Through Art workshops that I've taught. This is another one of mine, but this is kind of how I ended up adopting it.

So you'll be able to see on the video, if you are watching on YouTube. Again, if you're not watching on YouTube, that's fine, you can just listen, because I am gonna kind of go through it and talk about it. But the color guide helps us to identify what might be some things going on. So in this painting, you'll see it looks very, this is acrylic, but this is very different than the one I just showed you, the one we just did together. That's because every time I do this, it's a completely different emotional experience that we're having.

So they're going to look different. And as I painted this out, I felt at that time, the things I was painting were just very, very spiral oriented, like colors, but they were also spiraled into each other. And you'll see that I used a lot of purple inside the spiral, and it's kind of spiraled in there with green, so this would tell me as a healing facilitator that some of the things that I was working through in this process had to do with need for approval. Need for approval in the green, and the purple is associated with authority figures. So whatever age that I was working on, there was probably a lot of feelings like, I really wanted approval from an authority figure, usually mom or dad, that was happening at that place and time.

So that just tells me there's a lot wrapped up in that. I was very much integrating my worth, my feeling good about myself was very connected to whether or not I was getting that approval or love and connection that I was seeking from authority figures here in the purple. You'll also see blue. Blue is associated with the throat chakra or communication. So the blue that comes out might be associated with how I felt like I was communicating those needs, how I maybe felt that those needs weren't heard or that I felt that I needed to say them in a certain way and that it wasn't being communicated, or maybe I felt that I couldn't communicate it at all.

I just stayed silent, did not express myself, did not say what my feelings were or that I was sad. You'll also see that in the background of this one, there's a lot of yellow. So I want you to pay attention to your own painting that you've done today and say, what kinds of colors do I notice? Because I did a lot of yellow in my painting today too. Yellow has a lot to do with that personal power, that solar plexus, that I feel that I can do things, I have the confidence to do them.

So when it's painted out in heavier feelings that kind of associates with, I don't feel the self-confidence, I don't feel good about myself, I don't feel that I can do it. So once we come to, we'll go through the middle of the process. Again, that's not something I can translate very well through the video, but to kind of sit and be able to assess the colors and then get to the real heart of it would be, what did I actually believe about myself? What was the core belief or what was the shame that I held or that I am holding now in all of this emotion? So I like to see it as we're kind of digging.

When we paint out the colors associated with emotions, we're just digging, we're digging, we're moving, we're moving, we're moving, moving energy out of the way because somewhere deep down at the core of it is gonna be shame. It's somewhere in that we're gonna address it. So that's why a facilitator through this process is very, very, very helpful. Yes, you can sit down and you can paint this. Yes, you can journal.

Yes, you can ask yourself a lot of questions. But when you seek someone out like myself who is trained and knows what to ask, you are going to uncover so much more than what you could be aware of for yourself. Because if you can be aware of it yourself, then why haven't you, right? Like so much of who we are and what we do is subconscious is because we don't know any other way. So having a outside perspective, somebody who is helping us dig in and ask those questions and get those answers is really, really helpful.

So if anytime you were talking about this, you want to check out Prism Healing, book a session with me or to do the workshop with me, I can guarantee you we can get a lot more done than what we can do here on video today. But as it is a podcast episode, we are just really, really, really excited to have you here to work through some of this stuff as best you can. And so what we're gonna do after we do the journaling experience and we've kind of worked through some of those things and we've recognized patterns within ourselves, we've recognized actions and behaviors, we've recognized what neural pathways got us to those behaviors, why did we do the things we do? Would we do it differently if we could? What are some new ways that we can get our needs met that we have not tried or that we're not currently doing because we didn't know that we could, we didn't know there was another way?

This is just unblocking a lot of subconscious stuff. We're just kind of blah, blah, blah, blah, like throwing up all this subconscious stuff out to look at it and to sort it and to make it conscious again. To let our conscious mind really say, is this working for me, how can I do differently? And then we get to do the really fun part with this creative experience. We get to look at our painting and we can do a couple of different things.

You've been looking at my painting upside down from what I've been looking at it, but when you've been working on your painting or your art, you get to take these heavy feelings and you get to transmute them. They no longer need to represent the heavy, they can represent light. So in a process, we do something called the clearing and there's a specific statement that we use, something we say out loud, something like I cleared the negative energies, family patterns and traditions of, and then we list out all the things representing all this negative. Well, we can say negative, but really it's just heavy or self-sabotaging or not our higher self. I don't always love using the word negative, but for lack of a better term, we'll say negative.

We're gonna clear all those negative energies and we're going to replace them with positive energies, positive affirmations that really do serve us better. So one way we can do that represented in our painting is we can actually transmute this painting into something positive. Now you get to take the image you've made and say, is there an image that comes from this? Is this looking, I'm gonna show you the way I painted it. This is how it looks the way that the direction I painted it.

Okay, now it kind of does look like it could be something. It looks like it could be like a volcano exploding. This could be like the ocean with the lava running into the ocean. This almost looks like a, I don't know what this could be, but some mist or forest or something coming onto the side here is very cloudy, very mystical looking, but there could be a specific image that pops up in your mind. And if there is an image, kind of like you see an image in a cloud, we can take a marker or a crayon or a, I'm using a Sharpie.

I love using the Sharpies. I actually have a case of Sharpies in all colors that I could use, which if you have those supplies, more power to you. Use whatever you have, whatever you want. I have done this with crayons. I have done this with colored pencils.

If you did this with watercolor pencil and you got all the pencil out, like you colored out all your emotions in shapes and colors with the colored pencil, the beautiful thing about watercolor pencils is now you get to add the water and you get to paint it. And that is so fun. Oh my gosh. I almost wish I had done that today to show you what that's like. It's so fun.

Oh, there goes my light. One second here, see if I can get that back. Well, it doesn't look too dark on the screen. Okay, so I just lost my light for a second, but I think we can still keep going. I don't know where, oh, there it goes.

It's back. Oh, it's gone. Technical issues, friends. This is my first time doing an art demonstration on camera. So of course it's gonna happen like that.

All right, so watching what we do here now, we're gonna take our Sharpie marker. We're going to trace out any images that we happen to see that would create a picture out of this. That's one way that we can do it as we're transmuting it to positive energy. The second way that we can do it is we can actually do what I just did and flip the image upside down from what we did, how we created it. So here's the image as I created it, but when I flip it upside down to show you this way, a completely different feeling might happen when you look at it from this perspective.

For example, maybe you colored something really heavily at the bottom of your painting and a lot of darkness at the bottom. When you turn it around, that heaviness is now gonna be at the top of your painting and it's gonna create a different feeling or emotion. Sometimes I've seen, we've done activities where we do this and we'll paint out what we feel like is a problem that we're having and then flip it upside down and now look at it and say, now if this were the solution to my problem, what would this painting be telling me? And yeah, it takes a little practice to become that intuitive or kind of abstract because that is an abstract way of thinking is to be like, oh, these shapes and colors have now become a solution. And I get it, it's not as cut and dry as asking chat GPT or AI, what do you think the solution to my problem would be?

And letting them kind of work it out for you. This is actually tapping into your own intuition, your own knowledge and wisdom deep down in the very recesses of your subconscious. What answers do I already have tapped into the collective consciousness that I can pull from? Right? So what we can actually do is we can sit here and if you don't wanna create an image, that's okay because second option is to just go through and actually just trace every line and shape that you see.

You're not gonna see me do this on the entire thing but this is essentially what it would look like. I highly recommend putting on some very meditative music and ethereal, enya maybe, meditative music and just let yourself sit and trace every single line where the colors dried and where it created watermarks like this. And as you do that, you're gonna feel all of the energy and you just lighten. All right, we'll show you a picture at the very end of what it looks like when it's all done for mine but I want to see your images of what your painting looks like. So please send them in to me.

You can go to my Instagram at Practically Magick, whoop, there's a light again. Let there be light. Practically Magick podcast on Instagram and you can send me in my DMs or I'll share or tag me in your pictures on your Instagram so that I can see them. That would be awesome. Share them in your stories and tag me and then I can share them in my stories.

That would be so fun just to see everybody's different Healing Through Art paintings that you did. Again, you can sign up for a Healing Through Art, Inner Child Healing Through Art art class. I have a course starting very soon. It will start at the end of September and it will run until December. We meet once a month in person and we do this Healing Through Art workshop, different themes each month but we also meet on Zoom every week during the time that the course is running.

So this is for adults only but I have my other art classes, Heart Smart Art is for kids and that is gonna meet once a month as well from September to December. It's a two hour workshop for kids about five to nine years old and then I have a weekly art class called Myth and Magic Art class. It's an hour and a half every week. We do art lessons and we read mythology and we learn how to unblock our creativity with projects that are less, less pressure I would say. And as we finish up, don't forget about our event.

We're doing Practical Magic Two screening on September 10th. We wanna see you there so if you haven't won your tickets yet, please go to Ride The Wave Media and enter to win. You have to subscribe to this podcast so make sure that you're subscribed and if you enjoyed this episode, please share it with a friend. It would help me so, so much and yes, my paintings are for sale so let me know if you would like to purchase one of the paintings that I have available. I'm gonna be at the farmer's market selling some of my paintings here in South Jordan locally so reach out to me if you wanna see what's for sale.

I sell my art very cheap because it just helps to fund the art supplies and things for the projects that I work on so if you have five, $10, $20 to spare, my paintings are very reasonably priced and they do end up looking very lovely so if you would like one, let me know. Here's a quick shout out. Thank you to Ride The Wave Media for producing this podcast. Go check out the rest of the shows they have on this network at ridethewavemedia.com and follow Practically Magick on practically-magic.com. You can book a healing session with me privately.

I do them over virtual or in person at prism-healing.com. Check it out there and thanks for joining us today. Go make magic, witches and wizards. Bye.