Healing Through Art: Watercolor Emotional Processing Workshop

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Hello and welcome to this episode of Practically

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Magic. You are going to be seeing a lot of my

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hands. Luckily, I just got myself a manicure

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so that... will hopefully be a lovely view for

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you. Today's episode is going to be a demonstration

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of a healing through art workshop that I do with

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adults typically. I have a variation of this

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that I do with prism healing where I will do

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this with children or with teenagers. only what

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is developmentally appropriate for that age group.

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So I have various forms of this workshop, but

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today you're gonna be watching an episode where

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we are gonna walk through it together with you.

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And you can actually follow along if you have

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materials at home. and it's not gonna be exactly

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the same or probably as well as we normally do

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it. So if you're listening to this, you can still

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listen along and get an idea of what the workshop

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would be like and how the process works. You're

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also gonna get a demonstration on how to do some

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techniques with the art. We're using watercolor

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today, but we can also do this with acrylic or

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watercolor pencil or oil pastel or even crayons

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if you would like to try it with us. So we're

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starting today's episode as we normally do with

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a card poll. Today I am using my Inner Child

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Oracle deck, not tarot, but this will be the

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card that is meant for us today. Whenever you

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are listening, whenever you're watching, this

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is what card is needed for you as we go through

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this process and if you are following along with

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the art. demonstration today. Okay, one more

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shuffle real quick and pull the card of transformation.

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Absolutely appropriate. This is the inner child

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oracle deck because when I do a healing process

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or emotional process, energy healing session,

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oftentimes we are working with an inner child

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as we're doing this and I firmly believe, and

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if you've listened to any of the previous episodes

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of Practically Magic, you'll know that I firmly

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believe that a lot of healing can take place

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when we go into our inner child, when we seek

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guidance or seek awareness or seek witnessing

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what our inner child has to say. And a lot of

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the cycles of healing and what we're working

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through when we're going through an alchemical

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transformation is is just that, it's a transformation.

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It's turning light into gold, but in a more metaphysical

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way. So I love that this card almost brings that

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up as it has these little, if you can look close

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enough in the video, these little tiny versions

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of her. One is doing ballet and it kind of writes

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this little story as she goes into, from her

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birth and from her... from her mother's womb

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into her childhood, into her teens, into becoming

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a mother, into this almost warrior alter ego,

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which I love when we're working with solar plexus

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energy and healing, is to bring out that warrior.

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She's got a bow and arrow. And then the transformation

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of becoming. Here's her, and she's almost in

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her crone era, but... yet she still looks like

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a maiden. So you can interpret it a lot of different

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ways in this card. But one of the reasons I love

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this deck is because of the artwork. It's so

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colorful and vibrant and creative. And because

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I encourage that when we're working with color

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and we're working with art, today is not about

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what is the end product that we're going to have.

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Most of us are not going to create some type

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of art that May hang in a gallery someday or

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even something we would hang on our own wall.

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That's not really the point So I want you if

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you're listening now and you're feeling kind

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of that sticky cell Part of you that says oh

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my gosh art. No way. I'm not doing art. Yuck.

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I cannot do art I don't like what I make I don't

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I don't know how to make anything. I can't even

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do stick figures I've heard it all people. Okay,

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just to let you know I have heard it all And

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that's not gonna be the point. The point of what

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we're doing here today is to engage in our color

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magic, and you can do that with some simple tools.

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Again, this is not about creating a masterpiece,

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so whatever you put in front of you, it can be

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a blank piece of copy paper, it could be watercolor

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paper, it could be a canvas, ready to do acrylic.

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Whatever it is, just think of it as I'm going

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back. to honor my inner child and let my inner

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child play with the colors, play with the feelings

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and emotions that come out. So the first thing

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that you will need, I'll kind of give you a list

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of supplies to have ready. You want something

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with colors. Today I have a good old fashioned

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palette of the primary and secondary colors on

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watercolor. Usually watercolor will not have

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white. Sometimes they come with a little tube

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of white if you want to add white, but usually

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watercolor will... allow you to have white where

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the paper is and so you can brighten or lighten

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your colors based on how much water you use or

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in the absence of color, it will leave white

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from the paper. So know that when you're doing

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watercolor that you may not have white and that's

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okay. There's still gonna be white that you're

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going to have available. with the paper. Or you

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can use acrylic. Acrylic, you can add a lot of

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water to acrylic and it will still be really

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watery and runny like watercolor and you would

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just have to squeeze out a little bit of each

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color on a paper plate or on a palette if you

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have one. Something like this, I will show you.

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Okay, so we squeeze out all the primary and secondary

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colors, white and black on something like this.

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plastic and just so you know I like to let my

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acrylic dry and then I peel it out so you get

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Here's what acrylic is like when it's dry. It's

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like a rubbery plasticky kind of feeling And

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then just throw these away, but just want to

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show you what that's like so that's a lot different

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than watercolor because watercolor will Dry and

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then it can be used again. You just add water

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to it and it's ready to go again Acrylic whatever

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you squeeze out whatever dries. It's done. It's

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dry It's pretty much garbage at this point. I

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have students that like to play with it and want

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to create art projects with dried acrylic pieces.

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More power to you if you want to do that. But

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you do not have to have paints. If you have a

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box of crayons and a stack of paper, you can

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do this process with us. Again, it's not about

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the product. We are not creating a masterpiece

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here. We are just learning how to express our

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emotions. through paint. I'm not giving away

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all trade secrets here today. I am going to show

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you what the process of one of my workshops kind

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of looks like and how you can do some of it at

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home when you're working through something difficult

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or when you want to unblock some creative blocks

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that you have. Maybe you're a writer, maybe you're

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a poet, maybe you're just you know working on

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a business and you just feel really stuck. This

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is some ways that I use color magic and art magic

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to help unblock those things. That being said,

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if you were to do a workshop with me, the reason

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I don't just record my workshops and have everybody

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do it at home is that it really does matter.

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It does give you a lot more to have someone there

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facilitating the healing with you. asking the

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questions, watching what colors you paint out,

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and then asking follow -up questions based on

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the colors you choose. And that is something

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I cannot do through the camera to you right now.

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I can only show you how to use this when you

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are stuck and when you're alone. How can you

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kind of utilize the colors we've talked about?

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And of course, there are episodes in previous

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seasons of Practically Magic where I discuss

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art and why art is such a powerful tool for healing

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because that feeling that a lot of you have when

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I mention art or that we're going to be doing

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art and you say, ew and yuck and oh no, that

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is absolutely correlated with the feelings you

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might have about things in life as well. I cannot

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stress this enough. My beliefs are that whatever

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way you look at a blank canvas, it can also be

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translated as the way that you look at life.

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Do you find yourself being a participant in the

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creative process that is your life? Or do you

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feel stuck? Do you feel blocked? Do you feel

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inadequate? Do you feel that you don't have that

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spark of inspiration and creativity and enthusiasm

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that it takes to engage in life? and towards

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the goals that you want to make for yourself.

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And so I think doing this activity can really

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open up a lot of powerful healing. And with that

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being said, let's get to it. So we're going to

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be using watercolor. And so I'm going to show

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you some of the techniques with watercolor. But

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again, if you had watercolor pencils, you would

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just be coloring this out. And the thing that

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I like to do is I like to go through some emotion

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points that feel heavy in the body and ask, what

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sort of feelings am I having if I had any fear?

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Fear is a good one to start with. If I had any

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fear, what would my fear be about? And what I'd

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like you to do is whether you're using a journal

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or whether you're using your language and you're

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talking to someone or if you're just putting

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words to the thoughts in your head, I need there

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to be actual words taking place here. There needs

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to be some sort of labeling of the feeling. I

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feel fear because I'm afraid I don't have enough

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time. I'm afraid that I'm Won't be loved if I

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show up as myself. I'm afraid that my business

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will never take off I'm afraid these are just

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some examples But I want you to actually take

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a moment if you have to pause the video or you

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have to think about it Or you have to journal

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it. What would the fear be like if it was coming

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out right now? And the first thing we're going

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to do is we're going to language it. And then

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the second thing we're going to do is we're going

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to choose a color to go with the fear. That fear

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can feel like any color. There's no right or

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wrong answer here. And it's really important

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that you go with your first instinct. Because

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we're kind of trained as children that certain

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colors are associated with certain emotions.

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And that's not always true. So for example, my

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fear could feel blue. But if I'm talking about

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a specific fear like my fear of not being enough

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in a certain situation, well then that fear might

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feel orange. That particular fear is whatever

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color it feels like. So I need you to associate

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that fear with an actual color. And then what

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we're gonna do is we're gonna represent that

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color on our paper in a certain shape and size.

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So I like with watercolor, And with acrylic,

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I like to get the area that I'm thinking of the

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fear. I like to get it wet first with some water.

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And this is some painting technique. So you can't

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see it on the camera, but you can see that I'm

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just painting what looks like clear, just water.

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Okay. And if you're doing some painting with

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me, just know that I chose a medium sized brush

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and I'm going to use the same brush for the entire

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painting. This is not about switching around

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to like a smaller brush with more detail or a

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larger brush. You could maybe pick a larger brush

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if you needed to really cover a lot of space

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in a short amount of time. That makes sense,

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but for the most part, I'm gonna pick a medium

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sized brush and I'm gonna do my entire painting

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that way because again, I'm not concerned with

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it looking a certain way or being of a certain

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thing. I just want my fear to paint onto this

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paper whatever shape that it's in. So I like

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to get the area wet first in the shape and then

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I'm gonna choose the color that goes with my

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fear and I'm gonna dab that, apologize if the

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camera keeps going in and out trying to be mindful

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of what you can see on the camera here. I'm just

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going to actually let the color that feels like

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my fear swim and sploosh into that water. I'm

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not concerned with whether it spreads, because

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it's only gonna spread to the edge of where my

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wet goes and then stop, and that's fine. I can

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make it really splotchy or I can really paint

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it out and fill that area. Either way, I'm not

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wrong. you get to decide how you want it to look

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and how you want it to feel. And if it goes awry

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and you're like, whoa, that totally splooged

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out everywhere and I didn't want it to do that,

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I don't want you to worry about that. I want

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you to imagine that the color represents your

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fear and it is just coming out of the body through

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the arm and onto the page. Remember magic, we've

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talked about in other episodes, magic energy

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follows intention. So this is our intention.

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We are moving this heaviness out of our body

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into color. And I love when it gets really liquidy

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and sploogy and like, it's gonna like kind of.

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Now some of it, if it's a little too dark, I

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can add more water to it and then let it sort

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of spread a little more. I can let that. become

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whatever it is. I have started this painting

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with absolutely no plan and that's kind of how

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I want you to do it when it comes to this type

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of thing, healing through art. I do not want

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you to have a plan in mind, like it's gonna look

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like this and it's gonna go this way. I just

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knew that this shape that you're seeing on the

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camera right now, all I know is that's what my

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fear feels like. It feels like this shape and

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this color. It also doesn't have to be any particular

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color, okay? Like one color. I chose orange for

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my fear because it feels a little bit like I

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feel stuck. I feel a little blocked. I feel like

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my fear is associated with kind of like that

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feeling of I don't know if I'm ever going to

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be able to do what I want to do. I don't know

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if I can do it. And that just felt orange to

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me. For no particular reason. Just felt orange.

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And then the shape just came out. Like it's it

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was no plan of mine really just This is the shape

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of that exact feeling. That's how I want you

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to do it. Yours might be more than one color,

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so you can add colors to that. And then I want

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you to ask the question, have I felt any frustration

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or that feeling of frustration? I'm so frustrated

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because... And then go ahead and finish that

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sentence. I'm frustrated because... And then

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you can go ahead and journal that or you can...

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Take a quiet moment, pause the video, say what

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am I frustrated about most right now? And then

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again, we're gonna choose a shape. It might be

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right alongside the shape you just did. In that

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case, if you get that wet, it will start to blend.

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It'll start to, whatever color it was that you

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had, it's gonna start to like fill into that.

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And then I'm gonna give it a color. Now what

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we're doing, and this comes from my training

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at the Institute of Healing Arts, the integrated

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processing technique that I do, what that means

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is integration of right and left brain. So we

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are languaging the feelings, we are languaging

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the emotion, but we're also representing it as

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a color. So in doing that, we're engaging our

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right brain. So our left brain does the language,

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our right brain does the color. And we're combining

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them to represent and to express a very valid,

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very real emotion in our body. Emotions are just

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energy in motion. So here is my energy in motion.

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My frustration feels green. I don't know why.

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Can't explain it. Don't have to. It's not my

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job to explain it right now as the participant.

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As the emotional healer, it is my job to explain

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it, but set that aside. That's not your job,

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participants. Okay, and you might just be representing

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that emotion as a color. And you know, not all

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of it blends. It sometimes just feels really

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spotty too. And I'm leaving some white spots

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as I go, because that's what feels right to me.

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The more paint you add, the darker the feeling,

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the darker the color is gonna be. And look at

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how it just like swims. Now anywhere where my

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watercolor dries, it's gonna create lines. It's

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gonna create those watermark spots. And this

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is why I teach watercolor this way. I teach it

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like with. Just playfulness and playing around

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with it because the best way to learn how to

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watercolor and to Control where that watercolor

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goes and what it does is to first learn what

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it's gonna do This is what I do with children.

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I say, you know, there's no mistakes. There's

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just learning So we're just learning how to do

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it You can now see some differences like some

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of these spots are darker where I added more

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water Sorry where I added more paint and some

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of the spots lightened where it was more watery.

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If I was doing a painting where I actually wanted

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to shade or make it real, real intentional, real

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deliberate where I wanted that color to go, I

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would be better at it because I did this. But

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for today, for this, we're not concerned with

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what it looks like. We're just going based on

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feel, entirely by feel. Ooh, so you might start

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to feel that energy shift. yawn or sigh or feel

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like, okay, I'm really feeling a lot of this

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coming out onto the paper. What's the next feeling

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or emotion? Once that shifts, I can move on to

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the next emotion point and say, all right, the

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next emotion I feel might be anger. Maybe you're

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not ready for anger yet, that's okay. But eventually

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somewhere in the process, I make everybody do

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suppressed anger as an emotion point because

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It is my experience and what I have been taught

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by many facilitators who do this processing.

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But suppressed anger is a must. It's in there.

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It's happening. You may not feel it yet, but

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it'll come eventually. So pay attention to when

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it does. If you're not ready for suppressed anger,

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you could also ask yourself about that out of

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control feeling. Is there something that feels

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out of control here? What does that feel like?

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What does that look like? And you know, actually,

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for me right now, that's feeling like two different

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colors. So I'm gonna add in some red. And while

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it's still wet, as I paint this area that I just

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happened to get wet, I was like, this is my anger.

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Some of this is my anger and some of it is my

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out of control. Actually, some of it is really

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just kind of mixing. And then I want some purple,

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so I'm adding blue in there, because my palette

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doesn't have a purple. It means I have to create

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it, which is awesome. It's even better. Ooh,

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I like that in between there. It's mixing with

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the orange now. I'm going to add a little water

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to that so it just splooges a little bit more.

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that's my own word by the way guys splooge now

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mine is feeling very like it's really starting

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to integrate into each other that doesn't have

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to be what yours looks like like i said when

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we started this there's no plan it is all how

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you feel so i want you to pay attention to how

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it feels to you if you don't like this kind of

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like watery sploogey there's a lot of like i'm

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leaving a lot of white spots in between things

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because that's just what i wanted to do I have

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seen a lot of clients who have done this work

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and they have done it very compartmentalized,

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like they have shapes. a circle, a triangle,

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a square, a rectangle, a star, and all of them

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are very separate and very much like, here's

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my anger, here's my resentment, here's my out

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of control, here's my guilt, here's my shame.

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And they go through all the emotion points just

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very compartmentalized. And you know what? There

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is absolutely nothing wrong with that. I think

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everybody is going to do it exactly what feels

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right to them. So don't worry at all if you feel

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like, oh, hers looks like way different than

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mine. I would even rather you not like watch

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my video unless you just want some tips on technique.

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I would almost rather you just take your own

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colors and your own way of doing it and do it

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entirely your own without an example to look

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at. But if you'd like some tips on how watercolor

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can be very fun to work with, then watching what

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I'm doing is a unique experience. You could do

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that. as well. You can see how fun watercolor

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can be when you're not actually actively trying

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to make something. I think watercolor can be

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frustrating for new artists just learning because

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they think, I don't know how to control this.

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It's just like when something's wet or when something's

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dry, it starts just mixing everywhere and I don't

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know how to control. And it can be frustrating,

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which again is part of the healing. Like, hey,

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let's get frustrated sometimes, right? I see

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you're frustrated. I validate your frustration.

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All that. So in an inner child healing through

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art workshop when I'm doing this, we're not actually

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working in present day emotion points. We are

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looking at what does that inner child feel? And

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it's whatever age happened to come up for you.

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My red is starting to look like spots of blood

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everywhere. I'm here for it. Kind of loving it.

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And you know, some of that red just feels like

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it needs to come in here. This is already dry.

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So now when I add this color to it and I'm adding

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some more red to it, it's going to stay where

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I paint it and it's gonna be really bold. It's

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not gonna spread and mix with the green that

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I put on there earlier. That's another kind of

00:24:03.170 --> 00:24:05.069
cool thing you learn about watercolor is how

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to control the wet and the dry to get the looks

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you really want. What is it going to look like

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when these mix or what is this going to look

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like when I paint on top of it after it dries?

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It's kind of just an experiment to see what happens.

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And my red is sort of taking over. It just feels

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like it wants to be a part of this whole painting,

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I guess. It's all right. No problem. Here we

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go. Sometimes an image will start to unveil and

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unravel itself in this, and that's fine too.

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Don't worry about it. Don't think about it just

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yet. That comes later. All right, friends. Next

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emotion point might be self -image. What do I

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feel about myself right now? What feels heavy

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in the way that I see myself, in the way that

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I'm understanding myself? Am I feeling good in

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that self -esteem and that self -image, emotion?

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Or is there something about that that feels heavy?

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Ooh. And as I'm doing this, I'm just following

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my intuition on it. And where does it go? I'm

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actually feeling it take a little bit. over actually.

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So instead of doing like that nice little dotty

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dot dot thing that I was doing earlier where

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things are splooging, I'm covering a lot of the

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area with with yellow. That felt like the color

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that self -image was coming up for me as I'm,

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there's some things about self -image on that

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emotion point that I'm frustrated with. And so

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yellow just feels a little um overwhelming actually.

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So, overwhelming is another emotion point. that

00:25:54.579 --> 00:25:56.859
you can ask yourself, what am I feeling most

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overwhelmed about right now? And when overwhelming

00:26:00.460 --> 00:26:07.059
comes up in my painting, it takes over. It just

00:26:07.059 --> 00:26:10.400
starts to take over everywhere. For some people,

00:26:10.420 --> 00:26:13.039
that's anger. Now don't worry if your paper starts

00:26:13.039 --> 00:26:14.700
to curl because we're getting it wet. We can

00:26:14.700 --> 00:26:17.039
fix that later too. Some people like to tape

00:26:17.039 --> 00:26:19.900
it down and some people don't. I don't usually

00:26:19.900 --> 00:26:22.630
tape it down, but. watercolor artists that like

00:26:22.630 --> 00:26:29.650
to, that's fine. Notice how this side of my painting

00:26:29.650 --> 00:26:31.930
is looking different than this side of my painting.

00:26:32.609 --> 00:26:35.309
I'm just noticing that, I'm observing it, I'm

00:26:35.309 --> 00:26:38.049
saying, huh, how interesting. Almost as if it's

00:26:38.049 --> 00:26:40.569
somebody else doing it. And that's fine too.

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Okay, self -image. You know, one other emotion

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point that you might ask yourself about too is,

00:26:48.430 --> 00:26:55.960
as we do this, is resentment and shame and guilt.

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So anything that feels like it needs to have

00:27:00.240 --> 00:27:04.759
a moment to be expressed, language it, journal

00:27:04.759 --> 00:27:07.460
it, paint it. That's kind of what we're doing

00:27:07.460 --> 00:27:11.960
is working through some of those things. I just

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kind of like accidentally made a puke orange

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color here and that isn't... very pretty But

00:27:22.799 --> 00:27:25.339
it absolutely fits with the emotions that I'm

00:27:25.339 --> 00:27:29.539
feeling so it will be Pukey looking and that's

00:27:29.539 --> 00:27:34.299
okay That's great Remember we're painting we're

00:27:34.299 --> 00:27:37.200
healing we're painting out kind of ugly feelings

00:27:37.200 --> 00:27:40.660
and ugly thoughts and ugly You know, they can

00:27:40.660 --> 00:27:43.359
be kind of ugly so if it turns out looking ugly

00:27:43.359 --> 00:27:46.859
then it serves its purpose either way Another

00:27:46.859 --> 00:27:48.880
cool thing that you can do and I want to just

00:27:48.880 --> 00:27:52.250
ask you If it feels right for you, you can do

00:27:52.250 --> 00:27:56.490
this. You can make the paint really wet and really

00:27:56.490 --> 00:27:58.369
sloppy. And then if you want to pick up your

00:27:58.369 --> 00:28:01.829
paper and let it drip, it can create a cool effect.

00:28:01.869 --> 00:28:06.029
It's just fun to kind of let that happen. So

00:28:06.029 --> 00:28:10.049
let it happen. You can also leave any areas white

00:28:10.049 --> 00:28:13.250
that you feel like that represents a feeling

00:28:13.250 --> 00:28:15.390
or an emotion as well. If you're like, it feels

00:28:15.390 --> 00:28:18.759
white to me. And that might be like what you

00:28:18.759 --> 00:28:25.319
want that to look like. So we're getting towards

00:28:25.319 --> 00:28:30.799
the end of the painting process of this. And

00:28:30.799 --> 00:28:34.599
I'm going to let you pause the video. I'm gonna

00:28:34.599 --> 00:28:37.960
finish painting out mine. And then we're going

00:28:37.960 --> 00:28:41.200
to actually let this dry. We're gonna let the

00:28:41.200 --> 00:28:44.440
end of this painting finish what we want it to

00:28:44.440 --> 00:28:49.140
do. If you're coloring with crayons or anything,

00:28:49.660 --> 00:28:52.799
you can keep flipping the page as you scribble

00:28:52.799 --> 00:28:56.440
it out. Whatever color and shape, you can just

00:28:56.440 --> 00:28:58.500
grab crayons and say, okay, this is an orange

00:28:58.500 --> 00:29:00.319
and this feels like resentment. And then you

00:29:00.319 --> 00:29:03.319
can just scribble it out. Scribble, scribble,

00:29:03.480 --> 00:29:05.500
scribble until you feel like all of it has left

00:29:05.500 --> 00:29:07.720
your body. Then you turn the page and you do

00:29:07.720 --> 00:29:09.900
another page. You're gonna end up creating a

00:29:09.900 --> 00:29:12.140
whole book. And by the way, at the end of it,

00:29:12.180 --> 00:29:14.099
if you don't want to keep your book, that's okay

00:29:14.099 --> 00:29:20.660
too. You can burn it, you can let it go, whatever

00:29:20.660 --> 00:29:33.160
feels right to you. It all works. If you're using

00:29:33.160 --> 00:29:36.779
watercolor pencil, Don't add any water yet at

00:29:36.779 --> 00:29:39.420
this point in the process. You just use the color

00:29:39.420 --> 00:29:43.940
pencils to color out shapes and Add coloring

00:29:43.940 --> 00:29:47.079
or detail to it in the colored pencil knowing

00:29:47.079 --> 00:29:50.839
that we are going to get it wet later I can do

00:29:50.839 --> 00:29:53.079
a demonstration of that on another video another

00:29:53.079 --> 00:29:55.859
time But watercolor pencils are actually really

00:29:55.859 --> 00:29:58.660
cool for this process It turns out really awesome

00:29:58.660 --> 00:30:01.500
and I'll kind of explain why as we get to the

00:30:01.500 --> 00:30:04.970
next point in our process, but first We do need

00:30:04.970 --> 00:30:09.069
to finish painting out all the heavy feelings.

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Paint until the heavy feels not so heavy, until

00:30:14.029 --> 00:30:17.529
you feel lighter, until you feel that it's come

00:30:17.529 --> 00:30:20.910
out, whatever it looks like, whatever it feels

00:30:20.910 --> 00:30:25.049
like. Pay attention to your body and how it's

00:30:25.049 --> 00:30:27.930
doing if it feels like you need to do a big yawn.

00:30:34.059 --> 00:30:37.000
needed to happen there. It almost looks like

00:30:37.000 --> 00:30:40.680
a volcano is exploding now. Alright so pause

00:30:40.680 --> 00:30:42.660
the video finish your painting and then we will

00:30:42.660 --> 00:30:46.400
talk about what to do once this dries. Alright

00:30:46.400 --> 00:30:50.380
as we're waiting for our painting to dry in the

00:30:50.380 --> 00:30:54.279
healing through art and emotional process sessions

00:30:54.279 --> 00:30:57.440
and workshops that I do we use the time while

00:30:57.440 --> 00:30:59.559
this is drying to do a little bit of journaling

00:30:59.559 --> 00:31:03.730
that I Help guide I have kind of a worksheet

00:31:03.730 --> 00:31:08.490
work Book that I guide my clients my participants

00:31:08.490 --> 00:31:11.769
to kind of go through and analyze what colors

00:31:11.769 --> 00:31:16.309
they have Pulled out what they have used to represent

00:31:16.309 --> 00:31:19.730
the emotion points that we've talked about because

00:31:19.730 --> 00:31:23.150
there is a color guide and I I kind of adapted

00:31:23.150 --> 00:31:26.349
it from Some of the work done at the Institute

00:31:26.349 --> 00:31:28.309
of healing arts where they give us a color guide

00:31:28.309 --> 00:31:32.049
to help guide what sort of colors that a client

00:31:32.049 --> 00:31:34.670
might be pulling out in a session. Obviously,

00:31:34.849 --> 00:31:36.970
in an integrated processing technique session,

00:31:37.329 --> 00:31:39.109
we wouldn't be doing any painting. It would be

00:31:39.109 --> 00:31:41.710
totally visualizing colors as we pull them out,

00:31:41.710 --> 00:31:44.430
as we identify what color an emotion point might

00:31:44.430 --> 00:31:46.769
be. So we might say, that feels really yellow.

00:31:46.930 --> 00:31:49.190
I'm pulling out a lot of yellow as we're visualizing

00:31:49.190 --> 00:31:53.450
it. I have adapted that into an actual art experience,

00:31:53.450 --> 00:31:58.009
but it doesn't have to be. To give you an idea,

00:31:58.349 --> 00:32:00.289
I'm going to show you some work that we've done

00:32:00.289 --> 00:32:03.970
in some other healing through art workshops that

00:32:03.970 --> 00:32:06.269
I've taught. This is another one of mine, but

00:32:06.269 --> 00:32:09.190
this is kind of how I ended up adopting it. So

00:32:09.190 --> 00:32:10.829
you'll be able to see on the video if you are

00:32:10.829 --> 00:32:13.069
watching on YouTube. Again, if you're not watching

00:32:13.069 --> 00:32:14.970
on YouTube, that's fine. You can just listen

00:32:14.970 --> 00:32:16.710
because I am going to kind of go through it and

00:32:16.710 --> 00:32:21.500
talk about it. The color guide helps us to identify

00:32:21.500 --> 00:32:24.980
what might be some things going on. So in this

00:32:24.980 --> 00:32:27.460
painting, you'll see it looks very, this is acrylic,

00:32:27.599 --> 00:32:29.759
but this is very different than the one I just

00:32:29.759 --> 00:32:32.359
showed you, the one we just did together. That's

00:32:32.359 --> 00:32:34.660
because every time I do this, it's a completely

00:32:34.660 --> 00:32:36.460
different emotional experience that we're having.

00:32:37.000 --> 00:32:39.670
So. they're going to look different. And as I

00:32:39.670 --> 00:32:42.630
painted this out, I felt at that time the things

00:32:42.630 --> 00:32:46.269
I was painting were just very, very spiral oriented,

00:32:46.670 --> 00:32:50.009
like colors, but they were also spiraled into

00:32:50.009 --> 00:32:52.710
each other. And you'll see that I used a lot

00:32:52.710 --> 00:32:57.579
of purple. inside the spiral and it's kind of

00:32:57.579 --> 00:33:00.819
spiraled in there with green. So this would tell

00:33:00.819 --> 00:33:03.660
me as a healing facilitator that some of the

00:33:03.660 --> 00:33:06.859
things that I was working through in this process

00:33:06.859 --> 00:33:11.200
had to do with need for approval. Need for approval

00:33:11.200 --> 00:33:16.180
in the green and the purple is associated with

00:33:16.180 --> 00:33:19.119
authority figures. So whatever age that I was

00:33:19.119 --> 00:33:21.660
working on, there was probably a lot of feelings

00:33:21.660 --> 00:33:25.460
like I really wanted approval from an authority

00:33:25.460 --> 00:33:30.680
figure, usually mom or dad, that was happening

00:33:30.680 --> 00:33:34.440
at that place and time. So that just tells me

00:33:34.440 --> 00:33:36.660
there's a lot wrapped up in that. Like I was

00:33:36.660 --> 00:33:42.670
very much integrating like my worth. My feeling

00:33:42.670 --> 00:33:45.069
good about myself was very connected to whether

00:33:45.069 --> 00:33:48.390
or not I was getting that approval or love and

00:33:48.390 --> 00:33:50.569
connection that I was seeking from authority

00:33:50.569 --> 00:33:55.230
figures here in the purple. You'll also see blue.

00:33:55.349 --> 00:33:58.089
Blue is associated with the throat chakra or

00:33:58.089 --> 00:34:02.049
communication. So the blue that comes out might

00:34:02.049 --> 00:34:05.839
be associated with how I felt like. I was communicating

00:34:05.839 --> 00:34:08.559
those needs, how I maybe felt that those needs

00:34:08.559 --> 00:34:12.400
weren't heard or that I felt that I needed to

00:34:12.400 --> 00:34:15.059
say them in a certain way and that it wasn't

00:34:15.059 --> 00:34:18.199
being communicated or maybe I felt that I couldn't

00:34:18.199 --> 00:34:20.719
communicate it at all. I just stayed silent,

00:34:20.860 --> 00:34:24.480
did not express myself, did not say what my feelings

00:34:24.480 --> 00:34:26.920
were or that I was sad. You'll also see that

00:34:26.920 --> 00:34:28.039
in the background of this one, there's a lot

00:34:28.039 --> 00:34:29.800
of yellow. So I want you to pay attention to

00:34:29.800 --> 00:34:31.940
your own painting that you've done today and

00:34:31.940 --> 00:34:34.539
say, what kinds of colors do I notice? Because

00:34:34.539 --> 00:34:36.900
I did a lot of yellow in my painting today, too.

00:34:37.300 --> 00:34:40.780
Yellow has a lot to do with that personal power,

00:34:40.940 --> 00:34:46.239
that solar plexus, that I feel that I can do

00:34:46.239 --> 00:34:49.940
things. I have the confidence to do them. So

00:34:49.940 --> 00:34:53.159
when it's painted out in heavier feelings, that

00:34:53.159 --> 00:34:56.039
kind of associates with I don't feel the self

00:34:56.039 --> 00:34:58.980
-confidence. I don't feel. good about myself,

00:34:58.980 --> 00:35:02.119
I don't feel that I can do it. So once we come

00:35:02.119 --> 00:35:05.059
to, we'll go through the middle of the process.

00:35:05.519 --> 00:35:07.900
Again, that's not something I can translate very

00:35:07.900 --> 00:35:10.820
well through the video, but to kind of sit and

00:35:10.820 --> 00:35:14.719
be able to assess the colors and then get to

00:35:14.719 --> 00:35:18.820
the real heart of it would be, what did I actually

00:35:18.820 --> 00:35:23.400
believe about myself? What was the core belief

00:35:23.400 --> 00:35:26.989
or what was the shame that I held? or that I

00:35:26.989 --> 00:35:31.409
am holding now in all of this emotion. So I like

00:35:31.409 --> 00:35:34.590
to see it as we're kind of digging. When we paint

00:35:34.590 --> 00:35:37.449
out the colors associated with emotions, we're

00:35:37.449 --> 00:35:39.730
just digging. We're digging, we're moving, we're

00:35:39.730 --> 00:35:41.670
moving, we're moving, moving energy out of the

00:35:41.670 --> 00:35:44.250
way because somewhere deep down at the core of

00:35:44.250 --> 00:35:48.889
it is going to be shame. It's somewhere in that

00:35:48.889 --> 00:35:52.199
we're going to address it. So that's why a facilitator

00:35:52.199 --> 00:35:55.320
through this process is very, very, very helpful.

00:35:55.760 --> 00:35:57.579
Yes, you can sit down and you can paint this.

00:35:57.679 --> 00:35:59.780
Yes, you can journal. Yes, you can ask yourself

00:35:59.780 --> 00:36:02.159
a lot of questions. But when you seek someone

00:36:02.159 --> 00:36:04.940
out like myself, who is trained and knows what

00:36:04.940 --> 00:36:08.179
to ask, you are going to uncover so much more

00:36:08.179 --> 00:36:09.840
than what you could be aware of for yourself.

00:36:10.380 --> 00:36:13.159
Because if you can be aware of it yourself, then

00:36:13.159 --> 00:36:16.570
why haven't you, right? So much of who we are

00:36:16.570 --> 00:36:19.389
and what we do is subconscious is because we

00:36:19.389 --> 00:36:22.610
don't know any other way So having a outside

00:36:22.610 --> 00:36:25.489
perspective somebody who is helping us dig in

00:36:25.489 --> 00:36:28.150
and deep and ask those questions and get those

00:36:28.150 --> 00:36:33.670
answers is Really really helpful So if as at

00:36:33.670 --> 00:36:35.949
any time you were talking about this you want

00:36:35.949 --> 00:36:38.750
to? Check out prism healing book a session with

00:36:38.750 --> 00:36:42.349
me or to do the workshop with me I can guarantee

00:36:42.349 --> 00:36:44.630
you we can get a lot more done than what we can

00:36:44.630 --> 00:36:47.909
do here on video today. But as it is a podcast

00:36:47.909 --> 00:36:50.489
episode, we are just really, really, really excited

00:36:50.489 --> 00:36:52.969
to have you here to work through some of this

00:36:52.969 --> 00:36:56.050
stuff as best you can. And so what we're going

00:36:56.050 --> 00:36:58.070
to do after we do the journaling experience and

00:36:58.070 --> 00:36:59.690
we've kind of worked through some of those things

00:36:59.690 --> 00:37:02.070
and we've recognized patterns within ourselves.

00:37:02.469 --> 00:37:05.250
We've recognized actions and behaviors. We've

00:37:05.250 --> 00:37:07.769
recognized what neural pathways got us to those

00:37:07.769 --> 00:37:10.869
behaviors. Why did we do the things we do? Would

00:37:10.869 --> 00:37:14.710
we do it differently if we could? What are some

00:37:14.710 --> 00:37:16.929
new ways that we can get our needs met that we

00:37:16.929 --> 00:37:19.469
have not tried or that we're not currently doing

00:37:19.469 --> 00:37:21.949
because we didn't know that we could? We didn't

00:37:21.949 --> 00:37:25.829
know there was another way? This is just unblocking

00:37:25.829 --> 00:37:28.929
a lot of subconscious stuff. We're just kind

00:37:28.929 --> 00:37:32.130
of blah, blah, blah, like throwing up all this

00:37:32.130 --> 00:37:34.750
subconscious stuff out to look at it and to sort

00:37:34.750 --> 00:37:38.090
it and to make it conscious again. to let our

00:37:38.090 --> 00:37:42.510
conscious mind really say, is this working for

00:37:42.510 --> 00:37:46.210
me? How can I do differently? And then we get

00:37:46.210 --> 00:37:47.989
to do the really fun part with this creative

00:37:47.989 --> 00:37:49.929
experience. We get to look at our painting and

00:37:49.929 --> 00:37:52.329
we can do a couple of different things. You've

00:37:52.329 --> 00:37:53.909
been looking at my painting upside down from

00:37:53.909 --> 00:37:56.369
what I've been looking at it. But when you've

00:37:56.369 --> 00:38:00.469
been working on your painting or your art, you

00:38:00.469 --> 00:38:03.110
get to take these heavy feelings and you get

00:38:03.110 --> 00:38:06.989
to transmute them. They no longer need to represent

00:38:06.989 --> 00:38:10.530
the heavy. They can represent light. So in a

00:38:10.530 --> 00:38:12.570
process, we do something called the clearing.

00:38:13.010 --> 00:38:15.110
And there's a specific statement that we use,

00:38:15.309 --> 00:38:17.989
something we say out loud, something like, I

00:38:17.989 --> 00:38:19.889
clear the negative energies, family patterns,

00:38:20.070 --> 00:38:22.750
and traditions of, and then we list out all the

00:38:22.750 --> 00:38:25.269
things representing all this negative. Well,

00:38:25.750 --> 00:38:29.010
we can say negative, but really it's just heavy

00:38:29.010 --> 00:38:34.159
or self -sabotaging or... not our higher self.

00:38:34.960 --> 00:38:36.960
I don't always love using the word negative,

00:38:37.079 --> 00:38:39.000
but for lack of a better term we'll say negative.

00:38:39.360 --> 00:38:40.960
We're going to clear all those negative energies

00:38:40.960 --> 00:38:42.900
and we're going to replace them with positive

00:38:42.900 --> 00:38:45.400
energies, positive affirmations that really do

00:38:45.400 --> 00:38:49.820
serve us better. So one way we can do that, represented

00:38:49.820 --> 00:38:53.719
in our painting, is we can actually transmute

00:38:53.719 --> 00:38:56.929
this painting into something positive. Now you

00:38:56.929 --> 00:38:59.610
get to take the image you've made and say, is

00:38:59.610 --> 00:39:02.929
there an image that comes from this? Is this

00:39:02.929 --> 00:39:04.710
looking, I'm going to show you the way I painted

00:39:04.710 --> 00:39:08.010
it. This is how it looks the way that the direction

00:39:08.010 --> 00:39:11.530
I painted it, okay? Now it kind of does look

00:39:11.530 --> 00:39:13.469
like it could be something. It looks like it

00:39:13.469 --> 00:39:15.730
could be like a volcano exploding. This could

00:39:15.730 --> 00:39:18.469
be like the ocean with the lava running into

00:39:18.469 --> 00:39:22.309
the ocean. This almost looks like a, I don't

00:39:22.309 --> 00:39:26.389
know what this could be, but you know. Some mist

00:39:26.389 --> 00:39:29.449
or forest or something coming off onto the side

00:39:29.449 --> 00:39:33.110
here. It's very cloudy very mystical looking

00:39:33.110 --> 00:39:35.869
But you know there could be a specific image

00:39:35.869 --> 00:39:38.349
that pops up in your mind And if there is an

00:39:38.349 --> 00:39:40.750
image kind of like you see an image in a cloud

00:39:40.750 --> 00:39:44.989
we can take a marker or a crayon or I'm using

00:39:44.989 --> 00:39:47.889
a sharpie. I love using the sharpies. I actually

00:39:47.889 --> 00:39:51.949
have a Case of sharpies in all colors that I

00:39:51.949 --> 00:39:55.250
could use which if you have those supplies more

00:39:55.250 --> 00:39:57.530
power to you. Use whatever you have, whatever

00:39:57.530 --> 00:40:01.090
you want. I have done this with crayons. I have

00:40:01.090 --> 00:40:03.730
done this with colored pencils. If you did this

00:40:03.730 --> 00:40:07.090
with watercolor pencil and you got all the pencil

00:40:07.090 --> 00:40:11.690
out, like you colored out all your emotions in

00:40:11.690 --> 00:40:14.610
shapes and colors with the colored pencil, the

00:40:14.610 --> 00:40:16.489
beautiful thing about watercolor pencils is now

00:40:16.489 --> 00:40:19.130
you get to add the water and you get to paint

00:40:19.130 --> 00:40:22.769
it. And that is so fun. Oh my gosh. I almost

00:40:22.769 --> 00:40:24.550
wish I had done that today to show you what that's

00:40:24.550 --> 00:40:31.050
like. It's so fun. Oh, there goes my light. One

00:40:31.050 --> 00:40:35.949
second here, see if I can get that back. Well,

00:40:35.949 --> 00:40:38.130
it doesn't look too dark on the screen. Okay,

00:40:38.130 --> 00:40:40.889
so I just lost my light for a second, but I think

00:40:40.889 --> 00:40:44.630
we can still keep going. I don't know where.

00:40:44.909 --> 00:40:47.670
Oh, there it goes. It's back. Oh, it's gone.

00:40:49.599 --> 00:40:54.780
Technical issues, friends. This is my first time

00:40:54.780 --> 00:40:58.659
doing an art demonstration on camera, so of course

00:40:58.659 --> 00:41:02.480
it's gonna happen like that. All right, so watching

00:41:02.480 --> 00:41:04.659
what we do here now, we're gonna take our Sharpie

00:41:04.659 --> 00:41:08.019
marker. We're going to trace out any images that

00:41:08.019 --> 00:41:10.360
we happen to see that would create a picture

00:41:10.360 --> 00:41:13.280
out of this. That's one way that we can do it.

00:41:13.360 --> 00:41:16.440
as we're transmuting it to positive energy. The

00:41:16.440 --> 00:41:18.159
second way that we can do it is we can actually

00:41:18.159 --> 00:41:21.260
do what I just did and flip the image upside

00:41:21.260 --> 00:41:25.199
down from what we did, how we created it. So

00:41:25.199 --> 00:41:28.320
here's the image as I created it, but when I

00:41:28.320 --> 00:41:33.920
flip it upside down to show you this way, a completely

00:41:33.920 --> 00:41:37.579
different feeling might happen when you look

00:41:37.579 --> 00:41:40.739
at it from this perspective. For example, maybe

00:41:40.739 --> 00:41:43.219
you colored something really heavily at the bottom

00:41:43.219 --> 00:41:45.340
of your painting and a lot of darkness at the

00:41:45.340 --> 00:41:48.860
bottom. When you turn it around, that heaviness

00:41:48.860 --> 00:41:50.820
is now gonna be at the top of your painting and

00:41:50.820 --> 00:41:53.960
it's gonna create a different feeling or emotion.

00:41:54.880 --> 00:41:57.300
Sometimes I've seen, we've done activities where

00:41:57.300 --> 00:42:00.599
we do this and we'll paint out what we feel like

00:42:00.599 --> 00:42:03.820
is a problem that we're having and then flip

00:42:03.820 --> 00:42:07.139
it upside down and now. Look at it and say now

00:42:07.139 --> 00:42:10.440
if this were the solution to my problem. What

00:42:10.440 --> 00:42:13.500
would this painting be telling me? And yeah,

00:42:13.559 --> 00:42:16.059
it takes a little practice to become that intuitive

00:42:16.059 --> 00:42:21.239
or in or kind of Abstract because that is an

00:42:21.239 --> 00:42:23.900
abstract way of thinking is to be like all these

00:42:23.900 --> 00:42:27.059
uh This these shapes and colors have now become

00:42:27.059 --> 00:42:31.519
a solution And I get it. It's not as cut dry

00:42:31.519 --> 00:42:36.079
as Asking chat GPT or AI What do you think the

00:42:36.079 --> 00:42:38.599
solution to my problem would be and letting them

00:42:38.599 --> 00:42:41.480
kind of work it out for you? This is actually

00:42:41.480 --> 00:42:44.719
tapping into your own intuition your own knowledge

00:42:44.719 --> 00:42:48.519
and wisdom Deep down in the very recesses of

00:42:48.519 --> 00:42:51.380
your subconscious. What answers do I already

00:42:51.380 --> 00:42:54.960
have? tapped into the collective consciousness

00:42:54.960 --> 00:42:59.139
that I can pull from right So what we can actually

00:42:59.139 --> 00:43:01.940
do is we can sit here And if you don't want to

00:43:01.940 --> 00:43:04.239
create an image, that's okay, because second

00:43:04.239 --> 00:43:07.579
option is to just go through and actually just

00:43:07.579 --> 00:43:13.360
trace every line and shape that you see. You're

00:43:13.360 --> 00:43:15.659
not going to see me do this on the entire thing,

00:43:15.920 --> 00:43:18.900
but this is essentially what it would look like.

00:43:19.360 --> 00:43:22.780
I highly recommend putting on some very meditative

00:43:22.780 --> 00:43:28.260
music, ethereal, Enya maybe, meditative music,

00:43:28.360 --> 00:43:34.190
and just let yourself... Sit and trace every

00:43:34.190 --> 00:43:41.530
single line where the colors dried and where

00:43:41.530 --> 00:43:48.909
it created watermarks like this. And as you do

00:43:48.909 --> 00:43:52.929
that, you're gonna feel all of the energy in

00:43:52.929 --> 00:43:57.659
you just lighten. All right, we'll show you a

00:43:57.659 --> 00:43:59.480
picture at the very end of what it looks like

00:43:59.480 --> 00:44:02.699
when it's all done for mine, but I want to see

00:44:02.699 --> 00:44:05.280
your images of what your painting looks like,

00:44:05.300 --> 00:44:09.380
so please send them in to me. You can go to my

00:44:09.380 --> 00:44:13.039
Instagram at Practically Magic Pot, whoop, there's

00:44:13.039 --> 00:44:16.980
a light again. Let there be light. Practically

00:44:16.980 --> 00:44:20.539
Magic podcast on Instagram and you can send me

00:44:20.539 --> 00:44:24.159
in my DMs or I'll share or tag me in your pictures

00:44:24.159 --> 00:44:27.400
on your Instagram so that I can see them. That

00:44:27.400 --> 00:44:29.239
would be awesome. Share them in your stories

00:44:29.239 --> 00:44:31.659
and tag me and then I can share them in my stories.

00:44:31.699 --> 00:44:34.260
That would be so fun just to see everybody's

00:44:34.260 --> 00:44:35.659
different Healing Through Art paintings that

00:44:35.659 --> 00:44:38.619
you did. Again, you can sign up for a Healing

00:44:38.619 --> 00:44:40.679
Through Art, Inner Child Healing Through Art

00:44:40.679 --> 00:44:45.139
art class. I have a course starting very soon.

00:44:45.230 --> 00:44:47.429
It will start at the end of September, and it

00:44:47.429 --> 00:44:50.429
will run until December. We meet once a month

00:44:50.429 --> 00:44:53.090
in person, and we do this Healing Through Art

00:44:53.090 --> 00:44:56.329
workshop, different themes each month. But we

00:44:56.329 --> 00:44:59.750
also meet on Zoom every week during the time

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that the course is running. So this is for adults

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only. But I have my other art classes. Heart

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Smart Art is for kids, and that is going to meet

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once a month as well, from September to December.

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It's a two -hour workshop for kids about five

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to nine years old. And then I have a weekly art

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class called Myth and Magic Art Class. That's

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an hour and a half every week. We do art lessons,

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and we read mythology, and we learn how to unblock

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our creativity with projects that are less Less

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pressure, I would say. And as we finish up, don't

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forget about our event. We're doing Practical

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Magic 2 screening on September 10th. We want

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to see you there, so if you haven't won your

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tickets yet, please go to Ride the Wave Media

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And if you enjoyed this episode... please share

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it with a friend. It would help me so, so much.

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And yes, my paintings are for sale. So let me

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know if you would like to purchase one of the

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paintings that I have available. I'm gonna be

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at the farmer's market selling some of my paintings

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here in South Jordan locally. So reach out to

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me if you wanna see. What's for sale? I sell

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my art very cheap because it just helps to fund

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the art supplies and things for the projects

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that I work on. So, you know, if you have $5,

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$10, $20 to spare, my paintings are very reasonably

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priced and they do end up looking very lovely.

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So if you would like one, let me know. Here's

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a quick shout out. Thank you to Ride the Wave

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Media for producing this podcast. Go check out

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Magic on practically -magic .com. You can book

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Check it out there and thanks for joining us

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today. Go make magic, witches and wizards. Bye!