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EXPRESSIVE ARTS FOR EMOTIONAL WELLNESSWELCOME!
I am a Counsellor , Artist,
and Educator with the International Expressive Arts Therapy Association. I teach online expressive art and writing courses to support deep emotionalhealing.
Spontaneous art and writing offer a mirror reflection of your inner world, and it will help you to express, release, see, and heal your emotional pain. I warmly invite you to visit my online classroom HERE.Shelley Klammer |
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BEST COURSE CREATION PLATFORM FOR ARTISTS MY COURSE PLATFORM RECOMMENDATION I truly love COURSECRAFT for my EXPRESSIVE ARTS CLASS LEARNING PLATFORM ! When Ryan and Sara at COURSECRAFT opened up their affiliate program, I joined right away because I felt so steadily supported by them as I transferred over hundreds and hundreds of lessons from my old class platforms. In my opinion, CourseCraft is the best course creation platform for artists, and I have tried many. If you are an artist/facilitator and are looking for a great class platform, COURSECRAFT is similar to Teachable but I have found its intuitive navigation best suits my creative mind. It is super simple and lovingly designed for artists. You can experiment with creating your first class for free HERE.
FREE COURSE FOR ARTISTS Sara from CourseCraft has created a starter guide called AN ARTIST'S GUIDE TO CREATING AN E-COURSEand you can sign up
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COURSECRAFT REVIEW
Here is a video that offers a review of CourseCraft.Shelley Klammer |
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OVERCOMING CREATIVE RESISTANCE_
"Resistance is experienced as fear; the degree of fear equates to the strength of Resistance. Therefore the more fear we feel about a specific enterprise, the more certain we can be that that enterprise is important to us and to the growth of our soul. That's why we feel so much Resistance. If it meant nothing to us, there'd be noResistance.” _
_~ Steven Pressfield_ I had such a fun conversation about OVERCOMING CREATIVE RESISTANCE with DAWN MONTEFUSCO on her Ultimate Writers InterviewShow.
We talked about why we are so often afraid of our authenticself-expression.
MY AUTHENTICITY PROTECTOR In the interview, I shared that we all have a spiritual self that wants to express all of who we are. And, we also have younger, fearful personality parts inside that fear standing out in the crowd. To "get along" in society we have protective parts of self. Some social protectors keep us fitting in, conforming and carefully scanning the environment to see if it feels safe. These (younger) social protectors are often self-critical. They criticize us in similar ways that we have been criticized in the past in an attempt to keep us safe, small and fitting in. The good news is, we can develop a different kind of social protector to help us feel safer to express who we really are! We can ask for an inner protector that advocates for our authentic self-expression. We can ask an inner protector to help us feel big and bright and brave! In my interview with Dawn, I shared how a recent intuitive collage called herself my "authenticity protector." (See my collage above.) What a wonderful shift of confidence this fierce inner protector hascreated in me!
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NEW EDITION OF PHOTO THERAPY E-COURSE_ _
_“Looking at beauty in the world is the first step of purifying themind.”
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_~ Amit Ray_
THE NEW EDITION OF PHOTO THERAPY IS HERE! In this course, I share my personal journey of healing a deep pocket of emotional pain and grief at the death of my mother. My story might ignite and inspire your own journey of deep healing as I touch into the deeper spiritual dynamics of healing emotional pain such as ancestral healing, empathic pain processing, and the soul and karmic contracts that we come here to heal. If you are interested in exploring spiritual and alternative ways to heal your emotional pain, you will love this course. The emails that you will receive touch into the reality that we are larger than this one earth life we are walking now. This larger perspective will support you to call upon the spiritual support of your ancestors, guides and spirit helpers to heal your emotional pain._
_CRACKING OPEN TO BEAUTY When I developed this creative practice, my life was full to the brim with work. I was working full-time in a government-funded art studio, and I was building my private therapy practice in every minute available in my evenings and on weekends. My lunch hour was literallymy only "downtime."
So, I decided to go for a "visual beauty" walk on my lunch hour each day. For an entire year, my "Photo Therapy walk" became a treasured form of soothing meditation. And, ever being in love with visual symbolism and metaphor, my photos started to express their own healinglanguage.
_You can access the Photo Therapy Class HERE._
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INNER CHILD THERAPY WORKSHEETS _“We nurture our creativity when we release our inner child. Let it run and roam free. It will take you on a brighter journey.” __~ Serina Hartwell_
I loved creating my Inner Child Therapy Worksheets and the 2019 updates are now available for purchase. In celebration, I warmly invite you to enjoy the art journal exploration excerpted from the worksheets below. If you already own the worksheets, you can go to the classroom and download your new set of worksheets HERE.
THE PROPER APPLICATION OF AFFIRMATIONS Because negative emotions become trapped in the body, you might only able to keep a life-affirming statement running in your mind for a few minutes before you revert back to your habitual negative self-talk. Commonly known as positive affirmations, statements such as, "I love myself," do not often take hold when you are holding onto trapped inner child emotions. Finding the "antidote" statement that will change the structure of your emotional body is essential to emotional healing. Yet, you must take care not to simply wallpaper a new positive judgment over top of a negative judgment. It is important to release negative emotions first to make room for new positive truths to take hold. After negative emotions are released, an antidotal healing statement will usually arise from your true self. Once you find a healing statement that has a strong positive energy charge of truth, you are likely going to need to practice saying this new truth all day, every day, for at least a month or more. Sometimes it takes well over a month, and even a year or more to reverse a lifetime of conditioned inner child negativity. Saying, "I love who I am." Or, "I am worthy of love," over and over until it becomes a regular believed truth in your muscles, cells, body organs and tissues takes time, practice and effort. ART JOURNAL EXPLORATION - FINDING YOUR INNER CHILD'S POWER STATEMENT Paint a background in your art journal that expresses your inner child's sense of innocence, hope and power. Sense into where your body feels pain and ask it, "What do you need to hear in order to feel better?" You will have one or more inner child "power statements" that fill your body with energy, hope, strength. Once you hear your body's affirmative message, write it down on your painted background. Embellish your inner child's power statement with details and images, and spend time repeating it, looking at it, and asking it to find a home within your body. Imagine this new power statement flowing in through the top of your head and filling your body with colour, light,and healing.
Excerpted from INNER CHILD THERAPY WORKSHEETSShelley Klammer |
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HOW TO FACILITATE ART FOR OLDER ADULTS For ten years, I was privileged to facilitate art for older adults in a well-funded government art program for Canadian veterans. Encouraged by my mentor DR DALIA GOTTLIEB TANAKA, founder of THE SOCIETY FOR THE ARTS IN DEMENTIA CARE, I wrote an e-guide about my experiences working in ARTWORKS STUDIOin 2010.
I recently updated my book "HOW TO FACILITATE ART FOR OLDER ADULTS" and I was flooded with such a rich sense of appreciation for the rare opportunity I had to witness older artists discovering their creative power - often for the first time in their lives. Over the years, I met so many wonderful elder artists, and I learned so many different ways to facilitate art for people with dementia. And the best part is: all of the 75+ images of art in the book are created by artists aged 80 to 100+! AN ARTIST WITH DEMENTIA _"An angry and troubled man, he would often switch gears from anger to inspiration and say the most profoundly poetic things when he painted. On one day he would be grouchy, and on another day he became enchanted with the visual world. Often, a look of pure inspiration would appear in his eyes. As he painted, he would gaze out the window and exclaim at the colour of the sky, the turn of a tree branch or the shape of a cloud. He would then say, “The sky is off-blue with a whiff ofsnow.”_
_(Quote from the book "HOW TO FACILITATE ART FOR OLDER ADULTS")_
If you have already purchased the book you can log in to CourseCraft HERE to download yourupdated ebook.
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NEW EDITION OF 100 DAYS OF ART JOURNAL THERAPY I love to clarify the process of emotional healing and make it as understandable as possible without sacrificing depth. For this reason, every few years, I read through my courses to make sure they reflect my current knowledge and insights. If you have not yet purchased 100 DAYS OF ART JOURNAL THERAPYand you want to
do some deep emotional processing through creativity, I warmly welcome you to join me. It was such a profound joy for me to write this course. This in-depth e-course shares the "how, what, why, when and where" explorations of emotional pain and how to heal it through expressive art and writing. If you have already taken this course in the past, as part of your "lifetime access," your 2019 edition of 100 DAYS OF ART JOURNALTHERAPY is now
ready for another visit.Shelley Klammer |
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CREATING AND MARKETING E-COURSES My Introverted Approach to E-Course Creation and Marketing I often get asked to teach how to create online programs. However, according to popular marketing principles, my approach to course creation and marketing is considered completely backwards! My slow-building, intuitive method of course creation and marketing have never been met with an enthusiastic response from people who want to start up an e-course business quickly. Popular marketing wisdom tells us to build a big audience first, then survey the audience to see what they want to learn. Later, you create course content once you learn what the market wants and needs. This is what I would call the extroverted approach to creating and marketingcourses.
THE WISDOM OF STARTING SMALL Today, some people go into e-course creating expecting to make six-figures in the first few years through building large email lists, and I often wonder, is this fast track realistic for introverts? As an introvert myself, it has taken me ten years of weekly sharing and growing right along with my email list. I must say, I am in awe of the rapid speed of current marketing approaches. Today's course program marketers now build the same size email list that I have built up over a period of ten years in as little as a year - usually through group teaching programs and onlineinterview series.
Even so, I do feel gratitude for the online interview series and group teaching events I am asked to partake in because they invite my introverted self out to speak out loud! INSIDE-OUT COURSE CREATION When I was first building EXPRESSIVE ART WORKSHOPS ten years ago I understood how easily influenced I was by the outside. Because I had such a history of being overly influenced by others, I stayed off the internet for many of the earlier years of building my business. I only went online to write my blog posts and email my courses. Needing to originate my own voice, I created my courses from the inside-out. My newsletter subscriber list was tiny at the beginning. As an online course creator, it has taken me ten years of slow emotional maturation to personally be able to hold a wise, safe and stable container for a larger audience. THE PROCESS OF AUTHENTIC EXPRESSION _“If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someoneelse's.” _
_~ Joseph Campbell_ Many people have said to me, "I want to do exactly what you do and I want you to teach me how to do it!" The thing is...my marketing and course creation methods have no formula! I have just listened to my intuition every step of the way. Together, all of my intuitive steps eventually formed a cohesive online business that I could have never planned or trained for. Behind the scenes, my process of business growth has been very ordinary. I have simply been willing to show up in a dedicated way even when no one was watching. Ten years ago, I was working full-time facilitating art in health care. When I got home, I made dinner for my family. I then wrote on my blog and created my e-courses before I went to bed. And, I still spend time tending my course creation and maintenance - in some capacity - every day. INTUITIVE COURSE CREATION _“The job of an educator is to teach students to see vitality inthemselves” _
_~ Joseph Campbell_ I was recently interviewed about my approach to online course creation and the article I submitted was not published. I surmise this is because my intuitive methods do not reflect repeatable marketing principles. However, because I often get emails requesting online course creation and marketing coaching, I wanted to share theinterview with you.
Because the e-course hustle is now all over the internet and a multitude of experts seemingly abound, it can seem pointless to start in a loud and oversaturated market. I share this interview because it is easy to give up your original voice in today's market. If you are looking for an immediate large feedback loop for your original work, you might stop sharing your true heart before you really begin. Before I started teaching online, I dreamt of a quiet, contemplative way to earn a living, and I have been surprised to learn that it ispossible.
And, as a person who loves quiet time and solitary creative activities, I did not expect that sharing my authentic voice publically would help me to heal emotionally, and hone me into a vastly different human being. MY UNPUBLISHED INTERVIEW 1. YOU HAVE LOTS OF E-COURSES ABOUT PRETTY SPECIFIC TOPICS. HOW DO YOU CHOOSE THE COURSE TOPICS? My course writing process reflects my own emotional healing journey in some way. I process my traumas, hardships and difficulties through expressive art. When I get through to the other side of a painful emotional pattern, I offer what I have experientially learned to others in the form of an e-course. I first get an intuitive sense of what to write based on emotional themes I am working with inside of myself. Sometimes I begin writing a course right after I get the first insight, and sometimes I work on a course for a very long time. 2. HOW DO YOU CONSIDER HOW A COURSE WILL FIT INTO THE REST OF YOUR PRODUCT LINE OR CUSTOMER BASE? DO YOU TRY TO APPEAL TO THE SAME PEOPLE WITH DIFFERENT PRODUCTS OR OFFER THINGS FROM MANY DIFFERENT ANGLES FOR DIFFERENT CUSTOMER TYPES? I have been in the online course biz long enough to see that every teacher has a very specific niche that reflects what she or he most needs to learn on a personal level. This deep engagement with our personal growth process is how we become a true teacher and a lifelong passionate learner in our area of interest. In my niche, I support introspective, sensitive people to maintain creative practices that support emotional healing. As a contemplative introvert, I like to provide choice, privacy and variety in my online educational platform. So, I offer a profusion of creative practice prompts to invite people to come out of emotional hiding and into honest self-expression. 3. WHAT'S YOUR BIGGEST TIP FOR TEACHING A PHYSICAL, OFFLINE TASK LIKE JOURNALING IN AN ONLINE FORMAT? I seem to be able to generate endless prompts for expressive writing and art-making. This is probably because I have been creating expressive art for my own emotional healing for over 20 years. After going through many deep emotional healing journeys myself, it is no surprise that I love to create "idea sparks," and also in-depth lessons for people who need some inspiration to get honest, dig deep, and free themselves from emotional pain. My courses provide a plethora of creative inspirations for deeper inner looking. My courses provide regular lessons with idea sparks for expressive art-making to support people to deeply explore their emotional life offline - and on online if they so choose. 4. WHAT IS ONE THING YOU WISH YOU HAD DONE BETTER OR MORE OF WHEN YOU LAUNCHED YOUR FIRST COURSE? When we are creating courses from within our own life process, we teach what we most need to learn. For this reason, it can take years to fully mature into our true teaching. Online courses come only as a hint or an inking at first, and then we have to flesh them out in writing, imagery, voice and video over time. My first e-course called "COLLAGE FOR SELF-DISCOVERY" was written over
ten years ago. Back then, I used to personally email the various course lessons to each of my participants every Sunday afternoon! Initially, I taught only 1-4 people at a time, never dreaming that online courses would become so popular. What is the one thing I wish I would have done better? I wish I had not judged the worth of my first courses by how many sales I made. When we are innovating teaching processes from within our own original growth process, the courses we create might be expressing a paradigm shift and may be ahead of their time. I always feel better emotionally when I focus more on the process of creating my courses than my course sales. I love immersing the process of course creation because it opens my heart so deeply to the people I imagine will take my course. I find when I take my mind off of the numbers, and share from my heart, I am surprised and grateful when my courses sell well....either now or later. COURSE PLATFORM RECOMMENDATION I truly love CourseCraft for my expressive arts class platform! When Ryan and Sarah at CourseCraft opened up their affiliate program, I joined right away because they have felt so supported as I transferred over hundreds of lessons from my old class platform. If you are an artist/facilitator and are looking for a great class platform, Coursecraft is similar to Teachable but I have found its navigation best suits my creative mind. It is super simple, fast and intuitive, designed particularly for artists, and you can start forfree HERE .
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A DEEP CONVERSATION ABOUT INTUITIVE ART What a beautiful conversation we had during Soul Art Day 2019 with Laura Hollick! I really enjoyed the breadth and depth of what we discussed. The topic was "ART AS MEDICINE" and we discussed the healing range of intuitive art from trauma integration to the highest octaves of joy. If you have not yet watched our conversation you can view it HERE.
In our conversation, I shared how after years of emotional shadow work, joy is now coming through my spontaneous art - simply and very delightfully! I have written a creative practice course on my current explorations in affirmative collage. You can view the course HERE.
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JOIN ME FOR INTERNATIONAL SOUL ART DAY! _“F.L.Y. First Love Yourself. Others will come next.”_ This past year I have been intensely creative for me! What a journey I have been on, bringing my less mature inner child and teen parts of myself into the full light of my mature awareness through intuitivecollage.
Moving into new levels of self-respect and self-love, I invite you to see what I have been up to in my digital collage gallery HERE.
Ignited in my creativity, it does feel like the perfect time to join visionary artist LAURA HOLLICK for her exciting yearly event, INTERNATIONAL SOUL ART DAY.
Intuitive art has been such a healing force in my life, I think this is such a magical invitation to consider. Imagine ten thousand of us creating intuitive art on the same day! Surely, this must anchor a positive force of powerful creativity onto the earth. Please join us HERE . It’s free!Shelley Klammer |
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INTERNATIONAL SOUL ART DAY 2019! I am so excited to be a part of INTERNATIONAL SOUL ART DAY this year, hosted by beautiful visionary artist LAURA HOLLICK . Soul Art Day is a unique online event gathers thousands of people from across the globe to create art together for the day. It is quite an extraordinary online event. International Soul Art Day is a creative vortex where over 10,000 artists around the world create intuitive art together on the same day! You can see a picture gallery of Soul Art Day HERE.
Come join us! Laura will be hosting a live creative global event in her art studio and all over the world online. Join me and thousands of other Creative Spirits on June 5th! I warmly invite you to sign up for INTERNATIONAL SOUL ART DAYHERE . It's
free!
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TOP 100 EXPRESSIVE ART INSPIRATIONS Twenty years ago, I worked as a junior art curator in a "bricks and mortar" art gallery. In 2011, I started curating expressive art on my virtual Facebook Gallery EXPRESSIVE ART INSPIRATIONS. In support of the emotional healing process, I fell in love with the pairing of expressive art with meaningful quotes. Recently, I felt inspired to go through 8 years of posts, and I thought, "These posts are just too gorgeous to be buried within Facebook!" It was so fun to choose my most inspired curations from the past eight years. If you are struggling with emotional pain, I hope you feel encouraged by the quotes. If you are an artist, I hope you will love the expressive art I have curated. If you are on my email list you will receive this free series automatically. If you not on my email list, and are interested in weekly inspirational art and quotes, I invite you to sign up here.Shelley Klammer |
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EMOTIONAL PAIN PROCESSING FOR HIGHLY SENSITIVE PEOPLE If you are an empathic, intuitive, creative, emotionally sensitive person, one of your greatest challenges will likely be to learn how to process the uncomfortable and disturbing emotional energies around you, and within you. Besides processing your own quota of personal pain, you might consider that emotional healing is also an interpersonal and transpersonal process that includes feeling and distinguishing the emotional energies of other people, places and time. Some people who see me for therapy cannot find a tangible story of abuse in their life history to explain why they suffer so much. If you cannot access traumatic memories from your past, and you are feeling intense emotional pain, you might contemplate how you are beingaffected by:
* OTHER PEOPLE'S PAIN: You are feeling emotional energies that are not your own. Your emotional body is like an instrument that can tune into the energies of other people around you. * ANCESTRAL PAIN: You are feeling emotional pain for your mother, father, and your family lineage. The science of epigenetics states that we all inherit portions of unhealed pain from our ancestry * SOCIETAL PAIN: You are being emotionally affected by untrue societal programming. Many societal norms are not healthy, kind or inclusive. It is important to note that when acquired societal beliefs do not feel good in your body - they are untrue for you. * COLLECTIVE PAIN: You are feeling the current state of the world. Spiritual teacher Eckhart Tolle says that we each inherit our share of the collective human condition to process. You might be feeling and healing the pain of all women, of your ethnicity, your country, theearth and so on.
* PAST LIFE PAIN: You are feeling emotional pain from other lifetimes (if you believe in past lives.) Some spiritual teachers say that this is "the lifetime to heal all lifetimes." Because the "veils" between lives are now thinner than ever before, some spiritual sages say, we could be feeling the emotional imprints of all our lifetimeson earth.
Experiencing Emotions as Energy If you are suffering from emotional pain, your "hurt story" could be far too small to explain what you experiencing. If you are highly sensitive to your own disquieting emotions, and to the disturbing emotions of others, solidifying a logical narrative about the cause of your emotional pain might not be the best healing route for you. Because emotions need to be energy in motion, creating a story about WHY you are in pain can limit your fullest healing potential. As an energetically sensitive being, you might need to process your emotions in ways that do not involve locking into logical sequential thinking. Emotions are energy in motion and they need to continuously flow. Pain arises from trapped and repressed emotions. Emotions that are not flowing hurt. For highly sensitive people, getting your emotional field flowing again is the key to emotional healing. 8 Ways to Process Emotional Pain as Energy * ACCEPT YOUR EMOTIONS FULLY. Do not resist your pain. Any resistance to emotional pain limits flow and causes more pain. * FOCUS ON THE EMOTIONS IN YOUR BODY. Unravel your emotions from the inside of your body instead of looking for what is wrong on the outside. Feel your emotions as energy - without a story. * OSCILLATE IN AND OUT OF YOUR EMOTIONS. Go within and feel your emotional pain for a few moments. Then, come out of your painful emotions, and using your senses, find something to appreciate. Oscillating between emotional pain and sensory appreciation will help you to not overtax your nervous system. * WALK OR DANCE YOUR EMOTIONS. If it feels too difficult to sit still, oscillate between feeling your emotional pain in your body, and then move back out into sensory appreciation while walking or dancingto music.
* PAINT OR DRAW THE ENERGY OF YOUR EMOTIONS: Sensing into your body, invite the energies of your body to express and release through spontaneous painting or drawing. * DO NOT LABEL YOUR EMOTIONS: Experience your emotions as they move, shift, dance, walk, breathe and paint without attaching words orstories.
* WRITE POETRY: If you want to use words, write poetry. Poetry expresses emotions in a looser, leaping, less logical way. * CULTIVATE JOY: Practices of love and joy can help to heal the most painful emotions. Empathic, highly sensitive people heal emotions best by staying and playing within the higher octaves of energy. Invent projects that are fun, interesting and uplifting to keep you playing with your energy at a higher octave of joy.Shelley Klammer |
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MULTIMODAL EXPRESSIVE ARTS PRACTICES Over the past 20 years, Paolo Knill, Shaun McNiff, Natalie Rogers and Steve and Ellen Levine have pioneered the evolving theory of intermodal/multimodal expressive arts practices as a way to "increase the range of play" in therapy. As a way to care for yourself, you can regularly take breaks from habitual states of mind by designing your own regular expressive arts practice sessions. In this article, I offer ideas on how to set up a multimodal expressive arts practice athome.
In an expressive arts practice session, it is encouraged that you try two or more disciplines of artistic expression to deepen the meaning and momentum of your experience. You might, for example, transfer from painting to dancing, and then write a poem before your session is complete. As you move from one creative discipline to another, it is helpful to keep notes about how your process has deepened, enriched and progressed through each creative discipline. The Intuitive Logic of Your Imagination We transform painful emotional states by entering into the imaginative world of play, dreams, visions, free association, guided imagery, making art, interacting with art, and using metaphors and brainstorming. Expressive arts practices create a container for change which Paolo Knill calls "alternate experiences of worlding." After a period of expressive arts practice, we re-enter the regular world with all our adult concerns and responsibilities, changed and opened, with a newly enlivened perspective. Entering into a regular expressive arts practice, you can temporarily leave the troubled logic of your practical life behind, and enter into the "intuitive logic" of your imagination." Helpful symbolism for forward-growth arrives through right-brained creative play, imagination and intuitive exploration. Right brain imagination has its own intuitive logic that differs from linear left brain thinking. Entering into your imagination through structured expressive practices, you can temporarily move away from problem bound states to resource surprisingly new solutions. Amplifying Imagination The expressive arts could be considered a kind of play for adults. The expressive arts provide ways for you to leave your logical mind and experiment spontaneously into ever-new realms of imagination. Creating spaces and times to create spontaneously every day can loosen you from the world-weariness of adult concerns and invite the long-forgotten innocence from your childhood to reemerge. The aim of an expressive arts practice is to explore two or more artistic disciplines within a single session. Regularly changing up your creative practices can keep you imaginatively nimble. Expanding your range of play by creating a drawing and then writing a poem about it, or dancing to a song you are singing can deepen your connection to your imaginal world. To "decenter" out of regular linear consciousness and "expand your range of play," you can open the door to your imagination through the combination of two or more expressive arts disciplines. You might consider combining some of the following: painting, drawing, writing in your journal, creating a poem, collage, singing, playing an instrument, acting out a play, dancing, or whatever else feels rightat the moment.
How to Set up an Expressive Arts Practice Knill refers to expressive arts explorations as finding "freedom within limits." To set up regular expressive arts practices, I invite you to explore spontaneity within the following structures: * CHOOSE A TIME DURATION FOR YOUR PRACTICE: I typically prefer to set up expressive practices that fit into my working life. I commit to exploring my imagination for at least 15 - 30 minutes a day. * CHOOSE TWO OR MORE PRACTICE MODALITIES: Choose your own combination of creative processes. You might combine collage with free association, story writing with dancing or singing with painting. * CHOOSE YOUR PRACTICE MATERIALS: Choose the combination of art materials that you want to explore for the length of your practice commitment. You might dedicate yourself to playing with oil pastels and writing a poem, scribbling with pencil crayons and vocalizing your drawing, or dancing and painting to music for 30 days or more. * CHOOSE THE LENGTH OF YOUR PRACTICE COMMITMENT: I love short practices, and I typically commit to a minimum of 30 days of creative practice before moving onto the next one. Periodically, I commit to longer 365-day practices to deeply explore two or more creativedisciplines.
* ENTER YOUR PRACTICE EXPERIENCE: You might light a candle, say a prayer or recite a poem to consecrate your art-making space in a ceremonial way. You can ask your logical mind to step aside during your practice time so your imagination can more freely come forward. * EXECUTE YOUR PRACTICE EXPERIENCE: Take imaginative action based on the structure you have committed to. Know that each expressive arts session will feel different depending on what needs to emerge from your imagination each day. * EXIT YOUR PRACTICE EXPERIENCE: Create a closing ritual that brings you back to your daily life. You might sit in stillness for five minutes, blow out your candle, neatly store away your art materials, and offer gratitude to the imaginative processes you have justexperienced.
* DOCUMENT YOUR PRACTICE: You might want to take note of how you deepened or changed through your varied creative experiences. Keeping a detailed practice log of what you experienced as you progressed through each artistic discipline will remind you of how you are steadily guided to grow forward - in an out of the box kind of way. * RECORD KEY INSIGHTS FROM YOUR PRACTICE: Each expressive arts session will likely yield at least one key insight. You might want to keep an abbreviated diary of the main inspirations that arise from your creative practices - as they are easy to forget once you re-enter logical left-brained thinking. * EXTEND YOUR CREATIVE PRACTICE MEDICINE: You might want to create totems and altars to your expressive arts explorations in your home so that you can touch into the magic of your imagination between practice times. Mount your art on a wall where you can meditate on it. Recite your expressive poems as you tend to daily tasks. Regularly hum a tune you invented as you walk.Shelley Klammer |
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ART BUNDLE FOR GOOD ONLINE CLASSES! A Wonderful Way to Give and Take Art Courses Too! I contributed my INTUITIVE MANDALA MEDITATION VIDEO COURSE to the bundle in 2019. Stay tuned for 2020!XO SHELLEY
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ART FOR EARTH MIXED MEDIA COURSE SALE!_“It
is spring again. The earth is like a child that knows poems byheart.” _
_~ Rainer Maria Rilke_ If you love creating mixed media art and care about the earth, this is the course bundle sale for you! Lovely Tarara Laporte from Willowing Arts has invited me to contribute to her one-week long fundraiser called "ART FOR EARTH"and I
have contributed my e-guide called, "CREATIVE ABUNDANCE."
Art for Earth offers over 75 mixed media art resources worth over 3700 USD for 98 USD. (See the course list below) FUNDRAISING FOR REFORESTATION _25% of the sales will go to support the Tree Sisters beautiful mission. Tree Sisters channel 80% of their donations to reforestation organizations that they partner with to restore ecosystems in the tropics. The remaining 20% of funds work with women to reinstate feminine leadership and normalize collective ownership of planetaryrestoration._
HERE IS WHAT YOU WILL RECEIVE IN YOUR GREAT BIG MIXED MEDIA VIDEOCOURSE BUNDLE!
1. “Mother Nature” (Mixed Media Art Workshop) by Tamara Laporte 2. “Beautiful Bugs” (Bonus) (Mixed Media Art Workshop) by TamaraLaporte
3. “Tell It: Collage” (Collage Art Class) with Liz Lamoreux 4. “She Blooms in Ink” (7 week Mixed Media & Inks Art Workshop) byTamara Laporte
5. “On A Men Hunt” (Online Mixed Media Art Workshop) by MurielStegers
6. “Fearless Expression” (Mixed Media Art Workshop) by AnnieHamman
7. “Flamingo Love” (Watercolour Class) with Sally Walsh fromSillier Than Sally
8. “Facing Forward 1” (Mixed Media Art Journalling Workshop) withEffy Wild
9. “Luscious Landscapes” (Mixed Media Art Workshop) with TracyVerdugo
10. “Be Humble/Be Noble” (A Watercolor Art Workshop) with SarahTrumpp
11. “Real Time Live with Flora Bowley” (Live Streamed PaintingClass)
12. “Faux Encaustics Spring Fling” (An Encausting Workshop) withDena Adams
13. “Gratitude Journaling 101” (An Art Journalling Workshop) withKiala Givehand
14. “Birthday Cake” (A Painting Workshop) with Janet Skates 15. “A Walk Down Cherry Street” (A Painting Workshop) with JanetSkates
16. “Lesson 1” (A Painting Workshop) with Janet Skates 17. “Imprinted” (A Gelli Printing Workshop) with Lucy Brydon 18. “Whimsical Watercolors – PAWfect Furry Friends Online Class”with Andrea Gomoll
19. “Earth’s Mother, Mixed Media Art Class” with Melanie Rivers 20. “The Gilded Brush” (A Workshop Inspired by Gustav Klimt) withIvy Newport
21. “Where Once Was Water” (An Expressive Figurative Painting)with Emma Petitt
22. “Bountiful” Bonus (A Mixed Media Art Class) with Emma Petitt 23. “The Emergency Kit for Artists + Dreamers” with AndreaSchroeder
24. “The Banishing Fairy” (A Mixed Media Art Class) with RenataLoree
25. “Facing Forward 2” (Mixed Media Art Journalling Workshop) withEffy Wild
26. “Remember my song” High Resolution Printable by Annie Hamman 27. “The Secret to Lighting Up Your Life” (Art Journalling Workshop) with Whitney Freya 28. “Weird, Wordy Watercolors” (A Watercolor Art Workshop) withSarah Trumpp
29. “Rise Above the Master Class” (A Self Coaching Painting Process with Whitney Freya 30. “Paint Buddha” (Mixed Media Art Workshop) with Whitney Freya 31. “The 21 Day Painting Meditation Challenge” with Whitney Freya 32. “Abstract by Design” (Creating Abstract Art) with Ivy Newport 33. “The Magic Forest” (Mixed Media Art Workshop) with CristinChambers
34. “The Princess and the Pea” (A Painting Workshop) with JanetSkates
35. “You Will Find Your Way” (Mixed Media Art Workshop) with ToniBurt
36. “I wish, I wish…” (Watercolor and Mixed Media art class) with Mandy van Goeije 37. “From Wishes to Needs” (Watercolor and Mixed Media art class) with Mandy van Goeije 38. “The Little Big World” bonus e-book by Mandy van Goeije 39. “Between Shadow & Light” (A Portrait Class) with Ivy Newport 40. “Matisse vs Picasso” (Oil or Acrylics Art Class) with LucyChen
41. “heART the Earth Printable Coloring Page & Artprint” by AndreaGomoll
42. “Soulful Shapes” (Mixed Media Art Workshop) with TamaraLaporte
43. “Reflect and Reclaim Your Creative Freedom – 5 Amazing Art Journaling Lessons for Your Heart” (Mixed Media Art Workshop) withTiare Smith
44. “Seeds of Love” (Mixed Media Art Workshop) with Tamara Laporte 45. “Soup du Jour” (A Painting Workshop) with Janet Skates 46. “I Spy” (A Collage Workshop) with Janet Skates 47. “Fly, Be Free!” (An Abstract Art Workshop) with Janet Skates 48. “Wild Wonder” (Mixed Media Art Workshop) with AnnamiekaDavidson
49. “Abundance” High Resolution Printable by Annie Hamman 50. “Drawing Frida – A Pastel Portrait Workshop” with JunaBiagioni
51. Woodland Magic” (Acrylics Art Workshop) with Katrina Koltes 52. “Woven Dreams” (A Fiber Art Workshop) with Laly Mille 53. “Creative Abundance Guidebook” (E-Book) with Shelley Klammer 54. “Wax On” (Encaustic Monoprints and Watercolor) with WyanneThompson
55. “Book of Flow …and so it continues” (Art Journaling E-course) with Jenny Grant 56. “Doll Dreams – Digital coloring book with 15 images” (Colouring Book PDF) by Ady Almanza 57. “Magic Woman” High Resolution Art Print by Ady Almanza 58. “Layered Mandala” (Mixed Media Painting Workshop) with FaithEvans-Sills
59. “Leaf Painting Workshop” with Faith Evans-Sills 60. “Boho Walking” Retro ~60s-70s Art Class (Mixed Media Art Workshop) with Pamela Vosseller 61. “The 21 Day Painting Meditation Challenge” (Meditation & Watercolour Workshop with Whitney Freya 62. “Painting the Muse” (Mixed Media Art Workshop) with AlenaHennessy
63. “Transparendipity” (Art Journaling Workshop) with FrancePapillon
64. “Autumn Fairy” (Mixed Media Art Workshop) with Tamara Laporte 65. “Fall by the River” Mixed Media Landscape Workshop) withRoberta Laliberte
66. “Create a Papercut Effect in Procreate” (Digital Workshop for iPad on ProCreate) with Kathy Glynn 67. “Smallest Acts of Kindness” High Resolution Printable by AnnieHamman
68. “A Doll Story” (Learn How to Create Cloth Dolls Online Class)with Danita Art
69. “Mother Nature” High Resolution Art Print (for personal use)by Tamara Laporte
70. “Nature Collage Sheet” High Resolution PDF by Tamara Laporte 71. “Compassionate Flow: Deer Girl” (Mixed Media Art Workshop)with Tamara Laporte
72. “Art Journaling & Mixed Media e-course” with Marieke Blokland 73. “Walk Gently Upon the Earth” High Resolution Art Print (for personal use) by Kathy Glynn 74. “Cute Monster Mini Class” (Mixed Media Course in E-book + Video) by Marielle Stolp 75. “Printable Collage Sheet”A collage sheet with cute girlies that can be used in a planner or bullet journal or for card making byMarielle Stolp
76. “A Heart Full of Happy (Mixed Media Art Workshop) with TamaraLaporte
77. “A Walk Down Cherry Street” (A Painting Workshop) with JanetSkates
78. “Daring Adventures in Collage ” (Online Collage Workshop) withMati Rose McDonough
79. “Starry Eyed” (Large Scale Painting Workshop) with StephenLursen
80. “Painted Backgrounds” Printable Mixed Media Collage sheets byMarieke Blokland
81. “Beautiful Bumble Bee” High Resolution Art Print (for personal use) by Tamara Laporte 82. “Our Lady of Abundance” with Amber Kuileimailani Bonnici 83. “A Portrait Course Inspired by Henri Toulouse Lautrec (Mixed Media Art) with Lauren Rudolph CLICK HERE TO PURCHASEShelley Klammer |
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SHARING PORTALS ON EXPRESSIVE ART WORKSHOPS When I created my educational website EXPRESSIVE ART WORKSHOPS over ten years ago, I had no idea what a large portal it would become for people interested in theexpressive arts.
Over the years, I have initiated three sharing portals that you are welcome to participate in: * CREATIVE HEALING STORIES:
This healing story series honours the human journey from hurt to creative self-empowerment, limitation to inspired new possibilities, and fear to compassionate contribution. * CREATIVE PROCESS PORTAL:
This is a place for artists, authors and therapists to share how their creative process supports mindfulness, self-awareness, emotional healing and soul connection. * ART PROGRAMS AROUND THE WORLD:
This is an online portal for artists and therapists to share their art programs, classes, and creative initiatives with others around theworld.
RECENT SHARING ON THE PORTALS 1. CREATIVE HEALING STORIES: MORGAN BLAIR - ART AND EATING DISORDERS - Morgan Blair is the Founder and Creative Director of Unpolished Journey. Through her own recovery from an eating disorder, PTSD, and depression, she decided to build a community of survivors who could share their stories through creative expression. READ MORE... 2. ART PROGRAMS AROUND THE WORLD: KASSI MARTIN - EXPRESSIVE ARTS FACILITATION IN SCOTLAND - Kassi provides Expressive Arts for everyone however, the majority who attend and sign up online are Caring Professionals. READ MORE... 3. CREATIVE PROCESS PORTAL: ELLIOT THOMPSON - ILLUSTRATOR - What do feelings look like? What do they sound like? Elliot's book is a structured guide of human emotion, through illustration and poetry. READ MORE... 4. CREATIVE HEALING STORIES: MARÍA SANZ GALLEGO - GESTALT ARTTHERAPIST
- Maria from Madrid, Spain implements body-based art therapy to transform what does not feel supportive - for herself and others. READMORE...
5. ART PROGRAMS AROUND THE WORLD: PANNA MAESTRINI - EXPRESSIVE ARTS FACILITATOR IN ITALY - Panna loves sharing the expressive arts by hosting guests in her Sparks of Wonder studio and house near Perugia and Assisi. READMORE...
6. Creative Healing Stories: Louise Chalmers - shares how creativity and nature can help us to heal ourselves.Shelley Klammer |
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HOW TO FEEL SAFE
ANTICIPATORY
FEAR
_"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face."_ _~ Eleanor Roosevelt_ Fear is defined in the dictionary as an unpleasant emotion caused by the belief that someone or something dangerous is likely to cause painor a threat.
Fear is a hardwired primitive emotion. Fear is like an alarm system, which warns us against threats to survival. Survival, in our ancestral past, meant staying alive in the face of threats that could cause death or serious harm. Fear can also habitually arise in the absence of a present moment threat. Anticipatory or objectless fear can turn into chronic anxiety related to nothing specific to our current life, and this can becomedebilitating.
WHEN
YOU FEEL ANTICIPATORY OR OBJECTLESS FEAR: * STOP AND BREATHE. When you feel unsafe, your flight or fight (sympathetic nervous system) is activated. When you feel fear - stop and breathe deeply into your belly. * INTRODUCE SAFETY. Remind yourself that you are safe at this moment. Saying, "I am safe right now" will introduce safety into yourbody.
* FOCUS ON LOVE. Once you have shifted into your parasympathetic nervous system (rest and digest), move your focus to an animal, person or activity that you love. Flood love through your body until you feelcalmer.
* INVITE YOUR FEAR TO SPEAK. Once you are calm enough to witness yourself, ask your fear, "What are you afraid of?" A memory, a few words or an image might spontaneously pop into your mind. * SOOTHE YOUR FEAR. Say something soothing to your fear such as, “Everything’s going to be okay. I’m here for you. I’m never going to leave you. I love you.” * STAND UP. At the root of fear is abandonment, shame or betrayal from the past. Stand up strongly for your right to be treated well - in your imagination or out loud to yourself. * IMAGINE STRENGTH. Imagine yourself as a superhero overcoming past harm in powerful and magical ways. This imaginative exercise can reinforce new feelings of empowerment in your body. * ANCHOR SAFETY. Take one small action step to anchor this feeling of safety into your nervous system. You might take a warm bath, lay on the ground in the sunshine, colour a mandala or listen to meditativemusic.
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7 WAYS TO INTERRUPT THE NEGATIVITY BIAS_
"The
negativity bias is the notion that even when of equal intensity, things of a more negative nature (e.g. unpleasant thoughts, emotions, or social interactions; harmful/traumatic events) have a greater effect on one's psychological state and processes than neutral orpositive things._
_In other words, something very positive will generally have less of an impact on a person's _behaviour_ and cognition than something equally emotional but negative." (Wiki)_EMOTIONAL TRIGGERS
Neuroscientist Dr. Rick Hanson explains how our ancestral "survival brain" is wired to be biased toward the negative. He writes, "In effect, the brain is like Velcro for negative experiences, but Teflon for positive ones. That shades “implicit memory” – your underlying expectations, beliefs, action strategies, and mood – in an increasingly negative direction." It is easy to become trapped in negativity. Because our brains are wired for survival, our default feeling is fear. Fearful thoughts, repeated over time and throughout generations, become deeply patternedinto our neurology.
Not realizing that we are "practicing" our negative emotions, we accumulate lower vibrational thoughts, emotions and experiences into an ongoing pain story that can feel hard to climb out of. Assembling more fear-based evidence along the way, we unconsciously confirm that our negativity bias is real.THE
POWER OF REPETITION
_"Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality."_ _~ Earl Nightingale_ If you are hurting emotionally, you can be sure you are repeating a fearful thought. And, fearful thinking gathers power through repetition. (SEE HOW TO FEEL SAFE.)
Fear makes us feel small and inadequate. Repetitive fear can have us doubting our capacities to be able to "make it" in the world. Always on the lookout for what is wrong, we forget about what is good aboutour life.
Our negativity bias might have us fearing we are not good enough, not lovable enough, not worthy, smart or talented enough, or not abundant enough to be able to physically survive. The good news is, once we become aware of our negativity bias we can regularly interrupt it. HERE ARE 7 WAYS TO INTERRUPT CHRONIC NEGATIVE EMOTIONS: 1. WITNESS YOUR MIND In meditation, you can learn to identify more with your larger witnessing self instead of just your smaller hurting self. You can witness our innate negativity bias without becoming it. 2. EXPAND YOUR AWARENESS To expand your sense of self start a daily creative project, spend time in nature or cultivate a regular spiritual practice to invokefeelings of awe.
3. CONTRADICT NEGATIVE THINKING Counteract your negativity bias soon as you notice the painful thought. Identify your painful thought and then interrupt the negative momentum with a new better-feeling thought or action. 4. REPEAT POSITIVE AFFIRMATIONS When stuck in the negativity bias, saying "I am..." positive affirmations can feel fake. When you feel doubtful about better-feeling thoughts, practice wondering instead. "I wonder what it would feel like to be loved, successful, respected...etc." As you wonder, a slight sense of possibility will arise. Build on this. 5. MINIMIZE NEGATIVE STIMULI Your subconscious mind registers all violence as emotionally real. If you are prone to chronic negativity, it is best to avoid watching the news, violent television and movies. You also might also want to spend more time with people that support and uplift you. 6. APPRECIATE WHAT YOU HAVE All negative emotions are underpinned with a fear of lack. To build a feeling of abundance, see how many things you can appreciate during the day. When you are struggling with fear and negativity, amplify your appreciation for even the smallest details in your life.7. AMPLIFY THE GOOD
Fear-based survival programming is deeply conditioned into our brain, body and nervous system. To interrupt your negativity bias, persistent, the deliberate practice of noticing what is good willincrease your joy.
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THE ART OF FOCUSING WITHIN THE BODYI
keep a "Focusing Journal" where I regularly listen to my body's wisdom. I feel that daily Focusing tunes me up as a therapist and grounds me into my body. It also helps me to be a more compassionatehuman being.
I have been studying Inner Relationship Focusing for many years, and I am always astounded by the insight that comes through my Focusing sessions. INTUITIVELY LISTENING WITHIN You can heal emotionally by listening deeply to your body. When you feel anxious, there is usually an emotion that needs your loving attention. Symbols and solutions for positive change will arise from your body when you get quiet. 1. BEING IN PRESENCE “I’M SENSING SOMETHING IN ME THAT FEELS…” Presence is a state of unconditionally "being with" whatever is arising in your awareness. Whenever you catch yourself saying, “I am…” or “I feel…,” notice how it would feel to say, “I’m sensing that something in mefeels…”
Presence is powerful. From presence, you can be with any emotion without feeling overwhelmed. When you are aware of your inner experiences, you can acknowledge them and say "hello" to them. From witnessing presence, you can sense how each inner experience is a part of you, and that you are much larger than any single part. You are even larger than all your parts put together. Your witnessing Presence is able to keep company with everything within you with compassion.2. GOING SLOWLY
“I’M TAKING TIME TO…” What you do not yet know needs time and space to emerge and unfold. When you take your time to really feel into your body, you allow a "living forward" process to happen. It is in the body that our ‘next step" lives. You need to go slowly enough for the unfolding of your inner symbology to arise. If you feel you’re not going very deep into your body, trygoing even slower.
Notice exactly what is happening right here, right now. When we slow down and keep something company in this slow way, our body will communicate to us through words, poetry, symbols and imagery. 3. SENSING IN THE BODY “I’M NOTICING HOW THAT FEELS IN MY BODY NOW” The body always exists in present time. The body communicates the truth of how we are feeling right now. The body cannot lie. We might want to ignore what can be felt in the body, but if it is there, it is real. The body also expresses wholeness. The body brings the whole situation, all of our past and all our future relating to this problem, this stuckness, into this single felt-moment - now. As you keep company with something in your body, a fresh image, word or thought will likely come into your awareness. 4. STAYING IN CONTACT WITH THE UNCLEAR EDGE “I’M SENSING FOR WHAT IS UNCLEAR HERE” In Focusing, we can be with our experiencing in a way that is open and curious about what is unclear. To help the ‘more’ from your subconscious to open, you need to hang out at the edge of the whole thing. You need to sit near the places you don’t know. It is important to notice and value what is fuzzy, vague, puzzling, unclear, and hard to put into words. This is where the ‘more’ isto be found.
Whenever you are taking your time and feeling it in your body, you can sense for the ‘edge,’ a sense of something not-quite-in-words-yet, almost-known, and ‘fuzzy.’ This is where the life-forward energy is enfolded. Learning to cherish the slow, the subtle and the vague helps your inner symbology from your subconscious to emerge. “I’M LETTING IT KNOW IT CAN BE THE WAY IT IS FOR AS LONG AS ITNEEDS TO BE”
As we take time to keep company the unclear edge in our bodies, we are creating a space for something new to emerge. At this point, we do nothing but keep company with what’s there andwait.
It can be very difficult to just stay with something, keeping it company, when it feels like nothing is happening. The more we can trust that our body knows the direction that we need to grow, the easier this whole process will be. From Presence, we can patiently wait with something until it is time for it to shift. When something shifts, it is an experience that can be described as grace – beyond our control. 5. HOLDING A SPACE FOR SOMETHING NEW TO COME “I’M SAYING ‘YES’ TO WHAT’S COME” If we already knew what our growth direction looked like, we wouldn’t need Focusing to find it. So when it comes, it may surprise us. In fact, it probably won’t be what we expected at all. Whenever we sense some kind of movement, shift, relief, opening, flowing in our bodies, we are experiencing a step forward. A new insight is often followed by a deep spontaneous breath. A new insight might just be a word or phrase that doesn’t seem connected with anything but somehow it feels right in your body. It might be a single word or an image that seems strange or even bizarre. Whatever it is - if it fits with how your body feels - it symbolizes your next step. 6. WHATEVER FEELS LIKE ‘FRESH AIR’ IS A STEP, NO MATTER WHAT ITLOOKS LIKE
Your symbol might not an actual ‘action step’ but a ‘process step.’ Sometimes inner realizations do not require outer action. In order for your inner process to ‘carry forward,’ you need to suspend judgment about what should happen, what action should be taken, and where this will lead. A ‘step’ is a shift, however small. It is a change in how your current situation is perceived and carried forward in the body. If you sense more flow in your body, and if it feels good - it is a step that needs to be welcomed. AN UNFOLDING PROCESS Symbols for growth unfold one after the other from the body. Each symbol is only a step in the whole process of living forward. It is important to remember that the symbols from your subconscious are just an indicator of how to move forward. The direct experience in your body will always be more than you can capture in a symbol, no matter how well it fits.Shelley Klammer |
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TEN WAYS TO HEAL THE "NOT GOOD ENOUGH" WOUND _"Shame is the most powerful, master emotion. It's the fear that we'renot good enough." _
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_~ Brene Brown_
"How do I heal the "not good enough" wound? How do I love myself?" These questions come up so frequently in THERAPY SESSIONS , I thought I would share a brief list of ways to heal. 1. FIND SELF-COMPASSION. We all had to find ways to fit in to be taken care of as children. When we differ from our family members we tend to feel “not good enough.” 2. FORGIVE YOUR FORGETTING. Our differences trigger our family's and other people's unhealed emotional wounds. So we repress our differences until we forget who we really are. 3. SUMMON COURAGE. Differentiating from our original family is a courageous hero/heroine’s journey because our family members might not prefer our differences. 4. CREATE SAFETY. How do we feel ok with not fitting in with others when it sets off our nervous system's alarm bell of non-belonging? To feel safe in your body, you need to encourage yourself in ways you have never experienced with other people before. 5. ENCOURAGE YOURSELF. How we encourage ourselves when others do not? Encourage yourself by affirming your authentic nature, repetitively, until the safety of self-belonging takes hold in your nervous system. 6. REPETITION IS THE KEY. Repeating kind, soothing words to ourselves, over and over, eventually changes the well-worn grooves of socialized self-rejection. Find kind words that feel good in your body and repeat them until they "land." 7. NO ONE WILL SAVE YOU. Once we enter adulthood, we are responsible for healing the pain patterns that we acquired during the socialization process. Lack of self-love is yours to heal. 8. ALWAYS BE KIND TO YOURSELF. Our need for social belonging is so strong, we reject and criticize ourselves in the same ways that we were rejected and criticized in the past. Decide instead to always bekind to yourself.
9. FIND THE ANTIDOTE. To turn self-criticism and self-rejection into its opposite, create a self-love statement. Enjoy how good this "antidote" feels in your body. 10. PRACTICE GOOD FEELINGS. Many of us do not know what it means to feel good. We can sometimes "practice our pain" by feeling it for far too long. Emotional pain needs to be acknowledged, assessed for self-limiting beliefs, and then "interrupted" with self-care, self-affirmation and self-love practices.Shelley Klammer |
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