My purpose is to explore and express my love of beauty and the beauty of love. Here’s some of what I’ve come up with.

What do others see when they look at you?

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painting Exaltation of blue woman in radiating Light

“Exaltation” prints available

Sorry for gazing at you so much. I just keep looking at you and saying to myself: “I want more of what she’s got”.

That’s what one of the participants told me after my Ignite Your Intuition workshop at last month’s Body Mind & Spirit retreat.

I was doing what I love with open-minded, open-hearted soul seekers. Not only had I been sharing my life experiences and teaching how to use intuition, I spent 40 minutes channeling a reading for the group and witnessing transformation all around me.

How could I not be radiant?!

It’s the same when I’m painting or channeling in the studio!

If you’re connected to Self and Spirit – you can’t help but light up the room. 

So my first question to you is:

“How can you bring more of what you love into your life? At home? At work? During your free time?”

I was grateful for the mirror.  I was obviously on track.

But as I told her, I don’t look / feel that way nearly often enough.

iridescent painting of woman with arms stretched in the light

“I AM” (24″ x 36″) – acrylics on gallery-wrapped canvas.

Truth be told, when I look at myself in the mirror after a day of working on the administrative or marketing sides of my business, I don’t see what she saw.

There lies the challenge.

Our job is not only to do what we love, but also love all we do.

So my next question to you is:

“How can you connect to your Self and Source while working on the tasks that just need to be done?”

Until I have the resources to hire others who are passionate about doing the parts of my business that I’m not, I need to bring more curiosity and childlike wonder into all parts of my days.

I’m open to advice / musings on this. Please comment below.

P.S.  I created these sister paintings to represent the radiance that comes from connecting to Self and Source day and night – both literally and figuratively. Can you feel the energy coursing through her as she aligns with her soul to vibrate as both a physical and spiritual being?

 

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When the Body Says No

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“Bridge of Contemplation” from the Connection Photography Collection available in my shop.

Are you happy? Truly happy?

My grade 6 teacher didn’t think that “being happy” was an appropriate response to “What do you want to be when you grow up?”.

My answer remains unchanged, however, and the Dalai Lama agrees:

“The purpose of our lives is to be happy”.

So how do we do that? The answers, I’ve often been told, are within.

I thought I fully understood what that meant.

I considered myself a good listener when it came to my Spirit Calls, living a life of passion and purpose.

As I’ve written in a previous post, I’ve followed my intuition around the world, constantly growing and stretching my comfort zones.

When the Body Says No

In 2015, however, I realized that my listening skills weren’t as good as I thought.

Although I’d followed my inner guidance, devoting all my time to building my website and artist career, I was still operating with the beliefs and emotional coping patterns learned in childhood.

I pushed myself too hard and became the toughest boss I’d ever had.

My self-imposed expectations, pressures, and judgments were taking their toll. I could physically feel the anxiety and stress. Fear started running the show.

I became too busy to listen to the gentler voices inside, so my body became the communication channel. It protested.

As Dr. Gabor Maté writes in his book “When the Body Says No – The Hidden Costs of Stress”,

“What has happened is that we have lost touch with the gut feelings designed to be our warning system… (T)he salient stressors in the lives of most human beings today – at least in the industrialized world – are emotional. Just like laboratory animals unable to escape, people find themselves trapped in lifestyles and emotional patterns inimical to their health. The higher the level of economic development, it seems, the more anesthetized we have become to our emotional realities.”

Fortunately, years of mindfulness training helped me recognize the energetic tremors and physical stress, but childhood conditioning kept me pushing longer than was healthy.

I was determined to be good enough, strong enough, perfect enough, etc. Sounds familiar?

Re-Aligning

The cost of repressing, denying, avoiding, or overreacting to our emotions, is high. We’ve been paying it all our lives.

As children, we learned to fulfill the conditions of everyone around us, trying to make them happy and ignoring our own emotional guidance system.

The result is that many have lost touch with the messages of their bodies, minds, and spirits and end up in a state of physical, mental, or spiritual dis-ease.

We end up unhappy and unhealthy.

Luckily, I stopped denying what was happening before I burned out. Instead, I chose to re-establish harmony, balance, and alignment.

This wasn’t easy – leaving the computer for even a day initially made me more anxious. It’s pretty scary jumping off the hamster wheel when you think it’s going somewhere…

As Abraham (a group of evolved spiritual teachers channelled through Esther Hicks) explains,

“Until the stakes are really high, most of you are … chronically holding yourselves away from the vibration of alignment that is so natural to you, so a little bit of attention to how you feel as a determination to feel better more of the time will take an effort.”

Hearing the same message from spiritual and medical experts helped me accept that I was still hanging on to beliefs and emotional coping patterns that no longer served me.

“A major contributor to the genesis of many diseases … is an overload of the stress induced by unconscious beliefs. If we would heal, it is essential to begin the painfully incremental task of reversing the biology of belief we adopted very early in life. Whatever the external treatment is administered, the healing agent lies within. The internal milieu must be changed. To find health, and to know it fully, necessitates a quest, a journey to the centre of our own biology of belief. That means rethinking and recognizing – re-cognizing: literally, to “know again” – our lives.” Dr. Gabor Maté.

My career choices may have been aligned with my purpose and previous intuitive guidance, but the anxious vibrations I was putting out into the world weren’t bringing back the results I wanted – either in my business or in my being.

I was off track. I had to get back on. As Abraham says,

“when you relax and get back on track, you can feel the clarity, abundance, your worthiness, fun, vitality, eagerness, and passion, and life feels good.”

So that’s what I did. I got off the computer, traveled to see my family, connected to Source through nature, painting and inspirational podcasts, and I’ve kept a better balance ever since, even if I’m currently participating in another online business course while also reviewing last year’s course.

But I’m much happier and healthier now.

Hearing Aids for Your Transformational Journey

We have access to Divine Guidance all the time – we simply have a tendency to listen more when dire circumstances cause us to stop and pay attention.

Why wait that long? The answers truly are within. They’re in the stored emotions calling to be healthily expressed and released as well as in our moment-by-moment emotional gage.

For your sake and all those around you, listen. And seek help when you need it.

There are many empowering tools available to help you on this transformational journey. I offer 3 (see Custom Services in the menu tabs). Think of these as hearing aids.

In selecting tools that resonate with you, you’re creating the necessary expectation of healing that enhances their benefits. You create the intention and open yourself to happiness.

As Dr. Maté and Abraham both teach, whichever modality of treatment or empowerment tools people choose, the key to healing and happiness is your willingness to ask the questions and make informed choices in alignment with your true essence.

Active Listening

It’s important to remember though, that alignment with your Higher Self -happiness – is a moment-by-moment process.

It takes time, patience, practice, and unconditional love.

It’s worth it! You’re worth it.

What is your body saying? How are you feeling? What hearing aids do you believe will best help you?

Please don’t wait until your body says no to start listening.

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Living Simply by Simply Loving

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Living simply quote

Does clutter overwhelm you?

Do you carry more debt than comfortable?

Do you overcommit to projects you’re not passionate about?

Do you make choices that aren’t aligned with your true desires?

It’s common, especially if you’ve shaped your life according to social expectations. The results are often a sense of emptiness and attempts to fill that void.

Once you’ve understood why we clutter our lives, it becomes easier to simplify – to identify what is truly important to you and let go of the rest. That’s living simply.

 

My Story

People have been asking me about simplifying since the early 90s. I’d left my “dream job” with the government to teach English in Czechoslovakia (a shock to some). When I returned a year later, I realized I’d spent more on storage than my salary overseas. Still, I didn’t regret my decision!

After that, each time I followed my spirit calls (10 cities in 4 countries), I de-cluttered even more.

I wouldn’t have been able to afford living my life’s purpose debt free otherwise.

Lightening the load in all areas of life, however, does a lot more than reduce the number of boxes that need storing or shipping.  It reduced the weight of old energies tied to old ways of being and doing.

This is not about lack, however. In fact, my life is rich! After studying art in Austria, Bali and Italy for a year, I returned to the island of Newfoundland, Canada in 2014 to devote myself full-time to developing my art and intuitive business.

Clutter as a Form of Imitation Love

About 5 years ago, I became conscious of the link between simple living and unconditional love.

Listening to Dr. Greg Baer’s audiobooks and videos on Real Love, I understood how we compulsively try to fill our emptiness with whatever feels good in the moment—money, anger, sex, alcohol, food, violence, power, conditional love, approval of others, and more.

“Although the effects are superficial and temporary, we still pursue Imitation Love because it gives us a sense of “happiness” that feels far better than nothing in the absence of Real Love”

Do any of these substitutes look familiar?

  • excessive shopping for shoes or gadgets you’ll rarely use;
  • buying rounds of drinks even if it puts you in debt;
  • buying a new car to keep up with the Joneses;
  • accepting to chair a committee, not because you like the cause, but because it will give you social status;
  • saying yes to every invitation or request even if you’d rather stay home and read a good book;
  • getting angry at those around you because it makes them do what you want;
  • measuring your self-esteem by the number of Likes on Facebook;
  • complaining to friends to get sympathy;
  • hanging on to gifts you don’t like, just so you can display them when the giver visits;
  • lying to give a good impression;
  • or, in my case, diving into excessive chips and movies (I did say I’m still a work in progress…).

There’s nothing wrong with praise, power, safety, and pleasure – only when they’re used unlovingly.

Dr. Baer provides highly practical advice on becoming more unconditionally loving and loved. As you become so, the confusion and clutter will gradually disappear from your life.

Two Steps to Simplifying

Good news! De-cluttering doesn’t have to wait until you are perfectly loving.

The Universe abhors a vacuum! So when you de-clutter any aspect of your life (space, time, finances, relationships, etc.), it will naturally fill the void with what is in alignment with your Highest Good, especially if you’ve set that intent.

How do you do this?

First, you identify what’s important to you.

Then, let go of everything else.

I’m not talking about reneging responsibilities or rejecting society. I’m talking about finding creative ways to live in line with your heart and your purpose.

  1. What’s Important to You:Find clarity on what you really want. Fifteen years ago, the book “What Matters Most” really helped me to identify my governing values and develop a personal mission statement.Once I’d verbalized that “my purpose is to travel through life exploring and expressing my love of beauty and the beauty of love”, I had a measuring stick for all future choices.

    This in turn has led to my living a life of greater intention, integrity, and success (my own definition of it).

  2. Let Go:Once you know what you really want, it becomes easier to release the rest.

    This will look so very different for everyone.

    Living simply is about living true to your purpose, whatever that is.

    How? You can use certain de-cluttering “rules” to get rid of physical stuff.You can use resources like “Your Money or Your Life” to transform your relationship with money and start living with financial integrity, intelligence, and independence.

    You can start saying “yes” to some things and “no thank you” to others.

    Last, you can increase the amount of unconditional love in your life – the true source of all happiness and the best de-clutterer of all.

Is It Worth It?

The more I’ve exercised non-attachment, the more I’ve created room for the Universe to fill with new experiences and abundance that’s more aligned with who I am and what I need for each new chapter of my life.

My path is even richer now that I’ve realized the strong link between love and simplifying.

As I continue my journey of exploring and expressing the beauty of love (for myself and others), I can vouch that it takes care of much of the clutter caused by the pursuit of imitation love.

What can you do to start simplifying today?

You can start small with some of the dozens of suggestions from online lists, or delve deeper into what drives your soul.

You and those around you deserve a simpler life. It truly is a loving thing to do.

I’d love to hear what action steps you’d like to take this month. Please share in the comments below.

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Cleaning Up the Red Light District

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"Shifting" from the Transformation Collection. Prints available in many sizes and mediums.

“Shifting” from the Transformation Collection. 

I’ve lowered my standards. It was dirty.

I confess, it’d been over a month since I’d done it.

It used to be a weekly thing when I had a cat.

Or maybe it’s because I got spoiled when they came in once a week to clean-up in the international student residences in Vienna in 2013/14.

Either way, I’ve relaxed about the state of my living space and studio. I’m still tidy… I just don’t clean very often.

But oh! how satisfying it was to see those little red lights flash when my Aristocrat rolled around the floors doing what it does best.

Do you know what I mean? Is your vacuum equipped with dirt sensors that light up when it sucks up unwanted debris?

I love it! There’s something in me that finds it so satisfying to experience that “Before and After”contrast .

It’s like giving myself a fresh start. It marks the end of a chapter and the beginning of a new one.

After an intensive period of working on an energy painting and other projects, it felt great to clear the energy.

I washed the drop cloths, rolled up the tarp, tidied up, vacuumed, scrubbed a little, and voilà!

No more red lights!

It feels awesome to start a new project in a freshly cleaned space.  And when it truly needs it again, I’ll take my Aristocrat for a stroll and delight in watching its red lights flash.

What can you relax on in your life? How would it serve you?

 

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New Painting & Prayer: “Beyond Illusion”

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“Beyond Illusion” (24″ x 48″) -SOLD

This is a process piece – a channeling of the energy I needed in my life.

It’s a prayer that took weeks to form in my heart and on canvas.

May this painting help you connect to all that is palpable and normally imperceptible as it activates your intuition, your heart.

I’m so glad I helped birth this baby into being!

Many layers of flowing paint and detail-work have completely disappeared beneath what you see here. Interestingly, so have the pictures I took of them.

That’s OK. The process itself and the Connection that came from it remains.

Even if you can’t see those first layers, their energy is part of what activates this portal into the Universal Energy Flow.

Both this painting and prayer have been co-created for you.

Namaste.

 

Beyond Illusion – A Prayer for True Sight

Dear God and Guiding Spirits
Angels of Light and Love,
Help me perceive the world
Through the Eyes of the Soul

Help me understand that my vision of “reality”
is limiting my growth, my clarity,
My ability to create transformation.

Release me of my limiting perceptions
So I may travel to the realms
Where Light and Colour
Make spiritual expansion possible.

Teach me to discern through inner knowing
That I may bear witness
To Your Radiance, Protection,
Holy Light and Power.

Open my heart with dragonfly medicine
So I may see below the surface –
Beyond the illusion
Of what I accept as reality.

May your Winged Ones,
Come from the world of nature spirits
And bring their magic
Into my everyday experience.
I welcome their messages
From the elemental world.

Ease me into my deepest truth
So I may decide for myself, with You
What everything means.

Help me shift my perception inward
So I may let go of  hindering judgments.

Help me evaluate
Both my intentions and attention
So I may focus on the heaven
that is here and now.

Guide me beyond
The veil of illusion
As I go within to commune directly with You.

I feel You resting there, Peace.

Make room.

I’m coming in to lie beside you.

So be it.

“Beyond Illusion”
24″ x 48″
Mixed media on gallery-wrapped canvas (no framing required): acrylics, blue agate stone (protection, strength, harmony), mica (love & compassion)
SOLD

 

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Transform Pain – a Guided Visualization Meditation

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Are you ready to transform pain in any area of your life?

Imagine rewriting the script of your movie right now.

What part would you change? How would you change it?

Is the pain in your personal or professional life? Does it affect both?

Is it in your body? In your mind? In your relationships?

I channeled this 23-minute Guided Visualization during a live meditation group gathering.

May it help you create the life you want.

Note: It’s best enjoyed with headphones.

Feel free to come back and do it again. And please share with those you feel might benefit.

P.S.  If you’d like to do / download a different one, sign-up here and I’ll send the access link to your email.

 

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Need an intuitive hearing aid?

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painting "I've Got Your Back"

“I’ve Got Your Back” Original and prints available in my shop.

Are you running on empty? Then it’s time to get off the hamster wheel. You know it’s not going anywhere.

That’s what happened to me after four years in my dream job.

I was 25 years old and crying on Sunday nights because it didn’t feel right anymore. I felt stuck and had no idea what to do.

That’s what life is like when you’re not living in alignment with your Higher Self.

That’s what happens when you’re not connected to Guidance – no matter if you call that intuition, the Universe, God, your Angels, or Guiding Spirits.

There’s good news. When you ignite your intuition, you create that spark that lights up your life.

So I ask:  “Are you ready to add meaning, purpose, and passion to your life?”

My Intuition into Action Treasure Map: 5 Steps to A Happy Healthy Life can help.  

Here, I’ll demonstrate how one tool supports you as you practice that formula.

Living One Inspired Step At A Time

Living an inspired life takes practice. Intuition is a muscle that gets stronger the more you use it.

I’ve been living this way for decades. I’ve learned to trust my intuition with no regrets.

There’s no way I could’ve imagined how all the pieces would fit together one day. But they have. And I’m not done yet.

My intuition has led me to working and studying on 3 continents and 5 provinces across Canada.

I’ll be turning 50 this year, but I’m just starting out as a full-time intuitive artist and lightworker after decades of doing it part time, along with careers in recreation, education, and arts administration. It’s been amazing!

To tell the truth, I resist change. I’m not a natural risk-taker. But when I’m strongly guided, nothing stops me.

I feel the fear and do it anyway. I keep accepting the invitations to grow by aligning my life with my soul.

Want to try?

Intuition comes in many ways, and there are many tools to help you access it.

Although I’ve always lived intuitively, I had to learn how to use my intuition more consciously when my dream job wasn’t so dreamy anymore.

Let me spare you decades of trying to figure it out on your own. My Intuition into Action Treasure Map: 5 Steps to a Happy Healthy Life will speed up your way back on track.

I’ll explain them using one of the tools I offer clients – Discovery Journey Meditations – a style of guided creative visualization.

I’ll also give you access to a free one at the end, so you can experience tuning in to the callings of your heart & soul.

What are Guided Visualization Meditations ?

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“One In Love” (9″ x 12″)

They have 2 purposes.

First, they raise your vibration as they activate a particular theme.

One client wanted me to channel a custom meditation to help her with her music. Another wanted support for her healing journey.

Second, they’re a fun way to exercise your intuitive muscles. 

Because you can listen to them repeatedly with different intentions, they offer limitless opportunities to seek and find Guidance.

As you sit or lie there with your eyes closed, you’re guided on a discovery journey that opens up worlds of experience, connection, and meaning.

It’s like you’re being led through scenes from a movie, but the movie pauses once in a while. This gives you a chance to explore that moment through your own imagination, inspiration, and intuition –the 3 stages of Higher Knowledge according to Rudolf Steiner.

How Do Guided Visualizations Fit Within the “Intuition Into Action Treasure Map“?

These meditations help you practice The 5 Steps to a Happy Healthy Life.  This is how:

1. Ask

Guidance comes when you ask. You’re asking all the time, but it’s best when you do it intentionally rather than subconsciously.

By choosing a themed meditation, you’re asking your team of Divine Helpers and your Higher Self for support. They’re always present, but because of “free will”, they need to be invited into your process.

Ask and you shall receive…

2. Access & Accept

This step is about collecting clues and receiving messages.

You’re constantly receiving Guidance. It’s just hard to hear it with all the noise out there or in your own mind. Stress and desperation are like static on the line.

Intuition is about being in a hyper-aware state.

You can sustain this for days or even weeks once you’ve de-cluttered the distractions and honed in your skills.

For now, guided visualization meditations give you a structure to tap into your intuition within a set time frame.  

You may see, hear, feel, know, smell, taste, or remember things as you experience the journey.

It doesn’t matter how the messages are presented.  Your Guidance will find a way to communicate through whichever channel is most open.

When you get into a meditative state with the help of music and a loving voice, you focus your attention and open to hearing your inner callings. That’s when your imagination, inspiration, and intuition kick in.

The beauty with these recordings is that you’ll experience them differently each time you listen.

You may ask different questions, connect to different Guides, and receive different clues throughout your discovery journey.

3. Analyze

It’s best to keep the receiving and interpreting separate in the intuitive process. They involve different sides of your brain.

The right brain, or your feminine side is active in Step 2, along with your heart. Now, it’s time for left brain, or masculine side, to join in.

Guided visualization meditations help you to receive information.

Reflecting on your meditation afterwards is just as important. Some like to journal, talk about it with friends, or think about it on long nature walks – whatever works for you.

What you want to do is make connections between the messages you’ve received and the question / intention you’d set.

Intuitive messages often come through symbolism.

As you play detective, you’ll decipher the codes.

No one is as qualified to understand the symbolism you receive as you are. Just give yourself time, open up to the possibilities, and learn to trust your Self.

4. Act

Guidance is of no use if you don’t act on it.

It’s so important to follow through with inspired action that comes from any intuitive exercise.

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“It was an extraordinary experience, so powerful in so many ways… I didn’t tell you what my interest in music is but you accurately focused on my voice. I have to say that my voice seems clearer, stronger, easier…and I’ve noticed that other people have noticed a change too. I love the image of the notes as rainbow colours reaching out into space, embracing planets and stars, and I keep that in mind now when I sing.”

By consciously reconnecting to a scene from the meditation each time she sings, Lucy’s performance has noticeably improved. In turn, this brings her one step closer to her vision as a sound healer. The power of her custom meditation is amplified by her inspired action.

Your Divine Helpers won’t drop you if you forget to follow-up. But the more you trust your intuition, your Guidance, the easier and more successful the relationship will be.

Start with baby steps and one day, like me, you won’t hesitate to take the leaps of faith, no matter what that means to you.

5. Allow

This is the last of the “Intuition into Action Treasure Map: 5 Steps to a Happy Healthy Life”.

Allow your life to evolve while staying tuned to guidance every step of the way.

Once you’ve taken action, trust that the results will fit in the big picture even if you can’t see it with your nose up against it.

Know that if you were guided, there’s a reason.

I once received a clear knowing during meditation. I was directed to study photography on Vancouver Island. This came as a complete surprise! I was just finishing my Masters of Education in Calgary and planning on going back overseas to teach English. I already had a Certificate in Professional Photography. No matter. The guidance was strong.  So I did some research and chose one of the two programs on the island.

It took 3 months to figure out that this program was only meant as a doorway. As part of our curriculum, I arranged to intern with the internationally renown spiritual photographer and author Courtney Milne in Saskatchewan. I was then blessed to work with him and his wife for 2 years before his passing.

Keep the Flame Alive

These 5 steps aren’t a one-time thing. They’re as good for major decisions as they are for daily connection. It’ll keep you on track as you journey on your Path to your Highest Good.

Getting my dream job right out of university was the result of living intuitively for most of my life. But I too hopped onto the hamster wheel and stopped listening.

It was only when I became so unhappy that I realized it was time to ask for help again. That’s when I learned to use my intuition more consciously.

You can too, and I can help you.

Guided Visualization Meditations are but one kind of hearing aid I offer.

Button 2-meditationTry a free 26-minute one (that you can download) by clicking here.

You can also hire me to come lead a live meditation for your group. Contact me here.

Would you like me to connect to your team of Divine Helpers to channel a custom recorded meditation based on your needs no matter where you live?

Learn More About Custom Guided Meditations

 

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Light Against Dark and Dark Against Light

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“All In One:The Twelve Universal Laws” – Prints available in many sizes & mediums

I’m into moving meditation – dancing on my mini-trampoline singing Sanskrit chants in the morning.

Sometimes, I do that looking at my vision board. Lately, I’ve been contemplating my painting “All In One: The Twelve Universal Laws”.

It’s a portal to the Universal Energy Flow.

It’s also a great review of the Laws I studied last year channeling the Enter the Mandala series.

I’ve noticed that the dark ring around the sunflower pulls me right into another dimension. It also lifts that sunflower right off the canvas and into my third eye.

Light Against Dark and Dark Against Light

The Great Masters taught painters throughout the ages a lesson that’s as insightful in life as it is on canvas. Light against dark and dark against light.

They passed that knowledge down the lineage of visionary painters until my teachers taught me a couple of years ago at the Vienna Academy of Visionary Art.

Designers in many fields know this now – the eye is drawn to where there’s the greatest contrast.

It’s the same in life.

It’s from contrast that we create focus for our intentions and attention.

Our Light shines from out of the darkness.

When we’re fully into an experience we don’t want, we realize what it is we do want and create the momentum to reach it.

Sure, it’d be wonderful if our Light were constantly glowing at full force into the world.

But I’m not there yet.

I can only imagine how I’d be if I could stay in the state of wonder and unconditional love that I’m in when I channel a meditation, intuitive reading or energy painting commission.

That would be enlightenment.

For now, I appreciate the role the contrast between my Higher Self and little self plays.

Light against dark and dark against light. It’s beautiful. It’s necessary. It draws you in so that it can reflect right back at you.

We live in a world of contrast to help us choose.

Take a look at your life.  What dark parts of your history have gifted you with the ability to shine your Light in your uniquely beautiful way today?

Is your personal story richer because of the contrasts in your life?

Are your good days even better because of your bad days?

As usual, I’d love your feedback on this morning’s musings. Feel free to comment below.

 

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Take the Test: Which Face Speaks to You?

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Want to play with me today?  Take a look at these 4 faces and what they’re saying.

Which face speaks most to your soul?

Which is your clearest mirror?

Answer in the comments below.

Face 1. In the Moment

In the Moment painting

“In the Moment” – 12″ x 12″ – SOLD – Click for prints.

There are huge shifts happening in my life. I’m answering the call to travel deep within my soul to let my True Colours shine. I’m a free spirit at heart.

Dragonflies are appearing everywhere, helping me see beyond the illusions and delusions. I’m supported in both my inner and outer work.

I’m focused on being the best I can be here and now. I’m learning to love what is, knowing that’s my path to freedom. I love myself unconditionally!

I’m letting go of stories of the past and hopes/fears for the future. I’m living in the moment and going with the flow.

I’m flexible and adaptable, joyously letting go of what no longer serves me as I’m carried by the winds of change.

Face 2. Maiden Voyage

painting of lady with hair in the wind

“Maiden Voyage” -Sold. Click for prints.

I’m courageously answering the call to live a life that’s aligned with my inner callings.

I believe in my purpose. I take healthy risks. Like a ship embarking into the night, I’m embracing the mystery.

I know that as the waves crest, I’ll be given glimpses of the lights in the distance. And when I find myself in a trough, I have faith that the flow will carry me to the next crest until the ocean calms again.

I’m listening to my intuition, carried forward by the life I was meant to live.

It’s in this Spirit Dance that my own beauty is reflected back to me.

Face 3. Zippora

red, ,black and gold face led by bird spirits

“Zippora” – 12″ x12″ – SOLD – Click for prints.

I am in tune with Mother Earth and her animal kingdom. I believe in the medicine of her four directions.

I work in harmony with my Higher Council – my angels, spirit guides, totem animals, and Great Spirit.

I may feel fear, but I go boldly and confidently into my life, knowing my prayers travel upon wings, leading me into the unknown.

I embrace all teachings that serve my Highest Good – be they eastern or western. My inner fire is fueled by the passionate, fulfilling life I know I am meant to live.

I am committed to my Path. I trust in my Guidance.

Face 4. Make A Wish

"Make a Wish" - 12" x 12" - $447

“Make a Wish” – 12″ x 12″ – SOLD – Click for prints

Life’s a game. I’m a spiritual being having a human experience for the fun of it!

I’m friends with The Universe.

If I need something, I ask for it. I’m a master manifester.

It’s easy – I know I’m loved. I know I’m worthy of whatever is in my Highest Good. So I choose to learn through ease and grace.

If my bubbles pop, I know they weren’t meant to be for longer than what they were. I blow more, sending my prayers and thanks to my angels and Guides.

The powers of my mind are limitless. I am part of the Divine Oneness – made of the same consciousness and energy as all there is.

Your Turn

Tell us which Face you resonate with the most and why.

I’d also love to hear what else it’s saying to you. Let its energy dance within your multi-dimensional being and translate its message to us in words.

Try it – it’s fun! It’s also part of becoming the face you see in the mirror.

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What’s Your Soul Candy?

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Feast your eyes on “Soul Candy” (9″ x 12″).  It’s the last of the 7 small paintings I created during my Chakra Jewel Series art marathon week.  It was also the first to find a good home.  Enjoy Tara!

Doesn’t it just make you smile? For me, it was like a gargle of giggles in my gut.

I kept thinking “This is way over the top!” But Spirit said – “Nah! Go for it! Load on the sparkles!”

And I did – allowing myself to play and laugh – both with life and at myself.

I could also feel the expansion happening as the painting branched out with layer upon layer of transformation.  Can you feel it?

This is one happy piece!

It’s like a springtime Christmas Tree – bringing out that big-eyed stare of the inner child.

What’s your soul candy?

What lights you up? 

I’d love to know – please share in the comments below.

For me, I can think of 3 things right off the bat.

  1. Whenever I cross paths with a dog.  I may be certified as a professional dog trainer and behaviour therapist, but I’ve never shared a home with a dog. I just took the course because I so wanted to spend time with them and understand them better. I’m still like I was when I was 5 – I just light up inside when I see one coming my way, hoping the owners are open to my saying hello (to the dog, not the owners… I have to make a conscious effort to remember the 2-legged beings if a 4-legged is around  🙂 ).  I also have to remember to reign in my energy not to swarm the poor pup with it.  It took me years to learn that.
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  2. Swinging (in a playground, not relationships).  But I have to actually stop my destination-oriented walk and get on the swing.  Then it’s like being a kid again – feeling free ! I’m told I spent countless hours on the backyard swing singing when I was 4 – with my superman cape…
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  3. Discovering a new place with or without my camera. This is probably one of the reasons I’ve moved around so much in my life (3 continents, 5 provinces).  I love that feeling of childlike wonder when I jump into tourist mode. So do tour guides. I’ve had more than 1 offer me to come back on any of their day-tours for free because my excitement is contageous.  And I’ve taken them up on it more than once too!

So what does that for you?

Can you bring any more of that into your life this week?

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