Heartsong Studio

Are you embarrassed to use stick figures to illustrate a concept ? Sure clients know what the diagrams are supposed to represent, but your drawings don’t move them much.

What would happen if you drew something with real life in it ? The whole room would light up by this living energy because every heart longs for real connection.

You know that most learning is enhanced by visual metaphors, but leaving all heart out of your drawings does nothing for your clients or your self-confidence .

How can you draw things with real life when you can’t see past the responsibility of meeting expectations ?
 
Flashback - Remember the magic the first time you stuck your finger in your spilled baby food and made marks ? Or, maybe you scratched with a stick in the earth. Look what I did ! And look there, I did it again !

Along came a well-meaning adult and said : “What’s that supposed to be ?”
WHAM !!! You mean it’s supposed to BE something ?! Your hands got lovingly wiped clean along with your tray of spilled mush.

 Perhaps later, it happened again in school and with friends, until you were ashamed to follow the magic of making marks anymore. Your first innocent discovery of a new skill got squashed by expectations. We all become conscious of responsibilities and the self-imposed expectations that come with them. While so compelled to have to do it all, we cannot even notice all the magic that is right in front of us.

So many opportunities are lost because the doorway to our heart is clouded over. As long as we stay on the outside looking in, we’ll be unable to see what we don’t know.

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How can you draw what you don’t know yet ?
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Remember the magic of discovery and feeling a part of all the wonder when you drew as a little child ? If this scares you now, you can calm your responsible self with these three steps:

1. Go inside and let your feelings be however they are. Don’t try to stop your ego mind, just let it be and respect its fear of the unknown. 2. Surrender your expectations to the Source of all life, and trust your heart.3. Let your innocent eyes see into whatever’s there as an impartial witness. Your hand will obey your eyes, recording whatever presents itself to be caressed.

You’ve just learned a new method of drawing, throwing pots, or attracting positive things into your life.  If it starts to lose it’s shine, do you feel disappointed ?  “Solutions that won’t stay put” will show you how lucky you are.

Learning a new method is a lot like getting a new kitten at first: all cute and cuddly, loads of fun, and did I say cute ?!  If it’s
the Law of Attraction, you set about attracting your desires into your life.  If you’ve started to draw by seeing into things, you begin to feel connected, for brief moments.  This is really cool !
At first. 

“The trouble with a kitten is that, eventually it becomes a cat,”goes the old folk wisdom.  New solutions don’t stay fresh forever either.

Methods that have lost their lustre aren’t broken.  Neither are you.  Kittens grow up, that’s all. That’s the nature of things.
Though kittens are cute, playful, and curious, adolescent and adult cats are as wonderfully unique as you are.

The constant change and growth in all things is part of the glory of life.  Whether we see it as trouble or glory is a view we get to choose at every moment.

Work along for awhile within your new mode of drawing, another need will arise that seems to block you in some way.  Your work might start to look too contrived, or too chaotic, or uninteresting, or any number of ways that pleased you once, but now, . . .well, don’t so much. 

That is, if you’re lucky.

“Are you out of your mind ?”   I hear you saying. How can it be lucky to become dissatisfied ?   Isn’t the road to satisfaction aimed to get into a comfortable way of working once and for all ?

Well, no, it isn’t.
 
We need to feel hungry.  It’s the doorway to receiving the qualities we long for.  Only out of sincere need can we surrender the illusion of self-sufficiency and be filled with peace, love, and all the other things we need.  It’s never settled once and for all.

The blessing of a good meal is that, eventually you get hungry again.  Hunger is a blessing too.  It leads to more eating.   Full grown cats hold as many blessings as kittens.  They even hold the possibility of more kittens. . .

Kittens and cats, hunger and fullness are constantly changing places.  If we focus on the one, in a wish to prolong that stage,
it stops the natural flow.  It’s like sticking to our first way of drawing when we crayoned on the wall as children. 

Rather than cling to any one method, why not enjoy it till the next one develops ?  Your love of doing what you do best will thrive through all your stages, if you keep filling your heart with infinite inspiration.

What interesting route have you taken to reach for the goal of your longing from the very beginning ?  As you walk your unique path, your goal will develop and grow richer too if you let it. 

What stage are you in right now -   kitten, adolescent cat, curious cat, older wiser cat ?