Heartsong Studio

Once you’ve made your first heart-centred drawings, you may wonder how to interpret the results. Here’s help in seeing through to the other side of the mirror.

“Making sense of your surprising new ability to draw.”

Alice ponders what the world is like on the other side of a mirror, and to her surprise, is able to pass through the looking glass to experience the alternate world.

Just a child’s story ?
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It can be a real eye-opener to see your first heart-centred drawings. Often they look like nothing you’ve ever done before. What did you find there right behind the veil of your normal, outward view ?

Fingers curled towards you will be in perspective but still look loose and alive. How can you do this without any formal instruction in foreshortening ? How peculiar not to recognize your own ability when you see it ! And yet, it is surely your own drawing.

We really don’t see things as they are, we see things as we are - which means our external reality is surprisingly connected with what’s going on inside us. Drawing from a deep connection inside can yield surprising results, whether or not you can recognize or interpret them.

Are they accidents ?
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What’s going on, and how can you make sense of these drawings ?

The first drawings I made of my hand, my ring finger kept coming out half its length and too wide. Then I realized that my husband had cut off half his ring finger on a table saw, and my marriage was going through a rough patch too.

I know I didn’t intend to draw my finger like his, but my heart-centred drawings reflected this truth.

Interpretation is for you the artist to make, being the only one who can know what resonates as true in your heart. One client couldn’t seem to draw her own mouth and chose to leave it blank, deciding it meant she’d lost her voice in her family.

Sometimes you will find no reason why your drawing appears the way it does. Other times, nothing will appear to you as surprising at all. That’s perfectly okay too. There’s no reason to expect every drawing to be a life-altering event.

Everything in the universe is interrelated, made of the same particles, varying vibrations and wave lengths. There are far more possibilities in this world than we can begin to imagine.

When your mind gets too engaged, it acts as a veil hiding your soul which longs to be free. The simple act of drawing from your heart can move you past the prison of your usual expectations to the unlimited higher power that is your birthright. The fact that the spirit is expressed through your hand, via your eyes and your heart is an ordinary, everyday miracle.

Many of us had no way of knowing that this pathway for deeper self discovery exists for anyone to walk. But that doesn’t mean this access to the spirit hasn’t always been readily available. Real freedom is to experience the open sesame to the true nature of your spirit - a door which always opens for the asking.

If you are used to taking charge and making things happen, why does drawing leave you baffled ? I feel your frustration in this, and hope you’ll find some relief in this article:

“How solo performances kill creativity.”

If your drawings haven’t much feeling, it can be frustrating. Try as you will to make it alive, or imitate reality, when your chosen subject has no say, drawing becomes a solo performance.

If your drawings haven’t much feeling, it can be frustrating. Try as you will to make it alive, or imitate reality, when your chosen subject has no say, drawing becomes a solo performance.Drawing from your mind alone keeps you isolated, yet longing for partnership.

If a stranger approached you, and asked what qualities make you unique and interesting, what would you do ? I can’t imagine you’d tell all your secrets to a stranger, at least until you got to know and trust them.

Drawing a thing as you presume it looks is like trying to pry into a stranger’s intimate life, without their participation. Focusing on what you imagine in your mind, blocks your vision of the actual uniqueness.

This “sole creator” approach actually grows out of being used to scarcity in some way or other, in my experience. To feel responsible to have to do it all, is to be unable to even notice all the magic that is right in front of you.

So many opportunities are lost because the doorway between your heart and the heart of the subject is clouded over. You stay on the outside looking in, unable to see what you don’t know. As long as you cling to the illusion of drawing solo, you will keep finding yourself disappointed with the results.

Drawing from your heart, in cooperation with your mind, takes genuine humility. Like any partnership, trusting your heart is the key that opens the door to connection.

How can you draw if you don’t feel in control ?

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Trust your heart to let your eyes lead the way, so your mind can stay in the safety of what it knows.

Make your first drawings in private. Begin by just sitting comfortably, and go inside. You can let all your feelings be as they are. No need to fix anything or take the lead. In drawing from within, you don’t have to be responsible, you only need to trust your heart.

Innocent eyes see into whatever’s there as an impartial witness. You take part by recording whatever presents itself to be caressed. Your eyes are happy to see things as they are, so let them be in the driver’s seat.

Often you won’t even be aware of little details until after, when your critical mind has a look. See into things from your heart and they will meet you more than halfway. They want to be found.

The intimacies revealed through your drawings are not captured or created by you, they express themselves through you in partnership. Our drawings are a visual expression of the wisdom given to us, rather than fabricated through our thoughts alone.

Tuning in to the wavelength of the heart allows us to become connected to the universal Essence, and to receive a knowing beyond our education or experiences. Courage and trust in working with the unknown can lead to a fertile partnership with all of creation.