I've been very unwell for a few weeks now. When I'm out of spoons, this is the kind of art I make; a soothing meditation with no meaning or attachment. It's very soothing.
Surrealist Automatism is a very meditative genre of art I specialize in. I wasn't even aware this style of art had a name for many years. I just called it Abstraction. But I love to splatter watercolor and do line work inside them without any planning ahead. I simply allow my hands to go with the flow and find interesting ways to connect all the pen work together. This truly puts me in meditative state and helps reduce anxiety, which makes great art therapy!
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I recently found inspiration in a book “Milton Glaser: Drawing is Thinking”. The book, published in 2005, is chock full of drawings, sketches and paintings. Glaser’s two earlier books are helpful to students and cover more of the thinking process while this book flows more like a musical experience without the explanations. Glaser describes designing the book to be a non-descriptive…
The success story of logging into the void state of my reader after two years of attempts: The “secret” that helped her
Disclaimer: I'm not a coach or anything like that and I'm not manifesting void state to anyone (because there's no need to) but I'm sharing my successful experience and opinion regarding void state and am very supportive and believer in people who share their void journey with me and ask me for advice. I never take responsibility for other people when it comes to void state, and I do not guarantee that my advice will help. I hope you understand me.
The other day, a reader of mine (she allowed me to share her story on my blog) wrote to me and asked for advice on what to do if she is unable to enter the void state, because every time she lies down and begins to affirm, she is enveloped in fear and begins to sabotage the entrance to the void.
Point A
She tried to enter the void state for two years. She used different methods, but nothing worked. During the day, she constantly thought that today she would definitely enter the void state, but when the moment came, she began to be afraid or simply fell asleep.
What exactly was she beginning to fear? The unknown that will remain in the void even after exiting the state. She was scared to enter this state and scared because she didn’t know what would happen after she left. When she tried to enter the void state, her brain immediately began to plunge into anxious thoughts and reflections. By doing so, she sabotaged her success.
Point B
An idea came to me that, in my opinion, could help her. And she really has this “secret” and just yesterday she entered the void and showed her desires (which ones, I don’t know)!
What's the "secret"?
Since during the day she mentally prepared herself for entering the void state, by the evening she had a lot of expectations and fears because she began to sabotage the entrance to the void state and procrastinate. I asked her to try to enter the void state at a time when she would not be ready for it at all. That is, try to enter the void not in the evening, when she already understands that something is about to happen, but at a moment when she is not ready at all. For example, during the day while reading a book. Just lie down and immediately start listening to a guided meditation or affirmation (whichever is more convenient). Not in the evening when she's ready, but during the day when she doesn't plan on trying it at all.
And it worked! She drank tea during the day and watched the news on TV and suddenly got up and went to the bedroom, where she immediately, without hesitation, began listening to a guided meditation and literally ten minutes later she consciously entered the void state!
Briefly about the “secret”
Try to enter the void state at a time when you did not intend to do so at all.
Why might this work? Because often, when you prepare yourself for this moment, you begin to worry and ultimately cannot relax and trust the process, which is why you simply sabotage your success.
URB: She has now written to me that a little later she will write a list of what she manifested from the void, so stay tuned for an update! I've added the list directly to this post.
I'm so happy for my reader who is now living the life of her dreams, and I hope her story inspires you to realize your success! Just do it. I believe in you!
I don't believe in New Year's Resolutions. I'm not a fan of sudden change, I've never been able to hold myself to the stipulations of such a resolution. For me, meaningful change comes at a slow, steady, deliberate pace. So I'm holding myself to the same goal as I did last year: make more art. I think I'm gonna go with the flow of automatic art for a while. It's very therapeutic, and after the stress of the holidays, that sounds nice.
do not underestimate the power of cleaning your space, meditating and journaling your thoughts. especially journaling cause once you start brain dumping your thoughts you actually release them and once you do your higher self starts to show up in your writing. whenever I need ideas I start brain dumping all of my thoughts, tasks and things I have to do and it’s like I empty my mind and my concious mind and my subconscious mind takes over and I get these amazing downloads come through.
some previews of my new gay comic maintenance! about robots and girls and fingers and hands and wires. available as physical copies through WBMC only for the month of april!!! (and digitally after that)
yes, yes i know edgeworth’s big wet eyes and loser boy personality have captivated us all, but listen. listen.
phoenix wright
phoenix “genuinely unable to reconcile the girl on the stand with the girl he dated for eight months, a cognitive dissonance so profound it’s ultimately explained by them being literally two different people, but which he first sits with for five years and does not talk about at any point to anyone” wright
phoenix “don’t mention that name to me. i don’t want to talk about it. i don’t want to think about it. i am just going to keep myself in this state of perpetual crisis mode focus on other people’s problems until eventually i die and get to hang out with mia on the astral plane and never have to deal with any of these emotions ever again” wright
phoenix “overnight loses his career and reputation and sense of identity while gaining an adopted, probably pretty traumatized eight-year-old daughter, and rather than leaning on his friends for help, or getting therapy, or taking any time to process any of this, he *checks notes* spends seven years dedicating all his free time and energy to investigating the weird fucking circumstances around it and maintains a friendship with the guy he suspects was behind it all” wright
phoenix "runs across a burning bridge and falls through it, half a day after the game establishes that he is terrified of heights, because his friend is on the other side of that bridge" wright
phoenix “i sure felt surprised. maybe i had my poker face on” wright
phoenix “looking back on it that was actually a pretty dark period in my life” wright
phoenix “don’t ask me how i got started. i don’t remember” wright
phoenix “only you stood still, your eyes calmly watching” wright
phoenix “sometimes, life just sucks” wright
just
phoenix wright
crunchiest man in the world
and all i wanna do is chew and chew and chew on him
I like to illustrate abstract designs for meditation that happen to look like energy spells, I practice automatic drawing to help me get out of head and more into the flow of the pen work allowing my subconscious to have the main influence in my work.
These illustrations are available to color in my coloring book available on Amazon or Lulu Publishing