Affirmation: “I let my love for all flow through art,
and I express how I feel.”
Love ignites your creativity in a way that brings forward your romantic and lyrical nature. Love makes you crave beauty. It makes you desire to create harmony and melody, passion and caring. When you feel love, a cacophony of bliss chemicals engulfs you. You can harness those inner biological resources and feel blissful—that’s what they’re for!
Invoking the feeling of love opens the heart. In this chapter you will combine love and creativity. Doesn’t that sound like ultimate bliss?
The act of painting stirs the subconscious. Using a semi-liquid medium to smear color and shape on a blank canvas allows you to express your inner emotional state and allows your subconscious and unconscious to come out to play.
This is so healthy for you! You need emotional outlets in your hectic world. Your subconscious needs a chance to be seen in the light, and your unconscious benefits greatly from your attention. Painting is healthy and bliss-inducing for you, so what about combining love and painting? Imagine the heart-centered expression that can happen!
Exercise: Paint Your Lover
Focus on the feeling of love while painting in this activity. You can do this alone or with a romantic partner.
If you are doing this activity on your own, you are your love. Self-love is the most important ingredient to a blissful life. Remember that, and use this activity to love yourself. If you are doing this activity with a romantic partner, then you will paint as you think of your love for one another. You’ll really notice the love you feel for this other person opening the doors to all of the love within you.
Gather your paints, brushes, water, and canvases or paper. Use whatever you have on hand. Focus on the love you feel either for yourself or your partner. If you are doing this by yourself, look in the mirror and feel your self-love, and then go into your art area. If you’re doing this with a romantic partner, gaze at your partner with love and begin to paint what you feel, not what you think.
Use the colors to express the love that you feel for yourself, your partner if you have one, and the world. Immerse yourself in the feeling of love, let go, and mix colors. You may find yourself painting with your hands instead of brushes. Go with that. Let a deep part of yourself be expressed in the activity.
Feel love and the bliss that is truly, completely flowing through you. Immerse yourself in it for this time, and enjoy the safety and bliss of deep love.
Your love is the essence of divine artistry.
Use prismatic hues to express it and shower it everywhere!
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