Change Lives Through Mindful Art & Art Journaling
Aug 10, 2022
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You can learn how to change lives through mindful art and art journaling when you are a SoulPages Mentor. Many years ago Rakefet Hadar, founder of SoulPages, discovered the powerful combination of bringing spiritual practices such as meditation with visual art journaling. Since that time, she and her trained mentors have seen many lives transformed due to this highly creative, mindful art approach to art journaling. Written journals are widely respected for helping individuals find insight, but the impact of visually seeing what emerges through meditation and creative art journaling can take the journey of personal insight to new levels.
Mindfulness meditation combined with art journaling can open new insights into our psyches. Mindfulness meditation—often referred to as insight meditation—is a particularly good practice to integrate with our visual journals. While there are many benefits to this combined approach, here are three of the top reasons why it is so effective:
- Approaching the art journal with compassion and without judgment. One of the biggest hindrances in art journaling is the inner critic. While the inner critic thinks it may be helping us, instead it often paralyzes us from being creative or exploring new actions that will actually bring us happiness and peace. In mindful art, we are invited to be fully present in the moment yet without judgment, held instead with kindness and compassion for whatever our experience is. This freedom allows us to be more intuitive, responding to the voice of our soul. How much freer would your creative work be if you didn’t have a critic harping over your shoulder, but instead had a friend encouraging you to allow your intuitive response to flow?
- “Beginner’s mind” creates room for discovery. If your mind is already made up it is difficult to learn. An “expert mind” can be especially limiting when there is a desire for personal growth. Mindfulness asks us to approach our inner work with a “beginner’s mind”, much like a young child with curiosity and playfulness. This friendly environment naturally welcomes discovery and insight.
- Inner silence allows greater listening. As we allow ourselves to release tension and relax into the guided meditation, it helps to create a quiet space in our hearts. In this open space, we can better hear the wisdom of our inner voice. The embodied wisdom within is finally free to speak up and be heard. This sacred space of deep connectedness allows us to intuitively create in our art journals, making visual discoveries and embracing “magical coincidences” through the use of collage images, text, and mindful art doodling.
The SoulPages Mentor Training prepares you to lead simple, guided meditations or visualizations which are then integrated with the process of art journal spreads. Perhaps you have already experienced how deeply powerful this combination of mindful art and art journaling can be? If so, would you like to be able to help others with these transformative experiences?
If you haven’t yet taken a SoulPages class but are interested in helping people find inner healing through the transformative power of meditation and art journals, you can still sign up for the SoulPages Mentor training program. The program is designed to give you ample experience using the SoulPages method so by the time you complete the course, you will have several SoulPages lessons ready to offer your own students. Like many other SoulPages mentors around the world, you will be an integral part of helping people access their inner wisdom through meditation and art journals.
This is the link to the open event of the SoulPages Mentor program
If you are ready to transform your life here is the link
https://soul-pages.com/courses/soulpages-facilitator-training-22-23/