Creative Play: a Necessity of Life

What’s NEW for You?

Every day, seek out the NEW for YOU experience. Focus your consciousness on that bright, far out, thing you can try, risk, explore, and you draw new energies to you like a magnet. It changes everything! Let this become your Daily Mantra.

This is why I don’t like ‘bucket lists’. They have to be planned, and are often expensive. And honestly, I don’t have any desire to dye my hair purple and do a parachute jump from a plane, with my cheeks billowing out like rubber. You don’t have to be on the verge of dying to embrace life. Honest!!! Life is not a list, so influenced by what others ‘out there’ consider to be thrilling moments. Life is NOW. Life is TODAY. Life is ‘how can I bring in new scents, try new things, take a chance, do something new and original FOR ME Right Now? That’s the thrill to seek. It takes creativity to come up with the new, to be able to throw out Safe Monkey Mind and dare to try something innovative, not for an end result, but just as a ‘What An Experience’ moment.

I just began an online course, http://www.paulineagnew.com/flower-power-ecourse/, with Pauline Agnew, an innovative artist from Ireland. The focus is on flowers, but it is becoming all about the Sensual. We immersed ourselves in the Senses: the smell, feel, flow, movement, textures and colors of buds and blooms. It’s a whole body experience! My painting above began with lavender and geranium scents sprayed on the paper, while meditative flute music filled the air. I played with new, different media like an ink color brush, watercolor sticks, and a Koi water brush. Never tried them before, not really knowing what they do, or how to use them, I just dived in and created.

It really comes down to looking at life, art, people, and experiences with what I call ‘New Eyes’. These are beginners eyes. These are the eyes of a young soul seeing flowers, trees, the ocean, and sand on the beach for the first time. It’s about immersing yourself in anything just to feel the texture, the flow, the coolness through your fingers. So smell the flowers, take a deep breath, and let yourself go to try new media, read new books, create new dishes, explore new territory…..anything New to You. It’s burning a Lavender Vanilla candle, playing French Cafe music, and painting with a 2′ long stick in your non-dominant hand. You never know what you can do until you try. The Senses, the body, connect directly to the Soul.