Creating is good for your heart

If you feel that time is slipping away and slipping through your fingers, it's time to refocus on yourself. 

When you forget that you're the most important person in the world and that you're in control of time, one solution is to create.

Because creating anchors you in the present, soothes you, takes your mind off everyday worries and, incredibly, recharges you.

So let's play together: It's a warm-up exercise !

First, take a deep breath and smile, even if you don't feel like it. Put on some music, light a candle and close the door. This is your moment.

Supplies :

You'll need two sheets of thick paper, brushes and watercolors or gouache. Watercolor pencils and very fine Sharpie-type felt-tips or Posca, white, black and gold.  

Activation :

Take the first sheet and paint it in a single color - watercolor paint is best. Use a bright color. Then place your hand on it while it's still wet and press down to make your mark. Then rest your hand on the other blank sheet ; observe the lines on each print. And now, you're going to take a very thin pencil and imagine a landscape. You can work intuitively, imagining shapes that come out of your hand. Then place drops of colored paint over your drawings.

While your first sheet is drying, take a Posca or Sharpie felt-tip pen, and have fun tracing lines around your fingers. With no other aim than to repeat the lines. Invade the space around them and write the words that come to you.

Work in light on dark or vice versa, depending on your color.

ll you have to do is complete your first sheet as you wish, drawing spontaneously with a felt-tip pen or writing words intuitively.

Voilà! What you've achieved is unique. And sacred, because you've poured your heart into it.  What you've done has meaning, and you've been there.

Love