LABORADITE: DEVELOPING IMAGINATION

What an amazing synchronicity. I write this article in the flat of my friend Gina Kastele here in Munich! She is a trained psychotherapist who uses a lot of art mediums in her work with people. Her gathering room is filled with all sorts of art materials and musical instruments and miniature imaginative characters!

I've found that within me is an amazing resource of infinite wisdom. Over the years I struggled with accessing that wisdom. It's that creative wisdom. It's those ideas that come from out of the box. When these ideas come it feels like they 'dropped in', such as I bent over the bathtub to regulate the water temperature, I had a wild idea drop in, that turned out to lead me in a more perfect direction.

We are like the water tap that's on full flow (did you see the movie 'Under the Tuscan Sun'? Remember how the tap was completely open at the end?

OK, AND, we sometimes cut ourselves off from the full flowing! In fact,it can happen more often than not.

Do you know that when you let the inner wisdom flow, that your ideas are gold?

Do you want that?

Are you ready? Here's one of the remedies for that:

Do some free flowing art every single day. OK, you never took art classes. In my case I don't really feel comfortable drawing objects. You don't need to know anything. Just take oil pastel or crayon to paper and let your hand guide you. As you color, ask yourself, "What do I feel guided to put next? Or just watch to see what color your hand goes for next. Just keep going until you've pretty much filled the page.

There's one rule: leave out any judgement of yourself and your art.

Notice what your day is like after you've done this art.