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gifted by the sea

28 Monday Aug 2017

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fear, inspiration, letting go, love

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Going through times of change, transition, challenge, pretty much can be ‘every day’ as we now know it.

I took myself to the beach for a walk to start the day off with exercise and sunshine as it’s often a really good way to reset. Today I was plagued by thoughts of fear ‘what am I going to do?’, ‘this isn’t working – that isn’t working’ . . . you know the drill. Fears of failure or success, the hamster wheel in the protective brain can sometimes spin out of control.

So . . . I thought I’d just start watching the waves, focus on the waves as they come in and go out, it became like a mantra, drawing me to say in my mind . . . let fear go out, let love come in . . . let fear go out, let love come in.  It felt really very good, and a ‘no brainer’, no need for overthinking or complicating. It was a sweet gift along my walk.

I liked the idea so very much I made a little video of the sea in case you needed two minutes by the seaside too, and some niggles, or worries and fears that might do well to go out with the tide and let a series of waves of love come in and take their place.

 

Let the waves carry the fears out

and receive waves of love as they come in.

 

love Denise.

Take yourself for a walk.

06 Friday Nov 2015

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inner child, let go, letting go, Painting, selfkindness, tarot

walk with aura inner child

I woke this morning in a groggy fog-like feeling and literally did not know what day it was. I had to go through a number of ideas in my mind to arrive at the realisation that is was in fact Friday morning.

Feeling a but under’achievey of late (read, business has been slower than a snail with a suburb on it’s back)

I frequently am reminding myself to ‘love the one in me who is afraid’ … rather than berate myself for being a not-so-fabulous-at-this-moment-business-maker  …

So… today’s little inner child drawing.. is the little one in me who needs comforting and absolute pure love which she readily gets from our pet dog Aura … and who when I pause momentarily I am always able to love her, no matter what when I REMEMBER that’s kindof all she needs.

I have some fairly LARGE canvas’s on my easels at the moment . . . dancing with the layering technique championed and introduced to me by Flora Bowley and then Tracy Verdugo …. it’s a hot mess.. actually a cool mess.. of aqua’s greens and lime.. a little black as well… they’re the beginnings of who knows what…

chaos of letting go

under the layers 1and the writing I made on the blank canvas’s was inspired directly from a tarot spread with Carol Bridge’s Medicine Women Tarot.  I was so taken with the meanings she’d written about ‘Seven of Pipes’ “Doubt overcome by Action, Spirit Freed” and ‘Five of Pipes’ “Play for all your are worth” which were the first two I drew.

Medicine Woman Tarot by Carol BridgesLetting Go is the current theme of a class I’m participating in.

How apt . . .

onward …

thanks for visiting,

Denise x

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