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Inspired by par Samantha Kira et Roben Marie‘s “Points of Two“, I wanted to start a similar project on my own.

And even if I know quite a lot of “Journaling” peeps, I asked on Twitter and Facebook for people who would be interested in joining me for this project. Finally, we are four:  Paola, Sofiah, Camille and myself.
Camille does not want to blog about it for a time management reason, which I understand, so we’ll share her art journal picture and a paragraph she writes about her process.

Our objective is to create on our own, and then share what came from the common weekly theme. So you’ll be able to read our blogposts every Tuesday. We call our project in French “Par 4 Chemins” and I call it in English “By the 4 winds“.
Absolutely no competition other than the one with our self: every week, working around a precise theme in our personal journal. The challenge for most of us (and I speak of you, too) is usually to Find and Take the time needed to create, no excuse for procrastination accepted.

For this first week, the theme I randomly chose is… HEALING ! Theme that comes out right when it’s the best, in my opinion.

Here is what Sofiah created:

You can read what she has to share about her process on her blog (it’s in french but you can use Google Translate for example).

What Camille created in her journal:
And what she says about it:

Because of the Healing theme, I wanted to create a Mandala. So I started from the center and went to the outside, in a colours shade. The journaling only came afterward. The Interior Flame is a subject close to my heart, I added it after too. I have no idea why the ground is up and the sky is down…it came intuitively. I like the idea it’s reversed, it made me think it’s an universal subject… being a part of the Whole, no matter the side; the side is not important in a circle ^^
Healing is an important subject for me, as I’m going toward a Personal Development path. It may explain the “YOURSELF”.
I really enjoyed creating this page with my beloved Neocolor II -that I know Nolwenn really love ^^-. It took me about 15 minutes to do, and doing a Mandala was soothing…

I see Healing as a journey… it can have many many faces: physical, spiritual, personal. We all have wounds we want to heal, wether it’s regarding health or emotions. But we ALL have this healing power waiting to be explored, right there within us. Trust me.
It is one of the few things I am absolutely sure to be true.

And Paola describes her approach:

It’s a subject I work on everyday in my “life journal” since a crab invited itself in my body, about a year ago. I am over with my treatments now, but I wanted to come back to this very hard period of my life, the one regarding chemotherapy. When you lose your hair, when your body seems to be bruised. I created the background with watercolour inks and blew in a straw to depict the blood system.

I painted my body and my head totally naked. In my chest, something that looks like a doodle to symbolize my catheterer cable, the one the chemo went through. On my breast, I usually draw a crab but this time, to symbolize Healing, I put a bird.

Esthetically, I’m not really pleased with the result, but I achieved the goal of this project: letting go the emotions from inside to the paper. All the things I shut my mouth about for months, all I hide, I brought it to the light with this journal page.

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My page is really simple. I always associate Healing with a Hand, always. I didn’t want the hand to be the center of attention in my page, just subtly there; that’s is why I traced it and then highlighted with ligh black PanPastel on my colourful background. The red colour looks like blood, it’s on purpose too.

I am still on my Healing journey, it helps me to discover who I am and what powers lie in me. Because I know I have something to deal regarding Healing and I also feel that I have professionally something to do with it… I just have to discover exactly what it is.
I plan to take some classes about the Therapeutic Touch Healing, for example, as soon as I have enough money for it. I have two books written by the well known Barbara Brennan (her books: Hands of Light: A Guide to Healing Through the Human Energy Field & Light Emerging: The Journey of Personal Healing); I wish she’d have a school on the North-West coast of the US or here in Vancouver.

HEALING IS THE JOURNEY…

We have a guest this week: BlueTansy. She was interested in having an precise objective in order to create something regularly.

So it’s really surprising to see that in reality, the flashes of lighting and the journalings on blue background are almost invisible, fading in the colour… However, in reality the landscape seems less “ridiculous” as it gives a perspective effect.
I started by drawing and cuting the ambulance, and then I took all my cut-outs in order to position them (to have an idea of the final aspect) and put them aside to paint the sun with acrylics and the sky with ink.
Then, I glued my 2 elements and created the lightings with acrylic, and also the writings on the sky with a felt. The right part with the silhouettes came last. Until the last moment, I didn’t know what to put at this place; it’s also acrylic paint.
I created it on A4 white Bristol paper.

“Aller vers la lumière” (meaning “Going to the light”) was my first feeling… Then the “Ne tirez pas sur l’ambulance” (“Don’t shoot the ambulance”)… And I think these silhouettes are the symbol of indifferent spectators meaning that we can only heal thanks to ourselves, but you have to be allowed to.

See you next week with another theme 😀

During approximately two weeks, I was deprived of Internet connection, television and landline phone… so despite the fact that boxes needed (and still do) to be unpacked, I really had TIME to create and journal.
It’s weird how it made me realize that we tend to take the excuse “I don’t have time to fill_with_what_suits_you” so often, whereas time is something we have to take, to tame. Finally, my day counted the same amount of hours; but without all this technology surrounding me (which I’m kind of addict, as a lot of people nowadays), it feels like I reconnected with something else.

In short… I was able to create a few pages in my self-centered Moleskine journal. I wanted to focus on a subject, that I mentally repeated over and over and over while creating on paper.
I generally use acrylic paints but was “called” by the cheap watersoluble paint we bought to our daughters (I think I’ll by a set for me… it costs less than $5 !). I love how the colours blend together. I preped the page by gessoing it first so the watercolour will really goes into the gesso and not into the pages themselves.

I let it dry and saw a cleared spot in the middle… and the shape of a face with hair protected by a helmet.

My page is REALLY simple but i absolutely didn’t think it, just let the juicy flow go out through my hand.

The breathing is made with Pebeo glitter, it’s a dimensional stuff i like to use here and there. It symbolizes the Breath of Life.

I am a Warrior of Light, even if I don’t know exactly (yet) my Personal Legend and my Life Purpose, I know I’ll discover it pretty soon if I pay attention to signs and details around me.
Accepting it does not mean I think I am better than you, because it’s absolutely not what I feel nor what I think.

My friend Alice recently introduced the term “Positive Seeker” and I LOVE LOVE it.
While walking to pick my girls from school yesterday, I thought of all the way I used to be, used to think, used to react, and how I am today. I was kind of impressed by the way I changed and evolved positively and yes, felt a little pride of it; even if the road is still long, even if questions have not all been answered at the moment… I am learning to be kind with myself, and patient.

Everything comes when it’s the better moment. I received a little message in the book I’m currently reading; book that has nothing really spiritual in it. The words I needed to hear when I needed them: perfect coincidence, perfect timing !

In this week prompt, Jamie precises that we can see it two ways: financially or otherwise. What do you wish to invest in ?

For me, it will be both financially AND otherwise.

For about two weeks now, I think a lot about creating my own “business” regarding my art and what I love to do, guiding people who wants to. It’s something I already had in mind, but the Universe put some HUGE signs on my way lately. I just cannot ignore them.

I wish to invest in my Dream to become a guide, a healer, an artist. A mix of all these.

It means I’ll have to invest money, for marketing, for supply, later for an office (kinda).
I started concretely yesterday, by signing in for Kelly Rae Roberts first online workshop: Flying Lessons. I invite you to check it out if you’re like me: wanting to make a living from your passion, avoiding current mistakes and learning some useful basis.

I know I can do it, I have a total faith in this project even if at this time, it is still a little bit blurry, the clouds are being pulled away one after the other.
It’s the right time for me to seriously think about it and take things in hands. And I am not in a rush, I want to do it right and properly.

I wish to invest time, and Love, and courage for the achievement of this dream project.

Heya !

How are you doing ?

I have this thought that comes back regularly on my mind… What about a Pulsion of Life newsletter ?

Would you be interested in signing up for it ?
What frequence of sending would you prefer, once a month ?
What would you love to read from me in a Newsletter ?

Tell me everything 😀

Trust is a feeling we heard a lot about, but what is it, finally ?

I think there as much definitions as there are people on Earth. For some, there’s no question: trust is; for others it’s synonymous of war and lack.

Being trustful, is (in my opinion) knowing that nothing can hold you down.
Trust yourself, your abilities; trust in the others, we are all One; trust in the Universe because it only brings in our life what we can handle (despite the false impression we can have).

Sometimes, we feel out of place, we’re looking for ourself in the eyes of the others, we make suppositions and that’s where Trust is important: no matter what they think of you, YOU know who you are and what you are capable of more than anybody else.
Yes, it’s good to have an extern look, but wonder if it really suits your gut feeling.

We confuse Trust and Arrogance, but it’s one thing to know your worth, it’s another to think yours is better than you neighbour’s and to always want to be the best (and so, doing things not really good). We are all different, my strenght may be your low point and vice versa. I can have doubts about something obvious to you. As for everything, we need to find the Middle Way, and I can affirm that’s it is not that easy, sometimes you just feel that you are an acrobat walking on a thin string suspended in the air.

Repeat after me: I TRUST THE PROCESS OF LIFE. And feel it through your whole body and spirit.

Mixed-Media artwork I intuitively created, just trusting the process, letting things get out of me. I had something completely different when I started !
Acrylic paint, waterclour inks, papers collage, “serviettage”, embossing powder…….