Art therapy helps with, grief, shock and loss

Integrative Arts Therapy can help with Grief and Shock

Every year I offer workshops for a local support group called ‘The Compassionate Friends’. They are a support network for parents whose children have died. This year they are supporting a lot of newly bereaved parents, and tomorrow I am delivering two workshops to help them manage their subtle body energies and clear shock. We will use healing, energy and art techniques.

GRIEF AND ITS EFFECTS

Whenever there is a loss of someone or something important in our lives it is normal to experience Grief. As we are all individuals, we experience grief in own, unique way and respond according to our beliefs, values, faith, self-awareness, personal experiences, and life circumstances. Therefore, there is no right or wrong way to feel grief, express grief or live with the effects of it in our day to day lives.

The initial effects of grief can be physically demanding and emotionally overwhelming, as we attempt to continue on with our lives without the other person, while our mind, body, spirit system, is dealing with the ‘shock’ of the loss. Our body can feel like we have been kicked, or punched. We may feel breathless, empty or overwhelmed, and struggle to have the energy to get through each minute of every day. Our thoughts can also be affected, where decision making, logical and sequential thinking processes and mental creativity can disappear in the stress of the emotions we are feeling. This impacts our capacity to live our lives, look after ourselves, and communicate with others. Sometimes we feel absolutely numb, void of all emotion and limited in our capacity to act or react, and this too affects our capacity to communicate and interact with others, as well as our ability to care for ourselves and others as we grieve.

So one of the first things I always do, when working with individuals or groups who are grieving, is help them and/or teach them, how to integrate and balance their subtle energy bodies.This will help them cope better with the effects of grief, and assist them mentally and physically with the daily demands of life. While I use shamanic and energetic healing techniques to begin this process, I then integrate clay and watercolour therapy as both help balance the energy bodies, and heal the etheric energy fields. www.matrixharmonics.com

Interacting with Earth Energies helps us – Understand Celestial Events like the Equinox and Solstice; Develops our Clairvoyance and Psychic Skills; and Teaches us how to Decipher the Wisdom in Earth Mythology

We have just experienced the September Equinox. The energy frequency of this celestial event was primed to help us to connect to Earth energies and grow more as spiritual beings. The stone circles and sacred sites on this planet that house temples and buildings that align with the sun, moon and celestial energies were put in place by our cosmic ancestors, to encourage future humanity to interact with the Earth, earth energies, and geomythics imprints, and use the mythologies of the cosmos for spiritual enlightenment and esoteric understanding.

While our ancestors did just this, and used them to connect with Earth energies and seasons, modern humanity is really only starting to remember what they are about; how we can interact with them; and what they can teach us.  In our quest for knowledge, however, what is often forgotten, is that these sites are filled with vibrations and energies that can only really be understood and fully embraced via clairvoyant and psychic interaction. They are rich with symbolism, mythology, and energetic imprints and all of them contain the history and the mystery of this planet and her many species.

To honour the Earth energies present in this Equinox, I asked for guidance from the medicine cards. What I wondered can this Equinox helps us understand about our species, our planet and her Earth energies? I pulled two cards – the Ant (patience) and the Horse (power). Both beautiful representations of what has been happening on this planet and in the collective consciousness of humanity.

Ant medicine is the strategy of patience! It is also about group mind and self sacrifice.

As we change collectively and individually it is important that we realise everything happens at the right time, and that dreams come to fruition at their own pace. We have become used to personal gratification and swiftness in getting what we want, but this journey of change and collective spiritual development cannot happen overnight.

Ant medicine also cautions for us to be aware of ‘those individuals who make greed a way of life prey on the fear and urgency of those who have forgotten natural and tribal law’. It requests that we become aware of users and con artists, and don’t allow panic to outweigh our natural sensibilities.

This seems very wise counsel as the collective is currently fed what those in power wish us to believe. Wars are started in our name, greed is sanctioned in the name of progress, and the truth of who we are and what we are really here for is veiled in secrecy, thereby enabling aggressive plans based on the need for power to take the forefront in our imaginations.

Horse is about Power and counsels that when we live in tribal law, in harmony with all things, and in particular with the Earth, we recognise that Power is not given lightly but awarded to those who are willing to carry responsibility in a balanced manner!

This medicine teaches us how to strive for a balanced medicine shield. True power is wisdom found in remembering our total journey. Wisdom comes from remembering pathways we have walked in another person’s shoes. Compassion, caring, teaching, loving, and sharing our gifts, talents and abilities are the gateways to power.

With Horse medicine we can remember to embrace and heal the shadow. Remember that it is in the Void, where the answers live.  The East – where the sun rises – and is reflected in the Equinox, is where illumination lives, and is the home of the yellow stallion. The white stallion that is filled with the light of the Sun is the message carrier for all other horses – and represents wisdom in power! This is the embodiment of the medicine shield – that no abuse of power will ever lead to wisdom.

This is a powerful teaching for this time! And really at any time! We need to become our own wise counsel, follow the path of peace, and heal our shadows of greed and power.

I believe that it is time to develop and cultivate our relationship with our intuition and clairvoyant self – which has a great BS monitor and can feel the truth and HOLD the truth in times of necessity. Now is the time to step out of the shadows and hold the light. There is no enemy but that which we ‘perceive’ to be real. Our thoughts and perceptions are not real, they are projections and illusions. Counsel, counsel, counsel! It’s time to connect with the Earth, connect with each other and let go of the need to separate, live in fear and have power over. There is no-thing and nothing that can be taken away. Change your beliefs, turn off the news and surrender to the REAL truth, get out in nature, meditate with the Earth, connect with earth energies and let the Earth teach you who you are, where you come from, and what you really need.

Determination and Will power aren’t the only things we need

While having determinaton and will power can enable us to solve all sorts of problems in life and continue to aim high no matter what, this video perfectly highlights that this is not all we need to be successful.

In this scenario, spatial awareness would have helped both of these people realise that the sofa they were trying to get into the car simply would not fit, no matter how much determination and willpower they used. The car is simply too small.

Knowing when to give up, would have been a useful skill in this scenario, as the couple would have realised sooner that trying to fit the sofa into the car was simply impossible.

Also, considering another solution to the problem would have saved them some time, a few bumps and bruises and serious head scratching.

Some personal awareness would probably also have helped in this situation, as the couple simply would have realised that this was a problem sooner and perhaps made a call to someone with a bigger vehicle, or simply not continued with the struggle.

This is a perfect example of determination, struggle and will to succeed. Coupled with no spatial awareness!!!http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newsvideo/weirdnewsvideo/11042304/Family-struggle-to-force-giant-sofa-into-tiny-car.html

A skeleton tested for Sumerian DNA could teach us about our past and provide some interesting evidence about what really happened in our history

A skeleton dating back to the Sumerian era has been ‘re-found’ in the Penn Museum, and scientists plan to test if for Sumerian DNA

This could provide new insights about our collective past and help us to fully resolve where the human species began on this planet. The bible shares information about the fallen angels who seeded human beings, and ancient theorists believe it to be true.

Sumerian statue – Do we all have Sumerian DNA?

I also believe that we are connected to these beings. In my work as a clairvoyant and remote viewer, I have interacted with sacred sites and ancient temples across the planet, all of which contain imprints of such truths. As our spiritual evolution continues and we travel further along the path of combining science and intuition, what we discover about our real history is bound to change, and may confront us. Finding out for sure whether we have Sumerian DNA, could bring forward some new and interesting information about the real history of this planet, and our human development:

http://mysteriousuniverse.org/2014/08/scientists-prepare-to-solve-mystery-of-sumerian-dna/