01/02/2017
Frequently asked questions
Answers to frequently asked questions
Why do I call this a Painting seminar, if it is a healing seminar?
It is a Painting Seminar, because perhaps that is what you will most remember.
Why do I call this a Healing seminar, if it is a painting seminar ?
It is a Healing Seminar, because you will undergo a personal healing.
How will you heal me?
You will do a series of activities that are healing. They are storytelling; creative visualization meditation, upside-down drawing, and painting.
How will you heal me with storytelling?
I will use the art of storytelling to engage the right side of your brain. As I tell My Triumph Story, the right side of your brain will activate. This part of your brain will gather up the concepts and images that are a part of your own Triumph Story. The concepts and memory of your own story will emerge naturally as a function of the right side of your brain. This side controls memory, concepts and images. As I read my story this part of your own brain will simultaneously trace the history of your life and bring up those images and concepts. Your right side of your brain has very specific tasks, and it will be very active as you listen to the story. If you tell yourself ahead of time to sense it, you will become aware of the changes in your own nervous system and your heart and respiration as I tell my story.
How will you heal me with creative visualization meditation?
It is widely known now that meditation is very healing to the human nervous system, blood pressure, and the tissues of the body. This includes the brain when I say nervous system and many processes in the right side of the brain that are heightened during creative visualization. This is particularly so in the right side of the brain that is active during creative acts. During the creative visualization, you will create the images that I speak about. If we could examine it everybody’s visualization would be highly unique. It would be so different from everybody else’s that our individuality would be the most recognizable thing about us as human beings. It is very healing to know that you have powers of creation that lead to unique formations, and it is already inside of you. It is very healing to know that this creativity is not a talent you acquire, but a function of your own brain, which you were born with. It is healing to know that you have within you something that no other human being can influence or take away from you. It is healing to exercise this creativity.
How will you heal me with the upside down drawing?
This will be the third activity for the right side of your brain, and the first that is the most overt and active consciously. I will be asking your right brain to make a physical form in the world; a drawing. The first two tasks were right brain activities but no one in the room could see your right brain in action, everything was happening inside. Now, I am asking you to do something that will produce a product outside of you. As you begin the drawing, the left side of your brain will find this activity stupid, annoying, and irrational. It will find the activity worthless, get bored, and the left side of your brain will just simmer down to a trickle of activity. On the other hand, your right brain will get more and more awake and active as it finds its to complete the task. Your ability to see light and shadow will emerge. Your right brain will become excited to complete the task of drawing upside down and stay with you until the task is done. Your sense of time will fall away, but you will notice a large increase of peaceful energy accompanying you as you do the task. The saying “Time flies when your having fun," and the peacefulness you have while doing the task are the experience of healing in your body. No one really knows exactly what is healing and balancing in the body and head. We only experience the healing and we know it for sure. We can not say the process of healing that went on in the brain. We can not quote the balancing of brain chemistry, the relaxation of the nervous system. We can only say that doing the upside down drawing was an interesting experience.
How will you heal me with the painting process?
You are realizing by now that you are healing yourself. I have not physically touched you, yet your healing as been happening since the storytelling. Because of this, we can look at the right side of the brain as the place where healing may be produced. You are now going to paint without instruction. Your task is to stay in the flows of the right side of your brain, and you have been warmed up to this feeling through the storytelling, meditation, and the upside-down drawing. Your task is to move with color, holding onto the flows coming from the right side of your brain. Your task is to get to know that feeling better.
