About Mandy Cruickshank – Counsellor-Working with the Arts.
Most teaching within society teaches you structure, techniques, and some rules that are all important aspects of the cognitive world. This is very important but unless you can move beyond the structure of the mind, opening to a space within the mind which opens us to a different awareness, life will not be fulfilled. Student’s of life events/circumstances, students of art, ministry, religion, counselling, music, dancing, writing, singing, love making, prayer life….. there will be an experience of lack of connection with self in life, work, craft, and will lack experience of fluidness and the ability for movement on an inner or outer level.
Many of us hunger for something more unconsciously, and we will starve to know that true essence of self and burn out quickly in our service to others if we have not experienced an inner connection with our true essence… A biblical statement many of us do not understand, Jesus said to his disciples “Feed my flock.” In a modern language it would mean teach people to connect to their true essence.
Jesus was a Master. His inner life was authentic to the full, he had the access to true knowledge, a deep knowing one that goes beyond the mindset of a personality. He had no need for rules, for he had moved beyond the fear of the shallow mind, he had access to something deeper within himself..He was NOT religious. He knew who he was. He was able to feed others at a soul level because he had access through the mind to an essence of energy that we all have. He taught in a way that helped people to understand their inner essence…. which led them to accessing their own healing on all levels
For the students who, through their medium of craft, want to touch the world: you also have the ability to experience enlightenment yourself. The creative medium you have been drawn too is no different to any great model of religion. Just a wonderful myriad of creative mediums that are available for you to choose. You will become the student of your chosen medium and you will realise that your medium is your structure and I will support you to move beyond that to experiencing a letting go, opening the doorway to a deeper knowing within the mind, integrating all you have learned on a concourse cognitive level and suddenly within your medium of craft you start to experience moments of inner liberation.
For students of life events/circumstances: you will start building your life from the strength side, opening to creativity,experiencing the lack of fear, and the letting go into a deeper knowing, Self esteem just is, you will no longer play your life out as more or less, you will learn awareness by giving less power to the more painful illusions, which spiral into painful emotions in our lives as you discover your true essence. You will develop a more powerful way of being, as you discover the depth of love that is within. Only by the barriers of the mind being loosened will the a discovery of “enough love’ within and without be experienced.
Many believes disappears as the mind opens to the Alchemy experienced within the Creative Arts.