Inviting An Inner Movement Beyond The Structures

There are other people who walk into a shop and see a painting that is completely abstract and yet the colours speak to her. She knows for some strange reason un be-known to her that she has to have the painting. That abstract painting is a powerful way for someone to encounter colour, we are so used to having structure, the mind likes structure. We tend to feel safe with structure.  I remember my first abstract painting, and I felt the struggle within myself as this was something I was not used too and didn’t really want to experience. But as I allowed myself to journey in this way, just working with abstract colour I have learned to let go of the strong holds within my mind. I have learned to open up and perhaps give space to my inner life. A lesser need for rules and perhaps even a movement in my beliefs that don’t have as much say as I move to a deeper place within. 

I can say in a ‘latter sense’ of my journeying with my art, that the above painting spoken about was actually mine. This lady was simply a beautiful confirmation of my learning’s, that is often not available to us in society for I have come to talk of ways that are of the abstract mind.

I too have come to learn of the healing power within music that is not within a ‘structured notation’. As people have experienced my Harp music being played for them while laying on a yoga mat, they have informed me of the space created within the lack of structured notation that allows a letting go within the space and they find a pathway within that opens them up to experience their own unique healing. I often play my harp publicly in this way  and recently within the Psychological Ward at the Royal Hobart Hospital. I am always humbled to see the effect, if I played with a structured notation I know it would not have the ability to support people in letting go and opening up to their inner experience. Or to even somehow feel that inner ‘ahh’ couple of seconds as they walk by me as I busk in the street.

It has come to my understanding recently, as I have personally opened up to spiritual truths….that for many years as I struggled to have understanding of these spiritual truths in my own life, that there was no way that I could be given understanding, because these truths and parables are being taught with the logical sides of our brains in logical left brained forms of teaching. And it is from that same place within us we are trying to put the understanding into our lives.

We do not have the conscious understanding.

 It is not until somebody gives us a safe space, perhaps a little unpacking in our life circumstances again the letting go of the mind stance if we choose to do it verbally. Or perhaps within the above alternatives, there are many ways in which we experience an opening but usually with a letting go of the mind into an energy of truth, as these Universal Truths suddenly take on a life for ourselves. Those small or sometimes powerful shifts that have the ability to move us from perception to sometimes a life changing insight.

These Universal truths are for everybody not just the religious, or spiritual.  Whether experiencing severe mental illness, or maybe that insidious thought that say’s I’m OK, perhaps a little blind to the sometimes unhelpful limiting mental stances that we adopt in life. It is that need for the sense of structure, the rules, the internal and external that can give us a false sense of safety, the limiting beliefs, the strong stance of the mind that feels it needs its protective stance and keep us from experiencing that energy of truth that moves all levels of mental health to a place of wellness.

World religions acknowledge that music and colour are the embodiment of all religions. Perhaps it is regions and main stream therapy, for they go hand in hand that we need to incorporate a balance within the use of logical/abstract ways of teaching.