DnArt

HRSG ART & MUSIC WORKSHOP

2010-12-05T00:37:00.000Z

~DnART~

2010-12-04T23:27:00.000Z

Living for the moment - Health News - NHS Choices

2010-11-14T08:46:00.000Z

Living for the moment - Health News - NHS Choices

PLAKIAS ~ Crete

2010-11-07T23:30:00.000Z

ADAM SHAW WalkINnovation

2010-11-02T22:44:00.000Z

I made a vid of Banksy~Where is the LOVE

2010-10-31T10:22:00.002Z

I made a vid for the ZZZZZZOOOOOO~

2010-10-28T00:33:00.002+01:00

Kilford themusicpainter

2010-10-27T03:30:00.000+01:00

WalkInnovation ~ by DnART

2010-08-14T13:08:00.012+01:00

WalkInnovation and my 15 Steps within ~

http://www.walkinnovation.com/

I started my walk with a few deep painful breaths but the clear intent to rid myself of the powerful negative thoughts I'd had about money for a very long time and how much money I have. I was thinking, through my confusing thoughts "I have no money" but that wasn't true at all, as I had loads of it, just it all seemed to go, far too quickly.

I was so scared about how I would be able to manage this month, although I had more than I usually do, it still wasn't enough to cover my debts and the pain of facing this, made me feel just awful. Worthless.............
It felt like it was, the end of the road. No escaping the truth and no way out of it.
Then I read the 15 Steps and with the loving support of an amazing kind friend I began to unravel my deep pain and my terrible confusion about money.

I wanted to experience grounding and it was just amazing how in my walk it fell into place.......perfect timing, perfect sights and I knew that this was just the first few steps in getting over a lifetime of my sadness about money.

I started to visualise this as soon as I left my house, the energy of the earth felt very good, I connected almost straight away and wondered as I walked if I maybe had an infection as I could feel waves flowing inside my body, sending energy up n down in shivers & tingles, almost like a fantastic meditation or even the powerful final coming of lovers.

Imagined the branches and tentacles' of the earth pulling & connecting me to the centre of the Earth's core..........this felt really well grounded and it felt so beautiful.

I knew where I was walking: to the park and taking action by trying to sort out my finances at the town hall on the other side of it.

I just wanted to forget about it all, I've been doing that for ages, but now there was the no forgetting and it was action or just me facing a complete utter devastation of me giving up on my life. There really was no more escape and I had to get over my fears and to learn to take action.

Walking these 15 Steps gave me the space to learn and my amazing friend also gave me such brillant support, helped me to take courage in taking just one small step at a time and to begin my journey, maybe it's one step, that I should have taken ages ago.

But I was taking it now and I guess everything just happens in its own perfect timing.

I wanted a small card with me so I knew what steps to take next, to be clear in my head which of the 15 Steps was next on my list, .........I thought it must be breathing, so still connecting and grounding I connected to this walk again also adding deep breaths.

Found it so hard and I soon realised I just don't breathe properly;

I think Adam Shaw http://www.walkinnovation.com/ had said......"on the count of 4, 1 breath in and counting 8 breathe out slowly", but that was very difficult for me to do. Managed to count 3 on in breath and then I tried to slowly release it on the count of 4 .........I clearly have a lot to learn just about breathing.

Made notes to me "learn to breathe "and then went back to the feeling of wonderful energy connecting and grounding. Now I could do this all day, as it felt so good.

At least I was good at that!

Finally at the park I was feeling very calm I forgot about my breathing and listened to the sound of it instead, this helped to focus me and also calmed my breaths down. I breathed in the damp smell of the trees and the Earth, everything seemed so still. The air was gentle in the rain and it was really amazing to see, hear and smell our beautiful Earth. Could feel my presence within it all............I was connecting with now....................beautifully.

Walked up a long stretch of path uphill and as I felt the lovely soft rain on my face I remembered my hair would frizz up, really thought it was funny that it bothered me! Here I am was all these problems and I think of my hair! Began thinking this all through and thought why can't I just accept who I am, with frizzy hair or without it!

Made more notes to be "gentle on myself and really try to be who I am" without the fear of the criticisms of others, but even that wasn't true, I was only criticising me!

No one else was here, it was raining the park was cold and empty and I couldn't see a stream of people waiting to criticise me anywhere!

I was doing a good job of that all by myself!
Found this so funny again and just walked on letting go of the negative thoughts about this.
I looked around. I was taking in the full beauty of life and nature. I remembered this was one of the 15 Steps and smiled.

I looked down on to the path and I saw a beautiful little acorn on the ground, sitting in front of me, it was so perfectly formed and it seemed so easy to associate it with me and my walk.

A tiny seed had been planted in me by using the 15 Steps and now I was walking, maybe bigger and stronger things could grow inside me, if I just let them grow ~

I could bury my thoughts again & again but they would always try to grow stronger........just like the tiny acorn. I had mighty oaks inside me .............in my fear about money.

Felt the need to ground again and it felt so good, I had walked nearly to the top of the path and I looked and saw another most amazing sight, a tree had a heart carved in to it with a large E and a small 2 next to it!

It almost made me cry, as I saw this as real symbol of the Earth's raw energy and that I just had to believe in it and trust in it. I have an Earth to Love or the Earth Loves me 2, I played around with a few lovely thoughts in my head.

I stood off the path, looking at the tree, gazing at it for a while, amazed by the visual sights in my walk.

I made further notes in my head to "learn to trust life, to just believe in the power of the earth" also "to learn to love myself within it".

Went to sit on a bench for a moment.........looked at dogs being walked, catching their eyes, dogs don't judge they just love, I started to smile at their owners, they all smiled back at me and we chatted a little.

I wondered why didn't I have a dog, they can give so much love. Turn around of these thoughts: I can give so much love, and I maybe I am open to feel my love.
But it didn't matter, I was feeling loved and it just felt so calm and I thought again about my breathing.......trying to slow it down and just feel it.

Enjoying the moment just as it was. Another smile in my working towards the 15 Steps.

I walked on further and knew that I was coming to the end of my walk, I was nearly there, it felt so scary but also good that I had taken the very first steps in helping myself sort out my money problems.

I have been living with this terrible crippling fear, paralysed in my thoughts about money, it's been hurting me inside for a very long time and although it's far from over, I'm so glad that I took the first steps in helping myself.

I have realised through this walk, that in life that some things just can't be changed but maybe I can learn to do them in a different way and that will help me to live without the fear and pain.

By taking action and walking I had shifted something inside me.........and I connected with a beautiful energy........ I will need to continue to take many others steps to overcome this dis-ease of money in my life but at least I took the first one today in the park.
I am no longer a victim in this and open to change.

I thought I would try and sum up the Art of Walk Innovation in a few words:

The Art of Walking~
Beautiful Amazing Energy~
Invigorating Us

Without Actors

Without a Stage

AND With only one Person in the Audience~
OneLoVE~

Thank you for taking the time to read this ~DnART

~maybe I finally am, Doing New ART~ after all :-)

PEACE
in
Yelllow~White~Blue
Acrylic on Canvas
2010

~Adam Shaw creator of WalkInnovation ~

~onelove~
x

~kilford the music painter~

~Sweat Your Prayers~

2010-07-25T22:16:00.000+01:00

~Gabrielle Roth~

Sweat Your Prayers

~Movement as Spiritual Practice~

I was given this book Sweat Your Prayers to read by a divine friend,who seems to have touched upon some of the mysteries of life,sharing ideas freely to promote a beautiful body n soul, creating a delicious freedom in his life.

He has also been dancing 5’Rs for over 15 years.

www.communicationandconflict.com/

It IS an awakening of the mind and body aligning creativity with the beautiful movement of life within each of us.

Gabrielle talks directly to your body creating feelings of empathy within your soul ~ enveloping waves of movement within the dances of our lives.

Beginning with the hatred of her body she talks with an openness and honesty that most would shy away from,within the first three pages her abortion is laid bare for us all to read.

My body has always been a source of pain and I had throughout my childhood conditioned myself into thinking these painful thoughts were true. I can identify also with the pain of her abortion: when I was 17, I remember desperately wanting the child within me to live but it was not to be ‘I lost my child sleeping on a dirty mattress in a squat in Harlesden’. Not through an abortion like her, my body rejected it, funny all these years later I remember they called it an abortion in hospital and I couldn’t understand it as it was a spontaneous act of my body, I felt kind of cheated as I really wanted this child to live within me.

The child was lost and so was I.

Reinforcing all my negative thoughts about my body/mind at the time, my attachment to this pain has long since faded and I have since been blessed with 4 beautiful children, who constantly amaze and delight me.

Thank goodness, Gabrielle Roth was able to dance n dance n just dance. Sharing her knowledge and understanding of the movement within us all ~ writing many books, CD's and creating workshops.

Teaching others to be teachers, the 5Rhythms is a deep study in how to reinvent the ideas, postures, steps, and patterns that make up our personal existence in a very creative and focused way.
All teachers continue their development by remaining active students of the work -- here the emphasis is not on being a teacher, but being a teaching, which is a life long process.

Listen to her talk on radio ~

Check out her amazing website ~

www.gabrielleroth.com/

She says in her book: Sweat Your Prayers: Movement as Spiritual Practice

“In this space of stuck, nothing flows together or moves in harmony. The body feels separate from the heart, the heart from the mind, and the mind from the body. Indeed you often think one thing, feel another and do a third, living in a state of perpetual contradiction”.

Reckon most of us could maybe identify with that.........we can all sometimes find communicating with ourselves and others extremely hard to express.Creating and storing conflict within us.

She has created a series of 5 Rhythm’s that we can express and develop our soul within, practice as our dance, awakening our spirituality within movement beautifully and in such a truthful way, I just adore the energy of it and this is just the beginning~

It consists of 5 R’s

1~ Flowing

2~Staccato

3~Chaos

4~Lyrical

5~Stillness

Listen to your soul ~ dance your being and enjoy this delightful spiritual practice~

Watch the video and you choose~guess none of us will know where the movement will take us in this life, until we move~

Read the books, take a class ~ 5rhythms-janebelshaw.com/id1.html

My 1st tiny steps of dance were at the class above in the London Buddhist Arts Centre in Bethnal Green with Jane Belshaw ~ then later I danced my 1st ever dance ~ Stillness ~ I was flowing in the excitment of finding I could move, dance n flow and also feeling the power of another dancer around me, it was breathtaking~coming to rest in who I am, my soul ~ I found it within me ~ letting go of who I'm not ~ Stillness indeed~

The Wave~Video

Egg Wave~Linda Kahn (editor) Sweat Your Prayers~Newleaf

Flowing~soft-boiled
Staccato~hard boiled
Chaos~scrambled
Lyrical~sunnyside up
Stillness~poached

Tree Wave ~ Jayne ~ I have created my own personal Tree Wave to understand and express what the 5 Rhythms mean to me~linking each wave to a picture of mine, using colour to connect to each Rhythm in turn~

~Flowing~~~~
my attention is on the
in-breath and following my feet, asking my body to follow in it's own fluidity~ like flowing, swirling circles of
~Manuka honey~

Staccato~

Is the gateway to my heart, communication using my feet, feeling the time n motion of a fast heartbeat~

Exploring angles and sharp percussive moves, connecting the outbreath to the thrust of my body~

Chaos~

I let go and feel that bass beat within my body, allowing myself to shake and inviting myself to let go.

Being totally free.

Intuitive and creative within the moments of chaotic ~movements~

Lyrical~

moving in the same breath as chaos

but without any effort ~

finding my own patterns, timeless.

Rhythms of fluid movement within my creative mind of self love ~ loving what IS!

~Stillness~

I'm moving in slow motion and gathering my energy inwards

a calmness~

a flow of stillness ~

a meditation in moves~ exploring the deepest part of my soul~

an understanding who I am ~

a peace within ~ me ~

As Gabrielle Roth, the founder of this work says~

"Put your body into motion and the psyche will heal itself".

Dreaming~01-01-10~

2010-01-01T23:48:00.042Z

The Adventures of Lulu by Louise.L.Hay

Today is a day of dreams for all ~
I welcome the New Year and all that it offers and know that life is all just how it should be.

It all started with a book brought in one day by a child, and she put it in her tray to keep it safe. I said it looked wonderful, but I said it without really looking at all. But it made her smile and it was left forgotten in her tray.Later outside I was asked if I would read the book, skies were grey, damp and cold but we sat down outside and I read.

As I started to read her book, others joined us and listened to the story, it was about Lulu and her wonderful adventures.
I read only Part 1, Lulu and the Ant: A message of love.

It starts with a little girl called Lulu who lives in a happy face house who has an open mind is willing to explore and loves learning new things. Her time is spent in her own imagination as she has a baby brother called Barry who takes up most of her parent’s time leaving her free to have many adventures.

She meets up with a strong red Ant but she is in his way.......they chat and she offers to help him move the big rock in the way, to help him build a city called “CincinnANTi”.
He is so pleased with her he asks for her to live with him being an Ant just like him and he teaches her a song that goes like this:

“You can be what you want to be, you can do what you want to do, you can be what you want to be, all of life supports you”

The clear cut colourful illustrations of the book are by J. J. Smith Moore, delightfully simple with a beautiful colour coded edge of stripes that runs throughout the book.
It would also make a fantastic film animation of colour to bring the message home to children visually and I would love to see and hear the characters moving and alive.

Back to the story: the children loved it and we were joined by more children who came to listen in the cold as they also loved this important little book!
We sang the song together and the story went on to explain that we are all different but we all have the power within us to be something different, as the Ant said :

“You can do what you want to do.
There’s nothing stopping you”.

He shows Lulu a little trick that’s starts in her mind, believing that she wants to be a ballerina she closes her eyes and just imagines that she is the most beautiful ballerina in the world......Lulu can finally see it and then changes her mind to be a horseback rider in the circus and finally a doctor. She can be whoever she wants to be!

Together they (Lulu and the Ant) played this wonderful imagination game.........I then stopped to look at the cover of the book as was taken back by the message of love and believing in oneself, I realised I knew the author's name and it was Louise. L . Hay with Dan Olmos; she is the little girl Lulu and must have more than played the game of believing in herself in her lifetime!

She has written countless books/audios/CDs/DVDs all with a messages of hope~check out these web-sites.
louiselhay.com
HealYourLife.com

The Adventures of Lulu is a special book that can be read to children but also to remind adults of the child within them, and to learn and explore all of life and maybe look for the dreams within.

By now our story time outside was coming to an end, but it was perfect be outside, lots of room to dance and explore who the children wanted to be.

The child who brought the book in then stood up and told us all she wanted to be a ballerina just like Lulu, as she got up and everyone watched her dance around as the most beautiful ballerina in the world, they then took it in turns to announce who they also wanted to be, a rock star stood up next pounding her air guitar laughing and smiling and she rocked.

The children all went on to explain to me their great dreams and play the imagination game with such energy it was no longer cold and damp outside, it was an exciting place full of the incredible dreams of the children.

Which brings me back to now; who do you want to be?

The New Year 01-01-10 is here waiting for our dreams ~ I only hope adults and children can hear Louise. L Hay, her message and we all dare to play the imagination game.

The Adventures of Lulu ~ it a fantastic lesson for children and adults and the child within me wants to believe that life is supporting me.

I am so grateful for life, its ups and downs, the many the paths of dreams I have lived and yet to live and I can say I defiantly don’t want to be a ballerina at all ~

I just give thanks for all ~

I can’t wait to read them Part 2 Lulu and Willy the Duck : Learning Mirror Work!

Then Part 3 Lulu and the Dark : Conquering Fears, Mmmmmm I’m good at that!!!!!

The Adventures of Lulu...........teaches children to love themselves just as they are and also loving others as they are, it's ok to to be different and just believing in themselves, what a lovely book indeed ~

Hamleys of London Ltd
Louise Hay

What shall I now release from my life?
What or who no longer works for me?
What am I holding on to that holds me back?
What thoughts or beliefs belong to the old me?
How am I being unloving to myself?
Am I ready to let go?
What do I believe that really works for me?
What is going on in my life that is terrific and wonderful?
Where am I being very loving to myself?
Where am I most content?
Let me acknowledge myself for all the growth and change.
What do I want to bring to my life?
What do I want to create?
How do I want the next year to be?
Who do I want to bring into my world?
How do I want to look?
What image do I want to project?
How healthy do I want to be?
How prosperous do I want to feel?
How much love am I willing to experience?
What kind of world do I want to live in?
Where do I want my spirituality to go?

Affirm:

I know that where I am is the totality of possibilities . . . not just a few possibilities, but the totality of all creation.

I am not limited by statistics, medical opinions, time, or authorities.

I am one with the infinite wisdom and capabilities of the Universe itself.

All good is available to me, right here and right now.

All I have to do is to use the power of my thoughts to create that which I desire. I know that.

Now let me live it!

Tiger-Tiger, Is It True?

2009-12-12T01:22:00.025Z

Four Questions to Make You Smile Again or Not!

Tiger~Tiger,

is it True?

Is a story I have dreamed about, I've been wanting to read this book to children for a long time.

Self help books that capture the mind body and spirit are beautiful for adults and Byron Katie's books for adults are so amazing. I have never really understood why Bryon Katie hasn't targeted children before now to get to them before any damage may be done!

But it's finally here in beautiful colour and ready to be one of the most important books we can read to our children in 2010!

She has filled a learning gap in children's
development with this book but it does also need some kindess and time to support the questions that may arise in children after they have read it or in most cases looked at the wonderful pictures and had it read to them by family or carers.

It's about a colourful little tiger, which is beautifully illustrated by Hans Wilhelm with such wonderful expressions on Tiger's face, who thinks that his whole world is falling apart (this is the bit where the children feel for him) his parents don’t love him, his friends have abandoned him, and his life just seems so very unfair.

It goes on to describe these three events that make him feel so very lonely and sad.

This is the bit that I found it difficult with the arguing between parents, yes of course it happens but do 3/4 years olds need to be reminded of that! A best friend not playing with him, yes of course that also happens but we can teach them we are all friends and that they don't belong to us!

Anyway a wise green smiley Turtle asks him four questions, then it all changes and with the help of his friend Turtle he questions his thoughts and his life becomes wonderful again.

The best bit is when he realizes his thoughts about things are the cause of his pain and he can change those thoughts and be A Very Happy Bunny, Ooops I mean Tiger again.The children faces lit up at this bit and they really smiled ~ they were so happy for him.

They realize that all his problems are not caused by things but just by his thoughts about things.

Sounds good doesn't it, simple and stress free!

Yet children don't have this lasting association of painful thoughts like adults and giving them stressful situations to think about and identfying painful thoughts with them may not always be in their best interests.

Young children have such a wondeful natural ablility to move on, learning, forgiving and then look forward for the most fun possible.

Ofcourse things do go wrong but they don't dwell on them like adults!

But this is really a beautiful simple and very effective book that needs reading again and again to enjoy and understand it's true meaning and it helps us teach our children to let go of any negative thought's but we also need to be aware to support any questions that may arise because of it.

I am so happy that Byron Katie has written this book, I can't wait for the next book hopefully targeting the 11-15 age range.

As a very successful author, Byron Katie has at last taken a wonderful daring new step in Childrens Books that cannot fail to help parents and children alike.

I guess it was so easy to stick to her target audience, but this was one audience that has been shouting out and waiting for the wonderful kind gentle loving words of Byron Katie and it's finally here in this beautiful book~

Tiger,Tiger,

is it True?

Listen to the wonderful illustrator Hans Wilhelm talk about the book~

http://www.byronkatie.com/2009/11/hans_wilhelm_on_tiger_tiger.htm

Get to meet the lovely Byron Katie in London 2010~

July 24th 2010~Alternatives,St James, Piccadilly, London.

http://www.alternatives.org.uk

Shakespeare's Sonnet 18: Shall I Compare Thee To A Summer's Day?

2009-12-06T22:19:00.006Z

Wow! What a journey this is and my 1st post! ~

Sometimes life just flows on by till it hits you just how beautiful IT is.

You stop and look and absorb the moment.

Sitting on tube I glanced up at ads above the dirty windows and was transfixed by reading this, then I had to read it again and again, it's simply beautiful ~

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?

Thou art more lovely and more temperate:

Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,

And summer's lease hath all too short a date:

Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,

And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;

And every fair from fair sometime declines,

By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd;

But thy eternal summer shall not fade

Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest;

Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,

When in eternal lines to time thou growest:

So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,

So long lives this and this gives life to thee.