Seeing the wood for the trees
🖼️ I did this painting when I was about 16. It came to me in a dawn dream last week, a tender proffer from my unconscious.
🎨 At that time I was doing a project relating to my youngest sister who was 6. Through drawings, paintings & photography I was trying to portray things from a child's eye view. I found myself doing drawings under the kitchen table and in the undergrowth of our garden. Today it brings to mind the idiom: "can't see the wood for the trees". I think its details came out of my imagination & watercolour play as much as observation.
🌪️ I am so glad for all the younger 'me's that have given drawing and frankly any new thing a go. I've experience great fluctuations of what's required to 'get on with stuff' - energy, discernment, courage, self-esteem, to name a few ingredients. "Sorting the wheat from the chaff" has not historically been a strong suit. I mention this because one big benefit of Craniosacral Therapy that I, and many others, can attest to is its ability to help find calm. The skillful relational touch that a biodynamic craniosacral therapist offers can support us to physiologically & proverbially still our waters, let the mud settle and 'bathe' in the light & clarity this allows in.
💡 Clients often sit up at the end of a session and describe how their state has altered, how their body feels wholly different from when they walked in the room and lay down. Sometimes a completely new & unexpected perspective on something they'd felt stuck on comes to them during or just after their session.
🍃 It's difficult to measure the significance of these changes in body, mind & spirit. They are deeply subjective & personal. I mention them here in case you are longing for a safe space to explore being present in your body with greater acceptance, ease & compassion.
