Neuroscience of Self-Expression
This beautiful read is courtesy of The AMAAAZING Kisma Reidling... Absolutely love her and her beautiful space. Definitely tap in. Also, this piece from her is a primary reason I am so passionate about creating, expressing, and using our voices. Creating and expressing is incredibly healing even when you just share it with yourself. For months, I did what I call Voice Expansion work where I just recorded myself singing melodies that came up for me naturally and I would play them back and found them incredibly healing for me. Definitely Check out this piece and Kisma's space: 👉https://www.skool.com/visionary-artist-path-4738/about?ref=881fe66dfbae42618d0167880c717f64 The Neuroscience of Self-Expression: Why the Brush Knows Before We Do Breaking NEWS from the Stardust Lineage: I want to speak to you about something I am so passionate about — the neuroscience of self-expression. It comes from my root system, because I come from the Stardust Lineage, and we are creative, spiritual, magical women who pass tools of Intentional Creativity from hand to hand and heart to heart. This isn’t a woo-woo idea, and neither is it entirely scientific. It’s a hybrid. Sometimes the brush knows before we know what’s actually going to happen. I want to tell you about a researcher at Drexel University who has spent a decade strapping near-infrared sensors onto people’s foreheads and watching what happens when the human brain is firing and wiring the moment the paintbrush touches the paper or the canvas. Do you know how long I’ve wanted to do this? Her name is Girija Kaimal — Wow. I would love to have a cup of tea with her. Of course, she doesn’t know me. She probably will at some point, because I’m going to reach out. And she’s probably never heard the words medicine painting — one of the terms we use for our work, because it’s an approach to painting that’s healing. Her data has been confirming what the women in our lineage have known since the 1930s. Self-expression is healing. Painting for us is a spiritual practice. It is not just a hobby. It is literally a neurological event. And guess what? When you paint with intention, the event begins before the brush ever touches the canvas. If you’ve worked with me, you know I talk about this all the time as energy equals matter at the speed of light — your energy as thought, expressed through your physical body, the equal sign, manifests matter at the speed of light on the canvas. Are you kidding me? Yes. The neurological awakening of what’s going to happen happens before the brush touches the material.