It’s Friday evening. The perfect time to pause and notice the beauty around you. Tonight’s tiny prompt: 👀 Look around your space. Find one object, one color, or one texture that feels calming or joyful. Draw it, photograph it, or just describe it in a sentence. Share it here if you’d like. We’ll celebrate the little things that make life feel more like art.

I hope everyone had a great weekend. Early blooming here in Seattle has my eyes 😍! Anything enchanting your eyes today?

Helpful for those who are having a difficult time shooting off worry in these uncertain times. If you have 45 minutes to spend on this, you will lower your cortisol and increase your dopamine and oxygen absorption. After you use these prompts, if you want to keep going use color, shape, line, magazine cutouts, words, phrases - anything goes! Art journaling helps us reduce worry and process our life experiences in a safe, comfortable way. It can help us reduce anxiety and self doubt because of the healing effect on the amygdala, which regulates emotions and creative thinking. Art journaling can be as playful or as serious as you'd like it to be. All you need is paper and simple supplies. Take a load off and lighten your heart. Unwind at the end the week or when you need some lighthearted self care. My heart's work is guiding people in personal liberation through tools of the mind and imagination. 🫟

My dear members, are recent events affecting you right now? Your imagination is powerful. It can calm your nervous system or quietly inflame it. 💬 If you feel comfortable sharing what is going on for you on this level, please comment below, and I'll give you any pointers I have. Many of us don’t realize how often we rehearse worst case scenarios. We visualize arguments that haven’t happened. We imagine collapse, rejection, disaster, WWIII. The body does not fully distinguish between a real threat and a vividly imagined one. Heart rate shifts. Muscles brace. Cortisol rises. Worry becomes a kind of low grade nightmare fantasy that keeps the nervous system on alert. Imagination is not the problem. It is a tool. When used intentionally, visualization can increase feelings of safety, agency, and connection. Athletes use it. Therapists use it. Artists use it. The nervous system responds to images of hope just as it responds to images of fear. Recently, many people were unexpectedly moved by the peaceful walk of monks in the streets. It felt out of left field for some Americans. Quiet. Gentle. Unified. And yet it stirred something. A reminder that peace can appear in surprising ways. So here is a small invitation. Pause. Close your eyes. What are you visualizing right now? If it is worry, gently set it down. Now imagine a united world moving toward something steady and kind. Picture something amazing coming out of left field. A gesture. A movement. A solution. Something that makes you feel safer than you did yesterday. Let your body register that image. Your imagination shapes your nervous system. Choose it wisely.

Welcome @Udibe Rana to this emerging community of creatives! ✨🎂💃🏻✨ If you have a moment, please introduce yourself to the group. I'd love to know about your life and what you love to do that is creative. It doesn't have to be art, it can be anything you create, from cooking to children, to decorating, to anything that is heartfelt.