creativity
Express Your Art and Change Your World!
If the artist in you is ready to be expressive this video is going to make your day! I have opened up some awesome INTRO coaching spots. If this resonates book 15 minutes with me to see if we are a perfect fit to work together!
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– Is there a creative person inside of you knocking on the door trying to get out?
– Or maybe you have been creative in the past and you’ve started many projects but rarely finish them?
– Perhaps you create art and wouldn’t dare call yourself an artist yet something tells you that if you did it would change everything?
If any of this rings true for you then watch my video.
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Namaste,
Wendy
Art Opens the heART for more ART
The creation of art puts you in your divine flow. Creating in your divine flow is living in your heart. How to get in your heART now? Put pen, pencil or marker to paper and MOVE it across the page. Keep it going and flowing. Voila! You are drawing! Close your eyes if you don’t want to look at first. Then open your eyes and keep drawing. That is art. There is no wrong or right way. When you create art it naturally opens you to your creative flow. Love your art-filled life!!
Courage to Create Art Lives Deep Inside
The courage to create art already lives inside of you. It is your job to get in touch with it and to CLAIM it. You have everything it takes to be creative in the world. Reach in and grab it and hold onto it. It is yours now! I was not always so courageous when it came to my art. Once I finally had the courage to create art it took me years and years to even begin to think about sharing it! So, YOU are the well of courage. Be artful, share your art and open the doors to your creativity. Yes!
Art is Massage for the Spirit
There was a time when we considered massage for the body a luxury. As a previous corporate ergonomic consultant I observed how healing massage was for my clients who were in physical pain as much as I noticed how it helped me. Massage has been upgraded in the mainstream world to be a necessity to let go of aches and pains and increase range of motion.
What if art could heal the emotional pain? What if art in all its forms is why we are all here?
I believe that “Art is Massage for the Spirit.” Honor the artist in you by bringing it out into the world and be a part of healing the world through art!
Owning I’m an Artist Video
I produced this video the other day about owning the fact that I am an artist. It has been many levels of owning this truth about myself! If you are an artist and especially if you are in the process of owning this truth about yourself or if you have some inklings it may touch you in some way. And I make no apology about showing a bit of unexpected emotion 🙂
Standing Inside an Energetic Mandala
Friday evening I was leaving my house to attend a friend’s party. A number of my mandala drawings were in the car and I was about to bring them inside my house when I received a hunch that someone may want to look at them.
At the party I met a very kind and outgoing woman named Niecy. She wanted to know what I do so I told her that I had just created a mandala eColoring Book and when she was really excited to know more I told her that some of the drawings were in the car and I asked if she wanted to see them. She said yes.
So I brought them in and she and a couple of others gathered around and looked at them. I was very proud to show them and was equally excited that they loved them. It is the first time I have openly showed my artwork and felt very comfortable doing so.
Niecy immediately told me that she is the person who I was “being guided” to show my mandala drawings to.
Then she shared that I am channeling my artwork and asked me if I realized that. I told her that I really had not thought about it in that way and that I just sit quietly and allow the image to come into my mind and then I draw.That my friends is what creativity is all about … going with the flow and expanding into it deeper and higher!
Sometimes I start it one way and it transforms into something completely surprising to me.
Then she told me that I am channeling artwork from the 8th dimension. I was like “Wow! That’s cool!”
(The next day I saw a shaman friend of mine at Whole Foods and told her the story and she said that creativity comes from the 8th dimension and that when we want to tap into our creativity we want to “bring” the 8th dimension energy down! I think that is what I naturally do and now I can do it with intention and purpose!)
Then all of a sudden Niecy asked if she could put her hand on my forehead. I had no idea why. She immediately removed her hand and said she could feel all sorts of pulsing that I was not aware of in that moment.
My body began to vibrate! My friend Christy Love with Feed Your Chakras was there and she immediately knew to take my left hand to help ground me. Niecy asked the other person there to move to my right and take my hand to ground me there. It only took a minute or two before Niecy said I was grounded.
Niecy told me that she opened my 3rd eye! It was so quick and I was obviously ready to receive this transformational experience. She told me to pay attention to my lucid dreaming and other things that may be showing up.
Soon after I went outside in the backyard where there was a burning bowl (fire) going for people to let go of old behaviors, ideas, etc. I took a large stick to move some of the larger logs and bring some oxygen into the fire and Joseph Zenner took a picture of me. In fact he was so amazed at what he was seeing that he took two more pictures!
If you look closely you will see that I am “standing in the middle of the “energetic” mandala and that you can see four petals starting from the top down!!”
To the left is the center of the mandala and you can see the right side of the ball of light and you can see a thinner lining of light around that. And then on the right you can see the formation of flower petals!!!
Look starting from the top and you will see how the top one overlaps with the middle petal. You can only barely see how the middle petal overlaps with the bottom because of the fire and I am standing in the area where the left bottom petal overlaps with the other petal.
Oh and there were no lights anywhere around in the background that would create this effect. That is one of the things that Joseph made sure I could see!
And see how the light from my pineal gland – 3rd eye – is shining through to my nose from the back of the my head where the pineal gland is physically located. So cool!
So when Joseph showed me the pictures I grabbed his camera (with his permission of course!) and ran into the house to show Niecy. She told me that it is just one of the miracles of my 3rd eye being opened and a gift I am bringing into 2012.
It is my first real experience with really seeing something like this and I am still really understanding it! I fully accept the gift and the miracle of this and I know that more information is coming to me about this experience and I am totally sure that I am opening myself up to understand much more about this universe!
That was such a confirmation to me about my guidance to create mandalas as one of my very first art projects of my art career! What will be pretty cool too will be when I can see the mandala all around me!
If you are interested you can read more about Wendalas Mandalas eColoring Book here!
love
Wendy
Inner Peace with Mandalas
Happy New Year to you! May 2012 bring you many joy-filled and transformational experiences!
I know there is a lot going on all around us and yet it is still possible to experience joy and inner peace … yes … even when there is much to be resolved.
In fact that is the most important time to find inner peace so that resolution CAN occur.
As a right-brained, creative entrepreneur in left-brained businesses for most of my adult life I can tell you stories!!
In 2003 when a huge (well it was huge to me) ergonomic consulting contract was unraveling with a multibillion dollar oil company I was in deep turmoil.
I knew it was the beginning of finding myself only I had no idea what that was going to entail.
One of the things I did to soothe myself was meditate with and color mandalas.
http://wendygyoung.com/mandalas/
I used to wonder how spending time coloring and meditating on mandalas was going to help me because I had no clue about anything in my life at that time.
I was hurting tremendously (wow, as I write this my eyes are watering) and I found mandalas to relax and calm me.
Did they solve all my problems and were they the answer to all my worries?
No, but the biggest thing they did for me was to calm me down in the moment and give me hope and a clear mind so that I could make new choices about my life.
As I look back I can see how they did play a role in who I have become today.
Every shift I can claim for myself whether it was from a walk around the park, a bubble bath or coloring mandalas is a shift in the right direction.
So I invite you to color along with me and bring some peace, harmony and creativity into your day. http://wendygyoung.com/mandalas
With Love Wendy
PS. My mandala drawings are channeled via my guides. In fact as I am drawing and immersed in taking other actions with this project I feel a tingling sensation in my back. I have been told that I my spirit guides are here with me 😉 … More on that experience later!
PSS. I would really love to reach more people this year. Would you please share with your friends, family and your social media networks? Thank you!
http://wendygyoung.com/mandalas
Happy Awakening Consciousness Year
I love how my new year is beginning. How about you?
Several days ago I completed my first art project since owning the fact that I am an artist. I have so much to say about this topic in coming blog posts.
Right now I will say that I finally understand what it means to come from my core and let everything else flow from there. Last year someone who I admire said that and I had to really think.
I admit that I have lived an entire life not owning who I am … an artist. And this past year I have been embodying this information. Sometimes it feels like one big joke on ME. I mean …really … how could I not know I was an artist anyway?
(That is a story I will be sharing because I am pretty clear that it is a similar story for many other people as well who, like me, were shut down at an early age from being who they truly are. And now I am shedding some tears. Ah, yes…more and more getting to the core of how I am…shedding the layers of who I am not to get to who I am!)
So, there is art on my walls from a short stint of painting about 20 years ago. Then several years ago I was too lazy to take out all the paints and get into the production on messy painting so I bought a set of colored, charcoal pencils and created art that way.
My art is always colorful. That is just the way I flow….the way I see and love to see the world.
In the past it took me a long time to love and appreciate my art and now it is instant. I have come a long, long way!
In 2011 I created a cartoon series which I am still in the process of perfecting and my most recent art project is my “Wendalas Mandalas eColoring Book.”
I love drawing. Always have. I dreamed a lifetime of wanting to be an artist only discover that the reason I wanted it is because I already am one!
What a magical year 2011 was discovering so many deep and wonderful secrets about myself. And I know that 2012 is going to be the best and I am so excited to embark on this journey.
I have many surprises to share with you about being courageous, inspired and creative and all under the umbrella of fun! I see that being courageous has been one of my biggest lessons.
It has been very scary to step out and be vulnerable with my art and I have learned so many things along the way. If you feel inspired I would love for you to take this journey with me!
Be in touch soon!
And again … Happy Awakening Consciousness Year!
Love
Wendy
Stepping Into My Divine Inspiration Niche
So here I sit on the edge of my seat … literally … and I am “listening.”
I’ve had inklings about my niche of “divine inspiration” for a while now. I launched a program in 2009 called “Birth Your Idea.” I was so scared about stepping into it that I did not market it for long. Then months later I had the idea of marketing a program called “Reconnecting to Your Genius” and through inspiration I created even more content.
But I never launched this program because I was too darned fearful. That was two programs guiding people to get in touch with their inspiration and creating and manifesting from that.
So my inspiration was guiding me to coach others how I do what I do this “thing” that I have always called my greatest gift and my biggest nemesis! For over two decades I have been saying this and it took this entire past year to accept it is time to share it with others!
I’ve been creating products … the physical “hold it in your hand” kind of products since the early nineties. I created an ergonomic product in 1992 to raise the computer monitor up to stop neck pain and a series of other products. It was 2003 when I first had the inspiration to write my ergonomics eBook and soon after began creating all kinds of audio products. And now a DVD and spiritual technologies. And art prints and t-shirts and more! It is PLAY for me!
I never really questioned this gift. I kept taking the logical actions to bring them to life when it was appropriate. My biggest challenge over the years was how to handle the CONSTANT flow of ideas to me. It happens time after time … while in the middle of one project the ideas start to flow about another one. So I have learned that I must capture this information as it is coming in otherwise it will just fly away!
At one point over 20 years ago it was so overwhelming to me that I asked the ideas to stop so that I could quiet my mind and they did. I did not know how to harness the energy of these ideas and it drove me nuts! A few years later they all came back and ever since I have been perfecting how I do what I do!
And it is not as if I can always just write the idea down real quick and be done with it. Sometimes it is an entire download and I just allow it to come in. That is how I have learned to honor my gift. It has taken me years and years … well decades … to learn how to discern what to work on.
There is not enough time in the day to take action on every idea that comes in. Many of my ideas are for others whether they have asked me for them or not and I only offer my ideas when I am guided to. So most often I just let it go. I have often joked about requiring a team to literally follow me around to record and organize all my notes and ideas and to take action on them as I have instructed.
When I have teams in place this discernment is even more important so the passion continues and we are productive and getting !
Over the years I have been told that I am always doing something new and exciting. I did not look at it that way. I was just doing my thing. Friends I have not seen in a while would want me to immediately fill them in. Just last year someone I knew over 20 years ago told me that he remembered this about me … and we did not even hang out … he was dating a friend!
That really made me think since I had been pondering the bigger picture for months. When I owned my ergonomic business it was obvious what my niche and purpose was. So that is when I started to take a closer look.
I hired Andrea Hess for a reading since that is one of her specialties. Almost immediately she told me that my niche is divine inspiration. Why was I was not surprised?!! Just I never thought about coaching others how to do this because it is so easy for me.
And that was the challenge all these months!! I kept asking myself “Who would want to hire me?” “Why would someone benefit from my coaching in this area.”
I did not necessarily actually ask these questions but these were the feelings, the sentiments I had. It has been very difficult to wrap my mind around this. As I began sharing with others they would say “You mean you can learn that” or “I wish I was inspired.”
It has taken a lot for me to get this far. It is a lot to step into sharing your gift with the world especially when the world could use a lot of divine inspiration. The fear that I have felt has been intense and at the same time difficult to put my hand on.
I did have the courage to develop a series last year called “Open to Divine Inspiration” and I loved creating it and presenting it.
And now I am so excited to announce that I am leading a 6 month coaching program starting in February called “Living in Divine Inspiration to Consciously Create Your Most Fulfilling Life with Passion, Joy and Ease.”
I chose a 6 month program to give everyone an opportunity to open and create. A lot can change in this amount of time. Just one inspiration and inspired action changes lives. This is how I have lived my life and where major portions of my income have come from in the last 20+ years.
And this can be learned. That is what “Living in Divine Inspiration” is all about. Look for an announcement for the free teleclasses I will be leading beginning next week. If you want to be on the list to attend this free teleclass series then register here –> http://www.wendygyoung.com.
Love and Inspiration!
Wendy
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