Student Example: Chelsea Painting (Part 2)

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Healing with the Arts

109 calificaciones

University of Florida

Healing with the Arts

109 calificaciones

Through art projects—including visual arts, dance, writing, and music—along with spiritual practices and guided imagery, Healing With the Arts gives you the tools to heal what you need to heal in your life: physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual.

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Course Introduction

This week will give you an overview of the course, an introduction to your guides, a get-started kit, and space to do art.

Finding Your Essence Guided Imagery5:48

Student Exemple: Chelsea Painting (Part 1)2:42

Student Example: Chelsea Painting (Part 2)3:28

Student Example: Chelsea Painting (Part 3)3:47

Conoce a los instructores

Mary Rockwood Lane, PhD, RN, FAAN
Associate Professor
College of Nursing
Michael Samuels, MD

So in the second part of Finding your Essence piece,

the book asks us to to sit with ourself and

think about what is holding us back from getting to our essence.

What is a barrier or

what are barriers that we are experiencing that are keeping us from our essence?

And so I honestly had a really hard time just sitting there in that moment.

I couldn't figure out what I needed to put, what I should put.

And then, I just started thinking should.

What am I telling myself I'm supposed to be doing?

And then, I realize that's it, all of these shoulds.

I should be working this way or

I should be saving this much money or etc.

Those are all shoulds and those are things that I realize have kind of kept me from

being in my natural essence, whether it's like pressures from myself or

pressures from society or my school, my job, whatever it is.

I just labeled it as shoulds.

And so even putting that onto the canvas was hard, because I still felt pressured.

I was like, how do I put that?

How can I show?

What should I do?

What should I do?

And so in the end, I actually accidentally dropped some brown for the s at first.

At first I'm like, God.

Well, now I guess I'm doing it.

So I kind of just let myself do what I was thinking.

And I kind of got out of my head space and

I just put it onto the paper, onto the canvas.

And so, as you can see, it's kind of awkward and

it's smushed because it's pressured.

And then somehow magically, I was thinking I need to find a balance between

financial shoulds and obligations and time and everything shoulds.

And so as it turns out, the word should has an o, which was perfect for

my little idea for a clock.

And I put so many different like little arms in the clock,

hands, sorry, of where I'm supposed to be, what am I supposed to do,

how much time do I have until I have to do this, and basically that pressure.

And then as it turns out, there's an s.

There's two Ss.

And so I put a money sign there for just financial stress.

And that's kind of a big thing in my life right now,

as I'm finished my graduate program and I'm looking for a job.

Those shoulds are really loud in my mental space right now.

And then this red is like, although it seems gory, it represents like

blood that is just draining me, that I'm losing my energy by all these shoulds.

Because they're just so heavy and squeezed and

pressured that I get caught up in this and I forget about my essence.

And so these are definitely barriers right now for me that I'm thankful to be aware

of from this exercise and kind of putting it onto the canvas was like cathartic.

Because just let it come out there instead of trying

to plan how I should be putting it.

So yeah and now I'll show you.

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