Journeys Into Enlightenment with Janet Podcast Episode 20 Blog
BEing is Performance Artistry
Many
of us might not think this way but we each truly are performance artists. Our
lives are an expression of Being. So, let’s consider the elements in expressing
our art in terms that any great artist in any creative endeavor comes to know,
as our guide.
Sheryl
Hirsch-Kramer, my guest this episode suggests this with her students: Access
the avenue of where the art is already done. Simply a matter of then
expressing. Sounds like being present in Heart Centered Awareness to me. We
will start there.
If
you have never considered yourself an artist of being, no problem. Just let
yourself be present. Take your next breath through your heart and let a re-tuning and refining in your integrity of Self and Consciousness. Right in
this moment, you are experiencing the art of being alive.
You,
by simply breathing are expressing who you really are. Whether you are
aware of it or not, you already are.
There
is that place where one is learning and the difference one feels where the
medium meets the innate physical ability and the eye and internal says yes,
this is my truth. Artists learn about their medium of choice, be it singing, writing,
painting, numbers, people, etc. They navigate with developing skill sets and
then reach maturity in the expression.
Any
final piece is a marriage of inner and outer vision and intent and
accomplishment. It will be an ongoing state of taking in information and
awareness to express with its ebbs and flows of moments. Artists create a body
of work. They will go through different periods.Sounds like living a life.
Great
artists appreciate:
Judgment
is fluid. No judgement, being the best you can be, is fluid.
No
pressure to conform.
We spend much energy in trying to meet others’ ideals that seem to have become
our ideals. They are not.
Thinking outside of the box. Realizing that you have a box is important in order to not be defined by it.
Take
new approaches. Embrace change.
Being
fearless.
Putting into action what is your truth no matter your own reluctance, the
environment or the prevailing opinion.
It
is innate, this ability to express oneself, in some way. Everyone around you is
expressing their awareness in being alive.
Just
breathe into the awareness that YOU are a work of art. A unique living
breathing work of art. You are Essence in human dynamic form. Sometimes we can
get nervous about how we come off to another. That’s okay. Let it be
excitement.
Like
any great work of art, we are invited to look beneath the surface or into what
is showing. We can see into the illusion of the moment and find different
moments in play. We see and feel dimensions when what we are looking at may only be a flat
surface.
See another as the work of art that they truly are. Feel this planet as unique work of living art that it is. Treat both with respect.
Janet Barrett
Podcast host Journeys Into Enlightenment with Janet
