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DAILY PRACTICE

Can art become your companion? 

Try these creative practices to reconnect with yourself and find out.

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THE EVERY DAY CREATIVE BEING

​​Looking for simple ways to improve your everyday wellbeing? A moment of creative solace can help you notice what you need and make room for meaningful change.

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Download this short creative companion for simple practices that help you slow down, tune into your experience, explore your thoughts and feelings, and bring more creativity into your everyday life.

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​Included: short journaling exercises, simple art prompts & reflection questions. 

Sometimes it helps to talk things through.
I'd love to hear what brought you here and help you explore where you'd like to go.

Try One of These Creative Pauses

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Noticing Pause

Interrupts autopilot, reconnect with this moment.

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  1. If you've landed here, pause what you're doing. 

  2. Notice three things you can see. 

  3. Bring your attention to your feet, hands, shoulders, face, or wherever you naturally notice sensation.

  4. Scan for a sense of warmth, coolness, tension, trembling, ticking?

  5. Realize that you are breathing. Watch how that moves you.

  6. Ask yourself: What is my body asking for right now, if anything?

  7. Notice how you feel about returning to whatever you were doing, or if  you're drawn to make a shift.​

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Colors, Sounds & Moves

Explore your present state through movement, sensation, and imagination.

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  1. Bring your attention to how you're feeling right now. Try not to change it.  

  2. If this current moment had a color, or sound what would it be?

  3. Find that color or sound in your body. Where do you notice it? Your chest, stomach, shoulders, hands, legs, or somewhere else?

  4. Imagine that this color or sound could move in your body. How would it move (e.g. flowing, pulsing, swirling, pressing)?

  5. Without forcing anything, allow yourself to respond with a small movement (e.g. a shoulder roll, a shift in posture, a stomp of the foot)

  6. Explore a change. What happens if you make the movement bigger, smaller, slower, or softer? What if you get up and move?

  7. Allow yourself to explore movement. Then return to stillness and notice. 

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Moving Pause

Experiment with spontaneity, and freedom from expectations.

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  1. Find a little space. You can stand, sit, or remain wherever you are. You don't need much room.

  2. Let one part of your body move without deciding what it should look like (e.g. your fingers, wrists, shoulders, head, or feet.

  3. Follow the movement. Where does it want to go next? Let another part of your body join in if that feels comfortable.

  4. Try changing the pace (e.g. moving slowly, quickly, gently, or with more energy). Notice what feels natural and what feels unfamiliar.

  5. Try doing something different from your usual movements (e.g. change direction, change your posture, pause in the middle of a movement).

  6. Allow yourself to come to stillness. Feel what's going on in your body. 

  7. Close your eyes and imagine that your current body sensations turn to colors or sounds. What are the colors/sounds?​

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