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1.Write Your Pain a Letter- In your art journal invite your "pain"to write you a letter. If you are having trouble finding a voice foryour pain you might first want to personify it with an image or acollage. Take some time to center into your pain and ask it to help

you choose your images.

2.Collage Your Values- Defining our values helps us makeconscious choices and determines the intensity and flow of ourpsychological energies. If we do not define our highest values wewill be caught living from our habitual conditioned thinking andemotional patterns.

3.Collage Your Appreciation- Our everyday mind constantlydemands that life make us happy in this way and that. Thisdissatisfaction is the place from where all of our unecessary doingcomes from. From this place of demands we create false ideasabout what would make us happy - and all the seeminglynecessary tasks to go along with those false needs.

4.Draw and Collage Your Inner Critic- Underneath the critic'svoice is a fear of feeling shame and of feeling not good enough.

Our entire society is based on perfectionism, on having the rightthings, on looking good. To give ourselves the permission to behuman and to know we are doing our best given our currentemotional circumstances and life situation helps our inner critic torelax.

5.Moving Through Stuck Feelings with Journaling- On anygiven day we are all likely to have half a dozen problems thatkeep us stuck inside. Ask yourself. "What is bugging me?" Why

don't I feel wonderful right now?" "How is my life going?" "What isthe main thing for me right now?"

6.Journal Meditation for Increasing Self-Love- When we donot have the feeling tone of self-love within we are forever lookingon the outside of ourselves for love.

7.Collage Your Emotional Setpoint- It is challenging butpossible to change our emotional set point. We all have varyingdegrees of happiness, self-love and self-regard that our
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"normal". Our "normal" is usually similar to the emotional climatethat we grew up in.

8.Dialogue Ballon Collage- Consider that we intuitively choose

characters that represent different parts of our psyche. Forinstance we have many inner children, teen, and adult parts of ourpsyche that represent where we have frozen emotions and non-integrated life experiences.

9.Journal Your Blocks to Success- It common to try reallyhard and not be successful with our efforts. We can often feel likewe are on a treadmill that is getting no results. To be successful inany area you need to want with all of your heart.

10.Gestural Pastel- When you are finished your gestural pasteldrawing, meditate on it for five minutes. Allow yourself to freeassociate and allow subconscious feelings and memories to ariseas you gaze at your drawing with soft eyes.

11.Found Poetry Collage- It is intriguing to use old books forcollage. I often buy old art and nature books and old novels inlibraries and thrift shops. I even search new books stores forbargain picture books to cut up.

12.Collage Who You Admire- Often we have positive qualities

hidden within that are longing to emerge into our life. When wedisown our heightened possibilities we most often find them in ourintense admiration of other people. It is interesting to find animage of someone you admire and contemplate why.

13.Word Collage- It is often quite revealing to randomly choosewords and phrases to spontaneously collage. Prepare a free-formcolored background for your word collage, using pastels orwatercolor paint.
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14.Expressive Pastel- When I was in my thirties, I startedteaching expressive art groups to seniors. I was gifted with a trueartist in my class. She was in her early 90's and her name wasTru! She had dementia and she had forgotten that she was an

artist. Yet when I gave her a box of fresh pastels and an inspiringstill life to look at she would begin to draw furiously andpassionately.

15.Collage a Mandala- Because mandalas are a contemplativeform of making art you can ask yourself a question aboutsomething that you want to know about your life. A good questionto ask before beginning is, "What do I most need in my life right

now?"

16.Intuitive Doodling- Doodling can be taken to an eloquentlevel of personal expression and is a good activity to do when youfeel emotions that you cannot put words to. Sometimes drawnsymbols can express and encompass a feeling more completelythan thoughts.

17.Expressive Self-Portrait- It is intriguing to create an

expressive self-portrait that focuses more on your inner state thanyour outer appearance. This expressive art exercise is good whenyou feel like one stage of your life is ending and you do not yetknow where you are going. Reflect on the question. "Who am Iright now?" Or you might ask, "Who am I becoming?"

18.Intuitive Watercolor- The medium of watercolor isspontaneous by nature and is well suited for intuitive painting.Watercolour behaves in an fresh and translucent way that is

different than other paint mediums that can be changed or paintedover. Watercolor - by the nature of the medium is a practice inallowing what needs to happen - happen.

19.Collage Your Stillness- It is so challenging to be still, andyet a quiet mind is essential to any kind of real creative growth.There is a loud frantic quality to our busy minds that masks thesubtlety of the information that wants to come through. Spending

time in silence is a deeply creative thing to do as it allows
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wholeness to speak instead of just our fragmented mentalchatter.

20.Fabric Assemblage- It is rare that we take the time to spend

a few quiet hours to simply play with color, pattern and texturewith no pre-designed end product in mind. Focusing on a simplespontaneous assemblage can invite a relaxed awareness on thesimple tasks of arranging intuitive compostions, working withcolor, juxtaposing textures, playing with interesting objects, andsewing with a needle and thread.

21.Paint a Tree Spontaneously- A blank page can be dauntingfor most people. Often at the beginning of a class, I will offer astarting point. You could start with a simple shape such as circle,or sense within for a figurative image that wants to be painted. Ifnothing arises from your imagination, intuitively painting a tree

can be a good place to begin.

22.Warm Up: Paint Spontaneous Circles- If you haveforgotten how to paint spontaneously, start with simple shapes,such as circles or squares. Concentrate on color, gesture and lineand allow yourself to practice painting in a loose, free way.Expressive art is an exercise in becoming fully ourselves. Even asimple painting can express individuality, feeling, and self-empowerment.

23.Resolving Fear Through Collage- Fear embeds itself intoour body musculature. Wherever there is a body blockage - thereis stored fear and a defensive strategy against love, growth andnew information. You can meditate into the tight and constrictedparts of your body with collage, and choose images that reflectyour fearful places.

24.Spontaneous Painting- Every human being has the deep

urge to express themselves honestly but we are not often
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encouraged to be our most unique selves. Spontaneous paintingrequires no special talent, skill or inspiration. Because yournatural, original style is already within, you are already goodenough to begin.

25.Explore Painting Simple Abstract Shapes- Sometimes lessis more, and simple abstract shapes can express the purity of asingular feeling that can get confused in a more detailed painting.

26.Collage Together Past Paintings and Drawings- You canstart to keep a stack of drawings and paintings that have not quitehit the truth of you. If there is even one element in your work thatfeels strong, save your paintings and drawings and cut out whatfeels intuitively eloquent of what you need to express.

27.Fine Art Collage- Art magazines offer a rich resource ofsoulful and surprising subject matter for collage. Fine art imageryinherently invites us to stretch the limits of our imagination.

28.Draw Your Essence- To take the time to focus in on whatour unique spiritual strength feels like can be something that we

reflexively avoid. All to often we can drown in feelings of lack,emotional need and loneliness. When we meditate on what ourspiritual strength feels like, we can practice making our soulstrength larger than our problems.

29.Meditate on Color- Intuitively feeling what colors you aredrawn to is the first step towards creating a spontaneouspainting. Sometimes simply and intuitively choosing colors is arelaxing and emotional releasing exercise in itself.

30.Collage Cards for Self-Discovery- We each have atreasure trove of sub-personalities that live below our consciousawareness. Each personality part has its own goals and dreamsfor our happiness.This often sets up inner conflicts within and wecan preoccupy our time with inner struggle between opposingparts of self. It is helpful to map out our inner world, so that wecan start to recognize what aspects of our psyche are dominatingour awareness at any given moment.
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31.Spontaneous Watercolor Drops- Watercolor is a freeflowing medium that is fun to splash around in. Paintingwatercolor drops is a practice of not forcing anything to happenwith your creativity.

32.Wet on Wet Freeform Watercolor- Our minds cannot reallythink about color. We can only feel color. Color is prior to the birthof imagery. In color we can steep in the mystery of our feelings.

And in spontaneous creativity, as in feeling, we must learn tosurrender control.

33.Mandala Coloring Therapy- Coloring pre-drawn mandalapatterns can be surprisingly soothing especially during times ofemotional distress. Psychotherapist Rudiger Dahlke - the "father"of the the mandala coloring epidemic - found that working within apredetermined framework promoted a sense of peace and inner

order.

34.Explore Feelings Through Intuitive Painting- Many intensefeelings cannot be put into words, yet painting into the unknown ofourselves opens up new possibilities of understanding whatunderlying feelings drive us to think and act the way we do. As we"live into" and express an unknown feeling, something new andcreatively fresh will come into our awareness. We will feeldifferent, more real. We will remember and recover who we were

before we became emotionally stuck.

35.Visual Journaling- We can all make signs, symbols, andmarks on paper that express our inner feeling states. In fact withvisual journaling - the simpler the better.

36.Active Imagination Journaling- Usually, if we wait instillness long enough, an inner image will want to come forwardand want to speak to us. This happens when we sleep and dream
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continue to repeat the same patterns of self-expression withoutknowing why.

42.Scribble Drawing- Florence Cane - the developer of the

scribble drawing - was influenced by the metaphysical teacherGeorge Gurdjieff, who coined the world essence as a term forthe intrinsic, unchanging authentic soul within each person. Caneused drawing and painting to help people find their essence. Shefelt that spontaneous art could take people beyond their driven,compensatory, and conditioned behaviors.

43.Healing Grief through Art and Journaling Therapy- Whenour unfinished grief is running our consciousness, we are seeingthrough the eyes of the age that we were when we stopped upour emotional release. We cannot heal grief when we are insideof the defensive emotional patterning of the child, teen, or youngadult that stores and avoids our grief.

44.Map of Consciousness Collage- It is possible to explore ourpersonality dynamics by mapping them out visually withspontaneous collage and drawing. More often than not, in a single

day, we can feel conflicted in our consciousness in severaldifferent ways.

45.Healing Traumatic Memories with Embodied Writing- Weall have a protective, survival self that protects us fromemotionally charged memories which may include fear,loneliness, overwhelm, powerlessness, lack of hope andperspective, fury, shame, disgust, or guilt.

46.Portal into Possibilities with Collage-As we heal our livesemotionally and psychologically, we progressively clear the wayto connect to the realm of larger possibilities. These possibilitiesand potentialities are actually around us all of the time, but we caneasily disassociate from seeing them clearly if we are strugglingwith emotional flooding, and the jumbled up thinking that resultsfrom inner psychological conflict.

47.Transforming Your Inner Brat- Every separate and split-offpart of our mind has creative gifts and strengths that can be
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tempered and included in relationship with others. Our inner bratfor example, knows what we want, and finds the drive to go andget it. Being defiant, it is often willing to deviate from the norm. Itis creative, and even innovative about getting its needs met. The

inner brat is young in spirit, sassy, and willing to say what it wantswith great irreverence.

48.Free Association Pastel Drawings- Free association helpsto surprise us out of our familiar preference for maintaining thestatus quo. Freud wrote, "Where there is a creative mind - reason- so it seems to me - relaxes its watch upon the gates, and theideas rush in pell-mell."

49.Intuitive Zendoodle- Intense concentration can invoke thedeep pleasure of a still and integrated mind, where all conflicts,worries, and inner struggles disappear for time. Zendoodlingcould be considered a form of concentration meditation akin toformal sitting meditation in the Zen Buddhist tradition.

50.Unburdening the Past with Expressive Art Therapy- Ourentire psychology is built on defending away from emotional pain.

So it could be said that our fundamental core conflict is to whetheror not we will choose to feel what is difficult within and transformit.

51.Journal Process for Healing "Inner Demons"- We treatwhat is uncomfortable within as the enemy to be kept at bay at allcosts, but what if we befriended our shadow parts of self?

52.Journaling Through Emotional Overwhelm - Stream ofConsciousness Writing- When we practice stream ofconsciousness writing, our present moment awareness canexpand our contracted emotional field. We can gather thestrength that is only available through present moment attention
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to bodily sensation. We can do this writing exercise to give ourtumultuous emotions and mental states a break.

53.Exploring Mixed Feelings Through Embodied

Storytelling- Because our psyche functions in pairs of opposites,it is no surprise that we tend to get caught in inner conflict andpolarization much of the time. When we have mixed feelings webecome stuck and exhausted. We cannot move forward. Thepurpose of not picking sides during an inner conflict is to see whatnew creative solutions arise by sitting in the middle and listeningto both sides equally.

54.A Journal Process for Healing Negative Core Beliefs- Inessence, all of the negative voices that plague us are resistedexperiences. Negative core beliefs gain their foothold through ourresistance of them. When we internalize negative suggestions orinterpret events negatively as children, we spend our life energyconstantly working against them.

55.Understanding Physical Illness - Journaling with YourNon-Dominant Hand- Dialoguing with both hands, over time,

deepens our understanding of the thought and emotional systemsof younger parts of self which are influencing our direction awayfrom good health.

56.An Emotional Approach to Healing Illness - A Paintingand Journaling Meditation-There is an emotional componentthat accompanies every illness that can be listened to and learnedfrom. Transpersonally speaking, the separate self uses illness toexpress problems, and to identify itself as a separate self that

suffers from emotional wounds that have not healed yet.

57.Create a Mandala for Healing- We can approach themandala making process as a way to activate the latent healingpowers of our mind to generate symbols for healing. As we allowour inner symbols of healing to emerge from our unconsciousmind into tangible form we strengthen our will to heal.

58.Create and Intention Journal- Deliberately creatingourselves forward into more inspiring ways of being is to create
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something wholly new and fresh, and different from the past. Themovement away from entrenched, self-defeating and repeatinghabits from the past requires determined practice to create newaffirming mental and emotional habits.

59.How to Create an Altered Book- Altered books can be usedto work through long standing emotional issues, to changeunhelpful psychological patterns of belief, to find and cultivate anew strengths, or to process and accurately remember the past.

Altered books can be joyfully made to help climb out ofdepressive cycles and to cultivate inspiration.

60.Processing Trauma Through Altered Book Making- Whenwe are emotionally flooded or emotionally blocked, we hold ourbody trauma patterns in place by subconscious beliefs. Our body,emotions and beliefs form an interlocking "trauma pattern" thatunconsciously repeats through our life, unless it can beconsciously interrupted and recreated into more life-affimingpatterns of living.

61.The Art of Setting Boundaries - A Painting JournalMeditation- Often we will feel guilty when we begin to setboundaries to protect our energy and time. During the process oflearning to set boundaries it helpful to understand that the trueaim of giving is to support emotional and psychological learning

and growth, not ego stagnancy - in ourselves and others.

62.Healing Grief and Loss with Expressive Drawing- Whengrief cycles and does not seem to be healing, we can come tounderstand that there is an unmet need or an unhelpful belief thatis feeding the grief. Expressing emotion through expressivedrawing can help to cathart the feelings of loss and grief, but itdoes it not always heal the beliefs that feed into extended grief.
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63.Exploring Age-Regression - An Integrative JournalingExercise- Most of us experience age-regression on a fairlyregular basis, especially when we are feeling stressed orvulnerable within our life circumstances. In order to not integrate -

to resist - a traumatic experience, the child self freezes the bodyby tightening the muscles and holding the breath in a particularway to avoid feeling a difficult emotion.

64.Create a Calming Collage - Self-Soothing for EmotionalOverwhelm- During therapy, or if you are processing heavyemotions on your own, it is often helpful to have self-soothingtools to calm, regulate and slow down the overwhelm of arising

emotions.

65.Body Focusing Journal for Processing Difficult Feelings-Over a period of daily journaling from the body, knowings piecetogether into a larger whole. Daily fragments form largermeanings, and what was once difficult to own and assimilate isreclaimed and included into a fuller sense of self.

66.How to Create an Experimental Art Journal- Art journaling

invites and nurtures new awareness by playing with oddcombinations of words, metaphors and imagery to allow contactwith something new and fresh inside. By playing creatively in yourart journal, without judging or evaluating what emerges, newinformation infuses old repeating patterns with fresh new life andpossibilities.

67.Healing Trauma - Art Journaling for Therapy- The aim ofprocessing memory through art journaling is not to revisit a

traumatic emotions over and over again, but to recognize wherewe have stopped living forward, and clear what is blocked.

68.Restoring Passion Through Gestalt and ExpressiveMovement- We do not need to go into memory to heal the past.

Any part of our mind or emotional body that is still hurting andstuck in the past will always be available to express itself in thepresent moment.
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69.Art Therapy for Anxiety, Panic and Post TraumaticStress- If you did not receive the love and support you neededwhen you experienced trauma, you can give yourself lovingsupport now. We can give ourselves the love and presence that

others in the past could not offer.

70.Exposure Journaling Therapy to Reduce Fear andAnxiety- While avoidance tactics might provide a brief respitefrom anxiety, prolonged exposure therapy is a kind of "feartoleration" or "fear presence" practice that delves past anxietyavoidance patterns so that fear can be faced and overcome.

71.Understanding the Transpersonal Therapy Process- Theprocess of inner psychological, emotional and spiritual work is tounblock defenses, move the stuck energy in our body to createhealthy flow, and transform negative, distorted beliefs and

emotions back into the Core Authentic Self.

72.Meditation and Creativity for Obsessive CompulsiveTendencies- Whenever we have mild or extremely exactingfixating tendencies we can use the gift of such a meticulous mindto concentrate on the positive practice of concentrated breathingand mind training to increase inner peace and emotional healing.

73.Healing Perfectionism and Self-Rejection - Understanding

Your Idealized Mask- Because our mask is inauthentic, weexperience continual rejection. People often avoid inauthenticity,and so this starts the struggle for perfection to create an evenmore infallible mask, so that the emotional pain of rejection canbe avoided.

74.Physical Repetition to Calm Anxiety- Any emotionalmemory that is difficult to look at will have intense anxiety "sittingon top" of it. When discomforting emotions arise, and they feel too
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difficult to be present for, it is often essential to "work them"through the body first.

75.Spontaneous Collage Scrap Journal- Collages that take

very little thought, time or effort can inadvertantly evoke anunknown feeling, a new idea, or a fresh longing. Leftover collagescraps - colorful papers, magazine clippings, rubbings, words, olddrawings and paintings - can be created into quick, experimentalcollages.

76.Freedom From Shame - A Journal Process- As children,we innocently think that everyone else has a perfect family andideal home conditions but ourselves. Shame arises when webelieve that our challenging situation is unique, and that our entirethought and emotional process has to be hidden away fromothers.

77.What is Your Core Wound?- When we act from our corepain it is possible to feel our energy extending forward out of ourcenter in a compensatory way that feels anxious, draining andoverly effortful.

78.Practicing Spontaneity - 100 Faces Journal Project- Itseems strange that we would have to "practice" beingspontaneous but most of us were encultured early on to becomerigid about about art-making. Most of us were bound by rulesabout what "good art" is beginning in elementary school.

79.Intuitive Found Poetry- Embracing the paradoxes that ariseout of spontaneous poetry can open your mind to intuition and

new possibilities for growth. Poetry relies on non-linear logic.

80.Expressing Your Vulnerable Inner Child- Many peoplebelieve, "I will not suffer if do not allow myself to feel." Yet,allowing our feelings to come to the surface enables them to growup and mature.
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81.Healing Negative Intentions- Because our hidden negativitylives in our unconscious mind, it can easily thwart our goodintentions despite our best conscious efforts to improve andprogress.

82.Healing Sexual Distortions- One of the best ways tounderstand our unconscious mind and our lower self is to take adeep look at our sexual behavior and our sexual fantasies.

83.Cultivating Unselfconsciousness Through Zen Painting-Unselfconsciusness is a state of psychological and emotionalintegration. To achieve integration through art, we can paint untilwe are no longer thinking. We can make brushstrokes until ourbrush seems to paint all by itself.

84.Practicing Forgiveness With Hooponopono-Ho'opononono is a Hawaiian spiritual healing method thatfocuses on internal healing by taking full responsibility for ourouter problems with other people. It is especially helpful to usewhen forgiveness and reconciliation with another person seemsimpossible on an outer interpersonal level.

85.Learning the Language of Your Unconscious Mind- Ourunconscious mind stores and hides away everything what wereject about ourselves. When we bring every split-off, lost, and

unloved piece of ourselves back into the home of our acceptingheart, our strength and vitality returns, and we experience agenuine inner peace that is free of enforced positivity.

86.Understanding Your Defense Mechanisms- It almost goeswithout saying that our defense mechanisms prevent us fromprogressing in our psychological and emotional healing work. Weall have our own particular architecture of defense that keepsuncomfortable thoughts and feelings at bay.
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87.Writing Healing Stories- Through our words and by "re-membering" our life, we gather together our disjointed, alienated,and separated part of self, and begin to re-value what has beenhidden and disdained.

88.Develop Heart Awareness by Writing Your Life Review-We are always either withdrawing our energy from life in defenseand hurt or extending outwardly in some kind of loving gesture.When we are withdrawing our energy, we are trying to stay withinthe familiarity of our comfort zone, and within our personal limitsof loving.

89.Integrating Your Shadow- Psychologist Carl Jung describesthe shadow as all the things inside of ourselves that we do notaccept, do not like about ourselves, or do not wish to look at.

90.Resolving Childhood Emotional Needs- Often, withouteven knowing it, we attempt to get other to act in ways to meetour emotional needs that were not met in childhood.

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