It's a way to meet that which is wordless that wants to express itself through you without regard to how it's going to look. The basic principles are: listen to impulses, body sensations, feelings and allow them to guide color choice and brush stroke follow your energy… feel and paint, more so than paint your feelings honor what shows up even if you don't like it be curious about the contrary voices within move toward the resistance presented by unwanted and uncomfortable feelings rather than away, and to hold them as invitations to choose a color and move the brush

There are many: a renewed feeling of aliveness a coming home to oneself… to an innocence and wholeness all but lost growing up an opportunity to take creative and emotional risks that spill over into daily life ongoing courage to face the unknown a deepened experience and trust in one's intuitive voice and the courage to follow it a tool to help metabolize trauma, however it's not a substitute for trauma therapy

Indeed, this way of painting is therapeutic. However, it is not a substitute for therapy with a licensed professional therapist whose skill set is much broader.

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