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Artress Collective, Sydney (2025)

23/01/2022

P O W E R
In all truth, you are an incredibly powerful being. You are beyond measure.

When we have our power taken away by the ‘other’, it is essential that we come back to ourselves, that we review our perspective ~ so as to find our own sense of truth again. If not, we continue to give our power away to old ways of thinking/being.

Where in your life are you still giving your power to? What beliefs have you continued to hold onto that keeps you small and powerless?

You are a magnificent being. You are a tower of inner truth and possibility.

That sense of your own truth is your power. Your power is yourself. Come back to yourself, review how you think/feel. You are too precious and incredible not to know your own power.

You are too powerful to not recognise the magic of yourself.

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15/01/2022

E L D E R S
Elders are a incredibly valuable and enriching part of our family, community and society and culture. For they are experienced guides that help the younger generations through significant milestones in life.

Sadly in Western capitalist culture many elders are undervalued, and are hidden away inside nursing homes and retirement villages. This is a significant loss to our greatest storytellers and wisdom keepers.

Our elders are our teachers that inspire our growth. Help us through the many complex initiations of life. Many people have a small number of elders. When they speak, we listen because they provide helpful signposts and address aspects of our youthful ignorance.

It is very important to seek and find our more experienced elders and teachers in life. To help enrich our lives. It is a reciprocal dynamic. We infuse their life with purpose and youthful zest. Opening old books stored deep in their hearts where they can relive past beauty or pain. These relationships are highly valuable as we heal our bodies and evolve and flourish into our authentic purpose to be better able to share our gifts with the world.

Sadly some of us were raised in households and environments that did not provide us with elders that could adequately nurture and support us through our development. Yet, if we can stumble upon and connect with elders throughout our life journey, the more we can heal our bodies of the traumatic memories stored within them. For, they are able to encourage us to move towards our authentic self and comfort us through the inherent challenges of life.

Who are the elders in your life? What is the nature of the relationship? How do you both reciprocally inspire, nurture and love each other?

If we don't currently have elders that support and encourage us in authentic expression and purpose. What community classes, courses or activities can we begin to cultivate relationships with the elders within our society?

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11/01/2022

S U B C O N S C I O U S
Our deep internal abyss. Our night of dark trees. Obscured in the dark realms until a light shines on all that we fear, reject and abandon and feel shame about within ourselves. That we unconsciously project onto others.

Our subconscious is formed between age 0-7 years. Our tiny brains and bodies are moulded by our family relationships and societal environments to form our core fundamental beliefs. This influences how we see ourselves, other people and the world.

These beliefs are fuelled by repeating thoughts that in turn generate physiological responses in our bodies, that build repeating cycles in time, creating our subconscious responses.

As our subconscious mind is the largest aspect of ourselves, it largely determines our quality of life. Most of the time it is unconscious, as if we live on auto pilot. Others may sense more of our subconscious than what we do (dependent on our degree of healing). Therefore it is incredibly important to work at bringing our darkness into the light of self awareness, self love, self acceptance and forgiveness. That is how we will evolve into our authentic purpose in this life.

Our subconscious as our unique "reality", shaped within the island of our consciousness during our development, is malleable. So lets be curious enough to dig deep and get to know that which we want to change. Harness our innate and inherited gifts and talents and learn to tame our gremlins. Cultivate our power. So that we can become more authentic and empowered. So we can become an increasingly positive force in this world.

Lets take responsibility in challenging our deepest beliefs. We have the power to change our thinking by consuming content aligned with the changes we want to move towards. With constant practice of affirmations, positive and loving self talk we can change our thought patterns and the beliefs that form our perspectives.

What do you want to think, consume and believe for your future self?

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05/12/2021

C R E A T I V I T Y
Is not limited to the arts. Creativity is the spontaneous life force that expresses itself when we relax and open into the flow of nature of our bodies and nature around us. The physical manifestations of our ideas and inspiration. Humour, writing, cooking, gardening, decorating, dressing. The art of how we are intimate and express love and how we nurture ourselves and others. How we express our uniqueness.

The more we heal and live within a parasympathetic nervous system (relaxed) vs a sympathetic nervous system (fight, flight, freeze or fawn) the more our authenticity is expressed creatively in a way that feels healing and nourishing to our deeper soul and body.

Therefore healing our bodies is extremely important in the expansion of our creativity. A healthy nervous system created via way of a healthy diet, healthy environment and relationships (positive energetic co regulation) generates more positive thoughts in the integrative and holistic approach to living.

Dancing, playing, singing, deep breathing, yoga, meditation, cardio work outs, reading, establishing and maintaining a connection or engagement with nature. The more you commit to these practices daily the happier and more creative you will become.

Heal creatively. Making healing fun, playful, nourishing and social (Whilst ensuring adequate amounts of solitude) helps in the process of establishing healing as a consistent and empowering habit of self love. This will allow you to build increasing strength and resilience. Making space for embodied joy and happiness.

Live sensuously within the realms of your unique creativity as this is deeply healing.

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24/11/2021

W E L L N E S S
We cannot cure illness if we do not lean into wellness. It is a choice. We choose to remedy situations rather than exacerbate them ~ with our body, heart and mind.

Yet, how do we choose wellness for the body when the nervous system is so out of whack, when we have feelings of anxiety, stress or depression? Well, we lean further into the process of healing the brain alongside the body.

It is not enough to go to the gym, eat better food, or do activities of expression. Yes, these are great and they set up the body for more energy and health. But without addressing deeper issues they are not sustainable for fulfilment.

Old patterns need to be looked at, understood, and then reprogrammed. If we keep coming to fix a problem with the same attitude that got us into it, then it is never really fixed.

A much bigger process is needed. Deep clearing of the system with respect and care is needed.

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20/11/2021

S E L F A U T H O R I T Y
You are the only authority in your life. No place, person, thing or circumstance has any power or control over you. Unless you choose to give it to them. Unless you live in a society and culture that physically oppresses you and your civil liberties.
Even if and when emotions feel overwhelming. Even if another person tries to manipulate you into feeling otherwise. Repeat in your mind that you are the only authority in your life.

Try to reflect and become increasingly aware of the individuals and situations where you habitually give your power away assuming that another is a greater authority or "expert" over your own embodied intelligence. Whilst it is important to consider someones advice especially if they are a specialist whose professional advice you specifically seek. Always try to check in with how your body feels with the advice. Weigh this advice up with your instincts and intuition.

Breathe deeply and slowly to relax your body. You can focus your attention away from negative thoughts, opinions or perspectives to neutral, empty or positive thoughts. You can engage in wholesome activities that make you feel good and cultivate joy. In the name of embodiment.

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18/11/2021

D I V I N I T Y
You are divine. We all are. You are magical, incredible, beautiful, wonderful and perfect. Everything about you is just right.

You don’t feel it because your body was taught to forget the truth. You may have been hurt, or systematically taught untruths ~ but the fact remains, you are divine.

You deserve to remember, to heal, to come back to your own power. You deserve to remember your complete perfection. ⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣

17/11/2021

P L A Y F U L N E S S
Is our most relaxed and natural expression through which our joy speaks to each other ~ spontaneously and in the flow of life.

To play is to be curious. It is to explore. To feel safe and loved enough to be your most raw and honest self. Completely at ease with ourselves in our environment. Our nervous systems are in a para sympathetic state and we are co regulating joyfully with those we love as playfulness emerges when we sense we are loved.

Playfulness is one of the most organic expressions of the authentic self. How good we feel after those deep belly laughs.

Playfulness connects us so deeply. In a language that is beyond words. Purer than words. We tap into our inner child and we allow vitality, creativity, our life force to flow.

As feminine beings much of the healing arts are, although extremely valuable in ways, also rational, structured and require great discipline. Fluid, unstructured and chaotic, playfullness is a very feminine expressions of healing. Whether that be singing, being theatrical and comical, laughing, dancing and being directly connected to nature. To be spirited.

What makes you feel joy and vitality? What songs make you move your body? Who are the people that make you laugh and feel playful? What films and literature speaks to the deep waters of your soul, inspiring you to enter entrancing practices that heal your body by bringing it into the present moment?

Do more of this. Throughout your journey of healing your trauma. It is heavy and difficult, so it is incredibly important for balance or catharsis to do what brings you joy and cultivates stronger creative life force within your body, mind and spirit.

For this is what it is to be alive.

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11/11/2021

P S Y C H O S P I R I T U A L
A W A K E N I N G
Also referred to the dark night of the soul. It is beyond any experience of existential melancholy, depression, anxiety or neuroticism born from ones unresolved trauma. It is beyond external pressures or tests common within the cycles of life.

In the unknowing ocean, the void, the in between liminal space one has to surrender the mind and ego in order to make space for change and evolution. Often the process is to loosen the grips of cultural conditioning and accumulated trauma to push you beyond what you know into the next stage of your evolution.

Although often the most testing and challenging and seemingly blinding ~ this experience is a monumental spiritual crisis created by a dance whose movements can't be choreographed as the forces of fate are playing their hands of cards for you in opening up radically different paths beyond what you imagined possible. It is a process of death and disintegration. It can be triggered by relationships, a health crisis or accident. Or a feeling of being lost, blindfolded in the abyss.

You might not know who you are anymore or what your purpose in life is. You are unable to connect with your intuitive or instinctive faculties to act as a guide in the vortex part of this cycle of soul evolutionary change. A spiritual crisis that often does not make sense until months perhaps even years after the crisis.

It is a time to surrender. Even though this surrender is terrifying. To dance in the unknown without having anything to hold onto. As when flowing in the raw force of the ocean. Allow it to break you free from some of your fear-based ego structures that have bound you tight for too long.

You have the option to let go of what you know with a new knowing that you can survive without some of what you have so attached to. As you are being pushed deeper into your more raw and real authenticity. Your truer soul purpose.

The next stage of your evolution where paths beyond what you have previously imagined open up to you.

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11/11/2021

I N N O C E N C E
Is about having that inner sense of self. It is not about being naive, or young. It is about being engaged with the living part of you that is a mystery and beautiful.

You are a whole wonderland of magnificence. You are an ocean of unknown potential.

To feel into the inner sense of yourself, feel your innocent reaction to this possibility is a true childlike gift. How amazing it is for us to be able to return to the self and find our beauty.

It is a privilege and yet it is also a human right. Your innocence is waiting to be returned, to be invited back into your life.

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10/11/2021

R I T U A L
We have all evolved from indigenous cultures. Even European decent indigenous roots are in the pagan lineages. Thus, ritual is a part of all of our ancestral histories.

Ritual is a ancient practice that has woven meaning into the rites of passage and initiations of our society and culture for centuries. Ritual is to infuse an action with intention, meaning and symbolism. To focus ones attention and energy on a specific intention or archetypal energy that one wants to invoke and cultivate within a situation or circumstance of ones life.

Ritual can also be as simple as a repeated daily practice. Making a morning cup of tea or walk in nature, journalling or morning practice. It can expand in degree of complexity from practical to mythological to mystical. Like creating an altar with symbolic objects whose meaning fits into an ideology, the reality you consciously want to start exploring and even embody in various physical, intellectual and emotional practices.

This is how we explore and play in consciousness and adopting rituals is extremely useful in the journey of healing. The journey of changing our states of consciousness from negative into more positive. As our thoughts have a direct influence on our emotional and physical experience of our bodies.

Fire and using fire pit in a ritual of release. releasing grief. Setting fire to all that we want to free ourselves of. It has a powerful transformative effect. Intentionally writing and setting alight that which we want to manifest and create in our lives.

Rituals can be thanksgiving and the diverse expressions of gratitude. Rituals can be taking time in nature to marvel at it's changing cycles.

Rituals can simply be taking time each day to a commited practice of healing. A empowered and consistent commitment to loving your body, mind and spirit. In it's ritual journey of releasing and integrating inherited traumas. It can be as creative as your infinite imagination allows.

What are your current rituals? What would you like to bring into your life as a ritual?

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09/11/2021

C O N N E C T I O N
Is integral for wellbeing. When we cut off from those we love in hard times, triggered moments, shadow work processes, it is because we do not trust to be seen. We do not trust that we are loved, beautiful, safe.

And yet, vulnerability, openness, authenticity to all the feelings allows us to heal. When we show our shadows, our secrets, our wounds, it is very scary. But, when done with those who love and care for us, it soon allows us to know that we actually are seen.

We are seen, we are safe, we are held. Slow, gentle metamorphosis from triggered, traumatised ego-orientation to full radiance. Every step, every revelation, every part of the journey is sacred and essential.

Stay connected. You are so loved.

08/11/2021

G E N E R O S I T Y
"You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself, that you truly give. All that you have shall one day be given. Give so to live as to withhold is to perish. For in truth it is life that gives unto life" — Khalil Gibran, On GIving, The Prophet.

Learning the art of giving in life is a precious gift that improves the quality of your life in supporting the lives of others around you. You become less individualistic and more community orientated. So long as the intention in giving contains no underlying motivations. Generosity cultivates abundance via the natural laws of attraction. As the nature of life is reciprocal and cyclical.

We give of our ideas, essence, our natural gifts and talents, our time, our knowledge, in addition to our physical and emotional resources. We give in the understanding the needs of others by reaching our hand out in loving engagement with our community and beyond.

Generosity is one of the greatest spiritual virtues we can cultivate in our lives. To give self love and self care to ourselves. To look after our bodies as sacred temples. This is one of the greatest gifts we can give to ourselves as it helps us in the becoming of the best versions of ourselves. Being generous with forgiveness in life towards ourselves and others is to shed skins towards a lighter load.

Generosity of spirit has a positive effect on the biochemistry of ones body. Because we are open, receptive and supportive in our engagement of life. As the nature of life is reciprocal in it's cyclical giving and receiving. The dance of yin and yang. What we give will be lovingly returned to us in mysterious ways. So it is important that our art of giving is as pure as possible with little to no underlying expectations or motivations.

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08/11/2021

P L A Y
No matter what you have to do for the day. Making breakfast ~ play. Going to work ~ play. Play is a state of being, not an act.

This is all just an elaborate game ~ like playing Mummy’s and Daddy’s at school. Everything is your life unfolding for your own curiosity as you create your reactions to each encounter.

Feeling depressed ~ play with it. Feeling anxious ~ play with it. It is all there for you to discover, examine, and learn with. The more you play with the difficulties, as well as the good times, the more you will find creative solutions in your energy, attitude, and ideas. And, then, life will flow more easily.

Play. Play with your resistance to play.

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