Why Healing Through Art

I am very aware that in this healing journey, it is not good to rely on a physical thing to carry all your happiness. But it is okay to balance those things within this world that bring us happiness, with the peace, love, and wisdom within the spiritual. I have learned that it's the imbalances between the physical and spiritual that lead to our sicknesses. For example, when I experience depressive episodes, it’s because I have had an imbalance in taking care of my soul. It tells me that I need change in my life. 

The great spirit has guided and gifted me through my healing journey. Some of the things that have most helped me have been forms of meditation. During these meditations, I have learned lots of valuable lessons. I wish to plant these seedlings throughout our world in need of help. In hopes of those little seeds growing into big, strong, and very high trees. 

When I go to the same places in nature I used to as a child, once filled with an endless forest that could be lost within hours of an exciting adventure. When I go back to these places, I notice they no longer look the same. A Lot less green, and a lot more dead. There’s no longer the excitement that lies within the wonder of what’s behind all of those trees because I can see through the now-dead trees miles away.

Maybe the forests are dying because of an invasive species. Fires. The pollution of the air. Maybe all the sadness in the world is the invasive species. 

Ever since I was a kid, some of the things I loved most were art, nature, animals, and helping. 

I think as children, our behaviors were given to us by those around us. But the things that brought us love and happiness were god given. As children, our minds were fresh with imaginations that spread beyond this world. 

There comes a time when we have lost that child. We have abandoned that child for the colorless world that craves the dollar without seeing all the beauty that god has already gifted us. 

I became one of those. Wanting to fit in with the rest, at the cost of losing my happy self. 

I once heard a voice tell me, “ Your purpose is to help people, help people with your creativity, through your culture.” 

Something about the colorless world is that we are so very divided. We are divided without realizing we are the most powerful, most happy, and most loved when we come together as one. For a long time I have feared putting any actions toward my purpose, but once I’ve seen the conditions of my beloved homelands, I know there’s something I must do. I don’t know if I have words magical enough to help another, but all I can do is hope. Everything is contagious. Like a smile. Spreading from one person to another, that then spreads to our environment. 

I hope that my words and my creativity can help spread love.  

In the beginning, I talked about being helped through forms of meditation. I have learned that for me, my most effective meditation is through creativity. Within this creative healing world, I have learned forgiveness, compassion, and love for not only those around me but also for myself. My once black-and-white world has turned into the full-color spectrum. So this is why healing through art.