Grateful, great and full

The main things I gained from painting thou were that I finally felt whole, and authentic. I felt as if a very old part of me, that had broken away years ago came back. I felt complete. I was so very grateful, and every day when I painted, I would say out my thanks out loud. I was grateful for the time, the light, the sales and commissions.

What I learned was that by being grateful I was actually saying to the Universe thank you, you got this right and I’ll have more of it please, so the more grateful I was the more things came to me that made me even more grateful. This was one of the first realizations I had, that what you put out, you get back.

The other thing I learned from painting was that I was channelling the universal energy; I was very energetic and my energy seemed to have

no end somehow, I was tapping into this amazing energy and it was guiding me, inspiring me and teaching me more things about colour.

When I had my first exhibition, someone told me I could see auras, I denied that I could because I had no real idea what they were or how someone saw them, but he was adamant I could see them. I do instinctively get colours, that spring to my mind when I talk to people. Now over the years I have seen that these colours always are very important to the person. They are favourite colours often or they relate to the particular chakra centre of the body. I talk about this in my book so I do not want to talk too much here, but ancient Asian medicine believes there are key parts of the body for energy and these are known as chakras. What I was learning through my painting was about certain skills and abilities I had. Through the journey of painting I was learning that I could channel, and have since experienced more things through this channelling including healing.