What the mind already knows

It is amazing how much processing can happen if you let your mind go and release the questions and problems to your subconscious.  I think we have all experiences where we can only remember the name of someone we have forgotten or where we left our keys if we intentionally direct our attention to something else.

I often struggle to find solutions to problems that consistently elude me by thinking 'hard' about them.  Although this has a place, I have often received wonderful and unexpected solutions by NOT thinking about them, but by letting them fade into some strange little corner of my mind.

Just this week while taking an afternoon nap, I was able to 'catch' a solution that has been dogging me all year long.  I rearranged my studio and can now fit double the amount of students.  This may be a simple thing, but the idea is far reaching. 

Sometimes we are in need of information of a less tangible sort.  Is there a message that is yearning to get out?  Are there questions that should be asked of ourselves from a new angle?   What are we trying to tell ourselves that we don't want to know during our daily living?  Accessing these answers is difficult with all the daily noise we surround ourselves with.  Translating this information is confusing.  Sometimes we just don't want to know.

Painting is a place for all these ideas, questions, solutions and insights to rise up and be allowed to enter into consciousness.  Letting go of the need to create a masterpiece and be willing to listen to our center allows for great truths to be revealed.  I hope that people will be willing to release the need for production oriented art and let the process of creation unveil what they need to know.