The tears didn't flow from my eyes, but I could externalise them through the images. I could get some emotions flowing from my fingers through these characters. The colours, lines, textures and shapes all helped me ostracise the discomfort within. This was at the beginning of 2012, almost a year and a half ago. The feelings flowed and then transformed into something creative and colourful instead of stagnating inside...causing untold trouble for the body and mind. Images, music, movement and poetry all can help us have an emotionally transformative experience.
Tonight I went to the opera. I couldn't really understand much of what the performer was singing, but it resonated. Those high notes and amazing range of sounds, the layers of emotion and expression of face and hands. I could understand she was singing about the feelings of humans: love, hate, fear, and death. So many experiences of the human condition. The pianist performed solo a couple of times, and I closed my eyes and pretended the music was representing nature, and I could see so clearly the birds, lambs, cows; I could hear the birds and imagine huge trees and a meandering stream. The music was very powerful to soften the thoughts and train them on the natural world.
Like making visual art, music represents the lived and the inner world. It can touch my emotions and carry them to a distant place. There is poetry in sound without words, as there is poetry in images without words. I value the use of all the Arts in Experiential Creative Arts Therapy. It helps me to connect to the arts and connect myself to diverse parts within myself. It allows me to see more clearly a 3D view of my inner world of thinking and feeling and willing and make sense of it step by step with a richness less available than with one modality. The Arts can help me to be set free!
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