Focusing & Artistic Contemplation in Spiritual Companioning
Gather pens, colored pencils and paper in a quiet and comfortable place. Find, or search your memory for, a poem or image that moves calm and comfort within you. Reflect on the image or words in stillness…
Then ask yourself:
What words come to mind?
Where can I feel those words in my body?
What feelings are associated with the areas of the body I am drawn to?
If the feelings were colors, what colors would they be?
Do the feelings and colors move or change?
Does poetry emerge from my image, feelings or colors?
What ripples did you create in your inner awareness?
When you are finished and fully open your eyes, take a few moments to capture the inner journey on the paper…
Then ask yourself:
How can I express those colorful feelings?
If I draw them, how do they want to be seen?
If I sang them? How would they sound?
If I dance or move them? How would I move?
What poem, sacred or secular text, or quote reflect these colorful feelings?
What creative image can I create to use in reflection?
These are a few ways you can explore focusing and artistic reflection on your spiritual or creative journey…
Create your own reflective tools:
I Found the Beauty of Being Still by Spiritual Director and Author, Martha Bartholomew 
Shadows Scurry before the brightness appears. Let your light shine… 
Leaves grow, breathe and shine…Spring is born. 
Plant the seed no matter how shallow the ground…I’ll be by to water it later- Love, God 
Mandela Inspired by Spiritual Direction by Karin Krog 2018 
Give, and it will be given to you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over…Luke 6:38
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