Creative Mindfulness(Week Five)

    Lately, my life has just felt like there has been one thing after another, and coupled with constant migraines it is sort of just a recipe for disaster. I have gotten insanely behind in all of my courses and have had no motivation to solve any of my issues, just sort of on autopilot. Creative mindfulness has helped breathe some life back into me, which allowed me to help myself. To display and understand how to use creative mindfulness, we did some meditations to help us be with ourselves and focus on our sensory feelings. Mindfulness itself is an awareness, a sense of paying attention with purpose. to help you both open yourself up and ground yourself.

   The first focused on our inner self and the thoughts racing through our brain and letting them go, by imagining we were looking at a sky and each of our thoughts was one of the clouds just passing by. Instead of just being with my thoughts I drew the clouds in the sky of my safe space- per the recommendation of my professor.    

The second exercise was a grounding exercise to help us be ready to listen to our minds and senses so we would be able to take photos based on those senses we were paying extra attention to. We then were sent out to take photos of things that stood out to us in the context of focusing on four perspectives: color, light, texture, and form in space. When I first started taking the photos it felt drawn to things that contrasted each other or taking a photo in a way that altered the perspective. I really enjoyed doing this, I have always been interested in photography but having an excuse to truly indulge that interest was really rewarding. 

The five photos attached at the bottom are my top favorites, and I think each identifies in at least one of the four categories/perspectives. Two are from later in the week, during those two photos I felt myself searching for moments of peace. My life right now has been just one thing after another, so it makes a lot of sense that the photos, for me, represent "moments" of peace, even if those moments were only a second long. 

I am a lot behind in the majority of my classes right now, so I am sorry for just playing catch up right now, and I promise I am trying to do exactly what you ask for, with each of these assignments. However, I am too overwhelmed to be able to sit down and thoroughly read through the reading as I would prefer. So I am just sticking to the info that was shown and discussed in class. I am sorry this is not better but my mind has so much running through it. And being able to just narrow the focus on my class notes is making this mission to catch up a lot less overwhelming.