"The Gift" 24 inch by 30 Inch Canvas
“The Gift”
Acrylic painting 24 inch by 30 inch canvas.
Are you living purposefully?
The inspiration for The Gift came from observing life in all its chaos and beauty. This journey we’re on, its mesmerizing, its sacred and experimental in nature. It’s our creative outlet, our pursuit of excellence, of happiness, and spiritual oneness. It’s our gift of free-will to do and experience as we please. We can create, destroy, and remake our experienced reality as we see fit. Its ultimately up to us to create our heaven on earth or live in our own personal hell. There will be obstacles, delays, and trials to overcome that’s part of the adventure. We must learn to utilize our skills and value ourselves, our lives, enough to transcend our tribulations.
The trials and tribulations we face help mold us but they don’t define us. They give us knowledge only life’s little lessons can teach us. Ensuring we learn from our past mistakes and experiences. So we’re aware of the potential cause and effect our choices can have. What’s more we’re able to consciously create the experiences we want to have and let go of what we don’t. Collectively, we’ve been distracted, swallowed up by the demands of life, just surviving instead of learning to thrive. Somehow, we forgot the importance of creating a life full of experiences we want to be present in, instead of ones we need an escape from. We need to stop settling for what life throws at us and create the changes we desire to see happen in our lives. We start by focusing our time and energy on the things that matter most to us. Like finding what brings us inner joy, making meaningful connections, and finding our creative passions. We have the power of free-will to alchemize our life, the key is to live consciously, by making conscious decisions that aide in achieving our goals and self-development.
No one is going to build the life you want for you or save you from your current reality. Believe it or not you’re the hero you need most right now and its imperative that you create a loving, supportive relationship with yourself. Observe and forgive your own past mistakes, heal any trauma, and rediscover who you are. Be truthful and vulnerable with yourself. Most importantly, we need to release any self-destructive habits and old masks that are limiting our progress. Learn to love your scars, see your worth and own your uniqueness. In doing so you will build a solid spiritual and physical foundation. By living consciously, we learn to rely on our intuition and divine team to guide us on our path. As we grow up certain childhood experiences can cause our fem/masc. energies to become imbalanced. This imbalance can make us very submissive or very dominating in life. Both can create toxic environments and situations that produce more problems. Pushing us to boiling points that POP! under the weight of life’s pressures. That my friend is the universe trying to get your attention, by making life very uncomfortable.
Our intuitive energy and divine team picks up on the things we can’t physically and sends us “intuitive hits” to relay useful information and guidance to us. It’s important to hone our abilities and connect with our spirituality to be open to receiving this divine guidance. Start by tuning-in to that inner voice, energy, feeling, or being. As you learn to discern between toxic/positive energies revolving around you in life. You’ll notice the sources of these subtle energies and see their effects on your life. There are negative energetic influences in life that can come in many forms. Could be spiritual like a negative energy, or physically mundane like a “close” toxic friend or situation. When you learn to discern between friend and foe, physically and energetically, it’s important to act accordingly and trust your intuitive “hits” when you feel called to do something. Which means cutting toxic ties, reprograming any limiting subconscious behaviors, and making room to bring in new opportunities. To properly protect your energy. If you don’t clean the metaphorical house, you will have no room to manifest better.
We can get stuck in cycles, delays, and restrictive situations when we are resisting our truth or change. Caught contemplating the seemingly depressive void of our existence by dwelling in the past or wallowing in self-pity. But when we experience those uncomfortable situations, it helps us realize we want a better life. Then we start utilizing our will-power and spiritual strengths to overcome our obstacles and create change. We begin to observe our internal state and alchemize our mentality, replacing bad habits and thought patterns with conscious ones. When we consciously acknowledge our internal state, we’re able to shift and maintain a higher perspective on life. We’re able to maintain equilibrium within our sacred temple, our body, mind, and soul. As we overcome each adversity, we evolve into wiser, more resilient, and insightful conscious beings capable of creating more meaningful experiences.
It’s time to experiment with life, like an artist strokes on a canvas. Switch up any routines and habits by trying or doing new things that stimulate you. By simply changing up our daily routines we begin shifting our experiences to better ones. Just taking time to stop and smell the metaphorical “flowers” of life will shift old energetic patterns into new abundant opportunities. You see we make choices every day that ultimately create our reality, whether they’re our desired experiences or not. If you’re only focused on the negative aspects of life, then you’ll create more of those same experiences. When you start focusing on the positive aspects of life, you’ll start creating more desirable experiences. You’ll begin to focus your energy and time on things that matter. Which transforms self-sabotaging tendency into inspired action. Which will help us maintain a positive mentality about our lives because we’ll finally be making progress. It’ll feel as if the matrix is glitching, the way your reality begins shifting because you willed it too.
I created this piece to provide a deeper perspective and meaning on life. In hopes that my painting will set as a reminder of the beauty, opportunity, and purpose this experience on earth gives us. I hope this painting and article inspires you to create a life you want to experience. Individually and collectively, it’s up to us to co-create a beautiful reality full of life, love, and illustrious beauty for generations to build on. It’s important we remain open to experience the diversity of life and expand our conscious perspectives so we can create a more fulfilling life together. Embrace your passions, accept your mistakes, and be present in the now. Remember this is your experience, you’re the writer of this life, make your story one worth living and dying for. In case you need or want an everyday little reminder, prints of “The Gift” are available to purchase in the shop!
Live Consciously and be whole,
Joy