REBIRTH: Dear Dying Self

1. getting lost in emotions (feeling through)

Does a leaf, when it falls from the tree in winter, feel defeated by the cold? The tree says to the leaf: ‘That’s the cycle of life. You may think you’re going to die, but you live on in me. It’s thanks to you that I’m alive, because I can breathe.

Paulo coelho

Dear Dying Self,

You need to disappear for the new things to be born.

Dying self you allow all the illusions + boundaries to fall away. You make me want to complete dreams + live fully.

I am somewhere between mourning your loss, embracing the return HOME + passionately fighting for LIFE.

You remind me that I create the collage of my future in the steps of today. You bring perspective + ask me to get CLEAR. You confront my WILL + ask boldly if I am ready to take full responsibility for this LIFETIME.

You say: Step forward drop the mask or continue to force + restrict the flow.  You bring life changing decisions. A bit of you falls away each day - we are ever evolving and ever changing..

You bring to the surface those patterns that are not serving me. You are the parts I am ready to surrender.

Dying self you are all those bits whose lessons I have learned + I am ready to move on (to the next challenge - you keep life interesting). Dying self you help me feel what is truly important. Moments. Connections. Experiences. RELATIONSHIPS.

Dying self I love that you bring perspective. You bring courage + you bring heart.

You require a deep acknowledgement of the will ... how much do I want to live?!

Dying self I am not afraid of you, but I still have lots to give, so thank you for urging me to get things in order + to LIVE FULLY here on Earth.

You remind me to let it all out - stop waiting "until".

You remind me to create it all now, to try now. Have FUN NOW!

Be Wonderful

♡

LaToya

P.s. The Spirit Never Dies.

Thank you for joining me on this path of INTERIOR ALCHEMY

Life is Art + Affirmation

Life is pure ADVENTURE, and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as ART.

maya ANGELOU

My life is my art + my affirmation

What if my life was my meditation, my ritual, my being?

Perhaps my life is a experiment

an exploration in expression + adventures into the unknown.

a living affirmation.

perhaps my life can by lighter + deeper at the same time.

Musing on making the most of this incarnation.

These musings above are the true foundations of Interior Alchemy - an inner Movement based in our role as creative beings on a journey of experience.

Be Wonderful

♡

LaToya

Where Creativity Happens

Creativity happens in the in between moments.

- Shubin + Donaldson

Creativity is part of our essence. We are here to create. The in between moments are the NOW. Between the past and the future. So we are always creating. We create our lives by the choices we make now. When I live my life from a place of LOVE I am always tapping into pure creativity and potential. We are all creative artists when we view our life as our art.

Be Wonderful

xx

LaToya

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Genius Loci (Finding Home)

Lost in Transition (Seeking Present Tense)| Collage 62/ 100 for #100dayproject

A Poem

Welcome Home.

Breathe in divine influence. Draw in spirit.

I am at home with my soul.

A flash of inspiration.

A motivating force.

This is beyond physical self - beyond physical space.

Home is a feeling, a knowing, a process.

Deep down we always knew home was within.

Breathe out into the spirit of place

Draw out sacred space in your dwelling place.

Welcome Home.

Be Wonderful

xx

LaToya

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In My Shoes : Exploring the Root Chakra

I have been working on this project for over a year now. It is an exploration in to the chakras and a bit of a visual autobiography.  I dabble in an out of it as I feel inspired.

It started after a friend lent me the book Anatomy of the Spirit by Caroline Myss I loved how this book connected many loose philosophical strings for me and boiled everything down to 7 principles.  This also a big inspiration for the creation of The 7 principles of Inspired Living.

I started with the 1st Chakra : THE ROOT CHAKRA

I had a pair of shoes that I really loved, but they were falling apart so I decided to glue them to a canvas I had lying around.  The idea actually came before I read the book mentioned above.  But after it all made perfect sense.

WALK MY TALK.

LIVE MY TRUTH.

I hesitated on painting it red. Why? Who knows, but once I got the courage to do it, I loved it! The courage came after a distance Reiki Session with my friend Selome, where my root chakra came up as an area needing attention.

HEALING THROUGH RETELLING.

MY STORY IS SACRED.

Around the same time I started a drawing that explored what I call my Space History - the spaces I lived and what I remember of those spaces as I have grown up.  Then I began musing on the first space being the WOMB. I also depicted the legs and feet as ROOTS. See the drawing below. I decided that this drawing also made perfect sense as part of this root chakra piece.

Through this process I am allowing myself to be VISIBLE in new ways.

I LOVE mY FAMILY.

I HONOUR MY ROOTS.

I will continue to update this post as I work though these piece. See the Gallery for more on this project. May your IMAGINATION soar!

Be Wonderful

xx

LaToya

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