Drawing as meditation?

[dwrex]

Make's sense ... Right?



http://www.learning-to-see.co.uk/drawing-as-meditation


Calling any human activity a do elevates it beyond its obvious purpose to the point where it becomes an art – one which is approached as a way of life which embodies certain principles. Following a do means continually trying to embody these principles more completely in the way you live.

In Shodo, one of the most important of these principles is mind and body coordination – essentially harmony of the mind and body.

According to practitioners, bringing the mind and body into harmony through the practice of Shodo:

• enhances attention and focus
• creates peacefulness and relaxation
• develops willpower

 

[genxgemini]

Make's sense ... Right?



http://www.learning-to-see.co.uk/drawing-as-meditation


Calling any human activity a do elevates it beyond its obvious purpose to the point where it becomes an art – one which is approached as a way of life which embodies certain principles. Following a do means continually trying to embody these principles more completely in the way you live.

In Shodo, one of the most important of these principles is mind and body coordination – essentially harmony of the mind and body.

According to practitioners, bringing the mind and body into harmony through the practice of Shodo:

• enhances attention and focus
• creates peacefulness and relaxation
• develops willpower

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May I ask,DW-Do you hyperfocus in silence or do you have a particular creation playlist you enjoy?

 

[dwrex]

I'm an professional illustrator and graphic artist, when I'm hunkered down at my work station working intensive on some kind of illustration or design just enjoying what I'm doing and extremely focused and in the zone , I look up at my clock thinking I've only been working for maybe an hour but 3- 4 hours have passed . It's the strangest thing.

 

[hugh johnson]

Jung talked about drawing mandalas.

“I sketched every morning in a notebook a small circular drawing, a mandala, which seemed to correspond to my inner situation at the time. With the help of these drawings I could observe my psychic transformations from day to day…My mandalas were cryptograms…in which I saw the self—that is, my whole being—actively at work.” (1965: 195-196).​

http://creatingmandalas.com/psychology-of-the-mandala