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And when you’re ready, dive into the 4 Principles of Mindful Drawing below…
When you consistently practice these principles during your sessions, they become new programs seeded into your subconscious mind. Soon, you’ll begin to use them out there in the real world – away from the mindful drawing table.
These principles deepen and expand over time – but from day one, these principles will begin to change your world.
The last two principles are super powerful. They will FULLY enable you to create awesome new things in your own life, and when expanded collectively? They have full power to create new ways of living on Earth. Not a peep of exaggeration.
Let me dive into them a little deeper…
With practice, this gets easier over time. Once a line, circle or pattern is drawn? It’s DONE. Whether it’s perfect, wonky, weird, or blobby – ACCEPT IT. Laugh it off! Be proud because it’s uniquely yours. There ain’t another one in the world like it.
If a ‘mistake’ can be taken in a new direction (often it can), by all means get creative and walk down that road. Otherwise, don’t stay stuck there, disappointed because ‘it’s not good enough’. Accept it – it’s done. Realign and remember – WE ARE LEARNING!
The more you practice this through repetition, the more it becomes wired into your subconscious mind as a new program – and it goes with you out into the real world. And this is one powerful program to have.
This principle is so powerful it doesn’t give a shit about rhyming. You begin to see that you are bringing something into being, out of absolutely NOTHING but your imagination, intention and action.
You can create a circle, or a triangle in any colour and any thickness. You then add something else to it. Layer by layer you see that you are indeed creating something unique and complex, from nothing but your intention and action. You’ll learn that there are no limits to abstract creation. No rules.
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This is the training ground for installing the program of conscious creation.
When you create something real from nothing but your intention and aligned action, this is literally magic.
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As you strengthen intuition through using it, it’ll begin to go EVERYWHERE with you, in your life.
You’ll see how it’s got your back, and how it teaches you to “SEE” where you could not see before. Intuition marks out the invisible roadmap that leads you all the way, to where you’re meant to go.
Falling into monotony: Sticking to ‘safe ground’ by drawing the same old patterns that you’re familiar with. I know this well because I’ve done it 1000 times. When I catch myself, I switch it up and do something new. Boredom with your current pattern, indicates it’s time to try a new one. It’s a little scary. It’s unfamiliar and it may very well turn out looking like shit (hint: turn it into something else ;).
When you take a new path, you feel excitement well up inside. This is YOU exploring. No one ever got anywhere great by sticking to the same old roads. Switch up the colour! Try out a new pattern. Feel that little spark inside? That’s your cue – walk down that road. Do this repeatedly, and you’ll also carry this bravery out into your real world. It’s the same thing. Pushing past the comfort zone, and doing the harder thing to get somewhere new. Feel the fear, and do it anyway.
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This tutorial is not a complete picture – it’s a template that can be used in thousands of ways – I use this really regularly so I thought I’d show you how to draw it too (it’s only a few minutes long).
This is also a tutorial for a pattern I use often – it’s turned out to be one of my favourites. Here I show you how to draw blue grids too, and I explain why they’re so powerful.
This mindful drawing tutorial isn’t too long – it’s a great starting point to give you an introduction to what mindful drawing is. Draw it exactly as it is, add a splash of colour or change it completely – it’s entirely up to you.
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