Just don't come unraveled ...

i can't unfreeze..

i'm going to get kicked out of college:(

That's OK, Ladybug, you are feeling the feelings of being stuck in your midbrain in fear. This is exactly what it feels like.

Can you say to yourself, this is what it feels like to be panicy about school. Everything is so new, and I haven't found my groove yet.

And breathe?

ok i'm breathing.

Now, read this quote

A notable characteristic of Jung's archetypes is that we recognize them in image and emotion. This gives a profound effects on us and implies that they have deep and primitive origins. They thus have a particular potential for significance and may be feared or revered as mysterious signifiers of things beyond our complete understanding.

thanks finding

i'm still frozen.

*defrosts Blossom*

[i didn't understand it either.]

blossom is permanantly frozen i think:( she won't defrost.. and she's running out of time.

and she feels really really scared and guilty.

I wrote too much... back in a second

Sweety, you're getting yourself all worked up. Spinning around in fear thoughts until you get dizzy. You're not even afraid of doing the drawing, just of talking about it afterwards.

Here's my suggestion: do the drawing, with no decision made about whether you'll even turn it in, much less talk about it. Then once it's done, you can make the other decision.

i am afraid of doing the drawing because i can't draw anymore. it's not just now, i havn't been able to do any art for a while. noone understands that:( i just can't draw anymore.

What I'm writing is a process for getting to the imagry and the feelings. If you want, you can do it later. If you want, you can do it now. You need an art process that works for you.

set your intent: "I want to make an art that expresses to the class who I am"

then breathe

Do NOT expect to get to the complete work!!! You are making a beginning,,, starting off, by following a lead.

breathe, restate your intent.

then write down somewhere how you feel

You're convincing yourself, that's for sure. ;-)

You're still trying to "think" about something that isn't fundamentally a thinking activity ... Aren't there exercises in that Drawing on the right brain book that are meant to get your left to stop talking, like blind contour drawing, or whatever?

i only havn't read it all and i don't have time to read it before monday:(

thanks finding i did it

[tell her how to do a blind contour drawing, malign!]

OK,

breathe, state your intent.

feel an image that goes with your feeling.

If you get critical and panicy, breathe and watch your panic for a minute then let it go...

no images are coming to me

restate your intent.

let yourself feel.

write that feeling down. Don't censor or edit.

If what you feel is fear, that is where you begin.

yeah i'm feeling fearful

a storm...?

let's go to the elements of art for a minute.

Get out your paper.

If fear were a line, how would it drag itself across the page?

it would be a jagged line.

like this:

i dunno if that's what you mean...

Yes, now let your body feel that as you make that line across your page.

ok i dunno if that's working

what's supposed to happen?

Now if fear were a shape, what would it be?