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These images show a process of creating something that reflects what is on top at the moment and thinking about how to re view it in a different context, using the same shape and image to then look at it in a differnt space and place.
These images show a process of creating something that reflects what is on top at the moment and thinking about how to re view it in a different context, using the same shape and image to then look at it in a differnt space and place.
Sometimes drawing, painting or showing what our fear and anxiety look like can help to provide a narrative that supports us to manage the fear.
Sometimes drawing, painting or showing what our fear and anxiety look like can help to provide a narrative that supports us to manage the fear.
This shows an image produced that supports the following narrative:
This shows an image produced that supports the following narrative:
Beginning top left: I have that feeling you might experience as you enter into something new, full of excitement and anticipation; light, nervous, unsettled, skittish, possibly overthinking, buzzing. Then as I move into it, it is not quite how I thought it might be. A little anxiety creeps in as things don't quite go to plan. The 'reptile' brain or amygdala takes over, (that part of the limbic system associated with emotion). My heart rate increases and anxiety builds, sending out alarms and arms of panic. The white shows moments of calm or 'common sense' when I try to remind myself that my body is overreacting and the panic is greater than the situation necessitates. I 'ground myself' reminding myself I am in a safe place. My feet are firmly on the floor, I can hear the birds singing outside, I can see through the window the wind rustling the leaves on the trees. The 'panic' spreads out into this larger space of normality, unthreatening, everyday and in that greater space it loses its power, self-talk calms the jitters and I realise that nothing bad is going to happen, or at least nothing that I cannot manage. More white spaces emerge and finally the cool blue. The blue filters over all the other colours and pushes the white out to calm the anxiety.
Beginning top left: I have that feeling you might experience as you enter into something new, full of excitement and anticipation; light, nervous, unsettled, skittish, possibly overthinking, buzzing. Then as I move into it, it is not quite how I thought it might be. A little anxiety creeps in as things don't quite go to plan. The 'reptile' brain or amygdala takes over, (that part of the limbic system associated with emotion). My heart rate increases and anxiety builds, sending out alarms and arms of panic. The white shows moments of calm or 'common sense' when I try to remind myself that my body is overreacting and the panic is greater than the situation necessitates. I 'ground myself' reminding myself I am in a safe place. My feet are firmly on the floor, I can hear the birds singing outside, I can see through the window the wind rustling the leaves on the trees. The 'panic' spreads out into this larger space of normality, unthreatening, everyday and in that greater space it loses its power, self-talk calms the jitters and I realise that nothing bad is going to happen, or at least nothing that I cannot manage. More white spaces emerge and finally the cool blue. The blue filters over all the other colours and pushes the white out to calm the anxiety.
Use a 'body scan" or a guided mediation to calm and ground you. Take from it some symbols that make themselves visible to you. Enjoy playing with them...and be curious.
Use a 'body scan" or a guided mediation to calm and ground you. Take from it some symbols that make themselves visible to you. Enjoy playing with them...and be curious.
Feathers are used to symbolise so many things across all countries and cultures. Fledglings shed their downy plumage as they transition from obvious youngster to apparent adult, obvious to apparent. A good reminder to us all that as our tamariki grow and change their outward appearance may not fully reflect their mental development. Tamariki, both young and old, still need to be taken under our wing from time to time for guidance, safety, care and love. Model and share wisdom and kindness.
Feathers are used to symbolise so many things across all countries and cultures. Fledglings shed their downy plumage as they transition from obvious youngster to apparent adult, obvious to apparent. A good reminder to us all that as our tamariki grow and change their outward appearance may not fully reflect their mental development. Tamariki, both young and old, still need to be taken under our wing from time to time for guidance, safety, care and love. Model and share wisdom and kindness.
Meri Kirihimete.
Meri Kirihimete.
2021 draws to an end and 2022 begins to show itself on the horizon.
2021 draws to an end and 2022 begins to show itself on the horizon.
As the year changes, let us all look ahead to a year full of possibilities.
As the year changes, let us all look ahead to a year full of possibilities.
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