Medicine Festival Mandala / Altar by the Creative Arts team
I've always tried to look after my health after years of seeing loved ones destroy their own health through addiction. It’s been painful to be around this suffering and of course has a knock on effect to those who are close. I have spent many years focusing on what brings me healing and over time the realisation that I cannot change anyone. I can only change myself. It has been and continues to be painful to watch loved ones hurt themselves and not care for themselves or others. I have always been a seeker exploring different ways of healing through the arts because I didn't want to be caught up or frozen in the suffering. It has a way of creeping in when I allow myself to be pulled into someone else’s story or sucked into the fabricated stories of my own mind. So all these different creative arts over the years, print making, drawing and painting, ceramics, dance, film and music have been beautiful pathways for my own self expression to move energy and keep it flowing. These healing arts continue to bring me back to the heart to help restore the balance within.
The Medicine Of Music
Music for me is a great medicine and has brought me so much comfort and solace in times of distress. Anger is residue of trauma which is part of the healing when acknowledged with love. We all have so much ancestral and childhood pain and suffering that comes through all of us at different times depending on how we deal with it at different times in our lives. Nothing is black and white. No body is the same and nobody stays the same. We are ever changing and growing and the more we can see the beauty in each other the more connected and better beings we all become. We need to let go of the old patterns and conditioning of a patriarchal system that has suppressed our beauty and constantly in blame and judgement and control. That appears to be the system we are living in but each one of us we can change this in every moment by bringing our unconditional love. Focusing on the beauty in each other allows us not get caught up in the stories that bring us into confusion and negativity. So I thank all the wonderful musicians in this world birthing so many incredible songs of love from their beautiful hearts bringing so much healing for us all.
We are The Medicine
If we focus our energy on what lifts ours spirits and what brings us joy over time this will trickle out to everyone around us. Especially when there is so much war and destruction in the world we need to be in that higher vibration and be a part of healing this world. I recently went to Medicine Festival to come together with an amazing community of people who want to spend their time sending their prayers into the world for peace and love and harmony. What a gift to be part of this. Something beautiful to be celebrated. I love this journey where I can be a small part of larger community wanting to bring healing to the world. Putting our intention and energy into universal love.
Thank you so much for the incredible music, workshops, talks and all the love that was shared so generously at Medicine Festival this year and thank you to everyone who continues to support and embrace this journey with me x o x
I will be in touch soon about dates for the next Melodic Meditation in September 2024.