“Living the Heart’s Desire” is the current evolution of New World Creations, founded in 1996 to publish and promote my (Atmara Rebecca Cloe) visionary art. My digital art has taken the form of visionary landscapes, goddesses, angels, dolphins, Feng Shui art, nature images, crystal images, abstract art, fractals, sacred symbols, and mandalas.
Mandalas have become my specialty in recent years. In addition to the prints, cards and calendars created and sold through an online publisher (see Art), I also create personal mandalas. Video editing is one of my recently acquired skills which I’m currently using to create Mandala Meditation Videos. You can see a sample of these with each blog post, more on the Video page and on my YouTube channel at ArtworkForTheSoul.
My art has always had a healing and spiritual nature, and in 2010 I began to practice a healing modality called Reconnective Healing. It is MY heart’s desire that all my work support the healing and spiritual awakening of each person who encounters it’s energy. I welcomes you to the site, and hope you will find the work inspiring and supportive of YOU living YOUR heart’s desire.
In Deepest Love and Gratitude,
Atmara
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Free, downloadable mandala meditations are available by clicking the Freebies link in the Navigation Bar at the top of the page.
Take a moment to relax. Stretch. Breath deeply. Enjoy the Mandala Video.
Free, downloadable mandala meditations are available by clicking the Freebies link in the Navigation Bar at the top of the page.
What do we really know?
If you are like me you have spent years processing your childhood through one method or another. We Baby Boomers are the psychological/spiritual “processors”. We’ve developed and used all sorts of techniques for exploring our inner selves. They have all had their usefulness, I don’t intend any criticism of them. I’ve been one of the biggest “process junkies” of them all.
But what do we really know? What does the past, or our selective memory of our past, have to do with the truth of this moment now? I learned a powerful lesson about this during a weekend retreat I attended recently.
I spent my 20′s doing Primal Therapy focused on my past, my thirties and forties engaging all sorts of meditation practices and “fifth dimensional” technologies, trying to assist in the evolution of the planet, focused on creating a new future for humanity. Then there was also the more personal work with the law of attraction and creating my personal future as I wanted it.
And then in my early fifties I learned about being present in the moment, the power of now. I learned lots of theories of “how things are;” and was constantly redefining my reality. But what did I really know? Theories, concepts, even powerful experiences of other dimensional phenomenon – what did they teach me about truth, about love?
I’ve experienced a great deal in the last few years. I fell in love with a spiritual teacher (a phenomena I didn’t even know existed before it happened to me) and through that relationship I have experienced truth. I have experienced love. I’ve experience who I truly am. But what do I really know?
Until a few days ago, I thought I knew how a pivotal experience in my childhood had effected me, what it meant in terms of my experience of who I was, what it meant in terms of my relationship with my father. I thought I knew what the limits of that relationship were, I thought I had accepted what could never be. I thought I knew what could and couldn’t be.
Then in a moment of grace, with this beloved teacher, all that changed. A door opened and I allowed the possibility for something I had assumed was not possible, for something to be different from the way I had always held it in my mind. And the result has been that a connection, an exquisite expression of love, deeper than anything that has ever been before, has been exchanged between my father and me. And the past and it’s “traumas” have fallen away. All that I thought I knew, and that had defined me, shifted, and there is only love.
I’m deliberately being a bit vague, not wanting to make a private moment between my father and me something public. But I hope you can feel the energy of what I am offering. What we think we know is not always true. And when you can allow a moment of not knowing, truth can be revealed.
I offer you this opportunity I had. Let yourself not know how things are for just a moment. Open your mind and heart to a door you thought was closed, for just a moment. See if it is really closed. Don’t know. Allow yourself to express the depth of who you are and see what the response is. Maybe, you’ll find that what you thought you knew is true. But if you are lucky, maybe, like me, you’ll find that what you thought was the truth never really existed outside your mind. And finally, there is nothing real but love.
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Someone asked me recently how I create my mandalas and I thought it might be interesting to share the answer with all of you. First, I have to say the process feels more like they create themselves through me, rather than me creating them. I never know what they will look like when I start. I either just have the urge to create one, or I’ve been asked to create a personal mandala. Then I just let my intuition guide me.
My work is all digital, all computer generated. I’ll create a number of kaleidoscope images either in a program called Image Tricks or or one called Pixelmator They both have kaleidoscope filters in them. Since the creation of the OS X operating system for Mac I haven’t been able to find a kaleidoscope filter for the Mac version of Photoshop or I’d do this there. (and if you know of such a filter, please let me know!) I use photos I’ve taken or pictures from various sources, whatever seems to have the energy I’m drawn to at the moment, as the source images for the kaleidoscope images.
Then I play with combining layers of these kaleidoscope images with different blending modes in Photoshop, I play with color adjustments; I just generally play. The blending modes in Photoshop are quite powerful and can create endless variety of effects. It’s very intuitive. I just follow whatever idea comes into my head next when I’m playing. I often use Photoshop layer styles for glows or shadows, either around the edge of the image or sometimes on an inner portion of the image. I use the Filter Gallery Effects set of filters to created a painterly look to some mandalas. Basically, I use the many tools which Photoshop has to create effects and bring the mandala to life.
Eventually the mandala “feels done.” I can’t really tell you how I know that, there is just a moment when I know both the energy of the image and the visual effect are “right.” It’s really a delight, because it feels like the mandalas create themselves through me. I think of each one as a living being. I’m just the tool that gives birth to them. Creating mandalas has been a large part of my spiritual journey and spiritual awakening experience. I believe the energy of each one has a potential “message” or effect for the viewer. It’s such a joy to do this. I’m so blessed!
I look forward to your thoughts and comments! (if you are reading this on the home page the link to comments is found to the far right of the post title)
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Take a moment to relax. Breath deeply. Watch the mandalas. Let the mind rest.
Free, downloadable mandala meditations are available by clicking the Freebies link in the Navigation Bar at the top of the page.
Today I am going to once again let you the readers create most of the content for this post. We all have many favorite videos seen on Youtube which we often pass around Facebook or to our friends via email. I thought it would be fun to co-create with you a listing of some of the best. Here are several I really like:
Free Hugs
I Love You
And who can’t resist
Singing The Puppies To Sleep
My most favorite video was of Lorenzo the cat who was “all alone”, but it seems to have been removed from Youtube. Sorry I can’t share that one with you. So what is your favorite video? What video makes you laugh out loud? Inspires you? Is exquisitely beautiful? Uplifts you? Just melts your heart? What can you share with us that will add to our lives?
Please list the URL for one of your favorite Youtube videos in the comments. Then enjoy what others have shared. Thank you for taking the time to give us all something positive to add to our day.
Blessings and Gratitude,
Atmara
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I look forward to your thoughts and comments! (if you are reading this on the home page the link to comments is found to the far right of the post title)
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I have a drawing at the end of each month, from the names on my newsletter list, for a free print of one of my mandalas. Sign up once and be entered each month. Which mandala? That's a surprise, but surprises are fun! Take a moment now and sign up to enter!
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