Exploring Emotions Through Art to Facilitate Inner Healing

Today's message comes from Creative Helping Hands' "Art with a Message of Hope." Explore a world of vibrant artworks, each paired with a distinct message of encouragement and hope.

“Free at last” 2024. Oil on canvas, 40cm x 40cm. As you observe the painting, focus on the emotions it evokes within you. Reflect on these emotions and any memories associated with them. While reflecting, you can choose to let go of processed negative emotions. Addressing unprocessed emotions supports the inner healing process.

Historically, goldfinches were frequently kept in cages as songbirds. There may be moments when you feel like a caged goldfinch, singing even in constrained circumstances. 

Goldfinches have adapted to obtain food that other birds find inaccessible. Their slender beaks are perfectly designed to extract seeds from plants such as thistles and teasels. In a similar way, you have an innate ability to find solutions to life's difficulties. Though you gained this skill through challenging experiences, it has molded you into a person who can tackle and overcome any hurdle. Previously, you may have had to put in significant effort to earn a living, but now you have the talent to assist others in finding solutions to their problems. 

You have navigated through challenging life situations, and now your heart is free. You have learned to relax, focus, and gain insights through observation. In this newfound freedom, you have found wisdom in rest. You are finally free.

“Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. And we all, who with unveiled faces contemplate the Lord’s glory, are being transformed into his image with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.” - 2 Corinthians 3:17