Artistic Application And Its Role In Holistic Healing.
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“Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their mind cannot change anything.” ~ George Bernard Shaw
In response to the article containing these prophetic words, ensuing interest and dialogue soon followed. I wrote a statement that spoke to resolve, and came to writing this piece.
In the tradition of storytelling, when telling or writing from (and about) personal experience, it is best shared after the work has been done to resolve the narrative. I will begin this story then, from resolution. The purpose of my telling is not to catch and hold the reader, it is to gently and swiftly free us with awareness.
For these words, I went out hunting
on these notes I climb, I know I ride them best
There is a place I lie next to your fountain
where the songs I’m singing come to rest
In these hills, I find I have been wakened
after making off with more than I did know
In those eyes, my love has been shaken
from every drop of living that did grow…
My true inner expression began with the shutdown of my being.
After a time, the search in the external world for sensible people, with sensible information, and rebelling against the insensible, sent my body into a temporary paralysis state. It was an experience of total disconnection, labeled scientifically as Guillain–Barré syndrome.
The disconnection was devastatingly painful, and raw, broken and depressing. Somewhere beyond the suffering, however, I found a sanctuary.
I created wellness, through focus upon the spirit of creation and the innate knowledge that life, natural and flowing, is our therapist to guide us, if we pause long enough to reflect in its teaching.
May the wind be your horse
For nothing can ride you
May the waves be your force to make it back home
The river of course is running beside you
The hearth is the source of which I have known…
If we are to work at our mental and physical potential with others, and with the planet, awareness and nurturing of the creative spirit is vital. Without this awareness and personal reflection, we are browsing in a vacant space, becoming mentally full of every-thing, and physically consisting of no-thing. We have no strength left to hold the mirror and leave the inner room empty.
As browsers, we are defined only by our reaction to the external environment.
While browsing, reaction is often impulsive. We put mass energy into creating vast and intense levels of cursory connection, yet are not prepared for direct response and often respond with fear.
When the panic and manic, those things that we wed
drop out from the past and into our head
In the early morning with roosters and crows
the laughter and spirit fall down in the holes
Sick is a pace, disease is the throng
the line is the c(l)ue, this line is too long…
The evolution from reactive to intentional beings necessitates minimizing our compliance to consumerism.
Creatively, there is no expression more powerful than observing our freedom!
The twelve bar blues is a working rhythm, designed to assist in freedom. I sing a song from experience at the FedEx Corporate Hub in Memphis, TN — a tribute to those who are manhandled by expanding greed.
I stepped back in time
on the Memphis line
fed the corporate package blues
Stepped back in line
to an age old crime
bred the corporate package blues
When the belt comes round hear the slaving sound
wrapped in the corporate package blues
breathing got so heavy
the old twelve will get me through
consumerism steady, caught the corporate package blues
Send a message, incite the mind
the drums are sounding right on time
beating the corporate package blues.
The artistic medium serves well as a stronghold, from where we can develop and refine creative expression. As such, I found a stronghold in my paralysis, to internally create a spiritually supporting mind/body, and free it from reactive influence through artistic application.
My work in the therapy field has supported the concept that creative awareness is the key to mental and physical well-being.
Hidden within, often under the diagnoses of illness and behind the guarded lines of pain and suffering, is the sanctuary from where we may draw resolution to create a healthier story.
Blow in wind
where’s your home
and in whose canyons have you flown
Stay awhile
but be kind
in these walls
you blow down round inside
Seed the grass
make things grow
shine the stars
shake your snow
Been awhile
in sight and mind
carvings deeper on the walls of time
Sow in wind
seek the knowing
reap these minds from overflowing
Blow in wind
the kind of song
steer our lyrics
adrift so long
Blow in wind
here’s your home
blood in here
flesh and bone
Been awhile
in sight and mind
carvings deeper on the walls of mine.
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Robert Hutchings‘ knowledge of poetry/lyrics/music/healing has been forged in industry, and polished by academia. He has chosen to live a path of healing, following a past of physical injury and mental suffering from a rugged, competitive lifestyle. Robert is of Welsh/English descent, born to an inner fire, a branding for curse and cure. His journey has brought him to an awareness of artistic application and its role in holistic healing. Robert practices with an MS in the field of psychotherapy, and as a seasoned troubadour, to enlighten those who are oppressed, and educate those who oppress. He is versed in many mind/body integrative practices, of both Western and Eastern ideologies. He is a wordsmith, freed to compose peace.
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