SOUL MAKING
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- the process by which art, whether visual, literary, or performative, enriches and deepens the human experience by touching upon fundamental aspects of existence. It suggests that art has the capacity to evoke emotions, provoke thought, and engage the senses in a profound way that contributes to the development and enrichment of the human soul.
- an alternate place to know oneself and to look at the depths and meaning of what we do in our daily lives
- Categories of Soul Making
- includes the production, by various forms and methods, of visual representations of images. Any art form such as drawing, sketching, and sculpting can be used to perform this process. Dancing, poetry (or black-out poetry), musical instrument playing, and even film making may also do this.
- when an individual writes down his or her own personal feedback, life values, deep feelings, ideas, ideals, and even high and low emotions. Similar to crafting images, he or she may be portrayed by different means when one craft story is presented. Stories can be relayed via vivid photos, calming music, and impactful sentences.
- "a bridge to the unknown because the instrument creates sounds that exceed our thoughts, emotions, and sensations. The soul is accompanied by a vessel so that the soul will not disappear." Instruments help people explore the magic behind music and its unique impact on a person. Such musical instruments can establish the soul's harmonious sustenance and the mind's balance.
- "Our life is full of movements, it is full of different rhythms, life is full of flowing images accompanied by narratives, and this melodic flow symbolizes how the universe gives every human being the ability in their respective lives to experience the highs and lows." For artists who are more inclined to crafting movement, the pattern that life serves a person provides a source of inspiration
- the artist's reflection of his life and experiences in any piece of art. The approach, preferably, should be methodological. A soul maker, though, when he executes his creative expression, is unbounded
- 5 Phases of Soul Making
- At this point, we recognize that each of us who are interested in our own growth and the ways of our world is a 'seeker.' We are looking for a discipline or method that can help us live in and make sense of the world and heal the wounds of 'self.' The best thing about searching is that it is a vital stage in our growth as soul builders.
- Soul making is about communicating as profoundly as possible with the soul, with other human and non-human beings (and this means the future of humans and non-humans) and with the world. If we are perpetually wondering, we cannot do this. We must find ourselves settled at some point in our lives
- with all its pain and vulnerability, something magical will happen. We tend to note in the midst of the crashing that our activities begin to be in the service of the soul. The capacity to surrender, of course, is restricted by the amount of pain and uncertainty that we can bear! True surrender takes us up and throws us down; calls for the wounds we bear to be accepted; forces us to spend time living in the darkness.
- At some point in the variations between the Settling and Surrender dual polarities, we begin to perceive our practice and life in the universe as Soul Making. We are beginning to become an expert, an injured healer. We're starting to grow up enough to feed our girls, our children, our children. We accept that there's no way to ever get it right.
- When we begin the journey, what we most wish is to soar. To conquer our worldly experience's material realities-to travel. It will not happen, however, if we only want to fly, nor can the psychological version of a spaceship or airplane be created by ourselves. What may be true is that we could find ourselves soaring, together, engulfed in the air and sky, by enabling ourselves to pass through the stages of Soul Making.