Sublime

All great artists are, said Arnold, imbued with ‘the aspiration to leave the world better and happier than they find it’.

I love the expression of the great French psychiatrist Pierre Janet: “Every life is a piece of art, put together with all means available.”

the work of psychologist Akhter Ahsen. Ahsen developed a process by which the practitioner taps into eidetic imagery as a therapeutic tool by posing a series of questions that call to mind specific images. The therapist then helps the patient understand the physical and/or emotional responses to these images, and to discern their meaning. An

feeling attitudes such as fluidity, compassion, humor, playfulness, and shamanism allowed these basic beliefs to come to life in practice. I elevate these feeling attitudes to the level of a skill appreciating and cultivating them with as much love and depth as ordinary techniques. The concept of metaskills implies a new art form or discipline that

So is playing with art supplies; not to produce art, but to enjoy colours and textures and find the shapes of our feelings.