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| Breathe deeply |
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| Wild Horses |
After being distracted by daily life, such as working, chauffeuring kids around, doing dishes and laundry, I finally got into the creative groove again. I found some captions and words from the dictionary, that I had saved a while ago, that now prompted me to create these pictures.
The first one is about the importance of breathing. That may seem obvious, but more often than not, we don't breathe consciously, only by default sort of...The woman in this picture reminds us to, every once in a while, throughout our busy day, stop, close our eyes and take a deep, deep breath, relax and feel the wind in our face, and allow it to bring us back into the present moment.
The second picture, "Wild Horses, by definition can never be tamed", speaks of mustering up the courage to be authentic and to be ourselves. As women we often forget that we are not only someone's mother, or wife but we are also someone in our own right. We bend and twist to be there for everybody but ourselves, Nurturing and caring is in our nature, but it must never be at the expense of nurturing and caring for ourselves. We must never sacrifice our own inner wildness.
Clarissa Pinkola Estes, in her book Women Who Run With The Wolves, says, "the word wild here is not used in its modern pejorative sense, meaning "out of control", but in its original sense, which means to live a natural life, one in which the criatura , creature, has innate integrity and healthy boundaries."
She continues, "The memory is of our absolute, undeniable, and irrevocable kinship with the wild feminine, a relationship which may have become ghosty with neglect, buried by over-domestication, outlawed by surrounding culture, or no longer understood anymore. We may have forgotten her names, we may not answer when she calls ours, but in our bones we know her, we yearn toward her; we know she belongs to us and we to her."
Have a wonderful week everyone. Breathe deeply, be true to yourself and find your inner wild.
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