{"id":1427,"date":"2012-11-30T10:20:14","date_gmt":"2012-11-30T18:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lisathorpeartist.wordpress.com\/?p=1427"},"modified":"2012-11-30T10:20:14","modified_gmt":"2012-11-30T18:20:14","slug":"confessions-of-a-wandering-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lisathorpe.com\/index.php\/2012\/11\/30\/confessions-of-a-wandering-mind\/","title":{"rendered":"Confessions of a Wandering Mind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lisathorpeartist.wordpress.com\/2012\/11\/30\/confessions-of-a-wandering-mind\/131-breath4x-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1430\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1430\" alt=\"Breath\" src=\"http:\/\/lisathorpeartist.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/11\/131-breath4x1.jpg?resize=540%2C711\" height=\"711\" width=\"540\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I have a confession to make- I am a terrible meditator (apparently meditat<span style=\"text-decoration:underline;\">or<\/span> isn\u2019t a word but as far as I\u2019m concerned it is now)- ok I\u2019ve said it.\u00a0 I am awful at clearing my mind, horrid at relaxing my mental gymnastics, spotty at resourcing my seven chakras.\u00a0 In short I can\u2019t stop thinking.\u00a0 In a ten minute meditation I might have a brief period where my breath and my heart beat is all that my mind in fixing on but soon a little voice will say- \u201chey guess what you did it your cleared your mind\u201d- and suddenly it\u2019s all muddy again, sometimes it\u2019s so bad that when the 3 bells chime to mark the end all I\u2019ve managed to do is clarify my shopping list for the day.\u00a0 Ah me what\u2019s a mediocre meditator to do?\u00a0 Keep trying I suppose.\u00a0 There are oodles of studies about the benefits of meditation from stress relief to pain release and just plain old happiness.<\/p>\n<p>This week during a meditation at the beginning of yoga class Marie (the fabulous teacher) led us, as she always does, in a beginning meditation.\u00a0 Grounding, relaxing, breath\u2026 somewhere in there she spoke of our place smack dap in the middle of earth and heaven.\u00a0 My mind took off with this image (I know I was supposed to be clearing not creating) I love the notion of the human condition grounded on this solid earth but stretching, striving, searching for heaven.\u00a0 Our breath is a constant reminder of both; our animal, earthly need to pump oxygen to body and brain, and this ethereal thing of air filling our lungs feeding our mind and soul driving our seeking and our searching.\u00a0 So while I can\u2019t say I cleared my mind in meditation I can say it lead me to these 4 monoprints.\u00a0 In my meditative vision I saw a standing figure with hands in prayer position at the heart with light and color placing the figure in silhouette. Suddenly I snapped from vision to thinking, thinking about how to translate the vision to the page and of course once I began thinking- the lovely figure full of simplicity and breath was gone.\u00a0 I spent some of the week recapturing her in these four monoprints; an ode to the process of thinking about not thinking.<\/p>\n<p><i>These 4 monoprints and others along with jewelry, cards and other small art pieces will be for sale this weekend and next at the following sales:<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>\u2022Sunday December 2<sup>nd<\/sup>,12-4pm \u00a0in San Francisco at <a href=\"https:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?q=379+Eureka+Street,+San+Francisco,+CA&amp;hl=en&amp;sll=37.269174,-119.306607&amp;sspn=15.34945,11.821289&amp;oq=379+Eure&amp;hnear=379+Eureka+St,+San+Francisco,+California+94114&amp;t=m&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;hq=&amp;z=15&amp;vpsrc=0&amp;iwloc=A)\">379 Eureka Street<\/a> (4<sup>th<\/sup> house from the corner of 21<sup>st<\/sup> &amp; Eureka<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>\u2022Saturday December 8<sup>th<\/sup>, 10am-4pm in Healdsburg 314 Center Street (up the stairs between Mr. Moons &amp; Snow Bunny).<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Hope to see some of you there.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a confession to make- I am a terrible meditator (apparently meditator isn\u2019t a word but as far as I\u2019m concerned it is now)- ok I\u2019ve said it.\u00a0 I am awful at clearing my mind, horrid at relaxing my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[37,88],"tags":[202,516,532,825],"class_list":["post-1427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-inspiration","tag-breath","tag-meditation","tag-monoprint","tag-yoga"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - 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