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FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
First Impulse Painting
It's a way to meet that which is wordless that wants to express itself through you without regard to how it's going to look. The basic principles are:
• listen to impulses, body sensations, feelings and allow them to guide color choice and brush stroke
• follow your energy… feel and paint, more so than paint your feelings
• honor what shows up even if you don't like it
• be curious about the contrary voices within
• move toward the resistance presented by unwanted and uncomfortable feelings rather than away, and to hold them as invitations to choose a color and move the brush
There are many:
• a renewed feeling of aliveness
• a coming home to oneself… to an innocence and wholeness all but lost growing up
• an opportunity to take creative and emotional risks that spill over into daily life
• ongoing courage to face the unknown
• a deepened experience and trust in one's intuitive voice and the courage to follow it
• a tool to help metabolize trauma, however it's not a substitute for trauma therapy
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