A Blog About Relaxing With Doodling
This can cover anything you can’t fit into another category. It is just an “expressive” WordToon.
It’s easy to get into, giving yourself negative messages of not being good enough or not being accepted. Especially in our competitive, high pressure, frenzied lives. This WordToons message raises awareness of possibly telling ourselves down-putting stuff. Awareness is important. Then you can begin stopping the negative message and changing it to a good message such as “I am fine the way I AM. Bravo!
Here is a wonderful mantra to practice daily. Simply repeat this phrase as you go about your work. Each time you day this to yourself, add a positive like good (I AM good), getting better, feeling good, healthy, happy, fun. But watch out. Be sure no negatives slip in. This mantra is designed to counter any negative messages you might say to yourself. You can stay with the positive in your daily life.
You can make a copy of I AM. Just click on the black WordToon title to get the toon on its own page. Then go to the File menu and down to the Print command and click. Cut out the print and put it up to remind you.
A little imagination shapes these letters into what they’re talking about. Smell the Darjeeling?
From my Book: I Do WordToons and You Can Too! I’ve doubled up HA and added color for this example from my book.
As you can see, color adds much to your word’s expressiveness. Sometimes after adding color, I want to go back in and strengthen the letter outlines to make sure each letter reads OK. It’s interesting to me how each doodling stage tells me what to do next. I wonder now, what the WordToon for “Doubled over with Laughter” might look like?
This is a new technology designed to give ever faster computer speed. This electronic blanket will spread over us with alarming speed. It’s to give us something “they” assume we want. I wasn’t asked. My question: Is it worth the unknown and unseen but real damage it will also give us. As the phrase goes: “Just day no.”
We hear much about this commodity swelling the center aisles of our grocery stores. There are lots of manufactured tastes to create a desire for the “munchies” every day. This stuff is causing unusual problems in our bodies. Time to cut down? “Oh, but I’ll have just one more!”
Because of the pressures on us each day. You can feel depleted. Where is the YOU of you? The American social commentator, Joseph Campbell, writing in the 1970s, had this to say about a personal, what he called sacred, space. He reflected on the pressures of modern life.
“This is an absolute necessity for anybody today. You must have a room, a certain hour of the day where you don’t know what’s in the news, who your friends are, what you owe anybody. This is a place where you can simply experience and bring forth what you are and what you might be. A place of creative incubation. At first you might find that nothing happens. But if you have your sacred space and use it, something will eventually happen. You have to try it to find out.
In your sacred space you get to know the “thou” feeling.”
It’s very important for you to find or make a quiet place to be by yourself — to create a situation in which you are with yourself only — to create a special time. Also see the following WordToon “No Time.”
Your doodling time is personal time. Time to find yourself and discover the PEACEFUL you. Doodling is a process waiting to be discovered. Ideas and messages can and do pop up as you devote your personal time to this process. I like to say that this process can take you from STRESSED to DESSERTS:
If you don’t get it, try bringing a mirror to mind (or the computer screen and there see the reflective results).
Life can get grindingly boring at times. Then it’s time to create your own change. It can be done with the flick of an attitude. Think about it. This is something that’s within your power. Come up with fresh routines and then notice how it feels when you’ve done it.