Negativity is everywhere, yet there is so much hidden loveliness. So much! 

What we focus on, grows – at least in our perception-  until soon all we see,  hear and  feel is ‘the thing’. And most of the time, because of the news, TV and – yes, even the well-meaning but fear-mongering environmentalists -  ’the thing’ is negative.  People actually think that focusing on all the bad in the world is ‘being realistic’ yet it is no more realistic than focusing on all the good that is there. The negative just has more momentum because it gets so much ‘air time’.  Like those images where you can either see an old hag or a lovely young woman – once you see the one you can’t see the other anymore.   None of us actually see ‘reality’ we only see our perception of reality.

So it takes a little effort to train the attention on the good and the positive. No, let me rephrase that – it takes A LOT of effort to see only the good. It can be a bit tricky, too. Because as soon as you focus ‘Against Negativity’ the focus is again on the negative. It must become a daily practice.  When you become aware that your focus slipped, you make a course correction. Without self-condemnation! – that’s a negative!   

It is the pearl of great price. It is worth everything because it changes your whole life.  When you train your eye to see the hidden loveliness, you see the world through the eyes of Love.   People are not nearly as annoying or scary or mean when you see them through the eyes of compassion.  It gains momentum – suddenly you see beauty everywhere. You find yourself in joy without even knowing why and you become the light you are meant to be.

If you focus on the problem, the problem grows. If you focus on the pain it gets worse.

This is called The Law of Attraction.  The Law of Attraction is not religious or spiritual mumbo-jumbo.   The Law of Attraction is simply a law of nature, like aerodynamics, like buoyancy, like gravity, like electricity.  It does not require that you believe in it.   Gravity exists whether you believe it or not.   But ignoring it will make you fall on your face!

WHATEVER you focus on grows.      This is fantastic news!!!     It means, rather than bitching about what you don’t want you can focus on what you DO WANT – and it grows!   It’s a Law.   It works.   Everytime.

Problem is that it is so easy to focus on the negative. All you have to do is turn on the TV or reach for a newspaper. Heck, even listen to your friends – all you hear is problems, problems, problems.  THAT is the reason you have problems.

You must find a way to turn it all around.  Art is one way to do this.  For me, focusing on a Uquobo piece, or any Abstract Contemporary Art for that matter, makes me feel good – it changes my vibratory frequency.  And that is the key for me to begin focusing on my heart’s desire. – and make it grow!

Your whole world  is a reflection of your own beliefs and opinions. 

How does your world appear to you?  Are you forever the victim or are you a winner?  YOU DECIDED that – nobody else!!

 Are you living in a friendly universe or are you living in a dangerous world where you have to lock your doors and everyone is out to get you?  Either way you get to be right.

 The good news is that if you don’t like what you see there is something you can do.  Right Now. You don’t have to take a class. Everything you need is already in your head because you have the ability to direct your thought. 

Everything is energy. You have the ability to lift your energetic frequency.  This is something that my wife taught me. In her twenty-one year career as a professional golfer with the LPGA, Muffin Spencer-Devlin learned that in order to be successful in the game she had to learn to have dominion over her attention. She couldn’t afford to let one bad shot ruin the rest of the game. She began to train her mind to focus on the good, the beautiful and be grateful for it. That all it ever takes. She changed her energetic frequency, freeing herself to make the next shot a good one.

For me Abstract Contemporary Art can fulfill this purpose. I can look at a piece of Art that speaks to me and I can let it transform me and lift me into a higher energetic frequency. Then the whole world reflects back to me that frequency. Good things happen. People are nicer to me. Lights turn green and parking spaces appear in front of me. Most importantly, I open up to more creativity and a greater expression of who I really am.

The world is a reflection of your own beliefs. Art can be a catalyst to change your energetic frequency and change how the world presents itself to you.

We are inundated with news, news, news. Bad news! The economy is crashing! You may lose your job, your home. Global warming – the planet is dying and it’s all your fault. But don’t forget – there’s a sale a Macy’s – gotta dress for success, don’t ya know!!

It comes from all sides – the newspapers, the television and from conversations around the water cooler. Be afraid! Be very afraid! There isn’t room for anything else!

Is this the purpose of our lives? To dodge and duck trying to make it through; and eek out a meager living until it’s over? Surely there must be a reason for living beyond that?!

The reason is to become conscious that we are more than rats in a rat race, to discover our own voice and to learn to listen to it. It has a lot to say!

Abstract Contemporary Art is nothing but itself. It has no subject, no words, nothing else to clutter up with mind. It is about color and texture and speaks directly to Being. Listen! Feel! Find! – there won’t be a film at eleven about that.

And that is the point! It is not supposed to be anything but itself.

The mind longs to have something to wrap itself around. “Give me a tree, give me a face – something I can hold on to!” it screams. And when it doesn’t get it, sometimes it gets mad. Because with nothing to hold on to, the mind has to retreat and make room for the inner Being, the Divine spark to emerge.

Abstract Contemporary Art is not for the mind, it is for the soul. It communicates only with the inner voice, not with the ego.

If allowed, Abstract Art clears away the baggage that clutters up the psyche and points the way to Consciousness.

I grew up in a home where art was not appreciated. My mother called my early creative efforts ‘dust collectors’. This led me to question my deep longing to create, and it made me ask the question; “Why art? What is the point?”

The answer I found is that Art is simply essential. Art is avenue and art is destination.

Art points to our very reason for Being. Life is very, very precious. We get to live it on Earth, this absolutely stunning jewel that sparkles the blackness of space in blue and white.

It is a paradise, where water falls magically from the sky and a sun warms the soil. A place, where food grows right out of the very ground we walk on! Food in tastes and textures to delight our soul and, quite incidentally, with perfect nutrition to fuel those magnificent machines we call our bodies.

Then there is us – totally and completely unique beings each and every one of us, starting with our fingerprints.

But that’s not how most of us view life, is it? When we were children, maybe. But as soon as we ‘grew up’, as soon as we had to make a living, the magic ceased. We forgot our uniqueness and learned to fit in. We silenced the inner voice that told us to ‘play!’ and began to listen to the news on Channel Four instead. “There’s a swine flu going on! You could die!!”

We got all screwed up and wonder why we feel so depressed. Thank God for pharmaceuticals – better living through chemicals, don’t ya know?!!

That’s why Art!

Art in whatever form it takes, from simple and whimsical to deep and masterful speaks to the inner voice. Some have to be reminded that they even have one! But once that essence is tapped there is opportunity for self discovery and that – not swine flu – is the reason we get up every morning. Everyday is another opportunity to get it right.

Each of us has a reason to be here. Each of us is an essential piece of the puzzle. We are children of the Universe and there is nothing little about any of us. Art is the touchstone to that essential discovery.

For me Art is Beauty. Once we have discovered that inner voice, begun a dialog with it and become conscious of who we are, the real fun begins. We are free to discover Beauty for its own sake.

Once the eye is trained to recognize beauty it begins to see it everywhere, not just in a painting or a sculpture, in people, too and an abiding joy wells up within. We grow beyond survival to a higher perspective – and the view from there is breathtaking!