Archives for posts with tag: postaday2011

Making “ADHD” Make Music

February 13, 2011 //

Diagnose & medicate people who tune into the Realm of All Knowing and decipher the code of the Universe.

People with ADHD know instinctively that everything interconnects.

Some people function effectively while engaging both sides of the brain. Some people perceive most clearly when they appear to “tune out”.

Some people learn affection by perceiving others’ emotions inside themselves.

Disrupting these natural tendencies may disrupt the individual’s peace.

Let your heartbeats echo the Universe

Love

Directs

Itself

START A FIRE.

Let yourself learn intuitively.

MISUNDERSTOOD wisdom

DESERVES acknowledgement.

Let yourself be led.

Everything flows

Everything congeals

Everything reveals

Everything subsides

Everything resides

Everything abides

People with ADHD know instinctively that everything interconnects.

Tags ADHD autism aspergers diagnosis, art illustration spiritual path, buddhist graphic design, philosophy psychology psychiatry faith, postaday2011, speech and mindfulness, understanding empathy psychic connection

Categories Autism, ADHD, Asperger's Syndrome, Post A Day 2011, The Mind

Mind… No Brain Needed.

February 12, 2011 //

THE MIND DOES NOT NEED A BRAIN.

PERIOD.

Tags art illustration spiritual path, buddhist meditation rocks, cicada pupa larva emerge, confusion awakening life, digital photography, enlightenment buddhism enlightened beings, postaday2011, psychology brain physiology psychic

Categories Post A Day 2011, The Mind

Autism… Ambiguity?

February 11, 2011 //

“Autism”

Diagnoses & prevents people who prefer higher guidance to the rote of the world.

Who waits when the Divine calls?

Thank your open mind for hearing and seeing this message.

There will be no more mis-diagnoses

(manipulation…?)

when you accept all things engaging in possibility.

fear… genocide… war…

all disappear…

If you ignore possibility, chaos ensues.

The old paradigm describes that the meaty stuff lies in the realm into which all things fall.

We all receive lessons and information constantly from a realm in which all things arise.

Your higher guidance brings you there.

Slip into your inner world

Speak when you need to share, tune out the meaningless noise.

It’s your intuition calling.

Fiddle with that toy on your desk. Let your fingers tap and your knees bounce up and down.

Let your fingers tap.

Let your mind wander.

Let yourself go.

What do we ignore so powerfully that our teachers must appear like this?

This world emerges from your thoughts.

Everyone appearing to you is your teacher.

(this post is part one of a script for an upcoming video on autism, asperger’s syndrome and adhd. the preliminary version of the video may be viewed here.)

Tags ADHD autism aspergers diagnosis, ascension new world illusion, educational video animation script, enlightenment buddhism enlightened beings, philosophy psychology psychiatry faith, postaday2011, spiritual path, understanding empathy psychic connection

Categories Autism, ADHD, Asperger's Syndrome, Post A Day 2011, The Mind

Autism Asperger’s ADHD For Everyone

February 10, 2011 //

Let’s begin at the end of questioning.

All people have a place of peace and learning.

A quiet peace is acceptable to others. Disruptive peace calls for diagnosis.

When someone receives a diagnosis of Autism, Asperger’s, or ADHD, the world changes for them and others.

Diagnoses may lead to labeling; labeling may lead to stereotyping; stereotyping may lead to dismissiveness.

Everyone in this world is unique. Everyone in the world deserves to be recognized as a unique individual.

Developing and receiving diagnoses changes the world. For adults, receiving a diagnosis can be like finding a missing puzzle piece.

It may also bring relief and understanding. It may project confusion and fear. It may arouse resistance to being “labeled”.

We don’t always notice when we perceive things differently from those around us.

How does one learn he’s colorblind?

Or deaf?

Don’t worry about diagnosis. Understand yourself.

Working with others requires compromise. Compromise implies mutual effort.

Into this changing world, many people will continue to emerge who are not “normal”. Some day there will be no “normal” that will develop from formulated expectations.

Someday, “normal” will mean different and unique.

That will be a beautiful day.

We work with others in ways we cannot always perceive immediately.

We interact with others in our own ways.

What a beautiful day.

(this post is part one of a script for an upcoming video on autism, asperger’s syndrome and adhd. the preliminary version of the video may be viewed here.)

Tags ADHD autism aspergers diagnosis, autistic people understanding, educational video animation script, enlightenment, philosophy psychology psychiatry faith, postaday2011, understanding empathy psychic connection

Categories Autism, ADHD, Asperger's Syndrome, Post A Day 2011, The Mind

Change And Difference 04

February 9, 2011 //

CHANGE AND DIFFERENCE 04.

Fourth in a Series of Four.

Getting there:

10. completion

11. dissolution

12. acceptance

Moving right along.

sketches 1-3

sketches 4-6

sketches 7-9

Tags art illustration spiritual path, buddhism, completion dissolution acceptance, ink sketch comic strip, journal the Buddhist path, minimalist graphic novel, postaday2011

Categories Illustration, Post A Day 2011, Relationships

Sketching To Create New Worlds

February 8, 2011 //

Here’s the finished version of the sketch I posted two days ago…

I added color, hoping this will carry the eye about the piece more so that the different components pull together and tell a story.

The eyes open the window to the soul…

They also comprehend and mis-apprehend…

One look into a person’s eyes can reveal a lifetime of emotion, experience, revelation, and connection.

Hope (that’s her in the upper left corner…), even the tiniest hope, can light(en) fresh buds to spring from amidst the wilted refuse of exhausted promise…

(techie note… this is my first – completed – piece with digital watercolor. the ink-work was done by hand with a fountain pen. i think i’m hooked…)

Tags art illustration spiritual path, art ink digital watercolor, corel 11 watercolor, eyes window soul, hope new world, life religion spiritual progress, postaday2011

Categories Emotions and Actions, Illustration, Post A Day 2011

Could Fox News Please Stop Yelling At Me?

February 6, 2011 //

Sometimes the delivery kills the message.

I can’t tell you – personally – the message that Fox News delivers, because I can’t stand to listen to or watch it.

I’ve been meditating (regularly) for 12 years – maybe longer. One thing I’ve learned from that practice is that anything that delivers aggressively disturbs my mind, and is not worth my time and energy.

I guess I’ve gotten pretty sensitive. If I walk into a room, even if the TV volume is muted, I often know right away if Fox News is playing. And I want to leave – immediately.

It’s kind of a shame, because I do know this: Fox News broadcasts people talking. And these people really – REALLY – want to be heard. But I’m not hearing them…

When someone gets in my face, I tune it out.

I figure that if they feel they have to brutally accost me with a riot mentality, then I’m probably better off not hearing what they have to say.

And the world – my world – is far better off without that energy.

Our world arises from our minds. What we absorb and pay attention to… that’s what manifests our world.

I want a world filled with thoughtful, considerate, well-researched objective journalism, that presents facts and credits the populace with the intelligence to reach their own conclusions.

I’m happy to consider anyone’s point of view; I just don’t like being bullied, so I refuse to participate.

When it’s all over but the shouting, the shouting tends to drown out the answers. When Fox News stops yelling, I’ll start listening.

Tags buddhism, choice point view editorial, fox news responsible journalism, postaday2011, riot mentality politics message, speech and mindfulness, world arises mind illusory

Categories General Rants, Post A Day 2011

Change And Difference 03

February 6, 2011 //

CHANGE AND DIFFERENCE 03…

Third in a Series of Four… from a time of confusion and hope.

8. curiosity

9. resolve

10. action

Action carries us forward.

sketches 1-3

sketches 4-7

Tags art illustration spiritual path, buddhism, curiosity resolve action, ink sketch comic strip, journal the Buddhist path, minimalist graphic novel, postaday2011

Categories Illustration, Post A Day 2011, Relationships

It’s Looking Like A Sketchy Week…

February 5, 2011 //

Thank you, Elizabeth, for the wonderful idea of using my artwork as blog posts!

For three weeks now I’ve been scrambling double-time, writing frantically and then scurrying to create original images for the posts… It never occurred to me that folks might just enjoy the images for their own sake.

I made this sketch yesterday while waiting on a bookstore to open… One of my friends was really on my mind, and I sketched, wishing the love that I was putting into the sketch to find its way to them.

I was thinking about how often we move through sadness and confusion and fear to get to better places. Along the way, the world can feel dark and terrifying.

Sometimes when we detect the tiniest tear in the veil of illusion of this world, the shaky ground seems to yield into abyss…

This afternoon, I added color to the sketch… You’ll get to see it in a couple days!

Tags art illustration spiritual path, caring for friends, depression bi-polar disorder, ink sketch comic strip, postaday2011, sadness fear and optimism, sending love and light

Categories Art, Post A Day 2011, The Mind