Treasure Maps

Posted on January 28, 2008 in Art, Community, Creativity, Inspiration, Positive Psychology, Self-Help by Flo.

I recently had the pleasure of meeting with local Art Therapist/Yoga Instructor Andrea Atherton-Nollet and four other creative souls for a few hours of treasure mapping.

Andrea presented insights from Lynn Siprelle  who discusses the art of treasure mapping and her treasure mapping process.  She writes of its role in her life in creating visual pictures of things she wanted and how after 15 years, it all has come true.

Although we were a small group, we intently focused on the task at Andrea’s art table.  Tearing magazines, drawing with pastels, and cutting with scissors, we searched for pictures of the Eiffel Tower, discussed the recent talk we heard by Caroline Myss and created our 2008 Treasure Maps.

I hung mine up immediately in my office when I got home.  Never one to declare myself an artist, the circular shape is unusual for me, with the outside representing my outer self and the inner part representing my quiet, secret inner self.  Parts of it continue to roll around my head.  Each day I see it inviting me to move, step, even jump in the direction where the pictures and words beckon. I’m sometimes slow to approach things. Maybe that will change this year.

Namaste’

[If you're interested in pursuing this creative method for manifesting, many suggestions are available online.]


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  1. Weirdly, I gathered a glue stick and a pile of magazines along with a notebook for exactly this kind of visual treasure map when I was in Taos in December. I had just read in the novel The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay about the “dream journals” that the protagonist’s lover created. I intend to start cutting pictures in the next few weeks. Thank you for this link. It was wonderful to read another person’s idea for how to do this.
    thank you
    Nat

    Comment by Nat — February 12, 2008 @ 8:35 pm

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