Painting as a Universal Medicine: The philosophies of Serge Benhayon
“Expression is Everything.” ~ Serge Benhayon
The way I live and work today, whether it is teaching or working on a painting, has been inspired by the way of life and presentations of Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine.
Serge presents the Ancient Wisdom as known by Imhotep, Patanjali, Pythagoras, Jesus, Leonardo Da Vinci, Roger Bacon, Siddhartha Gautama and many more wise philosophers, scientists and teachers.
Serge lives what he presents, a true and loving way of life that is based on simple, practical ways to construct our day. The gentle breath meditation is one technique that literally breathes us into a different vibration, calming and harmonising the body without any bells or whistles, or trying hard.
When I consider my life before and after Universal Medicine it may not look much different on the outside, but it feels very different on the inside.
Learning to pay attention to details, how I wake up, how lovingly I perform my morning rituals, the intentions I make about how to live each day, in co-creation (with an understanding that everything I do effects the All) what I eat, what choices I make each evening, how I put myself to sleep, all of these small choices have built new foundations in my body, which affects my ability to be present and loving and be with myself in each moment of my day.
Spending time on healing from and reconfiguring old patterns of thinking and behaviour has resulted in more vitality, harmony and purpose than I thought was possible.
Learning about energy, and the simple and grand fact that everything we do or say or think comes in the quality of energy we choose and (the energy which we allow to run us) brings a whole new understanding of responsibility in art.
Will the painting carry sympathy, anger, sadness? Or will it emanate harmony, joy and presence and simply provide a point of inspiration for the viewer?
Do we really want to dump our emotions into a painting that will hang in someone’s home?
Of course the answer is No, if we allow ourselves to really feel it, but how often as artists do we consider the end result and ongoing impact of our artistic expression?
And of course this doesn’t start and end with art, every industrially designed object, film poster, advertisement, video game has a potential to harm or not by its design. But until we consider the energetic impact of the art we create we are inadvertently adding to the mess.
Through a deeper understanding of myself through conscious presence there is a deeper awareness of what I now create as an artist and this has brought a new depth of quality to my work.
We don’t have to be bigger and better than the next artist, offering something that is playful, joyful and of our true nature provides a true quality in our art – and this can be felt universally.
To learn more about the philosophy and sciences of Universal Medicine see the website.
Serge presents the Ancient Wisdom as known by Imhotep, Patanjali, Pythagoras, Jesus, Leonardo Da Vinci, Roger Bacon, Siddhartha Gautama and many more wise philosophers, scientists and teachers.
Serge lives what he presents, a true and loving way of life that is based on simple, practical ways to construct our day. The gentle breath meditation is one technique that literally breathes us into a different vibration, calming and harmonising the body without any bells or whistles, or trying hard.
When I consider my life before and after Universal Medicine it may not look much different on the outside, but it feels very different on the inside.
Learning to pay attention to details, how I wake up, how lovingly I perform my morning rituals, the intentions I make about how to live each day, in co-creation (with an understanding that everything I do effects the All) what I eat, what choices I make each evening, how I put myself to sleep, all of these small choices have built new foundations in my body, which affects my ability to be present and loving and be with myself in each moment of my day.
Spending time on healing from and reconfiguring old patterns of thinking and behaviour has resulted in more vitality, harmony and purpose than I thought was possible.
Learning about energy, and the simple and grand fact that everything we do or say or think comes in the quality of energy we choose and (the energy which we allow to run us) brings a whole new understanding of responsibility in art.
Will the painting carry sympathy, anger, sadness? Or will it emanate harmony, joy and presence and simply provide a point of inspiration for the viewer?
Do we really want to dump our emotions into a painting that will hang in someone’s home?
Of course the answer is No, if we allow ourselves to really feel it, but how often as artists do we consider the end result and ongoing impact of our artistic expression?
And of course this doesn’t start and end with art, every industrially designed object, film poster, advertisement, video game has a potential to harm or not by its design. But until we consider the energetic impact of the art we create we are inadvertently adding to the mess.
Through a deeper understanding of myself through conscious presence there is a deeper awareness of what I now create as an artist and this has brought a new depth of quality to my work.
We don’t have to be bigger and better than the next artist, offering something that is playful, joyful and of our true nature provides a true quality in our art – and this can be felt universally.
To learn more about the philosophy and sciences of Universal Medicine see the website.