Well, well, well, look at you sitting there.

Sitting there looking at me, while I’m looking at you and you are looking at me.

Welcome to another good conversation.

Welcome to another good conversation where we’re gonna talk about, Video arting.

Yes, we are.

We’re gonna talk about video arting, and how we can use video arting as a tool for self-healing, and facilitating self mastery.

Because that’s what we’re all about, right?

I have no idea what we’re gonna talk about.

I just thought I’d try and wing it, as I usually do.

Sometimes I plan these things out,

but my plans never go as planned.

So I stop trying to plan them out and I just try to like, open the door and see what comes out.

See what comes out.

And so the question is what’s gonna come out in regards to video arting?

And in regards to self mastery?

How do these two work together to help us raise our frequency?

So off the top of my head, when I think about my own personal history, regarding my healing journey, and how it transpired into becoming an art project.

And how I started using media, and documenting as a way to you know, document myself.

And like I’ve mentioned in the past, I don’t know why I did what I did.

I really don’t.

It was like, just the only thing I had to do, like, it just felt like if I did this it gave me a reason to live as I was being taken down by cancer treatment…slowly, but also quickly killing myself.

Every injection.

Every decision to poison.

Cut.

And burn myself.

As I was falling apart, documenting my process kept me alive in a weird way.

And before cancer happened, I didn’t see myself outside of the reflection I saw in the mirror.

And I didn’t understand what that reflection was telling me because I always had a way to distract from healing myself.

From facing myself.

And those distractions were the same kind of distractions most of us use.

The distraction of a relationship.

The distraction of media and entertainment.

The distraction of music.

Which is pretty much the same thing,

The distraction of exercise.

See, one of my biggest tools was exercise and fitness because for me, exercise and fitness gave me this confidence.

It gave me an inner confidence that I didn’t have unless I was like beating myself up in the gym.

Working my physical body to the extreme made me feel like I was good at something.

And because I was like an athlete anyway, it was easy for me to, you know, go run 10 kilometers, and get the juice from the endorphins, and just let that run through me, and give me this false sense of high, and this false sense of love.

So essentially I thought self love was found in the gym.

I thought self love was found in nutrition.

I thought self love was caring about my toxins intake.

Like who I was before cancer was a natural health crusader.

And I was doing the work to be physically healthy.

But I had no idea.

No idea.

No awareness.

No mental awareness of my emotional side.

My mental side.

I didn’t know about law of attraction.

I didn’t know about fear versus love.

And so I didn’t even realize that who I was seeing in the mirror. I didn’t actually love.

Don’t look…don’t look, if I don’t look too long, if I don’t spend too much time observing self then I don’t have to realize how much we hate ourself.

And the cancer situation really forced me to face that, because guess what happened?

Guess what happens when you poison cut and burn yourself?

Guess what happens when you put an implant in your chest, and it fucks up your alignment so bad, you can hardly walk.

You’re not going to the gym anymore, bro.

You’re not going to be running those 10 kilometer runs, killing yourself in hopes to feel good.

No, guess what?

Guess what?

You have no way out.

You can’t lift weights.

You can’t run.

You can barely do yoga.

I guess your only choice is to meditate.

How boring is that?

To just meditate all the time.

No, thank you.

I don’t wanna meditate because then I might have to really hear the voices in my head.

Then I might have to really hear how much I hate myself.

Then I might have to remember all the times I felt unloved.

All the times I felt ashamed.

All the times I felt stepped on, and taken advantage of.

And all the times I felt used and abused, and humiliated.

And all the times I failed.

I might have to hear all of this if spend too much time alone…in my stillness.

That’s why I always say, you know, the chronic runner or the marathon runner.

The fitness junkie is really just running away from their past, and it’s just another way to cope.

Chronic exercise, obsession with physical health is a coping mechanism.

Absolutely.

Unless you’re integrating it with an emotional routine, and a spiritual routine, you’re not going to be in alignment.

I learn the hard way how dangerous it is to ignore how we feel.

How dangerous it is to be so married to one way of being and seeing things.

And, and the hardest part about that is, is that you don’t know how narrow minded you are.

You don’t know the tunnel vision you’re in until that tunnel vision comes collapsing down, and suddenly you see so much more.

And that’s essentially what happened to me with the cancer stuff.

My whole world got shattered.

I guess I was just lucky in the sense that I was able to see my situation as an opportunity to grow.

And so as my world falls apart, yes, it’s super hard.

Sometimes we’re just not willing to change, because we’re comfortable with what we know.

We like what we know.

We like our same old, same old, even if we’re not happy, you know?

This is the shadow side of us that usually likes to play it safe.

Some people are so okay with their self hate.

They’re so okay with giving their power away, and they’re so okay with being told what to do, and how to live, how to breathe, and what to put in their bodies.

Cuz you know how diamonds get made, right?

Like they grow in the dark and under pressure.

Under a lot of pressure.

And so when we are faced with really hard situations that feel very dark, and very unfair, and very hard to get out of.

You always have what you need inside of you.

You always have what you need to get out.

To rise above.

And that power…

That thing is self-love.

So you have to face yourself.

And so for whatever reason, documenting myself became my job.

My mission.

And the word arting.

The audio arting.

And the photo arting.

And the alcohol inks, of course, you know, they play such a huge role in all of this because the alcohol inks are what really taught me about lines and shapes, and layers and effects.

So depending on how you dry the ink will influence a specific result.

And this result looks like lines and shapes.

So if you let it dry just by the air, it’s going to give you a certain kind of effect.

If you dry it with a heat gun, you’re gonna get another kind of effect.

And if you dry it with an airbrush, you’re gonna get another effect.

And those effects will vary depending on how much ink is involved.

And that will vary depending on if you add gold, I love adding gold.

Gold is what gives it the rich effect.

So alcohol inks really taught me about lines and shapes, and layers and effects, and vibrancy, and richness, and color, and how we can influence our emotions. and if we can make our emotions feel good.

If we can create beautiful emotional lines and shapes.

That feel symmetrical and have a flow to them that feel good.

Well then we will be able to create a reality that feels good because, because, because what we feel, we make real.

Because we are magnets.

Our heart is a magnet.

Our light bodies are huge.

And so once again, it’s alcohol inks that empowered me with this information on how to raise my frequency.

And anyway, my point is is that it’s because of alcohol inks that I was able to find the writer in me.

It’s because of alcohol inks that I was able to find the audio art in me.

And it’s because of alcohol inks that I was able to find the photo art in me.

And all of those things really helped me

cultivate the video art in me.

And video art, you know, there’s something about it that really, really, really empowers us in a way that none of the other arts can.

Because with video art we are basically blending together all arting modalities.

We’re blending together the lessons, and the principles that we’ve learned from Alcohol Inks.

And we’re blending together the lessons and principles we learn from writing and word art.

That’s really what I love about video Arting, is that when we integrate perspective by capturing video, and capturing scenes.

Capturing your life…

Day to day life.

Capturing myself.

Capturing nature.

And using the principles of perspective to find unique perspectives, to find creative ways capture a scene, and to capitalize on color, and to be aware of your surroundings, and the lines and shapes that you’re seeing in the infrastructure of your community.

Or you are wherever you are.

Your environment.

When you are a video artist.

You are hyper aware of your surroundings, and your environment, and how it feels.

And if your objective is always to feel good, then you’re going to start looking at life from that point of view.

You’re going to be looking for the lines and shapes that feel good.

You’re going to be curious about your surroundings.

You’re going to be looking for the unique perspective.

And so if that’s what you’re looking for, and if you’re stepping into that role of the video artist.

If you’re looking at life like it’s video art.

And if you are really interested in creating stories that feel good then you can do that anytime.

All the time.

I just use my cell phone camera, and just always having it on you makes it easy for you to capture scenes all the time.

And so that’s what I started doing, you know.

In addition to photo arting, and audio arting, and word arting,

I was also video arting.

And capturing my life, and capturing my journey via video art has really helped me look at myself.

Face myself…in a whole different way.

And I have to say that video arting has been the hardest one to pursue, because like I said.

Not really loving myself.

And having to do this project where I’m forced to document myself.

And face myself.

And edit myself.

And share myself.

Be vulnerable enough to be seen.

What if everybody hates me as much as I hate myself?

That’s the risk we take.

But as I’ve gone through the process of documenting, and becoming, and healing.

I have been able to overcome a lot of that self hate, and that voice that always used to come up, and just punch me in the face with how much they hate who they see.

Where does that voice come from?

I know.

I know who you are.

And guess what?

You don’t affect me anymore.

So the good news is the work does work, but you have to be willing to show up.

To do the work.

It’s so hard.

It’s so hard to be like, I should document this.

Like to do what I’ve done.

To do what I’ve done.

Do you understand the discipline that is required to do what I’ve done?

I couldn’t have done any of it without cannabis.

Cannabis oil really forces you to get still, and it really helps to heal the nervous system.

And one of the biggest challenges for me as it relates to my healing journey, was getting myself out of fight or flight.

Being an exercise junkie, and constantly feeling like I needed to run, was a very clear sign that I was in fight or flight.

Running was the only time I felt safe.

Do you understand how detrimental that is to your health?

It’s not surprising I got sick.

But what is surprising is that I have overcome it.

Because most people don’t get out of where I was.

And I might not be where I wanna be, but I’m a lot closer to something extraordinary.

And something delicious.

And something rich.

Much closer than I’ve ever been.

And so, regardless of where I end up going…

I’m proud of my progress, and proud of what I’ve done.

I just feel really blessed to be where I am, and to have had the support and the guidance from my spiritual team.

Because if it wasn’t for them I also wouldn’t be where I am.

So, you know, I’m trying to help you understand, innerstand, and overstand that there are tools out there that we can use to help us do the work.

But it’s important for us to realize, that there’s more than one way to skin a cat.

I don’t know if that’s a very good analogy, but I’m just saying that there’s so many different points of view that you can take on any given topic.

And so what works for you, might not work for someone else.

And what works for someone else might not work for you.

But that doesn’t mean that they’re wrong, and you’re right.

And it doesn’t mean that something doesn’t work.

Or something does work.

Ultimately, we have to let go of our judgements.

And our perspectives.

And our beliefs because it is that, that keeps us trapped in these ideologies that are very limiting, and self-destructing.

And when we can change our mind.

When we can drop the barriers.

When we can drop this tunnel vision, we change everything.

We change our actions, and our thoughts.

And our feelings.

And that’s how we, over time create a whole new way of life.

That’s how the systems die.

That’s how the monster dies.

That’s how the pain dies.

And that’s how we come to life in a way that we’ve never, ever truly have been able to be.

I think that wraps my thoughts on video art for now.

I mean, I’m sure there’s more where that came from, but ultimately, I want you to consider how video arting can help you get to know yourself.

And face yourself.

And see yourself in a different way.

And the more you get to know yourself.

The more you’re going to remove the fear of yourself.

And I think that’s really what a lot of people have going on in their background…

Is the fear of who they could be.

The fear of who they’re meant to be.

Because there’s so many of us carrying around so much shame, and insecurity, and thus heartbreak.

And this is what causes the imposter syndrome.

This is what suppresses the inner artist.

This is what causes the war of art.

And more than anything, I just want you…whoever you are.

Whoever you think you are.

I just think you have come with gifts that are dying to come out.

I think that we are all artists in some way, shape, or form.

The real work is about discovering what your art is.

And when you do that you will start to awaken more of your spiritual gifts.

And that is really what we need to do as human beings.

We need to let go of this really limited way of thinking.

And start healing our hearts so we can expand our mind.

And in that we open the door to this heaven on earth that we all so desperately want.

Well, we can’t get there unless we’re willing to do what it takes.

And so Art Mastery as a tool for facilitating self-healing, and self mastery is what I recommend.

And the stories found in the Art Stories Project will give you an idea of how it’s done.

So, I mean, you don’t have to do what I did, but I’m showing you my work, even though it’s scary as eff to me.

I’m showing you my work to show you how I did it.

And I guarantee you that you have a brilliant idea…

A brilliant way of doing what I did in your own unique way.

And so I just hope that I can empower you, and give you some ideas on how you can start doing the Art Mastery work too.

And so Video Arting is another tool in the toolbox.

So that’s it.

Thank you for listening to this episode, and be sure to check out the next episode where we discuss how to integrate all your different pieces of content into storylines, and how storylines can help us facilitate alignment.

Precision alignment.

And that’s like butter on warm bread.

You know what I mean?

Alignment is like butter on warm homemade bread.