Space Clearing with Collage

Collage is one of the most powerful Space Clearing tools in my Interior Alignment^TM toolkit. I’m so passionate about it that I hardly know where to begin, how to narrow my focus enough to share with you just one aspect of what I see as this multi-faceted, multi-dimensional gem that is collage. So for my premier post here on the IA Blog, I’d like to talk a little about how you can work with collage to create clarity wherever there is confusion.

It recently dawned on me that I use collage as a way to practice meditation. I was having lunch the other day with a friend who is a yoga teacher and I was describing my ongoing collage group workshops to her:

”Its basically a form of meditation because you relax and switch off the thinking part of your brain. As you relax and breath, you focus on the images of paper in front of you and you allow them to guide you. They have a consciousness all their own if you can surrender your personal agenda and simply listen.”

“Wow! This sounds fascinating!” said my friend. And I echoed her with, “Yah, wow! I never described it like that before.”

There are many different methods of meditation from sitting and focusing on breathing to walking and chanting. Some people garden, golf or fish as forms of meditation. Me, I collage. Meditation is all about getting as still as you can- relaxing the body, breath and mind and releasing our running “To Do Lists.” When we meditate we tap into Being, where there are no lists, only vast amounts of space. Space Clearing is really a form of meditation. To clear any space we perform rituals that allow us to tap into the Beingness of that place. We start with basic cleaning and clutter clearing of the home, office or property. This is Step number one.

For the past four years or so I have been doing a lot of collage work. Initially I was drawn to collage as a manifestation tool. I got into it because I needed money to take my very first Interior Alignment^TM training with Denise Linn and I heard that making a Vision Seed Map was a powerful way to manifest things. Like cash. Long story short is that it worked and I became fascinated by this new world of collage. These days I’m most interested in teaching people to use collage as a way to create sacred space with themselves. For me collage is like Space Clearing for the Soul. It has helped me release stuck chi from my life and find clarity about who I am, what I love and how I can serve the greater good. I look forward to sharing my stories here with you along with tips for how you can begin using collage as a multi-dimensional tool for Interior Alignment^TM.

Copyright Donna Thompson, 2008. All rights reserved.

Tags: Collage, teacher, Vision Seed Map