THE RHODODENRON DELL

The mind and emotions effect health. There are many practical exercises and visualizations which can boost your immune system and enhance your general health and well being. The "best defense" against illness is a "positive mental and emotional offense."

["Purple Rhododenron"
Encaustic on Paper. 22" x 15"
$450.]

The purpose of my painting is to create an atmosphere of uplifting feelings. My paintings are created with the intent to engender a feeling of peace and serenity in the viewer. They are an antidote to stress and unpleasant thoughts.

["Wedding Boquet"
Encaustic on paper, 15" x 22"
(SOLD)

["Purple Passion"
Encaustic on paper, 15" x 22"
(SOLD)

The mind is part of the body. Slowly people are recognizing that the habitual thoughts and emotions one harbors within have an effect on the body. For an understanding of this, just imagine for a moment some lovely experience from your past. Some delightful thing. Spend a few moments recalling it. My favorite is laying upside down, feet propped up against the trunk of a 3,000 year old redwood tree in Northern California. I lay like that just breathing and enjoying the silence and beauty of the forest for more than four hours while my friends swam and played in a river near by. When ever I am distressed or upset or find it hard to sleep at night because of the cares of the world, I remember my time with that tree. My whole body relaxes back into that state at the recall of the memory. Call one of your own up and imagine it.

["The Heart of the Dell"
Encaustic on paper, 15" x 22"
(SOLD)

If you have been able to recall something lovely, you will find that the state your body is in now, with the recall, quite different than what it was in when before you started. Take stock of how it feels. If you are daring, although I do not recommend harboring ill thoughts, for an experiment, call up an unpleasant experience, perhaps from work where you were upset about something. Notice at the moment of recall how the body system alters to take on a state of upset and aggitation. There are different chemicals running in the blood stream, your blood pressure has probably changed. Your breathing may be different (you may holding your breath or breathing very shallowly) and you might find a stiffness and tightness in various parts of the body associated with the upset.

Now take a deep breath and let that go and return to the lovely memory. Breathe deeply and slowly and gently. Really focus to get your mind back to a fond and lovely thought place. Once you have accomplished this, take stock again of how your body feels and how you are breathing. If you have taken care to do this little exercise, you will see immediately the effects that thoughts have on the physical body.

["Hidden Joy"
Encaustic on paper, 15" x 22"
(SOLD)]

["Wedding Path"
Encaustic on paper, 15" x 22" ($450)]

Long standing and habitually positive emotional and mental states create a palace of joyful chemical balance within the body system. This in itself will boost health. The seat of the immune system is the thymus gland which just happens to be located at the center of the heart chakra. Joy and love boost the immune system. Grief and saddness deplete it because of the stress of the thymus gland in location to the focal pooint of those emotions in the heart chakra. If you are in a difficult situation, emotionally, do what ever it takes to clear it out of your heart chakra. I like to think loving thoughts to my thymus gland and fill my heart with unconditional, purely objective lovingness for the sake of it, just to stay healthy. And, it makes me feel good to do so.

["Mozart's Tree"
Encaustic on paper, 15" x 22" ($450)]

If you surround yourself with uplifting images and place inspiring music, you will find yourself relaxing more. Take a look at what kinds of thoughts you habitually harbor in your mind. To protect and ensure good health focus on creating a garden of beauty in your thought atmosphere.

I hope you have enjoyed the flower paintings. They are for sale. If you would like to purchase or talk about a commission work, please contact me at Ppreble2@aol.com.

Biography of the Artist

In the mid-1970's Pat Preble began her research into the healing effects of color and light. While working she utilizes meditation to create a state of mind and emotion to embody a higher vision of the the Light. The viewer of her paintings can participate in and experience the vision through the art work. Her paintings are predominently spiritual and have been used by meditation instructors to teach students to still their minds and find a place of deep inner silence. While working Preble listens to the words of spiritual masters creating a state of inner receptivity to the Higher Light. In Preble's own words, "The mental and emotional state of the artist will be imbued in the work. While I am working on a painting I take great care to put myself into the highest state of communion with the Divine that I am able to achieve. My purpose in doing so is to create a link from there to my hands and imbue the work with a sense and feeling of the presence of the Divine in our lives. My reason for doing this is discuss the idea of the higher possibilities that exist for us, if we can be open to them."

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