When words are not enough
On how to use the gift of neurodivergence to process your thoughts through art
I’m sure that you too have experienced moments in life when words just didn’t feel enough to explain the richness and the intensity of your feelings or sensations.
As a neurodivergent person with a more developed right brain (related to the unconscious, metaphors, art, sensory and psychic abilities), I see the world differently and I connect to it at a deeper level.
Most people have a logical approach to life, a mental one. Their inner world is lacking emotion and sensations and they are less sensitive to the unseen.
But for people like me, the unseen is everything.
The energy felt underneath someone’s words, the tiniest movements of their body or face which give tremendous clues, the gut sensation that something feels off or just right, the inner knowing that gives you unshakeable trust in something you cannot see yet, the faith in a power greater than anything else, or the premonition that leave you speechless. They are all connected to the unseen world that only few of us can actually witness.
This deeper sensitivity comes with amazing gifts and, with inhuman pain too, that can be felt when we sense the wrongs done in this world, to humans, animals or land.
This striking sensitivity is also related to the ability to see everything through the eyes of an artist, to see beauty in the mundane, to find meaning and blessings behind the struggles. It is a powerful trait.
For me, whenever I cannot find words to express my inner world, I use several ways to help me bring clarity from my right to the left brain through:
movement
art
singing
speaking gibberish
creating magical fairytales
poetry
nature connection
divine presence
There are many variations in between all these, like for example moving as if I was a certain color that represents a feeling, creating a sacred song using gibberish language to honor my bones, and so on. The possibilities are endless.
Somehow, whenever I let my creativity to flow by expressing what I feel through a certain medium, the words start to come to the surface and everything makes sense. The immense knowledge of the right brain is able to send the information to the left (logical) side and I can now understand the nonsensical.
This happens when I move, as I explained in my first post I MOVE TO THINK, but also, when I paint.
Sometimes the painting doesn’t have any meaning, especially when I begin, but what really happens is that during the process of moving my brush on the paper, my brain is processing my thoughts.
I don’t know how it does it, I just know that all of the sudden, the shapes on the page start to make sense, and my mind feels clearer.
This is maybe why I cannot paint realistically, copying something from real life. I find it hard to do anything so linear and strategical, where my inner flow is not allowed to follow the energetic thread of feelings and sensations.
I have to move with the colors that feel good in my body, to create shapes that explain my thoughts and immerse myself in an energy field on the paper that gives space for my inner world to be held.
It is an inside out kind of process, not an outside in one (realistic copy).
Upon finishing each painting, an insight comes through, a clarity of thought, or a release. It always amazes me how amazing our brains are, when they have the ability to process things so deeply and beautifully.
Tell me, do you use art or any form of creativity to process your thoughts?
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