What's a Style?

 "Galactic Dance" by Bettina

Sometimes, I wonder, what if a 'style' is a limitation? I don't function from 'painting style', staying with 'my style', instead I paint what would like to be painted. "Galactic Dance" is, energetically, so different than my flower paintings or the abstract paintings that I created, yet there is some common element that I can't describe or define. Could it be my being?

THAT is different each day!

What I know is I chose to be here on the earth to inspire, to bring joy and laughter, color and possibility. I be that no matter what and against my own odds (HaHa!, Yes, I'm also good at creating ....('blurp'), mostly when I'm not creating enough of the fun stuff, I'll default to the not-fun stuff, but IF I choose that I must really like that too, so might as well not judge any of it as I create it..... HaHaHa! Welcome to my world of crazy-undefined!!!-thunder-rainbow!!!!) 

So, out of that space of being, anything can come into the world. The entire 'galactic series' that I painted (and might be painting others, who knows?) gave me so much space and expansion, I literally expanded into breathing, pulsating space while painting and now even when I look at them. They do that. They be that. They are beings that create in the world, beyond what I could possibly define. 

For me, 'style' would be a limitation, and I'm not choosing it. My common thread is joy and color and playing with creation and the beings that are happy to dance with me.

I cin-cin with you and with my paintings to a glorious, phenomenal, outrageously beautiful and joyful future starting today!!!!!

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and http://www.saatchiart.com/art/Painting-Galactic-Dance/283017/2281938/view
and also www.ArtbyBettina.etsy.com

Just a Chicken Story?

 "Grace"  

by Bettina Madini

When we listen to our bodies and don't have a point of view about their choices, what receiving is possible? Our bodies know stuff. And they might have a different point of view than we have....

When I was in Costa Rica earlier this year, someone mentioned to me 'bone soup' and the benefits of it. My body sort of 'listened up', and that made me listen up. What? Bone soup???? What the h...? I have never been a 'radical vegetarian' (luckily) and have listened to my body for as long as I remember. 

So, two days ago, I was at the food coop, and my body went 'chicken!' I went 'Really?' (haven't had chicken FOREVER!) Body went 'whole chicken', and I went searching. Found a beautiful organic chicken. Ha, I wondered 'How do I make this? Like just throw it in a pot with water????' And there it was again. Body said 'bone soup'. HaHaHa! What??? I asked for bones, and the kindest person took me to where they were. Strange view. All kinds of bones. Ha! Hmmmm....! (really, body?) HmHm! was a yes! (Sort of a 'yumm!') Now, I had never in this lifetime made a chicken soup, hadn't had chicken for about 30 years or so. 

I had a moment of pretended helplessness and asked the guy how to prepare that. He took all the time required (thank you so much!) and explained all the steps, and he even brought me a super-fresh chicken. That chicken was actually somehow 'pretty'. It seemed to sparkle at me. (no, I have not lost it! dummy! ... (smile!)) 

At home, I prepared my chicken, and I remembered my grandma and my mom making chicken broth (the real thing), and I was so grateful! After 2 hours of cooking, I took the chicken apart, and I was so grateful! Saw the chicken walk around happily in the grass and being a really wonderful chicken! I saw all the molecules of it's body being such a contribution, not only to my body, but to Joel's body, and my kitty's body and the other wild animal's bodies that would feast over the little chunks that I put in the compost for them. Everything will be celebrated that that chicken contributed. Nothing will be left unused. This moment in itself was such a nurturing kindness to my body and my being. The receiving of THAT was and is priceless.

You could say it's just a chicken story, and it might be, yet it is also a story about dancing molecules, about listening, about receiving and about the amazing gift that our bodies and all bodies are.

I had a little chicken broth sip yesterday, and it was divine. (and my cat? OMG, she couldnt' get over it from joy!)

So, I wonder, What contribution can we receive from our bodies today?

If You're Dreaming of Something - Go For It!

"When you stop judging your choices and what you are doing, you open a door to a new possibility that you can't get any other way" - Gary Douglas

I love this quote! In the art world there are so many judgments! As an example, a couple of years ago, I showed my portfolio to a gallery, a well-known gallery, and the owner looked at me and said 'Do you know what is currently up-to-date, what is currently being painted by famous artists? Do you read any art magazines?", and I looked at her with curiosity about what would come next. And she walked me to a table with piles of shiny art magazines and said "You should read those to see what is collectible".

 looked at realistic paintings of cars and cows and glassware, and I thought 'What unkindness and what concept of creation!' I also thought 'Why would I paint what everybody else is painting, if it is not inspiring to me?' Her message was basically 'Go home and rethink what you're doing!' It could have been so easy for me to go into judgment of my paintings and start painting what she said was 'en vogue'. Yet, I didn't. Luckily. If we all created the same, what would the world be like? Richer or poorer?

In the end, an opinion is just an opinion. A judgment is just a point of view.

My encouragement to you is, if you are dreaming of creating something, go for it!

IF you have stopped yourself or you started creating what everyone creates, what if you can still always change that? A choice from the past is nothing but..... a choice from.... the.... past. It has nothing to do with the present. If you choose what's fun for you, somewhere there will be someone, somewhere there will be a molecule, that will be inspired by you.

What if we all never give up?

You know stuff! You do! If anything inspires you, play with it! Use the color that you love! Wear it! Paint it! Who cares what others are saying? There will always be someone who has to say something. There will always be something wrong. There will always be a critique. If people can make the weather wrong, (seriously, how could weather be wrong?) they can make anything wrong. The greatest artists have been made wrong, the greatest musicians have been ridiculed, and who cares?

Create, my friends, what's joyful for you! You ARE changing reality by choosing JOY and HAPPINESS. You ARE opening the door to a different possibility if you don't judge you, if you don't judge your body, if you don't judge your creations.

Gosh, there is a place for you HERE. If not, YOU wouldn't have chosen to be on the earth NOW!

It's the space of you.

The Ease of Joy

There is a space.... that I know.... when I'm painting. There are no thoughts, no feelings, there is breathing and heartbeat and wonder.... there is play, sort of like dancing with the molecules of paint, the ease of choice that a question will allow....

The beings that have been showing up in my world as 'paintings', as 'music', as 'writings' have been such a contribution to my being here.... That space is so undefined, and I truly don't know cognitively what the painting is going to be exactly.

I don't have an idea when it will be done and how it is going to be on the canvas. 'How', 'when' and 'why' are not there in that space. What I do know is THAT the painting is going to be. All that my paintings are asking me is to dance with them, dance with the molecules and bring them here to contribute what they know to contribute. They taught me so much! That space with them has brought up night and day in me, and thanks to some amazing tools, I still dance with them, strenghtening my allowance and my awareness that I'm aware....

It can be vital to acknowledge how aware we are, while we are creating our lives. We are aware of everything that is going on around us. There are thoughts, feelings and emotions flying around all the time, from people everywhere on the earth, in the ether, everywhere. If a radio can pick up wavelengths, couldn't we? Would we be less than a radio? Are we less than technology?

What ease can we have and be with painting? With writing? If we are procrestinating, what are we trying to create? And who are we being? Is this even ours? What kindness can we be with our bodies while creating? What if we don't have to finish a painting in a certain time, on a specific day? What are we trying to prove if we wait to the last minute, whether that is the night before a show or the last day of our earth-walk?

What are we avoiding?

What excuse are we using? Money? Time? Body? Kids? Pets? Weather?

If we had no expectations, no excuses, no judgments of ourselves, what could we create?

Could it be that the earth is asking us to step up and out, to leave 'the victim pooHoo-hat' behind and CREATE?

Ask in the morning: "Who am I going to be today, and what grand and glorious adventures am I going to have today?®" I wonder what this will create for you?
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Bettina Madini is an artist, singer and an Access Consciousness® Certified Facilitator. Born in Berlin, Germany, she is currently living in the Midwest in the United States. Bettina’s paintings can be found in corporate and private collections in Europe, Australia and in the United States. She offers Painting Intensives, coaches Creatives and facilitates Access Consciousness® Core Classes, internationally.
To find Bettina’s classes and see her art work please visit: www.BettinaStar-Rose.com. and www.BettinaMadini.Accessconsciousness.com

Access Consciousness® was founded by Gary Douglas, one of the most brilliant people on the planet, and is created by Gary Douglas and Dr. Dain Heer. All the tools in this article are derived from Access Consciousness®. Read more about Access Consciousness® at www.AccessConsciousness.com. Find out about the Bars® at www.bars.accessconsciousness.com.  Access Consciousness has more than 50 body processes that can address anything that we have created with our bodies. Please find out more at www.body.accessconsciousness.com.

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