Have you ever strolled through an art gallery, wandering among the exhibits and paintings, when suddenly your attention was riveted by a particular piece? Something stirs within you. The sculpture or painting calls out in ways unlike any other artwork in the room.

Most of us imagine that beauty is somehow “out there” in the picture, and we are simply responding to it. Yet, you might also note that other viewers in the gallery walk past this same artwork with hardly a glance, or perhaps some vacant, familiar expression you may already have felt yourself when looking at other pieces. Not without reason do we say: “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.”

This experience represents a marvelous place to begin looking into your own capacity for noticing certain feelings that seem to have some further story or special meaning in them. This is a world within awareness that is alive with you own personal and unique body links.

Objective beauty is never only out there in the painting. Its real power lies within your bodily-felt experience of “connecting” with the painting. Such experience actually tells you more about yourself than it does about what the picture represents.

Your inside felt connecting is what thrills, repels, intrigues, excites or frightens, and has the potential to draw you forward on a larger inner journey. The artwork is but a catalyst, a spark that ignites the possibility of some further evolving inside yourself. Your body celebrates and proclaims that something is happening INSIDE YOU