MissMaisy I struggle with putting sentences together when I am in my emotional mind also. I think putting it in a poem is a great idea. I do it visually through my art. :)

I write poetry as an outlet for my emotions, too, MissMaisy. and journal to straighten things out in my head when things get too jumbled up in there. Art has been very therapeutic for me as well.

Retrogirl and valmarie, I was once told by an art teacher that I did not have any imagination. I was about 12 at the time and I believed him for a long time. I love art but I am not very good at it. I do like to write poems but when my mind is in too much of a mess I try and get it out In my journal. Sometime my journal looks like I have just been doing brain storming exercises because nothing comes out in any order and may even not make any sense but I need to get it out of my head some how.

In my opinion, what is of sole importance is our love of anything, be it art or writing or dance or song, etc.. Whether or not we are any good at it is irrelevant. Who is judging it anyway? Ourselves or someone else?

Exactly!
What difference does it make anyway? Being harsh in one's innermost emotional expression is the problem. The problem started with either a denial of those childhood expression or an opposition to them. The negative naysaying voice is what was programmed into you. It's the natural message to give one's self and it is usually expressed in the habit of self delusion.

Has you art or your expression harmed anyone?

The only question you must answer is: "Have I done anything wrong?" If you have, you can change that...but if you haven't...there's nothing to change at all.

Division among the self is such a waste. Self defeating and self injuring behavior is such a tragedy.

You are stymied at the exact location where your trauma occurred. The body can catch up, the mind cannot...it must progress on it's own in a positive and loving environment....without self defeating behavior.

You are all very lovely people.

You are both right, it does not matter if we are good or bad at something as long as we like it and it helps us relax we are doing nothing wrong. My art teacher could have been having a bad day and I just asked a question at the wrong time and that sparked off his reaction. Time for me to let go of that memory. :-)

I love this. Such a great use of dialectics :p