How to shift out of the 3d perspective.

Do you know the situation where you feel that other people measure you with a measuring tape? You feel that they think, you are not good enough. They are putting you into a box, without even knowing you at all. But is it true? Is this what happens? Think about it one more time, YOU think that they think. Why do you think, that they think certain things about you?

It’s you, who are thinking that you are in this box, if you didn’t think you are in this box, other people won’t think it either.

So everything is returning to yourself. Your relationship with yourself.

If you stop putting yourself into boxes, other people will stop too. We all know it, we all do it. What is really happening?

When you measure yourself from the 3d perspective, other people will measure you from the same perspective, and you will measure other from this perspective too.

I’am really tired of this 3d measuring tape perspective. It happens all the time, because we have all learned it.

Marie J.Engelsvold. “What are you hiding?” 30 x 20 cm. Photo mounted on dibond alu plate. 2019.

When we measure from the 3d, it’s only from the external perspective. It’s how you are looking, education, status, job, where you live, behaviour, age. Sure there are a lot more, but these are the most common ones.

We are putting each other into these boxes all the time, without even being conscious of that. Sometimes when I feel bad about something, if I feel I’am not worthy. It’s because I have been putting myself into a box. I have limited myself, and only been looking at myself and my behaviour, from a 3d perspective. But we have no limits, our consciousness are limitless.

Try to look at yourself, and life through an energetic viewpoint. Feel life, feel free, feel love. That’s who you are.

The more I dig into my own energy, to see how I’am behaving or reacting. The deeper I go. It’s about expanding the room inside of myself. Expanding my heart. That’s more and more the essence for me, to expand my heart to a wider and wider level. How much can I love? How much can I allow and accept in myself?

Every time I feel unease, I feel something is nagging me, I feel something isen’t right. I’am not in my highest vibration. I tap into my feelings into my body, to get an answer. Very often I end up breaking down crying, or getting very angry. I let myself express all these emotions, to release them. Because these feelings bring me down to a much heavier level, and I don’t want to be there. I don’t want to live my life on automatic pilot. I don’t want to push my feelings under the rug. Or just drinking another cup of coffee.

Every time I have to tap into my feelings of doubt, unworthiness, anger or pain, I feel the resistance. I don’t want to wrap myself up in these feelings. I don’t want to cry. I want happiness. But I know, that I will feel so uplifted, and truly released afterwards. And by letting myself cry or rage, while at the same time holding my hand, saying to myself it’s okay to feel this way. Every time I expand.

My heart expand, because I accept everything in there.

It’s not the same feeling, if you are fighting the proces. If you are mad at yourself crying, and say you should not have these feelings. Telling yourself you are wrong to have these feelings.You will drag yourself even lower. That’s why we very often avoid going into our deeper feelings, our experiences has learned us, that it can be dangerous, it can drag us down.

Sure, the resistance is right. If you fight and kick and scream. If you are so hard on yourself, it’s going to b a tough fight. But it hasen’t have to be that way. It can be so beautiful.

When I’am laying on the floor in the mittle of the day, crying my eyes out. I feel free. I feel so grateful that I allow myself to do this. It’s so pure, it’s such a simpel act. It’s so beautiful to let myself be me, in all my aspects. The good part is that you automatic shift to a higher level than before, because you don’t use your energies to hide your unowned parts under the rug. Pretending everything is okay.

When you raise up from the floor, you don’t have to pretend you are okay. You are okay. You don’t have to measure anything. You don’t have to live from the 3d perspective any longer. You lift yourself out of that vibration, of judgement, self sabortage and comparing. You are free.

Marie J.Engelsvold. “It just is” 40 x 30 cm. Photo mounted on dibond alu plate. 2019.

Marie J.Engelsvold. “Love is love” 50 x 70 cm. Photo mounted on alu plate. 2019.

When I feel low, heavy. When I start measuring others as well as myself, I know what to do. I don’t wait for days, going around feeling low. I do it right away, or as quickly as possible. I want this high and happy feeling, which is way beyond pretending to be so. I want it real.

So my best advice, is to tap into your own vibration. If something isen’t right in your outer world, if there is conflicts, if you experience a lot of challenges. Don’t fix it out there. Go inside, and fix yourself, fix your own vibration. But do it with love, allow yourself these feelings, allow yourself to cry. It’s so so beautiful. Every time your heart breaks a little bit more, it also opens up a little bit more. The more it opens, the more you can shine through, in all your aspects.

The more you dare to be vulnable, the more other people around you will dare to be true too. They will mirror your inner beauty back to you. They will not judge you, if you don’t judge yourself. They will not measure you with a measuring tape, because your inner room is so huge it can’t be measured.

It’s the same with the creative proces. If you go on measuring yourself and your art form a 3d perspective, you will also be measuring other artists out of the same perspective. It will all be external. But if you can shift into how it makes you feel, how it makes you feel to make your art. If you can find a space where it’s fun, where you feel alive. You are feeling so good about what you do, that the external measure or labeling doesn’t matter. It doesn’t even exsist. Because you have moved yourself away from this perspective, you will not attract it into your experience.

So let’s take a look at the creative process, and see if we can use this same consiousness to shift out of being blocked, which is actually us being caught up in the 3d perspective.

Marie J.Engelsvold. “Dark greeness” 30 x 21 cm. Photo mounted on dibond alu plate. 2019.

The 3 main stages of the creative process.

Flow:

When you are in flow, you are completely in tune with what you do. You see endless possibilities, and it's exciting because you're so much out of your comfort zone, that it feels exciting. You don't quite know what it will end up with. You will be surprised.

Autopilot:

You do what you are used to. It feels safe and good, but a little boring and monotonous, because there are no challenges, and it’s just about the result. You are not truly present in the act. You know the result.

Blocked:

You are stagnated, you cannot move forward. You see no possibilities, only limitations. You are going in circles, as you see no solutions. You have been putting yourself down in a sealed box, with no where to escape.You totally give up.

When you are in the flow, you are actually fully anchored in your own vibration, you don’t measure yourself from a 3d perspective. You are not bothered about other peoples opinions, or the result. You are totally in tune with what you are doing. You are feeling free because you are not afraid of anything, you can do what you want, there is absolutely no limits of what is possible. You feel so much joy, and excitement.

But if you try to settle the energies, you try to repeat this flow feeling, and do the same without being totally in it, you will drop down a bit. If you keep on settling the energies, wanting to repeat the flow stage, you will end up in the autopilot vibration. This vibration is where we feel safe. We like to feel safe. It’s a place most of us are settling in, most of the time. We don’t have to question anything, we know what we are doing and why. Of course it can be okay to rest a bit, for a while. But don’t stay there too long, because it will eventually drag you down further. You will end up being blocked, drained, stagnated, because to be in the auto pilot stage is not where you feel the most alive.

You can say, but it’s impossible to be in the flow all the time, who can be in this place more than 5 minutes. ? I know, it takes practise, bot it’s possible to be more and more in this vibration. It’s quite naturally, when you get used to it. It’s just as naturally as to be in the 3d external perspective. It’s just because we have learned to live from that mind set, it takes some time to shift and hold the shift.

By tapping into your own feelings, your own energy, you can shift into the flow stage. Because when you are in flow, you are only anchored and grounded in your own feelings, your own energies. If you feel a lot of heavy energies, if you are blocked or is in auto pilot mode , you can release these energies, while giving yourself total love and acceptance.

Try it. :-)

Hope you enjoyed this post. Have a very nice day.

I’am sharing this information to you freely, from my own experiences. Hope you can use it in your own process. Any donation, is deeply appreciated. :-)

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How embracing all parts of you, will help you in your art making.

1) How to connect with your feelings, and feel them instead of being mental about it.

2) How it will help you to stay present in the creative process.

Take a look at my video, where you can follow my own process while you lisen’t to my experiences. Or you can just read the blog post instead.

There is another layer to the topic I talked about in my last video. “What to do if you get stocked in the creative process.”

When we begin to criticize and judge ourselves, it’s because we are too much in our heads. We don’t now how to be present with ourselves. Because it can be hurtful to embrace all our feelings.

To be free in the creative process and in life, it’s so important to be present. And to be present you must connect with your heart and body. But why is it so difficult?? and so much easier to go to the head and be mental about it. I woke up last night, and was feeling really pain. And these words came to me “ You go to your head when your heart hurts”. We want to be happy and positive, and then it’s easier to suppress all the negative emotions. But the feelings don’t go away when you try to ignore them, they stay and they build up.

So to be present with yourself, it’s about being present with everything inside of you. Also the stuff thats hurts.

What to do??

My process. here I start with painting the paper black. I always start with a white paper, but felt like doing the opposite would balance the energies.

You have to go down in the deepht of yourselves, to say hallo to that part of you which is in the dark bottom of that hole. To accept it, and get it back up. Don’t begin to analyze it, or judge if the feeling is going to be there or not, if it’s good or bad. Just feel whatever is inside of you. In the beginning it can be a little frightening, to go down there, if you are not used to confront it. And you sometimes need to stay for a while, to acknowledge these dark feelings. To be there in the darkness for your lost friend. To give comfort, and acceptance to that feeling.

When I was a child, I sometimes felt it was not okay to be sad, to be angry to be grieving. My mother said, you just put yourself togheter now, and up on that horse again. You know you will soon forget all this. But then you just put that lid on, and that feeling will not be allowed it’s space.

Sometimes it can also happen that you are too long in that dark hole with your friend. That you just fall into total hopelessness and despair, even getting totally knocked out. Maybe you don’t accept and really getting yourself the comfort you need? We can be sad and angry, but if we at the same time feel that it’s wrong to have these feelings, they won’t go away. It’s really about owning these feelings, and comfort yourself as you would to a child.

When you have tried it just once, and being abel to stay with your feelings, and drag it up in the light with you, you don’t have to stay so long each time. Imagine there is a trampoline down there, and you just can jump up and down, in a balanced movement between the light and the dark. Because we are both. We can’t just be happy and light all the time.

I think thats why we are so afraid to get down there, because we never really learned how to get up. To get up renewed and full of new energy and wholeness. Just because you allowed yourself to feel, to let yourself be you. To accept all of yourself. It’s a very small act, but it’s not easy. Instinctively we tend to escape from all that hurts. All it really takes is to sit quiet for a moment with yourself.

Marie J.Engelsvold. My process: Working with Molotow acrylic markers and paper cuts.

2) How it will help you to stay present in the creative process.

To be abel to stay present with all these feelings, it helps to release them through your creations. It helps to put them out on that paper, or any other medium you prefer. I just use the drawing as an example of an easy way to create without having to think too much about space and time and other practical things. The most important thing is to get started, to release the energy because it will help you to drag yourself out of that hole. And when you start it will develop in it’s own pace. You will by following your own guidance end up doing what will be the most beneficial way to express your uniqueness.

You can’t follow a must, a mental plan or an idea.

Marie J.Engelsvold. My process: Working with Molotow acrylic markers and paper cuts.

You can’t do it because you think you have to, you have to do it because you want to do it. But sometimes you can’t feel what you want, because you are so used to do what you have to do. Or what you think you have to do. When do you really ask yourself what you truly want from your heart?? If there was no limits?? Let your heart fly. Don’t plan it, do it and let it grow. Do just something a little thing you want to do. Then you will feel the energy, you will fell happier and it will grow in you. And it will grow out of you.

The more I dare to be in that space with my art, the more free I become. Drop the rules. Drop the limitations. It is all mental, it’s not you.

Every time you can drag yourself out of that hole, you will get more fearless. You will not be so afraid of the darkness in you, because you trust yourself to come up again every time. And not just up again being the same. No, you bring up new energy, from all the things you have accepted in yourself, and all the things you have let go of. The false notions, and limitations you have put onto yourself.

So don’t be afraid of going to your heart to feel all the hurt, the sorrow the anger and the abandonment. You have to do it, to set yourself free. To be free to express yourself, in all your true colors.

Marie J.Engelsvold. “Coming out” 29,7 x 42 cm. 2019

Here is a little tip.

Take a paper, and some drawing materials, paint what ever you want.

Then just start. Don’t have any agenda. Not thinking of a result. Just

try to empty yourself out on that paper.

Fell whatever is coming up. Allow whatever is coming out.

Don’t judge if it’s good or bad, ugly or beautiful.

Just let it be raw and what it is.

Create from a non judgment place, a no critic place.

Go with your nudges.

Hope this helped you. I wish you a very nice day, a day where you allow yourself to be present with all your feelings, and say it’s okay.

I’am teaching in “how you can free yourself in the creative process”, go to workshops, to read about my courses and workshops. Next ones is in Mai 2019.

I’am sharing this information to you freely, from my own experiences. Hope you can use it in your own process. Any donation, is deeply appreciated. :-))

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• Turtorials and tips
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  • Apr 6, 2019 How to start your drawing praxis.
  • Mar 8, 2019 What to do when you are stucked in the creative process??
  • Feb 13, 2018 How do you work with composition?
  • Jan 8, 2018 Make a kickstart.
  • Nov 20, 2017 Go bigger.
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  • Oct 31, 2017 Wait!! Before you throw that drawing in the bin!!!!!
  • Oct 12, 2017 Find inspiration everywhere.
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• psycological aspects
  • May 26, 2020 Holding your flow.
  • May 6, 2020 The world is yours.
  • Apr 22, 2020 Let your heart decide.
  • Apr 18, 2020 Create from your self.
  • Apr 4, 2020 Expand your own signature.
  • Oct 9, 2019 How to shift out of the 3d perspective.
  • Sep 20, 2019 What is it, to be grounded?
  • Sep 10, 2019 How to follow your own flow.
  • Jul 28, 2019 Releasing your resistance to the moment.
  • Jul 15, 2019 Don't wait for life to be perfect, let go of control.
  • Jun 1, 2019 How to raise your vibration, through the creative process.
  • Apr 1, 2019 How embracing all parts of you, will help you in your art making.
  • Feb 20, 2019 Don’t resist the moment. Live your dream.
  • Feb 10, 2019 Why are we so hard on ourselves?
  • Feb 1, 2019 It's okay to say NO.
  • Jan 2, 2019 Let yourself shine in 2019 :-)
  • Nov 22, 2018 Look at your obstacles as adventures.
  • Feb 2, 2018 How to stay in the process?
  • Dec 20, 2017 Slow down
  • Dec 12, 2017 There is no "right" way.
  • Dec 5, 2017 Why it's important to unlearn.
  • Oct 12, 2017 Let your feelings be your guide.
  • Sep 5, 2017 Don't be afraid of change:-)
  • Sep 5, 2017 Express your feelings
  • Sep 5, 2017 Can drawing be a kind of meditation?
• turtorials
  • Apr 6, 2019 How to start your drawing praxis.
• video
  • May 15, 2019 How to take your drawings, to the next level.
  • Apr 30, 2019 Be bold, let your light out.
  • Apr 1, 2019 How embracing all parts of you, will help you in your art making.
  • Mar 8, 2019 What to do when you are stucked in the creative process??
  • Feb 20, 2019 Don’t resist the moment. Live your dream.
  • Feb 10, 2019 Why are we so hard on ourselves?
  • Feb 1, 2019 It's okay to say NO.