Welcome to Mindfulness Paintings!

Mindfulness Paintings is a book full of creative meditation exercises, artwork, and art activities that will help you embrace the present moment. You will find suggestions for noticing and accepting your thoughts and feelings through creative techniques. Mindfulness Paintings will help you become more aware of how your body and mind are connected as you try some calming art experiences. An artist’s voice will lead you to notice and observe your own thoughts without judgement or distraction. You will develop more compassion for yourself and others as you quiet your mind and make something new. With each line, stroke, color, and shape you make, you just might pay attention to things you have not noticed before. You will have the opportunity to feel new joy and peace as you hear the voice of your artist at work, as you play with art making tools, and as you try some simple mindfulness art techniques and exercises. Open this book, pick up your paintbrush, and allow your journey into the present moment begin!

Mindfulness Paintings: A Book of Creative Meditation Exercises, Artwork and Art Activities is available on Amazon. Bulk orders can be placed by emailing Alisa at alisa@clarkistan.com

Mindfulness has given Alisa new insight into the creative process and the ways it helps us, shapes us, and brings us peace. Alisa has recently begun sharing her art along with reflections that explore liminality’s influence upon it. Her liminal spaces are seen through the lens of a mindful art maker. The spaces are then painted and described with an artistic eye. A deeper understanding of the time we spend between “What Has Already Happened” and “What’s Coming Next” is found through Alisa's art making process. From within the creative flow, in-between moments are captured with a paintbrush and an artist’s voice.  A better understanding of our “In-Betweens,” and ways art can give us hope in those places no matter how hard our present places may seem, waits inside Alisa's most recent book:  

Art and Liminal Space: 
Liminality and Creative Process in Life's Places and Spaces

Learn more at www.LiminalSpaceArt.com

Alisa has been long delving into her creative process and discovering its meditative benefits. We now describe these benefits with words like "meditation" and "mindfulness" or "creative flow." Alisa began describing that "mindful creative flow" through the writing of her own spiritual autobiography. Using words and art, she found voice for peace, hope, and awareness of God’s constant presence in her daily life. This all helped her spiritual memoir, Dancing in the Doghouse, take form. Alisa now seeks ways to share this mindful, spiritual journey and its many meditative and healing benefits. Alisa trusts that by sharing the creative ways she faced the challenges of her own journey, she will be able to help others and encourage them. She hopes they will explore the benefits of "creative flow" and find a creative way to be more mindful and present through art making, writing, and story sharing. Alisa's spiritual autobiography, Dancing in the Doghouse: Sharing God's Presence in Everyday Places, invites people to join her on this exciting journey towards being more present, peaceful and aware. Whether this happens with a pen, a piece of paper, a canvas, or a paintbrush does not matter to Alisa. She only hopes others will find their creative voice and explore its spiritual benefits. Alisa shares with the hope of igniting a journey for others: a journey to understand and share their spiritual stories.

To find out more about spiritual autobiography and Alisa’s story, visit www.JourneyOnCanvas.com

Sky Full of Angels, 2003

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