One of the biggest shifts I’ve witnessed is finding a sense of resilience in relating with others with a negative mindset. It can be challenging, particularly for empaths and introverts to not take on another persons energy. I’ve often become triggered into pessimism especially when I would shut myself down because I was in defence to what they were doing and how they were being. More and more I am able to maintain my flow, to let people be themselves without judgement and tune in to what really matters. This engenders a sense of trust, presence and a cultivation of openness.

This supports all life. Only yesterday I was meditating on the fear I could feel in my body and recognised that I choose that state of being. As I shifted my perspective on the fear I noticed how my world changed and the feelings within me changed. I could intimately feel how life is an adventure and that the presence of fear is ok. But I knew I needn’t shut down when it arrives. I can meet it and play with it a spirit of adventure. In this way I can trust more deeply than I dreamed possible, I can see my life as a masterpiece, A creative, potent force of art. I become the author of my own experience in the most Divine sense.

Jhana is a published author and illustrator. He draws on ancient wisdom and dreaming that reveal the bridge between consciousness and creativity. Discoveries of the healing capacities carried in painting, yoga, massage, meditation and art therapy inform his practise. He has taught, mentored and exhibited in India, America, Germany and Australia over the past 20 years. His writings have been published in newspapers, magazines and books across California, Byron Bay, Tweed heads and Brisbane.