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birthing a meditation
a natural pain reliever
artwork
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Do you meditate? Meditation, as many people interpret it, is a struggle for me. I have tried different methods and nothing clicked, until I learned that artwork, like photography, painting, sketching, digital art, photomanipulation, crafts, etc., is a type of meditation because they are things I can “get lost in” and become “oblivious to everything else around me.” I can even become oblivious to some of the chronic pain I live with. I am on a long healing journey and artwork has recently become an important healing activity for me.
I am often in our yard with my camera in hand, and this morning was no exception. We live in a wooded area surrounded mostly by scrub oak. It’s very shady, which makes getting sharp wildlife photos more challenging, but just in a 15 minute period, I saw and immersed myself in photographing the following:
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Nature and landscape photography are my favorite types of photographic artwork. On rare occasions, my patience with nature photography is surprisingly rewarded by a dragonfly allowing me to stroke its body and wings, and even offering up a few cute poses (as I wrote about in a previous posting)! Sometimes, a bird will unexpectedly land very close to me, providing a nice photo opportunity, and one time a deer found me to be a curious creature and came in for a closer look. We’ll be seeing Bambis quite regularly in our yard now, since this is the time of year they are born.
I continued my artwork today by assembling the above images in Photoshop Elements. I would love to be a skilled photographer or artist but just working on these activities regardless of my skill level, and using nature to assist, are very healing. For me, what could be more meditative than that!
This is for the letter “A” story challenge by Frizztext, to share a short story or reflection, even an aphorism using a word tagged with each letter of the alphabet.
Also linking up with Texture Tuesday, Windows on Wildlife, Our World Tuesday, Nature Notes and World Bird Wednesday.
Creativity Aroused 
I think your photos and your writing are quite beautiful.
Can’t imagine how much patience it takes to get these beautiful shots! Thank you for sharing!
you’re photo’s are spectacular! i love watching nature in nature!
oh ya art and photography and nature are all a great way to meditate!
lovely photos. I agree. In nature i am usually “in the Moment” especially when engrossed in the act of art-making or photography..
All that in the yard – wow, that’s great! Especially the deer!
you make wonderful use of meditation! It would be so cool to see a bambi! I can’t imagine how it must feel to be able to take a photo like that 🙂
Nature is very healing. Your photos are also a form of meditation.
powerful words…yes artistic concentration is profoundly transcendental!
You are right, wildlife photography is difficult, but you’ve done a great job. I love taking pictures and I understand what you mean when you say you get lost in it 🙂
Lovely set of pictures.
Blending in with nature is my mediation too. And yes, so true that when it happens, animals come very close to you. Little wonders happen. Like the other day a flower fly came over to my daughter and drank from a drop of water from her hand: we could study her tiny wings, eyes and cute tube-tongue.
Lovely photo’s, Fergie. Such photo’s show you have great patience and a fine way of getting in tune with your surroundings. You make us very happy with the visual fruits of your meditations. Wishing you much improvement with your health.
Oh, I can relate to that so much! Beautiful meditation!
Lovely shots.
Communing with nature, looking for that perfect moment to press the shutter button and immersing myself in photography has turned out to be one of the best analgesics in my 31 year battle with chronic pain.
Walking meditationm as I call it, gets me home no matter how fatigued I feel when out and about. Mostly I don’t even remember the walk home at all.
Great post and your photos are wonderful. Love the robins and deer.
“artwork has become
an important healing activity for me… ”
(for me too);
greetings to your neighbour’s cat!
cats know how to meditate very well!
All of them are so cute. As for me, I also like taking nature things photo, you know.
There is always real life.
Your artwork and photography are indeed quite beautiful. It’s always a pleasure to see what you have come up with!
…and your prose!
I couldn’t agree more..I used to take yoga and meditation classes before I got too ill to do it, but I find nature is the best healer for me even with the sorrows. I forget my pain and just hone in.. I am sorry you are dealing with pain, I do too and it a balancing act everyday. Yes..my eyes are improving finally and after almost a month of treatment, I am ready..thank you so much for your kind comments….Michelle
Great photos, and yes nature is absorbing. Boom & Gary of the Vermilon River, Canada.
You are talented with a very good eye – that’s the important bit – skills can be improved with practise and yours seem pretty good to me!
Beautiful photos and yes, doing what you like most is a form of meditation or can even put you into a trance.
These photos are wonderful.. You are very clever and you know the words which you must write.
Beautiful images that takes me into a place of quietness and contemplation. Serenity is a possibility in every heart, we just need a little guidance to find it. Thanks.
Such beautiful shots!
Your photography is a form of meditation… enjoy the process. Love those photos too. 😉
The wonderful parts of nature you picture here are ones I meditate upon many days!
Beautiful photos and words.
It’s amazing what 15 minutes can create and capture in the eyes of an artists. Thanks for sharing with us everyday, a world where nature is so free and beautiful.
Love these photos – fun to see the mama deer after the beautiful baby last week! I agree, meditation can be difficult. Glad to hear you’re finding your own meditative time through nature and photography, and that you share it with us!
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You contemplated well and have produced a wonderful collage of Nature’s gifts. Thank you!
I always enjoy your ‘work’, Fergiemoto. And I hope there is even more comfort in them for you to know how much healing and happiness your photograph and words bring to others! Thank you.