Painters from the Middle East

Just some images from the New Painting from the Middle East exhibition at the Saatchi Gallery, London. It's a very impressive collection with some thought-provoking works, mainly from Iranian, Iraqi, Lebanese,Palestinian and Egyptian artists. It's very good to see that ideas are challenging and deal directly with controversial issues that are every day experiences: bomb attacks, hospitals, the veil, gender roles. There's a mix of media too with sculpture, painting and photography. Definitely worth a visit. The Saatchi is a well proportioned, spacious gallery, a perfect space in the heart of Chelsea.

New Hypnosis Website

This website www. kierondevlin.com is dedicated to helping people overcome all the problems, low self esteem, low energy anxiety, depression, insomnia, chronic illnesses, fatigue and many others to seek ways of getting out of the mental box we often tie ourselves up in. Hypnosis helps unravel the knots, so we can free ourselves more easily.

It has a lot of information and links to how to book hypnosis sessions, and reserve places on the fantastic three day life changing seminar The Phil Parker Lighting Process.

It is also a great resource not just about hypnosis, NLP, EFT and the Lightning Process but with tips and articles on :
1) Self Hypnosis
2) Goals exercises
3) Writing as Healing: A pen is mightier than a pill.
4) Using EFT with Lucid Dreaming ( to come).

And you can expect much more to come in the next weeks with more news of the Proteus Project workshops and writing experiments. I hope you enjoy reading and would love to see lots of people get the benefit of all that I have learned.

Have a browse through and see if it matches what you are looking for, or if anything rings true.Contact me for more information.

Life is a Life Poster:Part 2

Visualization is the key to operating the deeper aspects of the mind. If you can't visualize something happening then, it is still not clear in your head and it is better to wait for clarity to come before moving ahead. Once it is clear, it will begin its work to materialise. To help shape your world, and even make things happen that you never thought would happen, it is a great idea to do a Tony Buzan-style mind map, collage, image tree, spider-gram, or anything that visually represents what you hope to achieve. Often using scissors paste, magazine cuttings, crayons, pencils, pens is a great way, but for visual people just the image is enough.

I previously suggested the Life Poster as a way of building self esteem, getting in touch with your self image, and building that into the shape that you would like it to be, but it is also just good fun and therapeutic to play around with images, to observe their interplay of colour, forms, and meaning.

The Life Poster is meant to represent your ideal self. With image programmes nowadays it is getting easier all the time to create fessional results. In the previous post, I talked about how to do it on Photoshop, but even I don't have the time to spend using it. A much easier way is to use Picasa which is free to download from Google.

Just follow these easy steps to make your own Life Poster Collage:

1. Download Picasa from Google, if you don't already have it on your PC.
2. Collect jpeg pictures of yourself or of people or objects you admire or wish to have in your life.
   
3. Select for colour, interest, contrast, similarity.
4. Create a folder and give it a special name, something that resonates with what you want.
5. Open Picasa and add the folder
6. Select the folder and 'hold items'
7. Click 'Create Collage' from the options at the bottom of Picasa
8. Use the settings to arrange it in Grid, Mosaic, or Scattered Photo arrangment.
9. Click to finalise the Collage
10. Wait for Picasa to complete the collage for you.
11. Send it or print it out, or use it as a backdrop or wallpaper wherever you need reminding of what you most want to have in your life.
12. Enjoy contemplating these wonderful multiple images.
13. Observe the effects in your life.
14. Try it on other things and see what happens.
    

DoorKnobs and Bodypaint: Fantastic Flash Fiction- an anthology

I have just received the book 'Doorknobs and Bodypaint : Fantastic Flash Fiction - an Anthology' - and very nice it is too. This anthology, put together by Leila Rae, is a treasure trove of writing inspired by its own brevity. Some works read like tasty morsels from intriguing longer novels that you might want to delve right into, others works read like stark headlight poems, leaving you startled with an indelible image or a thoughtful afterglow.

I am glad I found time this past year to help edit these stories. This meant combing in detail through hundreds of stories on the website to find the ones that stood out. It is good to see all the other stories now in the finished product, a labour of love. All the stories are of high quality which goes to show that being brief is a virtue in and of itself. It also includes one of my stories, 'The Thousand and One Tales and a Tale and a Half', the winner of the Hayward Fault Line competition, 2000. I'm sorry I missed the public launch with readings in New York back in October. Well done though, and all those contributing should be proud to be in such a slender and lovely book to add to your library. For more info about how to contribute to the online magazine, Doorknobs and Bodypaint has the latest submission instructions.

Hynpotherapy NLP Life Coaching EFT and The Lightning Process

Hypnosis, NLP and EFT show time and again that knowing how to operate our bodyminds is the key to removing the obstacles to our goals. Unconscious habits get in the way of success. Learning to unlock this potential and live the life you love is the goal of these amazingly effective procedures. They can help you make the changes you need.

Kieron is no stranger to the powers of the mind’s interaction with the body. As a child he suffered a debilitating blood phobia which no doctor could explain. He overcame this gradually through mind training and self hypnosis. After a long struggle with intermittent depression, anxiety and nervous breakdowns, he has emerged armed and ready to help others. His experience has included a variety of jobs: stage management, small business, editing, journalism, teaching English, personal tutoring and mentoring of people with learning needs. He has always been interested in personal development and helping to unlock anyone's hidden potential.

Kieron is a trained Hypnotherapist, NLP Practitioner, and Life Coach with a very calming, reassuring and enthusiastic approach. He is committed to being confidential, understanding, and working on helping each client to find answers, to overcome anything that might be holding them back. He understands the many common stresses and tensions that continually bombard us all. Sessions are aimed at achieving deep relaxation in order to focus on your major goals. In some cases, this can be done effectively by phone sessions. In other cases, it would mean several individual sessions. The Lightning Process is also available.

He has a special interest in recovering expression and overcoming blocks to creativity. This unique approach uses a combination of tools from Hypnotherapy, NLP, and EFT and makes use of restorative clearing and visualisation and writing techniques that help get effective results.

Call 07896 483746 for an appointment. Sessions are held at the Yoga Therapy Centre, Pentonville Road, Islington, N1

Symbolist Art

I've always been fascinated by The Symbolists and Symbolist Paintings - even at school I did a study of this subject for my A Level Art Project. Years on, I look back at these somewhat morbid- some would say twisted- images and note their psycho-pathological slant with interest. Also, how powerful the images still are to rouse curiosity, to defy full explanation and remain enigmatic, impenetrable and strangely hypnotic. Yes, as you look at them long enough you find that you are lured into an even deeper trance.

It was as though these artists Jean Delville, Gustave Moreau, Fernand Knopff, Edward Coley Burne Jones, Odilon Redon, Felicien Rops, each in their own unique way, held up a mirror that reflected the oddities of the male artists' subconscious mind at the turn of the 2oth century. They are definite precursors of the Surrealists, thirty or forty years, and they were painting mind-boggling fantasy worlds long before Dali came along to show us how clocks bend.

Take a look at the gallery and see what each picture can stir up in the mind, but then remember to let any ghouls and it go and pass like clouds and enjoy the subtlety and plain weirdness of the Symbolist obsessions.

New Website Launch Soon

Apologies for the very long hiatus. Two whole years. Life -in which time is a luxury- got in the way of blogging.

My new website www.kierondevlin.com is underway and soon should provide the real forum for all that I have learned in my intensive training and profound search for answers to life's mysteries. The site will provide sessions of Hypnotherapy, Neuro Linguistic Programming, Life Coaching, Emotional Freedom Techniques and the magnificent unbeatable 3-day seminar, the Phil Parker Lightning Process, guaranteed to get anybody who is stuck, one the move and growing again.

The site still isn't up and it will take a while so please bear with all the changes and updates and more news, freebies and articles will be posted very soon.