Black Crayon

Post edited by: AngelBella1231, at: 01/14/2008 14:51

Terri

The deal is: The very first marks we make as a child are scribbles, so it is an immediate and uncensored way of releasing unconscious conflicts in visual form. The black crayon is not a specific tool in the book that I've read yet, but I imagine being black it helps to release extreme tension or agression.

It is helpful to do some relaxation exercises or deep breathing briefly before you begin to clear your head of all the misc. stuff going on. You can start drawing with a particular question or frustration in mind or not. You scribble on a piece of paper(bigger is better so your emotions you're releasing aren't confined). You can scribble all different ways-with your eyes closed, both hands or non-dominant hand for @ 30 seconds or until you feel it's complete. Look at the scribble and see if you find dominant shapes, an image, patterns (turn it around too to look) from there, color in, add details, etc. Don't forget to stand back. Once you're done, see if I title comes to mind and some phrases about it to journal. You can hang it on the wall and see if anything else comes to mind to add in your journal. This helps bring the underlying emotions that are difficult to access otherwise to understand what's going on in there.

So I'll let you know how mine go, ok? Have fun!

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