Having coffee with a good friend recently, we were talking about that classic Autumn topic: back to \nthe routine, and how I like to put this concept into practice at home by doing something related to \nArt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I believe in inhabiting habit<\/strong> filling habit with presence and with my soul. <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n An illustrative \nexample comes from my primary teacher in life: nature. I\u2019m lucky enough to live close to some \nwoods, and I often walk there. Sometimes I listen to a podcast while marching along lost in my \nthoughts and suddenly realise that I\u2019ve forgotten to inhabiting habit,<\/strong> that my forest walk has \nbecome repetition without soul or colour<\/strong>. That same process of walking in the \nwoods can also be experienced while living with my feelings of the moment such as listening to \nbirdsong or admiring blossoms, bringing me a feeling of security and tranquillity. It means that I\u2019m allowing myself to connect to my emotions from within<\/strong>, that I feel renewed from my routine, because I leave space for surprise<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n El otro d\u00eda tomaba un caf\u00e9 con una gran amiga m\u00eda y convers\u00e1bamos sobre el tema tan recurrente en septiembre de: \u201cVuelta a la rutina\u201d. Yo le explicaba mi visi\u00f3n […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7448,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thehealthyartclub.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1191"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thehealthyartclub.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thehealthyartclub.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thehealthyartclub.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thehealthyartclub.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1191"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thehealthyartclub.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6360,"href":"https:\/\/thehealthyartclub.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1191\/revisions\/6360"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thehealthyartclub.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thehealthyartclub.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thehealthyartclub.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thehealthyartclub.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Many of you come to The Healthy Art Club<\/strong> with the simple aim of bringing a sense of tranquillity and calm<\/strong> into your daily life. This is often the result of no longer being able to surprise ourselves<\/strong>which is why I have made this part of my routine. I want to incorporate \nsurprise and the way we move through space and time with new eyes<\/strong>into my day-to-day. I \ndon\u2019t believe in \u2018the daily grind\u2019, but that routines, with their sense of familiarity<\/b>, allow us to \nsee every day with new vision<\/b><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Anybody who knows me from my workshops or in my personal life knows that I love etymology. I \nthink this stems from my father\u2019s lifelong fascination with the Castilian language, instilled in me \nsince my childhood. He would present words as treasure troves filled with surprise, which gave me \nthe curiosity to explore its roots. It\u2019s a fun thing to do, I highly recommend it. The word \u2018routine\u2019, \nfor example, comes to us from the French, \u2018route\u2019, which begs the question: what do direction and \nhabitual cycles have in common? To me, the response is crucial. A path becomes familiar when \nwe make it ours,<\/strong>when it becomes personal,<\/b> and when we see it with new eyes every time we tread it<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A path well-travelled often becomes routine, or \u2018acquired habit\u2019. But this is exactly what fascinates \nme: surely it\u2019s important to inhabit your routine?<\/strong>. To embrace it with feeling until it \nbecomes second nature?<\/strong>We are visually bombarded with newness all the time, and living like this \ncauses us to lose our roots. We easily become so focused on what\u2019s next rather than all the possibilities<\/strong> for progress given to us by living in the present<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Routines are not a negative concept. They can be space for<\/b> rhythm <\/strong>and repetition <\/strong>in which harmony <\/strong>and transformation can thrive<\/strong>. Take swimming in the sea, for \nexample, it\u2019s the same body of water that you float in, but isn\u2019t it true that diving into it is different \nevery day? What\u2019s important is changing our outlook and experience<\/strong> of<\/b> life,<\/strong> where we allow every day to be special<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
So talking about coming back to our routines in September, I suggested to my friend that she \nincorporate beautiful<\/strong> and nutritious routines <\/strong>into her daily life, something that can be \nbeneficial to everyone. My invitation to you is to give yourself the gift of choosing one day a week \nto allow yourself an hour of alone time. In a calming space at home, create a soothing space by \nplaying some music or lighting a candle. Whether it\u2019s the written word or visual Art, choose a \npreferred medium and indulge in it. Painting in broad strokes, detailed drawing, or writing thoughts on <\/strong>Art or even simply reflection: allow yourself to discover previously undiscovered aspects of Art.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
These kinds of recurrent exercises are easily implemented and positive habits<\/strong>. It\u2019s not about attaining perfection but about space and time in the every day<\/strong>. Where we can apply ritual<\/strong> Lighting a candle, setting out our tools, or deciding \non a work of Art to focus our attention on, is where we Inhabit our habits<\/strong>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"