Through a myriad of expressions

Expressing oneself or communicating through self expression is highly therapeutic. These expressions rejuvenate you and they revitalize you. There are powerful forms of expressions. You can use any of your senses to express yourself creatively and completely.

Like expressing   yourself  through words either through speech or writing. You can express your feelings or emotions through words. Words are real powerful tools. They bring you out of your depths; they have a way to heal you once they come out of your system. You can make your journal entries or write in random paper that can be disposed later or you can even blog in the net these days .Wherever you are and whatever you write are your messages to the Universe out there. These words can soothe you, enlighten you and guide you.  They can make you cry and they can make you happy and ultimately you get cleansed of your emotions.

Through art is another way, when you are happy you splash your art work with brilliant and vibrant colors and when you are sad you splash them with vivid dark and black shades. Try drawing a picture from your mind when you are going through difficulties, you will be amazed to see the results. You can read your art and understand yourself.

Expressing yourself through talks or chats in person or over phone, talking to someone close to you is highly therapeutic too.  At times you need not discuss what is bothering you but can just talk to someone to boost your mood and that someone can even be your kids. Talking with kids can do wonders to your moods and these little kids generally have this happy energy around themselves and that is really contagious.

Talking to ones’ parents however old you are is a good form of self expression. They are your best well wishers in the whole wide world and they don’t judge you, whatever you say. Their pearls of wisdom are something to go by at all times and seasons of life.

You can express yourself through music even if you are not musically talented, you can just listen to good melodies or any catchy tunes you love and don’t forget to sing or hum along. Depending on your mood, listen to happy songs or old movies songs. Music evokes the real you in you and it makes you cry, it makes you feel glorious and it makes you feel wonderful, all at the same time.

Dance is another form of expression. You can dance to the tunes of your life accordingly and it can be very self expressive. Dance is a kind of language that with the natural rhythmic limb movements and abhinayas  (facial expressions), you can reflect your mood. It is a beautiful way of expressing oneself like the peacock that spreads its wings and dances whenever it sees the clouds that rains. Through that beautiful gesture, it expresses its happiness.

Using your culinary skills is one way to express oneself. One can detect the mood of the chef at home by the cooking and menu that particular day. The flavors and the ingredients merge together with love on  the  happy days and things will be out or proportion on crazy days and that happens to all moms out there.

Teenagers express themselves even through their dressing style and attitude, in other words through their behavior. Little kids express themselves through smiles and hugs and kisses. At times there is nothing healing like a loving touch.

At times, it is a good idea to escape to another world for a short period of time by immersing yourself in reading good books. When you read, you get transported to another world. That short spikes of time can relax you immensely.

Through meditations which have the power to calm your mind, soothe your heart and touch your very soul. “Be still and know that I am God”. In the silent threads of time, you can feel the divine presence that surrounds you like a beautiful breeze. When you sit silently, you express yourself through your thoughts and they run here and there like moving clouds and in course of time they disappear. You feel the peace in your mind, body and soul, it fills you with good energy and that stays with you for the day.

Sometimes you can express yourself through spontaneous prayers and they come from the bottom of your heart. It is like hearing your heart having a conversation with God. It is a spiritual way of expressing oneself.

From time to time people resort to some destructive methods of expressions like shouting at spouses and kids or employees and like eating too much and end up spending too much when the mood is just not right.

Those are the times you should bring out the creative aspect in yourself to express. Some of us have trouble communicating self because we are shy, insecure or think we can’t make any difference to the world . So we tend to withhold our self expressions to ourselves. Sometimes to express self we need self acceptance. All of us need to find the courage and confidence to express and contribute something to the world by just being natural the way we are. All of us need to get in touch with our inner creativity to learn to express our emotions, thoughts, wants, needs , attitudes and wishes and so on. Expressions of self brings out an outlet of your feelings and opinions on issues and relieves you of stress.

There are multiple ways of self expressions, the possibilities are endless but suppressing them is never good. It bottles up inside you and bursts out like an extinct volcano one fine day. It is important to explicitly express oneself any given day.

As Allen Ginsberg said “Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness.” 

So just bring out the lunatics in you in the form of constructive expressions. I am sure all of us do have a way to do it. Good luck in finding your muse!