Flowing Downstream

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Acrylic on Canvas, 36″ x 48″

When you stop swimming against the current and let yourself float instead, there is freedom in having nothing to push against – where you can simply enjoy the exquisite color moving all around you. Release of Rebellious Qi is the letting go of whatever in us wants to rise, resist, fight, or control the direction the river is already taking. Total freedom doesn’t look like effort. It’s feeling weightless, carried, and trusting enough to stop working so hard.

Jaye painted that exact release, the moment surrender stops feeling like loss and starts feeling like the most exquisite kind of ease there is.

The Contemplation: Sit with the piece and notice where in your body you’re still swimming upstream. Let yourself imagine, just for a moment, what it would feel like to float instead.