take a deep breath. Allowing yourself to be open and relaxed. Breathing in and breathing out. Feeling yourself opening. In this meditation, I invite you to connect to the area around your heart. Now breathe into your heart, allowing the energy around your heart to expand. Connecting to the intelligence of your heart. Inside your body, you have everything you need to create a healing experience for yourself. Part of reclaiming the inner healer is honoring your innate, powerful resource for healing. Your body knows exactly what to do. There is a healing physiology that is within you. In this moment, simply relax, allowing yourself to connect with the physiology that comes with healing, relaxing and making art. This is the physiology and where we begin to counteract the stresses in our lives. Now we begin to simply breathe and relax. Beautiful. Feel yourself centering. The healer within resides within you. Imagine the energy within you, optimizing, flowing naturally. You are strong, you are capable of healing yourself. Your physiology knows exactly what to do and how to do it. Honoring your pathway and your process, that whatever emerges in this healing with the arts class is exactly what you need to be working with to heal. When you're ready, allowing whatever emerges that grabs your attention to be and be with it. Giving it your complete presence. Allowing the healing energy to flow through every creative act you do. This is your intention. To use your creative process as a modality to heal. Your body knows exactly what to do. You are an artist and you are a healer. So be it.