DRAWING AND THRESHOLDISM, TO KNOW OUR INNER SELF

I would like to emphasize that through drawing, that ability that we have  -much or little-n to represent through graphic images different ideas, conceptions, imaginations, thoughts, sensations that emanate from our interiority, whether consciously or unconsciously, we can in a creative way know and understand what we feel and what we think. This artistic medium allows us to respond, among other things, to what we want to be and what we are in the present moment.

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Great ideas occur during the process of this system, but with greater intensity when we develop our capacities to draw what we feel and think, what emanates from our interiority. It is not only the fact of drawing, but of giving free rein to that immense capacity we have of representing our sensations and thoughts, through images, which in our western system has generally been diminishing, deteriorating, and generally all our efforts are concentrated in the dialogue with the written letter, whether reading or writing. However, as we release our capacities in the plastic activity of drawing, we give credit to our creative and artistic possibilities. Function makes the organ.

In order to have a different mechanism than the traditional ones for translating these drawing images, I would like to briefly transmit what I have been able to observe and experience through a practice I have called thresholdism, which is a form that allows us to understand two or more elements that are contrasted in this system. The threshold is a portal defined at the limit of transition in which the elements, procedures, ideas, and in our case the information contained in graphic images are contrasted, enriching themselves by illuminating their essential constitutive parts. Analysts (observers and researchers) who could apply this procedure are encouraged and impelled in their creative and interpretative functions, becoming aware of the participation of the unconscious, which in turn is transmitted in this state of transition through the activated threshold.

In my book Tap Tap, Plastics and Poetry I resort to this system to evaluate the Macro-plastic Complexes that I use to determine the parts of each plastic work as to its outstanding characteristics. We can say that two or more elements are enriched for their assimilation, reaction and comprehension when they are contrasted at this threshold; that is, they are placed temporally, spatially and numerically at the threshold within their borders and are analytically confronted in this continuum defined by its “limit dimension” revealing its secondary (PII) and tertiary (PIII) properties. It is a process that begins and ends in a peremptory time; however, it has the faculty to restart again to bring us closer to our goals.

Passing through the threshold is similar to the activity of introducing a special contrasting liquid into the human body in order to observe it through X-rays, that is, the operating system provides us with both quantitative and qualitative analytical mechanisms to know the plastic elements of the whole work, as well as its essential constitutive parts, both basic and outstanding illustrative. Likewise, it has the object of obtaining the relative differentiation between (physical) sections of the drawing or painting, previously selected, with respect to the dominant plastic elements.

As in other writings I have mentioned, if anyone would like to have more information or some extra information about this that I have written in this or in some other, I can gladly provide you immediately all the information that you request.

I invite you to read this other writing:

DRAWING, TO KNOW BETTER OURSELVES

Loya Lopategui, Carlos, Tap Tap, Plastic and Poetry, EMULISA, México, 2017. 

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THE WALK-RWD SYSTEM AND ZEN

The integral WALK-RWD system reveals a healthy way of living, with pleasure and satisfaction. Like Zen, it allows us to carry out our daily tasks consciously in the here and now; its general objective is to reach an exciting state by any of the 4 activities that it involves or globally. Achieving that passion is its main goal, in the moments that take effect. Each of its fundamental activities (walking, reading, writing and drawing) is motivating for the rest; we just have to start our walk and in a few minutes we will be enthusiastic to continue reading, writing or drawing. In other words, we can live the present moment in a relaxed and balanced way, since that vehement state leads us to carry out those absorbed and concentrated activities, in such a way that we do not feel running time, that is, through the dynamic or active meditation.

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I invite you to read these other writings on the subject:

THE “HERE AND NOW” WITH THE SYSTEM

OBJECTIVES OF THE SYSTEM

WALKING, MEDITATION AND CEREBRAL WAVES

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SELECTION OF BOOKS

At the beginning it is highly recommended to choose those books that we are passionate about since they will be an attraction and a motivating mechanism to walk and to develop the other activities.

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For reading it is advisable to select the books that have an interest for us, because if we make an effort, we may not reach the necessary interest and see it as an obligation, as when we feel we have to comply with an unavoidable study program.

We must be aware that when we are willing to walk with a broad interest in it, we can select some type of reading that is not so attractive, however, we should be very careful if we choose a book that provokes rejection.

125-INFINITY

The system itself, makes reading and writing more enjoyable, absorbing, pleasent and satisfactory, and therefore , less difficult to carry out those two activities. Performing them, while walking, transforms them   -reading and writing-  into part of ourselves.

For the first walks, we can recommend simple books, such as:

• Books of apothegms, poetry, famous phrases, or something similar

• Those books that we have always wanted to read

• Books that are not complex or difficult

• Books not large, light, few pages. Not like the ones seen in the attached work No. 125 “Infinitos” (watercolor, 43 x 27 in.). This work was inspired by a poem entitled: “A book in time”.

It is the art of being oneself through reading, writing and drawing, while  walking.

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WALKING, MEDITATION AND CEREBRAL WAVES

Against some opinions that are raised on how to achieve meditation, this integral system of walking does not necessarily require those conditions and requirements.

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Those recommend being in a comfortable and resting position; in a pleasant place, preferably in an isolated room, to make it quiet and peaceful; and put the mind “empty.”

With the system of reading, writing or drawing while walking, we can reach those same levels of abstraction, concentration and relaxation, that is, a full meditation, but it still goes beyond. We do not necessarily have to resort to closed rooms, but quite the opposite; neither must they be done the walks in a quiet and peaceful environment, although not having this last can be a source of distraction; and the position is not precisely resting, but standing and walking, always walking.

Meditation  -and likewise its main components-  is not a state where we have to put the mind “empty”, but we put it to work concentrated, on very specific topics, which for the meditator are so exciting  -or can reach to be it-  that they abstract them from everything and feel that they float in “no space” and in “no time”; in other words, we subtract from the surrounding environment, as our mind and our 5 physical and spiritual senses are abstracted (from the immediate reality), and focus, reflecting and feeling, respectively, on that topic, subject or activity simultaneous to walking, which we are passionate about.

722. SPECIAL THOUGHTS

Let’s keep in mind that meditation is not just about achieving relaxation. Walking associated with reading, or writing or drawing, allows us to produce alpha waves but also theta. The alpha waves are associated with relaxation and other states more attenuation of consciousness (less rationalism), while theta are those that are generated in our brain when we are placed in a deep calm and consciousness of time and space are lost, they are the waves that are established and implanted  -with organization-  in the mind when we make contact with our unconscious, but we continue with an apparent consciousness, that is, our attention is relaxed and our physical and mental executions are not governed by rational actions, in such a way that we put ourselves in a hypnagogic state: we walk and we do not perceive it, we read and we do not realize it, and when we wake up from that state, we become aware that we have walked 5-6 miles  and read 10-15 pages of a book.

For this state that is achieved by walking in an integral way, is that I have recommended in previous posts that you must be very careful to perform this type of active meditation in environments where they may have contact with cars, bicycles, and other types of vehicles, it must be done in safe, familiar and well-known places.

Something else on the subject can be found in the publication I wrote THE ECSTASY IS ACHIEVED DURING THE WALK

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THE CONTEMPLATION DURING THE WALK

Contemplation is an activity that we can practice when we feel the desire to do it, their imperative need to carry it out or when the other activities have satisfied us. If reading and writing, on any day we have decided to walk, are not very attractive, we think we can make this walk with the sole purpose of contemplating nature, in any of the following options:

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  1. Panoramic scenarios
  2. Wild animals
  3. Wild flowers and plants
  4. Colors of nature
  5. Geological aspects
  6. The sky and the clouds
  7. And dozens of other things more

This activity of contemplation works with our privacy, because it allows us to fully dialogue with ourselves, with our inner being, being accompanied only by nature, in a state of intimacy and recollection, as if we were isolated to accompany us only by the lady nature.

For this type of walks we recommend you take a camera with you, to make some shots that you want.

Let us try to let conscience, reason, reasoning, reflection, and all other functions that are entirely developed by the brain rest. Let us do our part to the unconscious; he never rests, he is always active, he never tires. Let’s be contemplative only.

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