Art and Mental Health. Part 5.

Many adult students sign up for workshops because they are drawn to learn this type of art. Somehow they recognise in them, that they will benefit from it. Many need to heal themselves from trauma - in this life or to reset a repetitive pattern that existed before this life so that they can extend beyond it.

Through free energy art a person goes into silence, into the superconscious mind, accesses universal consciousness, and then comes back, bringing with them a residue of stuff that exists in their subconscious mind that requires healing.

The idea is that a person becomes progressively lighter and can then live in balance.

Workshops are always perfectly measured, with the right people coming along according to who needs what from whom. The class operates above and below, with the room being packed with guides and helpers from beyond the veil.

Approximately two years ago, a guy joined that had been struggling with his mental health and mania for many years. I was so glad that he was willing to commit time to energy art in order to begin the journey of self healing. It was also interesting and a privilege to be able to share this journey to see in what way this process could help.

Free expression art, energy art, channelled art, spiritual art, visionary art, psychic art are all labels that could be given to this type of art.

To some onlookers they glance at it, seeing only colour, and they dismiss it. Maybe they are not ready. Maybe they are too in their minds, trying to think what it isn't.

Many miss the energy of it, the depth and the message and maybe that is right, as all of this information is meant for the healing of the creator - locked into the painting like a secret code showing itself only to those that are aware enough to realise that there are doors........

Many of them - to other planes of consciousness - accessed in the no mind state, through art. Without trying, but with an openness of mind and a freeness of purpose. In an allowing state.

This guy that showed up for art was ready to try anything and so we began working together on a canvas each week, with spirit knitting our energy together as we worked - egolessly.

The results were amazing. First of all, at a glance, the canvas - painted with oil paints - seemed to be merely covered in shapes. We would rotate them round, viewing them each way up until images began to appear as if cloud gazing.

Nearly always, figures showed themselves - many of which wearing a turban, but this was only apparent after the second phase of work - giving depth to elements of the painting - revealing what had been laid down.

I was interested to learn that part of this guys mania involved him wearing a turban and being a king. It was as if he was tuning into a past life experience.

We have continued to work together in this way, each week - the idea being that the familiarity of it treads a well worn path of connection between here and spirit, allowing him to have control of his own doorway.

Unfortunately he is on monthly injections of a mind altering drug that has embedded him deep inside himself.

It's a difficult situation of awakening him through the fog, raising his vibration up so that he can recognise the voices if and when they appear once his medication has been reduced.

For now, all is well, with many little steps in the right direction.

Art and Mental Health. Part 2.

After I qualified I left nursing. I had loved it, but my first love had always been art. So I pursued that, and in 1996, 8 years after my St Pancras experience, I bought my first home.

It was a run down cottage in Godshill that was over 400 years old. I was involved heavily in the renovation of it and embraced my life as an artist painting Island scenes, flowers and a set of fantasy paintings.

I did not realise at the time that my fantasy art was more real than I gave it credit for. They were colourful images depicting pixies that were in another dimension. It was fun make believe until I realised that my brain was being prised open - letting in the light - until I recalled my early childhood and talking with spirits all around me.

It dawned on me that I was painting a reality that I did not yet understand, but repeated painting would shed light until I started to have a slight grasp of it.

It was wonderful to finally move into my own home and the energy was shaken up considerably with walls being demolished, concrete being poured through windows to replace earth floors. It was like starting from the beginning with a shell.

A mirror of my life?

It was not long before disturbances began and then they came relentlessly - so much so, that I dreaded going to sleep.

I began to feel frayed round the edges with extreme tiredness and for a long while said nothing to anyone. I was quietly going mad.

One time, I was putting on my make-up and my mouth just opened and spoke in a completely different voice, saying -
'This is the voice of your dead grandmother.'
Another time I was emptying the washing machine and a demonic voice began making guttural sounds from inside my head and outside, just to the right. I can't recall the exact words now, but it was threatening in nature.
Spirits had started appearing, and one swam round my body - because I had let it in order to study it. A tremendous force was needed to get it out again.

Why had I let it in?

A complete stranger sat next to me on a train when I was about 18 and told me that I was a seer, and years later I was considering it and felt that in order to see it would be important to be 'open' somehow.

It was 10 am, I had slept badly again, so was still in bed. I thought, okay, I will just 'feel open.'

I got up to wee, promptly forgetting the open command, came back into the bedroom to see a spirit hovering above the ground at the end of my bed. I ran and dived under the covers - not completely accepting the reality of the situation.

There was no time to think. It swooshed through the top of my had, bathing me in coolness. There may have been a momentary feeling where I could have blocked it then, but for some reason I did not. It swam through me, sensing my nature. Checking me out from inside. It was when my eyes felt like they were out on stalks and seeing my body from above that I panicked and forced with all my might to get it out.

I was in shock. A spirit had been inside me. I had been shown that this was possible. I had also been shown that it was possible to hear a voice inside my head that was not me.

There was considerably more to this world than what was being currently spoken about and I was at a loss to know where to begin in order to further understand things.

The Power of Art

I believe that art has the power to heal because when we are immersed in it - with all our passion - our hearts open wide and we access our innate creation ability. We access our genius and this gives us tremendous joy and fulfilment. A sense of accomplishment and worth. We are nourished by the energy that we pour out of ourselves as well as the energy that fills us up. It is a win win situation that results in our own healing as well as the healing of others, purely by viewing the art.

I have been lucky because I have had the opportunity to share with many young people the journey of healing through art. Such a simple process of expressing yourself with colour - beyond the mind and form. Formless art. Inspiration. A journey that - without pressure - with complete freedom, allows forms to arrive
on their own. A process that gives the mind a complete rest.

Spontaneous free expression captivates a students imagination effortlessly, with healing being a natural and steady bi-product of the enjoyment.

Here are some stunning creations by one of my students who came to me because she had zero confidence. She is at one of the special schools on the Island, but this was not an issue for her.

Somehow something had triggered a complete inability to communicate without jittering nervously She cowered and kept her eyes down, blocking everyone out because she found interaction too difficult and stressful.

Creativity is an amazing process because the act of it causes us to open up. Conversation starts to flow and so healing is on many levels.

What I realised happens to many people is what I observed in myself. As a young child this happened to me. I was fully aware of the dynamic and studied it.

When we are sensitive we pick up on the thoughts of others and fall into behaving exactly as they perceive us. It is not intentional, enjoyable or desired and is very hard to break free from and snap out of. It becomes an ingrained habit.

It feels like you are somehow hooked into a dynamic that over powers you - that is more powerful, and it took me years of fighting it to realise how to escape. Now I teach others the techniques that I learned.

A sensitive person has their own personality that they are aware of as well as all the other personalities of everyone else that they interact with or that are within their vicinity. They read and process all of this information simultaneously and it can be very draining and exhausting.

No help is sought or believed to be required because it is assumed that we are all the same - swamped with a heavy mat of feeling information that is drowning us with its weight.

Finally there is now more information 'out there' that is showing how All Is Energy, and All can be Felt. All is Tangible. PHEW!

So this mirroring of others that think that we are stupid, weak, feeble, incapable or LESS somehow is something that overrides our natural self because we are swamped by it and have a difficulty in detangling all the incoming feelings to sort out what is our own. And there just ISN'T Time. Life is too hurried and rushed and we receive no help, and we can't work out what is wrong with us.

Art gives us breathing space. Time to be intrinsically ourselves. As sensitive people we can learn to hear and know ourselves louder than all the other surrounding melee.

We do not have to humour others because their
thoughts of us are demeaning - however shouty they are.

With this particular student, regular discussions of energy dynamics were crucial to her healing, as well as conversation and an environment where every drop of energy was positive and encouraging.

Even momentary dips in my energy would bring a question...
'Do you like me?'
 or - 'I'm sorry.' as if she was responsible for my energy as she was being affected by it.

It took me right back to when I was a child. She helped me remember and to heal these
deepest darkest corners of myself and to bring them into the light.

After two years this student is now the chattiest, cheekiest member of the class and radiates joy, compassion and love.

I Am Enough.

Throughout life I've been in constant search of a self that seems ever changing. Searching for everything and yet looking for nothing. Life racing by in the blink of an eye.

I am not the person that I was five years ago, and feel the being that existed in me ten years before, was someone living a parallel life - a person that I could have been if I'd stayed on that path.

It was as a meandering road that we take when lost on our way - to where?

That was my questioning as a child.

'What is the purpose for all this?'
'Why am I here?'
'Where am I going?'

Everything became convoluted, too much, too noisy and I raced about being a people pleaser, never stopping for a minute to consider myself or what Nicola would like.

It was as if I wasn't aware that I was allowed to think of myself - for that would be selfish.

Life had to take me to a place where I was bought to my knees, where I came to realise that we can serve on this planet, but that this is not the same as giving up on ourselves.

We are here as energy contained within flesh and bone, and our vibration is the most important thing that we can take care of, that we are responsible for.

If our emissions are hectic, fragmented, sullied, sad, disjointed, flat, spikey or shardy, then everything around us is jagged because it is being affected by our presence.

When we are smooth and floaty, happy, up beat, gracious, joyful - when we are able to feel and be love - everything about us changes.

When water is pure and surrounded by music, laughter and love, it develops beautiful, delicate snowflake crystal shapes. This shows us just how important our emotion - energy in motion - is.

Firstly it is vital for our health and self healing. Filling ourselves up with love and positive self talk where we can see beauty in ourselves, where we accept ourselves exactly as we are.

Once everything is stripped away, our essence is rainbow coloured light.  To return to this state is all that is required, for being this way it shows others how to be the same.

No words or demonstrations are needed. Just a heart that emits its soul song.

You are enough.

There is no need to seek love or approval from others. All is within ourselves. Happiness is a choice.

I remember when I first began to disengage with society en masse, and to spend more time in nature, amongst trees or listening to waves.

Healing took quite a long time - several years, until I was finally able to feel myself. My rhythm, my peace, my essence.

In the silence I slowly grew to know who I am, where I'm going and why I'm here and although others are involved in my life - and I love it when they are, for I can play with them a while, but they cannot detract from my truest nature -  they can only enrich it.

The soul song journey requires a level of simplicity within ourselves where we can find joy and fulfilment in our lives as they are - not seeking, not wishing.

The joy of a sparkling rain drop, or the magical nature of a snowflake.

Once you can find joy around you, it is possible to build on it, with the positive energy radiating from you, attracting more of the same until suddenly it seems that the whole world is smiling with you.

A Class at the Oracle.

The Oracle Gallery

Introducing Nicola Gibbs (The Oracle Gallery)

Consciousness Shift

For some years now, I have been educating young people about the consciousness shift.

Through art and meditation we can come to a place of high vibration when we are working with passion; In the no mind state / the daydream we access the super conscious mind - the microcosm of universal consciousness.

We are all individual 'cosms.'

The super consciousness contains information that our conscious mind does not know what to do with.
It is rather like the branches of a tree. The deeper we go into our super consciousness the further we can travel in our knowing of the universe and multiverse.

Understanding of our universe and our full place in it, as well our understanding of other universes is an inward journey.

We are a microcosm of the universal macrocosm. All information can be inspired in the no mind state.
Drawn through the artist and onto canvas, knowledge evolves through the painted journey.

We are infinite, and live lifetime after lifetime experiencing relationship after relationship, in order that we come to know ourselves. So that we can return to our innate energy, which is love.
Once we have found our true nature, our consciousness expands, as we now have the ability to see more, feel more, comprehend more. Working with spirit, Ascended Masters and Archangels, becomes a way of life.
Walking between the worlds becomes the norm, and this process leaves an energy signature.

By being a channel for free creative expression, on a regular basis, a student forms an energy pathway that becomes so strong that a person can be here and there simultaneously. ie here and in spirit at the same time.
This process, as it is accompanied with a state of high vibration, brings this link to earth, and anchors it here.
The more people on earth that learn to do this, the higher the planetary energy. The higher the planetary energy, the more people will shift their consciousness.

Before such a high vibration is reached, we must focus on ourselves and begin to practice self love.
Our general demeanour throughout our lives needs to be bought into balance.
One where we are in control of our moods and are in charge of how we choose to feel and to re act.

When we can finally learn to maintain a clear head, without clamouring thoughts, we can truly say that we have lived. In this state a life presents itself that is in the flow of synchronistic unfolding, without strain.

Lessons still show up that need to be learned, but we have the tools and the knowledge that we have help from the other side of the veil, and we know to listen to internal guidance to find solutions to find ease on our path.

Indigo, Crystal and Rainbow Children

Since I began teaching in 2008 it has become apparent that not all children are the same.

In fact there are Indigo, Crystal, Rainbow children and Liquid Crystal children.

For years I have been studying people as they came and went from my shop Christmas Cottage, and this continued as it transitioned into the Oracle Gallery.

For many years I have sat painting while people come in and out of the gallery and because the children were so interested in what I was doing, I started to offer art classes.

But not all children were interested. Many breezed in and out quickly with or without their parents.
The ones that I became particularly interested in were the ones that came in and went
''WOW!"

I was not interested because they tickled my ego, but rather because they could SEE and FEEL.

A huge number came in without parents and then implored them to come in and see, because they were so excited. They then would start begging their parents to let them stay for a class.

There was always something so magical about their energy and their eyes would twinkle knowingly when they spoke to me.




I would do impromptu classes throughout the days and would teach one to one if there were no other children about. The one to one classes were particularly powerful as it was as if spirit had caused it to be set up exactly in this way for this child's learning from me and visa versa.

I found that I didn't have to discuss anything with the children. I just showed them techniques of how to draw and joined in with them on their creations. I took them on an energy journey.

The more children that came, the more an energy was building in the gallery, and so even more came.
Many of them were eleven and made sure they told me early on in conversation. I began understanding this as a gateway age where they were ready to understand more.

The children started to tell me what they could hear and see and know and it became a regular conversation
'What entities can you see?'

We would talk about energy and portals and different dimensions. These children were different.
They had come here to help shift the consciousness of the people, so that the planet can be saved.

They had been programmed to find me on earth by tuning into an energy signature - the energy of spirit, which is what they recognised and felt the moment they entered the gallery.


Artwork by students at the Oracle Gallery - see more on Facebook.

Awakening and ART

Awakening to new 5th dimensional energies occurs when there is a shift in perception.

A raise in consciousness from lower energies that bind us to a lower vibration or samsara.

Awakening means that we completely remember who we are as a spiritual being.
For a while as you are breaking free from the OLD WAY, you will find yourself perpetually forgetting and in that state you will be completely oblivious to another level, or world of experience.

But it's okay, it isn't a race!

The problem is in the initial remembering, with your mind battling a new perception and saying


'This isn't real, this is delusional.'

The laugh comes when you finally break free, and you make out that you always new it anyway....which of course you did, before your memory was erased as you came up the birth canal.

Art is an amazing way to awaken.

Because this state is who we fully are, it can be reached when we completely let go of all 3d control. Put another way - when we conquer our ego, which is by no means easy.
One large problem is distinguishing your id / spirit from your ego. One right brain, one left.
Basically the chatty, noisy, know-it-all, bossy one, is the ego, and the very quiet one that always gets over ruled is the id.
I found that I was sent many lessons adhering to this, until I could ignore it no more. Lessons would follow the same pattern, where I heard something so quietly - almost inaudibly, then my loud voice trumpeted in and I went straight with it's view point.
Basically the lessons were set up that something always went horribly wrong so that I could replay the scenario in my head and remember the quiet voice.
By acknowledging my right brain in this way, the voice slowly became louder.

Luckily age also helps. Each spiritual year is 7 years. We are born very clear and aware and many of us have childhood friends or can see or sense spirit, but the world soon deadens us.
Through puberty the veil is at it's thickest because it is important that mankind populate the earth, but after this the veil becomes progressively thinner so it is far easier to hear.

It is also easier if you have less testosterone for you to hear, which is why women generally have a clearer link.


When you are in a blissed state, as in meditation, or when you lose yourself in art, your vibration raises, and you are able to be fully yourself, as you reach your higher self....the full self, your genius.

I always feel that the 3d energy - heavy, upset, angry, fearful, busy-minded, controlling, dominating is like only having half your head, and awareness.

Breaking free comes when you finally vow to yourself that you will never forget who you really are.  You have a team talk with yourself or put post it notes around your house reminding you to never forget. Unfortunately despite this you still forget frequently until you remember better, and so well in fact that you break free. For me the impetus was getting sick of repeating the same tiresome lessons.

The incredible thing that then transpires is that you realize that you have spent your whole life thus far, living only half a life, an illusion - with things totally upside down. You get cross with yourself for having gripped on to your stupidity for what seems like eons - and is in fact many, many life times.

You start to remember other lifetimes, the pre- life state. You start to communicate with spirit, your guides, friends and family the other side of the veil and to work with angels.

You shift your consciousness because you understand microcosm and macrocosm. You understand that universal consciousness is within us all, and we can access it by going within -
Through meditation, art or music.
In the quiet times or when we remove our minds from our heads.
Then in our right mind, day dreamy state we can finally HEAR and finally KNOW who we are and why we came here.

Because we remember, we awaken.

About 10% of the worlds population is currently awakening. That is such a good thing, as we need to pave the way for the Indigo, Crystal and Rainbow children who are far more evolved than us, and are somewhat exasperated at the state of the world.

Their clarity is mind blowing. Spirit communication is so obvious for them they assume that we are ALL doing it.

A New Way

One of the key things to accomplish in life is to work out who and what you ARE NOT, and what you don't want and are not willing to put up with.
Everything else that is left is where you start from.

I am that I am.

My higher self, Monad, helped by guides, a channel.
Who does speak? Who am I, and who are we?

Remembering that we are not just the body and mind that we see is huge, and I believe pivotal in all crisis of mental health.
Maybe it is the purpose of mental ill health - so that we begin the journey of searching for who we truly are.

First of all you read about it, then maybe accept it as a concept. You fight against it, forget it, until, after numerous situations of being at rock bottom, you suddenly see a chink of light and you remember that the realm of spirit is your home, and that you are merely here as a visitor.

Life as you knew it completely changes because you understand that your key purpose for being here is to learn. You weren't a mishap or born by mistake. You chose to come here, and you chose your parents.

I remember wrestling with my ego for ages. I just couldn't rationalise Archangels, and yet I'd seen one clearly in my bedroom one morning, sat beautifully on my windowsill.
The idea that I had lived other lifetimes also seemed crazy until I had a past life regression and then learned how to regress myself.

Clearing out all old energies, and cleansing the environment with crystals and smudging is very important.
Energy needs space to move and flow around your home.


My awareness of the energy that is in objects was a gradual one. I use to own my own shop - Christmas Cottage and along with my artwork I had the shop stacked with stock displayed in every available space.
Then I noticed something. If I had just done a display and laid everything out beautifully and stood back thinking how beautiful everything looked, stuff from this display would start to sell immediately.
I slowly came to realise that too much stuff meant that I couldn't energise it all properly, and so things wouldn't sell and there would be a stuck energy.

I then learned about crystals and smudging with Californian white sage. The crystals are important for gridding a space - one in each corner, so that your boundaries are protected. Both the smudge stick and crystals are important to cleanse the space of any negative or toxic energy from yourself or from anyone else. They keep the energy clear so that you can have a quieter mind and a higher energy.

When I need an area cleansing with a smudge stick I always hand it over to the archangels to cleanse the space in the highest possible Divine Light, as they will do a far better job than I.

Crystals need to be regularly put outside under the full moon. I lay mine out on the soil and let them get rained on a few nights before I bring them back in when they are pinging with energy.

Chanting helps reset the mental pathways. Perfect before meditation as it sandpapers the mind of all  thoughts.

I've always loved Aum mani padme hum or the Gayatri Mantra.
In 1999, when working on an art project with friend and composer Sarah Class, I played one track of her music on repeat for several months. At this time I had no idea about mantra and no understanding of spirit. Little did I know the effects of high vibration music on repeat.

The result was an ability to channel art. I had no more thoughts left. I just was - a vessel / tube for energy to flow through me onto a canvas. I was merely the observer.

You find your true self once you have stripped away the chatter. It is a band of energy.

What is this energy like?

It is so subtle and ebbs and slips away without you even being aware.
A vigilant practice is important - especially in the early days. I was painting for most of the day for fifteen years. I found it the only way that I could stay on top of the voices that I could hear form inside.

Having been a trained nurse and worked at St Pancras Hospital as part of my psychiatric nursing experience, I would say that I definitely am not mental, and yet I can hear voices - both good and bad.

How I understand it now is - I am a clear channel, and so I can hear helpful guidance. When I am not a clear channel - through drink or drugs or toxic living, I hear voices that are not pleasant and they come from inside me, but are not mine.
The last time that I had an imposter within, it gave me enough of a sensation as I observed it, that I could clearly realise that I was totally separate from it and that it had come in through my crown chakra.


Work towards positivity in everything as negativity and gossip are of a lower vibration and only serve to lead you further away from yourself.

Be filled with joy and love, because you can.

Breathe in light and anchor it into the earth.
Draw down the light through art, or meditation, music or contemplation.

Work with the light to heal the planet and the people, to raise consciousness . To en light en.

A Healing Journey

Learning to be here right NOW.

Healing yourself is a lengthy process but thoroughly worthwhile.
Learning to love yourself and take good care of yourself is the most important thing that you can ever do.
Only then you will be able to truly love others and be able to help them.
By showing the way we become Wayshowers - a guiding light for others to follow.
Our energy becomes like a pathway for others and our energy emitted becomes one of love.

If we could all clearly see the colour and nature of our emitted energy, we would take more care of it.

Energy is probably the most significant THING in the entire universe.
If we all pumped out LOVE, we would heal the world and there would be no hunger - because a sense of duty would ensure that the ample and abundant world harvests were equally shared for all the global family.

Start by getting rid of old behaviour patterns that no longer serve you - negative emotions, living in the past, or future...... and know that you can change the polarity of good or bad at any time. You alone have the power to choose your emotions - energy in motion - every day.
To begin with this seems very complicated especially if your brain is looping and chatting incessantly, but with time and practice it will quieten.

Simplify your life so that needless rushing about is eliminated. Ask yourself
'Is this bringing me joy?'
'Is this enriching my life?'

Cleanse your mind, your body, your environment.
Declutter your space, declutter your mind and purge your health.
Stock up on ORGANIC FOODS - vegetables and meat. You may think that it is food that you are buying in the supermarkets - it is not. So much of it is laced with pesticides and really not fit for human consumption.
When you see a huge grape, or onion or leek etc - realise it did not grow this way by itself.
For ages I told myself that I could not afford to go completely organic, but after extensive research I came across the 'Dirty Dozen' list and now I am adamant. ( I eat less, but better.)

Put joy and love into everything that you do. Be conscious of the energy pathway that you leave behind you. Let it not be a turgid slick.

Meditate. Do not try. Do not think. Just be.
For me, art is meditation without trying. The POWER comes when there is a GAP between thoughts.
In these gaps, we get messages and intuition from spirit / from our higher selves. With time, the gaps become longer and we realise that the support from spirit has always been there. We were just too busy - our lives too phrenetic to hear it.

Focus on your breath and your belly rising and falling. Feel any tension slipping from your hands, shoulders and feet. Feel the space between your brow soften and broaden.
Open up your chakras through your intent of wanting them open.

We all have energy centres that are situated along the central line of our bodies. Each of them represents a different colour of the rainbow, and when we are healthy they are vibrant and spinning - emitting an energy to the front and back of us. Our auric layers are also differing rainbow colours, and are influenced by the nature of our chakras.

Imagine that above you is the most beautiful, pure, Divine Light of absolute love.
Feel this love penetrating your being and draw this Light into your soul - filling you up and expanding your heart until you feel bliss.
When we are filled with gratitude and love, we shine.
You can now Shine Your Light.
You can now feel all of the enjoyment for being fully present in this moment rather than an imagined one, or one that you missed because you were stuck in your head / in your thoughts.

Feel absolute joy and love for being here NOW, to live this life, at this time.
Send your Divine Light and love to the universe, to our beautiful planet, to every living thing on it.

Art causes healing, and heart expansion which can set you free.