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Anja Kersten
Добавлен 12 май 2009
A Life Coach, Artist, Performer, who supports artists and creative entrepreneurs on their journey from hiding to thriving.
Are You a Critical Thinker?
Honestly, I wish they would teach healthy scepticism, critical thinking and discernment already at school! I for sure didn't learn it there...
Personally I believe it's very easy, especially when you're somewhat of a seeker and very open minded person, who's quite eager to check out things; teaching modalities, different spiritual approaches etc. to fall prey to a charismatic, popular teacher. Following them without questioning things.
There's so many 'wolves in sheep's clothing' pretending to be something they're not. Eventually harming a great deal of people.
That's why it's so important to learn to not put anyone on a pedestal and to keep on staying alert, when following someone's teac...
Personally I believe it's very easy, especially when you're somewhat of a seeker and very open minded person, who's quite eager to check out things; teaching modalities, different spiritual approaches etc. to fall prey to a charismatic, popular teacher. Following them without questioning things.
There's so many 'wolves in sheep's clothing' pretending to be something they're not. Eventually harming a great deal of people.
That's why it's so important to learn to not put anyone on a pedestal and to keep on staying alert, when following someone's teac...
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Trying very hard versus being in the flow
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This time I experimented with not knowing what I wanna talk about and landed on how improvisation is such a great tool in learning how to be more in the flow versus trying so hard and forcing things. After all you can’t violate the creative spirit! What do you do to get out of trying mode into more of a flow state, trusting yourself? #visibility #authentic #improvisation #thoughtprovoking #crea...
One year of consistently showing up!
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It's one year now, that I've been consistently showing up on social media and it all started with a content creation challenge run by George Kao. At the time, I didn't have the goal to do this for a year, I just somehow took it month by month. When I started, there was a lot of chaos in my life, from new worrying health symptoms to a completely unstable living situation as our landlady in Irela...
My super heroine, whacky drawing come alive…lol #ArtistAtWork #SuperHeroine
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The Art of Balance: Processing and Enjoyment Through Creative Expression
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The Art of Balance: Processing and Enjoyment Through Creative Expression Quite frankly, my creativity and imagination has been and still is a life saver, when it comes to navigating healing from chronic health issues or other challenges. Today, I am sharing with you how I create and how I am using art for both, processing difficult emotions for example and how I use it just to dive into creatin...
Stuck in Isolation: Coping with feelings of frustration
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Many fellow artists and creative entrepreneurs shared with me, that the number one consequence of hiding was a sense of isolation. Of course when we are dealing with chronic illness on top, it even becomes more challenging. Knowing what you still can do and what not. Where you are able to show up. In this video we dive into dealing with feelings of isolation and frustration. Being stuck in isol...
Just Create! Because you want to and it makes you feel better! #creativejourney
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Authentic Visibility Workshop: Key Insights & Takeaways (Part 1)
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In this four-part series, "Authentic Visibility Workshop: Key Insights and Takeaways," we delve into the complex dance of hiding and yearning to be seen, that some of us experience. Especially when being more on the introverted side. In this part, we touch upon how to navigate imposed restrictions, such as ME (Myalgic Encephalomyelitis) and still show up with our creative work. We look into how...
Should You Bring Your Audience Along? The Ethics of Emotional Dumping in Art
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Should You Bring Your Audience Along? The Ethics of Emotional Dumping in Art In this video, we explore the concept of emotional dumping in the art world. As artists, how much of our personal struggles and emotions should we share with our audience? We dive into the ethical considerations, potential impacts, and the fine line between genuine expression and overwhelming your viewers. Join the dis...
How to engage respectfully on my YouTube channel
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Thank you all for your engagement and interaction on my channel. This is a brief video on how to engage respectfully on my RUclips channel, so we can build a thriving community where everyone feels seen and safe. I've disabled comments on this video as these boundaries are non-negotiable. However, all other videos will have the comments section open as usual. I welcome different opinions, valua...
Skip the Hero's Journey: Just Be Yourself
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Skip the Hero's Journey: Just Be Yourself Are you waiting to first complete the hero’s journey with the big transformation at the end, before you dare to show up with your content on social media or anywhere else? We are often told, that we first need to overcome something and then share the message. Let’s challenge the traditional concept of the Hero's Journey a little and explore why simply s...
The Word Calculator, one minute of improvised writing. #ImprovWriting #Storytelling
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Can you help me find the perfect title? Drop your suggestions below! 👇 #Drawing #ArtProcess
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Art in the Box: Thriving with Creative Limitations!
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Welcome to "Art in the Box: Thriving with Creative Limitations"! 🎨✨ Feeling boxed in by limited resources, chronic illness, or space? You're not alone. In this video, we dive into how to transform these creative limitations into powerful sources of inspiration and creative growth. Circumstantial restrictions can feel oppressive at times, causing us to stop creating. Instead of finding ways to w...
The Falsehood of Rescuing and Being Rescued
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The Falsehood of Rescuing and Being Rescued In this video, we explore the complex dynamics of rescuing and being rescued and why these scenarios often feel inauthentic. When we want to rescue, it’s often because we want to feel good about ourselves and when we wanna be rescued, part of us just doesn’t wanna show up at all anymore. In a way we are dealing with two sides of the same coin. Both th...
I've come to terms with folks who are improvisors, and what I call Formula People. Both are necessary. If you threw a formula person into a strange situation, they may not do as well as an improvisor. Yet, if you had to lock into a calculated, repetitive process with precision, I'd go with the Formula folks. Some of the finest processes have evolved from improvisation and become standard flow/process.. It's a wacky world 🤣
@@echopathy yes I agree, both is very valuable and necessary and I am very familiar with creating processes from improvisation. And I know great conceptual artists too. Ideally it’s great to be able to do a bit of both 🙃 or do what suits the person best.
Right On! Woo!
Thank you 🤩
Happy anniversary, Anja! Thank you!
Yay, 🙌 on we go!
Congratulations!!! 🎉😉👌 Great, great!
Thanks 🙏 Véronica 😘
Well done. Great achievement!
Thank you so much!
When your gut tells you the shock "art" is abusive, listen to your gut.
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great topic for artists, who are often diffident.
Thank you! 😘
Thanks for reminding me! I'm afraid I do have an expectation that there has to be suffering or hard work, or some other storybook kind of sequence. I leave it behind for a while. Then, one day, I look around and- boom! I'm Cinderella, all over again. But mostly I move forward, thank goodness.
Aloha, Anja! I find vibrations can be very, sort of, oppressing. Airplane noise bothers me at the airport, with the multiple planes. I like the bird songs in the background. 🐦
Yes, the birds are really lovely here and I agree sounds can be oppressive. That’s exactly the kind of sound in the dance piece.
Hello Wise One of the humble innocent creative wise guardian "see-through" heart. I love that you are expressing, your expressions bring "the things" (floating in the human ego field) forward into balance and light. Truly well-needed communications. Thank you :D <3
That was very poetic and made me smile. 😊 Thank you.
I am a PRO at NO now 🏆🥇
Wow, that's great!
Very good
Thank you 😉
Please define the difference
Thanks, you made me even think more on this. Maybe I'll do another video on this. I would say it comes down a bit to intention amongst other things. When someone creates from their pain for example, but then has brought it into a certain shape through technique, style etc. because they want to bring the audience along on the journey and the personal becomes a shared experience at the same time. But when the emotion is just put out there to have a sense of relief, then the second step is missing. It can be a great place to start, but at some point we need to be artful with it, unless we are doing it just for ourselves and not an audience. I hope it makes sense, I could go on and on about this. And at the end of the day, it's only my perspective.
I grew up as a people pleaser... Was attracted to broken people thinking i could make them laugh their way out of things. An exhausting way to live, but I've learned to leverage that more as I've grown. To witness my close friend still attempting to appease his loved ones is difficult. I see his attempts stripping him of energy and happiness - As he shares frustration over a lack of reciprocity. He gives so much, and people just keep taking it.
Yes, it's so terribly exhausting and a difficult pattern to shake. I can imagine it must be difficult witnessing your best friend still doing that and the lack of reciprocity is a tough one. I hope he can find another way of relating at some point in his life. But at least he has a good friend in you.
Yes, yes, and yes! It gets ickky. I don't want to be a brand or anything. I just want to share my tools.
That's definitely a great intention Linda!
Yes, this kind of 'funding' always makes me mad. And I tried to 'adjust' my work.- as I am a naturally curious person (and I find interesting points in everything), but often the flow is much better when it's your original idea.
Being a naturally curious person is for sure a huge advantage. 😀 Who knows how many original ideas got killed off, because of this kind of 'funding'...
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everyone has long been told to "brand" and "market" themselves. really is a culture of me. lots of psycho.babble, too.
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Good points. The thing is literally everybody nowadays can set themselves up as a teacher. I don’t mind when people are coming at it from the angle of guide on the side rather than sage on the stage. I had the feeling you were talking about Richard Grannon here!
Yes, that’s so true, that everybody can set themselves up as a teacher nowadays. I don’t know Richard Gannon, but now I‘m of course curious! Lol, love the ‚guide on the side rather than sage on stage‘ line. It’s a good one. 😉
lol. i know that channel the royal we. backed out of that one. got kinda creepy for me
I had to force myself watching that one video until the end, someone else had recommended to me… There were some valid points, but I didn’t like the whole vibe and it missed out on the complexities of it. Apart from being preachy. Dr. Ramani is the best, when it comes to that subject. I stand by that.🙂
keeping me stuck are the terrible odds of being a writer. and few read books now.
I am not sure I understand. Can you explain a bit more? 😊
Recently watched a bio on Gotye. "Wally" would mess around with live tracks and many audio samples to compose things at his parents' home. He spent some time after they sold the house moving from place to place working odd jobs and making songs on the side. Then one day, he hit it big with a sleeper hit. It all blew up for him - Doors opened wide.. Yet he decided to lay low (for now) .. "I decided it made more sense to focus on creative things and not get hung up on money and lawyers and courts." This I assume he meant the 40% or so royalties he paid back for the samples he used. He even turned off RUclips ads. Curious story ~~> Seems like he just wants to make stuff and not be bothered.
I loved his song 'Somebody I used to know' is that the one you're referring to? I will watch the bio, sounds very intriguing. So has he completely withdrawn now or is he still sharing his stuff?
You are beautiful ❤️
good topic. self-care is thinking before you speak as once it leaves your mouth, you cannot take it back. sweet girl.
Yes and being able to sit with our feelings
I love your perspective. Hiding Artists? I have never heard of this, but I'm very interested.
Have a look at my video 'The pain of becoming visible' that goes deeper into it, if you like. But it's basically being caught in the push and pull. Wanting to be seen and not at the same time. Often it results in not showing up with our work etc. I'm glad I made you curious 😃
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Watching from Kentucky!
After a short explanation of a personal animation I've been working on, my father asked, "what are you selling?". Nothing. I'm telling, not selling.
But have you tried just pineapple with pepperoni? 💙❤️👌.
Not yet, but sounds like an interesting combo 🙂
do people really like it when someone "sells" themselves? isn't there a more civilized way? perhaps, being gentle and polite with the same message. great topic as I always felt pressure from that phrase.
Thank you, yes it comes with a lot of pressure no one needs. And we can reframe this to something much gentler for sure 🙂
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When you acknowledge yourself to be the creator of your life you begin to end the victim oriented existence.
Excellent message 👏 thank you. ❤
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I have art I made and even framed but no good sitting around the house. you have to sell it and get rid of it.
Yes, it’s good to sell it!
Totally agree. My personal belief thus far is that evil does exist. And in this realm that we occupy, all the things that we think we know, are subject to various "laws". The laws are neutral, and therefore there is room for both benevolence and evil to take form and proliferate. We are in a time where we as a collective have not unified enough on a superconscious level to realize we may all inherently want to co-create a benevolent world and believe that it's possible to do so. But we have, however, unified enough to be evolving in that direction, and enough for the forces of evil to easily manipulate the masses. It is a dangerous time, as it seems it has been for as long as we have existed, but I do believe we are at a critical tipping point. I pray we can enter a time where we can truly come together to create peace and extinguish evil forever and always. That being said, we will always be subject to destruction by/within nature itself, not necessarily by evil, so there is an impermanence and risk of loss no matter what. But adding evil into the equation, things get very very ugly.
Wow, what a nice video and such GREAT news!!!
Thank you! 🙏💜
I think a strength of creative sensitive people is that we have a deep intuition...felt in our bodies..important not to ignore!
Yes!
I think we need to be aware of the cost of authenticity. My estranged narc husband is keeping our 6yo son away from me in a bid to blackmail me into signing an agreement with a clause I cannot agree with. People tell me to give him what he wants and get my son back, but I'm not sure I can in this case. I just have to acknowledge the cost and seek alternate ways of getting him back.
Sounds like a really tough situation you’re in. But you seem also quite clear on what’s good for you as well as your son in the long run. I hope you can get some legal professional advice as well, that really understands your situation as well as narcissism. 🤞
@@anjakersten I do have legal counsel. Thank you so much!
I had to listen to this again, as I let go once more of a way that does not work for me.
It’s sometimes not so easy to find something which really works for us. Especially when we are someone, who needs a bit more freedom and flexibility. 😉
@@anjakersten I shall be like water:)
This really resonated with me.... Thank you🙏
You’re welcome ☺️
for you being yourself. I feel more free to be me.
Ah, thank you 🤩
I agree very much with your view.
I love your talks❤You have great topics!
Thank you so much 🥰
This is exactly what I keep thinking about! Most days I ask myself so when do I get to be my authentic self if I am in danger?I ask myself so what if I don't get my chance,I would have lived most of my life in a non authentic way because of my surrounding!I need to get out of here to finally express myself,who I am and what my talents are.I never tasted freedom except one time when I traveled alone.Of course I had heared awful words before I left the country because how would I dare to leave? It felt so peaceful and calming to my soul just living away from everything,I did not miss anything.It is terrible to live in a situation when the people living with you force you to be someone you are not,they project your role from their desires and create conflict from nothing.On top of that you cannot say what you feel or what you think because everything is made fun of so you become just a silent existace like a slave.I hate my toxic family.
yes, you are not alone, I relate to what you are saying. May yo find steps along your path that help guide you to spaces and places where you can be in your expression. much love.
You’re not alone in this, there’s quite a few of us, who either have been or are going through this right now. It’s painful and no one deserves this in the first place! You have great insight and clarity on your situation, which is a great step. It’s also good you have one experience you can remind yourself of, where you felt free and calm. I am cheering you on in finding ways of expressing yourself as well as your talents in spaces which are valuable and enriching to you! Thank you for sharing 💜
@@anjakersten its nice to feel the warm embrace of support and encouragement!
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Thank you
mm yes , balance and slow..I like that
Sounds like a good plan, doesn’t it?
sometimes hiding is necessary before coming out again. like a seed planted, Not hiding in fear. but in alert restedness....
Yes, that’s very true!
ooooh yes. well spoken
this spoke right to my heart
yes, what about being human....that is where I am aswell. I am letting go of my "awakening" . life is full of experiences that will make us grow and learn and feel all the emotions. I am more interested in just being alive and discovering what that means to me,
Yes, that sounds like a good plan! 🙂