You are about to dive into a world,
A portal of what is now the past,
But you are bringing it into life.
It is now again.
Sit with it like the magical experience that it truly is.
Choose to curate this experience for you.
Do you want to be in complete darkness with your screen being the only light you see?
Or perhaps you're in a room with windows so you can be reminded of the outside world at the same time you're reflecting on this world.
Do you have your drink of choice?
Are you comfortable?
Check in with yourself.
This is not just a task to be checked off a to-do list.
The engagement with these images is a sacred opportunity for more.
More connection.
More self-discovery.
More understanding of what it is you already know.
What you might have done differently.
This is not about efficiency.
How can you connect your philosophy,
Your truth,
Your love with how you are interacting with these photographs?
Can you crop in closer to the heart of what you saw?
Can you play with the light so that more or less is revealed?
Can you push the colors to feel more of what it felt like,
Even if it's not true to life?
Do you crave the imperfections of grain and blur and haze so that it feels more like a memory?
So much of our editing can be second nature.
No clinical explanation is needed.
You do not need reasons to decide one way or another.
You just need to feel into what feels good in your body and in your eyes.
But we get to explore those sensations.
There is so much genius strategy around the decisions you are making purely intuitively.
You don't need reasons,
But you have them.
Get curious with yourself.
Play with coming in and out of consciousness and witnessing yourself as you witness these moments.
What are your impulses?
Take some time to journal about the experience of diving back into the world of that session.
What was the before and what was the after?
Why did you make those choices?
Why does it feel right?
What does the aesthetic treatment have to do with the content?
The actual moments of life that you captured.
Discover your inner world through witnessing what you brought to life on your screen.
Perhaps share some of this experience,
Some of your thoughts and love with your client.
All of nature is connected in complex ways.
It is all so organic and there are so many systems and processes,
So much life and interconnectedness.
In any given moment,
It seems so effortless.
The surface of what you're viewing seems like that is all there is.
Yet the knowing of what it is all meant to come and do is so deeply in the essence of every tree and flower and season.
You are no exception.
There is so much beneath your creation,
The final photograph.
And as much as you don't need to explain and understand everything in order to do it,
The deepening of your curiosity,
The exploration of your choices,
The discovery will reveal such congruence in your practice that makes way for so much expansion and growth and self-trust.
Enjoy your expansion.
Fully receive your own genius,
Your gift.
There is always more.
