UnCautioned

As a creative Professional , I am guided by my drive and desire to create. But on a personal level, I tend to retreat inside myself when life gets hard or overwhelming, therefore my paintings are also an outlet. When I can’t find words, I paint. It’s the way for me to express the emotion swirling around in my heart until the words find me.
I painted this giant painting in three days, which is the quickest I’ve ever finished of painting. I had an overwhelming urge to paint with all the yellows in my studio. I don’t typically paint with yellow, so I had a lot of mixed emotions. Originally I was going to call it “caution” or “cautious” because yellow always symbolized that to me. But a few days later, my friend Karen, did a Reiki session on me. If you haven’t had one, I urge you to go get one right now! 
I won’t go through all the details, but in the end, she stood up and told me that I need to surround myself with the color yellow and to repeat the phrase “ I am safe”. 
I broke down. Literally floored myself.
I realized in the following moments the deep connection my inner voice has with my art, and how my body knew exactly what I needed before my mind could even articulate.
I went home and sealed this piece and renamed it “un cautioned”. So every time I look at it I am reminded that as long as I listen to my heart and trust my initiation, I will be safe.