Searching for inner guidance,
searching for your personal messenger...

Do you want to get out of your cave?
Your cave, where others put you in?
Where you've been hiding,
waiting to be rescued?

Find your inner guidance
Find your your inner voice, your "messenger"
Your messenger will lead you
step by step
out of the cave to life.
Your inner voice will lead you
out of your circumstances
to yourself
to who you are supposed to be

It's time!
The lake is frozen (see movie below)
Just go!
Your inner messenger will lead you
step by step
Listen, feel... and go!

Akiane Kramerik has painted "The Messenger"
She has choosen for inner guidance
how to paint this step by step

This is what she tells about her painting:

while riding my bike
one early autumn morning
and a unuasual thing happened
I distingtly heard a title of my next painting
"the messenger"
I was so relieved
both , the title and the image where ready for me
all at my fingertips
I could not waite until the next morning
when I can play with whites
in order to form a snowowl
in flight
but the more details where highlighted on the canvas
the fewer details stayed in my vision
and the last I was able to retain it's sharp image in my mind
then I noticed a nest
But by the time I filled it up with the eggs
the owl vanished
not a feather was left in my sight
it flew away from me as fast as it has arrived
as if telling me it was enough
I have to trust an impuls
or maybe
even a spirital mandate
to eliminate my favourite characters on the canvas
otherwise
I would not see what I am supposed to see
but I was baffled
the messenger was still missing and
I just begin the painting
I didn't know what to do
the next morning I heard a grunt of a moose
was he the messenger?
no
he could not
because he himself was looking for safety and guidance
I was about to put realistic details
when the moose
just disappeared from my vision
and two bald eagles started circeling arround
I decided to be guided just by the sounds
and figure out the story
they're purely spontaneous strokes of paint
the spirit reveals to me the final painting
only if I paint what is given to me at that particular time
and I must be authentic
with the slightest nuances
the actual reason why
I do not plan anything in detail
from the very beginning
another week passed by
and a howl of a wolf was bouncing off the cave walls
I doubted the wolf was the messenger
because by the time the echoes of the howl dissipated
I couldn't spot him anymore
I was unafraid to keep on painting
and searching for my messenger
but then
it hit me
I need to freeze the lake
and freeze it fast
I was certain the freezing lake would stay here unchanged
it was getting more and more frigide here
I really felt it
my hand started to shake from the bitter cold
so much
that I forgot to turn on the camera
to film a huge change in the story
I had been absolutely positive
the no human being would be on this particular canvas
but I was wrong
against all my expectations
here was the man and his loyal horse
they had lost their way
and taken a refuge in the cave
now I understood why I had to freeze the lake
the travelers had to escape the cave
to go home
but the ice was too thin in most area's for crossing
so here they where
desperate to leave the cave
when suddenly
a loud call from above echoed
the same bald eagle where been circling on my canvas for quite a while
was flying over the lone strangers
encouraging them
to follow him
step by step
the lost travelers where carefully guided across the frozen lake patches
out of the dark cave
the messenger was finally found
it was the eagle
the spirit
the only way I could be lead to the end of the story
was by listening
to the spirit call from the very beginning
to the end
by listening to every move of a flight
every drip from the cave lime icicles
and every crackling sound of the freezing lake
this time around I was lead to an unexpected message
a faith and guidance