How to get out of the visual matrix?

We would like to talk about the so-called visual matrix that we all get trapped in. And this visual matrix has an effect on our lifetime. Have you heard about that? If no, then keep reading, you will be surprised.

Visual matrix is basically about how the Internet, TV, and other visual channels give us different patterns of beautiful things. And us, sticking to these patterns, stop seeing the real-life in which we live. We only respond to recognizable images that are locked in our minds.

People who fall into this trap begin to perceive the world as such a frozen structure. The sea and palm trees are very beautiful, a bouquet of flowers in a vase on a napkin, cats on the couch.... Well, you can easily continue this list yourself.

And even when we get on a trip, we look for such a postcard view, sometimes we even wait for people to pass and not spoil our postcard. Familiar?

If you catch yourself doing this, this is a signal that you got caught by the visual matrix and you need to get out of it urgently.

The good news is that it's easy! Just need to get back to the “here and now”. You can go back to the here and now. If you take a paper and a brush, slowly look around you, notice all the details, and choose the scene that you like the most. It could be anything really. You automatically start to concentrate on things that you might not even notice in your everyday life. It turns out that at such moments there is an interchange of energy with the world, which we see in its entirety. It fills us and triggers a state of creativity. How little it takes to do this, just sit down and paint what you see.

And what does it have to do with the extension of your lifetime? It's just that our life is what we remember. Part of life, after all, is spent on autopilot. A lot of things happen unconsciously. However, there are moments that are memorable and there is something that we remember constantly. Also, there is something that comes up suddenly, unexpectedly. A familiar smell from childhood or a melody can pull something amazing from your memory shelf. 

And how does our memory choose what to remember? The answer is simple. It preserves the moments when we live here and now! And all painters have their own magic key to create those “here and now” moments as often as possible. 

Whenever you go outside to paint, there is always a huge variety of different moments open up for you, so that you catch them on paper and hold on to them in your memory. As a result, days do not just run one after another, because so much is preserved in the memory of them. And it means that life gets more conscious and extends.