Tocaya Arts

Art by @toast_clouded It's Monday again. 🙃🙂 Now Playing: 'Nature Hug' by Intiche

Art: 'Discarded Love' @robsroom Being discarded/disregarded does not make you trash. Now Playing: 'Define Me' by Jhene Aiko Love, Gabbi ❤️‍🩹

  Art: 'Burning Bridges to Nowhere 2020' by Deron Raynor The mind is incredibly powerful. It analyzes and interprets the things we absorb through our senses and then connects it to our present thoughts and memories of saved symbols, sounds, images, perceptions, sensations, and emotions. It then pushes the button on how we are to respond or not respond to the new information with the old information. To control and direct these responses, we tell ourselves we must "train the mind." But is it not the mind training the mind as we watch...with the mind that we then interpret progress or failure with? 🫠 Most of us can agree that a large part of the self is our mind. I was listening to a podcast that spoke about different religions' views on the self. When it comes to the example of the mind, many religions see the self as the person (soul) observing the workings of the mind. The person listening to the inner monologue we have every day. A standout was Buddhism, which ...

  Art: 'Compadres' by ❤️‍🩹 Dave Manousos 💔💐🌊🕯 "I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul." - Jean Cocteau 🎶 Now Playing: 'Chosen' by Blood Orange, Caroline Polachek, Dev HynesNow Playing: 'Chosen' by Blood Orange, Caroline Polachek, Dev Hynes

That moment where you start to truly know and love yourself. Even the parts you've run from for so long, you find yourself embracing with compassion. This moment is magic. It is a moment of awareness that not only allows you to see your own humanity but also the humanity of others. Outside of the space of judgment or, "Do they like me, do I like them?" A space of beauty and acceptance for what is and what is not. The strength to know what you wish to cultivate in yourself and the space in which you dwell. The discernment to recognize who and what does not align with your style of life and development. The power of no and...yes. 😎 Art: 'Girls at a party.' by Rebecca Moses 🎶 Now playing: 'Mister Magic' by Grover Washington Jr. Love, Gabbi

Humans are time travelers. Memories carry emotional imprints that our nervous systems relive as we play them in our mind's eye. We often revisit these emotional landscapes to re-experience the moments that sculpted our DNA. We run to them when we miss the spirits of our deceased loved ones, the spirit of a decade, a place, a version of us that crumbled away. These synaptic atmospheres feel like tangible places in which these ghosts have eternal life, memory being our only access point for reconnection. We may also find ourselves traveling back in time, compulsively trying to "fix" what has already existed. "If only this had happened," "If only this hadn't happened," Repeatedly trying to undo a path that was laid down to create the current version of us, our lives, our world, not realizing we are ultimately trying to destroy our present selves and reality in these moments of nostalgic desperation. No matter the turbulence experienced to get you here...