Five years ago I was sent home from hospital to die. I had an incurable illness and after five successive operations left me with a perforated bowel there seemed to be no hope for a cure. Today I have greater energy levels, happiness, and health than I ever have imagined. This is my story.

I trained as an Art and Craft Teacher and taught art until I had my four children. I have always found art to be a meditative experience and worked intuitively, just starting to sculpt or paint without any real idea of what I would finally produce. In the 1980’s I became interested in personal growth and alternative healing and studied Yoga and Reiki and began to make Anaheart Flower Remedies and to teach Reiki. My whole attitude to life and understanding of myself began to change. One night, fifteen years ago, I experiment with watercolours. I went into a meditative state, and to my great surprise I produced two incredible energetic paintings of Angels. The Angels came to me as I must have had the abilities they needed. They wanted me to paint them. I then began to paint Angels digitally, although I had no previous experience in digital art. I realized that the form of the painting is not as important as the interplay of the colours and the energies they represent and the feelings the paintings engender. The paintings are a form of wordless communication that speaks to us on a soul level of "Remembrance". These paintings together with words of wisdom from the Angels became a book “Sacred Wisdom”.

Many of us have lost our way; we have forgotten who we really are and why we are here. Many who experience the Angel Paintings find they give them a sense of peace and deep comfort. They are particularly helpful for those in pain, deep fear, and despair. They remind us that we are Spirit. We are not human beings having spiritual experiences. We are Spirits who have chosen to have a human experience, but most of us have forgotten this. I had struggled with Crohns Disease for many years and had managed it with Reiki, Yoga and Flower Remedies until it flared up 2002. I underwent Bowel Surgery with devastating consequences. After five unsuccessful operations, all of them leaving me with a perforated bowel, and nine months in Hospital, I was sent home with no hope of recovery. I never lost faith, hundreds of people from churches, yoga ashram's and friends and family sent me healing and I could feel its effects. I could feel the Angels with me, helping me to stay positive in the midst of incredible pain and suffering. Miraculously we eventually found a wonderful a surgeon who repaired the damage to my bowel, one year, one month and one day after my first operation.

Now I look at life differently. Serious illness shows you irrevocably what is important in life. When you face the prospect of your own death it becomes clear that what you have achieved in life is important. It is however the regret you feel about the things you really wanted to do but didn't that is more important. I now live life to the full. I don't put things off because I think I might fail, or for any other reason. I have now set up and run the Sanctuary Angel Gallery and Healing Centre in Frankston where I held my first exhibition “Walking with Angels” last December.

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My experiences in hospital showed me the real power of inspirational angel art to heal and uplift the body, mind and spirit and I realized that since the beginning of time art has had a spiritual significance and was often thought to have magical properties. Quantum physics explains that we are all pure energy vibrating at different rates, and many medical scientists have documented that both thoughts and feelings have an enormous effect on our overall wellbeing. They are recognising that inspirational art and music have therapeutic effects. Many palliative Care hospitals have Music therapy departments but unfortunately the artwork in many health care environments is chosen with little thought for its intrinsic inspirational and therapeutic benefits. I personally experienced this in my extended Hospital stay when I was too weak to read, too sensitive to watch TV and unable to eat. I was virtually “tied to a bed” with little stimulation. I had some of my Angel paintings brought from home and hung over the "beige" hospital paintings. I could go into the Angel paintings and feel the Love they exuded. They were a continuing reminder to me that I was not just this ravaged, suffering body. They helped me to transcend the pain and brought me peace and acceptance and helped me to stay positive. I now understand the importance of life giving, nurturing, inspirational images in challenging environments such as hospitals and aged care centres. It has become my mission to help to educate designers, architects and the committees who create healing environments to use art in a therapeutic way to support healing, and to encourage healers to use them in their practices. My paintings now hang in the healing rooms of many health professionals and the results have been extraordinary, they seem to enhance the healing experience for both the healer and client. Just sitting with the Angel paintings is a deeply meditative and healing experience.

This link will take you to a recent magazine article where you can view some of the artwork anaheart.com/GlenyssArticle.pdf