LOM® Solution-oriented painting
LOM® enables us to have direct access to our emotions, memories and concrete experiences of all kinds, in which an enormous amount of energy has accumulated. We can imagine this energy as a mass of water held back by a dam. As we paint, we open small sluices where this water or life energy begins to circulate again in all aspects of our life.
LOM® uses metaphor for painting, a poetic aid, the purpose of which is to transfer our concerns of any kind (illness or disharmony) into a new context with which it has no logical connection. From our inner point of view, however, we can access valuable information that – as soon as it is accessed – can naturally lead to the harmonization and balance of our system. Another way to work with the LOM® Method is to paint the picture or the feeling that affected us internally at any moment.
We paint them exactly as we remember them. These images are charged with negative aspects in our memory. The careful devotion to this memory and the possibility that painting offers us to change this image according to our new situation of peace and harmony, that we have achieved during the artistic process, lead us into a transformational process. This transformation changes our lives, because it enables a natural love towards ourselves and everything we have experienced, which serves as the key to the healing process.
Our body has a natural tendency towards health, harmony and balance, which means, it constantly takes what is necessary to achieve this ideal state. Establishing order and harmony in us means realizing its maximum vibration or its maximum potential for our life.
LOM® enables us to have direct access to our emotions, memories and concrete experiences of all kinds, in which an enormous amount of energy has accumulated. We can imagine this energy as a mass of water held back by a dam. As we paint, we open small sluices where this water or life energy begins to circulate again in all aspects of our life.
LOM® uses metaphor for painting, a poetic aid, the purpose of which is to transfer our concerns of any kind (illness or disharmony) into a new context with which it has no logical connection. From our inner point of view, however, we can access valuable information that – as soon as it is accessed – can naturally lead to the harmonization and balance of our system.
Another way to work with the LOM® Method is to paint the picture or the feeling that affected us internally at any moment. We paint them exactly as we remember them. These images are charged with negative aspects in our memory. The careful devotion to this memory and the possibility that painting offers us to change this image according to our new situation of peace and harmony, that we have achieved during the artistic process, lead us into a transformational process. This transformation changes our lives, because it enables a natural love towards ourselves and everything we have experienced, which serves as the key to the healing process.
Our body has a natural tendency towards health, harmony and balance, which means, it constantly takes what is necessary to achieve this ideal state. Establishing order and harmony in us means realizing its maximum vibration or its maximum potential for our life.
In addition to the method of Accompanied Painting (Begleitetes Malen/BM), Bettina Egger and Jörg Merz developed solution-oriented painting (LOM®). Solution-oriented painting was first used in the 1980s and has been continuously developed since then. The method enables lasting changes to be brought about in a short period of time for many types of complaints. Over 1000 cases have so far been documented, statistically evaluated and prove the effectiveness of this method.
LOM® is an unusual way of looking at ordinary reality. Every individual concern – dreams, wishes, symptoms of all kinds, relationships, perspectives, decisions, cognitions, traumata – is getting expanded through the non-verbal dimension of painting. The aim is to use the power of creativity that offers us new paths, new perspectives and new solutions.
With LOM® you can deal
with different topics,
such as:
Symptoms
Wishes
Beliefs
Trauma
Relationships
Decisions
Dreams, etc...
With LOM® you can deal with different topics, such as:
Symptoms
Wishes
Beliefs
Trauma
Relationships
Decisions
Dreams, etc...
“It’s about learning to be absorbed by an activity, to forget the self for a while and to focus on the matter of the image. Through the analogy with the other, the opposite, the not-I, we come into contact with the information that contains the solution. “(Bettina Egger)
“It’s about learning to be absorbed by an activity, to forget the self for a while and to focus on the matter of the image. Through the analogy with the other, the opposite, the not-I, we come into contact with the information that contains the solution. “(Bettina Egger)