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NOTES TO SELF<\/strong> Welcome to my NOTES TO SELF page. I invite you to share your images and stories with us and hope you SHARE our page with like-hearted others.<\/p>\n I am a spiritual teacher and counselor in Los Angeles since 1980. I first began as a yoga and meditation teacher. It was during the early years of teaching, and especially privately, that I began to see \u201cthat you couldn\u2019t change your body until you changed your mind,\u201d and out of this, slowly but surely my counseling practice emerged.<\/p>\n Over these many years of deep and profound conversation, I have had the privilege of standing as guide and witness to miracles. These Notes came out of those conversations. They represent the nature of the soul in relation to each person during a particular phase of their healing journey.<\/p>\n These little writings ended up being so powerful for all of us. There is something mystical about the ritual of physically writing on someone\u2019s body. For me, I was functioning as a soul scribe, making an indelible impression that I wanted to “sink in.\u201d For them, it was an embodiment of our conversation. They would feel the love, the care, and the spiritual intention that went into it, as I would slowly and deliberately write the words on their body.<\/p>\n
\nby Diana Lang (with friends)<\/p>\n<\/a> At first they were written on notepads that I called prescriptions and I would give them to my clients to keep with them. Some of these little notes, people still carry in their wallets and pockets years and years later. One day during a session, it came to me to write directly on the body, where one of my clients had been \u201ccutting.\u201d I thought to myself, \u201cI\u2019ll write these right on her leg where she cuts. Maybe she won\u2019t cut through them.\u201d She didn\u2019t. And it became so powerful in her process, that I began to use it on everyone.<\/p>\n<\/a>We called them temporary tattoos. I made them with Sharpies. The images would last anywhere from one day to a whole week. We would laugh at which ones would disappear the day I wrote them. Others would \u201cstick\u201d for many days and we took that as an important sign. Some people, turned them into permanent tattoos!<\/p>\n