Marta Johnson - Inner Artistry

07/20/2026

Forests - the lungs of our planet
In Chicago, we were blanketed in smoke this past week. Wildfires in Canada sharing their grief and rage. My sister lives 60 miles from Canada in Northern MN, and it rained ash on them.

Because I now distrust almost anything that comes from government or “authority” I had to go for a walk in the smoke to see for myself if it was true - should we all stay inside? I have healthy lungs, do I too need to remain indoors?

It was true that my lungs felt the effects and my body did not like being outdoors!

Our lungs hold our griefs, this knowledge known through traditional Chinese medicine, but no doubt discovered by many over the centuries. I cannot help but wonder if the earth near the wildfires exhales her rage so that she can then release the grief in her forest lungs?

My sister pointed out that there are lots of dead trees in her region. An invasive bug kills spruce and balsam, so the region is a tinderbox and ripe for fires.

Both can be true - the physical reality of dry and dead wood, and the earth might use such times for moving and healing energies.

I understand from writers like Gavin Mounsey that clear cutting ancient forests continues in Canada. Can you believe it? I find it shocking and horrifying and worthy of rage and massive grief.

Lungs and the conflict shocks that affect them:
Conflict shocks are any events or ways of being strong enough that leave imprints physically in the brain, tissues adapt in the body, and the psyche takes on beliefs - all connected together in body-mind-spirit. More about conflict shocks.

The conflict shocks of “scare-fright”, “territorial fright”, “death fright”, “fear of not enough air/suffocation” contribute to lung issues.

🕸️ Scare-fright is obvious - when we’re deeply frightened, that imprint settles in parts of the brain that connect with the lungs.

🌲 Territorial fright has to do with your sense of ownership and sovereignty of your own body. But this also extends to anything that has a sense of belonging to you and you to it - your children, your family, property, homeland, etc.

💫 Death fright is for yourself or your loved ones.

⚡ Fear of not enough air can be about literal suffocation, it can be from a challenging birth, and it can also be metaphorically feeling smothered.

⭐ These conflict shocks show up as lingering coughs, asthma, bronchitis, pneumonia, frozen or tight diaphragm, tightness in upper chest and shoulders (this last one was/is my biggest symptom).

➡️Permission to take up space and sound
Lungs also connect with permission to take up space. Collapsing, holding, and hiding show up in the lungs, which also is protection for the heart space.

When you breathe with freedom, your whole body expands and relaxes. When your lungs feel free, you want to make sounds. Sighing, sounding, crying, shouting, defending, loving, singing!

Liberated lungs, heart and throat work together to express in many ways. Exhaling is a detox mechanism, and sound can be releasing the old, or it may be expressing the joyful, connected, loving expressions.

Work with your conflict shocks:

⇛ Identify the times you’ve felt the panic, fear, lack of air, and holding in, and notice when it gets activated in you in present day. When this happens, bring awareness and invite yourself to release the imprints physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. Ask for help from God/Source or whoever you turn to for help.

In Inner Artist sessions I use pendulum testing and intuition to find the origin points for your intention, connecting with your higher self and Source guidance. We listen to the stories and memories together, your intuitions and knowings weaving in, bringing compassion and love to the hurts and traumas. And asking the healers in the spirit realm to release thoroughly, quickly, and gently.

🫁 If you have lung issues (asthma, bronchitis, ongoing cough, collapsing, held breath, tightness in shoulders and upper chest, etc) you could explore these prompts:

𖦹 What are my lungs holding for me?

𖦹 What would my lungs like me to know?

𖦹 When I listen to my lungs, what stories come to mind?

𖦹 Without rushing and without pressure, are my lungs ready to dissolve and release any stories or holding in this moment?

With big loving breath, 💙💨💙
Marta

PS - never generated by AI. Not even proof read. All mistakes are my own. I confess to using AI for SEO on my website though…

06/29/2026

https://innerartistry.space/blog/appetite-for-life
Depression as Suppressed Life Force
Our Soul's Appetite for Life

I’m feeling into oppression-suppression-depression.

We’ve all had lifetimes of being the oppressor.

We’ve all had lifetimes of being the victim.

We are both in this lifetime.

Some more than others, in various ways.

To the bugs and the weeds and the woman sewing your clothes, you might be the oppressor.

To the tech overlords, you might be a powerless n***y.

In your workplace you may feel used, abused, unseen, undervalued.

In the game of world chess, most of us are treated as pawns - easily trampled and discarded.

The energy field of depression
Turning this kind of energy inward on ourselves, it becomes depression - we are both our own oppressor and victim of ourselves.

In the energy field, oppression-suppression-depression entangle with one another. We learn to oppress our most tender parts. We suppress our soul’s truest desires and a depression takes shape as the desire hits walls and lids and boxes.

We build walls and boxes and armor to protect ourselves from the outside irritation-harassment-violence. But that armor ends up keeping our energy in the suppression and depression valley.

There are powerful forces that want us to stay in these muted, hemmed in force fields. We believe the fields are forceful, impenetrable. The belief is what allows the external to oppress and suppress.

Those grooves get worn, we believe that we’re out of seratonin. We are told we need a pill. We try some pills, injections, drugs, sugar, screens.

(Oh sugar and screens, my go-to soothings.)

For me, I heard last week about the “appetite for life”. In other timelines, that energy of appetite is destructive, devouring people, landscapes, hoarding gold. In this lifetime, the appetite turned to chocolate to sooth and settle and numb.

Unleashing true desires
I’m commanding to awaken my soul’s truest desires and in-service-appetite for life. Like a lion, it has been kept from it’s wild nature, held in safety and softness by walls and butchered meat.

This awakens in me, you, all of us. We’re in this shared field of growth. I hear from many about the depths of exploration and the fertile growth coming to the surface.

The potentials explode and more hope in your cells and on the horizon. More empowerment, more growth. We are on path, on track! You are in right timing!

Depression as Suppressed Life Force: Our Soul's Appetite for Life I’m feeling into oppression-suppression-depression. We’ve all had lifetimes of being the oppressor. We’ve all had lifetimes of being the victim. We are both in this lifetime. Some more than others, in various ways. To the bugs

06/27/2026

Psychic Attacks:
Three possible understandings of what this phrase means and what you can do.
Not everyone means the same thing when talking about “psychic attacks”. I myself have used this phrase when I’m feeling amped up with negative emotions but I don’t have a story to explain it. Sometimes that ends up that I’m feeling the energy of the world/collective, but on occasion it has been an actual psychic attack.

This is how I’m working with psychic attacks when clients ask for help with this topic:

1. Negative energies sent by other people
Someone sending negative energy such as criticism, shame, blame, domination in your direction and you feel it. You might have a sense of who is sending it, or you might just feel weird, rather like your space is getting invaded and you’re uncomfortable. Some people call this “offensive energy”. Which we can also do to our own selves.

2. Conflict shocks and trauma responses masquerading as psychic attacks.
You’ve been attacked, harmed, hurt in ways that imprint in your brain, making you feel more susceptible to nefarious energy. It might not be anyone or anything doing this to you now, but your brain/nervous system is on high alert, which sometimes has the frustrating effect of bringing this to you. Predatory people sense fear in scared people, and it becomes magnetic. If you live in fear, you can bring these people to you, looking for either proof that the world is terrible and horrifying, or looking for a corrective experience.

3. Negative beings and spiritual interference.
This can range from mild irritation to causing severe problems - illness, financial ruin, destroying relationships, su***de. These beings might show up in bad dreams, causing a ruckus in daily matters, or amplifying your weak emotional spots. If you tend towards anxiety or anger, for example, it can be heightened and exploited by non-beneficial beings.

The hard question for yourself, please ask with compassion:
What in me is allowing or matching this energy? It takes a lot of growth to get to the point of not allowing it - we’ll all be Buddha or Mother Mary when we get to this point - but exploring this question will lead to great healing.

Solutions:
Commands to connect to the one true divine Source. Ask for clarity to be shown in waking or dreams the deepest layer of truth in what you’re experiencing. Commands to clear all unsafety and unworthiness energies. Energy healing sessions + divine pendulum testing to get to the root of what’s going on for you.

What am I missing? How do you perceive and understand psychic attacks?

https://innerartistry.space/blog/psychic-attacks

04/20/2026

Isn’t it frustrating when you have a physical issue, you know there is an emotional component or trigger for it, yet you haven’t found the way to resolve it yet?

What is it for you? Back pain….tooth decay….memory loss….bone loss….digestive issues…allergies….thyroid imbalance…perimenopause, menopause symptoms…

I remember when I was thoroughly immersed in IFS practices, and knowing that emotions were somehow connected to various aches and pains, but I couldn’t quite get to the root of it.

Cold sores as a manifestation of shame. A terrible infected ingrown toenail connected to new motherhood. Frustration that I could make the connection, but I couldn’t get them to heal, even with applying IFS + acupuncture, homeopathy, etc.

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I’ve been so delighted to make the more formal acquaintance of German New Medicine, another way to identify predictable patterns in body, mind, and spirit.

Of course, you all know I’m not a medical doctor and I’m not diagnosing or curing anyone. And it’s really ridiculous to think that healing only happens under the care of a doctor. * Your body/mind/spirit hold the keys to healing, YOU do your own healing, and it’s a matter of finding the right support people and/or the right systems and frameworks that allow this to happen.

I love this system of German New Medicine very much because it explicitly comes back over and over to the understanding that the body is bio-logical. Our bodies react logically to threat, loss, and suffering.

It all centers around “conflict shocks”:

~ an event that’s impactful enough that it leaves an imprint in the brain;

~ causing the body tissues to respond in predictable ways;

~ imprinting beliefs in the psyche based upon how we interpret the event.

I’ve been so pleased that the style of energy work that I use addresses conflict shocks quite efficiently.

Symptoms I’ve addressed for me, my family, and clients recently:
- foggy brain
- tooth decay and mouth pains
- shoulder hunching/rounding
- watery and itchy eyes
- allergies
- tummy upset, digestive issues, stomach cramps
- esophagus burning
- neck and throat discomforts

I really love how the body brings us on the path of depth and healing. We might be able to ignore the spiritual and emotional symptoms - but when the body speaks, it’s much harder to avoid.

Getting curious, listening, and finding the right tools for full spectrum health will bring blessings.

Blossoming from physical symptoms to more vibrancy in every way

⇝ Healing your digestive issues bring you to better boundaries, which ripples into healthier relationships.

⇝ Addressing teeth and mouth problems connects to nervous system health.

⇝ Getting to the root cause of your shoulder tension allows for deeper flowing in and with life.

⇝ Helping your foggy brain brings you to more meaningful choices.

⇝ Healing acne leads to more confidence and self worth, and not because your skin looks better, but because your skin was reflecting something in your emotions and psyche.

And so on. There’s predictable patterns with the physical symptoms, but each person is unique in how that healing will flow into growing and flourishing.

If you’re interested in learning more and seeing if my approach can help you with your specific situation, please consider a Discovery Call for 25 minutes together. I’m not into sales and pressure. It’s to see if we’re a fit, to see if it feels good to you.

03/26/2026

Laura Kimmel and I discuss the Throat-Voice Portal, commencing on Friday.

Energy healing for 4 days + 2 interactive sessions with Laura. Bringing her special gifts of gentle + fierce qualities. The gentleness and care to love our throats and voices. The permission to not need to sound a particular way. The trust that our voice is beautiful, just as it is.

https://innerartistry.space/throat-portal

https://youtu.be/FNTq0o1tggw

You might feel restricted in your voice and throat.Perhaps it's hard to let the tears flow and you feel the blockade in your throat.Or you want to speak word...

03/26/2026

Let me love on Laura Kimmel for a few moments. Laura is leading interactive sessions on Saturday and Sunday for the Throat-Voice Portal.

When Laura speaks - people pay attention. She has a way of lasering in on the truth. She carries transmissions that ripple and vibrate.

People ask her opinion and then are surprised by the answers, but they listen. It affects them in ways that aren't obvious.

We were trading messages the other day about the words "main-stream". I had a felt sense of it taking up a lot of energy space in me, that I get carried along by the "main-stream". It's like a flow of water/energy through my center, and when I go outside this main stream, there's more choice, more connection to the cosmos, more expansion. For me, it takes some awareness and growth to keep moving out of this main-stream energy.

Laura said that she's never really been able to be in that mainstream flow. She tried really hard at various times in her life, but she can't do it.

Which I'm sure was painful - to feel outside the group flow, to perhaps want the things that come with being in the group energy field.

But it also comes with gifts - she knows herself so clearly. She's not afraid of rejection or being an outsider.

Laura also role models excellence in not people pleasing, but in the most loving way. When she says no to me, or that she has a concern for me, she couches it in love and care and gentleness. I end up feeling very loved and a strong connection maintained while receiving her no or disagreement.

I'm taking a nervous system class right now, and we're practicing in breakout rooms saying NO. I can't help but compare the no in these breakout rooms with how Laura does it. It's amazing how angry many of us get in trying to set boundaries. What if there are ways to have personal space, boundaries, and expectations that come from the strength of LOVE, rather than anger? Laura teaches this in the way she acts in life.

If you want to read more about her credentials, I recommend you check out our webpage.
https://innerartistry.space/throat-portal

All in all, I highly recommend you try the Throat-Voice Portal, if only to receive training and transmissions from Laura!

03/26/2026

Head plus heart = greater than AI.

As the "intelligence" of AI grows, it already, at times, surpasses certain human brain power. The greatest chess champions bested by Stockfish for example.

But the brain, in partnership with our nervous systems, sensory abilities, heart, and spirit = unique and unbeatable. AI will never come close to our human gifts in this way.

Yes, AI has learned relational soothing - but holy moly, doesn't it feel weird when AI tells you how wonderful you are???

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I see us playing in the AI field, which has limits and layers. We’re in a sort of box. There are layers of AI that we don't know about or maybe called conspiracy theories at this point. We can't necessarily undo these layers, at least at this moment in time.

What we can do is choose to expand beyond those layers into more organic, cosmic energy. This energy has no limits to it.

The containment of the AI multiverse has limits and lots of control. Lots of suffering. Lots of feeding off of human suffering. This reality does not want us to realize there is a more vast reality, with more potential, more enjoyment, and much more freedom for us.

So rather than avoiding it, and also rather than embracing it, we need to amplify our own human gifts.

Our special package of head + heart + sensory abilities + spirit, this is where we excel.

To reconnect the head and heart, freeing the throat pathway becomes essential.

Our ancestors and our souls have learned severe lessons about speaking up, speaking out, taking stands that led to violent endings. These still live in our energy fields, and our neck, throat and voice remember.

Fortunately we have amazing tools to release these old energies and adaptive patterns. Whether you choose to join the Throat-Voice Portal, or find some other ways, the possibilities open for this time of releasing and expansion.

Our spirits want to release the congestions, the stuckness, the trapped emotions. Our bodies naturally move into more coherence and freedom when supported in helpful conditions.

⫸ In the Throat-Voice Portal, we’ll be liberating through movement, sounding, breathing in 2 experiential sessions with Laura.

⫸ We’ll be addressing through energy healing in daily quantum attention from me. These quantum sessions - you’re not physically present in real time with me. I meet with your higher self, and the group consciousness in the zero point field. The place where all potentials exist. Twice a day for our 4 days = 8 energy healings.

💛 If this catches your attention, give a little love to your throat and voice. Send it thanks and appreciation for all it does for you. Ask it what it wants and needs at this time. Let it speak to your heart and listen for what’s next for your beautiful throat.

Your Voice-Throat Portal Register A Pathway to many freedoms For speaking, singing, sounding, receiving, pathways of yes and no, connection, and imagination. If you have words you’d like to say, or words you wish you hadn’t said, or sounds you’d like to make.Maybe you have a lump in your throa...

03/25/2026

Head plus heart = greater than AI.

As the "intelligence" of AI grows, it already, at times, surpasses certain human brain power. The greatest chess champions bested by Stockfish for example.

But the brain, in partnership with our nervous systems, sensory abilities, heart, and spirit = unique and unbeatable. AI will never come close to our human gifts in this way.

Yes, AI has learned relational soothing - but holy moly, doesn't it feel weird when AI tells you how wonderful you are???

It makes me laugh when Chatgpt affirms my style of writing.

It's so absurd. And yet can feel weirdly alluring when in vulnerable moments.

I'm not anti-AI, though I'm strongly distrustful and very cautious about it. For me, it helps with tech problems. I just used ChatGPT last night to learn how to do an automation thing for my newsletter. It’s so funny to me how it says “you’re in the perfect place….good catch….this is the moment where most people get tripped up…”

Laura makes very beautiful decorations with it, and we're using AI-assisted pictures for this Throat-Voice Portal. I love what she was able to do in partnering with AI. (Take a look at our webpage to see the pictures!)

And really, AI is woven into so many things now, we can't actually avoid it unless one goes off grid.

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I see us playing in the AI field, which has limits and layers. We’re in a sort of box. There are layers of AI that we don't know about or maybe called conspiracy theories at this point. We can't necessarily UNDO these layers, at least at this moment in time.

What we can do is choose to expand beyond those layers into more organic, cosmic energy. This energy has no limits to it.

The multiverse that AI keeps us contained in, has limits and lots of control. Lots of suffering. Lots of feeding off of human suffering. This reality does not want us to realize there is a bigger, vaster reality, with more potential, more enjoyment, and much more freedom for us.

So rather than avoiding it, and also rather than embracing it, we need to amplify our own human gifts.

The "I-think, therefore-I-am" model dominated certain areas of the world since the Enlightenment - believing brain power elevated us above nature. This led to many problems but also some fantastic problem solving.

I think we’ve reached our limit in this realm of head being supreme. What’s the next frontier for us?

Our special package of head + heart + sensory abilities + spirit, this is where we excel.

This is our human gift. Freeing and inhabiting all these aspects of us, this is the pathway to expansion, freedom, expression, and joy.

To reconnect the head and heart, freeing the throat pathway becomes essential.

Our ancestors and our souls have learned severe lessons about speaking up, speaking out, taking stands that led to extreme endings, violent endings. These still live in our energy fields, and our neck, throat and voice remember.

Fortunately we have amazing tools to release these old energies and adaptive patterns. Whether you choose to join the Throat-Voice Portal, or find some other ways, the possibilities open for this time of releasing and expansion.

⫸ In the Throat-Voice Portal, we’ll be liberating through movement, sounding, breathing in 2 experiential sessions with Laura.

⫸ We’ll be addressing through energy healing in daily quantum attention from me. These quantum sessions - you’re not physically present in real time with me. I meet with your higher self, and the group consciousness in the quantum field. The zero point field. The place where all potentials exist. I do this twice a day for our 4 days, so you receive 8 quantum healings over our session.

If this catches your attention, give a little love to your throat and voice. Send it thanks and appreciation for all it does for you. Ask it what it wants and needs at this time. Let it speak to your heart and listen for what’s next for your beautiful throat.

With love and care,
Marta and Laura