Here is what happened to Matisse the first time he took up brush to paint – “When I started to paint, I felt transported into a kind of paradise.” He’s talking about flow.  He’s talking about the right brain.  He’s talking about the Buddha brain.  He’s talking about conscious action.  He’s talking about presence. Art of any sort has the ability to put you into the graceful state of flow.  When you are in flow, you enjoy what you’re doing.  You lose self-consciousness.  Your sense of time changes.  It disappears completely.  It stops dead in frozen, perfect moments.  Or it …