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Mind Matters
A New Year…
New Beginnings…
First Things First…
Unconditional Self Love!!
Dr Monika Dass advises you to twenty years ago, it was not my intention
learn to love yourself starting from to paint about self-love. In fact, at that time,
today! I had no idea what self-love was. I was just
painting as a form of therapy.
What Unconditional Self-Love Looks A few years prior, I thought that I did
Like -- By Rita Loyd know what self-love was, but then, when I
lost my health to a chronic illness and could
no longer do the things I once had been able
to do, I lost my ability to love myself. I also
fell into a deep depression, so I decided to
create art as a way to lift my spirits.
In order to create uplifting art, I first had
to look at my life and see where my spirit
needed lifting. That meant that I had to look
at my pain and identify its origins.
Sometimes it’s not the actual problems
in life that cause us to suffer the most but
“Love is the great miracle cure. Loving the way we look at them. When we change
ourselves works miracles in our lives.” ~ our perspective, some of the suffering can
Louise L. Hay diminish. So, I would look at one problem
“When I first began painting my art over in my life at a time, and then I would search
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