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Five Ways To Feel Better Now

April 4th, 2016

Five Ways To Feel Better Now

NOW!

WOULD YOU LOVE TO LIGHTEN UP?
As the winter months depart, (they ARE departing, right? hopefully?) and Spring fills our thoughts, feelings and senses, you may still feel a bit of the Winter Blahs lingering around the edge of your awareness.


What if you could change your mood completely in 10 minutes or less, to a more peaceful, calm and joyful state of mind? Sometimes changing your mood is a matter of altering your thoughts and your perspective by centering yourself in the present moment.


Here are 5 really helpful activities I have found that enable me to do just this: to change from being mad, sad, hopeless, glum, nasty and full of venom to being relaxed, peaceful, joyous, hopeful and creative. From this state of mind, I find myself more present in the moment, and so much better able to connect with the world and with the creative process. I am going to share these activities with you now.


Number 1: Meditation. When I am really bummed out,and have had a terrible day full of strife, I find that meditation will change my state of mind almost within 5 minutes. My meditation consists of focusing my attention on my breathing, and on a series of three Japanese calligraphic symbols. This is a form of meditation I use in my practice as a Reiki master, but really, any form of focus on breathing, or a repeated word, symbol or image or mantra will allow you to replace your overwhelming anxiety with a specific neutral focus, thus relieving you of worry and stress. If you are interested in learning to meditate, and would like guided instruction, look around your area for classes offered in meditation.


Number 2: Take a nice hot shower, or an Epsom Salt Bath. For the bath, fill your tub with warm water, Epsom Salt and baking soda. I use Epsom Salt with lavender, which contributes to relaxation.While I am soaking and relaxing, I like to play music on my iPad which sits across the bathroom and out of reach from the tub. I have music I have chosen for relaxation, which fills the room with calming sounds. I even use Tapping, or EFT on my meridian points,stating positive affirmations as I tap.


Number 3: Sometimes as I am driving to another city to teach school in the morning, I may feel super anxious about the day and wonder how it will go. This is when it helps to pop in my CD and listen to and chant with "Miracle Mantras." Believe it or not, the chanting makes me feel 100% better in a matter of minutes. Here are the chants I do and what they mean.


The chants are in Ancient Sanskrit and it is advised that you chant each phrase 108 times. Of course it helps to just chant along to the CD so you don't have to do all that counting. If you don't happen to have the CD, of course you can do a search on Utube for these two mantras.


The first chant is called the Ganesha Mantra, the Remover of Obstacles and goes like this:


OM GUM GENAPATAYEI NAMAHA (Pronounced Om Gum Guh-nuh-puh-tuh-yeh Nuh-muh huh.) This chant is OM and salutations to the remover of the obstacles to fulfillment and spiritual growth. It is believed that this chant will help remove obstructions in your life that hold you back. At the very least, if you can listen and sing along, the chant will take your focus off your worries and replace your anxiety with a peaceful feeling.


The second mantra is called the Lakshmi Mantra and is for the Goddess of Abundance. It goes: OM SHRIM MAHA LAKSHMIYEI SWAHA (Om Shreem Muh-huh Laksh-mee-yeh Swa-huh). This is Om and saluations to invoking the great feminine principle of abundance. Again, this chant will also replace anxiety with a feeling of peace.
An added note here: Many people find prayer to bring the same peace of mind as meditation and/or chanting. I personally find prayer a great path of connecting with the universe.


Number 4; There is nothing like putting on your headphones and listening to your favorite music. I find music that is constructed around the Sofleggio arrangement of notes is very helpful for soothing nerves.

What are the Solfeggio frequencies?


Solfeggio frequencies make up the ancient 6-tone scale thought to have been used in sacred music, including the beautiful and well known Gregorian Chants. The chants and their special tones were believed to give spiritual blessings when sung in harmony. Each Solfeggio tone consists of a frequency required to balance your energy and keep your body, mind and spirit in total harmony.


The main six Solfeggio frequencies are:

396 Hz – Liberating Guilt and Fear417 Hz – Undoing Situations and Facilitating Change
528 Hz – Transformation and Miracles (DNA Repair)
639 Hz – Connecting/Relationships
741 Hz – Expression/Solutions
852 Hz – Returning to Spiritual Order They were used in over 150 Gregorian Chants

Where do these tones come from?

According to Professor Willi Apel, the origin of the ancient Solfeggio scale can be traced back to a Medieval hymn to John the Baptist. The hymn has this peculiarity that the first six lines of the music commenced respectively on the first six successive notes of the scale, and thus the first syllable of each line was sung to a note one degree higher that the first syllable of the line that preceded it. Because the music held mathematic resonance, the original frequencies were capable of spiritually inspiring mankind to be more “god-kind”. 1(https://attunedvibrations.com/solfeggio/)

You can find many Sofleggio based pieces of music on Utube.

Number 5: And then of course, there is always viewing visual art. So many pieces of art can bring you out of a bad mood and lift your spirits instantly. Many people claim the Impressionist paintings do this for them. Every person has their personal preference, but often times just surrounding yourself with your favorite color can really lift your mood.

I invite you to add what process you find effective for bringing you out of a poor mood into a better state of mind in the comments below. Please let me know what helps YOU!

Present in the Moment with Painting: I painted these water colors on my front screened in porch, surrounded by blooming white dogwood trees and soft gentle breezes.

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From the Fire

April 4th, 2016

Paintings to Honor the Sojourn of the Syrian Refugees 2016


I have created these paintings to honor those who have suffered loss of home or loved ones through the egregious misfortune of war. The first paintings reveal the fire and destruction endured by the exodus of people from war torn countries, the second group of these paintings reveal a hopeful healing process for these refugees.

These paintings are mixed media on masonite blocks. Each painting is 8" x 10."

These paintings will be exhibited at the Louisville "Oneness Center" starting March 12, 2016 through the month of June. The address for the Oneness Center is: 10845 Bluegrass Parkway, Louisville, KY.

I welcome you to view these paintings: “Coming Out of the Fire.” I’m a painter, sculptor, photographer and writer of short stories & children’s stories containing my illustrations & poetry. Over the years, I’ve enjoyed teaching Visual Arts at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, Indiana University, the University of Louisville and Kentucky State. Besides creating my own original works of art & exhibiting, I currently teach at Western Hills High School in Frankfort, Kentucky.

My creative process combines a mixture of media, including acrylic, pastel, colored pencil & Photoshop. To achieve the ‘atmospheric abstraction’ seen in my work, I especially make use of transparent layering. The size or scale of my pieces can often rely on the Nano image scale with the larger scale of an atmospheric universal firmament orientation to present ‘a microcosm of a microcosm’. That means both realities are visible at once, which creates a paradox or sense perceptive omnipotence in the viewer, much like being able to see that which is hidden by virtue of manipulation within a constructed reality.

In the spring of 2007, I was fortunate to be included in the first International Nano Art Exhibit in Finland, an exhibit of artists working with electron microscope images as a basis for creative exploration! I have also exhibited in several countries, including Japan, South Korea, Spain, Peru & Austria, as well as throughout the United States.

To see options for purchasing these images as prints on paper, framed, on stretched canvas, or metal, or as totebags, cell phone covers, throw pillows, duvet covers shower curtains, or t-shirts, click this link: janis-kirstein.fineartamerica.com



Thank you for viewing my paintings and, please, contact me with any questions you may have about the works.







Celebrate Spring

April 4th, 2016

Celebrate Spring

Spring is due to arrive this Sunday. We have yet to see whether or not the weather will cooperate with our hopes and dreams of emerging blooms and sweet, tender green grass blades. But, never mind the weather, because either way, reality brings you Today’s special free gift for you: a digital painting of your favorite pet!

Here’s all you need do:

Just place your email into my subscribe box at the bottom of my webpage on www.kirsteinfineart.com and
Email me your favorite photo of your pet. janiskirstein@icloud.com
What a special treat for you Andy your family! This could even be the beginning of a possible real life acrylic painting of your very best friend. And no, I don't mean Your hubby! Or homie. Or mother!

I am so excited to get started painting everyone's best friend--their dog! Or cat, or cow, or horse, or rabbit, or Sphinx, or hamster.

I work in acrylic paint, though the final result is just exactly like an oil painting. I start with a photo of your pet, which you can already have, or I can come over to your pet and photograph them if you live in Louisville. Otherwise, I will work from the photo you send me.

Here with this notice I have added for you a few samples of the next step in the painting process, should you have any desire to proceed to the next step of securing a painted commission of your pet. Your digital painting is free, but taking your digital painting through the steps necessary to create the final art work for you can bring to you a timeless family heirloom treasure, to hang in your most honorable space in your home.

Here is the process. First, I take your photo, and create a digital painting from looking at the photo. I then send this to you for your reactions, observations and recommendations. We communicate at this stage until we are clear that I know exactly what you want.

Here is what I do next.

I then transfer this image to the final stretched canvas as a finished acrylic painting. The most popular size for this final painting is a 16” x 20” stretched canvas. The surface texture for the final completed painting is a rich three dimensional bass relief of superbly rich natural color capturing the very heart and soul of your little darlin.’

I know who your best friend really is and I just wanted to see what I could do with him/her as a painting. I seem to be able to do especially well with really hairy dogs! Maybe it's because my husband and I have four such hairy Airedales ourselves.

The little digital painting I create from your photo is yours to keep and just gives you some idea of what I can do, whether or not you chose to opt for a commission. I hope you enjoy your lovely, personal digital painting of your very own pet either way.

Blessings to you on this beautiful day! And please contact me via FB if you are interested in arranging a commission.

Just in case I have lost your email, my email is: janiskirstein@icloud.com or please go to the first page of my website and put your email into my subscriber box at the bottom of the page. www.kirsteinfineart.com

After you put your name and email in my subscriber box, I will send you an email reminding you of my email for you to send me your pet photo.

Have a wonderful Spring and be sure to give your pets lots of cool drinking water for the warm months to come!

Credits for today's images are as follows: 1. Flower photo by J. Kirstein on today’s almost Spring day. 2. Acrylic painting for Bruce Tasch of his dog Bagel. This is the final finished acrylic painting on stretched canvas. 3. This is a digital painting of Jenna Harrod’s cow. Jenna is one of my High school art students who is an avid member of Future Farmers of America. She plans to raise cattle in her career, and currently lives on a farm that tends cattle, and this is her very favorite cow. 3. This is my cousin, Gaye Crowther’s dog she fondly nicknamed “The Little Monster.” Gaye is the manager and owner of a pig farm located on the coast of North Carolina where she is busy managing 600,000 sow.

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Manifesting a Studio

April 4th, 2016

Manifesting a Studio


Tomorrow is 2.22.16, the date of angelic manifestation of dreams. This is a dream and I am putting it out to the universe for a space to create. I invite you to have so much fun imagining what you would have in your creative space and what features it would have.

Please add what you would love to have for your perfect creative space.

The video above is made two years ago for manifesting a creative space and was for a Hatchfund project, which did not make its goal, but the dream still lives. I have also included some of my favorite images of a dream creative space. I know this will transpire when the time is right, because I have faith that the creative process is one of the greatest endeavors of the human spirit, and I feel certain that the universe will support the prayer for all people of this earth to aspire to create.

So please share with me the favorite aspects of your creative space. Send your photos of your space to me at janiskirstein@


Perception Shifts

April 4th, 2016

Perception Shifts

CHANGING PERSPECTIVES THROUGH REFLECTION.

After yesterday’s blog on reorienting your perspective on ordinary objects, I received a number of quite interesting responses from other artists who exhibit some of the same shift in consciousness that I explored in yesterday’s blog. But unfortunately they could not express “like” of my page because Wordpress said they'd had to be members to do this..

So I will just write a blog on these two artists and their fine examples.

Here is a brief synopsis of my yesterday’s post:

“Have you ever tried to imagine that the sky was the ground and the ground was the sky? If you look at the sky in this way, you can begin to see the cloud formations as land masses, and the blue sky as the sea.”

Moving along with this idea, let's look at two pieces that really exemplify this.

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The photograph “Sunset” is by the artist Wendolyn Hill, who is a Medical Illustrator connected with Yale University. Her website is wendolynhill.com.

The beautiful photograph you see here by Wendolyn is of the waterway near her home in Lyme, Ct. The reflections you see here can really “turn you on your head” as you play with the idea of seeing the sky in the water and the water in the sky.

In the end after looking at this photograph from all perspectives, you can lose the difference in identity between air and water, between up and down, top and bottom, causing you for a moment to release some of your long held boundaries associated with your conventional perceptions.

The other art I would like to introduce here is “Nine Leaves In the Wind” a giclee print by Denise Weaver Ross. The link to this image on her website is
http://www.redbubble.com/people/dweaverross/works/11273384-nine-leaves-in-the-wind

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Again, the reflection of sky in water creates a universe where top and bottom merge and become reversible. To me, the tendency is to fall into a sense of letting go of the conventional up and down orientation, and to merge into a kind of dream state, where rules of relationship are shifted.

So often in our dreams these kinds of perspectives are reorientated, where space and time become a continuum in perception.

More on the importance of Dreams to come…. Until then, please enjoy the works of my two artist friends, who incidentally completed the Master of Fine Arts Program at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst with me in the early 1980’s.

Winter Wonderland

April 4th, 2016

Winter Wonderland

WINTER WONDERLAND

THOUGHTS FROM ONE CREATIVE MIND TO ANOTHER......
Have you ever tried to imagine that the sky was the ground and the ground was the sky? If you look at the sky in this way, you can begin to see the cloud formations as land masses, and the blue sky as the sea.

The feeling you get when you make this mind shift is somewhat disorienting, almost dizzying, but very much like the shift that is occurring on a daily basis all around me, as I try to make sense of world happenings, events, and occurrences.

To me, snow falling presents this kind of shift in the way you see everything. As the snow softly sifts down upon everyday objects, a new feeling resonates with the new orientation of a world covered in a blanket of white.

Because it is hard to explain this shift in consciousness in words, I have created a collage of my photographs that presents that shift, the shift of moving into perhaps another dimension, or of seeing common everyday reality with a different context, a different orientation.

Have you ever experienced what it is like to look at something from one perspective, then reorient the context of that event or object and feel as though you have passed “through the looking glass?”

This kind of shift in perception happens all the time in jazz music. The improvisation of most jazz pieces travels a path of ever shifting perspectives though chord progressions,rhythm changes and even tempo variations. If music can show shifting consciousness, then what does that look like in the visual world?

Can you think of an experience you may have had that changed the way you look at your everyday life? If so, please share your thoughts. I would love to hear them!

What’s really fun is to imagine this piece in an interior space. This image is created from cutting and pasting the photo collage image into a photograph of an interior space, using Photoshop.

Thoughts From One Creative Mind to Another

April 4th, 2016

Thoughts From One Creative Mind to Another


TH FROM ONE CREATIVE MIND TO ANHave you ever tried to imagine that the sky was the ground and the ground was the sky? If you look at the sky in this way, you can begin to see the cloud formations as land masses, and the blue sky as the sea.



The feeling you get when you make this mind shift is somewhat disorienting, almost dizzying, but very much like the shift that is occurring on a daily basis all around me, as I try to make sense of world happenings, events, and occurrences.



To me, snow falling presents this kind of shift in the way you see everything. As the snow softly sifts down upon everyday objects, a new feeling resonates with the new orientation of a world covered in a blanket of white.



Because it is hard to explain this shift in consciousness in words, I have created a collage of my photographs that presents that shift, the shift of moving into perhaps another dimension, or of seeing common everyday reality with a different context, a different orientation.



Have you ever experienced what it is like to look at something from one perspective, then reorient the context of that event or object and feel as though you have passed “through the looking glass?”



This kind of shift in perception happens all the time in jazz music. The improvisation of most jazz pieces travels a path of ever shifting perspectives though chord progressions,rhythm changes and even tempo variations. If music can show shifting consciousness, then what does that look like in the visual world?



Can you think of an experience you may have had that changed the way you look at your everyday life? If so, please share your thoughts. I would love to hear them!

What’s really fun is to imagine this piece in an interior space. This image is created from cutting and pasting the photo collage image into a photograph of an interior space, using Photoshop.

Peace on Earth

January 24th, 2016

Peace on Earth

Sunrise over freshly fallen snow awakens us from our bedroom window this morning. What a glorious merging of multiple shades and tints of pinks, oranges, and violets.

If you ever mistakenly think that white is just white, look again. If you look across your yard of freshly fallen snow, you will notice the shadows of the trees are a rich range of blues and purples.

Never is there a more peaceful moment than this special moment of waking, reminding us of all there is to be grateful for… *the chance to experience such a peaceful moment. *the chance to capture this peaceful moment in a work of art.

Notice how the feeling of peace envelops you as you look out and through the window In this work of art.

What if you could feel this way all of the time?

What if you could feel this kind of peace every time you looked at a work of art?

It's something to think about, isn't it?

janis-kirstein.fineartamerica.com

Image above is by Janis Kirstein and is a digital piece created with a variety of painting apps.

For Pet Lovers and Art Lovers

January 18th, 2016

For Pet Lovers and Art Lovers

I love pets, just like you, and I do acrylic on canvas pet portraits on commission. I work from photos, and the beagle mix shown here is Bagel, my latest subject. He is the reigning star at owner Bruce Tasch’s home. Bruce commissioned me to paint Bagel for his wife as a gift and now the acrylic painting hangs in their dining room.

How to Take Care of a Young Dog

Here’s one way to make me finally clean up the kitchen: just frantically run up and down the countertops, ripping and shreading soft drinks, water bottles, water pitchers, silver polish, medicine bottles, oranges and tomatoes pell mell into the floor with gleeful abandonment.

This is what my very industrious Airedale, Jett, did for me when he broke out of his caged door,escaping from his own private bathroom into the kitchen this morning.

Imagine my dismay when at 6:00am I walked into smashed blueberries, grapefruit rinds and various other garbage artifacts hanging precariously from kitchen cabinet doors and lampshades alike. All this had been thus thoroughly exhumed for me on this bleak, still pitch black morning of January.

In the one hour it took to clean the kitchen, I realized:

1. If I want to share with you, my readers, how to care for dogs, I might need to review my own methods!
2. The kitchen really needed cleaning anyway. I had just kept putting it off.
3. The greatest on-line dog training EVER miraculously appeared for me as soon as I resumed a dog trainer search on the Internet. And here’s what I found: What a great on-line course, by dog trainer Susan Garrett. Her website is: https://www.brilliantrecalls.comAnd her first three lessons are free.p
So from my most harrowing experience, I would like to pass on this most useful information, and alert you to stay tuned to Jett’s progress once I put him in the program.

If you have any questions about the portraits I do, please feel free to email me at janiskirstein@icloud.com
If you have any questions about the future of Jett’s home life, please do not ask, as I am not yet ready to discuss this.

Which reminds me. Excuse me while I go check on Jett who is currently locked solidly into his bathroom with the door shut. The inability to see his current actions is always detrimental to my sanity. As my husband and I always say, “It’s better to see and know, than to not see and remain clueless.”

Have a wonderful Martin Luther King Day.

A Walk in the Park

January 16th, 2016

A Walk in the Park

Today I saw a comment on a piece of art work that got me thinking how much I miss my summer walks in our local Cherokee Park

"I see it as a walk in the park. Subject to interpretation, I'm sure....but very creative." The comment was by fellow artist and new friend from Fine Art America, Cindy Manero She was speaking of my work of art shown below this page in the comments section.

A walk in the park is just what is missing from life right now! How I miss tromping through the woods of our local park in Louisville, Ky., Cherokee Park, designed by Fredrick Law Olmstead. He is also the miraculous designer of New York City's Central Park.

I was really interested to read that Law Olmstead, with all of his great design ability tragically suffered at the end of his life with Alzheimer's and lost the abilities as is associated with that disease. No wonder my friend and I, who's mother also suffers from Alzheimer's, considered it an invigorating challenge to find our way in Cherokee Park every day. This was our final exam each day: If we could still find our way on all the looping organic paths that made up the very complex map of Cherokee Park, then we were still cognizant and adequately alert! --Out of the Woods, so to speak!


When Are Your Most Creative Moments? What can you do to cultivate more creative moments? Does the outdoors stimulate you? Make you feel connected to the universe? To all of nature? Place your comments below and let me know your most creative times, and what you were doing right before or during those times.

For an example, my husband often has great ideas when he is in the shower. Only trouble is, the bigger his ideas, the more hot water he uses, and I have to take my shower later. And no, I am not going to try a COLD shower to generate ideas!

One of the things I do that can often generate ideas is walking in the woods, or in the park. Oh now we're back to that!

Once you break through the creative barrier, one idea leads to another leading to another. Being connected is important for generating ideas. Being connected to nature, to the universe, the right side connected to the left side of the brain. There are many brain entrainments on disc now that you can listen to to encourage changes in the brain for further connectivity between the left and right hemispheres of the brain. I am now trying one disk from Holosynch. The effects on my thought process has been notable with greater clarity of thought and connectivity of innovation connecting with logic.

I think I'll keep listening. And walking. And blogging. See you next time.


Come see these images on our websites at fineartamerica.com

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Art Is Meditation

August 28th, 2015

Art Is Meditation

Inspired Life
Why making art is the new meditation



By Maia Gambis August 25


Many of us have heard about the benefits of meditation, but sometimes find it hard to do. Fewer of us know about the profound benefits of artistic expression. Creating art, however, is another way to access a meditative state of mind and the profound healing it brings.
“Art is a guarantee to sanity,” said Louise Bourgeois, a French-American artist who died in 2010 at the age of 98. She even went on to add, “…This is the most important thing I have said.” For Bourgeois, art — making art — was a tool for coping with overwhelming emotion. She says she remembers making small sculptures out of bread crumbs at the dinner table when she was a little girl – as a way of dealing with her dominating father. Art was more than an escape – it kept her sane.
Art therapy has a healing effect for a variety of ailments, including depression, trauma and illness. and is effective across age, gender or ethnicity. In a recent study of cancer patients, an art therapy intervention — in conjunction with conventional treatments like chemotherapy and radiation — not only diminished symptoms typically associated with cancer such as pain, fatigue and anxiety, but also enhanced life expectancy. The study, its authors said, was based on the belief that “the creative process involved in the making of art is healing and life-enhancing. It is used to help patients, or their families, increase awareness of self, cope with symptoms, and adapt to stressful and traumatic experiences.”
[Five ways to thrive in an uncertain world]
Art is not only healing for individuals suffering from severe illness. Here are four reasons why creative activity is such a potent recipe for psychological well-being:
1. Art is a vehicle for meditation and self-connection
Most of us can understand that art provides an escape to a sometimes harsh reality, but where does art’s healing potential come from? It impacts the state of our minds: Enjoying emotional stability is largely about taking responsibility for how we feel.
Research has shown the power of meditation and the science behind it. One of the reasons it is so powerful is that it fosters acceptance. Creating art is a type of meditation, an active training of the mind that increase awareness and emphasizes acceptance of feelings and thoughts without judgment and relaxation of body and mind.
Art, like meditation, allows us to create space between our often negative, anxious thoughts and connect with our true selves – as opposed to with the fleeting or false sense of identity we sometimes have when we are caught up in our thoughts and emotions. Eckhart Tolle, spiritual teacher, writes: “Identification with thoughts and the emotions that go with those thoughts creates a false mind-made sense of self, conditioned by the past… This false self is never happy or fulfilled for long. Its normal state is one of unease, fear, insufficiency, and non-fulfillment.” Creating art is about reaching a state of consciousness and breaking free from the constant debilitating chatter of the mind.


2. Art provides a feeling of flow and freedom
Similarly to meditation, art can help us tap into a deeper and more quiet part of ourselves. We enter into a state of flow and present-moment awareness. “All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness,” Tolle writes. Artists experience that creative activity has the potential to tap into a space of true consciousness of being, void of interpretation. In this space, there can be a sense of having no physical parameters; no body, or form to separate one from the other.
3. Art allows for true self-expression
The process of making art overrides the need for verbal communication. Creativity is its own language and enables humans to connect with one another — and themselves — on a non-verbal level. In therapy it can be an effective way of saying the unspeakable as is shown through the use of creative therapies with children. This also explains how we can be moved to the core when looking at a work of art, or even listening to music, without necessarily knowing the specifics about its origin. Art exists within its own non-verbal parameter and thus frees us up for unadulterated self-expression.
[Do these exercises for two minutes a day and you’ll immediately feel happier]
4. Art helps us become steady and centered
As a plus, it is interesting to note that Bourgeois, when asked to comment on her extensive body of work spanning her entire lifetime, says what impresses her most “is how constant [I] have been.” Perhaps we need to redefine what we consider to be a storybook happy ending. Happiness may be less a matter of experiencing sharp highs (often followed by deep lows), and more a matter of nurturing a space that provides stability and a constant connection to our true selves.

This article is republished from our content partner Fulfillment Daily: Daily Science-Backed News for a Happier Life, founded by Stanford University psychologist Emma Seppala, who is also Associate Director of the Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education at Stanford’s School of Medicine.

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Comments from Jan Kirstein

The manifestation of creative abundance, for me involves the practice of Reiki, daily meditation, Tapping, self hypnosis and positive affirmations. I think something is coming together with all this activity and I invite you to share what you do to enhance your creativity.

The musician Rachmoninoff used self hypnosis at a certain point in his career. Up until that point, his music was not well received by the public. After he began the discipline of self hypnosis, his music became an overnight sensation. Tapping the subconscious mind... Most probably the best way to actualize your creative potential

Art For the Interior Designer

June 23rd, 2015

Art For the Interior Designer

One stop on the web and you can place fine art by Janis Kirstein everywhere you need to crown all of your interior design projects.

Imagine one website, one artist, all with a multitude of contemporary, sophisticated selections of images, colors, and textures, with all sizes and types of prints, canvases, matts and frames, all at your fingertips.

That's the Janis Kirstein website, located within the FineArtAmerica website, featuring hundreds of professional artists and their works.

Need a canvas for a living room space you have completed? Easy selection of this option, along with other choices of framed print, bed cover duvet, throw pillows as well as unframed metal prints can all be selected with the touch of your finger, and arrive at your door within just days.

Not sure how a painting will look in a space? Try out the cool simulator that is an app called "Pixels." This app connects you to the FineArtAmerica website and allows you to pick your art choice, then "hang it" in your interior design space.

The Pixels app pulls up the art you are considering on your screen, then you hold your screen up to the wall in the room where needed, then click. You capture a photo of that picture in that space. How cool is that?

You can try different sizes, different colors, all with the app "Pixels" which connects you to the Fine Art America website of original art by artists from around the world.

You have to try it. You won't believe how easy it is.

So get started today. Have a look at the Janis Kirstein Fine Art website. Then cruise through the hundreds of other artists on the same site.

You just might find the exact fit for all of your interior design projects, all without having to leave your chair. How is that for convenient?

Why not get started now? Just tap the website url at the top of the page, and the world is your oyster!

Creative Abundance

June 18th, 2015

Creative Abundance


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The manifestation of creative abundance, for me involves the practice of Reiki, daily meditation, Tapping, self hypnosis and positive affirmations. I think something is coming together with all this activity and I invite you to share what you do to enhance your creativity.

The musician Rachmoninoff used self hypnosis at a certain point in his career. Up until that point, his music was not well received by the public. After he began the discipline of self hypnosis, his music became an overnight sensation. Tapping the subconscious mind... Most probably the best way to actualize your creative potential!

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