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    Life Lessons from a Sock Monkey: How Sewing a Sock Monkey Unraveled My Limiting Beliefs

    About 25 years ago, I began painting a series of sock monkey portraits. Yep. Sock monkey portraits. Sock Monkey Portraits The series of paintings began as a tribute to my late mother. Not long after she passed, I found the threadbare monkey among her belongings. He was missing a pom-pom...
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    If Not Now, When?

    Ever since I was a kid I’ve been making my own greeting cards. I loved drawing on the front with pencil crayons and enjoyed coming up with a heartfelt sentiment for the inside. I don’t want to brag, but I had a knack for putting words together. I think my parents thought I had a gift too, as...
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    An Ode to Creative Writing: An Everlasting Muse

    A Poetic Ode to Written Expression: An Everlasting Muse Creative writing is a form of communication that allows us to share our thoughts without saying a word. Thoughts are no longer invisible to the naked eye but clear as day in the hearts of many. Writing is a language that breaks barriers...
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    Drawing and Creativity vs AI

    Hello! Looking at the images appearing in Life As A Human’s blog posts, the time is not far when AI generated images would equal actual, artist created images, in number. So, AI can draw. But how are drawing and creativity linked? Let’s see! Creative humans are capable of releasing their energy...
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    Practical Ways to Enhance Your Creative Skills

    Refining your skills and honing your craft is key if you want to last in a creative industry. You can’t expect to keep reeling in clients if you use the same outdated tools that you used a decade ago, and may find that an inability to adapt leaves you behind the curve. Investing in yourself and...
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    How to Get Out of a Musical Rut

    I love playing the bass guitar. I’ve been doing it for more than 10 years and I’m thankful for my 15-year old self who decided all of a sudden that he wants to learn an instrument by himself. I’ve never been too keen on learning from teachers and I always took pride in being an able...
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    How Creating Arts & Crafts Can Make us Happier People

    There are reasons why scientists agree that creative people are happier overall. While this principle may not apply to everyone, overall, it makes a lot of sense. There are a number of reasons why creative people tend to be quicker to crack a smile or tell a joke. It comes down the connection...
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    The Key to Creativity is Your Mind

    Our identities and thoughts are shaped as we grow, learn, and adapt. We are the sum of our experiences and memories. We function based on our conditioning. If you’ve ever thought that you can’t be creative, the problem might not be your ability to be creative, but how your brain has been trained...
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    I Would Love To Be An Artist, But…

    When I was in high school I wanted to be an artist, but on the first day of ninth grade when the art teacher told us what would be required in order to pass her class, I dropped out. The same thing happened in college. Fear held me back. It wasn’t until I was in my mid-forties during the Y2K...
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    Creativity: Who Has It and Who Doesn’t?

    Everyone is creative. This is a statement, pillar — heck — a philosophy that I am constantly exposed to and will always stand by. But some people — whether they are aware of it or not — are convinced otherwise. I’ve come across people who have felt they weren’t creative at all or have said to...
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    10 Tips For Creating A Therapeutic Landscaping Design

    The first question that might enter your mind when you read the title is ‘What is a therapeutic landscaping design?’ Assuming you know that therapeutic means the improvement of one’s health, and landscaping is creating a garden to a specific plan and layout, therapeutic landscaping design is...
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    7 Health Benefits A Landscaped Garden Can Produce

    If you were asked to name locations where you can enhance and augment your mental and physical health, you might give answers such as the gym, the park, the yoga studio, the swimming pool, or the beach if you are lucky enough to live near the sea. One location that might not immediately suggest...
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    How to Know You’re Suffering from Alcohol Withdrawal

    Whether you’ve been thinking about visiting a drug rehab facility or you’re concerned for your health or someone else’s, it’s worth having as much information as possible. The more you know about alcoholism and alcohol withdrawal, the better position you’re in to make an informed decision. In...
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    5 Ways To Incorporate A Yoga And Meditation Sanctuary Into Your Landscaping Design

    Ask any psychologists or health and wellness experts what activities are ideal for promoting mental and physical health, we are sure lots of them would suggest yoga and meditation. Yoga is an activity that not only promotes good joint and muscular health but the relaxation it, and meditation...
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    How Funeral Directors Can Help You Repatriate A Deceased Relative

    One of the matters relating to bereavement, which a funeral company usually relies upon for assistance and advice, is when someone dies overseas, and the family needs help repatriating the deceased so that their funeral can occur. Although it is a relatively rare occurrence that most families...
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    What Happens When You Smoke Too Much Weed?

    Although it is generally impossible to overdose in cannabis in the traditional sense, this does not mean that it cannot result in more serious consequences that could affect a person mentally and emotionally. As a matter of fact, many would undergo treatment in some rehab facilities in Perth to...
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    Emotional Labour vs Emotional Exhaustion

    I wanted to share what I read about emotional exhaustion in this post. But I realize I had to explain one important concept ie emotional labor before that. Labour requires putting in effort and from my readings, the performance of emotional labor can be executed mainly in the three following...
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    Benefits of IPL Skin Rejuvenation Treatment

    It is sad but true that as a person ages their skin starts to look rather like an old and wrinkled apple. It might have spots and blemishes, or it may just be covered in wrinkles – or worse still it is more likely to have a combination of both. If you are concerned with the shape your skin is...
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    About Eating & Habits

    Steve Pavlina wrote this after having nothing but juice for the last ten days: I experienced a glimpse of this during day two of my own short live foods fast: I’m definitely not comparing one day of a liquid diet to his ten. But I remember how I felt back then; as if I wanted to eat out of...
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    Fast and Effective Ways for Coping with Stress

    Stress is a part of most people’s lives. It is a reality that we all live with. This is why we need to have different mechanisms in place for coping with stress. Whether we are business executives or working in a hard physical job, the challenge for most of us is actually being cognizant of...
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