The benefits of Art Therapy are endless- When I say Art, It can be all kinds of Arts, music, dancing, singing, cooking, drawing, etc. The Art you choose should resonate with you; it should bring you self-expression, creativity, harmony, and joy!

Art therapy supports mindfulness, awareness, feeling, emotions, and healing. Well-being starts with healing your past hurt and trauma; you learn to express your feelings and emotions with Art. When you create, you are in harmony with yourself; learning to let go of the past is crucial to living an abundant life.

As everything starts with you, you must make the change with yourself. Change your mind, change your direction.

Art brings harmony, tranquillity, peace, and happiness. It’s a gentle healing process but powerful. Art is a powerful state of expression, especially when you let go of all control of your ego and let express your soul. You discover with art therapy your more profound desire, emotions, and life purpose.

The more you calm your mind, feel at peace, and relax, your healing process goes deeper. After healing completely, you feel an immense liberation; it was a Wow moment for me. The missing key I was looking for. I feel free, tranquil, peaceful and in harmony with myself. What is one secret of happiness? Follow your heart, passion, and love. Do what makes you truly happy; every second day!

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What is Love?

What is love? It seems a simple question! Love is unconditional.

Everything starts with you! Love yourself to love others. If you do not love yourself, how can you love someone else?

Love is a feeling, an emotion; you feel deep inside your heart and soul. Love is not loving others; instead, it starts with you, by accepting your flows, growing with learning, accepting what does not serve you; people and things. Acknowledging you are doing the best you can with what you have now. Be patient, loving with yourself. Allow all changes to come your way by accepting it's for your good. Be kind and tolerant toward you.

Everything starts with you.

Love is linked to self-esteem, self-confidence, and happiness. Until you allow yourself to love unconditionally, you cannot be happy with somebody else.

Learn to enjoy your company and allow some quiet time to take care of your well-being; mentally, physically, emotionally, and spiritually.

When you bring awareness to your well-being, balance is with you. Harmony, happiness, love, and joy are part of your day!

Balance is primordial to stay away from "burnout." Keeping a healthy mind and body is vital. But many forget to align the heart and soul-deep desire. Until you do it, you will see obstacles in front of you.

Listening to what you truly desire is part of loving yourself. Respecting yourself your values is showing care and love to Self. Don't put your dreams and goals aside to please someone else. Love yourself enough to go after what you want. Get up, dress up and show up!

Loving yourself is tied to happiness; do what makes your heart sing.

- Positive affirmation-

Positive affirmations are great to rewire your unconscious mind toward a positive attitude and love to you. They reinforce the words, phrases, or sentences you use to motivate and inspire you to think and feel loving. When you repeat your affirmations, it overcomes obstacles and negative belief patterns.

Some examples:

"I love myself"; "I am beautiful"; "I do the best I can"; "I am worthy."

- Practice Mindfulness-

Mindfulness clears your mind and helps you focus on the present moment. It opens your eyes to self-love, confidence, and positivity. You gain a non-judgmental attitude that allows unconditional love to yourself and others.

- Self-care-

Self-care is doing for yourself what you have passion and love for. It's taking care of your mind, body, heart, and soul. It's doing everything that brings harmony and joy into your life. Take a walk-in nature to breathe sincerely, read a book, take a class, dance, cooking…Use your imagination and follow your heart😊

Peace and Love

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You probably heard a lot about" Awakening "or "The Great Awakening."

We are all different as "human beings," your experiences may differ from somebody else. In the end, the Awakening processes lead us to our Spiritual Journey path. Accepting the truth and our purpose towards a New World; by enlightening and allowing the flow of Love, tranquillity, harmony, abundance, and prosperity to all. Awakening is a journey from restriction to freedom - from unconscious to conscious.

If you are new to the term awakening, it means opening your eyes to the truth of the world, acting to change to a New World. Taking control of your life in your hand; not being led by fears, but by unconditional love.

You never know who you are until your shadow meets your light as you are unhappy because you are not aligned with who you are.

Awakening follows our soul's desire to lead to infinity, love, happiness, and abundance. Listen to your profound want to harmonize your mind, body, heart, and soul.

Until you accomplish your purpose and follow your path, you will never find harmony and peace deep in your soul. The most important events you must achieve on Earth are enlightening your “Self” to enlighten others with your light and energy. Leading with positivity, love, empathy, compassion, and optimism is an example.

Awaken-

You are not here by accident. You are the Awakening that breaths the magic of Love and light into the troubled world. Though you will be tested and supported on your spiritual path; You will confirm to be the fighter you have always been. Rise, release the past and be the hope for humanity That you indeed are. You are the highest vibration!

You bring awareness into your life, personal and career. You see with new lenses; it is not the life you want to live, or you realize you don't want this world to your children, yourself, or the world. You discover yourself, and a deep desire starts to surface for you to act toward change for the better.

The Universe always wants to test your truth; you will encounter situations that make you second guess everything. These are lessons. You know in your heart what is true. Stay in your intuition; connect with your soul for guidance. Read more at www.catherineacoach.com

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Peace and Love-

Spirituality is not a religion, but rather it involves a search for meaning in life, a connection to something bigger than us. It is a collective human experience—The Great Awakening. Many persons describe a spiritual experience as a deep sense of wholeness. Spirituality is perceived at different levels; it depends on your awareness, mindfulness, and meditation practice.

My experiences and gifts lead me to my journey of spiritual awakening.  It means healing your mental, physical, emotional, and spiritual; to be whole. My passion and purpose are to empower you and share my knowledge to support you to stay on your self-knowledge. You will find your key toward unconditional love, abundance, prosperity, and harmony.  But first, let's see what's spirituality means.

Spirituality means you are in balance between your mind, body, heart, and soul. You listen to your deeper through to guide you to your life purpose. When you find the purpose of your life is; You feel great, light, free, happy, thankful, and grateful. You start making the change necessary in all aspects of your life. You follow your goals and purpose with great energy and motivation; nothing can stop you. You keep the focus on the prize.

You form a whole with yourself, as your soul is in harmony with your heart. Freedom, abundance, love, success is around you everywhere. You see magic and beauty; your eyes are open. Positivity and optimist empower your growth mindset and your miraculous awakening.

Awareness, self-care, and mindfulness are part of your daily routine to enjoy the tranquillity and appreciate unconditional love within you. It also involves understanding the correlation between the universe and energy, as we are energy. The more you raise your vibration, the more you attract abundance and Happiness.

It's a process of allowing who you are. What is your life purpose? What is your more profound desire?

Carl Junk called it the "Self" and Maslow's "Self-Actualization. " Spirituality and psychology are linked together. When your basic need is fulfilled, and you take time, you improve and find your life journey.

Don't fight the changes coming to you, but instead, be resilient and accept them.

To attain contentment and enlightenment, you need to allow the spirit to heal.

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Loneliness means your current relationships don’t meet your needs. You don’t have to be alone to feel lonely. Loneliness comes up when we feel alone, unwanted, or isolated.

Loneliness comes from a lack of self-esteem and self-worth. Until You recognize your core value, improve resilience, and anchor yourself. Without all of that, you are at the mercy of people to boost your well-being.

Loneliness is a sense of disconnection; we imagine it comes from being isolated from people. The truth is many people are lonely even with having family, friends, colleagues, and a vast social network.

You feel lonely when you don’t see your company as meaningful and fulfilling. All good relationships involve quality presence. They are the greatest!

Loneliness is feeling physically alone. It is a feeling of isolation, emptiness, and separation; social contact cannot solve it. People feel lonely when they are not comfortable with themselves. Low self-worth is the most significant contributor to loneliness. When someone gives little value in themselves and their personality, opinions, and goals, making and maintaining relationships is challenging. They don’t see themselves as worthy; low self-esteem leads to isolation and lower self-esteem. It is a non-end cycle until you decide to take your destiny into your own hands.

You cannot rely on others to make you feel unique or worthy. If you don’t accept yourself, you cannot expect people to welcome you. It is an inside job within yourself, your mind, and your soul. You need to have self-esteem, self-worth to have meaningful relationships; if you don’t, you will always feel lonely, no matter what. You’ll get upset and experience emotional isolation since your sense of value is low, and your well-being depends on others.

Connect with your true nature; you will not feel lonely, no matter your situation, even if you live alone or don’t see your circle. You reduce unhappiness with self-esteem.

Connecting with yourself helps you see events from a different angle.

You don’t rely on others for their opinion to feel good. You ‘know’ who you are and recognize your inner power. Someone can be unpleasant, but their behaviour won’t bring you pain when you connect to your true self.

Self-esteem decreases the feeling of loneliness, but you need to connect with yourself. The answer to loneliness is not to find external love; the answer is self-love. Love yourself first to attract the right people into your life.

Everything always starts within you, nothing external.

The first step to self-esteem is to realize you have the power to change. Rely on yourself to do what it takes to make a change. Build your resilience and accept to be by your own company.

To connect with yourself, increase your awareness of the way you influence your through. Keep positivity and optimism around you to elevate your good energy.

Imply Self-care to take care of you, mentally, physically, and spiritually. Treat yourself with respect and love to gain positive results.

Spend value time with yourself, do something you like, or go for a walk into nature.

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'Like' it or not, using social media causes anxiety, depression, and other health challenges.

The platforms are designed to be addictive and are associated with anxiety, depression, and physical disorders. According to some research, 4.48 billion users worldwide as of July 2021 use social media. It puts a large population at an increased risk of feeling anxious, depressed, or ill over social media use.

Humans are social beings. We need others to thrive in life, and the strength of our connections has a significant impact on our mental health and happiness. Being connected to others ease stress, anxiety, and depression, boosts self-worth, provides comfort and joy, prevents loneliness, and even adds years to your life. On the other side, lacking social connections poses a severe risk to psychological well-being.

In the world today, many rely on social media platforms. It's important to remember that social media can't replace the natural world and the human connection. It needs in-person contact with others to produce the hormones that improve stress and make you feel happier, healthier, and positive.

Surprisingly for a technology created to bring people closer together, spending too much time connecting on social media make you feel lonely and isolated—and aggravates mental health problems such as anxiety and depression.

Suppose you're spending extreme time on social media and feel sad, dissatisfied, frustrated or lonely; It's impacting your life. In that case, it's time to examine your online behaviours and find a better balance.

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Importance of Freedom

Freedom is when people can speak, act, and pursue happiness without unnecessary outside restrictions. Freedom is essential. It leads to improved expressions of creativity and thought, increased productivity and quality of life.

I decided to discuss the issue of Freedom as it is taking away one by one worldwide, disguised under the pandemic of our safety and health.

Let look first what are the constitution of Freedom and our rights. Second, we will overview how our Freedom supports our well-being, health, and safety. And Third, what we should retain from Freedom behind the history.

· The condition of not be in prison or captivity.

· A condition without restraints, control or interference by another or by circumstance.

·  Not be controlled by another nation or political power, political independence.

· The situation of not be subject to dictatorial or oppressive power; civil liberty.

The General assembly Proclaim this Universal Declaration of Human Rights as a common standard of achievement for all peoples and all nations, to the end, that every individual and every organ of society, keeping the Declaration constantly in mind, shall strive by teaching and education to promote respect for these rights and freedoms and by progressive measures, national and international, to secure

their universal and effective recognition and observance, both among the peoples of Member States themselves and the peoples of territories under their jurisdiction.

ARTICLE 1

All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are granted with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.

ARTICLE 2

Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms outlined in this Declaration, without distinction of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinions, national or social origin, property, birth, or another status.

Furthermore, no distinction shall be made based on the political, jurisdictional, or international status of the country or territory to which a person belongs, whether it be independent, trust, non-self-governing or under any other limitation of sovereignty.

ARTICLE 3

Everyone has the right to life, liberty, and security of person.

ARTICLE 4

No one shall be held in slavery or servitude; slavery and the slave trade shall be prohibited in all their forms.

ARTICLE 5

No one shall be subjected to torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.

ARTICLE 6

Everyone has the right to recognition everywhere as a person before the law.

ARTICLE 7

https://undocs.org/A/RES

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Cognitive dissonance is the view of contradictory information. Mentions to a situation involving conflicting attitudes, beliefs, or behaviours. It creates a feeling of mental discomfort leading to a change in attitudes, opinions, or behaviours to reduce the pain and restore balance.

When we have an inconsistency between attitudes or behaviours, something must change to eliminate the dissonance. People seek consistency in their attitudes and perceptions, so this conflict causes feelings of anxiety or discomfort. People try to reduce the tension in different ways, like rejecting, explaining away, or avoiding new information.

Self-esteem is your answer to deal with cognitive dissonance, as it is linked to self-confidence. When you have both, your chance of dealing with cognitive dissonance is lower as you know your believes and values.

Every person experiences cognitive dissonance to some degree. Some signs include:

· Feeling uncomfortable before deciding or doing something.

· Trying to justify a decision or action you made.

· Feeling embarrassed about something you did and hiding your actions from other people.

· Feeling guilt, regret about something you did in the past.

· Doing things because of social or peer pressure.

Cognitive dissonance happens when a person keeps contradictory beliefs, ideas, or values. It is psychological stress when they take part in an action against one of them.

When somebody is pushed to do something against their will, they do it; the dissonance is created between their perception and behaviour.

It causes moderate trauma.

Different situations create conflicts that lead to cognitive dissonance.

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The mind helps provide the power need to heal the spirits and bodies. Every person has the tools to fix harmony, balance, and health in their bodies through the mind's healing energy.

We know that thoughts and perceptions affect physiology –from stress to everything else in life. The mental state is crucial to determine the experience of symptoms like pain, fatigue and depression.

The mind affects all functions like digestion, circulation and the immune system.  Control by the brain via the nervous system. Reducing stress is number 1 to stay healthy by eating a lot of nutritious foods full of nutrients.

The subconscious mind does not know the difference between truth and imagination. The thoughts have a physical effect on the body. One of the reasons for Positivity! Keep your thoughts positive and ditch negativity from your mind and around you. If you want to be and stay positive, allow only positive experiences and people.

· The mind-body connection- Realize you are in control of your situation. When you understand your mind, body and emotions are links together; you can achieve the unimaginable.

· Stay Mindful- Notice your thoughts and emotions and how they connect to your actions. Bring awareness to your daily life. Embrace your life in the present moment.

· Focus- Change your direction from the negativity. Positive thinking reduces stress and depression and makes you feel good and uplift.

· Meditation- It's a natural method to calm,  center your mind, and ground yourself. When you meditate, you bring your focus on something comforting like your breath or a mantra.

· Coach your mind- Keep the mind focus by engaging the body by taking deep breaths to encourage a positive physical state in the morning. As you focus, you clear your mind and concentrate on the present moment.

· Visualization-The mind is powerful. When you control your thoughts, you have your destiny in your hands. Visualize reaching a specific goal over and over; It manifests into your life only with the power of your mind. Trust in Yourself!

· Change the beliefs about yourself-Beliefs are influential in shaping how we see ourselves and the world. Learn to control your mind by reframing your thoughts. See your worth in all situations. You have the power.

· Believe you can heal- The path to healing is first to believe in the process. Trust in you and the power of your mind.

· Choose to be optimistic- An optimistic mindset brings you a positive outlook.

· Laugh- Don't take yourself too seriously and laugh. Enjoy what life has to offer. Bring back your inner child in this world.

· Meditate- Boost your overall well-being with meditation. It brings you clarity, calmness, and focus.

· Journaling- Put your thoughts on paper. Writing your goals, your dreams, and everything else you want to achieve supports the power of your mind.

· Social support- Have excellent social support with open minds and supportive people. The one who brings Positivity into your life.

· Self-care- Take care of your mind, body, and spirit are they are linked together. Do what makes you happy and feel in life.

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