This is a great description of the artist prototype; great perspective. Also, if you're an artist, of any kind, Eric Maisel's books offer tremendous insight into the artist's process and personality. Highly recommended.

Most of us are very busy and often never get around to taking good care of ourselves -- yet everything depends on our well-being, staying healthy in every way, to have a fulfilling life.

Many of us have also grown up in difficult home situations and were not cared for in a proper way so we may not even know how to take care of ourselves. What does self-care mean? What do I do? What does taking care of myself involve?

I know I grew up reading magazines where self-care was about taking bubble baths. That's nice, however, there is a lot more.

Taking care of yourself financially is self-care. Basically, you do all you need to do to make yourself safe, secure, happy.

Robyn L. Gobin's book, The Self-Care Prescription, talks about ways of taking care of yourself beyond the bubble bath.

Theodosia Corinth's book, The Witch's Complete Guide to Self-Care, goes into the deep reasons for self-care. An amazing book for deep insights that make sense of the whole self-care notion.

I came across this beautiful book with lots of illustrations "accidentally." I think my higher self made me pull it off the shelf since I don't really have resonance with the concept of witch. And it's true. The book holds universal principles. I think the title was a gimmick to, perhaps, attract a certain audience that might otherwise learn about the importance of self-care.

In any case, it's one of the deepest books I have ever read -- though you have to read it very carefully to get those deeper meanings.

There are lots of books about self-care these days. If these two don't quite resonate with you, go to the bookstore, browse and see if you can find something that feels right to you.

Live your very best year ever!

​This beautiful guided meditation will support you in visualizing and setting intentions for a wonderful year!

You will review the past year -- what you're happy about and what you would like to do differently this year.

You will ask yourself important questions such as: what is your highest vision for every area of your life; who do you want to be; what qualities do you want to live; what does your heart desire, etc. -- as a way to create a vision for your best year ever.

You will have plenty of time to consider what you want, so allow yourself to go deep. You will be surprised to learn all kinds of things about yourself and your desires of which you had no conscious awareness. These deep desires will help you create a life where you are truly content and happy.

You will also have the opportunity to submit your desires to the Divine. At those times, stay open to insights, revelations, and visions.
Focused thought creates reality. Listen to the guided meditation, any time of the year, to strengthen your vision. Take action where appropriate.

Dawn McLelland's nurturing voice guides you, along with Peder B. Helland's beautiful music.
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The guided meditation is about 22 minutes. About 8 minutes of just music follow for you to enjoy and energize the beautiful visions of your future.

Headphones are recommended.
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A 17 minute track, How to Make Best Use of Guided Meditations Created by Zorica Gojkovic, Ph.D., is included, as well as a PDF.

Feeling down? Numb? A little lost? Not getting much done? This guided meditation will bring you back to your essential divine self of lightness of being, clarity and purpose.

Recommended only for people who are not on medication for depression.

The support offered in this guided meditation is based on psychic observations on the origins of depression by psychically seeing how energy operates in the human aura.

From psychic observation, the causes of many non-medical, long-lasting depression usually originate in childhood.

If a child is not protected, encouraged to explore, given attention, simply not had his/her basic needs met, he loses contact with his essential being -- the source of his/her true identity and a guide as to how to proceed in life in a way that is best for him/her. As an adult, unable to access this important information, one feels down, foggy, unmotivated, unable to move.

Healing lies in healing childhood wounds.

​This guided meditation does not address deep healing. It is meant to lift you out of your depression, so you can take steps toward deep healing.

The purpose of this guided meditation is to help you:

• Connect with your essential self
• Gain clarity
• Lift heavy energies
• Open your heart to receive the goodness of the Universe
• Fill with energy and vitality
• Move toward constructive action, even take steps to heal at the deep level

In the guided meditation, you will be asked questions. Your conscious mind will offer answers. Your subconscious mind will also offer answers that sound quieter, are in the back of the conscious answers. Stay alert to perceive those quieter answers and insights. They offer the truth about your situation.

The guided meditation is about 26 min. 10 min. of just music follow so you can stay longer in the uplifting, positive energy.

Dawn McLelland, narrator. Music by Thaddeus.

Headphones are recommended.

Included is a 17 minute track, How to Make Best Use of Guided Meditations Created by Zorica Gojkovic, Ph.D, as well as a PDF.

I was looking for some support for exercise and, fortunately, came across Alo Moves. It turned out to offer way more than I believed possible.

Not only are there numerous exercise videos of every kind, but all kinds of other videos.

Of course there is yoga. But what surprise me were the many videos on meditation, some of them include Tibetan bowls and I love Tibetan bowls.

And there are videos to help with mindfulness.

Another thing that surprised me is the "Skills" section -- there you can learn to do hard things like splits.

I love Nicole's Healing Journey.

There is also a program called Desire Mapping that is basically a program that leads you to discover what you really love as a way to create it.

Available on desktops Androids and Apple devices.

When I was younger, without a doubt, the hardest thing in life was finding a way to organize myself, organize my life. Now, I know not everyone has that challenge, but it was a major obstacle in my life. It prevented me from smoothly moving forward in all areas of life -- the physical world and practical things that needed to be done, and the emotional and spiritual world where there was constant healing and transformation.

It may be hard to believe, but creating My Manifesting Planner -- in using it just couple months at this point -- has transformed my life. It's a hub from which all activity arises to facilitate constructive action in the world while, simultaneously, steadily encouraging transformation and, most importantly, the continuous discovery of soul truth and expression.

If this sounds lie hyperbole, it isn't. It's the truth.

Looking at the Planner daily, automatically organizes my mind and the direction of the day -- from the energies I want to embody that day to getting life things accomplished and, most importantly, staying on track with transformation of old energies and the creation of new energies.

I've just created the guided meditation New Year's Intentions, so I have not yet fully incorporated it into my life. However, the potential is enormous.

New Year's Intentions lets you become clear on what you want in your life whether it's a quality you want to live or embody, or something you want to create or change. Then you take that to the Planner to begin to make it a reality in your life.

All in all this arrangement, My Manifesting Planner and New Year's Intentions guided meditation, allows you to stay in touch with what's important to you, what you want in your life and provides a way to make sure you make it a reality.
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Possibly what's best about this setup is that it's easy. Everything is in one place and from that one place all happens. And it's simple. Just one little spiral bound notebook. Yet, so powerful.

My Manifesting Planner comes with New Year's Intentions.

You can also purchase New Year's Intentions ​separately.