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THE TAO OF DANA
Doing Nothing Is Still Doing Something!
I used to work far too much and accomplish very little. So many people I see work far too much, and accomplish much less for all their hours. Breaks are legitimately productive. Time off makes life worth living. It IS living! Take breaks. Take real vacations....
Dressing Up Walls With Very Personal Art!
Art is important for a multitude of reasons, and to live with are is to blanket yourself in layers of sensation, emotion and expression that could not otherwise be bottled and infused through your space. Not all art, though, is traditional "art": painting, sculpture...
REN Moroccan Rose Otto Body Wash
(a festival of roses!) When you incorporate aromatherapy in your beauty regime, it is a treat for your skin and a fragrant event for your day. Aromatherapy also has deeper benefit: your emotional being and subtle, powerful life force is stimulated in the shower or...
Five Feng Shui Lessons From A Lovely Bedroom
(via) Today I thought I would go back to my old-school Tumblr-style feng shui posts to give you a little breakdown of what your bedroom might be saying about you and even your relationships. This time we'll go beyond nightstands and color and really look at what a...
Feng Shui & Making Room To Do What You Love!
(Lonny) Sometimes we just don't have a beautiful expanse of clear space to live and work in. Most of us don't have that pristine clarity in our bustling homes and jam-packed lives. It is up to us to make the room. If you have lots of interests and a busy schedule you...
Get Interested In Life!
One of the luxuries of my art-stalking, writing & feng shui'ing life is that in order to do any of that well I have to forget completely about myself for huge portions of the day. A great teacher once told me that it is not interesting to be interesting; it is...
Unblock Your Creative Power With The Artist’s Way!
If you are not a professional artist, you may look at creativity as a luxury. It is not. Creativity is a necessity. Everyone on the planet is a professional creative being of some sort. All of life is a creative activity. Every decision, every movement, every way you...
Are You Looking For A Magic Pill?
I used to hunt down short cuts the way that primitive man hunted food, with a vengeance. Every short cut I found and took wound up costing me more time, more effort and sometimes even loads of money. Occasionally I have a potential client ask me to "create" love or...
The Essence Of All Beautiful Art!
While this is not immediately obvious because lots of us are accoustomed to a way of thinking of art as ideas or even as activism, the very process of making all art- especially the most becautiful- involves channeling something larger than us. When that is...