Category Archives: mindfulness

Finding Your “Why” Through the Expressive Arts

Finding Your “Why” Through the Expressive Arts How creativity reconnects us to meaning, presence, and purpose What if the true meaning of life was found in the question itself, rather than in the answer? In this fast-paced world, we are programmed to live on autopilot. Rarely do we stop to analyze what we are doing—or […]

Musings on Neuroaesthetics, Creativity, and the Poetry of Being

By, Suzan Alparslan, MFA  Poetry is: words that are empowered to make your hair stand on end, that you realize instantly as being some form of subjective truth that has an objective reality to it, because somebody has realized it. Then you call it poetry later. ~ Allen Ginsberg It has been long established by […]

The Art of Mindfulness: 3 Ways to Tap Into Your Inner Kid

“In eternity there is indeed something true and sublime. But all these times and places and occasions are now and here. ” ~Thoreau   “Mindfulness means paying attention in a particular way: on purpose, in the present moment, and non-judgmentally.   This kind of attention nurtures greater awareness, clarity, and acceptance of present-moment reality.” ~Kabat-Zinn Mindfulness […]