Have more inner calm and joy in everyday life through creating with your hands.

Our lives have gotten more challenging. Often people are depressed, anxious or feel lonely. Creating with the hands can be a fun way for joy and calm.

Creating with your hands, as well as the clothes and jewelry that you wear on your body and the art that you look at on your walls, affect how you feel and think - at home, at work and in your business.

A plethora of scientific research shows the the tremendous impact that creating has on your health and well-being on all levels: emotionally, mentally, physically.

When you create with your hands like kids do - absorbed in the process - the brain shifts into the pleasure giving center.
You experience exquisite inner calm and joy.

The more you create - even for just minutes a day or a few times a week - the stronger the neuro pathways for joy and calm become in your brain.

As the outer world is going more and more bonkers, you may be getting more and more stressed in your personal and your business and work life.

The "usual remedies" are
1.) mediating.
Many of us get even more frustrated, trying to sit still and trying to slow down a mind that is like an Indie race car on steroids.
2.) sweating in a gym.
That's great for some. But others break out into a sweat just thinking about it.
And retrieve to the sofa with some beer, wine or a pint of ice cream to "space out" in front of Netflix or scrolling on IG.

The oldest and most natural way to be happy, calm and peacefully strong is creating something with our hands!
It's playful, highly enjoyable and easily available to anyone.

Do you think you are not creative?
Neither am I. According to my art teacher.
She told me for 6 years: "You have no creative bone in your body! God must have been asleep when He created you and your sense of art."

Yet - I have been a full time designer and artist since 1987.
Selling in high-end wearable art boutiques and galleries, had my own boutique and have been working with thousands of women - and some men.

My unconventional methods are super simple and super fun.
However, you can get amazing, gratifying results with them.
It boosts your natural inner joy and confidence and makes you light up.

When you are happy and peaceful inside, you get more work done in a shorter amount of time. And you even enjoy the work more.
It leaves you with more time to enjoy yourself and your family.

I offer happy clothes and jewelry. As well as playful creative courses and programs - fee and free - in the areas of creating mixed media, digital art, collage art, happy hand painted clothes, happy jewelry.
Those are highly effective, proven and playful way to cultivate inner joy and calm.

Plus: you get to wear what you created or admire it on your walls. It gives you that extra jolt of joy whenever you need it.

Check out the free compilations of short fun ways to create something beautiful to wear HERE.
Or check out how to have fun a ton of fun painting papers for mixed media, collages, digital art - but mostly for the pure joy of creating HERE.

Thank you for being part of this creative life.
Wishing you lots of Happy Creating!
Monika Astara