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THE ART MATRIX MAGAZINE

EMPOWERING HOLISTIC WELL-BEING

  • About the Art Matrix
    • ART of Acceptance, Reflection, & Transformation
    • The Matrix of Holistic Well-Being
    • The Keys to Holistic Well-Being
    • Core Practices for Holistic Well-Being
    • Community and Culture for Holistic Well-Being
  • Reading List
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Book Talks / Core Practices / Keys to Holistic Well-Being

“The Mind Illuminated” as a Complete Meditation Guide

John Yates’s book, “The Mind Illuminated”, is a modern road map and guide for meditation integrating wisdom and brain science. Read More

About-the Art Matrix Magazine / Art of Holistic Well-Being / News, Essays, & Articles

ART of Acceptance, Reflection, & Transformation

ART of acceptance, reflection, and transformation is an art (creative), an acronym (A.R.T.), and a practice of personal growth for holistic well-being. Read More

Fiction & Poetry

Before Me: Was, Is, & Will Be

Before Me: Was, Is, Will Be, the barren and the dark, that blackens the indigo so I dance barefoot across the ice. Read More

Book Talks

Reflections on Depression in Johann Hari’s “Lost Connections”

Reflections on depression in Johann Hari’s “Lost Connections”: possible alternative causes and solutions, expands thinking about our mental health, hope, and holistic well-being in this world. Read More

Book Talks / Core Practices / News, Essays, & Articles

Empathy with Compassion and Respect

Empathy involves bringing a compassionate voice to core values, personal truths, with intuitive understandings. With these mindful considerations, we can build meaningful lives with positive intentions and interactions. Read More

Book Talks / Keys to Holistic Well-Being

Book Talk: Bedtime Stories for Adults by Kirsten Wallace

Book Talk: Bedtime Stories for Adults by Kirsten Wallace — cognitive behavioural therapy, mindfulness, the vagus nerve, and deeper sleep. Read More

Book Talks / Keys to Holistic Well-Being

Right Concentration: A Practical Guide to the Jhanas by Leigh Brasington

Book Talk on Right Concentration: A Practical Guide to the Jhanas by Leigh Brasington for meditators, deep focus, and the jhānas. Read More

Art of Holistic Well-Being / Book Talks

Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem by Gloria Steinem

In Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem, Gloria Steinem sets out to restore the self-authority that such injustice has undermined. Read More

Book Talks / Keys to Holistic Well-Being

Book Talk: Understanding & Practicing Buddhism to Become Stress and Anxiety Free by Michael Williams

Book Talk: Understanding & Practicing Buddhism to Become Stress and Anxiety Free by Michael Williams Read More

Book Talks / Keys to Holistic Well-Being

The Mind Illuminated by John Yates

Without a doubt, John Yates’s book, “The Mind Illuminated“, is an essential modern road map… Read More

Art of Holistic Well-Being / Book Talks

Radical Acceptance by Tara Brach

Radical Acceptance by Tara Brach is an illuminating book looking at overcoming constricted and unfulfilled lives. Read More

Fiction & Poetry / Matrix of Holistic Well-Being

With Grace, into the Epilogue

Though this nascent rise, we traverse though narratives of enlightenments that become the songs of seasons tuning soul-wisdom. Read More

Book Talks / Keys to Holistic Well-Being

Women Philosophers of the Early Modern Period by Margaret Atherton

In Women Philosophers of the Early Modern Period, Margaret Atherton selects seven of these notable philosophers… Read More

Art of Holistic Well-Being / Book Talks

Being and Nothingness by Jean Paul Sartre

Being and Nothingness by Jean Paul Sartre contemplates consciousness, subjective observation and meaningful existence. Read More

Book Talks / Keys to Holistic Well-Being

The Dhammapada: The Sayings of the Buddha by Thomas Byrom

The Art Matrix Magazine book talk: The Sayings of the Buddha, shared in this book by Thomas Byrom, understandable, simple, and lyrical. Read More

Art of Holistic Well-Being / Book Talks

Ethics of Ambiguity by Simone de Beauvoir

Ethics of Ambiguity by Simone de Beauvoir is a classic introduction to existentialist thought. In the book, de Beauvoir outlines a series of “ways of being” Read More

Art of Holistic Well-Being / Book Talks

The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls

The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls, is a remarkable memoir of resilience and redemption, and a revelatory… Read More

Art of Holistic Well-Being / Book Talks

Reveries of the Solitary Walker by Jean-Jacque Rousseau

Reveries of the Solitary Walker by Jean-Jacque Rousseau Read More

Book Talks / Keys to Holistic Well-Being

Frankenstein: The Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley

Frankenstein written by Mary Shelley tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist who creates a hideous sapient creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment. Read More

Health & Lifestyle / Keys to Holistic Well-Being / News, Essays, & Articles

Loving-Kindness at the Heart of Mental Well-Being

Loving-kindness at the heart of mental well-being starts with your inner child. Entwined in the matrix with the heart is the mind and the soul of holistic well-being. Read More

Art of Holistic Well-Being / Book Talks

The Art of Holistic Well-Being Book Reviews

A.R.T. = Acceptance + Reflection + Transformation The Art Matrix Magazine The Art of Living… Read More

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Community and Culture Book Reviews

The Art Matrix Magazine Community and Culture Book Reviews features books under the umbrella theme… Read More

Book Talks / Core Practices

Core Practices Book Reviews

The Art Matrix Magazine Core Practices Book Reviews features books under the umbrella theme of holistic well-being. Read More

Book Talks / Community & Culture / Matrix of Holistic Well-Being

The Matrix Book Reviews

The Art Matrix Magazine Matrix Book Reviews features books under the umbrella theme of holistic well-being. Please stay tuned as Book Reviews and extended Book Talk Posts are added on a daily basis:) Read More

About-the Art Matrix Magazine / Book Talks

Journeys Book Reviews

The Art Matrix Magazine Journey Book List features books under the umbrella theme of holistic well-being. Read More

Book Talks / Keys to Holistic Well-Being

The Keys Book Reviews

The Art Matrix Magazine Keys Book Reviews features books under the umbrella theme of holistic well-being. Please stay tuned as Book Reviews and extended Book Talk Posts are added on a daily basis:) Read More

Art of Holistic Well-Being / Book Talks

The Art of Living Book Talk

The Art of Living Book Talk–by Thich Nhat Hanh, is an essential, practical addition to your holistic well-being library. Read More

Core Practices / Fiction & Poetry

As the Crows Fly

“Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.”
― Plato Read More

Fiction & Poetry

Six Degrees of Acceptance

Where earth meets sky, is the vision, best held in accepting the six degrees as the heart rises connected by being soulfully alive. Read More

About-the Art Matrix Magazine / Matrix of Holistic Well-Being / News, Essays, & Articles

The Matrix of Holistic Well-Being

The matrix is your holistic identity. The art is the creation of the matrix. So you are the artwork and the artist as well. Read More

About-the Art Matrix Magazine / Keys to Holistic Well-Being / News, Essays, & Articles

The Keys to Holistic Health

The 7 keys support the empowerment of holistic well-being. This depends greatly on positive, intentional attitudes and a growth mindset. Read More

Core Practices / News, Essays, & Articles

Trail Angels

What is life but a thru-hike and section hikes and with gratitude, we also meet the trail angels who quietly nourish body, mind, heart, soul, and spirit. Read More

Matrix of Holistic Well-Being / News, Essays, & Articles

Your Identity as an Art Matrix

Opening the door to a magazine called The Art Matrix Magazine, opens reflections on what the ‘Art Matrix’ means. Read More

Book Talks / News, Essays, & Articles

Possibilities and Hope

We need possibilities which give us creative opportunities to build hope–growth mindset with more possibilities and hope. Read More

Fiction & Poetry

Wither, Orpheus

Wither Orpheus, your underworld game for such virtues reframe — art matrix poetry, stories and more creating holistic well-being. Read More

Fiction & Poetry / Health & Lifestyle / News, Essays, & Articles

In Gratitude & Paying-it-Forward

In Gratitude & Paying-it-Forward with empathetic mindsets, we share quiet ‘gifts’ along the way, to enrich each other on our shared journeys. Read More

Fiction & Poetry

Echo of the Pilgrimage

A pilgrimage is a journey, in search of new or expanded meaning about their self, others, nature, or a higher good, through the experience. Read More

Book Talks / Core Practices

“Winds of Silak” by Bonnie Rose

The Art Matrix Magazine Book Talks reviews “Winds of Silak” by Bonnie Rose Read More

Fiction & Poetry

My Stream of Consciousness

My Stream of Consciousness, a poem of a sapphire and tangerine rising, the tune a sad trombone laments assailing the heart… Read More

Art of Holistic Well-Being / Fiction & Poetry

Cerulean Waters

In this poem, Leah mends hope for the outliers, above the cerulean waters, together, across the calm September blue. Read More

Book Talks

Karen von Kunes and “Milan Kundera’s Fiction”

Karen von Kunes and “Milan Kundera’s Fiction: A Critical Approach to Existential Betrayals” fit together like two peas in a pod. Read More

Fiction & Poetry

The Theatre

I heard distant news in my travels
tales of a satire called Seasons played at the Maytime theatre Read More

Book Talks

“On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are” Puts No-Self Against Identity

This book talk on the book, On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are, talks about Watt’s theory of Buddhist ‘no-self’ concept vs identity. Read More

Book Talks

“American Dirt” by Jeanine Cummins

The Art Matrix Magazine Book Reviews: Author, Jeanine Cummins, shares a fascinating story of resilience and the will-to-survive, in American Dirt. Read More

Fiction & Poetry / Keys to Holistic Well-Being

Out of the Abyss

Moving out of the abyss, accepting the existence of the Leviathan ~ a force which still haunts, pushes states of disquiet determined to disrupt the equanimity of the psyche. Read More

About-the Art Matrix Magazine / Fiction & Poetry

Philosophical Poetry

Philosophical Poetry of Kahlil Gibran: On Giving, On Freedom, On Reason and Passion Read More

Book Talks

“On the Road” by Jack Kerouac

The Art Matrix Magazine Book Talks reviews “On the Road” by Jack Kerouac Read More

Fiction & Poetry

The One-Line Poetry Collection

In the art of being authentic, writing the one-line poetry collection reflects on ART-Accepting + Reflecting + Transforming, with integrity. Read More

News, Essays, & Articles

On Authenticity

The philosophy of being authentic ~ the essence & expression of your intrinsic, rational yet intuitive wisdom rooting being-in-the-world, with integrity. Read More

Fiction & Poetry

The Awakening Heart

The awakening heart, animating principles. of compassionate being, poetry of empowerment and mental health. Read More

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