Where we focus our attention, this is where energy goes. So we basically 'feed' the beast while looking at it.

I love this channel. You turned around my hard day Mandy…..thank you. And this isn’t the first time so I want to tell you how much I appreciate your art work. I am a retired nurse and I have to say, your art can help so many people! I’m sure it has, no doubt. Also, you have a way of making me see that the smallest kindness can do so much good, even taking time to talk to others around us, to really connect. To stay free of negativity in all we say.

@MandyvanGoeije

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Aw, what a lovely comment. Thank you so much! And yes, it's those little things that make the difference and are actualy a big thing. The world around us blows things up to unmanageable and sometimes unhuman proportions whereas keeping it small is what really matters. Like you say, to really connect...

@elsagrace3893

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“Negativity” points to to things that are important to understand. Feelings that we consider “negative” (not pleasant) point to unmet needs. Feelings we consider “positive” point to met needs. Occasionally a need is imagined due to gluttony. It’s very important to closely examine your feelings and needs.

Amen and amen sister! Thank you for this video. I found I would watch a ‘news’ video about something dooming about to happen, only to find that the video was several years old and had yet to happen. I love hearing about your liberation - and you have encouraged me to do the same.

@MandyvanGoeije

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Yay! Good luck! It's not easy to break the habit and you might go on and off it...but just to be aware is already really great!

I’ve stopped watching the news a long time ago. I usually know about what’s going on around the world one or two days after the the event. The world is such a normal place without news. Well, it’s easy for us to say that since we don’t live in a war zone or in famine or in drought or in a flood zone. But without the news - at least in its current form - it does become a lot easier to appreciate the gravity of such situations and maintain empathy with people in suffering. The news just demoralises me now and encourages me to disengage.

I really enjoyed this. I appreciate the sharing of thoughts, philosophy and books. Thank you, stay healthy and safe!

@MandyvanGoeije

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Thank you so much. That's lovely to hear. You too stay healthy and safe!

It was so nice to have this chat from you. The video looked great too by the way!

@MandyvanGoeije

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Aw, thank you, Alice.

Dear Mandy, just want to let you know that the sound and focus are just fine. Thank you for the nice and thought provoking vlog!

@MandyvanGoeije

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Thanks so much!

“We can just mind our own world a little bit” YES!if everyone would do that what a massive change for health that would be.

@MandyvanGoeije

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Definitely. Although I must admit it's quite hard, staying away from the news....

Mandy, you are just so sweet in this vlog. I am so glad I’m not the only who thinks like that. Listening to you makes the world seem more levelheaded and normal :)

@MandyvanGoeije

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Aw, that's really good to hear.

@awatercolourist

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@@MandyvanGoeije 🤗

What wonderful trees you are creating 😮.😊

@MandyvanGoeije

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Thank you so much, Elsa

thank you for sharing.. ; )

@MandyvanGoeije

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You're welcome. I'm glad to do it.

Thank you for this conversation. It’s been really great for me,my para social friend 😄

@MandyvanGoeije

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You're welcome, Elsa

I’m so happy to hear that you left Facebook. I don’t see how social media helps an artist. I also do not look on Instagram so as not to contaminate my work. I have no desire to copy. Any time spent on copying is time I wouldn’t spend on traveling my art journey.

@MandyvanGoeije

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Yes. That is absolutely true. I feel that a great many people with potential to become really good artists get stuck in "letting themselves be inspired by Insta and Pinterest".

Mandy if you need to entertain yourself watch technique videos of master watercolorist. Nothing to copy but they explain how they use the properties of watercolor, sketching, composition, color theory. I love it. It’s education that I can experiment with and use as I like in my own way.

@MandyvanGoeije

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Solid advice. Thanks.

Today’s news is nothing more than entertainment: what an epiphany! 😮

Thank you for the video.

@MandyvanGoeije

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You're welcome!

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My journalism studies date back further than yours almost certainly as I am definitely older, so 1970 or so. Ethics were an emphasis, and responsible factual balanced content with a minimum of commentary unless your piece was actually about observation. I HATE contemporary journalism, it is all about consumption. Things are reported as fact when nothing could be further from the truth. The fast turnover of news is very addictive, so your mind keeps reaching for these novel non truthful factoids! Very very wearing and destructive of the creative process, where we do not need that kind of needy grasping for the next moment, but rather the ability to immerse ourselves in process and getting into that different zone. It is really shocking how far people stray from reality. Humanity seems to go through these cycles of propagandised thinking, it gets extreme then disastrous things happen and everyone has to deprogramme in order to move on. Two of my all time favourite art resources never made it into reprint, one about colour and one about form. They are collectors items now, and I wish I still had them, there is really nothing to replace them, even books are trying to sell you something or recruit you to something! It is certainly a mad, mad, mad, mad world right now, but we do not have to embrace that we can stay outside of quite a lot of it. Reading that nuclear scary stuff is just like going back to my childhood in the fifties and sixties where is was so dominant in our lives. I just refuse to go there right now, not because I am unrealistic but because I am. My time is limited anyway, and it is the only thing that is truly mine. The garden is a marvel that keeps on giving… Wonderful thoughtful video raising important thinking, the technological age swept us along so fast but it has its own obsolescence, look at the decay of images for instance because we no longer really discriminate about what we really want to save. Then we change our system or it breaks and whoosh what we had thought of as a recall able memory is just gone. So being creative in the old fashioned way, in tangible objects has just as good a chance of showing what we cared about and why has easily got a chance of surviving and getting handed down, even if it is a tiny fragment of us. Not that it is something I plan for, but a real artefact seems a lot more tangible than anything digital.

@MandyvanGoeije

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You describe so well what's been going on lately and it's hard. For your generation, that sees their values break down, for mine juggling with old, inherited values in a world to which they no longer apply and for the next who now seem to live in a world where so few human, real human "products" have any value anymore, who grow up thinking tech is all we need and who are constantly being manipulated by media and tech without being aware. It's exhausting and depressing to witness and not be able to do anything about it. And worse...I am also still caught in the habit...today's election day here in the Netherlands and I've checked the news at least a dozen times. Why? I KNOW there's nothing for me to find there. I think it's the buzz...everyone's talking about it...my family, the radio, friends in text messages and e-mail....and there I go again...back on the wagon and then your reply makes me realise that I'm once again caught in this all-consuming puppet game. To think for yourself, requires to cut yourself loose from all these media....not just once....again and again and again. So let's keep reminding eachother.

@lindyashford7744

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@@MandyvanGoeije I was for my age a somewhat early digital designer and arts worker. Just a year short of three decades, but with a history of computers going a decade further back still. As such I see a lot of the pitfalls who people have gained in speed and ease they certainly lost in reflection and process, both of which are essential creative skills. I know exactly what you mean about digital checking behaviours which I see as a kind of pathology of anxiety, a dopamine thing almost or maybe in reality, some kind of self soothing for stresses that are really difficult to define. Then again who would not have some pathology of anxiety these days, I rarely ever meet anyone genuinely chilled! But if you can reach that state of immersion in process then the nature of time changes and things are better I wish I were better at getting there, but so glad I still can. xxx