Use your imagination to create your desired life

Today's blog post "A New Renaissance" at Patheos explores Marcilio Ficino's practical remedies for emotional problems.

"Today we tend to face our emotional problems by trying to figure them out and then changing our way of life.  Ficino put more trust in the simple things around us and our relationship with the concrete world. He showed how to use the imagination to see metaphors and poetry everywhere and use those metaphors to address our moods and feelings. The painters who studied with him didn’t just express themselves or try to capture realistic portraits and landscapes. They made amulets of their work, so that art works were sources of healing. Art as medicine."