Let look at this practically, take a moment to evaluate the facts. Seven out of ten Americans suffer from stress related illness – anxiety, depression, insomnia, high blood pressure, heart disease, coronary disease, eating and digestive disorders, eye sight problems, cancers and addictions. And most of us know the havoc stress can have on our relationships and financial well-being.

When we are feeling love, we cannot feel stress. It is impossible to feel stress at the same time as we are feeling love. Love is felt fully in the absence of stress. Love has a calming, empowering, healing effect on our mind, body, spirit, relationships and financial world. It is the healthiest of all things we can feed ourselves. Love matters.

At the end of our day, or the end of our lifetime, when we reflect upon the best things that happened to us, inevitably the best things will be those things that touched our heart, that opened us up to the beauty and grace of the feelings of love – that closeness, openness, intimacy, trust, vulnerability, passion, excitement, and connection that lights up every aspect of our life. When we look at it the bottom line really is that our life feels rich and fulfilling in direct proportion to how open we are to experiencing love.

So given that love is what makes life feel rich and fulfilling (and that science has proved that it heals our mind and body) how do we amplify, intensify and expand that experience in our lives? How can we create an environment in which the feelings of love can grow, and even thrive? What are the qualities of that environment, that support system for health and well-being? How can we create this for ourselves and our loved ones?

If freedom from stress (and its related diseases) matters to you, then love matters to you. And we must place a high priority on this experience that we know we value. How do we make it our primary life experience? What will bring it to the forefront of our minds; make it the object of our attention in a sea of things that would otherwise dominate our attention?

Since early childhood art has been a vehicle for deepening and heightening the experience of what love is and what it can be for me. And others, from royalty, to celebrities, to major corporations, to highly successful business owners, to ordinary people have made my work part of their collection, for the deepening and heightening of their own experience of the feelings, the people and the things they love most in life. For more than four decades I have been and because of this deepening, my life continues to improve and evolve exponentially.

To learn how art can accentuate your experience of love, visit your favorite artist or gallery, grace your living and working environments with artworks that really move you and inspire you, that open your heart to what you love most. Why not? When you look into your life can you think of anything that really matters more than the love that you and your love ones feel every day?

Life is full of choices. Live for what matters. Make choices that will make your life extraordinary. Live for love.