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Discover the healing power of expressive arts with this hands-on guide to using creative mindfulness to reduce stress, find presence, and unlock self-knowledge. Expressive arts educator Rachel Rose weaves together mindfulness practice and art therapy to demonstrate how tapping into your own innate creativity can help you find peace in a stressful world.

Even if you don't think of yourself as creative, you'd probably be surprised by how many creative tools you use every day. You solve problems, design, write, invent, or, in other words, create. But the pressure we feel to continually create value with our minds can cause tremendous stress and eventually neutralize our ability to be effective in our roles long term. Daily Creative is a daily book for busy professionals, creative and otherwise, designed to help you gain focus for your day and advance toward your goals.

Evelyn Rysdyk explains, from the shamanic perspective, how creativity—or creative energy—is a life-giving force that frees the imagination, supports innovation, and awakens unique ways of thinking and feeling that can transform your life. She explores how to use the shamanic technologies of spirit journeying and ceremony alongside experiential shamanic exercises to release creativity-blocking patterns, reprogram the subconscious, engage the “right brain,” boost imagination, overcome anxiety and destructive emotions, and become much more creative in daily life.

Prototyping is a way to test an idea to see if it can be successful before investing too much time and too many resources. But it's not only designers who "prototype" as they work. A skateboarder tries a new trick; that's a prototype experience. A chef experiments with a new dish and new ingredients; that's a prototype experience, too. Once a prototype is made, the creator gains knowledge about what worked and what didn't, what should be used again and what should be trimmed from the experience.

O caminho do artista reúne uma série de exercícios, reflexões e ferramentas para ajudar você a despertar sua criatividade, recuperar a autoconfiança e se livrar dos bloqueios criativos. Organizadas num programa de 12 semanas, essas técnicas vão guiá-lo por uma viagem de autodescoberta, ajudando-o a enfrentar seus medos, crenças e inseguranças – os maiores obstáculos para quem deseja expressar qualquer forma de arte. Com este método, você vai aprender a abandonar as desculpas que o impedem de transformar suas ideias em realidade.

When was the last time you did something just for the joy of it? The Creative Soul Within invites you on a 52-week journey to embrace the creative soul within you to help you grow in your relationship with God, yourself, and those around you. With each entry, you're invited to unplug, rediscover your imagination, let go of stress, learn how to play again, and take the deep and meaningful journey to develop the creative gifts the Lord has given you. For creatives of all skill levels, this is perfect for people who want to know themselves and their God more deeply.

A design process presents a series of steps, but in real life, it rarely plays out this neatly. Navigating Ambiguity underscores how the creative process isn’t formulaic. This book shows you how to surrender control by being adaptable, curious, and unbiased as well as resourceful, tenacious, and courageous.

Karen Kinney has taken insights, observations, and learning gleaned from more than fifteen years working as a professional artist and compiled them into a book to equip and encourage all who are on a creative path. Both for those firmly established in a career and those just starting out, she reminds us of the value of creative expression and provides important keys to aid in its development.

You get a brand-new journal and are so excited to start writing in it. You open it up just to be utterly intimidated by that first blank page staring back at you. Don’t worry, Journaling 2-in-1 Value Combo will help you fill all those blank pages and turn journaling into an automatic habit with just a few minutes a day that will completely transform your life!

What you see in your life is what you’ve created. It’s that simple.You have the ability to create more. You can have a happy, opulent, and successful life. This collection of lessons will help you activate your magnificent creative abilities. This book inspires a way of creating through the Divine Feminine. Mother Mary is calling you into an intimate connection with her heart and your creative power.

This book has helped land Nickelodeon series regular roles, and helped performers appear on NBC’s America’s Got Talent, Comedy Central, Showtime, comedy festivals and clubs across the country, and to being featured on SiriusXM! The techniques in this book have been used with comedians from ages 8 to 80, and can help you find your comedic voice! Throughout this book, you will uncover the unique characteristics about yourself that are funny. Further, you will build extraordinary self-confidence through this art form. You'll find not only your funny but yourself.

Use the mental tools that the world's greatest thinkers used to generate epiphanies, explore the world, and think more clearly. Philosophical and exploratory thinking pushes your boundaries and opens new worlds. Improve critical thinking by applying it in innovative and novel ways. Learn to thrive in uncertain situations and contemplate more thoroughly and deeply. Intrigue, fascinate, and challenge yourself with thought experiments - and see your thinking prowess grow exponentially.

Author and former literary agent Nathan Bransford shares his secrets for creating killer plots, fleshing out your first ideas, crafting compelling characters, and staying sane in the process. Hear the guide that New York Times best-selling author Ransom Riggs called "the best how-to-write-a-novel book I've read."

What you are going to hear in this audiobook will enlighten you so that you’re able to develop and master visualization abilities and utilize them to do the things that you want in life. Simply put, you can have or be anything you want! And you can absolutely do that by using visualization as a primary tool for your day-to-day living.

One in six women is the victim of sexual assault. Using her own hard-won wisdom, author Jen Cross shows how to heal through journaling and personal writing. Writing Ourselves Whole is a collection of essays and creative writing encouragements for sexual trauma survivors who want to risk writing a different story. Each short chapter offers encouragement, experience, and exercises.

The Power of Creativity is a three-book box set that sets out a practical path to fully-form your first idea and learn to habitually tap your inner genius for countless future ideas. Through the analysis of creative masters like Einstein, Jobs, da Vinci, and Hemingway, you'll discover what these icons did differently and how to apply their strategies to your life. Collins' innovative methodology will help you achieve a creative flow, blast through inner and external barriers, and learn how to finally conquer procrastination once and for all.

Struggling to start your novel? Stuck in the middle? Finished a first draft, but it doesn't really grab you? This short, easy-to-follow book helps you speed through your first draft, minimize major rewrites, and keep readers turning the pages. Using specific questions and prompts to expand and focus your story idea, plus examples from plots as diverse as The Terminator, The Awakening, and Gone with the Wind, best-selling author L. M. Lilly talks you through the five simple steps she's used to write every novel she's published.

True creativity flows continually throughout life, breaking free of form. In Writing from the Inside Out, author and yogi Stephen Lloyd Webber shares his practice of creative writing as a path for self-realization. This book includes many practical writing exercises and connects listeners with esoteric tantric yoga insights, oral traditions, and Zen storytelling modalities. Using the methods in this book, Stephen was able to put together over 20 book-length creative projects in a year.

Monica Leonelle digs into the best literature on forming habits and shares the top strategies professional authors are using to make sure they write each and every day. Each tip is easy to implement and will get you writing more in the "in-betweens" - the inactive moments of your life where you are commuting, waiting in line, or otherwise physically stuck with your brain unoccupied!

This is an audiobook bundle for writers that includes self-hypnosis to eliminate writer's block and creative writing prompts. Audiobook one: Eliminate Writer's Block for Good: Self-Hypnosis with Binaural Beats and Subliminal Messages. Audiobook two: Writing Prompts That Increase Your Creativity and Eliminate Writer's Block.