Mindful Creativity: Easy Tips and Meditations to Unleash Your Creativity and Purpose
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Simple and effective tips, ideas, and meditations designed to move you past your excuses, put you in touch with your creative energy, and help you understand your life purpose.
What you will find in this book:
Part I. What’s stopping you?
How to understand and deal with the real issues and fears surrounding creativity
Part 2. Unleash your Creativity
Slow down and take a journey to the core of your creative being with these tips and meditations
Part 3: Explore Your Life Purpose
Tips to jumpstart the rest of your life
Life and creativity are a choice filled with the power of small moments.
This ancient Zen story speaks to the power of small moments:
There were two old masters sitting side by side. One of them reached for a needle and began to mend some clothes.
“What are you doing?” Dongshan asked.
“I’m mending clothes.”
“How do you do that?“
“One stitch is like the next,” said Shenshan.
“What, after twenty years of practice – that’s all you can say?” said Dongshan
Shenshan put down his needle and turned to his companion. “Well then tell me. How do you sew?”
“As though the entire earth were spewing flames,” said Dongshan.
Your life can be filled with moments where each one is like the next where you make the same choices you’ve made before, or you can choose to live a vibrant life full of flames and color and creative living.
Use the tips and meditations in this book to develop mindful creativity so you can live your life as if the entire earth were spewing flames.
Karen Daniels
Karen Daniels is unconventional in her life and writing. She had her first child at age 46, and at 52 went back to school for her M.A. in Educational Psychology (while wrangling 3 under age-4 kids.) Her friends consider her renegade, spiritual, and a bit odd. A copywriter, creativity and content specialist, her versatile writing skills have led to publication in everything from online to offline, social media, blogs, curriculum, scientific journals, poetry, fiction and nonfiction books. Her published books cover a broad range of subjects from Creativity, to In-vitro Fertilization, including titles such as Your Creativity: From Ordinary to Extraordinary and In-vitro Fertilization: The Ultimate Reality Game. Fiction titles include The Zaddack Tales trilogy; Dancing Suns, Mentor's Lair, and Mindspark - adventures in spiritual scifi - and The Baby About to Be Born, a story for families created through IVF/adoption. See more at karendaniels.com
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Mindful Creativity - Karen Daniels
Mindful Creativity by Karen Daniels
by the author of Your Creativity: From Ordinary to Extraordinary
What readers are saying about Your Creativity: From Ordinary to Extraordinary -
5 out of 5 stars! Excellent resource for parents/teachers from E. Littrell (SF Bay Area). As a parent of two gifted boys, and a 27-year veteran of gifted education, this book was refreshing and an easy-to-read reminder of some of the strategies for supporting and nurturing creativity. Written from a parent perspective from a professional in the field (Masters' Degree in Gifted Education), this book starts as a quick read
for immediate ideas, then compels us to come back for review and reflection.
5.0 out of 5 stars! Well done! from Daniel E. Nelson. Great, easy to understand and instantly useful. Good examples; I'll use it in my classroom…Highly Recommended.
Mindful Creativity
Easy Tips and Meditations to
Unleash Your Creativity and Purpose
Karen Daniels
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CONTENTS
Introduction
Part 1. What’s Stopping You?
Is Creativity Really Worth It?
What’s Blocking Your Creativity?
Activities to Develop Creative Consciousness
Dump Your Excuses and Get Honest
5 Strategies to Get You Out of Excuse Mode
Part 2. Unleash Your Creativity
Slow Down
Tips to help you Focus
A Quick Note on Meditation
Your Meditation Space
About the 3 Meditations
How to Use these Meditations
Meditation 1. In the Beginning
Meditation 2. Communication with Self
Meditation 3. Healing your Creative Space
Part 3: Explore Your Life Purpose
Where do You Want to Go?
Defining Your Life Vision
Your Personal Values – Words to Live By
A Note on Time
Pulling it all Together
Final Remarks
About the Author
Resources used as inspiration for this book
Introduction
Have you ever wondered what brings on creative enlightenment? Perhaps the result of one major life event that blows your mind, makes you sit up and say WOW!
?
That would be great, though probably