Mindfulness Paintings: A Book of Creative Meditation Exercises, Artwork, and Art Activities


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Paint, Think, Notice and Be Mindful...Mindfulness Paintings is a book full of creative meditation exercises, artwork, and art activities that will help you embrace the present moment. You will find suggestions for noticing and accepting your thoughts and feelings through creative techniques. Mindfulness Paintings will help you become more aware of how your body and mind are connected as you try some calming art experiences. An artist's voice will lead you to notice and observe your own thoughts without judgement or distraction. You will develop more compassion for yourself and others as you quiet your mind and make something new.With each line, stroke, color, and shape you make, you just might pay attention to things you have not noticed before. You will have the opportunity to feel new joy and peace as you hear the voice of your artist at work, as you play with art making tools, and as you try some simple mindfulness art techniques and exercises. Pick up your paintbrush and allow your journey into the present moment begin!




Stop Look Breathe Create


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“/i>h3 is a simple four-step process for exploring mindfulness through creativity, and in turn, developing creativity through mindful practice. The book engages the reader with ten everyday subjects, from 'The Ground Beneath Our Feet' to 'Returning Home' and for each of these there are three projects: one drawn, one photographic, one written. All are based on the effective mindfulness techniques that Wendy Ann has developed in her successful workshops and courses, and the book is filled with simple techniques and ideas to help the reader enjoy their artistic endeavours while being in the moment. A timely introduction to the benefits of mindfulness through creativity, Stop Look Breathe Create offers an oasis of calm in a frantic world.




Creative Calm


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Creative Calm is a book for those seeking soul enrichment and a more calming gentle life through a creative practice. Written and illustrated by qualified art therapist Sandy Cousens, this holistic guide explores the various ways we can connect with our more creative selves and find peace and fulfilment in doing so. Touching on all areas of life, this guide is for all those who feel they lack purpose, and would like to nurture their more creative selves. The book features step-by-step guides to practical projects designed to draw out the innate creativity of the reader, and allow them to connect with their purest selves through mindfulness, meditations, mantras and journaling exercises. The book is designed to be accessible and socially conscious, asking the question - are we creating or consuming? - and looking at what that means in the context of introducing a spiritual and artistic practice. The seven chapters all speak to the chakras, and the book takes the reader on a journey through the self as they explore the various ways they can generate feelings of self-love through art and self-care.




Creating Uncertainty


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Untangling the Relationship Between Creativity and Mindfulness


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Creativity is emerging as a desired outcome of education in Canada as it becomes clear that it is one of the essential skills needed to survive in our economic future. Mindfulness is emerging as a new way to help students cope with the pressures of school specifically as student mental health issues are on the rise. Mindfulness has also been shown to help students of all abilities engage in more meaningful and effective learning in a time when our schools are fully inclusive. In this arts-based auto-ethnographic study, I inquire into the links between creativity and mindfulness as I have experienced them throughout my personal/ professional life and through my own art making. The findings reveal that my creative practice is embedded with two types of mindful meditation: open monitoring meditation and focused meditation. The results of this study have implications for my personal creative practice as an artist, my practice as an arts educator (both in how I approach the curriculum and my pedagogy), which ultimately affects my students. I believe that further enquiry into this relationship is important. It not only adds to the growing body of research on both of these emerging topics, but also, and perhaps more importantly, benefits our children as this research will contribute to our knowledge of valuable curriculum in our public schools as they seek to meet the changes and challenges of our developing society.




Creativity


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The legendary comedian, actor, and writer of Monty Python, Fawlty Towers, and A Fish Called Wanda fame shares his key ideas about creativity: that it’s a learnable, improvable skill. “Many people have written about creativity, but although they were very, very clever, they weren't actually creative. I like to think I'm writing about it from the inside.”—John Cleese You might think that creativity is some mysterious, rare gift—one that only a few possess. But you’d be wrong. As John Cleese shows in this short, practical, and often amusing guide, creativity is a skill that anyone can acquire. Drawing on his lifelong experience as a writer, Cleese shares his insights into the nature of creativity and offers advice on how to get your own inventive juices flowing. What do you need to do to get yourself in the right frame of mind? When do you know that you’ve come up with an idea that might be worth pursuing? What should you do if you think you’ve hit a brick wall? We can all be more creative. John Cleese shows us how.




Mindfulness Creativo


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¿Alguna vez te has preguntado qué le sucedió a tu creatividad durante el transcurso de tu vida? Muchas veces creemos que no somos creativos porque pensamos que no somos artistas, o sentimos que nuestra creatividad se encuentra bloqueada porque nos cuesta pensar fuera de la caja para encontrar soluciones diferentes e ideas originales. En las páginas de este libro, Iliana Bohème, nos invita a cuestionarnos cuáles son algunos de los mitos que hemos formado como sociedad en torno a la creatividad con el propósito de transformar esas falsas creencias y comenzar a explorar cómo funciona nuestro propio proceso creativo a través de la puesta en práctica del arte de la atención plena, para que todos, sin importar nuestra edad, podamos sentir y desarrollar nuestro potencial todos los días, en las áreas más importantes de nuestra vida. En Mindfulness Creativo: una guía para explorar tu creatividad y descubrir tu flow aprenderás a: Explorar la creatividad desde una perspectiva holística para desarrollar una nueva mentalidad creativa. Descubrir cómo funciona tu proceso creativo a nivel consciente e inconsciente. Cómo entrar en la zona para desarrollar tus estados de Flow. Desarrollar tu expresión creativa aunque creas que no eres artista. Practicar Mindfulness Creativo a través de una serie de ejercicios y rituales de meditación activa, divertidos y fáciles de hacer para conectar con tu esencia y liberar tu creatividad. Vivir una vida creativa donde todos los días seas capaz de fluir y de sentirte motivado e inspirado a explorar, soñar, imaginar, crear, colaborar e innovar a través de tus acciones diarias.




Art Therapy: Mandalas


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With beautifully designed mandala patterns for you to add colour to, this gorgeous coloring book provides not only a wonderfully creative outlet, but also a way of focusing attention away from external stress, thereby encouraging a sense of relaxation and increased wellbeing. Used for centuries across different cultures and religions, a ‘mandala’ is a spiritual symbol used in Buddhist and Hindu traditions to represent the universe, and is often used as an aid to meditation. Mandalas can therefore be spiritually healing and help to create a peaceful state of mind. Although sometimes basic in design, they are often extremely intricate. Traditionally, the mandala consists of an outer circle, sometimes shown on fire to represent the universe and the dangers it holds, and an inner ‘palace’, housing deities and the enlightened. With 100 patterns based on Tibetan and Hindu traditions, as well as some original designs, this beautiful art book will enable you to relax and rediscover the pleasures of being creative.




Creative Movement and Dance


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This book presents Creative Movement as a discipline whose aim is to rediscover how to profoundly listen to our bodies and to develop, through the means of improvisation, the body's expressive and creative potential. The first two parts of the book analyse the theoretical and practical fundamentals of the method as well as the most important didactic applications. The third part explains the use of the method and concerns the training of dancers and teachers. Since 2001, Creative Movement has become a basic discipline in the degree program of the National Academy of Dance in Rome.




The Art of Mindfulness


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You'll love colouring in these beautiful, uplifting patterns!Take some time to relax and focus on the here and now as you fill these exquisite patterns with glorious colour. Mindfulness is supported by research that proves it can help to reduce stress and increase a sense of well-being.There are no rules or answers here, just a beautiful selection of designs for you to get creative with and make your own.