Creative Visualization has been successfully used in the fields of health education business sports & the arts for many years. Gawain explains how to use mental imagery & affirmations to produce positive changes in ones life. The book contains meditations & exercises that are aimed at helping the practitioner channel energies in positive directions strengthen self-esteem improve overall health & experience deep relaxation. This is the book that launched a movement. Creative visualization works. Oprah Winfrey ...

The secret to getting exactly what you want from life -- from the man who has! A businessman who has built up owned & sold software companies a nightclub a bed & breakfast (plus a couple of alehouses) author Robin Nixon knows that worldly success has little to do with the world. It begins with one's self--and one's deepest thoughts. When altered your thoughts have the ability to impact your behavior & immediate universe & indeed your destiny. Known as Creative Visualization " this powerfully simple tool has adherents as well known as Oprah Winfrey. In Creative Visualization For Dummies Robin Nixon gives you the practical tools for pinpointing your goals becoming more assertive & self-confident & increasing energy levels & creativity--while on a new journey of self-fulfillment.

Includes:: useful visualization techniques & exercises that help you tune into the mind/body connection Offers psychological approaches that allow you to take real steps towards success & happiness For those interested in finding a new direction or finally creating their own luck this tell-all guide--from the man who's capitalized on its secrets--will offer an inspiring game plan for a new beginning."

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This lively full-colour illustrated craft book shows how to make a range of handicrafts from fleece & yarn including toys friendship bracelets & braids balls pompoms dolls dolls' clothes & animals. With clear diagrams & step-by-step instructions the book starts by introducing children to basic methods of spinning yarn crocheting knitting & felting. There is a broad range of projects for children of all ages to complete working together with adults. ...

Have you ever struggled to complete a design project on time? Or felt that having a tight deadline stifled your capacity for maximum creativity? If so then this book is for you. Within Creative Workshop you'll find 80 creative challenges that will help you achieve a breadth of stronger design solutions in various media within any set time period. Exercises range from creating a typeface in an hour to designing a paper robot in an afternoon to designing web pages & other interactive experiences. Each exercise

Includes:: compelling visual solutions from other designers & background stories to help you increase your capacity to innovate. This book also

Includes:: useful brainstorming techniques & wisdom from some of today's top designers. By road-testing these techniques as you attempt each challenge you'll find new & more effective ways to solve tough design problems & bring your solutions to vibrant life.



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Overcome Creative Block" & Break Out of Your Norm! Every artist struggles with creativity at one time or another. Creative Workshop Watercolor & Acrylic will help you the watercolor artist explore your creativity & stretch your boundaries while still making the realistic & semi-realistic art that you love to paint. This book is chock-full of hands-on projects techniques & strategies to get you thinking beyond your self-imposed creative boundaries. Mark Mehaffey an experience friendly teacher begins with the basics of designing a strong painting with shape value & color. Once youve mastered these keys to any successful painting-regardless of style-you will have the confidence to be more creative! Mehaffey will show you practical techniques & lead you in experiments with color composition painting surfaces methods of applying paint & more. This book offers creative exercises for every skill level & comfort level as well as demonstrations painting critiques weak/strong comparisons & examples by Mehaffey & a variety of other accomplished artists. With this book in your studio youll be encouraged to have fun while creating wonderful art. In no time you will have a variety of tools for jump-starting your creativity & painting with confidence!

Includes:: bonus DVD on watercolor painting on Yupo (r)!"

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Creative Writing: A Workbook with Readings" is a complete writing course that will jump-start your writing & guide you through your first steps towards publication. Suitable for use by students tutors writers groups or writers working alone this book offers: a practical & inspiring section on the creative process showing you how to stimulate your creativity & use your memory & experience in inventive ways; an in-depth coverage of the most popular forms of writing in extended sections on fiction poetry & life writing including biography & autobiography giving you practice in all three forms so that you might discover & develop your particular strengths; a sensible up-to-date guide to going public to help you to edit your work to a professional standard & to identify & approach suitable publishers. It also offers: a distinctive collection of exciting exercises spread throughout the workbook to spark your imagination & increase your technical flexibility & control; a substantial array of illuminating readings bringing together extracts from contemporary & classic writings in order to demonstrate a range of techniques that you can use or adapt in your own work. " Creative Writing: A Workbook with Readings" presents a unique opportunity to benefit from the advice & experience of a team of published authors who have also taught successful writing courses at a wide range of institutions helping large numbers of new writers to develop their talents as well as their abilities to evaluate & polish their work to professional standards. These institutions include Lancaster University & the University of East Anglia renowned as consistent producers of published writers." ...

Do you have an idea that youre burning to get down on paper? Do you want to document your travels to far-flung places or write a few stanzas of poetry? Whether you dream of being a novelist a travel writer a poet a playwright or a columnist Creative Writing For Dummies shows you how to unlock your creativity & choose the genre of writing that suits you best. Walking you through characterisation setting dialogue & plot as well as giving expert insights into both fiction & non-fiction its the ideal launching pad to the world of creative writing. Creative Writing For Dummies covers: Part I: Getting started * Chapter 1: Can Everyone Write?* Chapter 2: Getting into the Write Mind* Chapter 3: Finding the Material to work with Part II: The Elements of Creative Writing * Chapter 4: Creating Characters* Chapter 5: Discovering Dialogue* Chapter 6: Who is telling the story?* Chapter 7: Creating your own world* Chapter 8: Plotting your way* Chapter 9: Creating a Structure* Chapter 10: Rewriting & editing Part III: Different Kinds of Fiction Writing* Chapter 11: Short stories* Chapter 12: Novels* Chapter 13: Writing for children* Chapter 14: Plays* Chapter 15: Screenplays* Chapter 16: Poetry Part IV: Different kinds of Non-fiction writing * Chapter 17: Breaking into journalism
- Writing articles/ magazine writing* Chapter 18: Writing from life & autobiography* Chapter 19: Embroidering the facts: Narrative non-fiction* Chapter 20: Exploring the world from your armchair
- Travel writing* Chapter 21: Blogging
- the new big thing Part V: Finding an audience * Chapter 22: Finding editors/ publishers/ agents * Chapter 23: Becoming a professional Part VI: Part of Tens * Chapter 24: Ten top tips for writers * Chapter 25: Ten ways to get noticed


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An inspiring range of approaches to enrich your writing skills. Packed with stimulating writing exercises numerous"es & over 30 extracts from literature across a wide variety of genres the book can be followed as a complete course or dipped into throughout. Accessibly written by three published writers & experienced teachers from leading creative writing institutions this is a rich sourcebook of techniques containing: challenging writing exercises to expand the writers technique & voiceinnovative ways of developing fiction & poetry stylesin-depth introductions to stage radio & film writinginsights into the way different genres interact & how to adapt stories for performanceadvice on layout & professional presentation of work What is beguiling about the writing is the style
- these are not academic propositions: they are translations from experience & practice" David Morley Professor in Creative Writing Warwick University"
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Creativity Kits are great for parties rainy day fun take along activities or anytime… just for the fun of it! This kit makes 1 easy-to-assemble wooden model pirate ship.

Contents: Wooden pirate ship model. Acrylic paint paintbrush black string 2 paper sails sand paper craft glue instructions & ideas.

Average Creativity Time: 25min + dry time.



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Creativity: Theory History Practice offers important new perspectives on creativity in the light of contemporary critical theory & cultural history. Innovative in approach as well as argument the book crosses disciplinary boundaries & builds new bridges between the critical & the creative. It is organised in four parts: * Why creativity now? offers much-needed alternatives to both the Romantic stereotype of the creator as individual genius & the tendency of the modern creative industries to treat everything as a commodity. * Defining creativity creating definitions traces the changing meaning of create from religious ideas of divine creation from nothing to advertising notions of concept creation. It also examines the complex history & extraordinary versatility of terms such as imagination invention inspiration & originality. * Creation as myth story metaphor begins with modern re-tellings of early African American & Australian creation myths &
- picking up Biblical & evolutionary accounts along the way
- works round to scientific visions of the Big Bang bubble universes & cosmic soup. * Creative practices cultural processes is a critical anthology of materials chosen to promote fresh thinking about everything from changing constructions of literature & design to artificial intelligence & genetic engineering. Rob Pope takes significant steps forward in the process of rethinking a vexed yet vital concept all the while encouraging & equipping readers to continue the process in their own creative or re-creative ways. Creativity: Theory History Practice is invaluable for anyone with a live interest in exploring what creativity has been is currently & yet may be.

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