Creativity Psychology

Sometimes in the complexity and confusion of life we forget about the basics. The Artist's Suitcase will help you re-orient your creative spirit and remind you of the essentials for your journey as an artist.

Overcome Social Anxiety and Shyness is an effective, practical, science-based, self-help workbook with a clear step-by-step action plan to overcome social anxiety and shyness, and eliminate panic attacks - based on the successful anxiety workshops of Dr. Matt Lewis. He will take you through a step-by-step program using simple but powerful exercises that will take just a few minutes each day, allowing you to start overcoming social anxiety and shyness, and be back in control and able to enjoy life.

Inspired by a podcast conversation between Gérome Barry and Heather Sanderson, this short book explores the core of human creativity. What inspires us to create and why? How do ideas manifest into everyday reality? Independent filmmaker, actor, director, producer, screenwriter and artist Gérome Barry shares his personal journey of creating his first feature film, Swing Rendez-vous, including how the idea was born and what it led him to do next… Gérome talks about his creative process, vision, ways of collaborating, how he spent time in the pandemic making short films in his apartment, ...

How does autistic trauma really feel, and how can you find your way through it to a warmer, brighter place? Written by best-selling author Charlotte Amelia Poe this is a poignant and whimsical exploration of the true autistic experience. Chapter-by-chapter, Poe delicately peels back the layers of what it is to be young and autistic in the modern world, touching on trauma, grief, mortality, love and everything in between.

The Wisdom of the Guides Retreat Series presents in-depth spiritual Readings given by Dr. Ron Scolastico at the “Annual Retreat With The Guides,” held in Malibu, California. Volume Three of the series, The Magic of Creativity, contains transcripts of the ten Readings that were given at the 15th Retreat in November,1999. The Guides’ teachings in the Retreat Series were given for sincere seekers of truth in the sacred atmosphere of a spiritual retreat setting. As you work with their teachings, you will find yourself quickly enveloped in a sense of holiness and timelessness that their ...

Superstimuli: behaviours, objects and social cues that are exaggerated versions of things we have evolved to want and need. In Super Stimulated, international bestselling author and scientist Nicklas Brendborg shows how our biological response to these superstimuli is being manipulated by powerful companies in ways that damage our health and ultimately shorten our lifespans. With startling statistics and fascinating examples from the animal world, he unveils how we can resist this hijacking of our natural instincts and take control of our bad habits to live longer, healthier lives.

Do you want to have more fruitful and harmonious relationships? Using this easy-to-follow book with simple ways of analyzing and categorizing personalities you can! This book is a good guide for anyone wishing to learn about human behavior in all is diverse glory.

Drastically increase your reading speed and comprehension by accelerated learning, and learn how to read faster in this comprehensive audio guide with well-proven and well-documented speed reading strategies.

The unprecedented access to other humans that technology provides has ironically freed us from engaging with them. According to social psychologist Adam Waytz, our increasingly human-free lives come with a serious cost that we’ve already begun to pay: the loss of our humanity. Humans have superpowers. More than any other psychological stimulus, our presence can make experiences feel significant, inspire moral behavior, and encourage action. The Power of Human shows us how to rehumanize and harness these unique abilities to improve our lives, beginning with our jobs.

A rare handful of leaders, artists, scientists, and entrepreneurs seem to have Teflon in their heads. They think and act with genuine independence, offering up ideas and insights direct from the subtle workings of their own minds. No matter how far that might take them from their social or political group. We sometimes call these people geniuses, as if they're another breed. But genius doesn't have to belong to just a few people—it can be cultivated.

In a world engineered for the verbal thinker, those of us with a visual brain can often be overlooked and underestimated. In this landmark book, international bestselling author and activist Temple Grandin transforms our understanding of how our brains are wired differently. Bringing together cutting-edge research and her own experience as a visual thinker, Grandin reveals a ground-breaking new approach to revolutionizing modern structures such as education, health and media so that they equally serve people with all kinds of minds.

This audiobook is for anyone who is serious about landing their next job. This book will teach you how to prepare yourself and how to subtly manipulate your interviewers to make you the candidate of choice - in many cases, deeply on the subconscious level - by applying techniques of neurolinguistic programming (NLP). The purpose of this book is to place those techniques into your hands and make them an instrument for achieving success.

As we age, memories can fade, affecting not only recall but also connections with loved ones. Engaging in brain-stimulating activities like reading can slow cognitive decline, as noted by the American Academy of Neurology. This book offers an enjoyable way to exercise your memory and bring details back into focus. With short stories set in familiar outdoor settings, you’ll be transported into the great outdoors from the first chapter.

Most people who have high anxiety levels find themselves worrying over little details that most people would find insignificant or small. In this book, I’ll break everything down and explain why anxiety occurs. I’ll also provide proven solutions to end this horrible feeling.

Success, happiness, and how to lead a harmonious and meaningful life are questions everyone grapples with, especially in an increasingly complex world where stress and high expectations from society make many feel unwell. The Mindchange model helps you take control of your own emotions, enabling you to focus your mental and emotional resources on goals that create meaning for you. The brain is plastic, and we are gaining better tools to train our thinking. Mindchange is a model for redirecting your thinking in a more positive direction.

Overcoming procrastination, how to achieve absolutely anything by creating the perfect plan, the dark side of visualization and employing doublethink. Most people would like to be more motivated. For years, gurus and ‘life coaches’ have urged people to improve their lives by changing the way they think and behave, but scientific research has revealed that many of their techniques, from visualization to self-affirmation, are ineffective.

"Imagination als heilsame Kraft" von Luise Reddemann ist das Basisbuch zur psychotraumatologischen Behandlung und ein Muss für alle, die sich mit Traumatherapie beschäftigen. Die Autorin, eine Pionierin auf diesem Gebiet, präsentiert wirkungsvolle Imaginationsübungen, die Selbstheilungskräfte aktivieren und Traumapatienten auf dem Weg zur Stabilität begleiten. Durch die bewährte Kombination aus Stabilisierung, Traumakonfrontation und Integration bietet dieses Buch einen ganzheitlichen Ansatz zur Bewältigung traumatischer Erfahrungen.

If you've ever experienced the blissful feeling of being fully immersed in a project, of ideas come to you naturally, or of getting lost in thought when cooking, playing music, or dancing, then you've accessed the flow state. Sometimes we stumble into it by accident, but what if you could access and unlock the healing properties of the flow state whenever you need it? Dr. Julia F. Christensen shows us how we can use the arts to alter our emotional state, tap into our ability to focus, release our creativity and improve our overall wellbeing.

Can your thoughts move a mountain? The short answer is “Yes!” and here’s how...The power of the human mind is immense if you know how to harness it. Do you believe in the myth that we only use 10 percent of our brains? It’s time to put that misconception to rest. As humans, we have evolved to use nearly 100 percent of the brain’s power. The one thing standing in the way of better thinking and a more powerful ideation process is time. Once you slow down to think, however, you’ll discover that you’re capable of amazing ideas and creative problem-solving.

Neuroscience is revolutionizing our understanding of human psychology and behavior. By showing how to apply this new understanding to how you recruit, manage, and develop your people, Brann is enabling you to deliver a step change in organizational performance and individual achievement.