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Blending Eastern principles of breath awareness and mindfulness with Western principles of positive psychology, these powerful but easy to learn meditative incantations offer an antidote to stress, procrastination, and anxiety.

In Helping Parents of Diagnosed, Distressed, and Different Children, Eric Maisel provides clinicians with the tools they need to address the issues facing the parents of diagnosed children. In these pages, mental health professionals will find tips for using the right language to guide families through situations such as sibling bullying and parental divorce, as well as guidelines for thinking critically about children's mental health. Filled with hands-on resources including checklists and questionnaires, this valuable guide offers clinicians a set of strategies to help parents deal effectively with their child's distress, regardless of the source.

Focusing on the essential components of a nonfiction book proposal, this guide offers detailed insights into crafting effective outlines, chapter summaries, and marketing strategies. It includes practical exercises and checklists to assist writers in developing their proposals and tracking progress. With a blend of expert advice and supportive instruction, the book aims to help authors transform their ideas into compelling proposals that attract the attention of agents and editors.

Creativity Coaching Essentials shows people how to become more effective creators by guiding them through 12 self-coaching lessons. Eric Maisel, a leading creativity coach, writes each lesson with a novelist's flair, as a narrative complete with examples, exercises, and questions to help readers explore and reflect on underlying issues that may be keeping them from pursuing their urge to create. Topics include committing, planning and doing, generating mental energy, achieving a centered presence, becoming an anxiety expert, upholding your dream, and maintaining a creative life. Maisel has worked extensively with creative people — poets, filmmakers, novelists, dancers — and he revisits some of them in coaching sessions in San Francisco, Paris, London, and New York. Typical are the rock musician who wants to pursue a solo career and the screenwriter anxious to become a poet. Their examples both entertain and instruct, outlining how to discover one's personal muse — and the motivation to keep creating.

Creative people will experience depression--that's a given. It's a given because they are regularly confronted by doubts about the meaningfulness of their efforts. Theirs is a kind of depression that does not respond to pharmaceutical treatment. What's required is healing in the realm of meaning. In this groundbreaking book, Eric Maisel teaches creative people how to handle these recurrent crises of meaning and how to successfully manage the anxieties of the creative process. Using examples both from the lives of famous creators such as van Gogh and from his own creativity coaching practice, Maisel explains that despite their inevitable difficulties, creative people possess the ability to forge relationships, repair themselves, and find meaning in their work and their lives. Maisel presents a step-by-step plan to help creative people handle their special brand of depression and rediscover the reasons they are driven to create in the first place.

“Maisel intimately understands the anxieties of the creative process and the psychological landscape that artists inhabit. Strong on the psychology, he is equally strong on practicalities.” —  The Writer MagazineAre you a painter, writer, actor, dancer, musician, or would-be creative? Are you stuck in the process of creating and sharing your art?In Unleashing the Artist Within , Eric Maisel, PhD offers lessons, anecdotes, and real-life case studies that will help you unlock your creative powers. Dr. Maisel focuses on the reality of artistic development, explaining that unfinished and disappointing works are not a matter of personal weakness or unfortunate circumstances; they are simply daily occurrences in the lives of imaginative people. His twelve lessons demonstrate how to recover from dashed hopes and restore lost meaning. Helpful exercises show how to work through the process, managing the daily grind and pushing past everyday resistance.

Whatever you do, says Dr. Eric Maisel, creativity helps you do it better. Creativity encourages the artist to paint more frequently and authentically. It allows a busy executive to see her options more quickly, make changes more fluidly, and become more self-directing and confident.In this book, America's foremost expert on the psychological side of the creative process presents a complete one-year plan for increasing and unleashing your creativity. It includes two disucssions/exercises per week, and culminates in a guided project of your choice—from working on a current novel or symphony to planning a new home business or becoming a more effective supervisor.

This book offers meditations and guidance specifically tailored for creative and performing artists, aiming to nurture the creative spirit within everyone. It serves as a source of self-help and inspiration, encouraging readers to explore their artistic potential and overcome creative blocks. Through thoughtful reflections, it seeks to empower individuals on their artistic journeys.

Delving into the current mental health crisis, this book examines the prevalence of unwarranted diagnoses affecting millions globally. It critiques the existing mental health framework and explores the implications of misdiagnosis, advocating for a more nuanced understanding of mental well-being. Through insightful analysis, it challenges conventional practices and encourages a reevaluation of how mental health is approached, aiming to foster a more compassionate and accurate system for those in need.

Using cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) methods, Eric Maisel, PD, guide you through sixty days of simple visualizations; at the end of those two months you will have redecorated your mind and changed not only what you think but how you think. Each visualization addresses a different challenge and together they form a complete program for cognitive growth, healing, and change.