(Even When You Don’t Feel Creative) • • • Fuzzy yarn, a toy xylophone, or a box of glass beads can be a better prescription than a pill. Sooner or later, we all suffer grief, whether over a death, a challenging diagnosis, or a dream denied. I’ve learned...
Read MoreA few years back, I came across an old box that held notebooks from my college courses. As I leafed through the pages, I smiled at my prolific use of the margins as a space for doodling. A new study shows that in the act...
Read More↓ An adapted excerpt from Tiny Buddha’s 365 Tiny Love Challenges by Lori Deschene Reflections from Stephanie Hauck All my romantic relationships have ended quickly and painfully. I often compared the new men in my life to the old ones. From my former boyfriends’ mistakes, I always found...
Read MoreFuse/Thinkstock Try this journaling exercise to rediscover something you used to be passionate about as a child. I recently came across a study that said our personalities are pretty much set for life by the time we’re in first grade. “We remain recognizably the same person,” wrote...
Read More↓ Our senses offer a direct route to tapping our creative well. If you find yourself caught in a fruitless spiral, disconnected from your creativity, look to your senses, and explore that world with this wisdom from Be, Awake, Create: While perceptions are limitless, the capabilities of our sense...
Read MoreBeing a longtime musician aids in reaction times. My daughter recently started violin lessons. While I’ll admit there’s quite a bit of squawking involved, my husband and I are soothed, knowing that the music training is doing good things for our daughter. Mastering a musical instrument...
Read More↓ Maybe. Some people seem to engage networks that don’t usually team together. ↓ Quick! How many ways can you use this brick? How about this rope? It sounds like a game of Clue, but this test of imagination and spontaneous thinking was given by brain researchers at...
Read More♥ Maybe. Some people seem to engage networks that don’t usually team together. Quick! How many ways can you use this brick? How about this rope? It sounds like a game of Clue, but this test of imagination and spontaneous thinking was given by brain researchers at...
Read More↓ “Something rises in her that she can’t ignore, something that just must be said, for the squelching of it is more painful than the consequences.” ↓ — From The Light of Grace, Journeys of an Angel by Kasey Claytor ↓ It doesn’t matter how your unique creativities show up—usually, they show...
Read More3 Easy (and Scientifically Proven!) Ways to Access Your Inner Creative Genius Because we all have the potential to be creative. Creativity is often seen as an elusive gift—a talent some people have been blessed with and others have missed out on. But this perception is simply...
Read More5 Ways to Use Art for Reconnecting to Yourself * Here are five art-inspired techniques anyone can try. Reconnecting to ourselves comes in many different shapes and stripes. For instance, for Arizona-based art therapist Lanie Smith, MPS, ATR, it means solitude: being alone so she can listen to...
Read More* Embrace the Infinite Possibilities for Your Life * This admission will probably summon the men in white suits to bring a straitjacket for me. They will surely throw me into a padded room where, for the rest of my life, I will rock back and forth while...
Read MoreStop Underestimating Your Great Ideas * A few years ago, I sat on the beach by my parents’ house in Florida with my two daughters and my sister-in-law. We started discussing a dream I had about a 14-year-old girl who found herself caught between the “real world...
Read More* You're Already the Master of a Craft. But Which Is It? * Last night in the intensive-care unit, someone said of the patient we were visiting: "He was a master of his craft." * That craft was drinking. Jaundice made the patient, now sedated, look sculpted from butter. He...
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