From Chaos To Creativity

Art and writing can be the most fulfilling part of our lives. But it's often difficult to make space for it in our day-to-day existence, especially if we're not at the point yet where creating it is our job. Sometimes we have so many ideas it’s difficult to keep them all organized, much less maintaining a creative schedule or dedicated workspace. With all the clutter overwhelming your scattered brain (not to mention your desk), it's all too easy to fall into procrastination and disarray. From Chaos to Creativity is a series of glowing beacon. Jessie L. Kwak has written a Getting Things Done for artists and writers, drawing on her experience as a professional copywriter with a novel-writing habit, and from interviews with other authors, artists, musicians, and designers, to teach you how to focus on the good ideas, manage your project, make time in your life, and execute your passions to completion. Make great art by channeling your chaotic creative force into productive power and let the world see what you're capable of!

When our energy is overtaken by the energy of others, our lives don’t work! Instead of creating from the duality of the mind, we need to drop into the heart, where all creative potential energy exists. Kim Bellisimo’s unique life experiences have enabled her to witness the patterns of energy within and around her clients and work with them to transform their lives. Now, in From Chaos to Creativity, Bellisimo shows you how you can do the same by moving into a powerful and creative partnership with who you truly are. Interwoven with stories and experiences from her own life that illustrate the development of the EnergyWorks method of personal transformation, Bellisimo confidently guides the reader through a series of in-depth exercises that teach you how to clear the energy in your life by clearing the energy in your home, your personal objects, your place of work and your relationships, so that you can become the creator you were meant to be! We are moving into a time of needing to know how to be in a real, meaningful relationship with everyone and everything around us in order to thrive. This book represents the next evolutionary jump. Using EnergyWorks methods, you can break free from stagnation, reclaim your power, and create a life beyond imagination.

Jean Pollack’s first book chronicles the story of a dissociative man who meets his future therapist at a ballroom dancing event. The reader is invited to therapy sessions where his intriguing and often harrowing story of abuse is told. The way his mind works reveals stark imagery, yet even when the feelings elicited are complex the reader wants to understand the patient’s troubled world. His uplifting story of abuse to integration through healing and dance is told by his therapist through her client’s eyes. This book is important and progressive.

Chaos may seem an unlikely source of creativity, but below its senseless surface lies a swirling depth of possibilities. Every person enters a world that is already filled with symbols, meanings, and stories. No-one starts with a blank canvas, rather, we find ourselves thrust into a matrix of narratives. Yet, something truly new is possible amid this chaos. Time is a space in which these stories can be reassembled, reinterpreted, and ordered in a way that gives particular meaning to my life. Our stories can be more than a reflection of reality; they can transform experience, inspire new action, and in so doing, transform our reality. "And the word became flesh." That is how the gospel of John describes the event in which divine ideas became tangibly real in the person of Jesus. Text, words, and ideas are not meant to remain intangible - they are searching for embodiment. This book is a journey through thousands of years of symbols and narratives that point to the underlying reality of our existence. We follow the development of consciousness through the stories humans have told, beginning with myths that are older than the Scriptures. The biblical text marks a definite progression in human awareness, and within the context of the Bible itself ideas continue to develop. The perspective given here might be new for many, but the aim is to provide more than simply an alternative interpretation of Scripture. Rather, I hope to show the connection between the inherent human capacity to create meaning, the depth of the text we have at our disposal, and the measureless gift of the Spirit of truth drawing us forward. An inexhaustible mystery lies enfolded in each of us. How it unfolds in your story is an unprecedented unique event. This living narrative reached a crescendo in Jesus. In him, we see the mystery unfolding in flesh and we receive an invitation to share in his consciousness. Each of the chapters in this book is a progressive step in understanding and opening up human consciousness. Ultimately we want to receive the kind of unitive awareness, Jesus spoke of when he prayed: "I have given to them the glory you have given me, that they may be one just as we are one."

A practical and friendly guide to taming your chaos written specifically for creative people by the bestselling author of Banish Clutter Forever. "Sheila gave me the tools to hunt success, and the infrastructure to handle it when it came." - Stik, world renowned street artist and author Most of the conventional productivity advice you’ll find in the business section simply does not work for creative people. Surprisingly, to date there has not been a single book that addresses the unique organizational challenges that artists face. This book sets out to change that, it addresses the myth that truly creative people are messy and that they need mess in order to create. An artist herself, Sheila Chandra applies her professional insights as an organizing expert to the lives of other busy creative people in all disciplines, showing them how good organization can liberate their creative magic. She begins with artists’ physical spaces, including arranging their workspaces and offices so that they remain tidy effortlessly. Her career headspace chapters cover: • creative well-being, including artist support systems • career well-being, including networking and collaborations • self-promotion and how to avoid working for free • making social media pay • personal branding, career planning and goals • how to manage copyright issues and legal paperwork • legacy management And all from an artist’s point of view. These fool-proof, tried and tested systems are mixed with creativity tips and artist well-being advice that only one artist knows to give another. Written with real affection for the reader, Sheila Chandra takes the creative person by the hand and puts them on the path to success.

The pandemic, and our response to it, has shown how unpredictable, irrational, illogical, suddenly changing, and muddled human interactions can be in a time of crisis. How can we make sense of such confusing and baffling behavior? This book reveals how chaos and nonlinear dynamics can bring new understanding to everyday topics in social sciences. It brings together chapters from leaders at the intersection of psychology and chaos and complexity theories. Conceptual and user-friendly, it is built around six themes: 1) Seeing nonlinearity, 2) Finding patterns, 3) using Simple models, 4) Intervening nonlinearly, and 6) teaching a new Worldview. It takes no specialized study-although there is more sophisticated material and optional math for those wishing it. The techie will, in addition, find concepts and diagrams to ponder. The volume is engaging, at times startling-whether about the weather, Internet, organizations, family dynamics, health, evolution, or falling in love. It reveals how many social, personal, clinical, research, and life phenomena become understandable and can be modelled in the light of Nonlinear Dynamical Systems (NDS) theory. It even offers a broadening worldview, happening already in other sciences, toward a more dynamic, interconnected, and evolving picture, including process-oriented appreciation of one's own experience. The book offers those in the field of psychology and the social sciences a stunning new perspective on human behaviour.