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Unmasking Theatre Design: A Designer’s Guide to Finding Inspiration and Cultivating Creativity

Every great design has its beginnings in a great idea, whether your medium of choice is scenery, costume, lighting, sound, or projections. Unmasking Theatre Design shows you how to cultivate creative thinking skills through every step of theatre design – from the first play reading to the finished design presentation. This book reveals how creative designers think in order to create unique and appropriate works for individual productions, and will teach you how to comprehend the nature of the design task at hand, gather inspiration, generate potential ideas for a new design, and develop a finished look through renderings and models. The exercises presented in this book demystify the design process by providing you with specific actions that will help you get on track toward fully-formed designs. Revealing the inner workings of the design process, both theoretically and practically, Unmasking Theatre Design will jumpstart the creative processes of designers at all levels, from student to professionals, as you construct new production designs.

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The Indomitable Mind: Cultivating Stillness With A Practiced Mind – 111 Original Inspirational Quotes (Self Love + Practiced Mind) (Volume 4)

Mindfulness has been a modern practice widely recognized for its healing and restorative effects and powers. When you combine meditative processes and mindfulness, it can help you regulate and balance your mental state of being, achieve focus and clarity, release all forms of tension and stress, cultivate patience and instill inner peace within yourself. Looking at it from a different perspective, it will show you how to watch your thoughts without judgment to attain satisfaction from life’s simple pleasures and gain fresh new insights into the heart and mind of every person seeking new light and eyes to achieve a mind of clarity and stillness. “The power of mindfulness allows you to naturally be able to become proactive in any situations and not get caught up in your own chaotic thoughts and resistant feelings while strengthening your communication skills with people you love, and learn what it really means to be present. It also helps you to reshuffle your priorities with a healthy and strong practiced mind.”

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Inspiration for a Woman’s Soul: Cultivating Joy

From the publisher behind the international best-selling phenomenon, Inspiration for a Woman’s Soul: Choosing Happiness, as well as three other bestselling books, comes a brand new collection of thirty-eight original stories to make your heart smile and your soul soar! In this powerful volume, publisher Linda Joy has gathered intimate stories from women who know what it means to live in joy, every day. These moving, heartfelt tales illustrate how authenticity, inner courage, and a deep belief in the power of choice guided each of these amazing women to create lives of peace, beauty, and abundant joy.

The three Reflection Questions after each story create a unique “active reading experience” which will empower you to dive deeply into your own joy creation process.

Like a beautiful, blooming rose, joy can be cultivated—day by day, hour by hour, moment by moment. These raw, honest stories from real women will prove to you that, no matter your past experience or current circumstances, joy is there in your life, too, just waiting for you to help it blossom.

Contributing authors for Cultivating Joy include: Lisa Marie Rosati, Stacey Martino, Stacey Curnow, Dr. Mary E. Pritchard, Ph.D.,HHC, Laura Clark, Debra L. Reble, PhD, Shelley Lundquist, Shelley Riutta, MSE, LPC, Paula Houlihan, Melissa Rapoport, Kelley Grimes, MSW, Cindy Hively, Peggy Nolan, Felicia D’Haiti, Christine Malenda, MhD, Dr. Angela M. Joyner, Sheila Callaham, Marianne MacKenzie, Jill Celeste, MA, Kailean Welsh, MS, LPC, Zinnia Gupte, Jen Flick, Dr. Veronique Desaulniers, Martha Tassinari, Kim Lachapelle, Sara Turner, Casey Kerr, Pamela Henry, Jill E. Greinke, MSW, LCSW, SAC, Beth Marshall, Kellyann Schaefer, Patricia Young, Katie Mazzocco, Tina van Leuven, Maggie Chula, Paula Foster, Tiffany Kane, Mazie Zdanowich

Praise for Cultivating Joy:

“The sweet spot of your joy rests between the worst day of your life and the best day of your life. It is the e-ticket to your truth, your highest calling, and your authentic self. Cultivating Joy eloquently shares passages of spirited women authors’ brave moments of tragedy to triumph. Linda Joy has an uncanny way of bringing poignant moments in our lives, gift-wrapped in her book, where you will discover the “how” to your true joy. – Jackie Ruka, America’s Happyologist; author of the best-selling book, Get Happy and Create a Kick -Butt Life!; Founder of the GetHappyZone.com

“This collection of stories will ignite a new sense of wonder and awe, helping you reconnect to your best self with joy as your inspirational compass.”-Shannon Kaiser, the Joy Guru and best-selling author of Adventures for Your Soul

“Cultivating Joy shares touching and triumphant stories from women of all ages. This book shows us that joy is available in every moment and situation if we only open our eyes and behold its beauty. Read this book and be uplifted.” Amy Leigh Mercree, author of The Spiritual Girl’s Guide to Dating: Your Enlightened Path to Love, Sex and Soul Mates

“With warmth, humor, and courage, the stories shared in Cultivating Joy will touch your heart and transform your life. No matter where you are on your journey, the deeply personal stories shared in this book will inspire you to invite more joy into your daily routine. Infinite love and gratitude to the extraordinary women who contributed their stories to Cultivating Joy.”- Shann Vander Leek,Transformation Goddess, best-selling author, award-winning podcaster.

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Cultivating Creativity: Daily Rituals for Visual Inspiration

“Creative longevity is about what you do to prepare yourself for the ripe moment, when the potential of an idea is able to grow into something useful…. This book is for anyone who has a tendency to think visually and needs to satisfy their creative soul.” –from the Introduction

Discover the road to productivity and success by keeping your creative juices flowing daily. Cultivating Creativity is a book based on the idea that creativity requires ample momentum–if you stop, you’ll stall. In order to get the creative inspiration you need to do your design work well, it’s important to establish daily creative routines.

Author Maria Fabrizio has compiled here a beautiful and inspirational guide, a companion to unlocking your creativity every day. Create every day, and you’ll be able to keep creating every day–it’s as simple as that.

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Cultivating Your Creative Life: Exercises, Activities, and Inspiration for Finding Balance, Beauty, and Success as an Artist

Cultivating Your Creative Life: Exercises, Activities, and Inspiration for Finding Balance, Beauty, and Success as an Artist is a multi-faceted book where creativity and wonder intermingle to show how to live a creative and balanced life while moving toward your goals. You’ll find ideas for keeping your creative well full, an illustrated guide to healing herbs and plants, basic yoga poses and breathing exercises, and tips for moving your artistic career forward. Alena Hennessy’s illustration style combines nature, whimsey, delicacy, and a modern sensibility; vibrant pen and ink illustrations accompany relevant quotes ofinspiration, tips, and creative journal exercises. Cultivating Your Creative Life is not only an interactive creativity guide; it is a work of art, in itself—a beautiful, collectible volume—to save and to savor, or to give as a gift to the special creative person in your life.

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Hypnosis for Cultivating Intuition (Hypnotic Empowerment for Self-Awakening)

The Wolf on the cover of this audio CD represents what this hypnotic audio product can do for you. [Wolf: Friendly, social, highly intelligent with a powerfully developed ‘intuitive” sense.] This Audio CD contains 2 programs. Program 1: “Hypnosis for Cultivating Intuition”. Verbal step-by-step instructions gently guide the listener into a hypnotic trance state. Positive suggestions are then given to the subconscious mind to help encourage and strengthen the listener’s intuitive ability otherwise known as the “6th” sense and often referred to as that “gut feeling”. With regular use the listener can learn to “feel” as well as see, hear, taste, touch and smell. Program 2: “Relax and Improve Your Intuition”. Step-by-step instructions guide the listener into a deeply relaxed trance state. Deep relaxation is extremely beneficial to mind, body and spirit. Program 2 enhances the effects of program 1. Program 1 and program 2 may be used independently of each other. An enclosed booklet describes what hypnosis is and how best to use this CD to achieve the greatest results. Effects will vary from person to person. Hypnotherapy is considered “complimentary medicine” and is not intended to be used in place of medical or psychiatric care.