The Creativity Cure: How to Build Happiness with Your Own Two HandsA DIY Prescription for Happiness! This insightful book from wife-and-husband physicians Carrie and Alton Barron presents an innovative, highly achievable five-part plan to find happiness and alleviate depression and anxiety by tapping into creative potential. A gifted psychiatrist and a premier hand surgeon, Carrie and Alton Barron draw upon the latest psychological research, a combined forty years of medical practice, and personal experience to demonstrate how creative action is integral to long-term happiness and well-being. The Five-Part Prescription for the Creativity Cure—Insight, Movement, Mind Rest, Your Own Two Hands, and Mind Shift—leads the way to a more meaningful, fulfilling life by simultaneously developing self-understanding and self-expression. With the Barrons’ detailed tools and strategies for cultivating creative outlets, overcoming unconscious fears and barriers to happiness, and linking internal thought to external action, readers will build the mind-set and habits necessary for happiness and positive change. They will experience—and learn how to sustain—the deep satisfaction that accompanies creating something by hand. The perfect self-help book for our handmade, homemade, crafting culture, The Creativity Cure has a simple yet profoundly inspirational message: that you can find the authentic, contented life you crave by taking happiness into your own two hands. |
Contents
Creativity and Happiness | 1 |
How Can I Cultivate a Creative Self? | 29 |
Creativity and Inhibition | 53 |
Creativity Psychological Clutter and | 83 |
Creativity and Resilience | 113 |
Creativity Community and Your Own Two Hands | 137 |
Creativity Nature and Exercise | 167 |
Creativity and SelfMastery | 193 |
Creativity and True Connections | 223 |
Creativity and Identity | 255 |
Acknowledgments | 267 |
Recommended Readings | 285 |
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The Creativity Cure: A Do-It-Yourself Prescription for Happiness Carrie Barron,Alton Barron Limited preview - 2012 |
The Creativity Cure: A Do-It-Yourself Prescription for Happiness Carrie Barron,Alton Barron Limited preview - 2012 |
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