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		<title>Creativity Experiment How to Build Rome</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Sep 2011 23:08:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barbara Martin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do you have a big hairy deal exciting creative project languishing in the back of your mind because it&#8217;s too big, too bold, too overwhelming to contemplate in detail? I know you have a project like that, because we all do! This week&#8217;s creativity tip and experiment will help you get started on it &#8212; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cope with Creative Anxiety Exercise</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 07:17:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barbara Martin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I hate to bring up the subject of creative anxiety twice in one week and then not offer a coping exercise! In his self-help creativity manual Coaching the Artist Within, psychologist Eric Maisel suggests we learn to appreciate what he terms the “Tao of Anxiety” and thus coach ourselves through it. It is, as are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Understanding Creative Anxiety</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 05:10:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barbara Martin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As Eric Maisel explains in his expert creativity manual Coaching the Artist Within, anxiety can be a tricky thing for creative people. Sometimes fear serves as a valuable alert, sometimes as a false alarm. But how can you tell the difference? And what can you do about it? Symptoms of Anxiety First of all, you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rational Creative Anxiety</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2009 23:54:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barbara Martin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In his self-help creativity guide, Coaching the Artist Within, psychologist Eric Maisel devotes an entire chapter to Anxiety. Certainly some anxieties are rooted in the irrational, but creative people often experience reality-based, rational fears. What happens, for example, if we perform badly, or our book does not sell, or no gallery will represent us? These [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Learning to Center Yourself</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 22:34:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barbara Martin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Coaching the Artist Within, creativity expert and psychologist Eric Maisel devotes an entire chapter to &#8220;Achieving a Centered Presence.&#8221; He describes a simple, six-step, one minute process for carefully breathing and thinking yourself into a grounded state of calm so you are ready to create and take the next right step for the project [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Creativity Takes Mental Energy</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 18:40:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barbara Martin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Coaching the Artist Within, creativity expert Eric Maisel discusses the mental energy required to create. Unlike physical energy which is based on food/sleep inputs, mental energy depends on your interest, passion, desire, concern – the intensity you apply to creating. Your mental energy is depleted by mental activity, including creating – and not creating! [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Susan Boyle Made Me Cry</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2009 19:50:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barbara Martin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you have ever said I&#8217;m &#8220;too old&#8221; to chase my dream or too this or too that &#8230; I have two words for you: Susan Boyle. We have all kinds of rational and irrational reasons to justify why we can&#8217;t create today or this week or whatever. But sometimes, even though all that may [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Being Blocked is Addictive</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2009 04:55:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barbara Martin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Creativity expert Julia Cameron, writing in her creativity manual &#8220;The Artist&#8217;s Way&#8221;, notes that blocked creative types resort to an addictive cocktail of blocks: obsessions with work, food, alcohol, sex or love and more, in whatever form is handy to soothe us. These feel-good-for-the-moment behaviors are essentially creative U-turns made to alleviate fear. Many Different [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Too Old to Create</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2009 03:32:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barbara Martin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Chapter 8 of The Artist’s Way, Julia Cameron labels the belief “I’m too old to create” excuse a “Great Block Lie” and considers it on a par with that other old saw, “I don’t have money for it.” Using the “too old” excuse is so convenient. And the longer you wait to begin, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Write Morning Pages by Hand</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Feb 2009 19:42:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barbara Martin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not doing your Artist’s Way Morning Pages by hand? It’s surprising how many of us really resist this directive. Doing the daily pages and writing them out by hand is an important part of the process. Author and teacher Julia Cameron gives all sorts of reasons why, but for me the critical aspect is that [...]]]></description>
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