Pause, Breathe and Grow: Notes on mindful creative life (flat lay notebook)

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Pause, Breathe and Grow is the perfect companion for anyone with a creative and inquisitive mind.

Aimed at craft hobbyists, students, artists, designers, illustrators, coders, innovators, creative technologists and more, this guide provides a blueprint for changing the way we view our work and ourselves. Whatever stage your life or career is at right now, these pages are for those who want to think more clearly, enrich their creativity, enjoy their work more, become more resilient and achieve a greater sense of calm.
The foundations of Pause, Breathe and Grow lay in making progress in realistic increments. Designed to be used alongside your work schedule, each page focuses on just one thing to achieve in a day. Containing enough prompts to enable you to try a new exercise each day for 126 days / four months, the book also includes spaces devoted to tracking your moods and habits, as well as pages for you to jot down daily notes and reflections. It also comes with bonus downloadable content including iPhone and desktop images and a few weeks worth of extra prompts.

The prompts in the book aim to help you avoid task overload and endless lists that never get fully ticked off. They offer new ideas for improving your workflow, and more broadly, for helping you find peace with the world around you. Through easy-to-follow advice on approaching tasks with clarity, thoughtfulness and creativity, this book will untangle your mind from the knots of seemingly impossible doubts and deadlines.

Pause, Breathe and Grow does not try to be an all-purpose Swiss Army Knife for living. It’s created for making time with your thoughts, plans and ambitions by leading a more mindful creative life. This is about considering who you are today and thinking about where you want to be tomorrow; learning to change what you can and accepting the rest.

Pause, Breathe and Grow is a certified climate-neutral print product manufactured using 100% offshore wind-generated electricity. Printed with vegetable oil based inks using paper made of material from well-managed, FSC®-certified forests and other controlled sources.

Designed, printed and bound in London, England

From the Publisher

The prompts in the book aim to help you avoid task overload and endless lists that never get fully ticked off. They offer new ideas for improving your workflow, and more broadly, for helping you find peace with the world around you.

Pause, Breathe and Grow doesn’t try to be an all-purpose Swiss Army Knife for living. It’s created for making time with your thoughts, plans and ambitions by leading a more mindful creative life.

Printed in Bound in London Flay lay binding A5 size / 192 pages Carbon Neutral product Printed on FSC paper Full page illustrations Audio guided meditations

Pause, Breathe and Grow

Notes on mindful creative life (mindfulness notebook and creative journal)

Pause, Breathe and Grow is the perfect companion for anyone with a creative and inquisitive mind. This guide provides a blueprint for changing the way we view our work and ourselves. Whatever stage your life or career is at right now, these pages are for those who want to think more clearly, enrich their creativity, enjoy work more, become more resilient and achieve a greater sense of calm. Designed to be used alongside your work schedule, each page focuses on just one thing to achieve in a day.

A PROMPT FOR EACH DAY FOR CREATIVES – a mindfulness journal that’s uniquely designed to work alongside your daily schedule. BANISH CREATIVE BLOCK – with exercises designed to help you find inspiration in new ways, get started when you feel stuck MAKE MEANINGFUL, LASTING CHANGES around avoiding overload, setting and meeting deadlines, accepting and using feedback, working in the best way ADVICE AND MINDFULNESS TECHNIQUES that author and creative director Radim Malinic has used in running his creative studio day-to-day BONUS CONTENT with three audio mindfulness meditations, extra prompts and image downloads

Pause, Breathe and Grow is a collection of thought-provoking prompts that encourage you to unplug from the world for a moment. These prompts gently steer you out of the fast lane, and help you take a detour from the endless highway we all too often find ourselves speeding down.

#pause

Just as a roaring fire starts with a miniscule spark, any change we want to make in life starts with a single second in which we purposely decide to take a new approach. In that moment, we actively move away from repeating the same mistakes.

This section shows you the way to work towards a more mindful way of life—pausing to stop doing and thinking for a moment, tuning in to your surroundings and slowing right down.

The following pages of prompts will encourage you to strip back the multiple thoughts that fight for attention and find clarity of mind in the here and now. Things will make a lot more sense when you take time to step off the merry-go-round of life for a moment and do something just for you. By allowing yourself to pause, you move towards an existence characterised by stability, and in which you’re the one in full control of your thoughts and actions.

#breathe

When anxiety or stress overwhelm us, it’s easy for our minds to plunge down to even darker depths. That freefall can seem very real and frighteningly endless if we don’t intervene. At times like that, the way to navigate back to safety is through our breath.

In this section, you’ll be adding mindful breathing to those pauses and using the two concepts in conjunction with one another. The ability to tune in to your own breath and connect it to your body will enable you to find meaningful experiences throughout your day, and to do so in any number of situations.

The prompts in this chapter are designed to help you find peace and clarity through carefully observing each present moment and your own thoughts. They look at bringing focus to our inner worlds, and learning to become non-judgemental in our views of past negative experiences. The ability to take time to breathe is an innate tool that can rescue us from immediate panic and help us move forward.

#grow

It’s easy to get lost on our life and career journeys if we lack direction. Without a clearly signposted destination, it’s easy to aimlessly meander through the nine-to-five and feel like we’ve got little to show for it afterwards.

This third set of prompts aims to help you draw yourself a map that enables you to make sense of the here and now in order to make sense of the future. Start by considering where you are at the moment, and think about the aspects you’re happy with and those which need improvement. Then plan how you can grow in your career, set future goals and envision how you can celebrate them.

These pages also look to help you become more resilient and more able to cope with what the world throws at you. Whether you’re flexing your creative muscles to earn a living or not, all job roles come with their own set of challenges. It’s up to you to keep your own career moving forward: you’re in charge of taking yourself to the next step and allowing yourself time to grow.

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Green Credentials: Pause, Breathe and Grow is a climate-neutral print product

Designed, printed and bound in London, Pause, Breathe and Grow, is produced a climate neutral print product for which carbon emissions have been calculated and offset by supporting recognised carbon offset projects.

This publication has been manufactured using 100% offshore wind electricity sourced from UK wind. Printed with vegetable oil based inks using paper made of material from well-managed, FSC forests and other controlled sources.

Bonus Content

This book comes with bonus downloadable content, including:

Guided audio meditations by Adiba OsmaniA bonus digital editionFeatured image downloads

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Brand Nu Limited; First Edition (1 Dec. 2020)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 192 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0993540023
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0993540028
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 14.8 x 1.5 x 21 cm