For centuries, mandalas have symbolized wholeness and interconnectivity. Similar to a book of meditations, Posh Coloring: Mandalas for Meditation and Relaxation will help you focus, relax, and experience more deeply the world around you. Filled with 126 original mandala patterns from artist/designer Teresa Roberts Logan and incorporating natural themes such as sea stars, shells, leaves, and flora, as well as many abstract designs, this book provides hours of relaxation and meditation. Reduce stress and reveal your hidden creative potential with this book of customizable hand-drawn mandala drawings. Teresa Roberts Logan has created thousands of doodles, cartoons, and designs, and after creating her Posh Coloring Book: Paisley Designs for Fun & Relaxation, went right back to the boards to create a Posh Coloring Book full of mandalas for you to color. Teresa is a cartoonist/illustrator/designer/mom/doodler, and founder of Laughing Redhead Studio, who loves to laugh, cook, eat, and travel. Other books by this author: The Older I Get, The Less I Care Posh Coloring Book: Paisley Designs for Fun & Relaxation
Coloring books became a thing when adults discovered how relaxing and meditative they were. Jigsaw puzzles roared back into popularity as an immersive activity, not to mention a great alternative to television. How exciting is it, then, to introduce an activity that tops them both: reverse coloring, which not only confers the mindful benefits of coloring and puzzling but energizes you to feel truly creative, even when you're weary and just want to zone out. It's so simple, yet so profoundly satisfying. Each page in The Reverse Coloring Book has the colors, and you draw the lines. Created by the artist Kendra Norton, these beautiful and whimsical watercolors provide a gentle visual guide so open-ended that the possibilities are limitless. Trace the shapes, draw in figures, doodle, shade, cover an area with dots. Be realistic, with a plan, or simply let your imagination drift, as if looking a clouds in the sky. Each page is an invitation to slow down, let go, and thoughtfully (or thoughtlessly) let your pen find its way over the image. The Reverse Coloring Book includes 50 original works of art, printed on sturdy paper that's single-sided and perforated. And unlike with traditional coloring books, all you need is a pen.
The creative alternative to counting sheep, Posh Adult Coloring Book: Soothing Designs for Fun & Relaxation is filled with more than 100 pages of beautiful, peaceful design patterns to help you de-stress and feel ready for rest. Take your mind off any woes or worries and allow yourself to relax and unwind. Soothe away your insomnia with some wonderfully relaxing coloring. Long acknowledged to be a truly relaxing activity, coloring can help with all sorts of stress-related problems--including sleeplessness. These beautiful designs will help you to free your mind from your worries and refocus it on relaxation. So next time you find yourself feeling restless in bed, turn to Soothing Designs, create some beautiful art, and feel your cares drifting away.
Harvard psychologist and philosopher William James' The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature explores the nature of religion and, in James' observation, its divorce from science when studied academically. After publication in 1902 it quickly became a canonical text of philosophy and psychology, remaining in print through the entire century. "Scientific theories are organically conditioned just as much as religious emotions are; and if we only knew the facts intimately enough, we should doubtless see 'the liver' determining the dicta of the sturdy atheist as decisively as it does those of the Methodist under conviction anxious about his soul. When it alters in one way the blood that percolates it, we get the Methodist, when in another way, we get the atheist form of mind."
Relax with this large print color by number book for adults. The stress of choosing colors is over. Enjoy bringing these simple but beautiful images to life! Stress free coloring Beautiful flower & butterfly Images A color by number just for adults! Printed on single side pages Easy color guide on opposite page Color test page Coloring tips page Bonus images from other coloring books Totally relaxing! This coloring book is great for anyone who really needs to destress, unwind, and just be present.
Add Beautiful Color to Beloved Hymns Timeless songs of praise and worship stir your soul and bring you into closer fellowship with God. As you fill these pages with color using your crayons, colored pencils, or markers, reflect on the enduring power of best-loved hymns, such as "Amazing Grace," "A Mighty Fortress Is Our God," and "Blessed Assurance." Each hymn title or lyric is accompanied by Annie LaPoint's lively and delightful designs. Coloring is a wonderful way to unwind in the evening, spend a quiet afternoon, or simply to take a quick time-out from the busyness of life. Now with Color the Hymns, you can incorporate this enjoyable activity into your devotional time, giving you a new way to love and honor God.
Enter a world of creative self-expression and positive affirmations with this inspirational coloring book for adults. Inside you'll find 32 empowering art activities that will take you on a meaningful journey of patterning, shading, and coloring. This relaxing coloring book is perfect for decorating with markers, colored pencils, gel pens, or watercolors. Each design is printed on a single side of high-quality, extra thick paper. Perforated pages detach easily for gifting or display.
This volume presents a theoretical framework for understanding consciousness and learning. Drawing on work in cognitive psychology and philosophy, this framework begins with the observation that to be conscious is literally to have a point of view. From this starting point, the book develops a descriptive scheme that allows perceptual, symbolic, and emotional awareness to be discussed in common theoretical terms, compatible with a computational view of the mind. A central theme is our experience of ourselves as agents, consciously controlling activities situated in environments. In contrast to previous theories of consciousness, the experienced cognition framework emphasizes the changes in conscious control as individuals acquire skills. The book is divided into four parts. The first introduces the central themes and places them in the context of information-processing theory and empirical research on cognitive skill. The second develops the theoretical framework, emphasizing the unity of perceptual, symbolic, and emotional awareness and the relation of conscious to nonconscious processes. The third applies the experienced cognition framework to a variety of topics in cognitive psychology, including working memory, problem solving, and reasoning. It also includes discussions of everyday action, skill, and expertise, focusing on changes in conscious control with increasing fluency. The last concludes the book by evaluating the recent debate on the "cognitive unconscious" and implicit cognition from the perspective of experienced cognition, and considering the prospects for a cognitive psychology focused on persons. This book addresses many of the issues raised in philosophical treatments of consciousness from the point of view of empirical cognitive psychology. For example, the structure of conscious mental states is addressed by considering how to describe them in terms of variables suitable for information-processing theory. Understanding conscious states in this way also provides a basis for developing empirical hypotheses, for example, about the relation of emotion and cognition, about the apparent "mindlessness" of skilled activity, and about the nature and role of goals in guiding activity. Criticisms of the computational view of mind are addressed by showing that the role of first-person perspectives in cognition can be described and investigated in theoretical terms compatible with a broadly-conceived information-processing theory of cognition.
Create your own original Zentangle patterns! Many an artistic soul has fallen in love with the beautiful, meditative art of Zentangle, an easy-to-learn way of creating pleasing images using repeating patterns. For enthusiasts ready to take it to the next level, Creative Tangle is the first book to show how to invent your own original patterns inspired by everyday items--rugs, pottery, scrapbook paper, fabrics in your clothes closet, a vine in your garden...virtually everywhere you look are shapes and patterns just waiting to be tangled! Turn to the fresh ideas in this book for showcasing your one-of-a-kind designs on a range of pretty, practical items. You will unleash your creativity and look at your world in a whole new, wonderfully tangled way! What's Inside: • A fun and simple 3-step process for designing your own tangles • 24 fantastic off-the-tile projects, from name signs, wine glasses and decorative wrappings to pendants, zendalas and tangled pet portraits! • Expert tips for embellishing preexisting patterns, creating themes, and adding color to your tangles • Inspiration photos, new patterns and templates
