The Book
The book
The Creative Self examines our fundamentally creative nature, and how our creativity lies behind more than just our work and art - being at the heart of
our most authentic, powerful self.
Drawing on the author's experience as a
family doctor, the book explores the creative nature of our true, most human self.
The story of human creativity is explored, alongside another aspect of our nature - stress. The true origin of stress - as the product of the likes of fear
and anger - is discussed, and techniques are presented for recovering from stress and its ill effects (including such states and disorders as demotivation, relationship stress, anxiety and depression).
Fear
and anger
are revealed as coercive "stress forces" more than emotions - in terms of their ability to override our creativity in order to impose their control.
As revealed by phrases such as "I was besides myself with rage" and "I was scared out of my skin", stress can even cost us possession of our true self.
When fear etc.
denies us our own, true self, to leave us, perhaps, a "shadow of our former self", we default to a "version" of our self we can call the "smaller", stressed self.
Yet once we learn how to free ourselves from the interference of fear etc., we're free to enjoy our own self-creativity - and be who we really are - in our real, creative self.
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The Creative Self starts out by demonstrating how our potential and humanity are put at risk by "stress forces" like
fear
and
anger
- along with compulsive desire
(the type that makes us desire to the point of desperation or even addiction).
Section Two looks closer at the subject of human creativity, with the emphasis on such aspects as our personality, motivation, perception and relationships.
Section Three reveals an approach to recognising the damaging ways in which stress limits our minds and lives - and outlines a practical technique to restoring ourselves to our true, creative nature.
The aim of the book is to lay out what "self-creativity" entails.
A whole new context is provided for helping to make sense of afflictions like anxiety and relationship stress. Beyond that, new techniques are introduced for helping us to restore ourselves to our full health and potential.
