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		<title>Pressure to Create</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 19:17:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Curving back upon my own nature, I create again and again.”- Bhagavad-Gita
In the gifted person the calling to create can frequently be a relentless yearning. Innate characteristics of the gifted individuals such as seeking a deeper meaning and purpose; immense satisfaction in problem solving; constant curiosity and viewing a creative task from different perspectives, naturally [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theartofmind.wordpress.com&blog=2947223&post=205&subd=theartofmind&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>My absence &amp; return</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I know for many of those who have so kindly kept up with The Art of Mind Blog, must have felt disappointed by the absence of entries in recent months. I hope I haven&#8217;t lost too many of you. My apologies. I&#8217;ve taken some time off but am now back to try to continue this [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theartofmind.wordpress.com&blog=2947223&post=202&subd=theartofmind&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Characteristics of the Gifted Individual</title>
		<link>http://theartofmind.wordpress.com/2009/02/09/characteristics-of-the-gifted-individual/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2009 07:33:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa A. Riley, MA, MFT</dc:creator>
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&#8220;Every gift contains a danger. Whatever gift we have we are compelled to express. And if the expression of that gift is blocked, distorted, or merely allowed to languish, then the gift turns against us, and we suffer.&#8221;
— L. Johnson
In the previous Blog entry I briefly mentioned some of the general traits of being Gifted. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theartofmind.wordpress.com&blog=2947223&post=127&subd=theartofmind&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Giftedness</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2009 20:23:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa A. Riley, MA, MFT</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The more I learn about Giftedness, the more I have discovered an overlap amongst the creative, highly sensitive personality and giftedness. It appears the characteristics and traits run side by side. Inspired by the information I’m discovering, I’m beginning a series focused on Giftedness. I will explore such aspects as What is Giftedness, the different [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theartofmind.wordpress.com&blog=2947223&post=118&subd=theartofmind&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Journey Without A Destination</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jan 2009 07:30:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa A. Riley, MA, MFT</dc:creator>
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Like getting in the car bound on an adventure, without a known destination, but to discover where the road might take you, do you yield to spontaneity? Are you one who comfortably dances with the mysterious, or do you become anxious by the unknown? How often does the artist approach the creation of an art [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theartofmind.wordpress.com&blog=2947223&post=110&subd=theartofmind&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Continue to Evolve</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2009 07:33:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa A. Riley, MA, MFT</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Lisa A. Riley
I don’t believe we ever reach the finish line and suddenly arrive at our full creative potential. Instead, we are in constant transformation, growing and expanding. When we expose ourselves to new things, either a new form of art, visiting a different country or learning about a whole new subject matter, we [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theartofmind.wordpress.com&blog=2947223&post=102&subd=theartofmind&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Gift of Divine Discontent</title>
		<link>http://theartofmind.wordpress.com/2008/12/16/the-gift-of-divine-discontent/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2008 05:41:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa A. Riley, MA, MFT</dc:creator>
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“Discover your own discontent, and be grateful, for without divine discontent there would be no creative force.”– Deepak Chopra

We all suffer to some degree of a chronic, low-grade discontent. So, we seek out the next goal to achieve, a new relationship, a new job, perhaps the next rush of adrenaline or the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theartofmind.wordpress.com&blog=2947223&post=77&subd=theartofmind&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Validating Your Own Art</title>
		<link>http://theartofmind.wordpress.com/2008/11/21/validating-your-own-art/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 19:52:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa A. Riley, MA, MFT</dc:creator>
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&#8220;If you hear a voice within you saying &#8216;You are not a painter,&#8217; then by all means, paint&#8230;and that voice will be silenced.&#8221;-Vincent Van Gogh 

Do you look outside yourself and to others to validate your art? Is your confidence easily deflated when you hear a negative comment about your work? Do [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theartofmind.wordpress.com&blog=2947223&post=50&subd=theartofmind&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Grieving through Art</title>
		<link>http://theartofmind.wordpress.com/2008/10/19/grieving-through-art/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Oct 2008 16:24:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa A. Riley, MA, MFT</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Lisa A. Riley, MA
There might come a time when the safe cushion of our routine lives is suddenly jolted by a loss. It could be an unexpected loss of a job, an ending to a relationship, a death of a loved one or a dream we watched slip out of our reach. In either [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theartofmind.wordpress.com&blog=2947223&post=46&subd=theartofmind&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>RX: Daily Dose of Creativity</title>
		<link>http://theartofmind.wordpress.com/2008/07/14/rx-daily-dose-of-creativity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2008 05:25:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa A. Riley, MA, MFT</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Lisa A. Riley
At the beginning of a day or week, when one sits down to practice the common ritual of creating a “To Do” list, are there items that can be categorized as “Have-Tos” and “Want-Tos?” Or does the list only include the “Have-Tos?” The items that we aspire to do usually contain the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theartofmind.wordpress.com&blog=2947223&post=41&subd=theartofmind&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Born to be an artist</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2008 16:06:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa A. Riley, MA, MFT</dc:creator>
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&#8220;All children are born artists, the problem is to remain an artist as we grow up.&#8221;– Picasso
If we sit and observe whenever little kids draw, finger paint or play, it’s intriguing how they seem without self-doubt, judgment or fear of doing it wrong. A preconceived expectation of the end product doesn’t seem [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theartofmind.wordpress.com&blog=2947223&post=37&subd=theartofmind&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Depression: the repressed voice of creativity</title>
		<link>http://theartofmind.wordpress.com/2008/04/19/depression-the-repressed-voice-of-creativity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Apr 2008 03:01:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa A. Riley, MA, MFT</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Lisa A. Riley
&#8220;The distinctive characteristic of human beings is namely, to influence our own evolution through our own awareness.&#8221; – Rollo May, The Courage to Create
To be creative is to be human. We were born with the innate drive to pursue creative inclinations. Creative energy has motivated us to build shelter in challenging climates, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theartofmind.wordpress.com&blog=2947223&post=36&subd=theartofmind&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Scent – Igniting Imagination</title>
		<link>http://theartofmind.wordpress.com/2008/03/27/scent-%e2%80%93-igniting-imagination/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Mar 2008 14:57:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa A. Riley, MA, MFT</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Lisa A. Riley
During a walk on an early spring morning, remnants of a chill from the night before, the day warmed by a slowly rising sun. Random thoughts sifted through a list of chores, calls to return and emails to answer. My mind no longer present, instinctively I reached towards one of the many [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theartofmind.wordpress.com&blog=2947223&post=34&subd=theartofmind&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Creativity in Coding</title>
		<link>http://theartofmind.wordpress.com/2008/03/23/creativity-in-coding/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Mar 2008 19:08:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Robert Werner
I&#8217;ve been involved in creating software for thirty years, twenty of those professionally. It never fails to occur that I&#8217;ll be at a party, someone will learn what I do for a living, and something similar to the following will be said: &#8220;Oh I could never be a software engineer.  I&#8217;m too [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theartofmind.wordpress.com&blog=2947223&post=31&subd=theartofmind&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Do Schools Kill Creativity?</title>
		<link>http://theartofmind.wordpress.com/2008/03/20/does-schools-kill-creativity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Mar 2008 17:51:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa A. Riley, MA, MFT</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.&#8221;– Picasso

Sir Ken Robinson spoke at the TED Conference in 2006. In a talk titled &#8220;Do Schools Kill Creativity?&#8221; he questions how our educational system might be killing our children&#8217;s innate creativity. He goes on to mention that, &#8220;We are [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theartofmind.wordpress.com&blog=2947223&post=30&subd=theartofmind&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>SHUT UP AND WRITE</title>
		<link>http://theartofmind.wordpress.com/2008/03/18/shut-up-and-write/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Mar 2008 14:45:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa A. Riley, MA, MFT</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Scott Benton
A long time ago I decided I wanted to write. When I sat down to put my thoughts on paper, I quickly realized I didn’t have the slightest idea how to begin.  
So I took classes on writing. I sat in lecture halls for hours listening to experts talk endlessly about writing. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theartofmind.wordpress.com&blog=2947223&post=29&subd=theartofmind&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Green Veil of Envy</title>
		<link>http://theartofmind.wordpress.com/2008/03/12/the-green-veil-of-envy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Mar 2008 22:22:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa A. Riley, MA, MFT</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Lisa A. Riley
“Envy comes from people&#8217;s ignorance of, or lack of belief in, their own gifts.” – Jean Vanier
Envy can catch us by surprise. It can rear it’s head at a collogues art exhibit; reading an article featuring a local writer we went to school with, or during an interview with a celebrity on [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theartofmind.wordpress.com&blog=2947223&post=26&subd=theartofmind&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Road to Flow</title>
		<link>http://theartofmind.wordpress.com/2008/03/08/the-road-to-flow/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Mar 2008 21:53:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa A. Riley, MA, MFT</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Scott Benton, Screenwriter, Los Angeles, CA
It seems a lot of people try and reach a state they call “flow,” that seemingly limitless mind and spirit crossroads where creative work and play meld into one constant creative burst. If you asked a thousand people how to get there, you would get a thousand equally vivid [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theartofmind.wordpress.com&blog=2947223&post=20&subd=theartofmind&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Seeking A Convenient Distraction</title>
		<link>http://theartofmind.wordpress.com/2008/03/04/seeking-a-convenient-distraction/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Mar 2008 18:53:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa A. Riley, MA, MFT</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Lisa A. Riley
So you’ve decided to get an early start, wake before the rest of the world begins their day and be productive. You grab a cup of coffee, a quick bagel and head over to the office (or studio.) You sit down in front of the computer facing the stark emptiness of your [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theartofmind.wordpress.com&blog=2947223&post=18&subd=theartofmind&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Are Creative People More Complex?</title>
		<link>http://theartofmind.wordpress.com/2008/03/02/creative-people-are-complex/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Mar 2008 01:21:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa A. Riley, MA, MFT</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why are creative people often referred to as complex individuals? According to Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, a psychologist who spent 30 years researching creativity, creative people appear to possess two sides of the personality coin. For example, in his article published on PsychologyToday.com titled, The Creative Personality, Ten paradoxical traits of the creative personality, he mentions how [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theartofmind.wordpress.com&blog=2947223&post=12&subd=theartofmind&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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