Parallel Mind Website Offers Advance Copies for Sale

Aliyah Marr’s book on creativity, Parallel Mind, The Art of Creativity is now on sale through the website: http://www.parallelmindbook.com

The site offers ebook version for immediate download, and advance copies (allow 4 weeks for delivery).

New Bookcover Design for Parallel Mind

Parallel Mind Endorsed by Michael A. Nitti, author of The Trophy Effect

“As a life coach with a focus on developing self-awareness I found Parallel Mind a fascinating read. Aliyah Marr demonstrates how developing one’s own creativity can help anyone, from artist to entrepreneur, change their lives. Aliyah presents a compelling argument for the value of creative consciousness; showing how you can use tools from the arts to shift your thinking through the power of self-understanding and love. She inspires you to be in your highest creative self at all times. This book is an incomparable reference guide; keep it in in your backpocket until the pages get dog-eared and worn — until the changes that she endorses become part of you like a pair of your favorite jeans!”

— Michael A. Nitti, Executive Life Coach and Author, The Trophy Effect

Michael Nitti is known as “The Blue Jeans Guru”

Dedication Page for Parallel Mind

		            I
         	      wish
   	           to express
	      thanks and
	  appreciation
	to all my
 	innumerable
 	    teachers, but
	        first and fore-
	           most to my
	          parents — to
	      my father who
	   taught me
	 how to think
 	  and to my
 	    mother who
	       taught me how
	           to feel. I wish
		 to say to those of
		    you, who like me,
	           always felt “different,”
	        but didn’t know why:
	    you’re probably an artist —
      you have a license to be free.
 Start the incredible journey.

New Preface for Parallel Mind

Below is an excerpt from the book Parallel Mind:

“Are You Up To Your Destiny?” — Hamlet

Preface

Are you ready to live the life you were meant to live? Life should be lived passionately, joyously, fearlessly, and creatively.

This book is about how to live a creative life: not how to paint or draw, but how to think like an artist, and how to find a joyous, complete life as a result. The power of creative thought can impel you to excel in any medium, in any field, or any subject.

Many people are creative in their daily lives, others would like to be more creative, still others would like to experience the magic that they have seen only from the outside until now.

This book answers some essential questions, the most important being: what is creativity, and how can it bring me more freedom and happiness?

However, the real value of this book is not in the questions that it attempts to answer, but in the questions that it poses. These questions are traditionally asked under the cover of art, but I ask these questions here so that you may ask them of yourself.

I started out as a fine artist, and entered the fields of illustration, graphic design, video art, and interactive design. As I developed my commercial skills and artistic craft, I learned that there is a difference between pure creativity and applied creativity. Pure creativity is an activity that has no predefined destination or purpose, while applied creativity is an activity that always has a goal or application in mind. Pure creativity can be seen as a kind of play, while applied creativity is usually seen as work.

Examples of pure creativity include (but are not limited to): a painter who paints from his heart, a musician who creates a symphony while toying at the piano, a writer who bases a screenplay on the people he knows at work, a scientist who discovers a new law of the universe by playing with raw materials and outlandish ideas.

Examples of applied creativity include (but are not limited to): design, architecture, scientific inquiry, technological innovations, copywriting, and business development.

One form of creativity is not superior to the other. It is just easier (and more fun!) to learn pure creativity before attempting to apply that creativity to a purpose. Applied creativity can be fun and playful too. However this book focuses on the importance of play to our development as a complete, creative individual, and so it is about pure creativity.

Parallel Mind reveals how a creative individual can mold their lives with the power of their thoughts; how your thoughts can be used to create whatever you want in life.

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Chapter One, Creativity, defines and outlines creativity: what is it, how can we use it, where does it reside?

Chapter Two, Double Vision, is about the source of creativity — our inner child — and how we, as adults, encase this pure self in a cage of fear and limitation.

Chapter Three, Body & Soul discusses the relationship of the body to the mind; how to use your mind creatively to create the body you want.

Chapter Four, Shaking the Tree explores more deeply into the mind, how to change limiting beliefs, how to overcome fear, and encourage original thought.

Chapter Five, Navigating a Sea of Emotions is about emotions: why do we have them, how to choose your emotions, and how to use them effectively.

Chapter Six, The Secret of Sex reveals how to marshal the twin forces of passion and desire to supercharge and sustain your creative vision.

Chapter Seven, The Conscious Creative shows how the practice of art brings the artist increased awareness and personal power.

Chapter Eight, The Infinite Self brings together the concepts introduced in the former chapters, and shows how they can lead the artist to creative freedom.

Included in every chapter are quick in-text exercises intended to help you activate the principles you have just read. The exercises provide a break in reading, and allow you to move from passive to active participation.

1 Record Your Internal Dialog — What did you say?
2 Internal Wisdom — Access your subconscious
3 Bottoms Up — Change your point of view
4 Recall Your Child Genius — Your thoughts as a child
5 Remember Your Dreams — Keep a dream diary
6 Rise and Shine — Visualize health
7 Change the Subject — Make a lens
8 The Medium is the Message — Change mediums
9 Chain Reaction— Tracking thoughts and emotions
10 Touchbase — Allowing yourself to feel
11 Objective Observation — Pure observation
12 Play With Syntax— Syntax and context
13 Happy Accident — Plan an accident for inspiration
14 Gather and Float — The art of doing nothing
15 Practice Naivete — Dare to ask a naive question
16 Simpify & Reduce — Simplify, simplify, simplify
17 Shift Focus — Change focus
18 Notice Negative Space — Understand negative space
19 Form Groups & Families — Group for understanding
20 Direct Attention — Use accents and structure
21 Arrange a Marriage — Force a new relationship
22 Go Gestalt — The psychology of perception

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Whatever you can dream is available to you, but first you must know how to use your creative potential. An artist is not defined by his work, but by the power of his creative thought. This book gives you the tools to achieve those dreams, whether you are a creative professional, a student of art, or someone interested in personal development.

Becoming an artist does not require a mastery of technique, great skills or advanced degrees, it only requires that you take the time to be an artist. Art is about change, exploration, and about the courage to know yourself.

Often we don’t accept a challenge because we fear change. Often we don’t accept a challenge because we fear change and commitment. Perhaps we are afraid, because we know deep down that a life like this takes unconditional passion, courage, and dedication. To live a consciously creative life, you have to show the forces that be that you deserve the life you want by consistently displaying these qualities. This is what Joseph Campbell calls the Hero’s Path. Make no mistake, if you follow a path of conscious change you are walking in the very footsteps of giants.

So I ask you: when will you allow yourself the life you deserve? A voice is whispering in your ear: today is the day.

New Additions to Manuscript of Parallel Mind

This week I have been up very late making changes to Parallel Mind. The changes are in the realm of some great additions to the book: illustrative diagrams and additional in-text exercises. The tenor and tone of the book have not changed, but these additions make the book more accessible. Below is an excerpt from the preface, which explains the book to the new reader.

Amit Goswami requests Parallel Mind Manuscript

I have sent press releases, sample chapters and the ebook version to various names in the fields of personal development, psychology, creative development, and science. My list of recipients of my manuscript now numbers over 100 people. Yesterday, noted theoretical nuclear and quantum physicist, Amit Goswami requested a copy of the Parallel Mind manuscript.

Amit Goswami is best known for his interview in the movie “What the Bleep Do We Know?” and for his book, “The Self-Aware Universe.” He is one of the scientists whose work I admire, and who’s philosophy most matches my own.

There are others on my list who have networks that extend to other interviewees on “What the Bleep” and to the movie “The Secret.” Another contact knows someone who works with Jack Canfield, and another knows someone who worked with Tony Robbins.

Michael Port, marketing guru and author of “Book Yourself Solid™” has added his blurb to my book.

Ah, viral marketing at work. My book is a virus, or rather, the premise of the book is a virus; everyone is creative, we just have to learn to develop and use our power of creativity for positive change. Let’s all catch the creative influenza!

Parallel Mind Soon to be Released in Print

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

“There is a treasure map inside you, a map to your deepest dreams, to a power that you have had since birth, a guide to a world of unimaginable riches.”

Encinitas, California – August 26, 2008 – Author Aliyah Marr, “The Guru of Creativity” soon to release in print the first of several books on the nature of creativity. The book is now available in ebook version for review by qualified individuals.

Parallel Mind is a book about how to access the creative force in all of us by awakening the inner child. Parallel Mind is not about how to draw or paint, but how to think like an artist. Aliyah Marr draws from her experience as a teacher, visual artist, poet, author, and designer to demonstrate how you can change your body, your profession, your relationship, and your life just by changing your thoughts.

This book celebrates the gift of creative consciousness. All great artists and creative thinkers know that the way to tap into the power of freshness and originality is to revive the creative “inner child.” The author helps you reclaim the birthright of your natural creativity through exercises designed to develop and inspire your full creative potential.

“You have the map, you have found the treasure — Parallel Mind invites you to open the lock and discover the life of your dreams.”

Design schools are interested in using Parallel Mind, The Art of Creativity as a textbook on creativity, while corporations are interested in it as a topic for leadership training and seminars. Noted individuals in the arts and sciences such as David Heenan and Temple Grandin are championing this book.

The world’s first “living book,” Parallel Mind, The Art of Creativity began in May 2007 as a conceptual art project. For an entire year the author / artist provided an interactive window into her own creative process as she wrote and edited her book in a blog online:

http://parallelmind.wordpress.com/

Aliyah Marr is a multimedia artist, graphic designer, and educator. She has explored painting, design, artistic gymnastics, sculpture, music, dance, poetry, prose, theater, and improvisational humor. As a visual artist, she works in a variety of mediums from painting and sculpture through to interactive art and video art, and has exhibited her work internationally.

A graphic designer with a stellar client list of Fortune 100 companies, the author is also a business and marketing mentor for startup companies and entrepreneurs. As an educator, she has taught graphic design, art, interactive programming, and new media at three top design schools in New York City.

The author is available for speaking engagements and seminars.

Contact:
Aliyah Marr
(please leave a comment in this blog to contact the author)
http://www.aliyahmarr.com/
http://parallelmind.wordpress.com/

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Please feel free to send “Parallel Mind” to whomever does your book reviews and author interviews.

Thank you for your time. Please enjoy the book!

Aliyah Marr

Author of Parallel Mind, The Art of Creativity
To contact, please leave comment in this blog.
http://www.linkedin.com/in/aliyahmarr (professional profile)
http://www.freshasylum.com (design firm)

Blogs and Media
http://www.planetx.tv (creative director/sr producer/show host)
http://freshasylum.wordpress.com (marketing and design)
http://selfpromotion.wordpress.com (articles on how to self-promote)
http://alteverything.wordpress.com (reports on everything alternative)