Eric Maisel Books

THE ULTIMATE GUIDE FOR PROFESSIONAL COACHES AND SELF-COACHES In this first-of-its-kind book, a revered master coach explains exactly how coaches can conduct meaning-filled sessions — and how clients can best benefit from the coaching they receive. Eric Maisel presents thirteen weeks of short daily lessons where you’ll learn the nuts and bolts of coaching — what to say when, how to ask questions, and crucially, how to manifest the spirit of coaching. Maisel guides you to: • understand yourself so that you can better understand others. • prep for coaching with a deep awareness of your and your clients’ goals and mission. • ask quality questions, handle defensiveness, and grapple with limited progress. • cheer and encourage to get action and results. Supremely practical, each of Maisel’s lessons ends with exercises and a journal prompt. The result is an easy-to-use, field-tested guide for current coaches and coaches in training (as well as managers, mentors, and teachers) and an invaluable resource for anyone working with a coach or thinking about working with one.

In Why Smart Teens Hurt, Dr. Eric Maisel, best-selling author of Why Smart People Hurt, and one of the world's leading experts on the issues of childhood, shares a unique exploration of the teen problems adolescents face. Maisel guides us on what it's like to inhabit the racing, often troubled realm of teenage psychology, and he provides powerful strategies to help parents and smart teens alike.

Creativity Coaching Essentials shows people how to become more effective creators by guiding them through 12 self-coaching lessons. Eric Maisel, a leading creativity coach, writes each lesson with a novelist's flair, as a narrative complete with examples, exercises, and questions to help readers explore and reflect on underlying issues that may be keeping them from pursuing their urge to create. Topics include committing, planning and doing, generating mental energy, achieving a centered presence, becoming an anxiety expert, upholding your dream, and maintaining a creative life. Maisel has worked extensively with creative people — poets, filmmakers, novelists, dancers — and he revisits some of them in coaching sessions in San Francisco, Paris, London, and New York. Typical are the rock musician who wants to pursue a solo career and the screenwriter anxious to become a poet. Their examples both entertain and instruct, outlining how to discover one's personal muse — and the motivation to keep creating.

Creative people will experience depression--that's a given. It's a given because they are regularly confronted by doubts about the meaningfulness of their efforts. Theirs is a kind of depression that does not respond to pharmaceutical treatment. What's required is healing in the realm of meaning. In this groundbreaking book, Eric Maisel teaches creative people how to handle these recurrent crises of meaning and how to successfully manage the anxieties of the creative process. Using examples both from the lives of famous creators such as van Gogh and from his own creativity coaching practice, Maisel explains that despite their inevitable difficulties, creative people possess the ability to forge relationships, repair themselves, and find meaning in their work and their lives. Maisel presents a step-by-step plan to help creative people handle their special brand of depression and rediscover the reasons they are driven to create in the first place.

Focusing on the issue of parental emotional abuse, the book reveals the pervasive nature of authoritarian parenting and its impact on children. It offers essential insights into recognizing toxic behaviors and provides effective healing strategies for those affected. Readers will discover ways to break free from the cycle of abuse and embark on a journey towards emotional recovery and personal freedom.

Challenging the traditional belief in a singular life purpose, this book explores how religious teachings and societal expectations shape our understanding of meaning. It delves into the complexities of personal fulfillment, encouraging readers to embrace a multifaceted approach to purpose. By examining various perspectives, it invites a re-evaluation of what it means to lead a meaningful life, ultimately promoting a more inclusive and flexible understanding of individual aspirations.

“Maisel intimately understands the anxieties of the creative process and the psychological landscape that artists inhabit. Strong on the psychology, he is equally strong on practicalities.” —  The Writer MagazineAre you a painter, writer, actor, dancer, musician, or would-be creative? Are you stuck in the process of creating and sharing your art?In Unleashing the Artist Within , Eric Maisel, PhD offers lessons, anecdotes, and real-life case studies that will help you unlock your creative powers. Dr. Maisel focuses on the reality of artistic development, explaining that unfinished and disappointing works are not a matter of personal weakness or unfortunate circumstances; they are simply daily occurrences in the lives of imaginative people. His twelve lessons demonstrate how to recover from dashed hopes and restore lost meaning. Helpful exercises show how to work through the process, managing the daily grind and pushing past everyday resistance.

This book offers meditations and guidance specifically tailored for creative and performing artists, aiming to nurture the creative spirit within everyone. It serves as a source of self-help and inspiration, encouraging readers to explore their artistic potential and overcome creative blocks. Through thoughtful reflections, it seeks to empower individuals on their artistic journeys.

Using cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) methods, Eric Maisel, PD, guide you through sixty days of simple visualizations; at the end of those two months you will have redecorated your mind and changed not only what you think but how you think. Each visualization addresses a different challenge and together they form a complete program for cognitive growth, healing, and change.

The challenges smart and creative people encounter{u2014}from scientific researchers, genius award winners, to bestselling novelists, Broadway actors, high-powered attorneys, and academics{u2014} often include anxiety, over-thinking, mania, sadness, and despair. Specifically, Dr. Maisel examines: ?racing brain syndrome? living in an anti-intellectual culture finding ideas worth loving dealing with boredom and hypersensitivity finding meaning in their lives and their work struggling to achieve successIn Why Smart People Hurt, psychologist Dr. Eric Maisel draws on his many years of work with the best and the brightest to pinpoint these often devastating challenges and offer solutions based on the groundbreaking principles and practices of natural psychology. His thoughtful strategies include using logic and creativity to cope with the problems of having a brain that goes into overdrive at the drop of a hat. With a series of questions at the end of each chapter, he guides the reader to create his or her own roadmap to a calm and meaningful life. Why Smart People Hurt is a must-read for parents of gifted children as well as the millions of smart and creative people that are searching for a more meaningful life. For more information please visit: www.whysmartpeoplehurt.com

"Maisel has a wonderful voice ... reads like a gritty, fluent love letter." -- Chris Delorenzo, Laguna Writers Workshop. Stroll San Francisco's twisting streets, climb its famous hills, explore bohemian landmarks like City Lights Bookstore, and check out charming, lesser-known neighborhoods. These 30 essays by creativity coach Eric Maisel conjure up the city's past and present writers, including Twain, Ferlinghetti, and Kerouac. San Francisco natives and visitors, armchair travelers, and artistic souls will find ample inspiration in this enchanted journey through one of the world's most inspiring cities.

A motivational journal with prompts, positive affirmations, inspirational quotes, and age-old wisdom, Affirmations for Self-Love is an invitation to listen to your inner self and be inspired.Â

Gibt es einen Sinn in unserem Leben nur mit Glauben, Gott und Religion? Erlangt unser Leben auf dieser Erde nur Bedeutung durch unser Fortbestehen in einem Jenseits? Eric Maisel beantwortet in diesem Buch beide Fragen mit einem klaren Nein! und zeigt auf frische und faszinierende Weise wie wir die Launen des Daseins freudig umarmen und dabei ein Leben voller Integrität und Bedeutung erschaffen können, ohne auf übernatürliche Erklärungen oder Tröstungen zurückgreifen zu müssen. Ein sinnvolles Leben fällt laut Maisel nicht in den Zuständigkeitsbereich eines Gottes oder einer entsprechenden Religion, sondern liegt einzig und allein in unserer eigenen Verantwortung. Informativ, unterhaltsam, bissig, witzig und mit einem glasklaren Verstand gesegnet, zeigt Maisel wie wir diese Verantwortung übernehmen, wie wir mit scheinbarer Bedeutungslosigkeit umgehen, wie wir unseren selbst gestifteten Sinn aufrechterhalten und wie wir aktiv unsere eigene Moral entwickeln. Ganz nebenbei erfahren wir noch viel über die 'Tradition' des Atheismus und ihrer Vertreter in allen Kulturen. Ein lohnenswertes und wichtiges Buch!

Uprostřed neustále na nás doléhajících životních problémů a tlaků může efektivní metoda desetivteřinové koncentrace pomoci proměnit strach, starosti a obavy v klid, sílu a soustředěnost. Snadno pochopitelná a jednoduchá technika Základní metodou popsanou v knize Deset zenových vteřin je využití jediného hlubokého nádechu a výdechu doplněné o konkrétní myšlenku. Tato kniha kombinuje východní principy založené na vědomém dýchání a všímavosti s principy západní pozitivní psychologie a představuje čtenáři meditativní zaklínadla jako účinný lék proti stresu, prokrastinaci a úzkosti. Tato metoda je jednoduchá, lze ji snadno pochopit, zvládnout a praktikovat. Používat ji může každý, kdykoliv a kdekoliv, každému přináší hluboké benefity. Změňte své základní postoje k životu S její pomocí poznáte, že dokážete dělat i věci, které se vám dříve zdály příliš bolestivé nebo příliš obtížné, něž abyste se o ně byť jen pokusili. Rovněž zde objevíte způsoby, jak se zklidnit a koncentrovat před důležitou schůzkou nebo rozhovorem. Nakonec budete schopni změnit svůj základní postoj k životu, namísto úzkosti či pesimismu budete pozitivně naladěni, těšící se hlubokému vnitřnímu klidu.

Kreativita nám pomáhá dělat lépe jakoukoli činnost, je pro nás důležitou schopností ve všem, co podnikáme. Všichni jistě chápeme, že kreativní potenciál umožňuje umělci intenzivněji a autentičtěji tvořit. Ale každou práci lze vykonávat s využitím kreativity a každý život lze prožívat s využitím tvůrčích schopností. Ať už jste malíř, nebo vedoucí pracovník, úředník, nebo odborník na informační služby, přemýšlení o těchto otázkách a práce s kreativitou vám přinese značný prospěch. Autor Tréninku kreativity nabízí čtenářům na každý týden v roce program, který jim umožní rozvinout jejich tvořivý potenciál. V jednotlivých týdnech se za pomoci tohoto programu mohou zabývat různými aspekty tvořivého procesu a současně využít praktické podněty k rozvinutí těchto oblastí kreativity ve vlastním životě. Kniha je tedy určena lidem se zájmem o kultivaci svého života