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  • Babitz, Eve,
    1
    ,
    2
  • Bacon, Francis,
    1
  • Bannister, Roger,
    1
  • Bargaining period,
    1
  • Barker, Raymond Charles,
    1
  • Baziotes, William,
    1
  • Beauvoir, Simone de,
    1
  • Beginners, willingness to be,
    1
    ,
    2
  • Beliefs
    • negative,
      1
    • positive,
      1
    • (
      see
      also
      Affirmations)
  • Bengis, Ingrid,
    1
  • Bernard, Claude,
    1
  • Bhagavatam, Shrimad,
    1
  • Birthing process, creative recovery as,
    1
  • Black, Claudia,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
  • Blame, and crazymakers,
    1
  • Blockage, creative
    • acknowledging and dislodging,
      1
    • blasting through,
      1
    • competition and,
      1
    • and focus on product,
      1
    • gains of,
      1
    • laziness not cause of,
      1
    • signs of,
      1
  • Blocking devices,
    1
  • Blocks to creativity, toxic,
    1
  • Blurts,
    1
    • defined,
      1
  • Bly, Robert,
    1
  • Bogan, Louise,
    1
  • Boredom,
    1
  • Botero, Fernando,
    1
  • Bottom line,
    1
  • Bottom Line, Setting (task),
    1
  • Boundaries
    • creating,
      1
    • of self, discovering,
      1
  • Brahms, Johannes,
    1
  • Brain hemispheres.
    See
    also
    Artist brain;
    • Logic brain
    • meditation and,
      1
  • Bridges, William,
    1
  • Bristol, Claude M.,
    1
  • Brontume sisters,
    1
  • Brown, Les,
    1
  • Bryan, Mark,
    1
  • Buber, Martin,
    1
  • Buddha,
    1
  • Buried dreams (exercise),
    1
  • Burnham, Sophy,
    1
  • Busoni, Ferruccio,
    1
  • Caddy, Eileen,
    1
  • Calcagno, Lawrence,
    1
  • Campbell, Joseph,
    1
    ,
    2
  • Camus, Albert,
    1
  • Cantor, Eddie,
    1
  • Capra, Fritjof,
    1
  • Careers, shadow,
    1
  • Cassavetes, John,
    1
  • Censor, internal,
    1
    ,
    2
    • blurts and,
      1
    • detaching from,
      1
      ,
      2
    • as part of logic brain,
      1
    • speed and,
      1
    • spontaneity and,
      1
    • visualizing,
      1
  • Chandler, Raymond, 1138
  • Change(s)
    • and clarity,
      1
    • with growth,
      1
    • through taking small steps,
      1
  • Chaos, and crazymakers,
    1
  • Check-in
  • Chekhov, Anton,
    1
  • Child within.
    See
    Artist child within
  • Childlike spirit, of artists,
    1
  • Chirico, Giorgio de,
    1
  • Choquette, Sonia,
    1
  • Clarity,
    1
    ,
    2
  • Clarke, Shirley,
    1
  • Clearing.
    See
    Discarding
  • Codependents.
    See
    Crazymakers
  • Collage,
    1
  • Color Schemes (task),
    1
  • Commercial artists,
    1
  • Commitment
    • in advance of availability,
      1
    • to further creative plans,
      1
    • to health,
      1
    • inner,
      1
    • to quiet time,
      1
    • synchronicity and,
      1
      ,
      2
    • of time,
      1
      ,
      2
    • (
      see
      also
      Artist date)
  • Communication,
    1
  • Compassion,
    1
    ,
    2
    • recovering sense of,
      1
  • Competition,
    1
    • snap judgments and,
      1
  • Conditioning, early,
    1
  • Connection, recovering sense of,
    1
  • Contract,
    1
    • for artist date,
      1
    • creativity,
      1
  • Control, relinquishing,
    1
  • Cooking,
    1
  • Copland, Aaron,
    1
  • Counting (exercise),
    1
  • Crazymakers,
    1
    • defined,
      1
    • techniques of,
      1
  • Creative blockage.
    See
    Blockage, creative
  • Creative living,
    1
  • Creative recovery.
    See
    Recovery, creative
  • Creative U-turn,
    1
    ,
    2
  • Creative-writing programs,
    1
  • Creativity
    • as gift of God,
      1
    • as God-energy,
      1
    • perfectionism and,
      1
    • recovery of (
      see
      Recovery, creative)
    • as spiritual issue,
      1
      ,
      2
      ,
      3
    • as tribal experience,
      1
      ,
      2
  • Creativity contract,
    1
    ,
    2
  • Creator.
    See
    God
  • Credit, desire for,
    1
  • Criticism
    • controlling,
      1
    • damaging,
      1
    • dealing with,
      1
    • perfectionism and,
      1
    • rules of the road for dealing with, 
      1
    • shaming by,
      1
      ,
      2
      ,
      3
    • timing of,
      1
    • useful,
      1
      ,
      2
      ,
      3
  • Daly, Mary,
    1
  • Davis, Miles,
    1
  • De Palma, Brian,
    1
    ,
    2
  • Deadlies, The (task),
    1
  • Degas, Edgar,
    1
  • Delacroix, Eugene,
    1
    ,
    2
  • Delight(s).
    See
    also
    Joy capacity for,
    1
    • of past, excavating,
      1
  • De Mille, Agnes,
    1
    ,
    2
  • Denial,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    • of crazymakers,
      1
    • of real feelings,
      1
  • Dependence upon others
    • freedom from,
      1
      ,
      2
    • for recognition,
      1
  • Dependency, spiritual
    • freedom from fears of abandonment and,
      1
    • versus money as source of security,
      1
    • shift to,
      1
  • Depression,
    1
  • Desires, clarifying vision of,
    1
  • Destructiveness, self-,
    1
  • Detail, in art,
    1
  • Detective work (exercise),
    1
  • Disappointments.
    See
    also
    Loss(es)
    • unmourned,
      1
  • Disassociation,
    1
  • Discarding old things,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
  • Disclosure, self-,
    1
  • Discouragement,
    1
    .
    • See
      also
      U-turns, creative
  • Doing the footwork,
    1
  • Dostoyevski, Fyodor,
    1
  • Doubts.
    See
    Self-doubt;
    • Skepticism about creative recovery
  • Dramaticism,
    1
    • crazymakers and,
      1
  • Dreams,
    1
    • remembering,
      1
  • Dropping down the well,
    1
  • Drought, period of purpose to,
    1
  • Drought, periods of,
    1
    • morning pages during,
      1
  • Drucker, Peter,
    1
  • Drugs,
    1
  • Duncan, Isadora,
    1
  • Duvall, Shelley,
    1
  • Early patternings (exercise),
    1
  • Eckhart, Meister,
    1
    ,
    2
  • Edwards, Blake,
    1
  • Ego strength,
    1
    ,
    2
  • Egotism, of perfectionists,
    1
  • Einstein, Albert,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
  • Ellington, Duke,
    1
  • Emerson, Ralph Waldo,
    1
  • Encouragement, lack of,
    1
  • Endorphins,
    1
  • Energy,
    1
    • change in patterns of,
      1
    • crazymakers and,
      1
  • Enthusiasm,
    1
  • Environment,
    1
  • Escape velocity, achieving,
    1
  • Excuses,
    1
  • Exercise
    • and creativity,
      1
    • endorphins produced by,
      1
    • goal of,
      1
      ,
      2
  • Expectations, unrealistic,
    1
  • Exploration,
    1
  • Faith,
    1
    ,
    2
    • leaps of,
      1
    • recovering sense of,
      1
  • Fame,
    1
    • as addictive,
      1
  • Fantasy,
    1
  • Fear,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
    • admission of,
      1
    • jealousy as mask for,
      1
    • negative beliefs and,
      1
  • Feelings, real versus official,
    1
  • Ferguson, Amos,
    1
  • Ferrucci, Piero,
    1
    ,
    2
  • Filling the form,
    1
    • defined,
      1
  • Filling the well,
    1
    • defined,
      1
    • through eliminating distractions,
      1
  • Flexibility,
    1
    ,
    2
  • Flow of life, sense of,
    1
  • Food,
    1
    • blocking creativity with,
      1
  • Forbidden joys (exercise),
    1
  • Frankhauser, Jerry,
    1
  • Friends,
    1
    • blocked,
      1
    • skeptical,
      1
    • supportive,
      1
      ,
      2
  • Fromm, Erich,
    1
    ,
    2

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