I Create What I Believe by Nancy Marie

I Create What I Believe!

I Create What I Believe! is a groundbreaking self-awareness art program that introduces children and adults to the art of transforming stifling beliefs that are holding them back with the mere flick of their pencil or crayon.

(Excerpt from Foreword)

"...Nancy Marie's art exercises provide children and adults with an alternative way to consciously release the stress or pressure that is building up in their system. These exercises enable the participants to both express their emotions and generate more constructive responses. They are so simple and adaptable and can be used in almost any situation to effectively redirect energy without having to consciously focus on the prevailing situation. These activities can actually become part of a child's behavioral "download" wherein they automatically provide constructive responses in place of current destructive pre-programmed responses they may be engaging now. Constructive pattern interrupts release stressful pressures, clear perceptions, and pave the way for more wholesome behaviors and resolutions."

-Bruce Lipton, Ph.D.
Author of The Biology of Belief: Unleashing the Power of Consciousness, Matter, and Miracles

Originally this program was created for the classroom teacher to help students reduce stress, increase creativity, and promote cutting edge thinking. We have since discovered that these tools are so adaptable they can be used in almost any situation and they are equally effective for adults-even the creatively timid.

The ICWIB program requires no previous artistic talent or training and is easy to learn and easy to use. Using activities as simple as scribbling, individuals learn to gain an accurate sense of their strengths and weaknesses; and the ability to step out of repetitive reactive behavior quickly and increase positive productivity. It has been used effectively in the classroom, in individual crisis intervention, for healthcare provider burnout, and with victims of trauma suffering from PTSD. A number of war veterans have found the ICWIB program to be life-changing.

The books and exploratory exercises in this new self-awareness art program are based on Nancy Marie's professional art and teaching experience and the research of Bruce Lipton, Ph.D. In 1987, while Dr. Lipton was a fellow in pathology at Stanford Medical School, his studies proved that our beliefs and perceptions control our cellular biology, and that when we change our beliefs we can change our whole life.

Dr. Lipton also found that hypnotic-like practices were the most effective way to change old beliefs that are stored in our subconscious. He felt that drawing, when approached in a noncompetitive manner, was an excellent method for transforming old beliefs, because it takes the brain into that relaxed and receptive state, which allows for the easy transformation of thought patterns and beliefs, and it is also self-initiated.

The instructional material and exploratory exercises in this transformative art program are taught in hands-on workshops are also available in the I Create What I Believe! kit.

"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate."
-Carl Gustav Jung