How to Relax - Tips and Techniques to Calm the Mind, Body and Soul

Explore new creative challenges with inspiring exercises and art projects to develop your skills, and study the stunning feature drawings that showcase every artistic technique and show you how that technique can be applied. Artist's Drawing Techniques will help you tap into your creative potential and unlock new talents.

Life's journey is not always smooth sailing, but there are ways of charting your own course. This compact book is packed with simple but effective tips and advice to ease your mind in times of turbulence, and help you find calm in every situation.

A tidy mind is a calm mind. Through a series of easy-to-follow tips, this book will help you clear your mental clutter, improve your clarity and find peace.Do you ever feel frazzled and unable to concentrate? Are you drained by the never-ending to-do list in your head? Would you like to feel more in control? If the answer is "yes", you are not alone - and it might be time to give your mind a spring clean.Mental clutter is anything in your head that takes up time and energy, and when there's too much, the mind becomes exhausted. But with a few simple techniques, you can bring order to your inner world and find a sense of peace again.This guide will help you to:Learn what mental clutter is and how it manifestsIdentify the causes of your mental clutter - from to-do lists, to decision-making and information overloadReduce the burden on your mind and improve your mental clarityKeep your mind tidy over the long termHow to Tidy Your Mind will help you say "no" to mental clutter and "yes" to f…

FERRANDI Paris, the French School of Culinary Arts-dubbed the “Harvard of gastronomy” by Le Monde newspaper-provides the ultimate reference on cooking with vegetables.Infusing mealtimes with delicious vegetarian and flexitarian options has never been more important. Drawing on the expertise of the world-renowned professional culinary school FERRANDI Paris, this book offers a complete course on vegetables, with fifty step-by-step techniques for preparing, chopping, and cooking vegetables for optimal flavor, and more than seventy recipes.Following advice on how to equip your kitchen, the essential techniques cover everything from grating, seeding, and pureeing to poaching, blanching, and roasting more than eighty different vegetables varieties. The recipes-from smoothies, soups, and soufflés to curries, risottos, and tarts-lead aspiring chefs through every step, from basic tips to Michelin-level creations.Written by the school's experienced teaching team of master chefs and adapted for t…

A toolkit of accessible, science-backed strategies, How to Calm Your Mind reveals the path to a less anxious life, and even greater productivity, through calm.Chris Bailey, researcher and productivity expert, realized he had burnt out. He was pushing himself too hard, and realized that productivity advice is useless without the mental space to use it.Productivity advice works - and we need it now more than ever - but it's just as important that we also develop our capacity for calm. By finding calm and overcoming anxiety, we don't just feel more comfortable in our own skin, we invest in the missing piece that leads our efforts to become sustainable over time. We build a deeper, more expansive reservoir of energy to draw from throughout the day, and have greater mental resources at our disposal not only to do good work, but also to live a good life.Among the topics How to Calm Your Mind covers are:- How analogue and digital worlds affect calm and anxiety in different ways- How our desir…

With expert advice from artists and illustrators working in a range of styles - from classic to cutting-edge contemporary -this book will equip you with the skills and confidence to develop your own style and grow as an artist.

Find calm with this little book. Offering tips to help you let go of stress, and a collection of inspiring quotes to help you unwind, it's an antidote to the bustle of every day.You might think that "being calm" means being unfazed by stressful events - but nobody is completely immune to worry, anxiety or concern. In fact, these feelings are a normal and vital part of the human experience.Being calm is all about how you deal with these feelings, and this little book is here to help you navigate them. Within these pages you will find a raft of simple but effective tips to help you manage your emotions and think clearly, including:How to recognize stress in your bodyMindfulness exercisesHow to manage anxiety in the momentCalming self-care ideasBreathe in... breathe out... and let this book be your guide to staying calm and feeling good.

This book includes over 60 prompts and ideas to help you pause for peace and connect to calm every single day - and each tip takes no longer than five minutesPockets of calm are all around us, even on the busiest of days - and they're easy to find when you know where to look. All you need is five minutes. Guiding you through each stage of your day, these soothing rituals will help you to recentre yourself and rise above everyday stresses.Tips include:- How to incorporate mindfulness into your routine- Starting the day with a relaxation exercise and a calming mantra- Visualizing what calm looks like to you- Writing down your worries to gain focus and perspectiveEven the smallest moment of calm can transform your outlook, so whether you follow one tip or many, you're sure to de-stress, boost your well-being and find clarity and calm every day.

From the air fryer experts, this is your comprehensive go-to resource, with something for every day, every meal and every taste. Whether you are a busy parent, a budget-conscious student, a health-focused home cook or cooking for one, an air fryer is the perfect choice for your kitchen - it's energy efficient, uses minimal fat and creates crispy, flavourful food, often in half the time of a traditional oven. The Complete Air Fryer Cookbook delivers all the recipes and know-how you need to make the most of this game-changing appliance. Authors Sam and Dom Milner have lived and breathed air-fryer cooking for more than 10 years. As the creators of the highly successful website RecipeThis.com, they offer exactly the recipes you are looking for, along with excellent tips on how to get the most delicious results. This beginner-friendly book features 140 recipes for every meal, from breakfasts and baking to family roasts and healthy (and budget-friendly) alternatives to takeaways:   Honey Ga…

ABOUT THE SERIES: I Can Draw teaches a variety of specialist drawing styles, aimed at beginners or those wishing to hone their skills. With step-by-step instructions and practice grids to try out new techniques, these full-colour drawing guides will help artists bring their ideas into actuality.