Tao of Maybe (eBook)

Incessant thoughts of worry and fear are a constant struggle for us mortals. Anxiety in our daily lives engages our stress system, which damages both our physical bodies and emotional well being. But it doesn't have to. And you don't have to be a Zen master to achieve a better way of life. The Tao of Maybe is a practical path to calming our minds, using the principles of 2000-year-old wisdom and the science of neuroplasticity.

Katherine's work has always focused on helping people live their best, most creative lives. As Director of the Creativity Studies Lab and Chair of eleven departments in the Language Arts Division at West Los Angeles College, she launched the first Creativity Studies and Innovation certificate program at a community college in the State of California. She spearheaded the annual The Creative Edge Creativity Conference, a TED Talk-like event around creativity, now in its third year. She is author of The West Guide to Writing and several articles on the link between Creativity and Well-Being. Katherine has presented her work at the American Creativity Association, the League for Innovation, the Torrance Creativity Roundtable, the Knowledge, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship Conference and at the Creativity Expert Exchange sponsored by the Center for Creativity Studies at SUNY, Buffalo where she is working on her MS in Creativity and Change Leadership. She is a creativity coach and principal of Make Lemonade Creativity Consulting and is developing The Creativity App. Katherine earned her PhD from Harvard University and taught there for ten years as a lecturer and Assistant Director of Undergraduate Studies where she advised 350 students in making big life decisions. She left Harvard to become a staff writer on the television show Missing (Lifetime/Lionsgate) and The Haunting Hour, and recently optioned her original pilot The Virgins (about women and faith) to Sundance and Radar. She is head writer on a 52-episode television series, NYALA, for RTI in Cote d'Ivoire, Africa. While on hiatus, she created the MFA in Creative Writing at Mount Saint Mary's University. She was a Fulbright Scholar in the Czech Republic. She continues to blend writing and innovative teaching. She has lived and worked in Paris, the Czech Republic, Rome and London, has her motorcycle license, climbed the unrestored sections of the Great Wall of China, and summited Mount Kilimanjaro and Mount Salkantay with her three children, Maximilien, Penelope, and Lily. She lives and writes in Los Angeles, California.

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Stress is the number one killer of humans. It damages our physical bodies and our emotional well being, and most of us feel almost powerless to conquer it. The Tao of Maybe is a plan to undo the stress program running our brains by applying the science of neuroplasticity to the ancient wisdom of letting go of attachment to outcome. Tao /dou/[Considered untranslatable, the exact meaning of "e;tao"e; remains elusive]. noun - the way; the path; both yin and yang, light and dark; in harmony with the natural order; the absolute principle underlying the universe; the flow of life. Maybe /mabe/adverb - possibly, perhapsA path to possibility, this book offers easy, tangible exercises to help achieve contentment in your modern life full of everyday stressors. If quantum theory posits that all possibilities exist in all time, then why not choose the happy ones. Be curious.