Calm Your Mind
Calm Your Mind uses the power of art and ideas to quieten your racing mind and help you achieve a deep inner sense of stillness.
This exquisite book, the second from the hugely popular online emotional wellbeing community Ravenous Butterflies, is the perfect companion for those times when you're feeling agitated, overstimulated and troubled by daily stresses and worries.
It showcases a beautiful selection of 80 tranquil yet stirring landscapes, portraits and abstracts from artists and illustrators both famous and obscure, including Augustus John, Laura Knight, Emile Claus and Nikolay Nikanorovich Dubovskoy, paired with inspiring quotations from authors such as Haruki Murakami, Rabindranath Tagore, Maya Angelou and L.M. Montgomery.
The contents page is artfully divided into 18 calming journeys that suggest routes in which to navigate the book to help you cope with different emotional situations. Feeling burnt out after a hard day at work? Struggling with sleeplessness? Unable to concentrate? There's an inspiring solution for all these issues and more within the pages of this wonderful book.
Ravenous Butterflies is a popular and unique art and literature blog, which began as a Facebook page in 2013 and has since generated a devoted global fanbase. With a huge following on Facebook and Instagram, the Ravenous Butterflies brand is a transformative source of wellbeing to millions.
Lisa Azarmi is the founder of Ravenous Butterflies. She is also is a practising artist, journalist, poet, curator, founding member of South London Arts Lab and founding editor of MÜ Magazine Ltd. She is a Fine Art graduate from Goldsmiths and believes that art is not just a luxury for the few, but has a universal power to sustain positive mental health.