Calm Your Mind

An expertly curated collection of art and literature for all to benefit from the advantageous effects of creativity on calmness and stress reduction.

Calm Your Mind uses the power of art and ideas to quiet your racing mind and help you achieve a deep inner sense of stillness.

This exquisite book, the second from the hugely popular online emotional well-being 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, Mabel Lucie Atwell, Emile Claus, and Nikolay Nikanorovich, paired with inspiring quotations from authors such as Haruki Murakami, Rabindranath Tagore, Maya Angelou, and John Berger.

The contents page is artfully divided into 24 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 of over 1 million followers. Lisa Azarmi is the founder of Ravenous Butterflies. She is also a practicing artist, journalist, poet, curator, founding member of South London Arts Lab, and founding editor of MÜ Magazine Ltd.