- Paperback: 256 pages
- Publisher: Broadway; 1 edition (May 14 2002)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0767910079
- ISBN-13: 978-0767910071
- Product Dimensions: 17.8 x 1.3 x 22.7 cm
- Shipping Weight: 481 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #307,673 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"This book is wise, passionate and delight-full. As a teacher and performer, and now as an author, Nina Wise shows us how to bring creativity, spirituality, and joy into our day-to-day lives. I have found this book, like its author, a pleasure to know–provocative and creatively stimulating. I recommend it to anyone who wants to enliven and lighten up their lives."
–Lama Surya Das
"An empowering, joyful, and celebratory guide to a fuller life. Creativity is enhanced when we learn to play, dare to break the rules, dance, sing, laugh. Nina Wise is wise indeed! She teaches us to expand our senses and to connect body and soul while having fun. This wonderful book could change my life...."–Isabel Allende
"Nine Wise joins great talent with spiritual understanding. No one else I know so intimately joins the sublime and the absurd, surface and depth, the high and the low. Her range is enormous."–Natalie Goldberg, author of Writing Down the Bones
"Nina Wise invites us to join the dance of life in an artful world–to respond to all of life's offerings including the difficult ones with our birthright of creative expression. She shows us how our own capacity for expression can lift us out of our confusion, afford us greater understanding, and allow us to respond to our suffering with deeper compassion."
–Sylvia Boorstein, author of It's Easier Than You Think: The Buddhist Way to Happiness
–Lama Surya Das
"An empowering, joyful, and celebratory guide to a fuller life. Creativity is enhanced when we learn to play, dare to break the rules, dance, sing, laugh. Nina Wise is wise indeed! She teaches us to expand our senses and to connect body and soul while having fun. This wonderful book could change my life...."–Isabel Allende
"Nine Wise joins great talent with spiritual understanding. No one else I know so intimately joins the sublime and the absurd, surface and depth, the high and the low. Her range is enormous."–Natalie Goldberg, author of Writing Down the Bones
"Nina Wise invites us to join the dance of life in an artful world–to respond to all of life's offerings including the difficult ones with our birthright of creative expression. She shows us how our own capacity for expression can lift us out of our confusion, afford us greater understanding, and allow us to respond to our suffering with deeper compassion."
–Sylvia Boorstein, author of It's Easier Than You Think: The Buddhist Way to Happiness
Book Description
A captivating performance artist and teacher, Nina Wise has dedicated her life to tapping the wisdom that emerges from spontaneity. Under Wise's guidance, thousands have discovered the healing power of spontaneous movement, storytelling, vocalizing, and other forms of unedited self-expression. Now she shares the time-tested discoveries of her surprising and spirited workshops in A Big New Free Happy Unusual Life.
In clearly-explained, ten-minute exercises that can be performed almost anywhere, Nina Wise points the way towards a fuller, more creative life. She invites us to rediscover the body, to fall in love with language, and most of all to see the extraordinary in the ordinary. Wise's voice is invigorating and warm as she provides a remarkable antidote to anyone struggling with burnout, past traumas, everyday stresses, or specific fears. A Big New Free Happy Unusual Life helps us unlock deep sources of peace and leads us to discover the robust creativity that lies at the heart of our being.
In clearly-explained, ten-minute exercises that can be performed almost anywhere, Nina Wise points the way towards a fuller, more creative life. She invites us to rediscover the body, to fall in love with language, and most of all to see the extraordinary in the ordinary. Wise's voice is invigorating and warm as she provides a remarkable antidote to anyone struggling with burnout, past traumas, everyday stresses, or specific fears. A Big New Free Happy Unusual Life helps us unlock deep sources of peace and leads us to discover the robust creativity that lies at the heart of our being.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Flawed but VERY meaningful,
By Anteek Geek "the-anteek-geek" (Portland, OR) - See all my reviews
This review is from: A Big New Free Happy Unusual Life: Self Expression and Spiritual Practice for Those Who Have Time for Neither (Paperback)
I was very skeptical of this book (how can you not be with a name like that), but it ended up proving to be a meaningful read. It's not profound in it's concept: the author simply gives you inner "permission" to act on your impulses and emotions. These suggestions are constuctive and sneak into your thinking throughout your day. It's the kind of book that is not jaw dropping when your done, it's meaning trickles slowly and frees you a little.The author did make you feel great but my only concern is that it made her feel greater. Some passages bordered on bragging but still made you feel as though you also had something to contribute. This book proved me wrong, all in all, and is worth giving a shot.
4.0 out of 5 stars
highly recommended but seems superficial at times,
By Yerema Wisniowiecki "mlawirso" (Fargo, ND United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: A Big New Free Happy Unusual Life: Self Expression and Spiritual Practice for Those Who Have Time for Neither (Paperback)
The book contains several exercises of extreme importance for everyone's life in our present civilization, as well as valuable reflections on life and the world around us. The only problem for me was that it has ocassional "Californian" New Age flavour seen especially in the ease with which the author jumps from one spiritual tradition to another. For some readers, as it was for me, it might become a slight indication of lack of depth.The end of the book, which summarizes everything in the word "fun" was especially disappointing. It seems to me that there is a lot of sweat in every serious spiritual endeavour and "joy" (not "fun"!) is at the end of the tunnel...
5.0 out of 5 stars
WOW!!!!,
By A Customer
This review is from: A Big New Free Happy Unusual Life: Self Expression and Spiritual Practice for Those Who Have Time for Neither (Paperback)
This book is great to read however one pleases: first page to last; here and there; last page to first; etc. There are many helpful tips to creating moments of peace in life. Wise is neither pedantic nor obtuse. She offers a great deal of tools for those who would like more out of life, more joy, more excitement.
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