I Create What I Believe! is a groundbreaking approach to drawing that enables both young and old to reduce stress, release bottled-up emotions and gain a deeper sense of self with just crayons and paper. This simple and non-threatening approach to drawing incorporates the introspective benefits of the creative process with science. This anomaly can help an individual understand how stress and trauma can impact his or her body by clouding perceptions and impairing the ability to thrive. At the same time, it offers tools to reestablish internal harmony.

The activities in this program can be used both as a response interrupt and/or a form of biofeedback. As a response interrupt, an individual can use an activity as simple as scribbling to quickly free up their mind, increase conscious awareness, activate curiosity and creativity, and enter a state of calm that quiets the subconscious mind. This enables them to move out of fight-or-flight reactivity and into their conscious thinking capacity. Activities as simple as drawing circles and straight lines can also serve as a form of biofeedback, providing an individual with a spontaneous and accurate record of how old memories and current situations affect his or her body. This information can be a source of great insight.

This program consists of two parts: a straightforward visual presentation and hands-on exploration of the drawing activities. The presentation addresses: where beliefs come from, how they mold one's life, how stress can affect one's ability to thrive and finally how to transform subconscious beliefs to allow for new growth. The hands-on activities allow each individual the opportunity to discover how different-shaped lines, color, texture, and the movement that it takes to draw their lines impacts their body/mind state.

I Create What I Believe! is so adaptable, it can be used in almost any situation without focusing on the problem or originating cause. Participants learn to use their emotions and body sensations as barometers and gauges to guide them through a series of creative activities. In the process, perceptions are cleared, old unconscious patterns are discovered and broken, and new insights are gained. Participants observe with delight as their whole systems intuitively reset themselves.

The books and exploratory exercises in this program are based on Nancy Marie's professional art experience and the research of Bruce Lipton, Ph.D. In 1987, while Dr. Lipton was a fellow in pathology at Stanford Medical School, his studies proved that our beliefs and perceptions control our cellular biology, and that when we change our beliefs we can change our whole life. Dr. Lipton also found that hypnotic-like practices were the most effective way to change old beliefs that are stored in our subconscious. He felt that drawing, when approached in a noncompetitive manner, as encouraged in the I Create What I Believe! program, was an excellent method for transforming old beliefs, because it takes the brain into that relaxed and receptive state, which allows for the easy reconfiguration of thought patterns and beliefs, and also because it is self-initiated.