Open The Valve: The New Path To Creative Play

By John Klymshyn

Open The Valve is a book for the creative soul.
The author has studied, explored, and been engaged in creative pursuits for more than fifty years, as a musician, recording artist, performer, professional speaker, and other endeavors.
This is the third work in an ongoing series exploring unique intersections: The intersection between Rest & RiskThe intersection between Language and MusicThe intersection between The Brain and The MindWhat does it mean to live a creative life?
How is the thinking (and the mindset) that we engage in all day, day to day, relevant?
This book (and audio book) offers immediate insight, as the author wrote the work as a multi - week exercise in stream of consciousness creativity. Over the course of five years, John Klymshyn discussed the formation of a Mindset that opened up the thinking of people around the globe. His consulting practice surprises people, as they delve into arenas of thought that are unhindered by previous experience, or standards of expectation.

People practicing the thinking patterns in this work elevate their aspirations, and deepen their connection to what they create, how they create, and why they create.

The author explains further:
"The book unfolds in six separate sections, with several segments in each section. The Ideas and frameworks fall under thought processes that lived independently and that were part of my practice (tangibly, on my desk, scratched out on 5x8 blank index cards) intangibly occurring in conversation and collaboration over a ten year period. Once that stack of cards had a heft to them, I considered how to organize the ideas.
On a quiet morning in my studio, it occurred to me that I had been addressing various arenas of thought with people from Sydney to San Francisco, from Miami to Munich, and that all six of these Themes were relevant, had resonance, regardless of a native language, social strata, background or convictions."

Thought is where it all starts. Rest is not where anything ends... but these are the parenthetical concepts and two of the crucial components.
This work is lays out a fun, honest, productive approach, addressing How To Think, Plan, Execute, Contribute and Create, reliably, with fervor, and with JOY.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0H3B1SKR1
• ISBN13: 9798234070449
• Release Date: June 2026
• Publisher: Klymshyn Method / Agent of the Klymshyn Famil
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"