CJB

To cultivate a new life of feeling soul happiness:
All you have to do is practice The Soul Acts!

The hack is to just:
LOVE ✿ EVERYTHING ✿ TODAY! (In your own soulful way)

This is where things get complicated because although CJB has one mission, he has many roles!

🍂 #1 TO BE EVERYTHING HE CAN BE!

At times you could also say he is a Soul Coach (or Guide or "Soul Happiness" Coach — labels can easily grow wild!), or Alternative Soul Musical Artist, or an Alternative Digital Artist, or a Happiness Artist, and then there is the Life Artist, oh and the successful Songwriter too!

Oh and then there is the Philosopher, Blogger, Poet, the Author... Plus you have to add Project Manager, Company Director, Psychologist— oh and don't forget he's a Dad!

You could also say he's simply an "Artist", or is that a "Creator", a "Creative Artist", a "DJ", "Presenter", "Producer", a "Director" — plus a "Teacher", or is it a "Preacher" — As you can see it gets impossible to box him into one role!

CJB cannot be labelled! 👁️‍🗨️

But thankfully it is clear that he has one goal, for everyone to live a happy soul-focused life, and everything he does aligns to that goal.

This section may add to why he cannot be labelled as having one role. His journey to get to today has unfolded in ways he could never have predicted. Like many, perhaps you, he's experienced love, loss, heartache, mental health challenges, and all the other curveballs life throws our way.

Why should you follow and be influenced by him?

It's simple: He's AWAKENED himself to the ancient wisdom of seeding, growing 🌱, and living a loving, contented, soulful life—one that doesn't cost crazy money, with the essential soul happiness costing NOTHING!

Over five decades, he's accumulated enough life experience to analyze and distill life's complexities into profound insights. These aren't just answers; they're great answers we often overlook, hidden by our egos. They reveal vital truths about who you truly are and how your creative soul is central to experiencing a deeply soulful life.

Yes, he's writing a book about it... spoiler you just need to LOVE ✿ EVERYTHING ✿ TODAY!

He's also a deeply loving and empathetic person, who genuinely cares for others. This empathy might be innate, but he believes there are two key reasons behind it:

🍂 His Battle with Mental Health: He's lived with and overcome mental health issues since childhood, primarily agoraphobia, alongside a host of anxiety-related conditions like emetophobia and OCD. Later, depression joined the fray, leaving him pondering, "What is this life about, and how can I keep going?" His awakening, which he'll detail in his book, fuels his passion to assist those trapped in what he calls the "human-animal mindset."

🍂 His Diverse Work Experience: Having worked in an array of professions—from agriculture to radio presenting, from cesspool emptying to executive management—he's developed a deep understanding of people's soulful yearnings and challenges. This camaraderie born from shared struggles in various workplaces has given him a unique perspective.

It's been an honor for him to work alongside many wonderful people, each navigating their path through life and often wrestling with the "system." Here's a glimpse of his varied career:

🍂 Agriculture, real estate, sales, customer service, transportation, media, sanitation, hospitality, optics, waste management, business consultancy, caregiving, temporary work, management, project management, leadership, directing, coaching, marketing, design, and creation.

This breadth of experience has essentially given him a superpower in understanding and appreciating others.

He holds a BSc in Psychology, Creative Writing, and Linguistics, complemented by certifications like NLP Master Practitioner. These qualifications ensure his creations resonate deeply, helping you find a piece of your soul in his work and inspiring you to live a soulful life.

Creating is a profound way for CJB to connect with his soul and unravel the mysteries of love.

Often, he feels an inexplicable nudge to create, guided by a deep — rooted emotional connection with EVERYTHING and its way of communicating with his soul (read The Soul Acts for the deeper explanation).

Sometimes, the end product is a surprise even to him, revealing itself like a hidden gem only upon completion. Other times it remains a mystery — an artistic creation that needs to mature through time, like a fine wine, to be truly understood.

He strives to infuse his creations with love and positivity, yet the Tao Te Ching has taught him that exploring the darker aspects can illuminate the lighter ones, enriching the creative and educational journey. This balance is vital, much like light and shadow shape a landscape. He loves adding happy endings, or at least hidden ones that give a little light to any darkness.

He pours his soul into every creation, nurturing each piece from concept to completion:

✿ Content Creation:
Every blog post originates with him. He personally writes, edits, and composes everything you experience here, finding immense satisfaction in tending to this process.

His Creative Process – How a "CJB" Blog Post Comes to Life:

✿ Writing:
He crafts the lyrics, poems, or blog content himself.

✿ Artwork Creation:
He leverages AI text—to—image technology, but the journey remains deeply personal. The only difference between the old art masters of our era and what CJB does is speed in one part of the artistic journey. That is not evil or against art; it is just possible to do these days. So, instead of trawling the imagination and putting down on canvas what one thinks should be shared with the world, with AI you have the magical ability of painting hundreds of canvases and then choosing which visual you wish to pursue further.

Once CJB has an AI image which only came into existence because he prompted it — usually with one of his poems — that is when the "old — fashioned," painstaking journey of the artist begins.

He is not confined by any medium but has (even before the digital technology existed) loved to create digitally. Again, it is a soul — driven feeling hard to explain to others. So, it could be a real — life canvas and oils, but he tends to digitally modify the image — cutting, recoloring, filtering, reshaping — until the artwork resonates directly with his soul's vision.

Digital collage artwork is a growing feature; it helps portray the anxious and bored mind he has had to tackle all of his life. Modern — day terms like agoraphobia and ADHD are labels, but he is not that keen on labels, as you know.

It's absolutely crucial to CJB that his work bears his distinct creative DNA. It is 100% not a "one — click" artwork because of AI. That is the kind of work he does not support, especially because it gives artists who use AI a tarnished name.

But being a positive, soulful person, CJB says, "Bring it on." Time will tell. Ultimately, everyone is a critic, but he loves what he does, and that is the main point.

✿ "SOUNDS": Sounds are a vital part of CJB's creative process. Most people never realize that most, if not all, of his works — from short Instagram reels to longer YouTube videos — are compiled by him painstakingly seeking out sounds and weaving them into the fabric of the visuals. He makes it look like those sounds were always there. That is the aim; if nobody notices, it is a great silent compliment. CJB SOUNDS is the cherry on top, bringing these sounds into a musical story that spreads soul happiness today.

✿ Song Composition (CJB SOUNDS):
Like his artwork, the mention of AI has caused an uphill battle with the purists — whom, ironically, CJB defends at all costs. The soul is crucial and needs to be reflected in all music or else its sincerity is lost; most certainly, the outward love is not there if what produces it cannot love.

As time has gone by, CJB SOUNDS has made it clear as a PRS & MCPS Songwriter and Composer that his aim is to create musical poetry that represents the end results. If those who hear a song feel soul happiness, then the song has succeeded.

Ultimately, the plan is to keep adding human voices and instruments whenever possible to make a cover of each AI music — sheet track 100% human. After all, this is about growing a musical experience that people feel soul happiness achieving and hearing. The future is exciting. Please continue to follow on the music channels you use.

Video Production:
He handles all aspects of video production himself — editing, arranging images, and background videos. This process can be labor — intensive, sometimes taking months for the vision to fully blossom.

Beyond Music Videos:
His creativity isn't confined. He explores writing, drawing, sculpting, and more, always guided by what feels right to his soul's whisper. Basically, The Act of Creativity to CJB is like being a boy in a toy store; today is always exciting and wonderful, looking around at what to create, how to do it, and, of course, sharing it with you.

In essence, CJB's creations are a blend of his soul's guidance and his human touch, designed to genuinely impact you. Hopefully, you'll recognize the "CJB" mark rooted deep within his work. If not, he encourages you to tell him. Your feedback is valued.

In June 2024, he found a delightful creative challenge: a daily poetry prompt on social media called #vss365. This immediately took over his blog (before it even officially launched!), and he makes no apologies! It introduced him to an amazing community, sparking his creativity and setting his ideas flowing. He fully embraced this unplanned shift, seeing it as a perfect example of "going with the flow" and "not worrying what others think."

He still engages with #vss365; it's deeply special to his creative journey. He's also introduced a new prompt, #Creating365, right here on this blog.

If you're a creator who enjoys daily playful challenges, he highly recommends adopting these hashtags to regularly boost your creativity, which in turn leads to happiness and fulfillment. For newcomers wondering about the context of many posts, this section should have helped clarify things.

Sometimes, the truest wisdom doesn’t fit neatly at the start. So here we are—at the heart of it—where the best discoveries often live.

You are the very soil where this blog’s purpose takes root. Without your presence, this soul revolution cannot grow.

And understand—this connection isn’t a strategy. It’s real.

For years, CJB has shared his work freely, driven by one thing: the deep desire to ease unnecessary suffering and offer grounded, transformative wisdom that helps your days feel brighter, richer, and more alive.

Let’s explore what Soul Happiness means for you. It’s not about a forced smile or constant positivity. It’s a deep, natural mental state—a quiet sense of inner balance you’d choose to inhabit again and again. And it’s about offering that same grounded presence to others.

This state of quiet bliss can bloom from life’s simplest rhythms: the joy of play, the dance of connection, the warmth of a shared embrace, or the quiet act of helping another. CJB’s work exists to help you touch this feeling often—like discovering a spring that never dries.

While this space welcomes all, it holds special solace for those walking through loss, anxiety, grief, broken relationships, illness, or the silent burn of feeling disconnected in a noisy world. If you’ve ever felt that, you already know: the urge to rise above the ego and reclaim your soul’s voice isn’t just a desire—it’s a remembering.

CJB’s deepest hope is that you awaken your creativity—to see that you already have the artistry to transform even the toughest chapters into a masterpiece of soul happiness. And that all of it begins with one conscious act.

This corner of the web—and CJB’s wider creative universe—exists to help strengthen your inner wisdom as you walk through life’s unfolding terrain.

So here’s a seed to carry with you: rather than seeing life as "ups and downs," embrace it as it is. Trust that EVERYTHING is—and always will be—wonderful, even when your human-animal mind can’t yet see why.

CJB holds deep love for you. This blog and community are rooted in that. Begin to feel that soul happiness now—
and LOVE ✿ EVERYTHING ✿ TODAY!