Practical Fairy Tales for Everyday Living
Practical Fairy Tales for Everyday Living

Author: Marty Levinson's

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2007-02-19

Total Pages: 115

ISBN-13: 0595864791

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The American Heritage Dictionary defines the term "fairy tale" as a fictitious, highly fanciful story or explanation. Can such a narrative furnish pragmatic advice on important topics like sound thinking, overcoming indecisiveness, stress reduction, emotional self-management, and getting along better with others? This book, Practical Fairy Tales for Everyday Living, shows that it can. Practical Fairy Tales for Everyday Living provides twenty-five highly fanciful stories featuring characters who successfully battle a variety of personal problems and mishaps through the formulations of general semantics, a science-based "self-help" system designed to assist individuals to better evaluate and understand everyday difficulties. (Steve Allen, polymath and author of numerous books, including Dumbth: 81 Ways to Make Americans Smarter, lists as Idea Number 81: Learn general semantics.) While the stories are not true in the literal sense of that word, the British pundit G.K. Chesterton observed that "Fairy tales are more than true-not because they tell us dragons exist, but because they tell us dragons can be beaten." Some of the stories you will find here contain plot elements from familiar literary classics and children's fairy tales. Other yarns offer completely original scenarios. All the stories have in common a desire to inform and entertain with a bit of humor. That was my purpose in writing these tales, and I hope that is your experience in reading them.

Finding Your Fairy Tale Ending
Finding Your Fairy Tale Ending

Author: Dechari Cole

Publisher: B&H Publishing Group

Published: 2013-10

Total Pages: 176

ISBN-13: 1433681250

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"The true story of a girl in search of happiness and love :a search that leads her through the wild and unpredictable world of friendships, dating, heartbreak, and loneliness."--Amazon.

Fairy Tales Can Change Your Life
Fairy Tales Can Change Your Life

Author: Alison Davies

Publisher: National Geographic Books

Published: 2023-02-14

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 1786787334

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A unique and empowering guide to using the symbolism, themes and archetypes in fairytales to improve your life using practical, creative exercises. Fight your fears, gain confidence and unlock your future using the power of fairy tales We first engage with fairy tales in childhood and they never leave us. From the "rescuer" Prince Charming to the scary, shapeshifting wolf in Little Red Riding Hood, the characters, symbolism and narratives in these stories are embedded deep within our psyches. This book offers a whole host of tips, creative activities and inspiring illustrations to help you draw on the latent power of fairy tales and apply their magic to your everyday life. These include storyboarding your own fairy tale to boost your imagination, devising a quest to build energy and confidence, and identifying your inner hero to improve your problem solving.

Symbols of the Soul
Symbols of the Soul

Author: Marianne Runberg

Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers

Published: 1993-03-01

Total Pages: 146

ISBN-13: 0857009451

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Fairy tales are part of our culture and history. They have been with many of us since we were children. During the last 20 years there has been an increasing interest in psychoanalytically-orientated interpretation of fairy tales, opening them up as a medium for therapy. The authors show that fairy tales can be used in therapy and guidance in a number of ways and on many different levels. They found that using such stories in their daily work proved beneficial for staff-members and patients alike, generating a response of interest, attention and sensitivity, underlining their point that fairy tales have an impact on, and importance for, everyone.

Paradigms and Fairy Tales
Paradigms and Fairy Tales

Author: Julienne Ford

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-09-23

Total Pages: 327

ISBN-13: 1000158284

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This book is an introduction to the epistemology and practice of social science. It provides an exposition and critique of the ideology and practice of social science, and an examination of the professional social scientist as a manipulator of ideas and appearances.

The Drug Problem
The Drug Problem

Author: Martin Levinson

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2002-08-30

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13: 0313076871

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Current approaches to the drug problem are not working and almost everyone agrees that more effective solutions are needed. This comprehensive volume offers a dynamic new approach to understanding and solving the drug problem. This text applies the techniques and formulations of general semantics to investigate and make recommendations about various aspects of drug abuse. General semantics, a process problem-solving approach based on the primacy of the scientific method and importance of language as a shaper of thoughts and perceptions, has a proven record of success in problem-solving across a wide variety of disciplines and fields. Topics examined include American drug history and policy, the legalization issue, drugs and creativity, treatment, and prevention. A chronological overview of drug-taking in human history and a resource guide are provided. One chapter offers an in-depth description of an effective drug abuse prevention model and a program using the model.

Search for the Soul in Everyday Living
Search for the Soul in Everyday Living

Author: Wayne Bloomquist

Publisher: Lotus Press

Published: 2019-03-27

Total Pages: 170

ISBN-13: 1608692191

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Excellent introduction to the Mother's teachings, including chapters on "to be conscious", concentration and meditation, progress, obstacles, etc. Search For The Soul gives the seekers practical steps which can be taken HERE AND NOW. In addition, it points out the direction and the goal, clearly and in a language that each one can grasp. The Mother's teachings touch the soul and reveal its nature with an immediacy and clarity which are undeniable.

The Enchanted Life
The Enchanted Life

Author: Sharon Blackie

Publisher: House of Anansi

Published: 2018-04-24

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 1487004087

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Taking as her starting point the inspiration and wisdom that can be derived from myth, fairy tales, and folk culture, Dr. Sharon Blackie offers a set of practical and grounded tools for enchanting our lives and the places we live, so leading to a greater sense of meaning and of belonging to the world. Enchantment. By Dr. Blackie’s definition, a vivid sense of belongingness to a rich and many-layered world, a profound and whole-hearted participation in the adventure of life. Enchantment is a natural, spontaneous human tendency — one we possess as children, but lose, through social and cultural pressures, as we grow older. It is an attitude of mind which can be cultivated: the enchanted life is possible for anyone. It is intuitive, embraces wonder, and fully engages the mythic imagination — but it is also deeply embodied in ecology, grounded in place and community. To live this way is to be challenged, to be awakened, to be gripped and shaken to the core by the extraordinary which lies at the heart of the ordinary.