Special Edition ColourThe Creative Healing playbook was created as a companion workbook to the book 9 Steps to Creative Healing. In this book you will learn how to:• Create you own goals• Work through your limitations • Create your own affirmations • Create a support circle• Get in touch with your creative desires• Find a way to create movement in your life• Develop a relationship with yourself• Develop a spiritual practice• Review your personal development progress.This playbook can be used as an additional therapeutic tool for therapists, counsellors, workshop leaders, personal development circles or individually at ones own pace.
All across the country, a groundbreaking movement is forming in the field of health care: art and medicine are becoming one, with remarkable results. In major medical centers such as the University of Florida, Duke, University of California, and Harvard Medical School, patients confronting life-threatening illness and depression are using art, writing, music, and Dance to heal body and soul. ¥ A woman with breast cancer who has never made art before finds healing and empowerment by creating sculpture. ¥ A man with AIDS uses journaling to overcome feelings of despair and helplessness. ¥ A woman suffering from depression following her divorce learns to dance for the first time in her life--and in he body's movement she rediscovers a sense of play and joy. ¥ A musician gives meaning to his art by helping people with illness transform their life through music. ¥ Physicians and nurses are beginning to use creativity to complement and enhance their medical practice. Creative Healing presents readers with the inspiring ways in which the arts (painting, writing, music, and dance) can free the spirit to heal. In one volume, the authors detail the transformative power of a diverse range of artistic activity. Michael Samuels, MD, has over twenty-five years of experience working with cancer patients and is the best-selling author of Seeing with the Mind's Eye and The Well Baby Book. He teams up with fellow pioneer Mary Rockwood Lane, RN, PhD, to share their extraordinary findings on the healing powers of the arts. Through guided imagery, personal stories, and practical exercises, they teach you how to find your inner artist-healer, enabling you to improve your health, attitude, and sense of well being by immersing yourself in creative activity. Both Samuels and Lane offer invaluable insight through their personal journeys and extensive groundbreaking research, noting that prayer, art, and healing come from the same source--the human soul. Because there lies an artist and healer within each of us, Creative Healing is an invaluable resource for anyone wishing to discover the beauty of music, dance, writing or art and connect with a deeper part of oneself. Filled with inspiration and guidance, it will help you make changes in your life and the lives of others and gain access to the sacred place where inner peace exists.
This artfully designed playbook combines the benefits of creative expression and journaling (reflection through writing), makes space for grieving and enables healing.
Creative Healing is a book about using the gift of creativity to overcome adversity and struggle. It may be physical, mental, emotional, or spiritual. You can heal by being creative. This is a story of a woman who navigated through mental illness and addiction with her creative outlets and how she learned to redirect her mind. It is about seeing life through a child's eyes, once again, with wonder and amazement. It is also about being authentically YOUnique, believing in yourself, having variety in your life, using your imagination, making your dreams come true, being grateful, and having a spiritual connection with God. There are many ways to perceive this book. It was written in the hopes that you will find healing by tapping into your creative side. Everyone is creative in their own ways. It does not have to be art, writing, or music. It could be cooking a delicious meal a new way, fixing a car, a science experiment, or any other subject YOU like to do. It is all a matter of preference. There are some exercises. They may seem silly, but the creative side of us is an inner child. Let the child play!
The final and conclusive writing for healing from brain trauma is here. While the Heads Up! Trilogy was created to be a three-book series that led those with brain injuries to experience the best outcomes, new research on healing has shown that integration and creativity are powerful forces that can add to recovery. This fourth book is an essential part of healing head injury by integrating the brain hemispheres and releasing the brain's full potential to bring surprising achievement. Creativity and healing reinforce each other and are surprising methods of discovering new directions to bring a more fulfilling recovery. Choosing to read included poems or contribute your own to guide you with your recovery brings meaningful methods of unique healing that the brain needs.
Are you either an adolescent who is first asking, "Who am I?" or an adult who may be revisiting this ever significant question? Living creatively is a natural state of being with which all are endowed. Scientific study now confirms the connection linking the creative process to personal well-being. The Creativity Journal and Playbook uses drawing and writing activities for play and to stimulate your personal growth, creating an opportunity for you to move into the world with greater insight, confidence, hope, respect, and love for others as well as yourself.
Heal yourself and your community with this proven 12-week program that uses the arts to awaken your innate healing abilities. From musicians in hospitals to quilts on the National Mall—art is already healing people all over the world. It is helping veterans recover, improving the quality of life for cancer patients, and bringing communities together to improve their neighborhoods. Now it’s your turn. Through art projects, including visual arts, dance, writing, and music, along with spiritual practices and guided imagery, Healing with the Arts gives you the tools to address what you need to heal in your life—physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual. An acclaimed twelve-week program lauded by hospitals and caretakers from around the world, Healing with the Arts gives you the ability to heal your family and your friends, as well as communities where you’ve always wanted to make a difference. Internationally known leaders in the arts in medicine movement, Michael Samuels, MD, and Mary Rockwood Lane, RN, PhD, show you how to use creativity and self-expression to pave the artist’s path to healing.
Creative Healing is based on four basic principles that help the body to do its own healing. Those principles are to maintain normal temperature, to create a vacuum, to reposition substance, and to remove congestion. Joseph B. Stephenson, the founder of Creative Healing, was an advanced healer who perfected a method so efficient that even as a beginner you will experience wonderful results. This book provides an introduction to this natural and effective method of healing.
Creative Healing is a gift to humankind through Joseph B Stephenson. It is a natural healing method that can be used to help self, loved ones and clients to relieve pain and return to health. This comprehensive book provides illustrated instructions for treating ailments and symptoms of all kinds, from cardiac arrhythmias, to whiplash, to back and pelvic pain, to respiratory problems.
A leader in art therapy shares powerful developments in the field and provides a road-map for unlocking the spiritual and emotional healing benefits of creative expression The field of art therapy is discovering that artistic expression can be a powerful means of personal transformation and emotional and spiritual healing. In this book, Shaun McNiff—a leader in expressive arts therapy for more than three decades—reflects on a wide spectrum of activities aimed at reviving art’s traditional healing function. In chapters ranging from “Liberating Creativity” and “The Practice of Creativity in the Workplace” to “From Shamanism to Art Therapy,” he illuminates some of the most progressive views in the rapidly expanding field of art therapy, including: • The “practice of imagination” as a powerful force for transformation • A challenge to literal-minded psychological interpretations of artworks (“black colors indicate depression”) and the principle that even disturbing images have inherent healing properties • The role of the therapist in promoting an environment conducive to free expression and therapeutic energies • The healing effects of group work, with people creating alongside one another and interacting in the studio • “Total expression,” combining arts such as movement, storytelling, and drumming with painting and drawing
