The Healing Way of Beauty: A Manual for Holistic Health, Wellness, Balance and Recovery offers a perspective on health and wellness from a natural and alternative medicine point of view. Who should read this book? Any person who is currently struggling with acute or chronic illness. Anyone who knows someone else who is struggling. We explore the Foundations of Healing. This is a book that can benefit patients, families, and caregivers alike. While it does not intend to offer advice or guidance for specific conditions, this manual explores the potential for wellness contained in the section titled The Healing Toolbox. Particular emphasis is placed on Mind Body Medicine and an integrative view of the whole person.
The Healing Way of Beauty: A Manual for Holistic Health, Wellness, Balance and Recovery offers a perspective on health and wellness from a natural and alternative medicine point of view. The focus goes beyond the individual, to the entire community and our collective efforts to achieve benefit from good health care.Who should read this book? Any person who is currently struggling with acute or chronic illness. Anyone who knows someone else who is struggling. We explore the Foundations of Healing.This is a book that can benefit patients, families, and caregivers alike. While it does not intend to offer advice or guidance for specific conditions, this manual explores the potential for wellness contained in the section titled The Healing Toolbox.Particular emphasis is placed on Mind Body Medicine and an integrative view of the whole person. None of us live in isolation, so we must include our understanding of who we are as individuals, in our families and communities, in our own cultures and belief systems.This book of course is not intended to replace responsible care and direction form health care professionals.
In a time of uncertainty and devastation--from pandemics to environmental catastrophe--a call to action for finding beauty, creating art, and healing in community. When a beloved place is decimated by physical damage, many may hit the donate button or call their congressperson. But award-winning author Trebbe Johnson argues that we need new methods for coping with these losses and invites readers to reconsider what constitutes “worthwhile action.” She discusses real wounded places ranging from weapons-testing grounds at Eglin Air Force Base, to Appalachian mountain tops destroyed by mining. These stories, along with tools for community engagement—ceremony, vigil, apology, and the creation of art with on-site materials—show us how we can find beauty in these places and discover new sources of meaning and community.
Inspired by the Navajo traditions Beauty Way, this book acts as an exposition on various vital aspects of life, as well as how to uncover and create true beauty within them all. Author Lori Myles-Carullo struggled with chronic illness for many years and, through the depth of her own healing journey, developed a passion for sharing the wisdom she gained in the process. The essence of beauty explored here is neither about personal appearance nor image, but rather the rich, lived experience of the heart awakening to love and letting go of fear. Each one of us has a great capacity for radical honesty, courage, and transformationand often life provides us with exactly what we need to draw these forth in dramatic and powerful ways. Whether our wake-up calls occur through loss, transition, illness, or relationship struggles, we all have the choice to either contract or expand through our experiences, creating therefore less or more beauty in our lives and the lives of others. Beautys Way gifts you with practical suggestions, through personal story and anecdote, of how to bring more beauty to your existence and to the greater whole. Each chapter ends with specific exercises that will assist you in gaining greater awareness into key parts of lifesome naturally thought of as good, such as love and joy, as well as other, more challenging ones that we often do our best to distract ourselves from due to fear, including pain and grief. By offering our heartfelt compassion and love to it all, a greater realization and manifestation of healing beauty is forever possible.
The Beauty Way is based on Andean Wisdom, a philosophy that arises from the same universal source of truth as all esoteric teachings: clear your heart, love deeply, harmonize your thoughts and feelings, align your efforts to do your best, and respect the natural environment. Compiled from the authors lectures on the Beauty Way to be used by readers for personal self-empowerment and for teachers of the Munay-Ki Rites, Ceremonial Shamanism teaches a way of life that embodies ethical, moral, and spiritual guidelines, shares the importance of honoring the Divine through ceremony, and introduces techniques to help the reader connect to the Shamanic path. Empower yourself with self-healing information and techniques, and learn how to change your personal dream! Contact the authors at WalkingtheBeautyWay.com or ftha-ul.com.
The Way of Beauty flows like the Tao. It is a book of wisdom, compassion, strength, and love transmitted to the reader via Oshun's delicate yet powerful words. Taken from her experiences of healing tumors in her body, Oshun traveled and gave way to the knowledge of the Divine, the earth, and her people; she listened, and this unique guidance is the manifestation. Oshun was healed by the words, and it is her passion to share this guidance with others. A book for the soul.
The birth of my healing came about in the most unusual and surprising way. My first session with my therapist came to a close and we were putting the horses away. We closed the gate and I took one more look at May, the mare, and put my fingers through the fence to reach for her. May gently pressed back on my fingers and in this silent moment her message to me was firm. This was my first personal communication with her and it was crystal clear: You are finally safe now.
Beauty is a quality that all humans possess by virtue of existence. It must not be trapped in the eye of the beholder because beholders can misunderstand, devalue, and abuse. Distorted understandings of beauty can corrupt a person’s every thought, feeling, and relationship, not to mention the whole of society! Healing Beauty grapples with the meaning of beauty while taking into consideration the world’s many broken views of and responses to it. This book follows one narrative of survival, grief, faith, and love, acknowledging that the answer is not always found within oneself. Healing Beauty is also a challenge to the views of women and of beauty held by individuals, the Christian church, and our society as a whole. It portrays the ugly portions of the healing process, the small victories, and the many thoughts and feelings along the way, inviting the reader to journey with the author.
Healing lies at the heart of Zen in the home, as Paula Arai discovered in her pioneering research on the ritual lives of Zen Buddhist laywomen. She reveals a vital stream of religious practice that flourishes outside the bounds of formal institutions through sacred rites that women develop and transmit to one another. Everyday objects and common materials are used in inventive ways. For example, polishing cloths, vivified by prayer and mantra recitation, become potent tools. The creation of beauty through the arts of tea ceremony, calligraphy, poetry, and flower arrangement become rites of healing. Bringing Zen Home brings a fresh perspective to Zen scholarship by uncovering a previously unrecognized but nonetheless vibrant strand of lay practice. The creativity of domestic Zen is evident in the ritual activities that women fashion, weaving tradition and innovation, to gain a sense of wholeness and balance in the midst of illness, loss, and anguish. Their rituals include chanting, ingesting elixirs and consecrated substances, and contemplative approaches that elevate cleaning, cooking, child-rearing, and caring for the sick and dying into spiritual disciplines. Creating beauty is central to domestic Zen and figures prominently in Arai’s analyses. She also discovers a novel application of the concept of Buddha nature as the women honor deceased loved ones as “personal Buddhas.” One of the hallmarks of the study is its longitudinal nature, spanning fourteen years of fieldwork. Arai developed a “second-person,” or relational, approach to ethnographic research prompted by recent trends in psychobiology. This allowed her to cultivate relationships of trust and mutual vulnerability over many years to inquire into not only the practices but also their ongoing and changing roles. The women in her study entrusted her with their life stories, personal reflections, and religious insights, yielding an ethnography rich in descriptive and narrative detail as well as nuanced explorations of the experiential dimensions and effects of rituals. In Bringing Zen Home, the first study of the ritual lives of Zen laywomen, Arai applies a cutting-edge ethnographic method to reveal a thriving domain of religious practice. Her work represents an important contribution on a number of fronts—to Zen studies, ritual studies, scholarship on women and religion, and the cross-cultural study of healing.
