Close Your Eyes, Now Breathe offers poetry that is defiant, pained, evocative, visceral, and emotionally charged. It covers everything from childhood sexual trauma, politics, love, culture, feminism, loss, and nature with moving imagery. The pieces range from long to short, some serving as musical interludes while others embody the author's spoken word roots. Close Your Eyes, Now Breathe speaks to the heart while leaving readers with a desire to share their vulnerability unapologetically. #CYENB is a book that is much needed and will open discussions while healing wounds we are afraid to touch.
Shot through with life-altering rituals, rites and spells, The Source guides readers to the place in their lives where true magic can finally begin Ever since she was a little girl, Ursula James has heard a voice. For years she tried to ignore it, but a personal crisis at the age of forty forced her to finally listen. That, as well as the actual appearance of the speaker-also named Ursula-at her bedside one dark and cold night. The woman who revealed herself to James was Ursula Sontheil, known as Mother Shipton, a sixteenth-century prophetess, healer, and-some say- witch. Legend has it that Mother Shipton was burned by the king's men for her heresies, and her spirit became trapped in a cave in Yorkshire. This cave had an unusual characteristic: Anything taken there was turned to stone by the action of the lime-suffused waters from a nearby well. Mother Shipton used this water to create an image of herself on the wall, and then split the cave open to call the needy. Sick at heart or in body, people came to her in the cave to offer her objects in return for her healing powers. In The Source, Ursula James describes how Mother Shipton appeared before her with urgent new prophecies for our troubled times- prophecies that include spells for, as Kabbalah says, Tikkun Olam-the healing of the world. Mother Shipton asked James to put these messages into writing to share with others-and record them she did, verbatim, in this book.
This workbook grew out of the practices assigned for self-growth and development for (1) Holistic Health: Western Perspectives, a course at San Francisco State Uni versity; (2) clients and participants at the Biofeedback and Family Therapy Institute in Berkeley; and (3) participants in peak performance training programs. The goals of this workbook are to offer experiences to facilitate life-long learning of skills to enhance health and growth. We hope the reader will experience increased autonomy and gain self-mastery skills through exercises that foster awareness and control. The cascading program is based upon uncovering, allowing, and encouraging the intrinsic drive toward integration, wholeness, and health. Each year many of our students report that practicing these skills has affected them deeply. The program offered them prag matic skills to master stress, set goals, and experience a deep change in their worldview and health. A number of them have said that this was the most useful course they had taken at San Francisco State University. The materials presented here are part of a course offered by the Institute for Holistic Healing Studies. It is also a requirement for a Holistic Health Minor and fulfills a part of the general education requirement for integrated and interdisci plinary learning. The development of this program at San Francisco State Uni versity is due to the foresight and courage of George Araki, Ph.D.
Close Your Eyes & Look tells the story of Micah, a timeless dreamer who journeys within on a magical path to success beyond his wildest imagination. The story of Micah’s journey teaches us about the invaluable wisdom of walking by faith and following our hearts to make our dreams come true.
Looks at the history and hierarchy of angels and offers instructions on using divine intuition, use meditation to connect with angels, gain protection from angels, and perform angel card readings.
At some point, every lawyer will encounter a client from hell. Kelly Adair finds herself in this exact situation, defending a lawyer accused of killing another. A power struggle within the Dallas law firm Christopher Clark & Oliver has left partner Ken Hargrove dead and Frank Oliver on trial. Convinced that her client might be guilty but bolstered by accounts of Oliver’s irrational behavior, she decides to rely upon an insanity defense at trial. Soon, the resulting courtroom drama threatens to tear the firm apart. Will Kelly have hell to pay?
GRAND IDEAS FROM WITHIN streamlines the power of the imagination to create success, while providing students with tools to manage both the cultural and internal stress and pressure they may feel from parents, peers, and teachers to perform and conform. Through the use of imagination, this groundbreaking 18-week program empowers students with family problems, disruptive behavior, anxiety, depression or bereavement to act responsibly, make smarter choices, improve character and ethical behavior, increase self esteem, and reduce discipline problems at school and at home. Grand Ideas from Within is a fabulous resource to help teachers remind kids of what they once knew so well in pre-K - how to use their imaginations - for healing, stress reduction, goal-setting, and behavior management. These short, well-planned, and scripted lessons contain all the information needed for teachers, parents, health care professionals, and counselors to lead one child or a group of children to find their inner inventiveness, their God-given resourcefulness, and their Grand Ideas from Within. Belleruth Naparstek, LISW, BCD. Author of Invisible Heroes: Survivors of Trauma and How They Heal, and creator of the Health Journeys guided imagery audio series Visualization is a time-honored mental conditioning technique... Instructors should make this technique part of their training curriculum. Richard Hine, Vice President of Training for AOPA Air Safety Foundation Imagery is one of those things we teach people because we really do believe that doing that kind of thinking increases the potential and probability for performing well. Jim Bowen, Olympic Training On-site Psychologist
Culturally we lack the training of an early age to be free thinkers. We have become instead, repeaters - cookie cutter persons. Thinking out of the box is so needed. This is what prompted me to write this book. Ive been there, done that so know it well. Children today say they are free thinkers, yet there they stand before us, all wanting and dressing alike. It may help the economy but it certainly is not free thinking. It likely is different than what Mom and Dad ascribe but its still about others thinking. How did we get to where we are? We are all responsible for it. So lets together not recreate the past and go forward with creativity and process out of the box ideas and thinking. Develop questioning what was and liberate ourselves.
Peggy shares short stories that give the reader insights into the adventures of life. The essence of those experiences added with the reader’s imagination produces images of mindfulness that is a guiding source accentuating stronger faith, mediation practices, prayer, and a closer walk with the Creative Force, God. Anxieties, stresses, life’s challenges, faith, decisions, and strengths gained through experiencing a story is meaningful because they are areas where we relate. These short stories transport the reader into a world of adventure, newness, and a place to contemplate our anxieties and stresses to manageable in meaningful ways of learning from life experiences. Moments of focusing on meditation, prayer, and living in the moment will grow into times of learning. The lessons from the past, living in the present, and planning for the future increases faith. We seize opportunities and lessons from life events, so by delving into “Peggy’s World of Adventure” in the images of mindfulness, the reader has the chance to experience new concepts of handling life situations. Inspirational accounts create moods and opportunities to know ourselves inwardly. Our mind transforms our psyche, where happiness expands and overflows into our decisions and future. Our self-talk, the feelings and events that we dwell on, and our heart beliefs manifest in an outward expression called life. When we eliminate the negative actions and replace them with remembrances of positive life events, there is where our inward feelings and outward expressions develop. Peggy invites the reader to let his or herself live the experiences and, through the images of mindfulness, live in the present and walk in God’s presence.
