Healing with the Arts: A 12-Week Program to Heal Yourself and Your Community

Healing with the Arts: A 12-Week Program to Heal Yourself and Your Community

Healing with the Arts: A 12-Week Program to Heal Yourself and Your Community

Healing with the Arts: A 12-Week Program to Heal Yourself and Your Community

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Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781582703930
Publisher: Atria Books/Beyond Words
Publication date: 11/05/2013
Edition description: Original
Pages: 256
Sales rank: 243,274
Product dimensions: 7.20(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Michael Samuels, MD, is the founder and director of Art as a Healing Force and currently teaches at San Francisco State University in the Institute of Holistic Studies. He is the author of nineteen books, including the bestsellers The Well Body Book and The Well Baby Book.

Mary Rockwood Lane, PhD, is a professor, painter, and nurse. In addition to her role as cofounder and codirector of the Arts in Medicine process at the University of Florida, Gainseville, she is an assistant professor of nursing there with an emphasis on creativity and spirituality in healthcare.

Table of Contents

Foreword Jean Watson xi

Preface xv

Introduction xxv

Part I Beginning the Journey

Week 1 Activating the Artist and Healer Within 5

Week 2 Merging Your Inner Artist and Healer 25

Week 3 The Spirit in Art Healing 41

Week 4 Finding Out What Needs to Be Healed 61

Part II Creative Healing with Visual Arts, Words, Music, and Dance

Week 5 Hearing with Visual Arts 79

Week 6 Healing with Words 93

Week 7 Healing with Music 113

Week 8 Healing with Dance and Movement 129

Part III Awakening to Your New Life

Week 9 Finding Your Essence 149

Week 10 Experiencing Sacred Sexuality 159

Week 11 Art, Healing, and the End of Life 173

Week 12 Your Final Project and Transcendence Ceremony 185

Conclusion: Creative Luminosity 213

Acknowledgments 215

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