Creating Rituals: A New Way of Healing for Everyday Life
Life is full of ups and downs. Whether we like it or not, we are on a constant roller coaster of successes and failures, major life changes, losses, and transitions. For our happiness and inner peace, we often need help in negotiating these passages through turbulent times. We in the North American culture have forgotten the magic our ancestors knew—how to use rituals for a successful life journey. This book will teach you the secrets of how to create personal, family, and communal rituals that will change your life.

Through this book readers will learn:
• how to create rituals for life stages and transitions
• how to heal and transform relationships
• the differences between ceremony and ritual
• the important elements of an effective ritual
• the skills to move forward through times of loss and change
• how to repair ritual failures

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Creating Rituals: A New Way of Healing for Everyday Life
Life is full of ups and downs. Whether we like it or not, we are on a constant roller coaster of successes and failures, major life changes, losses, and transitions. For our happiness and inner peace, we often need help in negotiating these passages through turbulent times. We in the North American culture have forgotten the magic our ancestors knew—how to use rituals for a successful life journey. This book will teach you the secrets of how to create personal, family, and communal rituals that will change your life.

Through this book readers will learn:
• how to create rituals for life stages and transitions
• how to heal and transform relationships
• the differences between ceremony and ritual
• the important elements of an effective ritual
• the skills to move forward through times of loss and change
• how to repair ritual failures

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Creating Rituals: A New Way of Healing for Everyday Life

Creating Rituals: A New Way of Healing for Everyday Life

by Jim Clarke
Creating Rituals: A New Way of Healing for Everyday Life

Creating Rituals: A New Way of Healing for Everyday Life

by Jim Clarke

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Overview

Life is full of ups and downs. Whether we like it or not, we are on a constant roller coaster of successes and failures, major life changes, losses, and transitions. For our happiness and inner peace, we often need help in negotiating these passages through turbulent times. We in the North American culture have forgotten the magic our ancestors knew—how to use rituals for a successful life journey. This book will teach you the secrets of how to create personal, family, and communal rituals that will change your life.

Through this book readers will learn:
• how to create rituals for life stages and transitions
• how to heal and transform relationships
• the differences between ceremony and ritual
• the important elements of an effective ritual
• the skills to move forward through times of loss and change
• how to repair ritual failures


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780809147168
Publisher: Paulist Press
Publication date: 05/02/2011
Pages: 160
Product dimensions: 5.38(w) x 8.00(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

1 Transformation: It Really Can Happen 1

2 Bringing Up Baby: Giving Them Wings to Fly 8

3 Adolescence to Adulthood: One Giant Leap for Humankind 19

4 Life Stages: Moving Forward Baggage-Free 36

5 Relationships: The Dangerous Minefield 52

6 Life's Losses: Love, Pain, and the Whole Damn Thing 72

7 Holidays, Public and Religious Events: Celebration or Chaos? 90

8 What If It Doesn't Work for Me? Getting It Right 107

9 Life Transformed: It's a Whole New World 126

Appendix A Liminality Contrasted with Status System 133

Appendix B Types of Infelicitous Performances 135

Appendix C Evaluation of Ritual-CASES Critique Method 137

Bibliography 141

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