The Creative Art of Living, Dying, and Renewal + nemokamas atvežimas! | knygos.lt

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Tapping the tremendous healing power of Qigong and the expressive arts, this beautiful book invites the reader to contemplate the continuum of death and rebirth within this life and beyond through personal explorations, guided meditation, journaling, and visual art, including collage-making and maskmaking. Authors Elise and Kaleo Ching draw on their 21 years of experience as teachers and healers working with others on their paths of self-inquiry and transformation to present an approach to living and dying that is saturated with wisdom, compassion, and understanding.

Through their work, the authors have witnessed many personal journeys of dying, transformation, rebirth--facing terminal illness or loss of a loved one, letting go of old lifestyles and embracing new, connecting with past lives and future dreams. The stories, Qigong meditations, personal explorations, and journaling/art processes, including collage and maskmaking, are invitations for you to engage them for your own healing and transformation. The art and journals selected for this book represent the wide range of people using journaling as a method of self-inquiry and healing: artists, ministers, therapists, social workers, chaplains, hospice workers, county jail inmates, public school teachers, and healing arts practitioners in a wide range of Eastern, Western, and alternative modalities.

Contents
Part One: Four Pilgrims and You. Introduction: Your Pilgrimage / Mitch: Death the Unexpected / Reflections on Mitch's Story / Journaling Reflections Questions: Mitch's Story / Conversation with Mitch / Journaling Reflections Questions: Your Changing Awareness / Maria: Dying with Awareness / Reflections on Maria's Story / Journaling Reflection Questions: Maria's Story / Conversation with Maria / Journaling: Your Eulogy / Journaling: Your Estate / Guided Journey: Imagining a Loved One's Dying / Journaling: Imagining Your own Dying / Journaling: Imagining Your Funeral / Chris: Dying, Transformation, and Rebirth in Life / Reflections on Chris' Story / Journaling Reflection Questions: Chris' Story / Conversation with Chris / Journaling Reflection Questions: Transformation and Your Life's Purpose / Guided Journey: Your Inner Sanctuary and Guide / Journaling and Art: Your Inner Sanctuary and Guide / Jessica: Courting Death / Reflections on Jessica's Story / Journaling Reflection Questions: Jessica's Story / Conversation with Jessica / Journaling Reflection Questions: Your Experience of Suicide / Journaling and Art: The Dance of Death and Life / Journaling Reflection Questions: Your Experience of Past Lives / Journaling and Art: Your Personal Chain of Being / Journaling and Art: Your Spiritual Autobiography

Part Two: Creativity and Your Pilgrimage. Why Create Art? / Kaleo: Aysel / Kaleo: Jean-Paul / Journaling: You and Creativity / Journaling: Creativity and Your Lineage / Death and Rebirth Cycles in Life / Elise: Teekkona / Journaling: Your Recent Experience of Loss / Journaling and Art: Your Death/Rebirth Map / Life/Death Guided Journey and Collage / Guided Journey and Collage 1: Your Life Review / Guided Journey and Collage 2: Looking over the Threshold / Sacred Awareness Guided Journey and Collage / Guided Journey and Collage: Your Mandala of Sacred Awareness / Your Personal Oracle Cards / Guided Journey and Collage: Your Personal Oracle / Journaling and Collage: What Is Dying and What Is Being Born in You Today? / Journaling and Art: Your Oracle Card Vessel / Your Changing Face / Guided Journey and Art: Your Changing Face / Selected Bibliography / Books / Films / The Authors / Illustrations / Bea: Song of the Heart / Elizabeth: Mask of My Father / Transition / Tomoko: Dialogue with Self / Rashidah: Spirit Mask