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

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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.

Author Biography

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.

Review

"Some amazing work is being done in the field of Arts and Medicine. Healing with the Arts shares powerful stories and unique techniques for integrating the healing power of the arts into our lives." -- Michael A. Singer * author of The Untethered Soul *"...through the elegance, depth and insight of Mary and Michael's writings, the reader is guided through a process that can help them unlock their most inner truth, the one that can ultimately set us free, free to be ourselves and to be fulfilled once again." -- Robert Browning * Healthcare Director, HeartMath *"Healing with the Arts lays out a program of transformation through the union of creative and healing forces. This inner alchemy is a pure spiritual practice that heals us as we come into alignment with the evolutionary creative force that birthed the cosmos and is living in us now." -- Alex Grey & Allyson Grey * artists, cofounders of CoSM, Chapel of Sacred Mirrors; coauthors of Net of Being *"Healing with the Arts is an exceptional guide to the power of art in deep intentional healing. Michael Samuels and Mary Rockwood Lane are leaders in the field. I recommend their book strongly." -- Michael Lerner, cofounder and president of Commonweal; cofounder & president emeritus of Smith Center for Healing and the Arts"Read this book and discover for yourself the simple but profound truths it contains." -- John Graham-Pole. MD, MRCP-UK, Emeritus Professor, University of Florida College of Medicine; cofounder Arts in Medicine Shands Hospital"Healing with the Arts is a guidebook for everyone, not just artists or patients in the healthcare setting. With their intuition and wisdom, the authors present a twelve-week experiential course that shows every reader how to use his or her own creativity to enhance and enrich their own life." -- Cathy DeWitt, National Consultant, Society for the Arts in Healthcare Co-Facilitator, Vital Visionaries Founding Network Member, National Center for Creative Aging (NCCA)

Review Quote

"...through the elegance, depth and insight of Mary and Michael's writings, the reader is guided through a process that can help them unlock their most inner truth, the one that can ultimately set us free, free to be ourselves and to be fulfilled once again."

Details ISBN1582703930 Author Mary Rockwood Lane Publisher Beyond Words Publishing Edition Description Original Language English ISBN-10 1582703930 ISBN-13 9781582703930 Media Book Format Paperback Residence Bolinas, CA, US Year 2013 Imprint Beyond Words Publishing Subtitle A 12-Week Program to Heal Yourself and Your Community Place of Publication OR Country of Publication United States Qualifications M.D. Short Title HEALING W/THE ARTS Publication Date 2013-11-05 NZ Release Date 2013-11-05 US Release Date 2013-11-05 UK Release Date 2013-11-05 AU Release Date 2013-10-31 Pages 256 DEWEY 616.891656 Audience General We've got this

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