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Healing Arts Books
NEW!!! BOOK OF THE MONTH REVIEWS
Each month I will review an art-healing/art-related book that I think is a MUST READ for those interested in the healing power of art and creativity. Click here to read February's pick.
February's Book of the Month Review
March Book Review
Listed below are some books on art healing and the healing arts. They are listed by category. I have read some of these books, but others are on my list of books to read (theres only so much time in the day). If you have read any of these books and would like to send a review, feel free to email me. Enjoy.
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Books on healing arts and creative healing
Art and Soul: A Spiritual Approach to Crafts
by Patrice Fagnant-MacArthur
Cindy Lutz Kornet is a talented artist and craftsperson whose work encompasses many media. With "Art and Soul: A Spiritual Approach to Crafts," she shares her philosophy on how healing arts can transform life and touch our souls. The quote that dominates the back cover of "Art and Soul" succinctly captures her perspective: "Creation is itself but a longing, a kind of Prayer to the Almighty." To read the rest of this review click on link:
Art and Soul Review
The Dreaming Source of Creativity: 30 Creative and Magical Ways to Work on Yourself
by Amy Mindell
Written for professional therapists as well as the interested layperson, this book reveals where hidden sources of creativity and inspiration can be found in everyday life, such as in the body, the environment, material objects, or even daily activities. Numerous stories, exercises, and pictures illustrate this take on creativity from a process work perspective by tapping into art, music, puppets, movement, and more. This inspirational guide to bringing artistic elements into one's life examines dreams, body experiences, and overall life situations.
The Zen of Creativity: Cultivating Your Artistic Life
by John Daido Loori
American Zen master Loori presents a book that taps the principles of the Zen arts and aesthetic as a means to unlock creativity and discover self-awareness and expression.
What We Ache for: Creativity and the Unfolding of Your Soul
by Oriah Mountain Dreamer
From the renowned writer and bestselling author of "The Invitation" comes a guide to cultivating a spiritually rich life through creativity.
Living Out Loud: Activities to Fuel a Creative Life
by Keri Smith
Remember those childhood days spent running in your bare feet, playing make-believe, and most of all. living life with a sense of wonderment? That youthful enthusiasm and playfulness are key to discovering who you are and what you love to do. Living Out Loud is the perfect prescription for a creative jump start to your life. Included are games, projects, activities, crafts, postcards, and playful ideas that will send you off on an exciting adventure, where you'll discover inspiration around and within you.
Drawing as a Sacred Activity: Simple Steps to Explore Your Feelings and Heal Your Consciousness
by Heather C. Williams
Like many people, Heather Williams was not encouraged to embrace her creative side during childhood and as a result turned her back on part of her inner life. Beginning with an explanation of how she reclaimed her artistic impulses, this book invites readers to explore their own resources for creativity. With astep-by-step approach to personal development in the tradition of Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain and The Artists Way, it teaches not only the technical skills needed to draw but also ways to delve into our inner lives for healing and inspiration. The book is divided into three sections: Pencils and Perception (observing and drawing what is seen in the physical world); Crayons and Consciousness (drawing the interior landscape); and Ink and Intuition (drawing on ones intuitive wisdom). With 300 black-and-white illustrations, this is an easy, fun way to unlock creativity and unleash the spirit.
Making Pearls: Living the Creative Life
by Jeanne Carbonetti
For new-age artists on the path to spiritual awareness, here is the ultimate primer for expanding creativity and spirituality in every area of art and life. Features dozens of reflective paintings, meditative exercises, and an evolving painting project.
Art and Healing: Using Expressive Art to Heal Your Body, Mind, and Spirit
by Barbara Ganim
Artists have always known intuitively what science is just beginning to discover: that creating a visual image through any medium can produce physical and emotional benefits for both the creator as well as those who view it. Most important, you don't need to think of yourself as an artist or even believe you have any "talent" to tap into the healing powers of art. Ganim shows step-by-step how to use art to heal body, mind, and spirit. By using guided meditation and artistic techniques, you can gain insight and clarity into depression, anxiety, rage, and even illnesses, including cancer, arthritis, and AIDS. Filled with actual stories from those who have triumphed over adversity and with more than a hundred different pieces of artwork created using this groundbreaking method, Art and Healing is sure to provide the tools needed for healing body and spirit.
The Art of Emotional Healing
by Lucia Capacchione
Feelings either flow naturally, like a river, or get dammed up. If our emotions become blocked, we can become tense, unhappy, anxious, or depressed. This book offers simple techniques for using art to embrace, understand, and release our emotions so that we can experience a greater sense of well-being in our lives. Capacchione presents powerful methods she uses in her workshops, showing us how to reach inside and let our feelings out through drawing, painting, journal writing, collage making, sculpting, drumming, dancing, mask making, and more. No artistic talent or skill is required, only a desire to let go of self-criticism and discover how we really feel.
The Art Therapy Sourcebook
by Shaun McNiff, PhD.
In this concise and easy-to-read book, Malchiodi treats the reader to fascinating case studies and valuable pointers in helping us to open up and explore our nature creatively. This book is ideally suited for people beginning to explore art Power of Expressing Sourcebook makes a major contribution to art therapy going mainstream.
Art Is a Way of Knowing
by Pat Allen
An art therapist and member of the art therapy faculty at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Allen gives excellent instructions on using image-making as a way to understand personal fears, dreams, and identity while giving us a look at her own life and image-making process. Especially useful for nonartists, Allen's text explains which art materials to purchase and how to begin a drawing or sculpture. Allen tells the story of her life and struggles: coming to terms with her mother's death and her father's alcoholism, finding and understanding her feminine side, dealing with a loss of tenure and a change in professional identity. She shows how image-making has helped her to understand herself, her emotions, her relationships, and her dreams.
Artlife: Creative Journeys for Life Healing (Audio Cassette)
by Jane Seaton
Become the Artist of Your Own Life! An extraordinary art-making process designed expressly for people who want to realize greater creativity in their lives, but aren’t sure how to get started. Developed over a period of ten years, this program releases the fears that hold you back from art making. Through gentle, hands-on, creative "journeys," Seaton provides simple instructions for dozens of lively and challenging art activities. As you paint and collage, draw and sculpt, create ritual, and play, you will learn how to access a universal creative wisdom. This wisdom, teaches Seaton, brings insight into the soul’s true purpose, transforming your very life into a creative act. Complete in 12 sessions, Artlife provides all the guidance you need to start creating works of art from the very first hour.
Affirmations for Self-Healing
by Donald Walters
A best-selling, practical guide for daily use of affirmations--statements of truth that one aspires to absorb into one's life--presented in a method designed to overcome deeply rooted, negative thoughts at the subconscious level. Contains 52 affirmations and prayers devoted to strengthening qualities such as will power, patience, good health, forgiveness, security, and happiness.
Spirit Taking Form: Making a Spiritual Practice of Making Art
by Nancy J. Azara
Azara has been teaching the making of art, art-making as a spiritual practice, and other spiritual practices for thirty-five years. Spirit Taking Form is a practical book. It offers lists of materials to work with and exercises and meditation techniques to help everyone bring out their inner voice. It includes specific meditations for healing the inner critic, cultivating imagination, and finding one's artistic heart. Its meditations and exercises can be done many times, and each time they can bring the reader new and richer experiences and deeper insights.
Books on Journaling and Writing
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Creative Journal: The Art of Finding Yourself
by Lucia Capacchione
A recognized classic in the field of art therapy and creativity, this book is a perfect guide to discovering and releasing your inner potential through writing and drawing. It contains over 50 writing and drawing exercises to help you find and love one's self, get in touch with ones' feelings, and dreams. It will also show you how to: Play with new media of expression, sort out the seemingly random experiences in your life, deal with creative blocks to get a clearer picture of your potential and how to use it, define and implement changes, enrich your relationship with yourself and others. Written for both novice and veteran journal keeper, as well as group leaders and counselors, it is a visually stunning book illustrated by the author, her students and clients.
Visual Journaling: Going Deeper than Words
by Barbara Ganim, Susan Fox
Even marginal scibbles can have you access your deepest inner wisdom. This poerful new way to journal includes a six-week plan and lively sample illustrations. Filled with easy to follow fun exercises.
Inner Journeying through Art-Journaling
by Marianne Hieb
"Inner Journeying Through Art-Journaling introduces a holistic journaling process that combines art, art therapy, design theory and spiritual direction in order to attain personal balance, awareness of one's own inner processes, resolution of internal conflicts and enhanced wellness." Hieb guides the reader through the process of creative journaling and presents the key elements of this technique. Case studies and art journals of retreat participants and the author's own clients show the effectiveness of journaling as a therapeutic intervention and as a meditative tool.
The Artful Journal: A Spiritual Quest
by Jacqueline Penney, Maureen Carey
A never-ending source of spiritual and creative inspiration for writers, artists, poets, painters, and every creative person! Packed with blazing color, this guide draws upon meditation, painting, and writing to offer new channels for spirituality, creativity, and self-discovery.
The Creative Journal: The Art of Finding Yourself
by Lucia Capacchione
A recognized classic in the field of art therapy and creativity, this book is a perfect guide to discovering and releasing inner potential through writing and drawing. It contains over 50 writing and drawing exercises to help readers find and love their self, their feelings, and their dreams.
Journalution: Journaling to Awaken Your Inner Voice, Heal Your Life, and Manifest Your Dreams
by Sandy Grason
Studies confirm what avid journalers have always known: that writing about difficult experiences helps the writer move forward. With chapters including "Completing Your Incompletions," "Masterminding Your Destiny," and "Communicating with a Higher Power," the book balances basic instruction in the art of journaling with intimate entries from the author and her workshop participants. Activities, such as timed and stream-of-consciousness writing exercises and keeping a dream log, follow each chapter. Grason offers guidelines and prompts, encouraging readers to pick up the pen and journal their way to greater self-awareness.
Fingerpainting on the Moon: Writing and Creativity as a Path to Freedom
by Peter Levitt
Levitt shows us new ways to create and live from the spiritual source of our lives. This book helps readers express and rely upon their deepest nature in creative work, whether it is writing, painting, music, or just being alive. Developed over decades of work with writers and other artists, the exercises, stories, meditations, and other tools in this book will: connect us with our inherent and inexhaustible creative and spiritual source, quiet the inhibitions and doubts that derail our intentions to create, build and nurture trust, intuition, spontaneity, clarity, and confidence, and rekindle our spirit of play to energize our creative efforts.
Poetic Medicine: The Healing Art of Poem-Making
by John Fox
A certified poetry therapist, Fox uses poetry as a mode of healing. His work shows the aspiring poet how to give birth to poetry and how to cultivate and harvest its value to the writer's healing process. Despite Fox's emphasis on poetry as therapy, the student poems are full of fresh expressions and exciting images. Among the volume's many strengths are its frequent examples. Excellent exercises are included, as are a list of selected readings and a list of resources for learning more about poetry therapy.
Other books on creative art healing
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The Dreaming Source of Creativity: 30 Creative and Magical Ways to Work on Yourself
by Amy Mindell
Written for professional therapists as well as the interested layperson, this book reveals where hidden sources of creativity and inspiration can be found in everyday life, such as in the body, the environment, material objects, or even daily activities. Numerous stories, exercises, and pictures illustrate this take on creativity from a process work perspective by tapping into art, music, puppets, movement, and more. This inspirational guide to bringing artistic elements into one's life examines dreams, body experiences, and overall life situations.
The Zen of Creativity: Cultivating Your Artistic Life
by John Daido Loori
American Zen master Loori presents a book that taps the principles of the Zen arts and aesthetic as a means to unlock creativity and discover self-awareness and expression.
What We Ache for: Creativity and the Unfolding of Your Soul
by Oriah Mountain Dreamer
From the renowned writer and bestselling author of "The Invitation" comes a guide to cultivating a spiritually rich life through creativity.
Living Out Loud: Activities to Fuel a Creative Life
by Keri Smith
Remember those childhood days spent running in your bare feet, playing make-believe, and most of all. living life with a sense of wonderment? That youthful enthusiasm and playfulness are key to discovering who you are and what you love to do. Living Out Loud is the perfect prescription for a creative jump start to your life. Included are games, projects, activities, crafts, postcards, and playful ideas that will send you off on an exciting adventure, where you'll discover inspiration around and within you.
Drawing as a Sacred Activity: Simple Steps to Explore Your Feelings and Heal Your Consciousness
by Heather C. Williams
Like many people, Heather Williams was not encouraged to embrace her creative side during childhood and as a result turned her back on part of her inner life. Beginning with an explanation of how she reclaimed her artistic impulses, this book invites readers to explore their own resources for creativity. With astep-by-step approach to personal development in the tradition of Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain and The Artists Way, it teaches not only the technical skills needed to draw but also ways to delve into our inner lives for healing and inspiration. The book is divided into three sections: Pencils and Perception (observing and drawing what is seen in the physical world); Crayons and Consciousness (drawing the interior landscape); and Ink and Intuition (drawing on ones intuitive wisdom). With 300 black-and-white illustrations, this is an easy, fun way to unlock creativity and unleash the spirit.
Making Pearls: Living the Creative Life
by Jeanne Carbonetti
For new-age artists on the path to spiritual awareness, here is the ultimate primer for expanding creativity and spirituality in every area of art and life. Features dozens of reflective paintings, meditative exercises, and an evolving painting project.
Art and Healing: Using Expressive Art to Heal Your Body, Mind, and Spirit
by Barbara Ganim
Artists have always known intuitively what science is just beginning to discover: that creating a visual image through any medium can produce physical and emotional benefits for both the creator as well as those who view it. Most important, you don't need to think of yourself as an artist or even believe you have any "talent" to tap into the healing powers of art. Ganim shows step-by-step how to use art to heal body, mind, and spirit. By using guided meditation and artistic techniques, you can gain insight and clarity into depression, anxiety, rage, and even illnesses, including cancer, arthritis, and AIDS. Filled with actual stories from those who have triumphed over adversity and with more than a hundred different pieces of artwork created using this groundbreaking method, Art and Healing is sure to provide the tools needed for healing body and spirit.
The Art of Emotional Healing
by Lucia Capacchione
Feelings either flow naturally, like a river, or get dammed up. If our emotions become blocked, we can become tense, unhappy, anxious, or depressed. This book offers simple techniques for using art to embrace, understand, and release our emotions so that we can experience a greater sense of well-being in our lives. Capacchione presents powerful methods she uses in her workshops, showing us how to reach inside and let our feelings out through drawing, painting, journal writing, collage making, sculpting, drumming, dancing, mask making, and more. No artistic talent or skill is required, only a desire to let go of self-criticism and discover how we really feel.
The Art Therapy Sourcebook
by Shaun McNiff, PhD.
In this concise and easy-to-read book, Malchiodi treats the reader to fascinating case studies and valuable pointers in helping us to open up and explore our nature creatively. This book is ideally suited for people beginning to explore art Power of Expressing Sourcebook makes a major contribution to art therapy going mainstream.
Art Is a Way of Knowing
by Pat Allen
An art therapist and member of the art therapy faculty at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Allen gives excellent instructions on using image-making as a way to understand personal fears, dreams, and identity while giving us a look at her own life and image-making process. Especially useful for nonartists, Allen's text explains which art materials to purchase and how to begin a drawing or sculpture. Allen tells the story of her life and struggles: coming to terms with her mother's death and her father's alcoholism, finding and understanding her feminine side, dealing with a loss of tenure and a change in professional identity. She shows how image-making has helped her to understand herself, her emotions, her relationships, and her dreams.
Artlife: Creative Journeys for Life Healing (Audio Cassette)
by Jane Seaton
Become the Artist of Your Own Life! An extraordinary art-making process designed expressly for people who want to realize greater creativity in their lives, but aren’t sure how to get started. Developed over a period of ten years, this program releases the fears that hold you back from art making. Through gentle, hands-on, creative "journeys," Seaton provides simple instructions for dozens of lively and challenging art activities. As you paint and collage, draw and sculpt, create ritual, and play, you will learn how to access a universal creative wisdom. This wisdom, teaches Seaton, brings insight into the soul’s true purpose, transforming your very life into a creative act. Complete in 12 sessions, Artlife provides all the guidance you need to start creating works of art from the very first hour.
Affirmations for Self-Healing
by Donald Walters
A best-selling, practical guide for daily use of affirmations--statements of truth that one aspires to absorb into one's life--presented in a method designed to overcome deeply rooted, negative thoughts at the subconscious level. Contains 52 affirmations and prayers devoted to strengthening qualities such as will power, patience, good health, forgiveness, security, and happiness.
Spirit Taking Form: Making a Spiritual Practice of Making Art
by Nancy J. Azara
Azara has been teaching the making of art, art-making as a spiritual practice, and other spiritual practices for thirty-five years. Spirit Taking Form is a practical book. It offers lists of materials to work with and exercises and meditation techniques to help everyone bring out their inner voice. It includes specific meditations for healing the inner critic, cultivating imagination, and finding one's artistic heart. Its meditations and exercises can be done many times, and each time they can bring the reader new and richer experiences and deeper insights.
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