Creativity, Medical Procedures & Consumer Education, Healing, Psychological Self-Help - General & Miscellaneous, Success, Motivation & Self-Esteem, Coping & Healing
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Overview
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.In this remarkable testament to the power of creativity, Barbara 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.
At once inspirational and instructive, Art and Healing will teach you how to connect with negative, painful, and even repressed emotions, and then express them through drawing, painting, sculpture, or collage. Releasing these feelings through the creative process frees up the immune system and clears the mind, allowing the body to fight off disease and begin to heal emotional wounds. 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.
"...explains how expressive art provides a more direct path to getting in touch with and releasing the painful or fear- based emotions that are the root of many health problems."
Book Details
Published
March 1, 2001
Publisher
New York : Three Rivers Press, c1999.
Pages
220
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780609803165