"Spirit doesn't live up there in
the clouds, it lives in your heart. Draw it into your everyday
life with these simple, safe, effective, drawing exercises"
Published by New
World Library, released nationwide October 2002, $15.95,
paperback, 7 1/4" x 9", 225 pages, over 50 drawing
exercises
Table of Contents
Introduction:
Perception: Three Aspects
Three Different Ways to Draw Out Your Feelings
Love is Essential
Learning Differences and Visual Thinking
Left and Right: Two Ways of Seeing and Thinking
The Balancing Act
Mistakes and Accidents: Another View
Interpreting Your Drawings Lightheartedly
How to Use This Book
Section One:
Pencils & Perception (Exploring Your Feelings Toward
Objects, Nature, and People)
Introduction
The Adventure of Seeing
Trusting Your Eyes
Why Feeling Is So Important
Looking with Soft Eyes
Basic Directions: Vertical, Horizontal, Diagonal
Extended Directions: Being Willing
Intersections: Focusing on Essentials
The Visual Key to Drawing What You See
Constellations: Seeing the Pattern
Collisions and Transitions: Flowing with Light and Dark
Drawing Exercises
Doors: Passages in Consciousness
Windows: Your Outlook on Life
Tables: Supporting Your Interests
Chairs: Claiming Your Authority
Clothing and Drapery: Roles to Play
Trees: Being Rooted and Reaching Out
Plants and Flowers: Your Growth and Blossoming
Distant Hills: Broadening Your Perspectives
Animals: Lessons in Unconditional Love
Introduction to Drawing the Human Form
Hands and Feet: Standing Up and Handling Life
Your Own Face: Mirror Work
Another's Face: Suspending Judgment
The Human Form: Seeing with Compassion
Section Two:
Crayons & Consciousness (Exploring Your Emotional Feelings)
Introduction
Exploring the Interior Landscape
Emotional Feelings and the Nondominant Hand
Who Needs to Draw Out Their Feelings?
Creating a Safe Environment
Unconditional Love is Available
Drawing Exercises
The Inner Child Character
The Mother Character
My Mother the Mermaid
The Father Character
Reparenting
Self-Acceptance
Being Alone
Anxiety
Accuse and Release
Safely Expressing Anger
Forgiveness
Emotional Overwhelm
Intimacy and Power
Dialogue with Another's Essential Self
Body Wisdom
Art is Love
Releasing Fear
Letting Go of Shame
Creative Freedom
Dissolving Depression
Creating Money
Something's Cooking!
Keeping Thoughts Fresh
Dreams and Nightmares
Stick in the Mud
Navigating the World
Consulting the Elder Crone/Old Wise Man
Section Three:
Ink & Intuition (Exploring Your Intuitive Feelings)
Introduction
The Journey of Unfolding Consciousness
Intuitive Feelings are Seldom Logical
Change: The Threshold or Liminal Experience
Victor Turner's Threshold Chart
Leadership and Liminality
The Value of Not Knowing
Drawing Exercises
Taking a Minute
Stop, Drop, and Feel
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