An artful path to mindfulness An MBSR-based activity book for using creativity to reduce stress and embrace the present moment
Book - 2020
"When you look at your life, do you feel it's working just the way it is? Or do you feel overwhelmed, stressed, depressed, and uneasy? So many of us are stuck in a pattern of living reactively rather than proactively, and feel exhausted and uncreative as a result. Fortunately, there is another way. It requires stepping off the fast track, and no longer going through your days on autopilot." It requires slowing down and tuning in to the present moment and seeing things as they really are. Mindfulness-based self-expression (MBSE), offers a way off the fast track. Drawing on mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR), MBSE fuses art exploration-including drawing, mark-making, and creative self-expression-with meditations, gentle ...yoga, breathwork, and body scans. These daily practices are designed to help you cultivate a mindset of awareness, patience, trust, acceptance, and vulnerability. This unique workbook invites you to draw, tear, mark, play, and take risks. There is no plan, no goal, and no preconceived idea to follow. The process is simply communicating to yourself who you are in this moment, following the thread one mark at a time. The book also serves as a journal for recording your curiosity, vulnerability, and creativity. When completed, it becomes an artistic expression of life as you celebrate the profound gift that is now."--Publisher.
- Subjects
- Published
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Oakland, CA :
New Harbinger Publications
[2020]
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Physical Description
- vii, 192 pages ; 26 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN
- 9781684034932
- Foreword
- Introduction: Welcome to the Artful Path
- Week 1. Who Ami?
- Nine Dots
- Mindful Art Encounter #1: Who Am I?
- Mindful Art Encounter #2: Finding Your Personal Mark
- Mindful Art Encounter #3: Exploring Your Personal Mark
- Mindful Art Encounter #4: Freedom of Self-Expression
- Mindful Art Encounter #5: Body Scan Self-Portrait
- Week 2. Opening to Your Reality
- Mindful Eating
- Mindful Art Encounter #6: Conversation Drawing with Self
- Mindful Art Encounter #7: Letting Go
- Mindful Art Encounter #8: Rebuilding, Collage Part I
- Mindful Art Encounter #9; Opening to Your Reality
- Week 3. Being Present
- Mindful Art Encounter #10: Taking Off the Mask
- Mindful Art Encounter #11: Accepting
- Mindful Art Encounter #12: Seeing Clearly
- Mindful Art Encounter #13: Self-Portrait: Seeing Things as They Are
- Week 4. Playing
- Mindful Art Encounter #14: Surprise and Play
- Mindful Art Encounter #15: The Ugly Drawing
- Mindful Art Encounter #16: Destruction and Tearing Apart
- Mindful Art Encounter #17: Rebuilding, Collage Part 2
- Week 5. Accepting Wholeness
- Mindful Art Encounter #18: Exploring Yin and Yang
- Mindful Art Encounter #19: Exploring Judgment
- Mindful Art Encounter #20: Exploring Acceptance
- Mindful Art Encounter #21: Embracing Yin and Yang
- Week 6. Communicating
- Mindful Art Encounter #22: Listening Enemy or Friend?
- Mindful Art Encounter #23: Drawing and Collaging with Words
- Mindful Art Encounter #24: Engaged Listening
- Mindful Art Encounter #25: Listening to Your Whispers
- Mindful Art Encounter #26: Conversation Drawing with a Partner
- Week 7. A Retreat of Silence, Simplicity, and Solitude
- Week 8. Going Deeper and Wider
- Mindful Art Encounter #27: Being the Wind
- Mindful Art Encounter #28: Being the Ocean
- Mindful Art Encounter #29: Being the River
- Mindful Art Encounter #30: Being the Sky
- Mindful Art Encounter #31: Being a Tree
- Mindful Art Encounter #32: Conversation Drawing with Community
- Week 9. Who Am I Now?
- Mindful Art Encounter #33: Mandala: The Heart of Being
- Mindful Art Encounter #34: Planting Seeds, Growing Flowers
- Mindful Art Encounter #35: Who Am I Now?
- Conclusion: Celebrating Each Moment: Mindfulness for the Rest of Your Life
- Acknowledgments
- Practice Logs
- More Mindfulness Resources
- References