Download or read book The Healing Properties of the Blues written by Sandra Foster and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2020-01-07 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The timeless nature of the exercises in this workbook allows them to be used endlessly for self-improvement, for practice with client systems or for professional presentations. The overview of the Blues Problem-Solving Method can be integrated into the undergraduate and graduate curriculum as a companion discussion in human behavior and practice courses. Practitioners and trainers may use the Workbook to integrate the concepts into in-service training or direct services. The most important use for this Workbook is the actual learning activities. Users will welcome them as invaluable aids in a wide variety of education, counseling, and training sessions. They are inexpensive, participative, timeless, and adaptable. The objective, materials required, approximate time required, procedure, discussion questions, and source are included to aid in the selection of the appropriate activity for the appropriate occasion. Though the activities in this Workbook are based on the African American experience, they can be easily generalized to other groups. Some exercises may be used as is with any group. Others may require substituting the worldview to fit the activity to the desired ethnic or cultural group. iii The activities contained in this Workbook represent a small sample of what can come from the blues. Users are encouraged to delve into the rich history of the blues experience found in the films and literature included at the end of this Workbook, or probe the spirituals, work songs, folk narratives, gospels, sermons, dance styles, humor, folk tales, jazz, or oral history for more ideas for creating your own exercises. As you develop activities, please forward them to me so that I may include them in the next version of this workbook. I thank you in advance.
Download or read book Walking Your Blues Away written by Thom Hartmann and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2006-10-19 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new approach to using walking to heal emotional trauma and bring forth optimal mental functioning • Explores why and how we carry emotional wounds, and how they can be healed and resolved • Shows how walking stimulates both sides of the brain to promote and restore mental health • Provides simple, yet potent, mental exercises to use while walking Our bodies usually heal rapidly from an illness, injury, or wound. Yet our minds and hearts often suffer for years with debilitating symptoms of distress or upset. Why is it so hard for our minds and hearts to heal? The key to healing them is simple and can be just a short walk away. Walking--a bilateral therapy that has been a part of human life throughout history--allows people to heal emotionally as quickly as they do physically. Bilateral therapies engage both sides of the brain and unlock natural states of optimal function and creativity. Thom Hartmann examines how memory works and why emotional shock can resist normal healing. He found that the simple act of walking is effective in treating emotional disturbances ranging from temporary upsets and problems to chronic conditions such as post-traumatic stress disorder and depression. Case studies have shown dramatic results. Walking consciously, while holding a distress or desire in mind, can rapidly dissolve the rigidity of a traumatic memory or negative mind state, dispersing its unpleasant associations in as little as a half hour’s time. While walking has always been a natural part of life, its importance in promoting and maintaining mental health is only recently being rediscovered. Hartmann’s simple yet potent exercises allow us to create our own walking journeys to restore our mental, emotional, and spiritual well-being as well as rejuvenate our body’s health.
Download or read book When Your Body Gets the Blues written by Marie-Annette Brown and published by Rodale. This book was released on 2002-02-23 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to sub-clinical depression presents an eight-week program which uses light therapy, moderate exercise, and vitamins to combat depression, overcome fatigue, and provide a greater sense of control, balance, and well-being.
Download or read book The Blues written by Marie B. Trout and published by . This book was released on 2016-10-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do modern blues fans get out of their love of the genre? A book about a Grounded Theory Study exploring the relevance of the blues in the 21st century
Download or read book Deep Blues written by Mark Winborn and published by Fisher King Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deep Blues explores the archetypal journey of the human psyche through an examination of the blues as a musical genre. The genesis, history, and thematic patterns of the blues are examined from an archetypal perspective and various analytic theories. Mythological and shamanistic parallels are used to provide a deeper understanding of the role of the bluesman, the blues performance, and the innate healing potential of the blues. Universal aspects of human experience and transcendence are revealed through the creative medium of the blues. The atmosphere of Deep Blues is enhanced by the black and white photographs of Tom Smith which capture striking blues performances in the Maxwell Street section of Chicago. Jungian analysts, therapists and psychoanalytic practitioners with an interest in the interaction between creative expression and human experience should find Deep Blues satisfying. Deep Blues should also appeal to enthusiasts of music, ethnomusicology, and the blues.
Download or read book Trini s Blues written by B. A. Buie and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A poignant memoir where love reveals itself as a fleeting mirage, prompting a journey of self-healing. Written by Atlanta's emerging indie author and poet, it explores her path from heartbreak to self-discovery.
Download or read book The Healing Power of Color written by Betty Wood and published by Inner Traditions / Bear & Co. This book was released on 1998-03 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author shows how color was used in ancient civilizations, its applications in healing traditions, and the ways it is currently used to affect mood and behavior.
Download or read book The Healing Power of Meditation EasyRead Large Bold Edition written by and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Healing Power of Meditation written by Gabriel S. Weiss and published by Basic Health Publications, Inc.. This book was released on 2008 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You have an amazing capacity for self-healing. You can unlock this healing power by practicing meditation for a few minutes a day. Backed by years of experience, solid scientific research, and a clear understanding of neuroscience, Gabriel Weiss, MD, explains how meditation can be used to treat or prevent many common illnesses and maladies, such as high blood pressure, heart disease, cancer, asthma, stomach ulcers, insomnia, chronic fatigue, premenstrual syndrome, stress, and chronic pain. In addition to helping you establish a daily meditation practice, the author prescribes specific alternate meditation exercises for specific health problems, as well as Zen concepts like the cultivation of mindfulness, to expand your practice and fully benefit from meditation's healing power. Book jacket.
Download or read book St John s Wort written by Hyla Cass and published by Avery. This book was released on 1998-12 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr. Hyla Cass, a psychiatry professor at UCLA, tells readers how this herb can ease depression and work as well as synthetic antidepressants.
Download or read book Shelter Blues written by Robert R. Desjarlais and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2011-09-16 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Desjarlais shows us not anonymous faces of the homeless but real people. While it is estimated that 25 percent or more of America's homeless are mentally ill, their lives are largely unknown to us. What must life be like for those who, in addition to living on the street, hear voices, suffer paranoid delusions, or have trouble thinking clearly or talking to others. Shelter Blues is an innovative portrait of people residing in Boston's Station Street Shelter. It examines the everyday lives of more than 40 homeless men and women, both white and African-American, ranging in age from early 20s to mid-60s. Based on a sixteen-month study, it draws readers into the personal worlds of these individuals and, by addressing the intimacies of homelessness, illness, and abjection, picks up where most scholarship and journalism stops. Robert Desjarlais works against the grain of media representations of homelessness by showing us not anonymous stereotypes but individuals. He draws on conversations as well as observations, talking with and listening to shelter residents to understand how they relate to their environment, to one another, and to those entrusted with their care. His book considers their lives in terms of a complex range of forces and helps us comprehend the linkages between culture, illness, personhood, and political agency on the margins of contemporary American society. Shelter Blues is unlike anything else ever written about homelessness. It challenges social scientists and mental health professionals to rethink their approaches to human subjectivity and helps us all to better understand one of the most pressing problems of our time.
Download or read book The Healing Power of Meditation Volume 2 of 2 EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition written by and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Patriarchy Blues written by Frederick Joseph and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2022-05-17 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "[A] scorching treatise on toxic masculinity. Joseph’s critiques of “the patriarchy... both overt and ingrained” are razor-sharp, but it’s the clear-eyed reckoning of his own place within it that tethers the soul of his book." —Publishers Weekly "Joseph has learned a great deal from bell hooks here, and I think she would be proud because Patriarchy Blues is such a moving, inspiring, rigorous vision for living.” —Robert Jones, Jr., New York Times bestselling author of The Prophets In this personal and poignant collection, the author of the New York Times bestseller The Black Friend examines the culture of masculinity through the lens of a Black man. What does it mean to be a man today? How does the pervasive yet elusive idea of “toxic masculinity” actually reflect men’s experiences—particularly those of color—and how they navigate the world? In this thought-provoking collection of essays, poems, and short reflections, Frederick Joseph contemplates these questions and more as he explores issues of masculinity and patriarchy from both a personal and cultural standpoint. From fatherhood, and “manning up” to abuse and therapy, he fearlessly and thoughtfully tackles the complex realities of men’s lives today and their significance for society, lending his insights as a Black man. Written in Joseph’s unique voice, with an intelligence and raw honesty that demonstrates both his vulnerability and compassion, Patriarchy Blues forces us to consider the joys, pains, and destructive nature of manhood and the stereotypes it engenders.
Download or read book The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture written by M. Thomas Inge and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2014-02-01 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering a comprehensive view of the South's literary landscape, past and present, this volume of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture celebrates the region's ever-flourishing literary culture and recognizes the ongoing evolution of the southern literary canon. As new writers draw upon and reshape previous traditions, southern literature has broadened and deepened its connections not just to the American literary mainstream but also to world literatures--a development thoughtfully explored in the essays here. Greatly expanding the content of the literature section in the original Encyclopedia, this volume includes 31 thematic essays addressing major genres of literature; theoretical categories, such as regionalism, the southern gothic, and agrarianism; and themes in southern writing, such as food, religion, and sexuality. Most striking is the fivefold increase in the number of biographical entries, which introduce southern novelists, playwrights, poets, and critics. Special attention is given to contemporary writers and other individuals who have not been widely covered in previous scholarship.
Download or read book An Archetypal Interpretation of the Blues as a Healing Function in Psychotherapy written by Gary Bubash and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Blues in the 21st Century Myth Self Expression and Trans Culturalism written by Douglas Mark Ponton and published by Vernon Press. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is the fruit of Douglas Mark Ponton’s and co-editor Uwe Zagratzki’s enduring interest in the Blues as a musical and cultural phenomenon and source of personal inspiration. Continuing in the tradition of Blues studies established by the likes of Samuel Charters and Paul Oliver, the authors hope to contribute to the revitalisation of the field through a multi-disciplinary approach designed to explore this constantly evolving social phenomenon in all its heterogeneity. Focusing either on particular artists (Lightnin’ Hopkins, Robert Johnson), or specific texts (Langston Hughes’ Weary Blues and Backlash Blues, Jimi Hendrix’s Machine Gun), the book tackles issues ranging from authenticity and musicology in Blues performance to the Blues in diaspora, while also applying techniques of linguistic analysis to the corpora of Blues texts. While some chapters focus on the Blues as a quintessentially American phenomenon, linked to a specific social context, others see it in its current evolutions, as the bearer of vital cultural attitudes into the digital age. This multidisciplinary volume will appeal to a broad range of scholars operating in a number of different academic disciplines, including Musicology, Linguistics, Sociology, History, Ethnomusicology, Literature, Economics and Cultural Studies. It will also interest educators across the Humanities, and could be used to exemplify the application to data of specific analytical methodologies, and as a general introduction to the field of Blues studies.
Download or read book Greening the Blues written by Carol Terry and published by . This book was released on 2016-01-26 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes how to focus on inner body sensations and feelings. Becoming a witness to our feelings can reveal patterns of emotion and behaviors that connect past and present events. The practice of focusing helps to heal and integrate parts of the self that have been abandoned. The book includes a somatic lexicon, or dictionary, that describes categories of sensations within the body and includes simple strategies for checking in and sensing feelings within. The hope is to increase our capacity to articulate and learn from difficult feelings. Focusing on the body generates compassion for ourselves and others, including and especially those who might not yet be able to face the effects of their grief. This practice may open a wider dialog about healing from grief and abuse. We can learn to distinguish and articulate the sensations of feelings. As we expand our lexicon, we increase mastery of our inner environment much the same way Eskimos have developed many words to describe snow.
