Through art projects—including visual arts, dance, writing, and music—along with spiritual practices and guided imagery, Healing With the Arts gives you the tools to heal what you need to heal in your life: physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual.
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Healing with the Arts
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Course Introduction
This week will give you an overview of the course, an introduction to your guides, a get-started kit, and space to do art.
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Mary Rockwood Lane, PhD, RN, FAANAssociate Professor
College of Nursing
Michael Samuels, MD
All right, welcome to, this is going to be,
I'm going to be doing a centering meditation.
And I invite you to follow this meditation.
But at the same time I want you to think about ways in which you can create
the same kind of ritual or ceremony in your own personal life.
How do you do this is as many ways as you express yourself.
One of the things that I find in my creative life
is creating intention and really finding a place inside
myself where I can go to because art to me is like prayer.
It's like meditation.
It's something that is so important to who I am as a human being and
I've explored many ways in which I can sort of
feel deeply who I am and feeling grounded.
The singing bowl is a very special bowl.
And this was made in Katmandu, Nepal.
And it's been calibrated to the shock vibrations of the heart.
And the reason I'm going to share it with you today is because
as we do this meditation and as you follow my words, my intention is for
you to open your heart and allow yourself to vibrate,
which what is the intelligence of your heart.
Because our heart is as intelligent as our brain.
As much, and
more information goes from our heart to our brain than our brain from our heart.
So this work is about tapping into your heart's intelligence.
So I'd like you to get comfortable.
I suggest you put both feet on the ground.
And find a comfortable way of sitting, allowing your spine to be
straight and feeling your body in a state of rest.
And begin by taking some slow, deep breaths.
Allowing yourself to relax and just settle into your body.
And as you breathe begin to let yourself become
connected more deeply to your breathing.
And as you breathe out begin
to become a little more relaxed.
[SOUND] Breathing in and
breathing out.
Allowing yourself to become centered.
Gently close your eyes and breath deeply,
all the way down into your belly.
Breathing more deeply so where your breath fills your entire body.
[SOUND] Now allow yourself to feel your heart,
the energy of your heart opening.
Feeling yourself in this place of calm and peacefulness.
I invite you to feel, to think,
to dwell in your body.
[SOUND] In this moment feel appreciation for
something that you deeply love in your life.
What are you most grateful for?
[SOUND] Breathe into that feeling.
Allow something you love to be focused within you.
It maybe a person, a pet,
something that you feel love.
Feeling this love becoming expansive and
larger, until it totally fills your entire body.
[SOUND] Breath, into this feeling.
[SOUND] Allow your body to become more expansive.
[SOUND] Feel this energetic feeling of love
expand about 3 feet outside your body.
[SOUND] Feeling this vibration.
Imagine yourself dwelling in this field.
Allow it to get larger and larger.
To it fills the entire room or in the entire place that you're dwelling.
Breathe, breathe into your heart.
Feel, allow your heart to open.
[SOUND] In the center of your body, feel an opening.
[SOUND] This is the place.
[SOUND] Where your creativity emerges like a well spring.
[SOUND] In this moment of
feeling centered,
feel your body connected to the Earth.
Allow the Earth's energy to come up through you, filling you.
Feel the energy from above coming down, and interfacing in your heart.
Imagine yourself becoming more and more expansive.
Now in your mind's eye, imagine yourself as an artist.
Allow yourself to be the artist.
And whatever you see, allow it to accept it for what it is.
As you see this aspect of yourself as an artist,
I want you to invite the aspect of yourself that is a healer.
And in your mind's eye, allow the two parts of yourself to merge.
Have them look into each other and their hearts
become connected and they become one.
Allow yourself to breathe deeply.
You are an artist, you are a healer.
The artist and healer are one.
Allow this energy to expand,
feel this embodiment of this life force.
Take another deep breath.
In your mind's eye say these words to yourself.
I am, I am an artist.
I am, I am a healer.
The artist and healer are one.
As you make this intention, you begin this journey.
You begin this journey together.
And I want us light a candle as a symbol of all of us.
And I invite you to light a candle somewhere in your life,
to where you and all of us are connected by a flame.
Now this candle represents the artist and
healer as one in my life as I light this candle.
And I light this candle in your life.
So I want you to acknowledge that you are light.
And at, dear.
>> we're going to start over.
>> Can you believe that?
[LAUGH] Must be an old.
