Inner Peace Coloring - adult coloring book to create your own works of art. All the designs in Volume 2 of Inner Peace Coloring were created to inspire your gratitude - some are mandalas, others full page designs or other inspirational shapes. The interpretation and inspiration for gratitude from the designs in this volume have been deliberately left blank for you to add your own feelings that arise while coloring. On the page opposite each design there is space for you to write a few thoughts and if you wish set out any intention you might have in coloring the design and, where appropriate, also a space under the design to add a title, if you so desire. Coloring is an effective tool for relaxation, healing and meditation primarily because coloring is a fun and relaxing activity. Coloring is a simple and enjoyable way to express your creativity. No matter what age you are, you can enjoy coloring. All you need are a few coloring pencils. What is important to remember is that you set the rules - there are no hard and fast, right or wrong ways to color. In fact you can do your coloring in any way you wish, almost anywhere you like, at your own pace. What's more you can be sure you are creating a unique work of art.

Inner Peace Mandalas - Create your own works of art. All the mandalas in Volume 1 of Inner Peace Mandalas were created using words to inspire your thoughts: Love, Peace, Gratitude, Healing, Belief, Dream, etc. Some of you may be able to spot letters or even the full word in the intricate designs. The word used for the mandala is written below each mandala, so you can use it for inspiration. On the page opposite each mandala there is space for you to write a few thoughts and if you wish set out any intention you might have in coloring the mandala. One of the easiest and most effective ways to experience the healing power of the mandala is by coloring the design. Mandala coloring is an effective tool for relaxation, healing and meditation primarily because coloring is a fun and relaxing activity. Coloring is a simple and enjoyable way to express your creativity. No matter what age you are, you can enjoy coloring. All you need are a few coloring pencils. What is important to remember is that you set the rules - there are no hard and fast, right or wrong ways to color a mandala. In fact you can do your coloring in any way you wish, almost anywhere you like, at your own pace. What's more you can be sure you are creating a unique work of art.

A complete guide to creating planetary yantras to access their healing and centering benefits • Provides easy-to-follow instructions to create the yantras • Serves as an introduction to active meditation, which focuses the mind while the body is engaged in a meditative activity The tantric art of drawing or painting the nine designs known as yantras is an ancient practice of active meditation that releases positive healing and centering effects. Each of the nine designs corresponds to one of the nine qualities of body and mind essential to well-being: radiance, nourishment, passion, intellect, expansion, bliss, organization, uniqueness, and spirituality. From the basic elements of the square, the circle, and the triangle, dynamic visual meditations unfold as the practitioner works clockwise from the outer elements inward toward the central point of stillness, or bindu, the source of happiness within. An accompanying mantra is recited while preparing each yantra to fully engage the senses in the meditative process. Creating the design that “speaks” most to the practitioner enables its unique healing quality to be transmitted. For example, working on the yantra named “Radiance” cultivates optimism and the self-confidence to succeed in one’s endeavors, while “radiating,” or imparting, one’s inner light to others. This workbook provides an important resource for active meditation, a practice revered for its effectiveness in revealing the spiritual underpinnings of everyday life. The active participation of the body in meditation while creating the nine planetary yantras raises to the level of spiritual ritual the practitioner’s intention toward wakefulness and gives access to profound states of healing integration.

Heartwarming and Heart-Opening Stories Gathered from Decades of Medical Practice Bernie Siegel first wrote about miracles when he was a practicing surgeon and founded Exceptional Cancer Patients, a groundbreaking synthesis of group, individual, dream, and art therapy that provided patients with a “carefrontation.” Compiled during his more than thirty years of practice, speaking, and teaching, the stories in these pages are riveting, warm, and belief expanding. Their subjects include a girl whose baby brother helped her overcome anorexia, a woman whose cancer helped her heal by teaching her to stand up for herself, and a family that was saved from a burning house by bats. Without diminishing the reality of pain and hardship, the stories show real people turning crisis into blessing by responding to adversity in ways that empower and heal. They demonstrate what we are capable of and show us that we can achieve miracles as we confront life’s difficulties.

Drawing the traditional circular designs known as mandalas is a meditative practice, a healing exercise in times of crisis, and a pleasurable act of creativity. As a symbol of the Self, the mandala provides a connection to our innermost being. The forty-eight drawings presented here for coloring include designs inspired by forms of nature, Native American and Tibetan sand paintings, Hindu yantras, Turkish mosaics, the illuminations of Hildegarde of Bingen, and the art of M.C. Escher. These mandalas are organized according to the Great Round of Mandala, a scheme of twelve archetypal stages that represents a complete cycle of personal growth. Thus, to do the coloring book from start to finish will carry the reader through a balanced experience of change, guided by the accompanying text.

In the tradition of Octavia Butler, here is radical self-help, society-help, and planet-help to shape the futures we want. Change is constant. The world, our bodies, and our minds are in a constant state of flux. They are a stream of ever-mutating, emergent patterns. Rather than steel ourselves against such change, Emergent Strategy teaches us to map and assess the swirling structures and to read them as they happen, all the better to shape that which ultimately shapes us, personally and politically. A resolutely materialist spirituality based equally on science and science fiction: a wild feminist and afro-futurist ride! adrienne maree brown, co-editor of Octavia’s Brood: Science Fiction from Social Justice Movements, is a social justice facilitator, healer, and doula living in Detroit.

Three words Bethany never thought her 34-year-old, healthy, organic-eating, wellness-teaching yogini body would ever hear? "You have cancer." Even more shocking? She was excited. A compassionate companion for anyone facing the C word, My Guru Cancer is the inspirational story of a woman who dares to drop the fight, welcoming breast cancer into her life as a wise teacher of self-growth, love, and gratitude. In this down-to-earth, funny, and heartfelt confessional, join Bethany on her two-year journey into remission as she applies the practical tools of inquiry to meet each challenge: diagnostic testing, treatment, losing body parts, finances, relationships, emotional exorcisms, and the fear of death. Go beyond simple positive thinking and learn how to cultivate a healing mindset that transforms any nightmare into a blessing, creating a life of laughter and peace. True freedom from cancer is a state of mind. And you don't have to go to war or wait until you're pronounced "cancer-free" to find it.