The Sacred Path of the Therapist

The Sacred Path of the Therapist
Author: Irene R. Siegel
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2017-09-19
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0393712419

Integrating Western psychological understanding with ancient Eastern and wisdom traditions, Siegel addresses how spiritual resonance is achieved within the psychotherapeutic process in The Sacred Path of the Therapist. Readers will learn how mindfulness practices and attunement can help them move clients toward recovery and beyond, allowing full potential to emerge within a shared coherent field of awakening consciousness. Topics include translating transpersonal theory into practice, understanding the human energy field, and the integration of psychotherapy and spiritual initiation. Drawing from her unique experiences working with master shamans as well as practicing as a psychotherapist, Irene Siegel discusses the evolving role of the therapist as both therapist and healer. Shamans are ancestral teachers, guides to nonordinary realms of consciousness and a divine cosmic whole within silent sacred spaces. Using lessons from native shamanic tradition and the evolving field of transpersonal psychology, both healer and client will learn to access the innate inner wisdom and healing potential within themselves through guided meditation exercises within moment-by-moment sacred space. The expanding content and context of therapy blends the two worlds: the clinical world and the world of the shaman.

The Sacred Path of the Therapist: Modern Healing, Ancient Wisdom, and Client Transformation

The Sacred Path of the Therapist: Modern Healing, Ancient Wisdom, and Client Transformation
Author: Irene R. Siegel
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2017-09-19
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0393712427

Integrating Western psychological understanding with ancient Eastern and wisdom traditions, Siegel addresses how spiritual resonance is achieved within the psychotherapeutic process in The Sacred Path of the Therapist. Readers will learn how mindfulness practices and attunement can help them move clients toward recovery and beyond, allowing full potential to emerge within a shared coherent field of awakening consciousness. Topics include translating transpersonal theory into practice, understanding the human energy field, and the integration of psychotherapy and spiritual initiation. Drawing from her unique experiences working with master shamans as well as practicing as a psychotherapist, Irene Siegel discusses the evolving role of the therapist as both therapist and healer. Shamans are ancestral teachers, guides to nonordinary realms of consciousness and a divine cosmic whole within silent sacred spaces. Using lessons from native shamanic tradition and the evolving field of transpersonal psychology, both healer and client will learn to access the innate inner wisdom and healing potential within themselves through guided meditation exercises within moment-by-moment sacred space. The expanding content and context of therapy blends the two worlds: the clinical world and the world of the shaman.

Encountering the Sacred in Psychotherapy

Encountering the Sacred in Psychotherapy
Author: James L. Griffith
Publisher: Guilford Press
Total Pages: 340
Release: 2012-01-19
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 146250583X

Drawing on narrative, postmodern, and other therapeutic perspectives, this book guides therapists in exploring the creative and healing possibilities in clients' spiritual and religious experience. Vivid personal accounts and dialogues bring to life the ways spirituality may influence the stories told in therapy, the language and metaphors used, and the meanings brought to key relationships and events. Applications are discussed for a wide variety of clinical situations, including helping people resolve relationship problems, manage psychiatric symptoms, and cope with medical illnesses.

Sacred Therapy

Sacred Therapy
Author: Estelle Frankel
Publisher: Shambhala Publications
Total Pages: 351
Release: 2005-03-08
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0834825198

In Sacred Therapy Estelle Frankel travels to the heart of Jewish mysticism to reveal how people of any faith can draw upon this rich body of teachings to gain wisdom, clarity, and a deeper sense of meaning in the midst of modern life. In an engaging and accessible style, Frankel brings together tales and teachings from the Bible, the Talmud, Kabbalah, and the Hasidic traditions as well as evocative case studies and stories from her own life to create an original, inspirational guide to emotional healing and spiritual growth.

Walking a Sacred Path

Walking a Sacred Path
Author: Lauren Artress
Publisher: Riverhead Trade (Paperbacks)
Total Pages: 201
Release: 1996
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 9781573225472

The author explores the history and significance of the image of the labyrinth and explains how readers can use the ancient imprint in the art of meditation, leading them to new sources of wisdom, change, and renewal. Reprint.

The Sacred Path

The Sacred Path
Author: Stephen J. Johnson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012-10
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 9780984982004

The Sacred Path: The Way of the Spiritual Warrior is intended to address the issues that are the most relevant to men and those who care about men. Issues addressed are: --4 crisis points in a man's life --The Father Gap wound that just won't heal --How a man can become the father he always wanted --What men are feeling but not saying --7 types of men most vulnerable to dangerous relationships --7 types of women who collude in a man's downfall --How a circle of good men can be a man's saving grace --The importance of mentors --6 challenges that men meet on the chivalrous path --6 mindfulness practices on the Sacred Path --Finding and renewing your true love --How to increase "Male Net Worth" --Spiritual Warriors at work in the world; Living your destiny and leaving a legacy. The ultimate goal of this book is that it will contribute to the cause of creating more safety for men to experience the vulnerability necessary to foster greater intimacy within their relationships.

Sacred Wounds

Sacred Wounds
Author: Teresa B. Pasquale
Publisher: Chalice Press
Total Pages: 185
Release: 2015-10-20
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0827235399

Trauma therapist Teresa B. Pasquale offers healing exercises, true-life examples, and life-giving discussion for anyone suffering from the very real pain of church hurt. Pasquale, a trauma survivor herself, understands the immeasurable value of our wounds once we've acknowledged them and recovered in community. That's why the wounds are "sacred," and the hope this book offers is a powerful message to anyone suffering from this widespread problem. This book explores the nature of emotional wounds, trauma, and spiritual hurt that come from negative religious experience. Some of the features are: Stories from a wide range of persons hurt by negative religious experience Healing and contemplative practices to help readers explore their own spiritual story and practical ways to move towards personal healing A journey through the experience of trauma in religious settings and how it is both relatable to other forms of trauma and distinctive -- outlining both facets An exploration of the author's own personal and professional understanding of hurt, trauma, PTSD, and the power of resiliency and healing

Toward a Psychology of Awakening

Toward a Psychology of Awakening
Author: John Welwood
Publisher: Shambhala Publications
Total Pages: 443
Release: 2002-02-12
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0834825546

A guide to understanding the relationship between Western psychology and the contemplative sprituality of the East—and how one’s spiritual journey can be enriched by both How can we connect the spiritual realizations of Buddhism with the psychological insights of the West? In Toward a Psychology of Awakening John Welwood addresses this question with comprehensiveness and depth, building on his innovative psychospiritual approach to health, healing, and spirituality. He covers the following topics: • What can the spiritual methodologies of the East teach us about psychological health? • What issues arise when the recognition of our larger nature challenges our very conception of individual self ? • What new directions become possible when psychological work is undertaken in a spiritual context? • How does Western psychological understanding affect our approach to spirituality? Welwood's psychology of awakening brings together three major dimensions of human existence: personal, interpersonal, and suprapersonal in one overall framework of understanding and practice.

SPIRITUAL ART THERAPY

SPIRITUAL ART THERAPY
Author: Ellen G. Horovitz
Publisher: Charles C Thomas Publisher
Total Pages: 220
Release: 2002-01-01
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 0398083738

In this book, therapists are urged to take into account the existence of spiritual aspects of personality, both in terms of making proper assessments and more focused treatment plans for people under their care. Although addressing itself chiefly to art therapists, the thrust of the text is an attempt to sensitize all clinical practitioners to the spiritual dimensions of therapy. By drawing on sources in the literature of religion, psychodynamics, systems theory, sociology, art, and ethics, the author lays a foundation for discovering and measuring clients’ spiritual sensibilities and search for personal meaning of their relationship to God. Chapter 1 discusses the evolution of the book and how the author embarked upon the inclusion of the spiritual dimension in assessment and treatment. Chapter 2 reviews the literature that encircles art therapy, mental health, and spirituality and explores its impact. Chapter 3 examines the Belief Art Therapy Assessment (BATA). Chapter 4 highlights the interviews and use of the BATA with clergy, while Chapter 5 explores its use with a “normal” adult artist population. Chapter 6 looks at spiritual art therapy with emotionally disturbed children and youth in residential treatment. Chapter 7 offers a case vignette of spiritual art therapy with a suicidal anorectic bulimic. Chapter 8 summarizes the author’s position and theosophy, while Chapter 9 examines the use of phototherapy as a means to investigate mourning and loss issues. The final chapter explores humankind’s search for inner and outer meaning after the tragedy of September 11. In addition to art therapists, this unique book will be useful to mental health workers, social workers, educational therapists, pastoral counselors, psychologists, psychiatrists, and other creative arts therapists.