Craft for the Soul

Craft for the Soul
Author: Pip Lincolne
Publisher: Viking
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016-04
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 9780670076598

How do you harness creativity and bring it into your every day life? Crafter and blogger, Pip Lincolne shares her lifetime of wisdom on: x PRIORITISING YOUR OWN CREATIVITY x DOING NEW THINGS x FINDING THINGS THAT SPARK EXCITEMENT AND PASSION x BEING POSITIVE x CREATING ROUTINES x LOVING YOUR WORK x AND MUCH MUCH MORE ... Divided into ten chapters, this is a step-by-step program that talks the reader through the challenges of tapping into your creativity and making it work for you. Pip applies rules and routines to her own creativity and suggests that having a formal structure allows creativity to flourish. This clever, cute step-by-step guide will show you practical ways to get the most out of your creativity and live the life you want.

Soulcraft

Soulcraft
Author: Bill Plotkin
Publisher: New World Library
Total Pages: 402
Release: 2010-10-05
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 1577313577

Since 1980, depth psychologist Bill Plotkin has been guiding women and men into the wilderness — the redrock canyons and snow-crested mountains of the American West — but also into the wilds of the soul. He calls this work soulcraft. There’s a great longing in all people to uncover the secrets and mysteries of our individual lives, to find the unique gift we were born to bring to our communities, and to experience our full membership in the more-than-human world. This journey to soul is a descent into layers of the self much deeper than personality, a journey meant for each one of us, not just for the heroes and heroines of mythology. A modern handbook for the journey, Soulcraft is not an imitation of indigenous ways, but a contemporary nature-based approach born from wilderness experience, the traditions of Western culture, and the cross-cultural heritage of all humanity. Filled with stories, poems, and guidelines, Soulcraft introduces over 40 practices that facilitate the descent to soul, including dreamwork, wilderness vision fasts, talking across the species boundaries, council, self-designed ceremony, nature-based shadow work, and the arts of romance, being lost, and storytelling.

The Artisan Soul

The Artisan Soul
Author: Erwin Raphael McManus
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 112
Release: 2014-02-25
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0062270281

In The Artisan Soul, Erwin Raphael McManus, author, thought leader, and founder of MOSAIC in Los Angeles, pens a manifesto for human creativity and the beginning of a new renaissance. McManus not only calls us to reclaim our creative essence but reveals how we can craft our lives into a work of art. There are no shortcuts to quality, and McManus celebrates the spiritual process that can help us discover our true selves. McManus demonstrates that we all carry within us the essence of an artist. We all need to create, to be a part of a process that brings to the world something beautiful, good, and true, in order to allow our souls to come to life. It's not only the quality of the ingredients we use to build our lives that matter, but the care we bring to the process itself. Just like baking artisan bread, it's a process that's crafted over time. And God has something to say about how we craft our lives. With poignant, inspirational stories and insights from art, life, history, and scripture interspersed throughout, McManus walks readers through the process of crafting a life of beauty and wonder.

Crafting the Soul

Crafting the Soul
Author: Byron L. Sherwin
Publisher: Inner Traditions / Bear & Co
Total Pages: 244
Release: 1998-06
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 9780892817047

Examines what great thinkers of the past have had to say about the meaning of life. Offers ways to shape your life into something beautiful and unique.

Craft a Life You Love

Craft a Life You Love
Author: Amy Tangerine
Publisher: Abrams
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2018-04-10
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 1683352971

Learn how to focus your creative energy to make things—and make things happen. In this blend of memoir and hardworking handbook, creativity and craft maven Amy Tangerine shows how to find your flow, maintain a positive mindset, and cultivate a rich and fulfilling life by focusing on what truly matters and implementing small yet powerful changes. Chapters explore how to craft the soul, craft the right mindset, craft the right environment, craft good habits, rediscover your creative mojo, and maintain momentum, with each section offering exercises for taking your creative practice to the next level. For anyone who has felt disconnected from their creativity or has had trouble saving a space for their passions, Craft a Life You Love will teach you how to make time for creativity each and every day.

Craft to Heal

Craft to Heal
Author: Nancy Monson
Publisher: Hats Office Books
Total Pages: 124
Release: 2005
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 9781587364259

Over three-quarters of American households contain someone who loves to craft . . . and for good reason. Hobbies like painting, sewing, scrapbooking, woodworking, and photography provide crafters with more than just a way to have fun or make gifts. Even at their most basic, they're potent art forms that can distract the mind, soothe the soul, and de-stress the body. "Craft to Heal" describes how creative pursuits can be transformed into healing arts, which, in turn, can transform you. Mind-body research now shows that crafts are good for our mental, physical, and spiritual health, so we no longer need to make excuses for doing what we love. The truth is, crafts aren't just enjoyable, they're downright therapeutic!

The Journey of Soul Initiation

The Journey of Soul Initiation
Author: Bill Plotkin, PhD
Publisher: New World Library
Total Pages: 466
Release: 2021-01-12
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 1608687015

Soul initiation is an essential spiritual adventure that most of the world has forgotten — or not yet discovered. Here, visionary ecopsychologist Bill Plotkin maps this journey, one that has not been previously illuminated in the contemporary Western world and yet is vital for the future of our species and our planet. Based on the experiences of thousands of people, this book provides phase-by-phase guidance for the descent to soul — the dissolution of current identity; the encounter with the mythopoetic mysteries of soul; and the metamorphosis of the ego into a cocreator of life-enhancing culture. Plotkin illustrates each phase of this riveting and sometimes hazardous odyssey with fascinating stories from many people, including those he has guided. Throughout he weaves an in-depth exploration of Carl Jung's Red Book — and an innovative framework for understanding it.

Shop Class as Soulcraft

Shop Class as Soulcraft
Author: Matthew B. Crawford
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2009-05-28
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9781594202230

A philosopher/mechanic's wise (and sometimes funny) look at the challenges and pleasures of working with one's hands “This is a deep exploration of craftsmanship by someone with real, hands-on knowledge. The book is also quirky, surprising, and sometimes quite moving.” —Richard Sennett, author of The Craftsman Called “the sleeper hit of the publishing season” by The Boston Globe, Shop Class as Soulcraft became an instant bestseller, attracting readers with its radical (and timely) reappraisal of the merits of skilled manual labor. On both economic and psychological grounds, author Matthew B. Crawford questions the educational imperative of turning everyone into a “knowledge worker,” based on a misguided separation of thinking from doing. Using his own experience as an electrician and mechanic, Crawford presents a wonderfully articulated call for self-reliance and a moving reflection on how we can live concretely in an ever more abstract world.

Soul Therapy

Soul Therapy
Author: Thomas Moore
Publisher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2021-05-25
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0063071452

The New York Times bestselling author of the classic The Care of the Soul addresses the needs of those providing soul care to others—therapists, psychiatrists, ministers, spiritual directors, teachers, and even friends—sharing his insights for incorporating a spiritual or soulful dimension into their work and practices. Soul Therapy is the culmination of Thomas Moore’s work. In his previous acclaimed books, he explored the soul in important areas of our lives—work, sex, marriage, family, religion, and aging. In this wise guide, he now returns to his core vocation: teaching practitioners—therapists, psychiatrists, ministers, spiritual directors, and others—how to offer soul care to those they assist. A training manual infused with a lifetime’s worth of wisdom, Soul Therapy is divided into five sections: What therapy or “soul care” is and how it works; What soul work is required of the helper to be able to address the needs of others; How to access and move forward the spiritual dimension; How to apply this work to specific areas, such as work, marriage, parenting, or teaching; How to deal with other issues that arise, such as developing a therapeutic style, dealing with one’s shadow, and the need for self-care. Profound yet practical, enlightened yet grounded in real-world experience, Soul Therapy will become a definitive resource for caregivers and practitioners for years to come.