Archive for September, 2009
Lewis Mehl-Madrona: Book: Coyote Medicine
September 30, 2009
healing yourself
September 30, 2009
Healing yourself
In our culture, and others, there is a tradition of being healed. You go to someone, a doctor, healer, bear, and they heal you. Ummmm
In Coyote Medicine, Native American and physician, Lewis Mehl, writes
“Only the creator, the spirits, and the patient take credit for healing, the shaman is only with them. Native Americans won’t say they are shaman or they do the healing, we need to be humble or the spirits leave us. The patient does 70% of the work to get well, the creator does 20%, I do 10% which is barely worth mentioning. Most of what the patient does to get well, is make the firm decision to be well .”
http://www.healing-arts.org/mehl-madrona/
Ok this is like a mantra for me, thank you Lewis, because all my professional life, I struggle with this paradox, I am a healer, I do healing with people and I believe with all my heart people heal themselves and spirit heals. So.. when I dance as bear, illness goes from people to bear to eagle to fire to creator, I carry bear, people release illness. When I am a physician, I am with someone, I do what I do and they go home and heal. Drugs and surgery help but they do it. My first book Well Body Book was about a person healing themself.
http://www.amazon.com/Well-Body-Book-Michael-Samuels/dp/0394709691
When I teach art and healing I ask my students to do an art project to use art (visual, music, dance, word, ceremony) to heal themselves, others, community or earth. So.. I tell them .. heal yourself… I do not do it, you YOU do it. with….. spirit all your ancestors, spirit guides creator goddesses divine feminine and the art is the voice of all of this speaking through you my dears, ummm
Yes she does..
Carl Jung’s Red Book | World of Psychology
September 29, 2009
Eco Artist- lisa rasmussen
September 29, 2009
More dreams and art and healing
September 29, 2009
Last night I had another art and healing dream. I was teaching my class. The class had become very large, people were coming from far away. I was in a big auditorium and people were talking. I told them to stop talking and started to explain what art and healing was, how you used art (visual arts, music, dance, writing, ceremony) to heal yourself, others, community and earth. In the middle of my long winded explanation, I was up to music I think, people started to stand up. A whole group rose up and a young man about 12 came to the center of the circle, (I teach in circles). He started to sing, he sang an unbelievably beautiful Native American Chant, not one I knew, I thought it was original and he wrote it, it was incredibly healing. Then…. I knew..more than ever.. it was not about me, it was about the class, and they were doing art to heal more than I could ever teach…. Ummmm
its about you…. you are the healing artist….
From Lisa Rasmussen , http://treeshrines-artistlisarasmussen.blogspot.com/ wonderful art teacher at Lincoln Child Center and healing artist, this link about Carl Jung and dreams. When I read his autobiography, Memories, Dreams, Reflections, it changed my life. especially this paragraph about pummeting down, it started me on my journey of guided imagery and spirit guides.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/20/magazine/20jung-t.html?pagewanted=2&_r=1
"Between appointments with patients, after dinner with his wife and children, whenever there was a spare hour or two, Jung sat in a book-lined office on the second floor of his home and actually induced hallucinations — what he called “active imaginations.” “In order to grasp the fantasies which were stirring in me ‘underground,’ ” Jung wrote later in his book “Memories, Dreams, Reflections,” “I knew that I had to let myself plummet down into them.” He found himself in a liminal place, as full of creative abundance as it was of potential ruin, believing it to be the same borderlands traveled by both lunatics and great artists."
"In the Red Book, after Jung’s soul urges him to embrace the madness, Jung is still doubtful. Then suddenly, as happens in dreams, his soul turns into “a fat, little professor,” who expresses a kind of paternal concern for Jung.
Jung says: “I too believe that I’ve completely lost myself. Am I really crazy? It’s all terribly confusing.”
The professor responds: “Have patience, everything will work out. Anyway, sleep well.” '
sleep well professor, sleep well teacher…..
Pegasus Constellation – Crystalinks
September 28, 2009
Nut (goddess) – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
September 28, 2009
via en.wikipedia.org
PEGASUS : Immortal winged horse of Bellerophon ; Greek mythology ; pictures ; constellation : PEGASOS
September 28, 2009
via theoi.com
Dreams visions and myths ancient art and healing
September 28, 2009
An anthropologist I met in Australia told me that indigenous people didn’t sleep like we do, he said they never slept through the night in one piece, that was for people who needed to work the next day, rather, he said, they slept in bursts, a couple of hours, then got up, played music talked and slept again, everyone in the village did that, he said. Ummmm
Well last night I did it too due to jet lag, flying back and forth from Greece to San Francisco, and bear dancing all night etc.
And… ummm. Well, I had this dream.
There was a small boy and girl maybe 10 years old or younger, they were in the mountains of ancient Greece walking on a steep trail at night. Suddenly the boy reached up, stood on his tip toes and grabbed a star. There are many stars in the night in Greece in the mountains. He pulled down the star and then another and then some more and made a horse of stars. It was very big, taller than he was. He reached out and gave it to the little girl and she got up on its back and then the it grew flesh and muscles and became a real horse… and he grabbed another star and another and made himself a horse of stars, got on it and it turned solid, and then, they galloped off together… in the swirling Greek mountain starry night.
ancient Egyptian myth of her body as the stars….
Ummm. I woke up, very tired….
Well in classic guided imagery psychology, there are several types of imagery: memory images ( past events) imagination images ( possible events) dreams, hallucinations and hypnagogic, hypnopompic (images while falling asleep and waking up) . The line between all these varies, all are more or less vivid or controllable.
I realized when I woke up this morning from my night of indigenous jetlagged falling asleep and waking up, I was having a series of vivid images and they were soo beautiful and they were like ancient myths.
So….
Make art and healing… healing art …from your vivid imagery states.. while falling asleep and waking up….
Children making art
September 27, 2009
Children making art in a taverna in a Greek villiage….
Remember when you were a child, making art?
Remember… before someone told you that you were not an artist,
when it was pure joy and took you elsewhere?
You can encourage your children to make art in your home, in school or in workshops, you can make art with them as your project….make an art space, a studio and a time to make art with your children…
Or you can make art as a child again…
Remember the media you loved, visual arts, music, dance, word,
remember what you did
and how it felt
ummm
