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    Loving Your Life: an illustrated how-to-book on becoming who you are and loving it, through passionate, creative living
    Loving Your Life: an illustrated how-to-book on becoming who you are and loving it, through passionate, creative living
    Loving Your Life: an illustrated how-to-book on becoming who you are and loving it, through passionate, creative living
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    Loving Your Life: an illustrated how-to-book on becoming who you are and loving it, through passionate, creative living

    By Elke Scholz

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    Loving Your Life: an illustrated 258 page book on how to become who you are and love it though passionate creative living. Explore your creative mindfulness in this expressive arts book! Use it for daily inspirations, creative exercise & practices, for personal use and in workshops. It is a fun, refreshing practical approach for well-being.
    I believe that each person has a wealth of creativity that leads to the ability to achieve his or her dreams. It is within us, waiting to be recognized. With clarity of mind, body, and spirit comes the confidence to access all possibilities. This book is not about fixing or changing who you are but rather about how through creativity and curiosity you can increase your awareness of self and your surroundings and fully live your life.

    From Thomas Gokey , Adjunct Professor of Art at Syracuse University, New York:
    Creativity is a habit, a way of learning to see what it is you are actually looking at, to notice the weirdness and wonder of life while you are actually living it. In this book, Elke Scholz offers her guidance after years of honing her ability to be hyper-vigilant in the practice of creative living. Let all who have eyes learn to see, let all who have ears learn to listen. The world is rumbling and whirling about us. Elke Scholz will teach us how to marvel at this world and ultimately how to live in it.
    From Lisa Herman, Ph.D., MFT, Registered Expressive Arts Therapist, Director Creative Expression, Sofia University, Palo Alto, California:
    Elke Scholz is a courageous woman who through her own life’s unfolding has learned to sit with a difficult experience and hold this experience through the arts. Since the first edition of this book, Elke has continued experimenting with how to ‘sit in the swamp’ and move through the dark places, not knowing what’s to come. Through a combination of meditation practices, words of wisdom, and easy-to-follow processes, the reader will find unexpected paths to increasing his or her own creative potential.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherElke Scholz
    Release dateNov 23, 2016
    ISBN9780973602364
    Loving Your Life: an illustrated how-to-book on becoming who you are and loving it, through passionate, creative living
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    Elke Scholz

    Elke Scholz, MA, RT, REACE, is a registered Psychotherapist, a registered Expressive Art Consultant/Educator, and an internationally certified EMDR Therapist. Elke has over 35 years helping people and runs her private therapy practice out of Bracebridge, Muskoka. Many of her clients are youth at risk and people suffering from trauma, grief and loss. She has spoken and facilitated at conferences, on radio and on TV. She sits as a co-chair on the board for IEATA International Expressive Arts Therapy Association. She is a well-known author of; 2nd edition, Loving Your Life: a fun practical approach for well-being, containing over 40 creative exercises. She has produced antianxiety-wellness kits that help employees, youth-at-risk and seniors in managing anxiety and depression.

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      Book preview

      Loving Your Life - Elke Scholz

      chapter one

      THE BEGINNING

      Great changes in life are the result

      of gradual and cumulative effects.

      THE BREATH OF LIFE

      Everyone breathes.

      In fact, you probably only become aware of your breathing when attention is called to it. But did you know that learning to breathe well is important for your physical, emotional, and mental health?

      Deep breathing is a powerful relaxant

      as well as a rejuvenator.

      Breathing slowly lowers heart rate, metabolic rate, and blood pressure, and it eases muscle tension. Breathing deeply and slowly cleanses, refreshes, detoxifies, and energizes mind and body.

      Becoming aware of your own breathing and taking time for deep-breathing exercises brings you in tune with your body and also provides energy and calm for deliberate and productive thinking. In slowing down / calming down, our intuition is clearer and stronger.

      Children breathe naturally and deeply. Somehow we have unlearned that.

      Today, notice how many times you hold your breath.

      Each time you think of it, breathe deeply at least three times.

      •Sit, stand, or, if possible, lie down. Keep your spine straight to get the feel of your belly’s movement.

      •Do not cross any limbs. Feel loose. Relax.

      •Gently place your fingers — slightly interlaced and barely touching — on your abdomen, resting on your navel. As you inhale through your nose into the deepest part of your lungs, allow your stomach to expand as your fingers are pushed apart.

      •Exhale slowly through your mouth, pushing out as much air as

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