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Your Medicine?
The Well-Being Journal
Drawing on Your Inner Power to Heal Yourself...
by Dr. Lucia Capacchione, Ph.D., A.T.R., R.E.A.T.
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"Capacchione's work is great! I recommend her books to people I work with who
have a variety of problems. I think both drawing and writing encourage a
fundamental need that we have for self-expression. There may be an added benefit
to writing in that it translates experiences into language--which helps the person to
resolve a trauma more quickly."
Prof. James W. Pennebaker
Department of Psychology
Southern Methodist University
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Relaxation and Re-Creation: drawing your feelings out, a dance on paper, tension
and slowing down, where the time goes, time to play
Supportive Relationships: My own best friend, the gift of friendship, personal support
group, picture me sexual, the facts of love, male and female, the marriage within
Healing from the Inner Self: Dreams remembering and recording, the dream body,
the healing dream, the Healer Within, Health affirmations, solitude, meditation,
prayer, endings and new beginnings
Want to know more? What is Art Therapy?
Quote from The Picture of Health - Healing Your Life with Art by Dr Lucia
Capacchione
"Since the mid-1970's I have shared my discoveries at seminars for people of all
ages and occupations: in schools and colleges, churches, corporations, counseling
centers, and spiritual retreats."
"Over the years I have documented my discoveries and techniques in many books
(Self Discovery Bookstore) The feedback has been so inspiring, especially in regard
to the healing power of art, that I was moved to write this book. It includes not only
my personal story and triumph over difficult odds and a life-threatening condition,
but the impressive success stories of others."
"I became an art therapist in 1975 after healing an "incurable" disease primarily
through spontaneous drawing and writing. At the time of my illness, I was a
professional artist and teacher. I had never heard of art therapy, and there were no
popular books on the subject. My spontaneous self-exploration through art was
undoubtedly guided by a higher healing power within, taking me step by step back
home to my Inner Self.
"When you read my story you will see how the Inner Artist has played the role of
healer throughout my life. Through the writing and drawing exercises, affirmations,
visualizations, meditations, and inspirational stories, I hope you will find the healing
power of your own Inner Artist. I have found that tremendous love - for yourself and
for others - becomes the overflowing pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. it comes
with the joy of finding and expressing your own truth."
Dr. Lucia Capacchione
"There is a simplicity and innocence in the way the book unfolds because it uses the
tools and language of the child. Yet it is profound in its impact."
Robert Ault, A.T.R.
The Menninger Foundation
Dr. Lucia just released this new Picture of Health, Well-Being Journal
Meditation WORKSHOP on an audio CD (compact disc).
This new CD is a complete Picture of Health workshop on an audio compact
disc!
Dr. Lucia Cappachione gently leads you through her processes, making it
easy for you to focus on following her instructions in drawing, writing, and
meditating so you can create a new Picture of Health for yourself.
This is just like having a private session with Dr. Lucia in your own home,
whenever you want!
Also it replaces the old Well-Being Journal Meditations audio cassette tape,
which is no longer available, that is referred to in the following books:
1. Lighten Up Your Body - Lighten Up Your Life
2. The Picture of Health - Healing Your Life with Art
3. The Well Being Journal - on this page
Tracks include:
1. Breathing & Inner Journey
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Body Mapping
Body Chat
The Picture of Health
Meditation & Visualization
The Picture of Health, Well-Being Journal Meditations for Healing Your Life
With Art This is a fantastic CD - it's just like having a private session with
Dr. Lucia Capacchione, A.R.T. & R.E.A.T.
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Dr. Lucia Capacchione, Ph.D., A.T.R., R.E.A.T. is an Art Therapist Registered &
Registered Expressive Art Therapist, artist, psychologist, popular international
workshop leader, author of 12 books, including her newest release, Living With
Feeling; Visioning Ten Steps to Designing the Life of Your Dreams, and the bestselling Recovery of Your Inner Child. The originator of the Creative Journal Method,
Dr. Capacchione is recognized as a pioneer in health and healing through creativity.
As a career counselor, she has conducted job outplacement seminars, talent
development, and corporate consulting for business and industry, including such
clients as Hallmark, Mattel, and Walt Disney Imagineering. She lives near Big Sur,
California
The feedback from my workshop participants (over 50,000 people have attended my
workshops over the years) has been so inspiring, especially in regard to the healing
power of art, that I was moved to write books which tell their stories of healing
through art and journal writing.
When you read my story in any of my books, you will see how the Inner Artist has
played the role of healer throughout my life. Through the writing and drawing
exercises, affirmations, visualizations, meditations, and inspirational stories, I hope
you will find the healing power of your own Inner Artist. I have found that
tremendous love - for yourself and for others - becomes the overflowing pot of gold
at the end of the rainbow. It comes with the joy of finding and expressing your own
truth.
If you are dealing with a life-threatening or chronic condition, an excellent book to
start with is "The Picture of Health - Healing Your Life with Art" (click to see table of
contents)
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browser to return to this page.
Confessional writing has been around at least since the Renaissance, but new
research suggests that its far more therapeutic than anyone ever knew...
Researchers found direct physiological evidence [that writing about your feelings and
experiences is good for your physical health]: writing increased the level of diseasefighting lymphocytes circulating in the bloodstream.
Newsweek, April, 1999
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Chapter 6
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Chapter 7
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Chapter 8
Talking Pictures
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Chapter 9
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Chapter 10
Seeing is Believing
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Chapter 12
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Chapter 14
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Resource Guide
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creative self. Ask your creative self to be your silent partner, flowing through you.
Ask it to show its face as you portray your heart's desires in your Vision collage.
Open up your own innate wisdom pouring out through images and words.
As you get a deeper sense of partnering with your creative self, it is helpful to allow
an image to appear. This is a highly intuitive process and, again, there is no right or
wrong way to do it. The next exercise is intended to help you allow your creative self
to transmit an image to your mind, one that is relevant for you today. Each time you
do this exercise, a different image is likely to appear. The creative self has many
messages to send us, depending on what we need at any given time.
Order Visioning...
Table of Contents
back to main Visioning page - where you left off
http://nowgetcreativekids.com/visioning.htm#order
How can I take what I'm day dreaming about - and bring
it into my physical world?
Visualization and other techniques for creating mental pictures are being used in the
fields of medicine. Patients of all ages and walks of life have been taught to use their
imaginations for:
managing pain
Visioning is rooted in the idea that you can design your own
life, that it is within your own power to:
Visioning begins by naming your heart's desire and translating it into pictures and
words on paper
It is the same process designers, architects, and engineers use when they
get an idea and create sketches, models, and blueprints.
THEY know the alchemy of turning thoughts into things!
There's nothing mysterious about it!
It's the process know as DESIGN. AND you can learn it too, by designing from your
heart's desires
Work and career - dealing with problems on the job, job changes and career
transitions
Ok, I think I'm getting it... BUT Name me JUST ONE Dreamer
that really did all this!!!
How about Walt Disney?... "If you can dream it, you can do it" was his
maxim. Walt once dreamed of storytelling in a real 3-dimensional place, a place
parents could take their kids and ALL have a good time.
And out of his dream - Disneyland and the Disney empire was created.
But what are the principles and steps that dreamers and
designers, such as Walt Disney, use to bring their dreams into
physical reality?
Visioning follows the same rules that inspire professional designers and shows
how YOU can use them in in YOUR life, everyday - To DESIGN the Life of
Your Dreams.
Visioning sparks "the designer within you" and makes real the notion that if
you can dream it, you can do it.
The ten steps of Visioning are a road map to the creative process, applied to
your health, relationships, career, home, and all the other areas of your life.
You will learn how to apply her blueprint to your life, from making a wish
through the "creative chaos" to realizing your personal goals and dreams.
With easy-to-follow and playful, activities and time-tested techniques, you
will effectively grasp how to take Your Wish, then visualize that wish into your
life in a tangible and effective form!
Filled with success stories of her students who have already used this
process... one student "visioned", then achieved her dream ranch...
Now, is the time to add your success story... isn't it??? Order
http://nowgetcreativekids.com/CJExercises/index.htm
These FREE EXERCISES are compliments of Richard Bingham &
NowGetCreative.com and Dr. Lucia Capacchione, Art Therapist
Registered, Expressive Arts Registered Therapist.
The Creative Journal and Dr. Lucia Capacchione's other 12 books,
audio programs, and Dr. Lucia's recommended art supplies are
available in our Self Discovery Bookstore to learn more about Art
Therapy and how to use it in your life read: What is Art Therapy? to learn
more about Creative Journaling read: What is Journaling?
The Creative Journal Method has been endorsed by Bernie Siegel, Joan
Borysenko, Gerald Jampolsky, Louise Hay, Charles Whitfield and Melody Beattie. The
method is being used internationally for growth and healing in such settings as:
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personal growth
health and healing
inner child work
creativity development
life planning
career and talent development
parenting kids and teenagers
spiritual practice
The originator of this innovative and therapeutic approach to journaling invites you to
join her in an inward journey of discovery, healing and growth.
When I did these drawings I really had do idea what they meant. It was like having a
dream on paper.
I was later to learn that I had tapped into the creative and healing power of my right brain
(which specializes in visual/spatial perception as well as emotional and intuitive
expression). But I didn't know that at the time. Frankly, I thought I was losing it. They
looked like the paintings of mental patients you might see in the occupational therapy
ward of a psychiatric hospital .
Yet, these odd little sketches intrigued me. It was as if I was writing in a foreign language
that I didn't understand. The important thing was that I felt a lot better after I did these
drawings. Something about doing this was healing me, although I couldn't tell you how
or why. Later, I learned to read the language of symbols and decode these mysterious
messages from the unconscious. Just as you will learn to do in keeping a Creative
Journal.
Doing these drawings felt so therapeutic that I decided to keep a journal of my feelings
and thoughts. My first "official journal" was a little blank book I had bought twenty years
before when I was fifteen and thought I wanted to be a journalist . (How's that for
prophetic wisdom?). I had never written a word in that book. But I started. And I have not
stopped writing since. The Creative Journal healed me and led to a new career as an art
therapist and author. I am pleased to share with you what I learned about the art of
finding yourself.
The Creative Journal Method is unique because it develops both sides of the brain: the
rational, verbal left hemisphere and the artistic, intuitive right hemisphere. Drawing is a
right brain function, writing words is primarily a left brain activity. Using the non
dominant hand helps to INTEGRATE the brain hemispheres. Writing with the hand you
don't normally write with allows you to express - in words - feelings and intuitions
associated with the little-used right side of the brain.
Setting
It's best to have a quiet place where you can be alone with yourself and concentrate on
journaling. Find a place that is free from loud noises, distractions and interruptions. Many
people find that they have a favorite chair or desk or even a spot in nature where they like
doing their Creative Journaling. Find the place that feels best for you a place that's safe,
quiet and conducive to taking little journeys inside.
Selective Sharing
There are times when you may want to share an insight, a feeling a dream or some
drawings with someone else. Be selective about who you share these special pieces with.
Be sure the person is safe, won't criticize you and is supportive of you and your journal
work. Sometimes you may want to share with your therapist, counselor, best friend or
spouse (if it's safe). Whatever you do, avoid sharing with people who put you down, think
journal-keeping is a waste of time or want to tell you how to think and feel or how to live
your life. How you live your life is up to you. Don't let others talk you out of being and
expressing who you really are in your journal.
Self-Criticism
The written and drawn illustrations were done by other journal-keepers just like you.
Their work is meant to inspire you and spark your own creativity. It is not for you to
copy or compare your work to. There is no right or wrong way to do Creative
Journaling. Only YOUR way. Relax, express what's inside and get to know the real you.
If you encounter self-doubt or blocks, there are exercises specifically for dealing with it.
You do not need any experience, training or special talent in writing or art to do these
journal activities. All you need is the willingness to explore yourself, experiment with
new media of expression and have a good time with yourself.
Finding Yourself
Warm Up
How Do I Feel Right Now?
My Inner and Outer Self
Looking Back
Where Am I At?
Current Challenge
Self-Portrait
Block Buster I
My Creative Self
The Guide Within Me
Body Talks
Tension and Relaxation
Nurturing the Child Within
Nurturing All of Me
Drawing Out Your Inner Healer
Personal Support System
Dream Work
Draw a Dream
Translating My Dreams