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Tables of Contents for Living With Feeling
Chapter/Section Title
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Introduction
1
8
The emotional self
Emotions and body-mind medicine
The way of emotions
PART ONE Embracing Your Emotional Self
9
58
How Do You Feel?
11
20
Emotions: what they are and where they come from
Emotions: what they're good for
Emotional literacy
Nine Families of Feelings
Meeting your emotional self
What Can I Do with My Feelings?
31
21
Discovering the art of emotional expression
Emotions and the right brain
The expressive arts
Facing the critic
Materials
Feelings in Your Body
52
15
Emotions as energy
How emotions get stored in your body
Reclaiming our emotions
Feeling the body
What the drawing means
The body as storyteller
PART TWO Expressing Your Feelings
67
106
The ABCs of feelings: match the medium to the mood
Directory of emotions: an alphabetical reference guide to emotions
The Color of Emotions: From Red with Rage to Feeling Blue
75
34
The ABCs of drawing: color, line, shape, and texture
Drawing out your feelings
The art of collage
Exploring pastels
Painting your feelings
Expressive arts as meditation: peace, contentment, and serenity
Sculpted Feelings: Mad, Sad, and Glad
109
21
Preparing the Clay, preparing yourself
The hot emotions: anger, sexuality, and passion
My body self
Feelings of loss: grief, sadness, and loneliness
The Sound of Feelings: From Sadness to Joy
130
23
Emotions and sound
Music as medicine
Drumming and the hot emotions
Vocalizing our feelings
Sounding our depths: sadness, loneliness, and grief
Mantra and sound meditation: peace and contentment
Sounds from the heart: happiness, love, and playfulness
Emotions in Motion: Moving Your Mood, Dancing for Joy
153
20
Body language and emotions
The Dancer Within
Blocks to spontaneous dance
Moving your feelings out
The work of Gabrielle Roth and the five rhythms
Movement as spiritual practice: peace and serenity
Emotions as energy
PART THREE Understanding Your Feelings
173
64
Insight through words
When Your Feelings Tell Their Story, Pay Attention
177
15
In the beginning was the Word
I found it at the movies
Writing from the still imager
Writing from feelings
Writing as medicine
Listening to the guide within
Facing Ourselves: Mask Making and Inner Dialogues
192
18
Finding our many selves
Subpersonalities and emotions
Mask making and our many selves
Methods of mask making
Exploring the selves through Voice Dialogue
Accepting Your Feelings: Letting Go of Judgment
210
27
Clearing the emotions by clearing the mind
A change of heart: nurturing yourself
As we believe, so we feel: dropping old baggage
Clearing old patterns
Letting your feelings be your guide: changing your life creatively
Resources
237
Materials
Sources for art materials and supplies
Books, audio and video cassettes
Body charts: chapter three