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Ceremonies for Spiritual Healing and Growth (Hardcover)
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Ceremonies for Spiritual Healing and Growth (Hardcover)
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Ceremony as therapy Formal ceremonies seem to be universal in human
experience, addressing something very deep and basic in the human
psyche. They tap into that vast subconscious reservoir of wisdom
and strength that every human being possesses. To these qualities
ceremonies add their own understandings of life and of God. They
emphasize the presence of God in all things. The important
transitions in our lives inevitably create anxietyeven happy
transitions, such as weddings. We move from the familiar to the
unknown. Our role in the community may change, which means that we
will be treated differently. Sometimes it is our own sense of who
we are that changes. We seek to live differently. All of these
changes have an anxiety of their own. Ceremonies use the languages
of the heartmetaphor, poetry, meditation, music, liturgy, and
dramato address those anxieties. Bypassing the sterility of logic
and analysis, a ceremony evokes the power to affirm and to heal
that straightforward rational communication cannot touch. A
ceremony has the quality of set-apartness. Something special is
happening! Words spoken in a ceremony will have much more impact
than those same words would have in a more ordinary context. A
ceremony brings new perspective to things with which we struggle.
Many ceremonies enlist the support of one's community. The leader
often represents one's spiritual tradition, and other members of
the community may be present. Even if the ceremony is done in the
privacy of one's home or of a therapist's or pastor's office,
others are present in the participant's imagination. Ceremonies
also involve God, whose presence is acknowledged and whose blessing
and support are assured. The ceremonies presented here are
down-to-earth and practical. They can easily be adapted to many
situations, and can stimulate the reader to create his/her own
ceremonies to meet the unique needs of the persons to whom he/she
ministers. Some of the ceremonies in this book are for use in a
public place: weddings funerals a ceremony for grieving Others are
more private, for use in a pastor's/therapist's office or in one's
home: adoption funeral for an aborted baby support for a rape
survivor the commitment to stop smoking addressing children's
phobias leaving home forgiving another person forgiving oneself and
more This book is a first! Not just a discussion about ceremonies,
but a collection of ceremonies addressing a wide variety of
situations! It will be innovative and insightful reading for
pastors, therapists, and others for whom the languages of analysis
and logic are not enough.
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