From musicians in hospitals to quilts on the National Mall--art is already healing people all over the world. It is helping veterans recover, improving the quality of life for cancer patients, and bringing communities together to improve their neighborhoods. Now it's your turn.
Through art projects, including visual arts, dance, writing, and music, along with spiritual practices and guided imagery, "Healing with the Arts" gives you the tools to address what you need to heal in your life--physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual.
An acclaimed twelve-week program lauded by hospitals and caretakers from around the world, "Healing with the Arts "gives you the ability to heal your family and your friends, as well as communities where you've always wanted to make a difference. Internationally known leaders in the arts in medicine movement, Michael Samuels, MD, and Mary Rockwood Lane, RN, PhD, show you how to use creativity and self-expression to pave the artist's path to healing.

This Caritas Path to Peace shows us the way forward. It serves as a Waymarker on the path toward human caring and peace on earth. It is an inspired work which ushers in the collective evolution of humankind, toward a new consciousness, which unites and transcends time and space and previous ways of thinking about our life and relationship with our self, each other and Mother Earth. It heightens our awakening of the great change needed at this hour for sustaining humanity at this very point in human history. Ancient wisdom from our ancestors, current wisdom from our enlightened leaders and wisdom seekers around the globe are proclaiming the time is now. The time is now, the hour is now for the great shift which we have been waiting for, moving us toward a moral community of caring and peace. We are reminded that we hold the vision to create a world free of war and violence; we as men, women, physicians, nurses and all health care workers and caretakers worldwide, are compassionate caregivers of creation of all of life; we hold visions of love and peace and miracles in our midst. We are here to serve and to co-create a new reality to protect and help reverse the fragility of our humanity and Planet Earth. The Caritas Path to Peace will help you create a new world for peace by utilizing the 10 steps of the Caritas Process of Jean Watson's Caring Science Institute. These 10 steps have been used for many years to train nurses in hospitals to be caring, loving, compassionate caregivers. This book is revolutionary in that it uses techniques that have been used successfully with thousands of patients in hospitals to heal, to create personal and world peace. This book will give you the skills you need to be a Caritas peacemaker at home and in the world. It is a guidebook to take each of our lives as peaceful beings to a deeper level. First, this book invites you to become a Caritas peacemaker, second, it serves as a new paradigm workbook to help you follow through and do it. Using techniques from nursing care, psychology, healing, conflict resolution and wisdom traditions, this book will teach you how to make your life a peaceful life, at home, at work and hopefully in the world. With exercises, guided imagery, guidelines, and assignments, you can walk your own path to peace, beginning with yourself and moving on to the relationships in your life. Using the tools of Caritas, we will remake our lives and we construct a new reality.

Praise for Michael Samuels and Mary Rockwood Lane

"Filled with the truth about how spirit can heal us. I was very moved by this powerful book."
–Christiane Northrup, M.D. (on Spirit Body Healing)

"Dr. Michael Samuels provides us with new tools and ways of thinking about our capacity to heal. He has been a wonderful teacher for me and can be for you. . . . His work is inspiring."
–Bernie Siegel, M.D.

"Healing is a creative process. These heartfelt stories and beautiful visualizations inspire the reader to see all life as a healing journey."
–David Simon, M.D. (on Spirit Body Healing)

"Dr. Michael Samuels is one of the leading pioneers in exploring creativity as an important part of every person’s healing journey."
–Dean Ornish, M.D.

Ancient spiritual wisdom–practical results

Long before there were medical doctors, surgical procedures, and prescription drugs, shaman healers learned to combat illness and restore physical health using the tools and skills of the body, mind, and spirit. Shaman Wisdom, Shaman Healing shows you how to harness the power of these ancient shamanic traditions to expand your ability as a healer.

This practical, prescriptive guide offers a step-by-step program that shows you how to focus the power of your mind, open yourself to your visionary life, and allow the healing spirit to flow through you. You’ll learn how to heal yourself and others using proven techniques drawn from both Native American and Asian traditions, including:

• Heeding the call
• Creating a sacred space
• Inviting spirit through prayer
• Using guided imagery and moving healing energy
• Invoking spirit animals and the spirits of ancient ones
• Using a medicine wheel and cultivating visions