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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Authors' Note | |
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| Introduction: How Jmages Express What Words Cannot | |
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| Sidebar: Dealing with Fear and Self-Doubt | |
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| You Don't Have to Be an Artist | |
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| Visual Journaling Helps You to Access Your Inner Wisdom | |
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| Using Verbal Responses to Process a Drawing | |
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| Going Deeper than Words to Give Voice to Your Soul | |
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| Words Interpret Our Feelings | |
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| Imagery Reveals Our Feelings | |
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| Only You Know What Your Imagery Means | |
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| Our Feelings Communicate What We Need | |
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| Taking the First Step | |
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| Sidebar: The Influence of Carl Jung | |
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| Preparing for the Journey | |
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| Materials | |
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| Setting Up Your Journaling Space | |
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| The Four Basic Steps in Visual Journaling: Doing a Practice Journal Entry | |
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| Setting a Clear Intention | |
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| Sidebar: Examples of Intentions | |
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| Quieting the Mind through Body-Centered Awareness | |
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| Exercise in Body-Centered Awareness | |
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| Seeing with Your Inner Eye through Guided Visualization | |
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| Exercise in Guided Visualization | |
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| Sidebar: How People Visualize Imagery | |
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| Drawing Your Inner Images | |
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| Sidebar: Beware of Judging Your Visualizations and Your Drawings | |
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| Visual Journaling as an Everyday Practice | |
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| Introduction to the Six-Week Program | |
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| Accessing and Expressing Your Emotions | |
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| Sidebar: Tips to Help You Maintain a Regular and Consistent Visual-Journaling Practice | |
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| The Body Never Lies | |
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| Don't Neglect the Check-In--Even If You Feel Great | |
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| Before You Begin | |
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| The Check-In | |
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| Self-Exploration Questions | |
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| Using Movement and Sound to Access Images | |
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| Accessing Your Feelings through Movement | |
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| Using Sound to Access Your Emotions | |
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| Developing Your Own Approach to the Four-Step Process | |
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| Sidebar: The Progressive Development of a Journal Drawing | |
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| Healing Your Stress-Producing Emotions | |
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| How Stress-Producing Emotions Affect Your Physical Health | |
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| The Stress Equation | |
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| Accessing, Releasing and Transforming Your Stress-Producing Emotions | |
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| Sidebar: What to Do If You Are Not Experiencing Stress Right Now | |
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| Discovering the Source of Your Stress-Producing Emotions | |
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| Sidebar: When Words Appear with Your Images | |
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| Self-Exploration Questions | |
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| Some Journalers Don't Always Use the Self-Exploration Questions | |
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| Transformation through ReEnvisioning | |
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| Self-Exploration Questions | |
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| Expanding Your Journal Work beyond the Confines of Your Journal Pages | |
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| Discovering Your Unhealed Emotional Wounds | |
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| Accessing, Releasing and Transforming Unhealed Emotions from the Past | |
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| Self-Exploration Questions | |
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| Releasing and Healing Old Emotional Wounds | |
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| Conversing with Your Images | |
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| Letting Your Images Speak | |
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| How to Dialogue with Your Images | |
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| Sidebar: Answers to Questions about Dialoguing with Images | |
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| Dialoguing with Your Images | |
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| Dialoguing Questions to Elicit Responses from Your Drawings | |
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| Dialoguing with the Drawings of the Previous Two Weeks | |
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| Seeing Your Images and Their Responses as Symbolic Messages | |
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| Letting Your Drawings Tell Their Story | |
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| Drawing with a Story to Tell | |
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| Story-Prompter Questions | |
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| Sidebar: Suggestions on How to Interpret Your Story | |
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| Putting It All Together: Different Ways to Approach Writing a Story | |
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| Art from the Heart | |
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| Overcoming Fear | |
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| Discovering the Lessons of Fear | |
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| Overcoming Your Fears | |
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| Discovering Your Fears | |
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| Identifying Unreasonable or Unrealistic Fears | |
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| Sidebar: What to Do If You Find Yourself Stuck in a Painful Emotional Experience | |
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| A Reminder to Continue Your Regular Check-Ins | |
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| Exercises to Help You Eliminate Fear | |
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| Accessing an Image of Your Fear | |
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| Self-Exploration Questions | |
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| Everyone's Image of Fear Is Different | |
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| Believing in Yourself to Overcome Your Fears | |
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| Asking Your Soul What Your Fear Has to Teach You | |
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| Self-Exploration Questions | |
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| Releasing Fear from Your Life--Burning Ritual | |
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| What We Fear Will Reappear | |
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| Resolving Inner Conflict Through Soul Zlisdom | |
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| How Inner Conflict Arises | |
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| Becoming Aware of Inner Conflict | |
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| How Fear Drives Our Inner Conflicts | |
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| What Causes Inner Conflict? | |
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| Inner Conflict Is a Primary Source of Stress | |
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| Resolving Your Inner Conflicts | |
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| Issues That Create Inner Conflict | |
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| Identifying the Sources of Inner Conflict in Your Life | |
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| Self-Exploration Questions | |
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| Understanding Your Soul's Resolution of the Conflict | |
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| Self-Exploration Questions | |
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| Using These Exercises to Resolve Other Inner Conflicts | |
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| Trusting Your Soul's Solution to Your Inner Conflict | |
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| Expanding Your Visual-Journaling Experience | |
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| Visual Journaling as a Lifelong Practice | |
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| Strengthening the Connection to Your Soul | |
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| Knowing Your Soul Purpose | |
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| Discovering Your Soul Purpose | |
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| Self-Exploration Questions | |
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| Examples of Soul-Purpose Symbols | |
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| Remaining Congruent with Your Soul Purpose | |
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| Drawing the Landscape of Your Heart | |
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| Self-Exploration Questions | |
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| Using Larger Formats and Different Media | |
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| Imagistic Signatures and Personal Power Strokes | |
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| The Benefits of Working with a Group | |
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| Starting Your Own Visual-Journaling Group | |
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| Beyond the Six-Week Program | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| About the Authors | |
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| For Additional Information | |