Personal Explorations

Explore your Creative Self with Mixed-media Maps You don't have to be a world traveler or a professional cartographer to embark on a grand journey of self-discovery through mapmaking. Personal Geographies gives you the tools and techniques you'll need to create artful maps of your self, your experiences and your personal journey. Chart the innermost workings of your mind, document your artistic path and create an unfolding maze of your future dreams and goals. Inside Personal Geographies you'll discover: • 21 mixed-media map projects featuring artistic techniques like working with alcohol inks and pochoir, painting on a black surface and carving custom stamps • Insight into the world of traditional and contemporary maps and how they relate to and inspire personal mapmaking • A gallery of maps by contributors from around the world to spark your own creativity From mapping your head, hands and heart to recording powerful memories or experiences, the maps in Personal Geographies are a gateway into the fascinating and meaningful world of you.

This book is a collection of reflections, prompts, tools, and practical exercises to support your self-discovery, mental, emotional, physical well-being and healing in a sustainable way. What You'll Find Inside: ✔ An introduction to the myths in our modern understanding of the chakra system and alternative ways of thinking ✔ 7 chapters based on the ancient wisdom of the chakras to anchor your reflections and healing in various topics like emotional awareness, confidence, or belonging ✔ Everyday challenges & exercises to widen your understanding of your yoga practice and integrate seamlessly into your daily life ✔ Illustrations by artist Katya Uspenkaya Author's Note From a very early age, I’ve felt like the world was spinning too fast. I was always playing catchup and going against my inner, natural pace. Yoga for me became a way to connect with my intuitive rhythm. It has taught me again and again about what it means to simply be, with myself and with the world around me. After a while, I started wondering if I could stay as present in everyday challenges and happenings as I was when I was moving and breathing in my asana practice. I’d started on a yoga mat but my practice never felt quite powerful enough to infiltrate all areas of my life. Why was it so difficult to say no to things I didn’t want to do when I’d been learning about that in my physical practice? Why would I not let myself “flow” in my creative projects as much as my breath during meditation? This book is part of my journey of discovering how yoga can truly be a practice of every day, every hour, every minute. It is a collection of my attempts at putting together building blocks of awareness, so I always find pockets of connection whether I’m sitting on a loud train, cooking a meal, or deep into my email inbox. I hope you find comfort and ways to cultivate confidence through these pages. May the reflections and practice build the freedom and intuition you need to let the wonderful practice of yoga take the shape it needs to serve you and your communities. With love and curiosity, Ely

eBookVersion You will receive access to this electronic text via email after using the shopping cart above to complete your purchase. Personal & Career Exploration, Sixth Edition, is a book about a process-a process of exploration, awareness and integration. There is content, but the content is in the service of process. That is, the content is used to assist you in learning and applying the process of self exploration and integration. This is different from what you usually get from a textbook. As nice as it would be to say that we read a book or took a class and became integrated, it just doesn't happen. At best, we begin. Self awareness, exploration, and integration is a life-long endeavor. We continually change, and as we change, we need to understand and integrate these new aspects of our selves. It is a process of beginning. Knowing the process not only allows us to continue the self exploration, understanding and integration, it almost compels it. Once begun, it is very difficult, if not impossible, to stop. The authors of Personal & Career Exploration give equal weight to three important parts of the process; -the self in the larger society; -the self in the educational environment; -and the self in defining a career. Personal & Career Exploration is designed to assist college students in discovering and understanding themselves and their potential career options. The book is an holistic look at the self covering the personal, educational, and career parts of that self. It accomplishes these tasks by presenting theoretical and practical information about each of the topics, followed by a series of assignments and integration papers. The integration papers are designed to bring various aspects of the self into a new focus of understanding for the individual. Personal & Career Exploration will help assist the many undeclared major students in understanding and beginning the personal and career exploration necessary for a complete and satisfying life. It is unique among career books in that it allows the individual to look at his or her self in a methodical, holistic way. It is based on the belief that in order to select a rewarding career, the individual must look at his or her self as an individual first, then as a student, and then as a searcher for a career.

This rewarding work is the product of sustained observation of and reflection on phenomena arising out of three broad topics in the field of analytical psychology. Firstly it analyses and evaluates the ambiguity in Jung's definitions and metaphors about the self, while at the same time expounding the theory of the self as a dynamic system, evolving through deintegration and reintegration processes during early infancy and childhood. Secondly it investigates the relation of the ego to the self, giving notable consideration to psychoanalytic work. Finally the presence of the self, behind or within both the religious and the alchemical experience, is explored. Fordham's innovative and original view of the self further extends our understanding of its dynamics and helps to establish some sense of the complementariness as well as differences between Jung and Klein.

A reissue of a significant and hard-to-find text in film studies with a new introduction and three additional essays included.

In Multidimensional Evolution, author Kim McCaul recounts his journey to Java seeking a technique to help calm the demons that had been troubling him for the previous two years and his subsequent realisation that those demons were not the product of his own mind, but were actually real non-physical people who had been pursuing him from a previous life. It then focuses on three of the teachers that guided the author through insights and experiences on his search for understanding: Pak Sujono, who ran a meditation centre in Indonesia; a housewife in England, who enjoyed remarkable psychic abilities and the capacity to significantly alter the energies of those around her, and Waldo Vieira a Brazilian consciousness researcher and psychic. Multidimensional Evolution encourages readers to experiment for themselves, have their own experiences, come to their own understandings and make the most of this current physical lifetime. ,

By John Pulver of Community College of Southern Nevada. This guide, available free when packaged with the text, includes experiential exercises, questionnaires, and personality tests that allow students to better understand themselves and their attitudes toward a variety of subjects. This edition includes nearly twice as many exercises and resources for students!

"For decades social scientists have observed that Americans are becoming more selfish, headstrong, and callous. Instead of lamenting a cultural slide toward narcissism, Transcending Self-Interest: Psychological Explorations of the Quiet Ego provides a constructive framework for understanding--and conducting research on--both the problems of egocentrism and the ways of transcending it. Heidi A. Wayment and Jack J. Bauer have assembled a group of contributors who are helping to reshape how the field of psychology defines the self in the 21st century. In the spirit of positive psychology, these authors call us to move beyond individualistic and pathological notions of self versus other. Their theories and research suggest two paths to this transcendence: (a) balancing the needs of self and others in one's everyday life and (b) developing compassion, nondefensive self-awareness, and interdependent self-identity. At the end of these converging paths lies a quiet ego--an ego less concerned with self-promotion than with the flourishing of both the self and others. Readers will find in this volume inspiration not only for future work in psychology but also for their own efforts toward personal development"--Jacket. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2008 APA, all rights reserved).