Elise Dirlam Ching - The Creative Art of Living, Dying, and Renewal: Your Journey through Stories, Qigong Meditation, Journaling, and Art
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Tapping the tremendous healing power of qigong and the expressive arts, this beautiful book invites the reader to contemplate the continuum of living, dying, and renewal within this life and beyond. The stories, qigong meditations, and journaling/art processes, including collage and mask-making, are invitations for you to engage them for your own healing, transformation, and wisdom.
Authors, artists, healers, and teachers of qigong and art, Elise and Kaleo Ching draw on their twenty-three years of experience working with others on their paths of personal transformation to present an approach to living and dying that is saturated with wisdom, compassion, and understanding. Through their work, the authors have witnessed many personal journeys of dying, transformation, rebirthfacing terminal illness or loss of a loved one; letting go of old lifestyles and embracing new; connecting with past lives and future dreams. The stories and processes in this book will inspire a wide range of people interested in using qigong practices and meditations, journaling, and art for self-cultivation, mindfulness, spiritual awareness, and healing: artists, clergy, spiritual seekers, psychotherapists, hypnotherapists, social workers, chaplains, hospice workers, teachers, students and practitioners of transformative, shamanic, and healing arts.
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Kaleo and Elise Ching present an original synthesis of practical wisdom traditions to help us discover the ethereal thread that links living, dying, and renewal.
MICHAEL J. GELB, author of How to Think Like Leonardo Da Vinci: Seven Steps to Genius Every Day
A very beautiful, evocative, engaging, and inspiring work! This book is a holistic, interactive, reflective experience. Engage the next stage of your transformative journey now .
KEVIN CASHMAN, executive leadership coach, author of the best-selling business book Leadership from the Inside Out
An original, compelling book generously filled with life-transforming guidance using evocative stories, profound questions and engaging collage-journaling explorations.
MICHAEL REED GACH, PhD, author of Acupressures Potent Points
Elise and Kaleo have been my teachers, colleagues and co-explorers on the road of art and healing, energy medicine, and guided imagery for many years. This incredible book is a real teacher and valuable tool for anyone interested in living, dying and rebirth.
MICHAEL SAMUELS, MD, author of The Well Body Book, Seeing with the Minds Eye, and Healing with the Arts
Kaleo and Elises creativity and understanding lead the reader to connect with his or her own inner spirit and inspiration. Separately magnificent, together magical.
CHERYL CANFIELD, certified clinical hypnotherapist and author of, Profound Healing
In this beautiful book, Kaleo and Elise invite us to embrace change, make peace with loss, access our own inner guidance, and embody energy and the power of mystery through qigong and expressive artpractices we need for the next stage in our human evolution!
LUISAH TEISH, Yoruba Lucumi priestess and author of Jambalaya: The Natural Womans Book of Personal Charms and Practical Rituals
Kaleo and Elise take us on a journey that shows that life and death are but different dimensions of the endless flow of creativity. By participating in creativity, we empower ourselves to fill each of our life stages with meaning and purpose. As masters of Qigong, they embody the wisdom of which they speak!
Jim Garrison, PhD, president and CEO of Ubiquity University, founder of the State of the World Forum, and author of Civilization and the Transformation of Power and Climate Change and the Primordial Mind
Faces of Your Soul: Rituals in Art, Maskmaking, and Guided
Imagery with Ancestors, Spirit Guides, and Totem Animals
Chi and Creativity: Vital Energy and Your Inner Artist
eBook ISBN: 978-1-58394-777-7
Trade Paperback ISBN: 978-1-58394-763-0
Copyright 2014 by Elise Dirlam Ching and Kaleo Ching. All rights reserved. No portion of this book, except for brief review, may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any meanselectronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwisewithout the written permission of the publisher. For information contact North Atlantic Books.
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North Atlantic Books
P.O. Box 12327
Berkeley, California 94712
Cover art by Kaleo Ching
Photos of Kaleo Chings art by M. Lee Fatherree
Other photos by Kaleo and Elise Ching
Cover design by Suzanne Albertson
DISCLAIMER: The creators of this text disclaim any liabilities for loss in connection with following any of the practices, exercises, and advice contained herein. To reduce the chance of harm, the reader should consult a professional before undertaking this or any other mental, physical, or spiritual health program. The instructions printed in this text are not in any way intended as a substitute for medical, mental, emotional, or spiritual counseling with a licensed physician, healthcare provider, or spiritual advisor.
The Creative Art of Living, Dying, and Renewal: Your Journey through Stories, Qigong Meditation, Journaling, and Art is sponsored and published by The Society for the Study of Native Arts and Sciences (dba North Atlantic Books), an educational nonprofit based in Berkeley, California, that collaborates with partners to develop cross-cultural perspectives, nurture holistic views of art, science, the humanities, and healing, and seed personal and global transformation by publishing work on the relationship of body, spirit, and nature.
North Atlantic Books publications are available through most bookstores. For further information, visit our website at www.northatlanticbooks.com or call 8007333000.
The Library of Congress has cataloged the printed edition as follows:
Ching, Elise Dirlam.
The creative art of living, dying, and renewal : your journey through stories, Qigong meditation, journaling, and art / Elise Dirlam Ching and Kaleo Ching .
pages cm
Includes bibliographical references.
Summary: Working with people to access their creativity through the natural energy of Qigong meditation for more than twenty years gave the two authors a unique perspective on the personal journey of dying and transformationProvided by publisher.
ISBN 978-1-58394-763-0
1. Conduct of life. 2. DeathPsychological aspects. 3. Change (Psychology) 4. Qi gong. 5. Spirituality. I. Ching, Kaleo. II. Title.
BF637.C5C485 2014
204.46dc23
v3.1
The Arrow , for the spirits of Mom and Dad, collage-painting and poem by Elise
Elizabeth: Life after Life
The Bodhisattva Vow , for Jean-Paul, collage-painting by Kaleo, poem by Elise
Collage-painting and haiku by Elise
Great Grandfather, Sng Mo
Ancestors by Kaleo
Guardians
Pendulum by Kaleo
Dale: Honoring My Father as Ancestor
Cosmic Buddha , collage-painting by Kaleo, poem by Elise
Benjamin and Lorraine: Balancing Yin and Yang
Denise: Opening the Heart
What I Say When I Talk to Myself by Bill
Pacem Totem by Pastor Steve and Peace Lutheran congregation
David: Mind, Heart, Bod
, Megan: 3 Dan Tians, 7 Chakras
Sheri: 3 Dan Tians
Into the Ethereal Thread
Dialogue with Lungs by Kaleo
Creation of the Elements collage-painting by Kaleo, poem by Elise
Doreen: Water to Wood, Wood to Fire
Val: Weaving the Five Elements
Nicole: Fire and Water
Transition of Sister Mary Jose Hobday, OSF
Beyond the Chrysalis collage-paintings by Kaleo, poems by Elise
Pele, Ke Akua o Phaku Wela, Guard the Ancestors Bones painting by Kaleo, poem by Elise
Palm with Pericardium 8
Sole of foot with Kidney 1
Palm of hand with Qi extending from fingers
Back of hand with Qi suction fingers
Torso with lungs, diaphragm, intestines
Front view of 3 Dan Tians: Conception Vessel 6; Conception Vessel 17; Yin Tang
Back view: Governing Vessel 4
Microcosmic Orbit/Ethereal Thread/Chakra: Governing Vessel 20 & Conception Vessel 1
Lung and Large Intestine meridians
Lung 1
Kidney and Bladder meridians
Kidney 27
Liver and Gall Bladder meridians
Gall Bladder 20
Heart and Small Intestine meridians; Pericardium and Triple Warmer meridians
Heart 7, 6, 5, 4
Conception Vessel 17
Spleen and Stomach meridians
Spleen 12 and 13
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