Ritual As Resource: Energy for Vibrant Living

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North Atlantic Books, 2005 - Religion - 320 pages
Michael Picucci has survived HIV, heart attacks, cancer, and the loss of many loved ones. Beyond merely coping, he has thrived--but how? This book explains. Mixing vivid life stories and simple, step-by-step creative ritual exercises, Picucci offers readers a self-empowering path to energetic healing through contact with what he calls 'healing resources.' These resources are varied but center on a higher power that can be accessed through ritual. Ritual, he explains, allows anyone to tap into the 'instinctual brain' that is traumatized by the unnatural demands of modern life, and further into the 'shamanistic brain' that opens the way to four important energetic pathways: awakening the felt-senses of the body; resolving emotional traumas; communicating with the instinctive self; and journeying into the 'spirit world, ' the worlds of light, energy, and consciousness. Ritual as Resource shows how to stimulate dormant internal energy to heal and transform the troubled self.
 

Contents

FOREWORD BY PETER A LEVINE
1
The Me Nobody Knows
25
A Curious Observers Playground
33
Clearing the Way to Effective Ritual
39
Energy as Resource
57
We Are Light
69
Enter the World of Ritual
75
Everyday Rituals
86
Trauma Transformation and Vibrant Living
130
Specific Rituals for Tough Times
150
CONNECTIVITY
169
Relationship Ritual as Medicine
177
Attracting and Sustaining a Life Partnership
195
Erotic Ritual
227
Erotic Rituals for Everyone
240
The Partnering Path
256

Rituals for Work Challenges
94
Entering Communal Sacred Space
101
Growing Up with Your Shadow
113
Dynamic Linking on an Infinite Playground
271
EPILOGUE
279
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Dr. Michael Picucci is a psychotherapist in practice twenty years and an accomplished researcher. He has a doctorate in psychology, is a nationally certified Master Addictions Counselor, and a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner. His previous books are Complete Recovery: An Expanded Model of Community Healing and The Journey Toward Complete Recovery: Reclaiming Your Emotional, Spiritual & Sexual Wholeness.

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