With a history that stretches back to the hauntingly beautiful mummy portraits of Greco-Roman Egypt, encaustic art is now enjoying a renewal of popularity among artists and art lovers alike. Today, museums are staging exhibitions of encaustic art, workshops in the technique are thriving, and art collectors and dealers are assimilating encaustic art into their collections and galleries. The word encaustic is taken from the Greek and means “to burn in.” In the encaustic process, pigmented wax is applied and then fused to a surface with heat. The result is a broad range of surface effects and a luminous translucency that is unique to the encaustic medium. Encaustic Art is a complete resource for artists who wish to learn to create fine art with wax. It features step-by-step techniques with easy-to-understand instructions and detailed illustrations, stunning examples of encaustic works of art (including sculpture), along with practical advice and thoughtful aesthetic observations from more than 60 professional artists working in the encaustic medium.

Encaustic Art: The Complete Guide to Creating Fine Art with Wax

Arts & Photography

Rankin, Lissa

History & Criticism

Watson/Guptill

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERAS SEEN ON NATIONAL PUBLIC TELEVISION We’ve been led to believe that when we get sick, it’s our genetics. Or it’s just bad luck—and doctors alone hold the keys to optimal health. For years, Lissa Rankin, M.D., believed the same. But when her own health started to suffer, and she turned to Western medical treatments, she found that they not only failed to help; they made her worse. So she decided to take matters into her own hands. Through her research, Dr. Rankin discovered that the health care she had been taught to practice was missing something crucial: a recognition of the body’s innate ability to self-repair and an appreciation for how we can control these self-healing mechanisms with the power of the mind. In an attempt to better understand this phenomenon, she explored peer-reviewed medical literature and found evidence that the medical establishment had been proving that the body can heal itself for over 50 years. Using extraordinary cases of spontaneous healing, Dr. Rankin shows how thoughts, feelings, and beliefs can alter the body’s physiology. She lays out the scientific data proving that loneliness, pessimism, depression, fear, and anxiety damage the body, while intimate relationships, gratitude, meditation, sex, and authentic self-expression flip on the body’s self-healing processes. In the final section of the book, you’ll be introduced to a radical new wellness model based on Dr. Rankin’s scientific findings. Her unique six-step program will help you uncover where things might be out of whack in your life—spiritually, creatively, environmentally, nutritionally, and in your professional and personal relationships—so that you can create a customized treatment plan aimed at bolstering these health-promoting pieces of your life. You’ll learn how to listen to your body’s “whispers” before they turn to life-threatening “screams” that can be prevented with proper self-care, and you’ll learn how to trust your inner guidance when making decisions about your health and your life. By the time you finish Mind Over Medicine, you’ll have made your own Diagnosis, written your own Prescription, and created a clear action plan designed to help you make your body ripe for miracles.

Mind over Medicine: Scientific Proof That You Can Heal Yourself

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Alternative Medicine

Hay House, Inc.

“As a culture, we are so scared, we’re not just making ourselves miserable; we’re making ourselves sick. . . . By all measures, we are the healthiest, smartest, richest, safest people in human history. And yet, we have never been more afraid.”    Not many people in the medical world are talking about how being afraid can make us sick—but the truth is that fear, left untreated, becomes a serious risk factor for conditions from heart disease to diabetes to cancer. Now Lissa Rankin, M.D., explains why we need to heal ourselves from the fear that puts our health at risk and robs our lives of joy—and shows us how fear can ultimately cure us by opening our eyes to all that needs healing in our lives.   Drawing on peer-reviewed studies and powerful true stories, The Fear Cure presents a breakthrough understanding of fear’s effects and charts a path back to wellness and wholeness on every level. We learn:   • How a fearful thought translates into physiological changes that predispose us to illness   • How to tell true fear (the kind that arises from a genuine threat) from false fear (which triggers stress responses that undermine health)   • How to tune in to the voice of courage inside—our “Inner Pilot Light”   • How to reshape our relationship to uncertainty so that it’s no longer something to dread, but a doorway to new possibilities   • What our fears can teach us about who we really are   At the intersection of science and spirituality, The Fear Cure identifies the Four Fearful Assumptions that lie at the root of all fears—from the sense that we’re alone in the universe to the belief that we can’t handle losing what we love—and shifts them into Four Courage-Cultivating Truths that pave our way to not only physical well-being, but profound awakening. Using exercises from a wide range of mind-body practices and spiritual traditions, Dr. Rankin teaches us how to map our own courage-cultivating journey, write a personalized Prescription for Courage, and step into a more authentic life.

The Fear Cure: Cultivating Courage As Medicine for the Body, Mind, and Soul

Hay House Audio

We are all, every single one of us, heroes. We are all on what Joseph Campbell calls “a hero’s journey;” we are all on a mission to step into our true nature and fulfill the assignment our souls were sent to Earth to fulfill. Navigating the hero’s journey, Lissa Rankin, MD, argues, is one of the cornerstones of living a meaningful, authentic, healthy life. In clear, engaging prose, Lissa describes her entire spiritual journey for the first time--beginning with what she calls her “perfect storm” of events--and recounts the many transformative experiences that led to a profound awakening of her soul. Through her father’s death, her daughter’s birth, career victories and failures, and an ongoing struggle to identify as both a doctor and a healer, Lissa discovers a powerful self-awareness. As she shares her story, she encourages you to find out where you are on your own journey, offering inspiring guideposts and practices along the way. With compelling lessons on trusting intuition, surrendering to love, and learning to see adversity as an opportunity for soul growth, The Anatomy of a Calling invites you to make a powerful shift in consciousness and reach your highest destiny.

The Anatomy of a Calling: A Doctor's Journey from the Head to the Heart and a Prescription for Finding Your Life's Purpose

Self-Help

Personal Transformation

Rodale Books

Mut zur Angst: Wie wir uns durch das, was wir fürchten, heilen können

Kösel-Verlag

Mind over Medicine - Warum Gedanken oft stärker sind als Medizin: Wissenschaftliche Beweise für die Selbstheilungskraft

ABOD Verlag GmbH

Gdy doktor Lissa Rankin zaczela miec problemy ze zdrowiem zdala sobie sprawe ze tradycyjne metody ktore dotychczas stosowala nie uwzgledniaja nieslychanie istotnego czynnika Tym brakujacym ogniwem okazalo sie dostrzezenie wrodzonej zdolnosci naszego organizmu do samonaprawy oraz sily umyslu pozwalajacej pobudzic go do dzialania Prowadzac na ten temat badania Rankin odkryla ze organizm moze leczyc sie sam Umysl silnieszy od medycyny to skarbnica naukowych danych potwierdzajacych ze samotnosc pesymizm depresja strach i codzienne leki moga wpedzic nas w chorobe podczas gdy intymne zwiazki uczucie wdziecznosci medytacja seks i swobodne wyrazanie siebie to podstawa skutecznego samoleczenia Wyjatkowy poparty dowodami obraz realnego wplywu sposobu myslenia i zycia na bol choroby i witalnosc Dr Rankin pokazuje czytelnikom kulisy funkcjonowania systemu opieki medycznej i zabiera glos w sprawie nowego podejscia do zdrowia i leczenia ktore w centrum uwagi stawia pacjenta ta ksiazka was zszokuje ale i uleczy Jonathan Fields tworca Good Life Project

Umysl silniejszy od medycyny

Purana

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