THE NEW BOOK!
Dancing with Cancer
Using Transformational Art, Meditation, and a Joyous Mindset to Face the Challenge
Author, poet, and painter, Judy Erel
““The wisdom and knowledge that Judy has learned from her experience with cancer can be our guide and coach.”
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Combining the personal and the practical, Dancing with Cancer mixes Judy Erel's cancer story with the tools she discovered and adapted to support her treatment.
Dancing with Cancer focuses on the creation of a positive and proactive mindset with which to face the specific challenges and stages of cancer. It combines the author’s own experience of using what she calls Thought Work (including creative self-expression, healing energy work and meditation) with conventional cancer treatment in order to connect her intentions for healing to the everyday reality of a diagnosis of incurable bone-marrow cancer. The book offers guidance and inspiration not only to cancer sufferers as they undergo the various stages of treatment but also to those supporting them, enabling them to understand better the experience of the cancer patient as well as the possibilities of mind–body empowerment.
Part I allows the reader to gain inspiration and reassurance from Judy’s personal cancer story, as well as put into practice her Thought Work suggestions, which include revelatory questionnaires and journaling, creative exercises (such as drawing healing mandalas) and guided meditations. Part II gives a more detailed description of the Thought Work tools, including instructions for setting healing intentions, for using mindful breathing and for cultivating an attitude of gratitude, as well as meditations for a range of cancer situations and step-by-step instructions for creating artworks. Throughout the book are examples of Judy’s own transformative artworks, which she offers along with the reminder that any creative self-expression can be healing – it is not the outcome but the physical process of doing that matters, enabling multi-level transformation.
What Readers are Saying
“Judy Erel’s book is riveting. She is wise, courageous, and honest in her writing, Her self healing mindset is amazing and it is user friendly. She has set me on the road to mind-body recovery,. I feel I can do it too, The memoir reflects a lot of the thinking of many of the great authors/healers of our time. And yet, she is unique, special, and somehow familiar. Everything she says and does makes sense. Her use of drawing, doodling, for self healing is beautifully portrayed and explained. Again even a non drawing person will feel they could do it too if they were minded to. Judy Erel expresses herself so eloquently, and poetically, and realistically, that you are immediately captivated and involved. Her generosity of spirit, focus, compassion and imagination is boundless. . Judy also includes her own meditations for healing and mindfulness in her book. You can go to her website to listen to them too. This book is a gift to anyone Working on /or new to mindfulness , self healing, spaciousness,, joy, self awareness and much more.”
“An inspiring, we’ll organized book that combines the story of Judy Erel’s courageous journey as a cancer patient, with her practical, valuable Thought Work ideas for healing. Clearly, they stand on their own to guide anyone through ANY challenge, physical or emotional. But worked in complement with conventional cancer treatment, boosts the mindset and potential of healing the body. A must read for anyone with cancer and those who will benefit from positive information to support them.”
“A beautiful book on how to deal with the challenge of cancer, incorporating art and mindfulness into the journey of healing. Written in a unique and inspiring way.”
““A beautifully written book on how to heal from dis-ease. Judy focuses on cancer in the book, however, the exercises and thought patterns that she shares are applicable to every malady. What runs centrally throughout the book is that everyone has a choice. We can choose to delve deep and sink into illness or we can choose to shift our thoughts and even sometimes the people that surround us with positive energy. This book is not the typical positive thought book, it is a book that shares how to have a positive and proactive mindset based on the author’s holistic experience in healing herself and her mom. Judy uses art as an outward indication of what is going on within. You do not have to be artistically inclined to draw your feelings or color them in a mandala. She included 3 mandalas in the book. The “practices” in the book are thought-provoking while allowing you to explore deep within yourself to clear out low discordant energy (Illness) bit by bit. The information presented in the book has helped me with my “ health issue” when the allopathic medicine could not. Listen to my interview with her on Get Over It! Podcast where she talked about cancer on World Cancer day which was February 4th, 2018.””