| Acknowledgments | p. v |
| Authors' Note | p. xii |
| Introduction: How Jmages Express What Words Cannot | p. 1 |
| Sidebar: Dealing with Fear and Self-Doubt | p. 4 |
| You Don't Have to Be an Artist | p. 5 |
| Visual Journaling Helps You to Access Your Inner Wisdom | p. 6 |
| Using Verbal Responses to Process a Drawing | p. 6 |
| Going Deeper than Words to Give Voice to Your Soul | p. 9 |
| Words Interpret Our Feelings | p. 9 |
| Imagery Reveals Our Feelings | p. 10 |
| Only You Know What Your Imagery Means | p. 13 |
| Our Feelings Communicate What We Need | p. 15 |
| Taking the First Step | p. 17 |
| Sidebar: The Influence of Carl Jung | p. 17 |
| Preparing for the Journey | p. 18 |
| Materials | p. 19 |
| Setting Up Your Journaling Space | p. 19 |
| The Four Basic Steps in Visual Journaling: Doing a Practice Journal Entry | p. 22 |
| Setting a Clear Intention | p. 22 |
| Sidebar: Examples of Intentions | p. 24 |
| Quieting the Mind through Body-Centered Awareness | p. 24 |
| Exercise in Body-Centered Awareness | p. 25 |
| Seeing with Your Inner Eye through Guided Visualization | p. 25 |
| Exercise in Guided Visualization | p. 26 |
| Sidebar: How People Visualize Imagery | p. 26 |
| Drawing Your Inner Images | p. 27 |
| Sidebar: Beware of Judging Your Visualizations and Your Drawings | p. 27 |
| Visual Journaling as an Everyday Practice | p. 29 |
| Introduction to the Six-Week Program | p. 29 |
| Accessing and Expressing Your Emotions | p. 30 |
| Sidebar: Tips to Help You Maintain a Regular and Consistent Visual-Journaling Practice | p. 32 |
| The Body Never Lies | p. 34 |
| Don't Neglect the Check-In--Even If You Feel Great | p. 35 |
| Before You Begin | p. 35 |
| The Check-In | p. 36 |
| Self-Exploration Questions | p. 37 |
| Using Movement and Sound to Access Images | p. 39 |
| Accessing Your Feelings through Movement | p. 39 |
| Using Sound to Access Your Emotions | p. 42 |
| Developing Your Own Approach to the Four-Step Process | p. 43 |
| Sidebar: The Progressive Development of a Journal Drawing | p. 44 |
| Healing Your Stress-Producing Emotions | p. 49 |
| How Stress-Producing Emotions Affect Your Physical Health | p. 51 |
| The Stress Equation | p. 51 |
| Accessing, Releasing and Transforming Your Stress-Producing Emotions | p. 54 |
| Sidebar: What to Do If You Are Not Experiencing Stress Right Now | p. 55 |
| Discovering the Source of Your Stress-Producing Emotions | p. 55 |
| Sidebar: When Words Appear with Your Images | p. 56 |
| Self-Exploration Questions | p. 58 |
| Some Journalers Don't Always Use the Self-Exploration Questions | p. 60 |
| Transformation through ReEnvisioning | p. 60 |
| Self-Exploration Questions | p. 61 |
| Expanding Your Journal Work beyond the Confines of Your Journal Pages | p. 61 |
| Discovering Your Unhealed Emotional Wounds | p. 63 |
| Accessing, Releasing and Transforming Unhealed Emotions from the Past | p. 63 |
| Self-Exploration Questions | p. 64 |
| Releasing and Healing Old Emotional Wounds | p. 64 |
| Conversing with Your Images | p. 67 |
| Letting Your Images Speak | p. 67 |
| How to Dialogue with Your Images | p. 68 |
| Sidebar: Answers to Questions about Dialoguing with Images | p. 70 |
| Dialoguing with Your Images | p. 72 |
| Dialoguing Questions to Elicit Responses from Your Drawings | p. 72 |
| Dialoguing with the Drawings of the Previous Two Weeks | p. 73 |
| Seeing Your Images and Their Responses as Symbolic Messages | p. 73 |
| Letting Your Drawings Tell Their Story | p. 76 |
| Drawing with a Story to Tell | p. 76 |
| Story-Prompter Questions | p. 77 |
| Sidebar: Suggestions on How to Interpret Your Story | p. 78 |
| Putting It All Together: Different Ways to Approach Writing a Story | p. 79 |
| Art from the Heart | p. 85 |
| Overcoming Fear | p. 101 |
| Discovering the Lessons of Fear | p. 104 |
| Overcoming Your Fears | p. 104 |
| Discovering Your Fears | p. 106 |
| Identifying Unreasonable or Unrealistic Fears | p. 106 |
| Sidebar: What to Do If You Find Yourself Stuck in a Painful Emotional Experience | p. 109 |
| A Reminder to Continue Your Regular Check-Ins | p. 109 |
| Exercises to Help You Eliminate Fear | p. 109 |
| Accessing an Image of Your Fear | p. 110 |
| Self-Exploration Questions | p. 110 |
| Everyone's Image of Fear Is Different | p. 112 |
| Believing in Yourself to Overcome Your Fears | p. 114 |
| Asking Your Soul What Your Fear Has to Teach You | p. 116 |
| Self-Exploration Questions | p. 118 |
| Releasing Fear from Your Life--Burning Ritual | p. 118 |
| What We Fear Will Reappear | p. 119 |
| Resolving Inner Conflict Through Soul Zlisdom | p. 121 |
| How Inner Conflict Arises | p. 121 |
| Becoming Aware of Inner Conflict | p. 122 |
| How Fear Drives Our Inner Conflicts | p. 122 |
| What Causes Inner Conflict? | p. 123 |
| Inner Conflict Is a Primary Source of Stress | p. 123 |
| Resolving Your Inner Conflicts | p. 125 |
| Issues That Create Inner Conflict | p. 125 |
| Identifying the Sources of Inner Conflict in Your Life | p. 128 |
| Self-Exploration Questions | p. 129 |
| Understanding Your Soul's Resolution of the Conflict | p. 130 |
| Self-Exploration Questions | p. 131 |
| Using These Exercises to Resolve Other Inner Conflicts | p. 131 |
| Trusting Your Soul's Solution to Your Inner Conflict | p. 133 |
| Expanding Your Visual-Journaling Experience | p. 135 |
| Visual Journaling as a Lifelong Practice | p. 137 |
| Strengthening the Connection to Your Soul | p. 138 |
| Knowing Your Soul Purpose | p. 139 |
| Discovering Your Soul Purpose | p. 139 |
| Self-Exploration Questions | p. 140 |
| Examples of Soul-Purpose Symbols | p. 141 |
| Remaining Congruent with Your Soul Purpose | p. 144 |
| Drawing the Landscape of Your Heart | p. 144 |
| Self-Exploration Questions | p. 145 |
| Using Larger Formats and Different Media | p. 146 |
| Imagistic Signatures and Personal Power Strokes | p. 148 |
| The Benefits of Working with a Group | p. 151 |
| Starting Your Own Visual-Journaling Group | p. 153 |
| Beyond the Six-Week Program | p. 154 |
| Bibliography | p. 157 |
| About the Authors | p. 159 |
| For Additional Information | p. 161 |
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