Close to the Bone

Close to the Bone
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Face Illness and Find Hope Everyone faces illness.  Whether it’s a personal health crisis or sickness a loved one is experiencing, none of us escape this life without encountering some form of illness or death. While we can try to ignore the reality, internationally known author and speaker Dr. Jean Shinoda Bolen suggests we do the exact opposite: face it. By encountering the frightening world of serious illness and death, we can better uncover how it gives us purpose. Trust what you know in your bones.  In probing and studying the health trials we face, Dr. Bolen shares how what we learn often connects to what we know to be true. As a psychiatrist and Jungian analyst, Dr. Bolen has an acute understanding of what shapes a person, particularly as it relates to one’s sense of balance and wholeness. Based on her knowledge and experience, she guides readers to find the truth buried in their own bones. A tool for help and healing.  While encountering sickness is inevitable, healing often seems harder to come by. We are left broken open when serious illness hits. While there is no single key to recovery, it is rare to find healing without first addressing the pain. This book serves as a guide to finding purpose in the pain. Through practicing self-compassion and empathy for others, and actively listening and learning, we set ourselves on a path to thoughtfully unravel the process of finding hope. Read Dr. Bolen’s  Close to the Bone  and find… An insightful book for anyone living with a life-threatening illness (or caring for a loved one who is ill)Encouragement for facing the trials and trauma of illness by relying on the wisdom we all have withinA supplemental guide for those who want to form support circles If books such as  Invisible Acts of Power ;  When Things Fall Apart ; or  No Mud, No Lotus  have helped you, then  Close to the Bone  is the next book you need to read.

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Jean Shinoda Bolen. Close to the Bone

Praise for the First Edition of Close to the Bone

BOOKS BY JEAN SHINODA BOLEN, M.D

CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS. My Thanks and Appreciation

PREFACE TO THE REVISED EDITION

INTRODUCTION

1. CLOSE TO THE BONE: ILLNESS AND THE SOUL

Illness and the Soul

Threshold Between Life and Death

Illness as a Psychological Ordeal

Soul Moments

Soul Questions

Close to the Bone

2. THE GROUND GIVES WAY UNDER US

Encounter with Hades: Loss and Vulnerability

The Underworld of Fear

The Underworld of Depression

The Underworld of the Soul

The Underworld of the Spirits

Descending in Stages into the Underworld: The Inanna Myth

The Underworld of Shadow and Depth: Ereshkigal's Realm

Inanna and Jesus: Transformation of Suffering

Responding to Unchosen Circumstances

Living in the Shadow of Death

Entry to the Underworld: Ready or Not

3. PSYCHE'S JOURNEY

Enacting the Psyche Myth: Illness and Soul Growth

The Lamp and the Knife

Inner Wisdom

Psyche's Tasks

The Need to Say, No!

Taking Psyche's Story to Heart

Discriminating Actions

Warrior Marks

4. LIKE GREEN MEAT ON A HOOK

Seeking to Know What Lies Below

Symbolic Death, as in a Chrysalis

Angry and Rejected Ereshkigal

Competent, Loyal Ninshubur

Taking this Myth to Heart

We Are All Ereshkigal

5. PROCRUSTEAN DISMEMBERMENT

Recovering Dismembered Parts of Ourselves

Integrating Ereshkigal

The Exceptional Patient

Gratitude and Wholeness

Life-Threatening Illness as a Soul-Shaping Experience

Healing Circles

Experiencing Unconditional Love

6. ILLNESS AS A TURNING POINT

Finding Your Myth

Archetypes

Innate Aptitudes

Inner Sources of a Creative Life

What Is True for You?

Achieving Detente Between Disease and Health

Kairos and Kronos

Personal Answers

7. SOMETIMES WE NEED A STORY

I-Thou Physician Bedside Manner

Recovery Begins with a Positive Emotional Response

The Healing Power of a Story

Like Snowballs on a Hot Stove

Remissions and Remarkable Recoveries

Mom Says: “What You Believe, Will Be”

If He Could Do It, Why Can't I?

Stretching Belief to Heal the Body

Time Enough

Hermes the Messenger

Sometimes We Need a Story

8. SOUL CONNECTIONS

I-Thou Relationships as a Lifeline

What We Know in Our Bones

Life-Threatening Illness and the Soul

Moments of Truth

Relationships Enter a Crucible

Mutuality Even When One Is Ill and the Other Is Well

Soul Connections

Circles of Support

Soul Links

Inanna and Persephone: Myths of Recovery

9. SUMMONING ANGELS: PRAYER

Angels and Prayer

Healing Effect of Prayer

“Dear God / Goddess / Spirit / Powers Greater Than My Small Self”

Prayer Expressed Through the Body

Healing Touch

Therapeutic Touch

Life Force and Healing Energy

Powers of Repeated Prayers

Prayer and I-Thou Links

The Alchemy of Prayer

10. PRESCRIBING IMAGINATION

Visualization

Visualization and Cancer

Imagination and the Immune System

Visualization and Physiological Changes

Why Not Try?

Visualization and Reversing Heart Disease

Affirmations

Affirmations and Louise Hay

Programming Positive Thought

Effective Affirmations

Imagination Comes First

11. RITUALS: ENACTING MYTH

An Instinct for Ritual

Rituals Prior to Surgery

Elements of Ritual

Metaphor of Journey

Parallels to Initiation

Ritual in the Operating Room

Post-Surgery Rituals of Transformation

Chemotherapy as Ritual

The Magic of Ritual Words

Everyday, Ordinary Life Rituals

Sacrifice or Scapegoat

Anniversary Rituals

Celebrating Becoming a Crone

Composing a Ritual

12. HELPING EACH OTHER

Compassion as the Turning Point

A Life of Significant Soil

Reunion with Persephone as a Return of Health

Illness as a Life-Altering Passage

Compassion in the Midst of Suffering

Transformation of Ereshkigal

Dissolving the Shell Around One's Soul and Heart

Helping Others, Healing Ourselves

Compassionate Action

Seeds of Experience

13. MUSINGS

Why Me?

Must It Be Someone's Fault?

Holding the Opposites

Earthquakes—Real Ones and Metaphors

When It's My Time, I Want to Be Conscious

Life-Threatening Illness as a Test

Return of Persephone Accompanied by Hecate

Eleusinian Mysteries

Great Mystery

Messages from Andy

Such Is Life

NOTES

INDEX

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“This is the book I needed when my daughter was sick. It would have helped me through it, like a map of the underworld. Myths, stories, prayer, touching, visualization, rituals, and especially love are some of the tools and wisdom that this extraordinary book gives us. Thank you, Jean.”

—Isabel Allende

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To be brought “close to the bone” through the adversity of illness, the closeness of death, and the knowledge that we are not in control of the situation, is to come close to the essence of who we are, both as unique individuals and as human beings. Like X-ray films on which the bones are the most distinct because they are the strongest and most indestructible elements of the body, so it is that adversity reveals the eternal, and thus indestructible, qualities of the soul.

In coming to terms with having a life-threatening illness, a person often is stripped of emotional defenses as well. Denial, intellectualization, and rationalization may go, exposing a person to the painful realities of their lives as well as of this illness. Addictions that kept feelings at a distance are taken away. People who use work and activity alcohol or drugs to numb their feelings no longer can do this (though television, which may be the most common addiction, is immediately turned on at many hospital bedsides).

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