Rituals for Our Times: Celebrating, Healing, and Changing Our Lives and Our Relationships (Master Work Series)

a review from the author of DREAMING YOUR REAL SELF: A PERSONAL APPROACH TO DREAM INTERPRETATION; and DREAM BACK YOUR LIFE: A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO DREAMS, DAYDREAMS, AND FANTASIES.RITUALS FOR OUR TIMES is a well-written and lucid description of the importance of rituals in our lives, regardless of one's spiritual beliefs. In modern, Western, secular culture, many of us have forgotten the value of marking life passages in ways that speak to our individual needs. Well-organized and well-written, with helpful questions to guide us through planning a ritual and whom to include, RITUALS FOR OUR TIMES brings us back to the power and pleasure of even everyday rituals. Through their suggestions, we learn how we can plan rituals with forethought and conscious choice and without rigidity to old ways that no longer work. With touching stories, authors Imber-Black and Roberts demonstrate the potency of ritual to facilitate growth and resolve conflicts--old and new.

An approachable and down-to-earth look at some of the baggage (good and bad) we carry around about holidays, celebrations and traditions. While it can get very repetitive in some places and some of the examples are dated, it is good material for facilitating discussion. So many of us go through the motions mindlessly or, worse, with some resentment. This offers options for how to look at changing what isn't working anymore into something that has meaning. Despite it's publication date, there is still much relevant material in the book.

This easily read book is filled with wonderful stories which remind us of how powerful even very simple rituals can be for families.Although the word "healing" is in the title this is not a self help book. It is really a description of many of the daily activities that we may not think of as rituals, and how to make them memorable.

Brilliant book; breaks down elements and purposesOf rituals to help creation of personal ceremonies.

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