Summary: ConsciousSHIFT with Julie Ann Turner featuring MARY ROCKWOOD LANE / HEALING WITH THE ARTS Ever gardened in a community garden? Sung a song to lift your mood? Painted a mural with your neighbors to cover graffiti? Each of these acts has the power to heal your body and your community. ART — including visual arts, dance, writing, and music — along with spiritual practices and guided imagery - gives us the tools to heal physical, mental, emotional and spiritual ailments. Julie Ann's ConsciousSHIFT guest Mary Rockwood Lane, co-author with Michael Samuels of "HEALING WITH THE ARTS: A 12-Week Program to Heal Yourself and Your Community," shares with us how creativity and self-expression pave a path to healing ... whether your personal health or the health of your community - the ARTS awaken the innate healing ability within each of us. "By releasing tension and fear, by opening the mind to passionate creativity and the forces that made us, the inner artist and the inner healer release the immense power of love to heal," Mary shares. "The inner artist and inner healer as one, is an exquisite balance of energetic wholeness. By finding your inner artist and joining with your inner healer, you may change your body’s physiology and optimize healing." Leland Kaiser, health futurist at University of Colorado, says that the future of healthcare is a convergence of art, spirituality, and healing. Forty-five percent of U.S. health-care institutions now have arts in medicine programs of some sort, according to the most recent data by the Global Alliance for Arts & Health. Art and healing is now a huge field ... all over the world, people are healing themselves, others, community and the earth with the arts: from women in the Middle East painting to heal their spirits to survivors of sexual abuse dancing in the Western United States from one women writing and singing a song for her sick baby to another in the Philippines painting to heal the suffering of her indigenous culture from music concerts to heal the community in Newtown, Connecticut to women painting to heal breast cancer in San Francisco Join Julie Ann and Mary, to discover how you can become an artist/healer. Mary Rockwood Lane, PhD, RN, FAAN, is the co-founder and director emeritus of Shands Arts in Medicine program at University of Florida (UF), Gainesville, where she created the first artist-in-residence program of its type in the United States. At a time when art was not integrated in health care, Mary became inspired by her own experience of healing herself through art and created a program which incorporates art, music, poetry, theater, and dance into the medical profession. She directed the nationally-recognized Arts in Medicine program for over 15 years. Since moving on, she has worked tirelessly to promote this vision for a more creative and transformative nursing practice. Mary is now an Associate Professor of at College of Nursing, UF where she teaches Creativity and Spirituality in Healthcare.
