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Contact: Katherine Q Revoir

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katherineQ@spiritualdoodles.com

Play With a Purpose!

New Book Offers Unique and Interactive Approach
For Connecting With Your Highest Self

Doodle (doo-dal) v. To scribble while thinking about something else, or nothing. To put the left brain "on hold".

(San Francisco)--Most books on creativity speak only to the analytical and logical left part of our brain. How fair (and fun) is that? But Spiritual Doodles & Mental Leapfrogs: A Playbook for Unleashing Spiritual Self-Expression (Red Wheel/Weiser LLC, September 2002, Paperback, $16.95, 152 pages, ISBN: 1-59003-029-X) is different. That1s because Bay Area author and spiritual counselor Katherine Q. Revoir knows that exercising both the right and left sides of the brain--as well as our hearts--helps us feel connected at the deepest spiritual level.

As Revoir explains, "Our society encourages the development of the left brain for its rationality, while ignoring the powerful resources of the right brain, which steps outside the ‘practical’ mode and uses our creative thought and intuition to access inner guidance and solve problems. My intention for this book is to present tools for utilizing the right brain to establish and expand spiritual consciousness."

That's exactly what Spiritual Doodles & Mental Leapfrogs does. Through a wide variety of over 50 light-hearted and engaging exercises, Revoir helps us to stop judging and start expressing ourselves as we consciously reconnect to the Spirit within. She warns that the extremely creative approach of the book's play exercises, or "plexercises", might make the left part of our brain uncomfortable. But she encourages us to try them anyway because; "When we use the right brain we bring balance to our thought process, which expands our emotional, creative, and spiritual resources."

The book's fun and interactive "plexercises" are designed to help embody and personalize important spiritual principles or lessons. Here are just a few examples of the nuggets of spiritual wisdom that readers will discover among the playful pages of Spiritual Doodles & Mental Leapfrogs...

Invite Your Expressive Child Out to Play- As we get older, we sometimes lose the voice of the expressive child inside us that still longs to play and be creative. When we listen to this voice, we can approach our self-expression with a greater sense of balance and authenticity, making it easier to unleash our unique and divine spark.

Finding and Following Your Dreams- We have a choice (ALWAYS!): to end up with the satisfaction of going for them, or the regret of letting them slip away. When we make it a priority to take even the smallest action on fulfilling our dreams, it allows us to keep the momentum moving forward.

Faith is a Mental Attitude- We seek spiritual awareness in order to feel peaceful and connected with Spirit. Faith grows in direct proportion to our experience of Oneness. When we operate from the conviction that we are connected with Spirit, we have an intuitive feeling of peace, calm, and mental balance. This by-product of faith is called grace. The more we live in faith, the more grace we experience.

Our Thoughts- We live in a cause and effect Universe. What we think becomes form. This is a simplistic yet powerful spiritual truth. If we keep our consciousness focused on positive and peaceful thoughts, we will attract positive and peaceful things. We can't operate outside our belief system.

Forgiveness- It is important to ask ourselves whether we really want to experience peace in our heart, or whether we are getting more out of blaming other people for our feeling of powerlessness, our pain, and our resentment.

Spiritual Doodles & Mental Leapfrogs is far more than just another book about spirituality. It is an interactive and engaging experience specifically designed to reconnect us with the Spirit within. By fully engaging in its fun and playful process, your sense of awe, creativity, and self-discovery can't help but be awakened.

Lack of art training is a BONUS! So what are you waiting for?

About the Author:

Katherine Q. Revoir is a creative and spiritual entrepreneur who has camped out in the "self-expression playground" all her life. As the Creative Director of the Center for Richer Living, Katherine assists others in the treasure hunt of discovering and living their dreams, through creative mentoring as well as by using curriculum she developed for her course titled, Are We THERE Yet? Using Universal Principles on the Road Trip of Life.

Katherine1s workshops/playshops explore the links between spiritual development and creative self-expression. These playshops are based on the ideas in the Spiritual Doodles book, which is used as the course textbook. Ms. Revoir also facilitates expressive painting programs for conferences and retreats, and spent two years doing this work (play) at San Quentin prison. Her curriculum is available for use in spiritual communities, business, and groups interested in personal growth.

In her spiritual counseling work, Katherine is a licensed Practitioner through the United Church of Religious Science. Ms. Revoir1s previous book is Create! A Sketchbook and Journal (Chronicle Books), a fun and original activity book which encourages creative writing, drawing, and thinking for adolescents of all ages (but especially 9-14 year olds).

Katherine is the proud mother of two highly expressive children, who are her greatest teachers. She lives (and plays, and creates, and inspires, and mentorsS) in Mill Valley, California.

About the Book:

Spiritual Doodles & Mental Leapfrogs: A Playbook for Unleashing Spiritual Self-Expression

Publisher: Red Wheel/Weiser LLC
Publication Date: September 2002
$16.95, 152 pages (paper, lay-flat binding)
ISBN: 1-59003-029-X

 

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