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Did you enter the free book contest on Facebook and LinkedIn in August?

Congratulations to Book Winner: Erik Norman, MACP

We asked people " How do you alleviate stress?" Here are a few of the answers we received on both Facebook and LinkedIn. 

"I alleviate stress by practicing 25 minutes of mindfulness in the mornings. I'm starting to practice a little bit more yoga as well. Wish me well it's good for your health!"

"Music, making art .. sometimes just stopping and breathing does the trick. "

"Lighting an incense, meditating with my crystals or simply basking in me and taking advantage of the beauty and greatness that silence gives me."

"I listen to a guided meditation. I have all of Jon Kabat-Zinn's apps on my phone, for anytime I need them or I look up a specific guided meditation."

If you haven't already, go ahead and follow us on Facebook and LinkedIn! Have something to share? Tag us in your posts so we can share your successes!
The Community Voice August 2017 book winners are....

Colleen DeJoseph &
Anne Marie Collins

We asked our readers to share with us their responses to the following question:

"Eric says that uprising is life itself and we are the insurgents and must face our fears to move through the blockage to our expanding potential. Share your opinion here." 

Here's what one of our winners said. "I agree uprising is life, or rather love. While I also agree fears are present when we listen to, and try to follow ego, I do not agree we need to process fear " to our expanding potential". Rather I think we need to recognise the fear, recognise it is of the ego, and choose to see what is real. And what is real is the author of life and therefore love. 

And what is real is that we are thoughts in that Mind. And what is real is that being Love/Life ourselves we only need the perception of unreality to be lifted. We are not potential expanding. We are one with Love/Life which is constant and eternal. 

Maybe love expands or perfects? But that seems incongruent with the reality of being in the mind of perfect Love. In short we actually share that Mind of perfect Love. When we act otherwise we have lost our mind, that is, we misunderstand or forget who we really are. Love returns to itself when remember who we really are, rather than expands." 
Thank You Students for your opinion on our new website!

Congratulations to:
Sandor Stockfleth $25
Erik Norman $10
Kristina Taylor $10
Sara Dolcimascolo $10

The University has been working on a more mobile friendly and updated website. Although this will not be the final version, we are aware that a more optimized website is necessary. We hope to launch in the next few weeks the new site.

The marketing office sent an email to all students asking for their feedback. Thank you to the students who replied with detailed feedback. 

Did you miss the email? Please add communications@sofia.edu to your contacts and please check your JUNK FOLDER. For some reason, Outlook sends emails from communications to this folder.  
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"The Art of Dreaming: Tools for Creative Dream Work"
by Professor Emeritas Jill Mellick, Ph.D.

How do you enter the dream world? How can you merge your dreams with creative expression?

In this book, Dr. Jill Mellick has woven her understanding of painting and music with her understanding of psychotherapy and cultural traditions.  

Amazon Review: Jill Mellick is ushering in a new era of dreamwork with her revolutionary approach to dream analysis through artistic expression.
Dream books that guide readers to work with their dreams invariably ask those readers to write their dreams down, or perhaps record them. The Art of Dreaming stands apart from all other dream books in that it invites readers to work with their dreams in whatever medium is most natural and beneficial to them. For some readers that might in fact be writing or talking, but for others it might be drawing or painting or working in clay or dancing or dramatizing or recreating movement or maskmaking or working in multimedia or creating poetry.

Book Excerpt: "Let me invite you to enter into your dream world in new ways, both innovative and traditional, and to enrich your psychospiritual development through expressive dream work.... I also invite you to entertain holding paradoxical view and contradictory theories about how dreams operate - in time, in space, cross culturally and across media."

Learn more about Jill Mellick and the award named after her.
Enter to win her book. Share your thoughts on dream work and the benefit to wellbeing practices such as psychotherapy. 
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