Layers of Meaning: Elements of Visual Journaling

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Express yourself in a visual journal!

With the ideas in this book, you will learn to create mixed media pages that express your soul and create a path to healing, internal freedom, and the sparking of passion.

“Visual Journey Journaling” is an innovative artistic method taught by Rakefet Hadar and made up of seven elements: Intention, Magical Coincidence, Background, Images, Lines, Color, and Text. Visual Journey Journaling invites you to a fascinating world where you connect with your hidden inner artist to create “soul pages” using simple techniques and subtle guidelines to take a look inside yourself. Rakefet has taught these methods for many years, guiding even inexperienced artists to find and express the stories within themselves.

In the first chapter of the book you will learn how to master the seven elements in your journal. There are many fun exercises and a step-by-step tutorial of how to start a simple journal. Next you will learn how to make a soul page with the seven elements. You will explore a variety of materials and how to work with them to find and create your pages. You will learn to build your journal and how to bind it into a finished book. Throughout the book and in the final section, you’ll see and find the meanings in Rakefet’s stunning private art journal pages and read her stories behind them.

From the Publisher

What makes us feel happy and satisfied with our life?

Meaning is one of the vital elements for happiness and satisfaction. To feel fulfilled and gratified, we have to connect with our inner self and understand what makes us happy. Deep understanding of the seven elements will enable anyone to create intuitive processes in the journal based on their own life experiences, without the need for external guidance. It’s in the simple ability to connect with our unconscious mind, which hides great treasures. One of the powerful forces of the unconscious mind is the “inner dream child.” I call it that because it’s something inside us that is connected with childhood and the ability to see the world with bright eyes, as if for the first time. It’s a part of me that is not damaged; it’s connected to the forces and beauty of the world, a part that can be inspired and can see the beauty of each moment, even in the painful and less attractive parts of existence. —Rakefet Hadar, Introduction

Intention, magical coincidence, background, images, lines, color, and text.

These are the seven elements make up Visual Journey Journaling. The magic happens in the alchemy of all the elements together, and in the countless ways they can be connected to create exciting possibilities.

The “Visual Journey Journaling” method is based on three pillars.

A deep understanding of the elements of visual journaling

Each element has a unique meaning in the creation of a journal spread. Visual journaling creates connections between the elements. In each spread that we create, we connect between the elements/layers in different ways.

The ability to integrate those elements to create experiential processes

Deep understanding of the seven elements will enable anyone to create intuitive processes in the journal based on their own life experiences, without the need for external guidance. It’s in the simple ability to connect with our unconscious mind, which hides great treasures.

Connecting to our unconscious mind as we use the language of metaphors and symbols

The unconscious mind speaks in symbols, metaphors, and imagery; the language of a child’s imagination, a language we have long forgotten. Using the seven elements, we can enter the world of imagination that exists in our unconscious mind and use its hidden treasures.

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Stackpole Books (August 15, 2021)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 176 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0811770141
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0811770149
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8.04 x 0.43 x 10.06 inches