Crafting love with your hands and with the help of crafting books is something more and more women turn to for emotional healing. And they do it for internal peace and calm, too. As the future unfolds before us, it seems people are getting busier, more distracted, and less connected to the physical and spiritual world. This can be especially problematic for our relationships, as love is something that just does not magically exist on its own.
Love must be cultured, tended, and cared for as if it were a special garden unlike any other.
What you can make with your hands can be your spiritual practice for healing
Crafting Love to Share Our Hearts Through the Work of Our Hands
When I am stressed or even tired during my long days of work, I turn to crafting with my own hands. I need that connection with my inner creative self that sparks new creativity and new imagination for me to use.
My own crafts are usually quick and not complicated, just like this one. I like to use the paper and fabrics and scraps of interesting media that will become something new after the they’ll be touched by the magic of my fingers. Crafting books give me new ideas if not to follow to a “T,” rather to stir up my own imagination for crafts and DIY projects. When I am “in it” crafting, I experience joy and content and celebration of living.
This book [Crafting Love] is a wonderful inspiration to spark your creativity and help you create loving gifts that truly, truly speak from the heart. – Marijo Puleo, PhD, podcast host of Mindful Living Spiritual Awakening
Whether you desire to foster, encourage remembrance, or express gratitude for the love you feel toward the known and unknown in your life, it can be done through the practice of mindfulness and crafting. Crafting Love is filled with thematic chapters meant to inspire your own journey in your expression of love.
Examples of Crafting Love with Your Hands
You transport yourself into a place of love and calm and peace when you craft with your hands.
– Whether you build an “I Love You…” notebook for your partner,
– Anytime Valentines for your friends and mentors
– A Conversation Starter Table Cloth for your family
– Portable Place Shrines for natural places and animals
– An “I Am” Affirmation Mandala for yourself, or
– A Rhythm Painting for the Divine
Crafting books like the one by Maggie Shannon “Crafting Love” help launch your exploration for your love of materials, love of the process, and love of everything and everyone around you through creating transcendent, one-of-a-kind projects with your own hands and heart.
You can learn how to channel your love and peace and transcendence with one-of-a-kind projects of your own
Crafting Gratitude to Celebrate Your Blessings with Hands and Heart
When you are in need of emotional healing, crafting books like “Crafting Gratitude” and “Crafting Calm” come to your rescue. With eager examples of easy and simple craft projects, you can quickly gain the moments of happiness and joy. These are the exact coordinates of transcendence and creativity.
Crafting Calm with Projects for Creativity and Contemplation
This simple crafting book is your easy guide to peace of mind. You’ll find inspiring ideas for how to do exactly that through a wide range of creative exercises. Author Maggie Oman Shannon explores crafts and creativity as a practice with enormous physical, mental, and spiritual benefits.
By immersing ourselves in a craft with intention and mindfulness, we can quiet those voices around us and in us ― we can enter sacred stillness. Through revealing interviews, personal stories, and forty suggested activities, the author shows how creative processes can become spiritual practices.
Whether you’re an aspiring artist, longtime craftsperson, or someone who has never set foot in a craft-store yet, you’ll find something in Crafting Calm to inspire you.
Crafts and how-to ideas include contemplation candles, visual journals, prayer shawls, collage mandalas, intention beads, finger labyrinths, personal prayer flags, spiritual tool kits, and tabletop altars.
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43 thoughts on “Crafting Love Is About Creating Emotional Peace And Healing With Crafts”
I love reading & being alone very quiet
I crochet, and also journal these days.
I practice mindfulness today by concentrating on only one task at a time.
I like to craft, color and keep a journal.
I relax by exercise and taking care of
3 cats
One of two things: I walk or I plant things. I do both quite a bit.
I don’t call it mindfulness….but I find calm and peace through prayer to our Lord and Lady. Thanks and God bless.
I practice mindfulness by meditating for a half hour each day. It puts everything in the right perspective for mr.
i take a walk
I don’t spend enough time every day practicing self care in the way I need to. I’d love to win these books. I hope to start journaling. Pausing to reflect helps. Deep breathing and just existing can help center me.
Bicycling!
I loose myself in a good book, in my craft room, or sitting outside relaxing.
I cleaned everything in the house the other day, including all bed sheets because everyone is sick. For ten people, that is quite the job.
I keep my granddaughters every week so when I’m with them I show them how important it is to be kind to both people and animals.
We do yoga and also meditate it help with it.
I enjoy scrapbooking with my family and friends at least twice a month. I get lost in reading.
Yes, but I don’t call it mindfulness. I just call it living to the best of my ability.
Mindfulness is a pretty big thing in here in my house. In 2016, our lives fell apart – Abby’s dad left, and I went through a major health crisis. To help us get back on track, we added a bunch of mindfulness type activities….
Every morning we put on happy music, and do our yoga stretches together in the sunshine from the window.
Every day after school, as she has her snack, I have her list 3 good things to be grateful for, from her day.
Every night at bedtime, we follow a guided meditation app together.
We also have a journal, that has questions to answer together, and draw and doodle and stuff. We do that at least once a week together too. <3
Meagan,
These are super power habits you’ve developed! Bravo and kudos to you, my amazing blogging sistah.
I have my quiet time most of the time in the week.
During the day, I take time off just to sip my tea or water flowers or enjoy the sunshine outside.
Every little thing that allows us to focus on the moment supports our peace and calm.
I love crafting and doing art work with my son.
These books sound really inspiring and insightful. Creating things is always very satisfying and does wonders for the soul.
I meditate while listening to classical music.
Quilting and reading are very relaxing for me.
When I wake up, I spend two minutes in your bed simply noticing my breath. As thoughts about the day pop into my mind, I let them go and return to my breath.
I try to practice mindful awareness throughout the day, but that is a not always an easy thing to do. Doing crafts (especially cross-stitch), and listening to music without vocals (e.g., classical, jazz) helps to calm and focus my mind.
I honestly am not a crafty person. But I like the ideas listed here. The book is interesting, I need a copy!
I don’t know. I’m not sure that I do
Since the new year, I’ve been driven to use up my fabric stash and get back to my quilting. After a stressful day, I look forward to sitting in my chair at night and quilt.
LIke to make a flower arrangement. Nice and relaxing.
Looks like it would be fun & therapeutic.
I try and practice yoga.
Crafting and journaling is my way to relax EVERYDAY.
I’ve done some crafting, but usually just for myself. You’re right, it does let you release from all the other things going on.
I would love to get these books, need new ideas for crafting, thanks for recommending them
This book calms me just reading the description. I’d love to craft a gratitude journal. I have so much to be thankful for, and picking it up would always remind me.
My kid is fond of crafting. That’s why I am always looking for new ideas!
exercise
These look like fantastic books. My grandmother was a huge crafter and I inherited a lot of her supplies. These would help give me ideas to use those supplies and reduce my stress!
I like the idea of crafting to heal and to give a gift of love. I need to find that inspiration to do so.
I love doing crafts. I find it so relaxing. I just wish I had more time to do more! These sound like great books!
I practice mindfulness by doing Tai Chi and setting aside a few minutes a day for centering and to find something to be grateful for.
I really think before i say anything. And I would never want to make someone else’s day worse.
This is such a wonderful idea. I’ve always found creating things to be very calming. It only makes sense that it could be used to help heal emotional wounds.