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David Watts is an unusual physician not only in being an extraordinarily caring human being, but in writing poetry about his work. I met him at the Conference on World Affairs in Boulder Colorado, where we spoke on the same panels. He tells wonderful stories of sharing these poems in healing ways with his patients.
-Kathleen Dowling Singh. The Grace in Dying: A Message of Hope, Comfort, and Spiritual Transformation-Louis E. LaGrand. Messages and Miracles: Extraordinary Experiences of the Bereaved-Anderson, Robert A. The Scientific Basis for Holistic Medicine, Annotated Abstracts-Tim Johnson. Herbage-Jenny Wade. Transcendent Sex: When Lovemaking Opens the Veil-Sukie Miller with Suzanne Lipsett. After Death: How People Around the
Coping Strategies of Women with Breast Cancer Taking A Spiritual History Psychoeducational group intervention impacting mood and glycemic control for diabetics The use of hypnosis and existential psychotherapy with end-stage patients Mindfulness meditation and heart disease-results of a pilot study Childhood abuse and later medical disorders in women
Every symptom has a certain way of being with which it is associated. In order to release a symptom, one must release the way of being associated with it. Thus, the process of healing implies a process of transformation. Anything can be healed. One or Two Months to Live When I had terminal cancer in
It is possible to recover from severe abuse Over the past two issues of IJHC, we have explored the long-term effects of child abuse/neglect, and the initial steps required for recovery. A brief summary will bring the final phases into focus. People who were abused as children develop a tear in the mind-body fabric, as
This article provides a framework for understanding how traumatic experience impacts the whole organism. Distorted thought process and projection, defensive verbal expression, tension pattern, disturbed subtle energy field, inhibited breathing, and characteristically-held body posture all exhibit the nature of the specific physical and emotional traumatic experiences of the individual. Accessing the information available within the
TFT is a potent psychological and physical intervention Tessa was diagnosed with a stage four mixed small and large cell follicular non-Hodgkins lymphoma at age 51. She was treated at Dr. Burzynskis clinic in Houston, Texas. Her treatment was supported by Thought Field Therapy (TFT) procedures such as eliminating the trauma and anxiety associated with
Journaling and poetry can ease the journey through widowhood Holes How is it possible to bear the grief of losing My companion, friend, lover, husband, and family? The holes created in my life are too numerous to be counted Do numbers even matter? Who am I? Once stripped of him, of his presence- What is
Healing in many forms can ease end of life transition The author describes changing attitudes toward dying in America and her personal experience with the loss of her husband from cancer in 1993. She nursed her husband at home until he died, with the guidance of Dr. Anna Lups, a physician trained in therapeutic care
Our world can be perceived and experienced as matter or as energy. Einstein suggested this early in the 20th Century in his famous equation, E = mc2 and modern physics has amply confirmed this theory. Matter and energy are two sides of the same coin. Newtonian medicine focuses on the matter side of the equation