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From Robert Carroll, The Art of the Brain, Los Angeles, CA: Bombshelter Press 2004. http://artofthebrain.org www.bombshelterpress.com 44 pp $8 (including S/H) POETRY AND HUMOR ARE HEALING Ric Masten NO SLAM DUNK
Childhood hyperactivity and caffeinated colas At the May 23rd, 2005 annual meeting of the American Psychiatric Association held in Atlanta, Dr. Alan Hirsch, the director of the Smell and Taste Treatment and Research Foundation and assistant professor of both neurology and psychiatry at Rush Medical College in Chicago, presented his findings on a double-blinded study
A medical student chronicles his struggles to maintain a healing presence To all the students who went to bed crying or woke up screaming. To all those who needed to leave their hearts at the door. I just graduated with honors from Tufts University School of Medicine, the class of 1999. I dont feel honorable,
I fell asleep while driving my car on the freeway for the second time in as many days after feeling quite ill for a number of weeks in March, 2000. My doctor thought I had been suffering from the flu, but my symptoms were becoming more and more severe, and I could barely get out
-Joseph M. Felser. The Way Back to Paradise: Restoring the Balance between Magic and Reason-Bruce H. Lipton. The Biology of Belief: Unleashing the Power of Consciousness, Matter and Miracles-C. Stephen Byrum, Ph.D. & Leland Kaiser, Ph.D. Spirit for Greatness: Spiritual Dimensions of Organizations and Their Leadership-Matthew Smith. The Soul Knows: A Path of Listening-Jeffrey Keen.
Profound transformations through self-acceptance I call my work PhotoTherapy. PhotoTherapy combines black and white photography and journal writing as tools for changing womens negative self-image. I ask women to keep a journal when they decide to be photographed through six weeks afterward. Women start the photographing clothed and disrobe during the session. Everywhere we look,
Reiki is a healing art that hails back to Hinduism, Buddhism, and Shintoism, and was originally developed by Mikao Usui in Japan. This article presents the importance of its use for all people, regardless of their belief system, as a means of healing and involvement with other people. The author talks about her own experiences
Suggestions for healing our planet Man has turned on himself in his attempts to conquer the environment. This literature review examines the emergence, relevance and validity of Ecopsychology the study of this self-destructive process and the search for its cure. Has man betrayed himself in his patriarchal pursuit of dominion? Can Ecopsychology embrace other fields
The challenges of meeting spiritual needs in a hospital I have never been very good at visiting people in the hospital. I am unsettled by the smells of disinfectant that do not quite mask the sick-room odors of medicines, and of the cloying, private aromas of the human body. I seem, always, to get lost
Intuition is any leap of logic in thought or action. When we know something without knowing why we know it, thats intuition. When we find ourselves in the right place at the right time thats the result of our intuition, as well. Everyone is intuitive to some extent, but those who enhance their intuitive awareness