ISSN 1538-1080
The heart is a spiritual organ Traditionally, cardiologists are trained to consider the heart as a muscle whose primary purpose is to pump blood. When it malfunctions, they believe it needs to be medicated, cut, sutured, by-passed or transplanted. Despite the best efforts of conventional medicine, the American Heart Statistics indicate that the Cardiovascular deaths
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Ric Mastens regular poetry column focuses on issues of loneliness, enjoying his beard, and a cat with more than nine lives.
Jean-Claude Koven trenchantly comments on the human ecology of patterns and choices in our beliefs. He strongly advocates for personal choices in our pathways in life, rather than merely accepting the norms of our culture. He observes, Most of humanity is stuck in someone elses discarded chewing gum and has yet to break free.
In her lovely and lively way, Edie Moser shares more of her lessons in life about self-confidence and about relating to her mother.
Larry Lachman shares his grief over the loss of his pet dog and discusses the too-often neglected grief we have when our pets die. He provides a series of recommendations for how to deal with these issues.
Peter Huncik reports the outstanding successes of inter-ethnic psychodrama group work in reaching understanding, reconciliation and forgiveness between people of diverse backgrounds who had previously been extremely antagonistic towards each other in Slovakia. His team has also worked with Hungarians, Poles, Romanians, Israelis and Palestininians.
Kirsten Schulz found that welfare clients in her mental health clinic were stuck in maladaptive, repetitive patterns of behaviors, due to traumas earlier in their lives. Using TFT, she was able to rehabilitate many of her clients to the point that they not only improved psychologically, but no longer needed welfare financial support.
Steven Hodes is a Board Certified Gastroenterologist. He has been integrating body-mind-spirit awareness into his practice, discussing these connections with patients. This has been transformative for his patients as well as for Dr. Hodes himself.