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Melinda H. Connor, DD, PhD, AMP, FAM, EHP-C, Executive Director, IJHC We are in an extraordinary time in the US, watching the structure and content of our government change. A wonderful fiction author whose books I love, Patricia Briggs, said in one of her volumes, in essence, “change is never really just good or bad
Dr. Caitlin A. Connor, DAOM, PGDip, AMP, EHP-C I’m tired. I’m tired of having conversations with energy practitioners who decide to tell me that energy healing cannot be researched. I do research on energy healing. I have for over 20 years. There is a database on naoep.org with links to over 15,000 peer reviewed journal
Melinda H. Connor, D.D., Ph.D., AMP, FAM, EHP-C How does one define a professional when looking at an energy healing practitioner? Is it their behavior? Is it that their work-space is appropriate? Is it that they hold themselves to the highest levels of integrity? Do they dress appropriately? Do they maintain proper and healthy boundaries?
How do you tell if they are a good Healer?Melinda H. Connor, D.D., Ph.D., AMP, FAM, EHP-C Students come to me regularly with the question of what constitutes a good healer and how do I select one for myself? The answer is that it is a mix. The basics are the same if you are
Dr. Melinda H. Connor, DD, Ph.D., AMP, FAM, EHP-C When one looks at the scope of energy practices across this country it is interesting to see that there is little direct focus on the societal laws which govern us day to day from within the community. Instead, there is a marked expectation that the community
One of my earliest memories is of my mother telling me, “A good husband is a wonderful thing and a good marriage makes life happy. But never forget that sometimes a husband can die, and then, my dear, it’s up to you. Always make sure that you can manage your own life.” As time went by, I began to see the wisdom of her words, and I came to value my independence. Even more, I saw that when a woman controls her own life and her own money, she can function successfully either with a husband or without. Above all, she can make her own decisions about how she wishes to live her own life. It never occurred to me that such independence of mind and action—perhaps especially for a woman—would be endangered.
When I was in high school in the 1970’s, one of my friends in home room that morning came in and did not look good. She was paper white. My friend Kathy and I asked her what was wrong and she replied, “Nothing, do not talk too loud, please!” Then she took a deep breath, fell out of her chair, and proceeded to hemorrhage all over the floor. She had had a backroom abortion the night before and that morning died in front of me as she bled out.
By Rick Leskowitz MD Overview We live in a time of great polarization, when our societys attention seems to be focused on what divides us rather than what unites us. And the Covid story is the primary forum where this divisiveness is playing out. Theres no consensus on any given aspect of Covid, so people
(The following is a lightly edited transcript of Jean Houstons remarks that began the above online presentation about the role of sports and consciousness in fostering social transformation). What role does sports have to play in todays societal breakdown? Yes, we are in a time of enormous breakdown and also breakthrough. Its the changing of
Abstract Energy Psychology (EP) modalities, integrative methods that strategically involve accessing human energy for therapeutic purposes, enjoy a rich and diverse evidence base. As such, many attempts have been made to explain how they work. Explanations have primarily utilized a biological basis for explicating the mechanisms by which EP may function. These contributions are extremely