What's New on IJHC (Apr 2009)

IJHC January 2009, Volume 9, No. 1 features:       

Editorial Musings       

REMARKABLE RECOVERIES: AN ENDANGERED SPECIES     
Daniel J. Benor, MD       

Research

THINGS I WISH I HAD BEEN TAUGHT IN MEDICAL SCHOOL:
A Family Doctor’s Real-Life Education
Robert Anderson, MD

PSYCHOLOGICAL SYMPTOM CHANGE IN VETERANS AFTER SIX SESSIONS OF EMOTIONAL FREEDOM TECHNIQUES (EFT):
AN OBSERVATIONAL STUDY
Dawson Church, PhD, Linda Geronilla, PhD, Ingrid Dinter

Living with Life Challenges

FEARS OF ACKNOWLEDGING CONSCIOUSNESS AS THE FIRST PRINCIPLE IN HEALTH AND HEALING
Daniel J. Benor, MD

FALSE HOPE: REAL OR IMAGINARY?
Rob van Overbruggen, PhD
In dealing with cancer, many people use the term 'false hope' when they criticize complementary therapies. The concerns about false hope are often exaggerated. Hope is real, Hope heals. Hope is always real, and there are always possibilities of healing. With every disease there are people who have somehow healed themselves.

Please insert the blurbs in the eZine under What’s New in IJHC – per the months in red. I’ll have another one, hopefully, in a few days (Asgeirsdottir9-1).

Variations on the Theme of Healing

Healing Trauma in War Torn Countries
Julie Roberts, PhD

WATERFALL ESSENCES:
Energies of a Newborn Land and the Whole Cosmos
Lilja Petra Asgeirsdottir

About me

I was born in Reykjavik, Iceland in 1961. I am a Cranio-sacral therapist, EFT practitioner, and a Biomedical Scientist. In the past 27 years I have mainly been working in hospital labs doing physiological examinations. Although that gives information on how certain organs perform and is an aid for the patient´s doctor to determine what kind of treatment to give. I felt there was much more to take into account for a patient's wholeness on all levels. On my soul journey to find answers I was led to vibrational medicine - a fascinating path that has a start but no end to it.
 
My work with essences is based on my intuition. Intuition has played huge part in all my work as a healer, cranio-sacral therapist and biomedical scientist. In the setting of a medical exam room my intuition has directed me to check out arterial sites for atherosclerosis, using Doppler ultrasound. These sites were not in the protocol. Often times it helped to identify a lesion. In my life, following my intuition has become my daily practice. Taking a different route then usual to work or phoning up someone when I felt I should is part of such intuitional activity. In this way I often connect with people who are in need of my help or who are helpful to me.

As cranio sacral therapist intuition has many times helped me to aid my client in very profound ways.  Sometimes, the day I see a client, I pick up a book with information that is relevant to the client´s problem. The treatment then is more focused and I can guide the client in ways I would not have done otherwise. I also always follow my intuition in all my healing work, when I move my hands to different part of the clients body where energy is needed and get very good feedback on that afterwards.

Wholistic Approaches

REBALANCING FOR CHILDREN:
Pediatric Physical Therapy, Intuition and Healing
Jacqueline Mast, PT, MSEd

 

Student and healee experiences of healing
 
Healing Trauma in War Torn Countries
Julie Roberts, PhD
Victims of severe trauma in Nigeria report benefits of a self-healing method.

REBALANCING FOR CHILDREN:
Pediatric Physical Therapy, Intuition and Healing
Jacqueline Mast, PT, MSEd
Parents of children with neurological problems report major improvements with intuitive physical therapy.

Poetry, The Creative Arts and Humor are Healing

THE POOL OF POSSIBILITIES PROJECT
Courtney Milne
After thirty years of photographing sacred landscapes on all seven continents, in the past nine years I have focused my camera in one place – my swimming pool. I now have more than 40,000 images of this 20’ x 40’ space; they are all different, and the project shows no sign of coming to an end. I am constantly amazed at what I see, which for me is an endorsement of philosopher Marcel Proust’s statement that “the real voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”

Wholistic News Reviews

Traditional, complementary, alternative, and psycho-social modalities of treatment
Larry Lachman, PsyD

Stillbirth risks linked to maternal mental illness

No initial protection against breast cancer found with Vitamin D or calcium (in low doses)

Link between teen aggression and violent video games

Increase in PMS symptoms among women who smoke

Quitting and Smelling Cigarettes

Book Reviews

Nicholson Baker, Human Smoke: The Beginnings of World War II, the End of Civilization

Bob van Overbruggen, PhD. Healing Psyche: Patterns and Structure of Complementary Psychological Cancer Treatment (CPCT

Frances Vaughan. Shadows of the Sacred-Seeing Through Spiritual Illusions

Julie Roberts; PhD. Change Works with CLEAR, Clearing Limits Energetically with Acupressure Release

Ellen C. Braun, The Animal School (video)