What's New on IJHC (Apr 2010)

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Editorial Musings

Speculations on Two or Three Points for Transformation
Daniel J. Benor, MD, ABIHM

Research

Investigating Adaptability, Cohesion, and Human Energy Fields
  in Family Interactions 
Geoffrey Leigh, PhD and Jean Metzker, PhD

Remarkable Recoveries

My Journey to Recovery from Mercury Poisoning and Multiple Sclerosis*
Linda Thompson

Living with Life Challenges

Energy Psychology in Africa: Exploring Spiritual Dimensions
Barbara Stone, PhD, LISW, DCEP

Variations on the Theme of Healing

In Tennis, Love Means You’re at an Impasse,
But in Life Love Means You’ve Scored, Big-Time!
John M Shaw

As you walk into the entrance of Wimbledon there is a line from the poem if by Rudyard Kipling which says, "If you can meet with triumph and disaster and treat those two imposters just the same" (ending with "…Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it, And – which is more – you’ll be a Man, my son!") This is the message I convey on the tennis court every day to my students.

I also tell them to hit with their heart, and their body will follow when they hit a ball…

Wholistic Approaches

In Search of Mindfulness    
Francis C. Biley, RN PhD     

Migraine Aura: Suggestions for Spiritual Approaches to Migraine Headaches
Floco Tausin
 
Abstract:
In the 1990s, practitioners of orthodox scientific medicine engaged in dialogues with much passion about the reintegration of religion into medicine. It was shown that many complaints and illnesses are soothed more easily if the patient is spiritually active. This article is a contribution to this development. It examines the phenomenon of the migraine aura from a spiritual view and proposes an understanding of migraine as a physical and spiritual condition which corresponds to lived spirituality and, from there, is accessible to conscious alteration..

Student and healee experiences of healing

Energy Psychology in Africa: Exploring Spiritual Dimensions  
Barbara Stone, PhD, LISW, DCEP
Ron, age 22

Energy Psychology in Africa: Exploring Spiritual Dimensions  
Barbara Stone, PhD, LISW, DCEP
Hope, age 24

Poetry, The Creative Arts and Humor are Healing

Circles: A Merging of Art and Intuition
Carol Connor

Art & Healing
Richard Carpenter

I've always wanted to be an artist. So I made up my mind one day in the year 1991. I started making things and haven't stopped. I don't try to complicate life or my art. You can admire the simple beauty in it. It may leave you in awe, but it's not complicated.  This computer is more complicated and frustrating than anything, but it's business. I must say, I'm glad I have my art to put me back in the right frame of mind.

I've learned more about my art in the past couple of years than I have the previous nineteen years. A couple of years ago an email went out with pictures of my Pine Needle Bears, and my Moose Antler Carvings.  It started from friend to friend. I put my email address on it for those who might have any questions.

Within two months I was getting 500 emails a day! STRESS!!! I have a hard time reading that much, let alone chicken-pecking this keyboard to answer. They were all so wonderful, though. They kept me going. I never realized the effect my art really had on so many people…

The Last Leaf
Hannah Cooke-Ariel

You Can Never Speak Up Too Often For the Love of All Things 
Paul R. Fleischman, MD

Wholistic News Reviews

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

Keeping Job Stress to Yourself Can Hurt Your Heart

A Child’s Asthma Can Be Made Worse By The Mother’s Depression

Male and Female Teen Delinquent Behavior and Alcohol Use

Women in the United States Avoiding Preventative Health Care Due to Stress

Type-2 Diabetic Women and Folic Acid/B Vitamin Treatment Lowering Homocysteine Levels – Effective or Ineffective?

Salt Intake and The Risk of Stroke or Coronary Vascular Disease

Book Reviews

James Lovelock. The Vanishing Face of Gaia- A Final Warning.

Rosamund Stone Zander and Benjamin Zander. The Art of Possibility: Transforming Professional and Personal Life.

Rothlyn Zahourek. Intentionality – The Matrix of Healing: A Qualitative Theory for Research, Education and Practice.

Mark Grant. Change Your Brain, Change Your Pain.

Richard Flook with Rob van Overbruggen. Why am I sick? What's really wrong and how you can solve it using META-Medicine®.

Sandra Ingerman. Soul Retrieval: Mending the Fragmented Self.

Bernie Siegel and Jennifer Sander. Faith, Hope & Healing: Inspiring Lessons Learned from People Living with Cancer.

Michael A. Jawer with Marc S. Micozzi. The Spiritual Anatomy of Emotion: How Feelings Link the Brain, the Body, and the Sixth Sense.

Cay Randall-May. Healing and the Creative Response: Four Key Steps Shared by Healers and Artists.

Tapas Fleming. TAT Cards.

Philip Friedman. The Forgiveness Solution

Mark Grant. Change Your Brain, Change Your Pain