What's New on IJHC (December 2006)

IJHC September 2006, Volume 6, No. 3 features:   

Editorial musings  

MIND OF HEAD AND HEART  
Daniel J Benor, MD, ABHM                    


Research           

SEED: STUDY INTO THE EFFECTIVENESS OF ENERGY ON DEAFNESS: Exploratory case study research on the effectiveness of hands-on healing energy for deafness
Allan Sweeney PhD


Living with Life Challenges

INDIA:  IS THE CUP HALF EMPTY OR HALF FULL?
Kathryn Djouallah

 
Variations on the Theme of Healing

PSYCHOENERGETICS: Toward integration of subtle energy work with the psychosynthesis perspective
Martha Crampton, PhD

FINDING THE COURAGE TO HEAL
Steven E. Hodes, MD

HELPING CLIENTS GET OFF THE WELFARE SYSTEM
USING THOUGHT FIELD THERAPY (TFT)
Kirsten Schulz, MA

 
Wholistic Approaches

INTER-ETHNIC TRAINING WITH PSYCHODRAMA METHODS
Peter Huncik, MD

THE DISPARAGED GRIEF: Pet loss and 20 years of ‘fighting the good fight’
Larry Lachman, PsyD

YOGA OFF THE MAT
Edie Weinstein-Moser
In her lovely and lively way, Edie Moser shares more of her lessons in life about self-confidence and about relating to her mother.
    (See more in IJHC September 2006)

 
Ecology

WE’VE BEEN LIVING IN A DREAM WORLD
Jean-Claude Koven

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 else’s discarded chewing gum and has yet to break free.”
    (See more in IJHC September 2006)

 

 
Poetry, Art and Humor are Healing

Words & One-Liners
Ric Masten

NIMROD, THE MIGHTY HUNTER
Cancer patients dubbed ‘terminal’ always need to have goals — reasons to stay alive for!
 

Nimrod — blind in one eye, scared, legless, islands of skin left bare minus hair

seven years out
from the“terminal” prognosis
this old cat begins year eight
acting feisty — feeling great
determined to live longer
than my omnipresent Mom
who always had to out do me
always had to show me up
however, to live longer than she
will take two more years
bringing the total to nine
now, I know the rumor
about cats having only nine lives
is just an old wives tail
but in my situation and in my condition
it does give one paws
and coming to the rescue
Nimrod, the mighty hunter
our family’s big old orange tom cat
the day we got him from the pound
he was hit by a car and survived
a week or so later fell into a swimming pool
and damn near drowned
constantly treed by the neighbor’s vicious dogs
had a hind leg loped off by a field mower
lost an eye in a fight with a coon

Nimrod might have been
blind in one eye, scared, legless,
islands of skin left bare minus hair
but in the end that tough beat up old tom
lived a lot more lives than nine
so there, Mom!
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AFTER WORD — When I was twelve years old our family lived out in the country in a house invested with mice. One day we went to the Pound and adopted a large homeless tom cat. My Dad named him "Nimrod, the Mighty Hunter." I didn't know the Biblical connection back then, Nimrod being the son of Cush. Anyway, the other day I got to wondering if I would live longer than my mother who died of lung cancer at 78 and from the dark deep reaches of my mind old Nimrod came to the rescue.
              (See more in IJHC September 2006)

See also: Ric Masten's weekly WORDS & ONE-LINERS http://www.ric-masten.net


Wholistic News Reviews

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

Blood pressure and insulin improved with transcendental meditation
After two failures, a third antidepressant showed to be mainly ineffective
Chronic insomnia better helped by cognitive behavioral therapy than Imovane
Suicide risk and elevated omega-6/omega-3 ratios
Prostate cancer progression slowed by pomegranate juice


Book Reviews

Dean Radin. Entangled Minds: Extrasensory Experiences in a Quantum
Sally Rhine Feather and Michael Schmicker. The Gift: ESP- The Extraordinary Experiences of Ordinary People
Norman Shealy and Dawson Church. Soul Medicine: Awakening Your Inner Blueprint for Abundant Health and Energy
P. Curott, The Love Spell:  An Erotic Memoir of Spiritual Awakening
Williamson, Vivien. Bach Remedies and Other Flower Essences
Kelly Bulkeley and Patricia Bulkley.  Dreaming Beyond Death:  A Guide to Pre-Death Dreams and Visions
Malcolm Gladwell.  Blink:  The Power of Thinking without Thinking