What's New on IJHC (June 2008)

IJHC May 2008, Volume 8, No. 2 features:

INTUITION RESEARCH: An investigation of the effects of intuitive development on women?s health and spiritual wellbeing
Deb Butterfield, MSW, LCSW, ThD

This effectiveness study, in the category of CAM health education, is based on the premise that intuition, health and spiritual wellbeing are interrelated; a change in one affects change in the others.  Intuition as a poorly understood function of the mind and body has limited empirical research or application in the health domain. As a source for spiritual awareness, intuition continues to have limited recognition as a factor critical to healing.  Nursing research identifies intuition as a valid form of knowledge.

The purpose of this study is to advance understanding that intuition is a practical and reliable resource for health and is a pathway to spiritual awareness. Because women are twice as likely as men to experience depression, there is, in addition, an emphasis on advancing a transpersonal energetic understanding of depression and other factors specifically impeding women?s intuitive receptivity.

A significant change occurred in one aspect of self-actualization.  Depression scores showed significant improvement in the experimental group in 12 weeks.  Over 65% of the women reported more reliable connection with intuition; more than 50% took action on their intuitive insights in the course of their personal lives.
 (See more in IJHC, May 2008)


BREAKTHROUGH
Adrienne Crowder, MSW

Consider these options: You are on a journey that has been carefully customized specifically for you.  You are an essential part of the Universe. You are both a component of God?s plan, and you are also a creator of the plan.  Nothing in your life has been accidental.  Your essence has been stamped on the places you?ve lived, the people you?ve spent time with, and the passions and desires that have filled your days  In your connections with  others, you collectively create the future.
 
Or, maybe you are a bit of aimless protoplasm. Caught in the forces of evolution, you?ve developed consciousness, intelligence and the ability to alter your environment.  Collectively, you, and the millions of others like you, are using these randomly developed traits to move at an ever expanding rate towards extinction.

Which version of yourself gives you more energy and motivation?  Which encourages you to give the best of yourself to your life and to the lives of those you care about?  Which has an intuitive resonance for you?  
 (See more in IJHC, May 2008)