What's New on IJHC (Mar 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

Wholistic Approaches

In Search of Mindfulness
Francis C. Biley   RN PhD

Having gained insights into the nature of mindfulness, primarily through the engagement in specific craft activity, the author embarked upon a journey through Japan in order to further explore the subject of mindfulness in relation to both craft production and in its applications to health care practice. Relating these experiences to the Western interpretation of mindfulness in health care revealed authentic mindfulness as a very elusive concept, but with considerable and valuable therapeutic potential.

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Migraine Aura: Suggestions for Spiritual Approaches to Migraine Headaches
Floco Tausin
 

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

Our energetic bodies, which are physical, emotional, mental and spiritual, carry a wealth of information and insights about who we are, who we were and who we are able to become. These have color, shape and symbolic meaning, containing rich resources for growth, creativity and healing.

Intuition can bring about the recognition and identification of people' color signatures and symbols that they hold in their energetic fields. Knowledge of what these colors may signify can result in seeing the self and life patterns in new contexts, producing newfound clarity and wisdom.

Engagement with color and its energetic properties through doing art can shed new light upon capabilities that are established and those yet to be unveiled. New insights can be obtained for transcending life's challenges and difficulties.

In coaching sessions, I interpret and draw these energies in mandala form. In groups, I facilitate this for participants, opening doors to visual intelligence and discovering significance in visual information. In my studio, I paint energy forms, those of thoughts, emotions, transitional states and subtle energies, seen and felt with inner senses. In addition, I like to paint the essences, impacts and influences of the natural world.

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Art & Healing
Richard Carpenter

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