What's New on IJHC (Sep 2009)

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Editorial Musings     

Minding Our Business and Losing Our Mind:
How can we recover our full consciousness after losing it, in time to save our civilization from suicide?
By Daniel J. Benor, MD, Editor in Chief     

Research

The Effects on Quality of Life on Those who Pray and Meditate for Others
By Scott Guerin

This study explored the effects of prayer and meditating for others as assessed by the global health measure of quality of life (QOL). Participants recruited from around the United States were asked to pray or meditate for 2 people every day for 4 weeks. Pretest and posttest scores on the SF-36 quality of life questionnaire showed improvements in 8 out of 10 QOL measures, with significant improvements in vitality (p < .034), decreased bodily pain (p < .011) and trends of improvement in general health (p < .067) and restrictions resulting from emotional problems (p < .097). 

Remarkable Recoveries

Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) for Cerebral Palsy
By Carol Look, LCSW, DCH, EFT Master and Zachery Larson

Zachery, a 24 year-old man who was born with cerebral palsy, suffered from speech impairment and weakness with poor coordination on the left side of his body, plus garbled hearing in his left ear. He had physiotherapy, speech therapy and surgically-induced deafness in his left ear, all of which produced helpful but only modest improvements. His auditory processing and speech were so impaired that he was placed in classes for the hearing impaired. At age 22 he learned Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT), which produced marked improvements in his abilities to coordinate the left side of his body and to communicate verbally and through sign language.

Elimination of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and Other Psychiatric Symptoms from a Disabled Vietnam Veteran in Just Six Sessions Using Healing from the Body Level Up Methodology, an Energy Psychology Approach
By Judith A. Swack, PhD*  

Living with Life Challenges

A Remarkable Recovery from Breast Cancer
By Lauren Miller

Variations on the Theme of Healing

Creating Sacred Space: Walking a sacred path
by Helen Will, RN, BScN, Cert. Midwifery

Wholistic Approaches

Open Eye Meditation:
The visual way to the development of the inner sense
By Floco Tausin

Student and healee experiences of healing

Poetry, The Creative Arts and Humor are Healing

The Emergence of the Goddess
by Fusionartist Rassouli
with Poetry in collaboration with 'Naomi'

LAUGHTER FOR LIFE
by Greg Tamblyn, NCW

The Longest 2 Minutes
by Tomy Bewick

Wholistic News Reviews

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

Socializing in older adulthood and the impact on motor function

Cancer and schizophrenia?

A screening test for early Alzheimer’s Disease

Moving to a new home increases suicide risk for teens

Amino acids help to improve weight with pre-term infants

Book Reviews

Irene van Lippe-Biesterfeld with Jessica van Tijn. Science, Soul, and the Spirit of Nature: Leading thinkers on the restoration of man and creation

Larry Dossey, MD. The Power of Premonitions: How knowing the future can sharpen our lives

Laurel Parnell, PhD. Tapping In: A step-by-step guide to activating your healing resources through bilateral stimulation

Nilsson, Marie   The Magic Power of Stones, Crystals and Minerals

Richard H. Thaler & Cass R. Sunstein. NUDGE-Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth and Happiness

Frank McCourt, Teacher Man, a Memoir

Tomy Bewick, My Mouth Hurts Too Much To Fight You: Poems by Tomy Bewick

Athena Thompson. Homes That Heal And Those That Don’t: How your home may be harming your family’s health

Lynsi Eastburn, BCH, It’s Conceivable!  Hypnosis for Fertility