IJHC Current Issue

INTUITIVE ASSESSMENT AND HEALING

Research and Practice

Mandala
Credit: Carol Connor

Editorial Musings

- Shoseki

I am struck by the varieties of newer psychotherapeutic interventions that involve two or three modality stimulation of the brain and/or mind and/or body as a portion of their methodology. I speculate here on whether the multiple focus of awareness might be an overlooked mechanism for change, regardless of the type of focus.

There are numerous variations of this sort, which I broadly categorize into three clusters. All of these methods produce releases of stress, pains and distress. Many of the therapies fit within more than one cluster.

Research

Context: The study of family interactions has a long tradition within various disciplines and methodologies, but one area ignored is the investigation of the human energy fields (HEF). While the HEF concept has been around for centuries, only recently has it been explored.

Objective: Combining emotional expression, family processes, and HEF perspectives, this study was developed to investigate the relationship between emotional expression and HEF interactions in relation to reported and formally assessed family cohesion and adaptability.

Design: The methodology was designed to analyze self-report and observational data on 56 dyads and triads within two-parent families with a high school adolescent. Assessment instruments included FACES III, the Family Expressiveness Questionnaire (FEQ), the Affective Communications Test, the Emotional Self-Disclosure Scale, the Family Assessment Device, and an observational coding scheme for HEF. The data were analyzed with Pearson Correlations.

Results: The HEF codings were significantly correlated with family adaptability and cohesion in addition to parts of the family emotional expressiveness scales of the FEQ, ACT, ESDS, and FAD.

Conclusion: The inclusion of HEF assessment in research on family dynamics helps identify aspects of family interactions that previously have been ignored but hold promise of adding to our understanding of family dynamics and have important implications in family therapy.

Remarkable Recoveries

By June 2004, I was using a cane and had to be escorted if I were to venture out of the office and by July I was unable to move my left foot, had double vision, major vertigo, bladder difficulties, neuropathic pain in my lower legs, overwhelming fatigue, comprehension and memory problems, and the list goes on and on. I lay on the couch unable to move and couldn't even get myself a glass of water or get myself to the bathroom unless my husband Bill helped me…

I started reading the EFT tutorial on July 4, 2006 and when I got to the part "when physical ailments resist healing" I did some soul searching and decided I had nothing to lose by trying to get myself walking unaided (no walker, no cane, no help). The other priority high on my list was being able to take my dogs for a walk. This was something I hadn't done in over two years.

After several rounds of EFT I discovered emotions underlying my not wanting to get better…

Living with Life Challenges

Variations on the Theme of Healing

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

Wholistic Approaches

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

Wholistic News Reviews

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

Poetry, Art and Humor are Healing

The Last Leaf
by Hannah Cooke-Ariel

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

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.

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…