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May 2007, Volume 7, No. 2
WHOLISTIC HEALING:
OPENING TO SPIRITUAL AWARENESSES
Life Force
by dezso klinger
Editorial MusingsThe What and The How
Daniel J. Benor, MD
How we approach each person and each task in life may be as important as the content we convey in our communications and what we do. This has been explored extensively in psychotherapy literature, with observations about how non-verbal communications contribute to the positive or negative responses we get. Going beyond this level, considering spiritual healing interventions, we often find that when we hold a healing intent in our mind and heart, everything we do can become a meditation, a prayer and a healing intervention.
ResearchA Dream of Initiation
Elizabeth Sina-Smith MSW
Betty Smith presents a single case study of a Native American dream, with a variety of frameworks for understanding this spiritual connection.
“… I honor Ted Silverhand, the Tuscarora Seer who chose to share his boyhood experience of a dream with me, the dream vision where he was first introduced to his spirit guides and directed on his path in life. I am honored by his decision. My goal is to explore this dream in several contexts. My first approach will be to (a) view the dream through the lens of Jung’s theories on the collective unconscious and synchronicity, and, (b) determine how this event might be framed within the concepts of specific transpersonal theorists such as those of Grof, Tart, Wilber, Vaughan and Walsh.
“My second approach will be to place the dream in the greater context of historical shamanic practices as presented by Mircea Eliade, a Romanian scholar and expert on the history of religions, and Holger Kalweit, a German ethnologist and psychologist who studied shamanism throughout the world. Finally, I will address modern day sacred ways and the dream vision as practiced by tribal peoples described through the writings of Medicine Gizzlybear Lake, and through a brief discussion of cultural and historical information set forth in The Sacred, a comprehensive book on native traditions published by the Navajo Community College Press.
“This topic is relevant to the study of transpersonal psychology owing to the nature of the dream with its ascent into the transpersonal realms. Furthermore, I have found the earth-based traditions, which include concepts of the interconnectedness of all things, neglected in the mainstream of transpersonal psychology, which principally studies Eastern and Western traditions and technologies directed at accessing altered states of consciousness. This dream is an interesting example of an opening, a two-way door to the transpersonal realm. It is my hope that this essay may help to affirm the traditions surrounding aboriginal spirituality and the profound spiritual connection these medicine people have – not only to their spiritual guides but to the earth and all people who request their help.”
Living with Life ChallengesLife Begins in Autumn: The metal phase of a woman’s life, seen through her five guardian elements
Lori Hillman, LicAc BSc (Hons) MBAcC
Women’s Wisdom: Menopause is the time of a woman’s life when she should be fulfilled. She is a culmination of all her life’s experience and so, has something to give back to the world from a deeper part of herself.
"Oriental medicine teaches us that women go through seven year cycles, while men have eight year cycles. We must meet each new cycle and let go of the old. If we don’t, we get stuck. The seventh and eighth cycles may be difficult to let go of for this is the time we let go of our youth, our fertility and nurturing young offspring. This is also the cycle that offers us a hyparchic leap into our full potential. Hyparxis is the condition of ableness-to-be. One of the four determining conditions with space, time, and eternity.The condition of existing in a state of sensitivity. Hyparxis is associated with the operations of will as the conditions for exchanges, free choice and hence transformation. Hyparchic depth and strength express the notion of will- power. If we don’t let go of the past and also of anxieties we have about the future, we are in danger of our reality becoming the reality we fear – old age and death!"
Variations on the Theme of HealingWHEE on the Move in Peru and Canada
Mary Jo Bulbrook, PhD, RN, CEMP/S/I, CHTP/I
WHEE (Whole Health – Easily and Effectively) is a potent self-healing technique, elegantly simple and easy to learn, yet deeply potent and rapid in its effects. It allows people to release negative emotions quickly, even when these have been caused by severe traumas that occurred years earlier. WHEE proved to be rapidly and potently helpful to 30 out of 30 children with severe traumas in Peru, as well as to professionals with at least a Master’s degree working in various industries in Alberta, Canada.
The Integrated Treatment of Cancer in Chinese Hospitals
Henry McGrath
The author is a practitioner of Chinese Herbal medicine and acupuncture in the UK, specialising in the management of cancer. He spent two weeks in China, and observed the herbal treatment of around 70 patients with cancer. Some of these patients received ‘conventional’ or ‘western’ treatments, such as surgery, chemotherapy and radiotherapy, while some received only Chinese herbs. Chinese medicine offered great relief for a wide range of symptoms, including pain, nausea, lack of appetite, liver and kidney dysfunction, immune deficiency, emotional problems and insomnia. Several doctors also claimed that herbal medicine helped prolong the life expectancy of some patients, although the author saw no evidence for this that would be accepted by western research standards. The author believes that Chinese integrated approach has much to offer those in the West with cancer.
An Evolution of Love
Mario de Rose
I no longer remember where I first found the perspective I am about to share, but I do know that it wasn’t my own work, so I’ll honor its creator anonymously. The idea I am referring to suggests that the first, and theoretically lowest, form of love we experience is that we love someone else based on how we feel within ourselves in his or her presence. It is sort of a “what have you done for me lately?” kind of love.
When I think back of how I thought and felt about things as a young adult, I definitely see that I was operating from a place like that. There was a belief in me that some perfect woman could fulfill me in ways that I couldn’t achieve on my own. Of course, me trying to coerce a woman into behaving in alignment with that ever shifting quicksand of obsessive need didn’t work too well either.
The three pieces of writing that follow mark points along my path away from an unhealthy, conflict filled way of relating and toward a more respectful nurturing existence. Specifically for me, that also has meant a movement away from the societal norm of the nuclear family and toward a more ancestral form of family – a tribal family, if you will...
Wholistic ApproachesLove, Laughter, Humor and Healing
Bernie Siegel, MD
Humor and laughter have sustained me in my work and sustains and heals my patients on their path to healing from a variety of health challenges. Acting like a child helped me to see the world with joy and bring out the child in others. Despite our wounds we can still laugh. Live your life as if you are going to die and use the time of your life doing what feels good and makes you happy. You may be committing suicide Saturday night but what are you doing Friday night?
The Power of Mantra
Dennis Gaumond
“For thousands of years, in a wide range of cultural traditions, people have been using sounds in a variety of ways to contribute to health and well-being. There are traditional songs, chants and music to accompany many social activities. In some indigenous tribes, virtually every activity is preceded by a ceremonial chant, whether it is hunting, gathering or preparing food, going to war, marriage or any type of celebration. These chants help to prepare the participants mentally, physically and spiritually, for the coming event. In this article we will focus on one aspect of this common practice, the use of certain vocalized ‘power sounds’ that we will call ‘mantras.’ We will look at information about mantras and discuss some of the ways that they can affect human consciousness...”
Life Force Energy: Connections with the universe
dezso Klinger
An inner intuitive vibration beckoned over the years, and I sensed that there is much more to our material world than mind can process. As a child, it was a feeling that nudged and poked at my very core. I even thought the adults had a secret, which would be told to me once I reached a certain age. Funny, how this secret was never revealed or discussed. My curiosity and thirst for knowledge has been a driving force ever since, leading me to set out on a quest without guidance or a mentor...
As a child, I had demonstrated an artistic talent. Drawing, sketching, and coloring just naturally flowed through me. I received my first camera when I was ten, and this utterly captured my imagination. Photography since then has been an extension for me in observing the beauty in my everyday life...
Student and Healee Experiences of HealingPersonal Growth throught the Brain Management® Course
Inge Turner, Doctoral student at Holos University Graduate Seminary
The following article presents a graduate student’s assessment of personal development and growth that has been facilitated by the practice and integration of the Brain Management® techniques into her daily personal and professional life. The role of personal belief statements as the key to releasing learning challenges, such as dyslexia, is given particular attention. A glossary provides explanations for some of the exercises used in Brain Management®.
A glossary at the end of this paper will help to explain terminology used in the Brain Management® Course (indicated with asterisks).
Client of Henry McGrath
Jill Langford
Reporting on Chinese medicine helping with treatment of metastatic breast cancer and the side effects of radiotherapy.
Respant of Bernie Siegel
Susan King
Reporting on benefits of humor in dealing with depression.
Client examples
Lori Hillman
Acupuncture treatment for menopausal symptoms.
Poetry, Art and Humor are HealingTHE EARTH IS US
Mary Ann Wallace, MD
Words & One-Liners
Ric Masten
Wholistic News ReviewsWholistic News Reviews: Traditional, Complementary, Alternative, and Psycho-Social Modalities of Treatment
Larry Lachman, PsyD
Childhood wheezing reduced with Vitamin D
Yoga and aerobic walking helpful during menopause
Men have denser bones with omega-3 fatty acid intake
HIV transmission reduced behaviorally
Coronary heart disease risk high among firefighters
Book ReviewsJanis Amatuzio. Beyond Knowing: Mysteries and Messages of Death and Life from a Forensic Pathologist
Katie, Byron and Mitchell, Stephen. A Thousand Names for Joy: Living in Harmony with the Way Things Are
Keith-Scott Mumby. Virtual Medicine
Allan L. Botkin with R. Craig Hogan. Induced After Death Communication: A new therapy for healing grief and trauma
Greg Tamblyn. Art from the Heart
Steve Alexander and Karen Alexander. Crop Circle Year Book 2006
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