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The Essential Guideline to Healing and Wholeness The heart as a metaphor carries a number of critical dimensions. It exists as an inviolate spiritual center, meaning no matter what happens to its bearer, it has the capacity to continue. To me the essential guideline to healing and wholeness is to hold true, no matter what, to accepting …
Necessary Skills to Navigate Life offers many rich dimensions of challenges, joys, crises, successes, failures . . . and so much more . . . all opportunities and necessities for us to develop corresponding skill and capacity to navigate for healing, development, and, yes – survival. Which brings me to join the ever-growing list of …
That which Supports and Completes the Greater Whole Healing is about completing and extending a circle of beingness. It is about restoring greater balance that brings real resolution, peace, and acceptance – elements that form the end stage of grief. It has been said that all core healing is about completing the stages of grief. …
I posted this in news and events as well, but here is more detailed information about the Dr. Jeffrey K. Harris Memorial Integrative Health Care Series event. You may also download the PDF below – it contains both the registration form and the schedule of events/list of presenters. Download 2008_conference_brochure.pdf Download 2008_conference_brochure_side_2.pdf What (quoted from …
Alcohol is so widely used that its legality can be thought of as somewhat independent of its mostly alarming effects on the body. It’s important to understand alcohol from the physical perspective to appreciate its psychological component. In this post I will address the basic pharmacology of alcohol. I think this is an important piece …
Guest blogger Danielle Grilli, content director of rVita.com, details the history and efficacy of reflexology
The Surprise of Opening The world opened yesterday for, as Forrest Gump said, "no particular reason". I was driving along in my glorious new car, which is the first car I’ve picked out just because I like it – not to haul kids around, not to carry babies, but because it made me smile and …
Ending Cycles It is amazing what can happen in the course of a seemingly ordinary day – like today. I slept in after unwillingly being up late, choosing to forget again that when I have a cappacino at 7pm, as I did to top off my daughter’s birthday dinner in an Italian restaurant we both …
Plugged and Unplugged I think, untampered, days are designed to open up like flowers. They each offer a universe of multidimensional feasts to the senses, teeming with rich, multifaceted life on this flowing earth plane. I have spent the past 9 days visiting my son and his partner, my daughter and son-in-law, and my 6 …
The Key Word is Compassion This year I have put together a series of continuing education staff development programs for several Rochester area nursing homes and their staff caregivers, on an integrative approach I’ve synthesized for energetic healing called Compassionate Touch Therapy. What is it, and how can it better help us support and center …