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A Healing Exercise

November 24, 2009
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A Healing Exercise

The following is a healing exercise excerpted directly from Light Emerging: The Journey of Personal Healing by Barbara Brennan: Lie down, and imagine the nice pleasant sun inside the solar plexus (stomach area) of your body. Pretty soon, you will feel much better, and your stomach will feel warm. Probably even your breathing will slow down as you begin to relax more. If you want to expand this relaxation to include your spirit, remember a wonderful religious or spiritual experience you have had, perhaps as a child. Remember that special, wonderful time when you...

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The Physician's Role

November 22, 2009
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The Physician's Role

From the book Light Emerging: The Journey of Personal Healing by Barbara Ann Brennan: An untreatable diagnosis is a statement about the medical system, not the patient. If given as a statement about the patient’s condition, it puts patients at a distinct disadvantage in their healing process. It leaves little if any room for the creative process of healing to come forth from the patient. It leaves no room for alternative care systems. It is far better when a physician says “I have done all I can for you. I am, at this time,...

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The Anatomy of Hope

November 17, 2009
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The Anatomy of Hope

If you haven’t already, I urge you to read The Anatomy of Hope: How People Prevail in the Face of Illness. It was an incredibly influential book for me and should be required reading for anyone with an illness. The book spans the thirty years of Groopman’s practice as he discovers the vital role hope plays in healing. He sought to answer the question “Why do some people find and sustain hope during difficult circumstances, while others do not?” I read the book in one sitting – it’s that readable and captivating. And I...

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In the Works

November 17, 2009
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After many months of talking about it and many other projects later, Devon and I have finally begun production on our first product designed and co-created for the health community. We’re still working on the title, but it’s a 2-CD set – one CD is an interview I conduct with Devon on some of the major issues that come up for people with MS, and any chronic illness. The other CD is a mix of progressive relaxation tracks, white light meditation, and a health trance that is extremely powerful. One of the core issues...

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