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- *** Aspects of Spiritual Healing and the Spiritualization of Matter (Part 4) - by Submitted on Nov 11, 2009 from Daniel BenorHealing opens us to our spirituality. Spirituality is an awareness that has atrophied in our society. Western culture is something of an aberration when compared to the majority of other cultures, where the spiritual dimensions are experienced and conceptualized as normal parts of existence ...
Views: 2025(2 votes) - *** Aspects of Spiritual Healing and the Spiritualization of Matter (Part 3) - by Submitted on Nov 02, 2009 from Daniel BenorThe experience of integrating spiritual healing with conventional medicine in England is instructive. In the mid 1970s British healers formed a healing organization that lobbied the government to allow healers to treat patients in National Health Service hospitals. With one governmental ...
Views: 1570(1 vote) - *** Emptying Our Anger Bucket - by Submitted on Nov 02, 2009 from Daniel BenorHave you ever felt your anger boil over to the point that it spilled out in ways you wished it hadn’t? Has your blood pressure ever risen when someone offended you and you could not respond? Have you ever clenched your teeth, biting back your words till your jaws ached or you got a headache? ...
Views: 2801(3 votes) - *** Is It Possible, Right Now, to Live in Trust Rather Than Fear? - by Submitted on Nov 02, 2009 from Daniel BenorCan you picture to yourself a world in which we are able to trust each other, without doubts or hesitations? Hard to imagine such a thing, isn’t it? Yet there are clear, readily available steps we can each take to start to make our personal world much less a place of anxieties, fears and worries ...
Views: 1576(2 votes) - *** In Wholistic Healing, the Journey Is the Destination - by Submitted on Nov 02, 2009 from Daniel BenorHealth and healing are not what we have been led to believe they are. Modern Western medicine and science tell us that disease is a scourge and that the primary goal of treatment is to cure it. In order to achieve cures, we fight illnesses with drugs; remove diseased parts; replace worn out ...
Views: 1393(2 votes) - *** The Ultimatest Most Inconvenient Truth of All - by Submitted on Nov 02, 2009 from Daniel BenorThe pursuit of the truth shall set you free - even if you never catch up with it. - Clarence Darrow We all aspire to know and express truth in one way or another. We want to base our life decisions and actions, minor and major, on the best information ...
Views: 1629(2 votes) - *** Aspects of Spiritual Healing and the Spiritualization of Matter (Part 2) - by Submitted on Nov 02, 2009 from Daniel BenorHow can we understand healing, which seems to occur through intention and subtle energies? Albert Einstein pointed out, earlier in this century, that matter and energy are interchangeable. Quantum physics has amply confirmed his theory. Conventional, Newtonian medicine continues to address ...
Views: 1934(1 vote) - *** Confidence Enhances Our Performance and Invites Success - by Submitted on Nov 02, 2009 from Daniel BenorHealing opens us to our spirituality. Spirituality is an awareness that has atrophied in our society. Western culture is something of an aberration when compared to the majority of other cultures, where the spiritual dimensions are experienced and conceptualized as normal parts of existence ...
Views: 1401 - *** Aspects of Spiritual Healing and the Spiritualization of Matter (Part 1) - by Submitted on Nov 02, 2009 from Daniel BenorIn our reductionistic Western world we are taught that reality is "objective." We are led to believe that there is a constancy to the world and that it is consistently measurable by reliable scientific instruments. I will address these beliefs from the perspective of more than a dozen years of ...
Views: 1764 - *** Remember to Extend Love to Yourself - by Submitted on Oct 22, 2009 from Daniel BenorIf you've got love in your heart, whatever you do from that moment out is likely to be right. If you've got that one true note ringing inside you, then whatever you do is going to be OK. It's love, always love. - Ken Kesey On Valentine's Day we focus on ...
Views: 1622(1 vote) - *** Which do we address first in wholistic care: body, emotions, mind, relationships or spirit? - by Submitted on Oct 22, 2009 from Daniel BenorMany people with acute pain simply want to be rid of it, without giving it much of a second thought. A pain pill does the trick and they move on with their lives. They see no reason to poke about and ask whether there are any deeper understandings to be had about the pain. Most of the time, ...
Views: 1452(2 votes) - ***Fine-Tuning Your Affirmations For Maximal Benefit - by Submitted on Oct 16, 2009 from Daniel BenorA recent study revealed that positive affirmations may actually make some people feel worse instead of better. Psychologists Joanne V. Wood and John W. Lee from the University of Waterloo, and W.Q. Elaine Perunovic from the University of New Brunswick found that people with low self esteem who ...
Views: 2427 - ***Powerful New Way to Deal with Financial Stresses and Worries - by Submitted on Oct 16, 2009 from Daniel BenorThere are fears around the planet about the financial crises now threatening every country in the world. The hasty governmental responses of throwing paper money at the problems that were created by irresponsible investments of banks is not going to solve these problems. Printing more money ...
Views: 1494(2 votes) - *** Emotional Wounds: Bandages, Baggage, Balms and Blessings - by Submitted on Oct 16, 2009 from Daniel BenorWe are often taught to ignore and bury our problems and upsets and to 'be strong.' This is a temporary solution for distress that has serious drawbacks. Learning to identify and release our feelings are much better ways of handling them. Varieties of self-treatment methods enable us to do this, ...
Views: 2508(3 votes) - *** Compassion Fatigue (Part 2) - by Submitted on Jul 30, 2009 from Daniel BenorRemedies A common sense, Cost vs. Benefit Analysis (CBA) of your situation while under stress will often point to obvious changes you can make in order to change and improve the situation. For instance, working fewer hours is permitted! If you are exhausted, you will be less than fully ...
Views: 1619(1 vote) - *** Compassion Fatigue (Part 1) - by Submitted on Jul 30, 2009 from Daniel BenorOverview The recent tsunami in Asia and major earthquake in Pakistan have highlighted problems long recognized in the helping professions. Caregivers have known well the potentially draining experiences of compassion fatigue – from experiences of policemen, firefighters, paramedics and other ...
Views: 1488(1 vote) - *** Who's in Charge in My Dream House? - by Submitted on Jul 30, 2009 from Daniel BenorLife is the only game in which the object of the game is to learn the rules. -- Ashleigh Brilliant I find that life is a series of lessons. As a psychiatric psychotherapist, I have been helping people for 40 years to sort out their issues that get them in up tight ...
Views: 1459(2 votes) - *** In Wholistic Healing, the Journey is the Destination - by Submitted on Jul 30, 2009 from Daniel BenorHealth and healing are not what we have been led to believe they are. Modern Western medicine and science tell us that disease is a scourge and that the primary goal of treatment is to cure it. In order to achieve cures, we fight illnesses with drugs; remove diseased parts; replace worn out ...
Views: 1074(3 votes) - *** The Costs of Pain - by Submitted on Jul 30, 2009 from Daniel BenorPain is a burden not only to those who suffer it, but also to family members, co-workers and employers. Self-treatment for pain is effective, immediately available when needed, and very cost-effective. A person who is laid up with serious backaches, neck pain, irritable bowel syndrome, ...
Views: 1307(1 vote) - ***Unspoken Words - by Submitted on Jul 22, 2009 from Daniel BenorUnspoken words are rarely silent in their effects. They may influence us quite powerfully in many ways. Unexpressed emotions that fester We may hesitate to say something that could lead to hurt or anger, often when we are experiencing these same feelings ourselves. If my boss is asking me to ...
Views: 1615(4 votes) - ***Hands-On Help - by Submitted on Jul 22, 2009 from Daniel BenorA considerable body of research shows that spiritual healing (as in Therapeutic Touch, Healing Touch, Reiki and Prayer healing) is an effective treatment. This article reports on how healing is finding applications in clinical practice. Anecdotes abound on the benefits of spiritual healing ...
Views: 1279(1 vote) - ***Humor is Healing... Or Part Way to Healing - by Submitted on Jul 22, 2009 from Daniel BenorThe Can of Peaches (Email passalong): An 80 year old woman was arrested for shop lifting. When she went before the judge in Cincinnati he asked her, "What did you steal?" She replied, "A can of peaches." The judge then asked her why she had stolen the can of peaches, and she ...
Views: 1303(2 votes) - ***World Healing Through Collective Consciousness - by Submitted on Jul 22, 2009 from Daniel BenorThere is much unexplored potential in each human being. We are not just flesh and bone or an amalgamation of conditionings. If this were so, our future on this planet would not be very bright. But there is infinitely more to life, and each passionate being who dares to explore beyond the ...
Views: 1623 - *** Fibromyalgia & Chronic Fatigue Syndrome - Helpful Therapies - by Submitted on Mar 10, 2009 from Daniel BenorFibromyalgia (FM) is an illness syndrome that includes aches and pains all over the body; severe fatigue; mental unclarity and difficulty focusing (often called ‘brain fog’); depression; insomnia; digestive disorders (vague pains, diarrhea); and multiple allergies to foods and other items. ...
Views: 1142 - Parental Alienation Syndrome (PAS) - by Submitted on Mar 04, 2009 from Daniel Benor*** When parents separate or divorce, children are usually stressed. Even when parents separate amicably, children end up having to adjust to living part-time in each of two households. Single parents often note that children have problems with their attitudes, emotions and behaviors in the day ...
Views: 1284 - ***Body Memory and Energy Cysts - by Submitted on Feb 24, 2009 from Daniel BenorThe body may participate in memories in several ways. If your back (or other body part) is injured or tense at the time of a traumatic experience, the emotional memory of that experience may become imprinted in that part of your body. This seems to happen more often when you don't allow ...
Views: 2108 - ***Powerful New Way to Deal with the Pain of Financial Stresses and Worries - by Submitted on Feb 13, 2009 from Daniel BenorThere are fears around the planet about the financial crises now threatening every country in the world. The hasty governmental responses of throwing paper money at the problems that were created by irresponsible investments of banks is not going to solve these problems. Printing more money ...
Views: 1117 - Self-Healing: Brief psychotherapy with WHEE - the Wholistic Hybrid derived from EMDR and EFT and other approaches - by Submitted on Dec 11, 2008 from Daniel BenorClinical Explorations When I learned about psychotherapy as a teenager, I knew that was what I wanted to do. I couldn't imagine anyone actually getting paid to do something so fascinating. I studied psychology as my undergraduate pre-med major, endured the challenges of medical school, with a ...
Views: 5003 - Self-Healing: Brief Psychotherapy with WHEE and Other Appproaches - by Submitted on Dec 06, 2008 from Daniel BenorClinical Explorations When I learned about psychotherapy as a teenager, I knew that was what I wanted to do. I couldn't imagine anyone actually getting paid to do something so fascinating. I studied psychology as my undergraduate pre-med major, endured the challenges of medical school, with a ...
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