Healing

Don't Confuse Real Healing With Suppression Of The Disease

Dana Ullman | Posted 11.20.2009 | Living


Dana Ullman

When a person experiences relief from any treatment, conventional or alternative, one should not necessarily assume that a real healing has occurred.

Question Authority: Carolyn Myss

Dr. Susan Corso | Posted 11.17.2009 | Living


Dr. Susan Corso

Healing comes from the soul, the interior self. "Grace," Myss says, "is what heals." She's right. The soul calls for particular actions to set the stage for healing:

Art of Attention: Healing Your Heart 101

Elena Brower | Posted 11.10.2009 | Living


Elena Brower

In one sentence: follow your breathing to your heart and dwell there - for a few moments or minutes if possible. Notice how everything eases: your mind, your body, your face.

Don't Waste A Good Crisis

Mike Robbins | Posted 10.29.2009 | Living


Mike Robbins

Instead of just gutting it out or going into some form of creative denial, what if we embraced the crises in our lives and actually utilized them for the incredible growth opportunities that they are?

Art Of Attention: Is Yoga Really Useful?

Elena Brower | Posted 10.29.2009 | Living


Elena Brower

Instead of trying to get something from your practice, use your yoga or your meditation to practice expressing how you see and value yourself.

Jaycee Dugard's Family: Left Behind

Lisa Cohen | Posted 11.05.2009 | Living


Lisa Cohen

Jaycee Dugard's face is everywhere this week. I've been thinking a lot about her story, because of the similarities to the Etan Patz case, which I've spent the last five years living and breathing for the first-ever book written on it.

A Faith Declaration for Health Care Reform

Jim Wallis | Posted 10.07.2009 | Politics


Jim Wallis

There is no one "right" religious position on how health care should look; but I believe there are some fundamental moral and even biblical principles on which to evaluate any final legislative agreement.

Art of Attention: Unplug and Recharge With Pranic Healing

Elena Brower | Posted 10.07.2009 | Living


Elena Brower

Every time I take the time to open myself as a conduit for the healing of my own heart and the heart of the world, I am quietly uplifted and fully recharged.

Getting To Feel Angry & Letting It Go

Eva M. Selhub, M.D. | Posted 10.05.2009 | Living


Eva M. Selhub, M.D.

Have you ever felt angry or resentful but have been unable to express it? Perhaps you were fearful of what the consequences may be.

Four Steps To Move Beyond Resentment

Isha Judd | Posted 09.29.2009 | Living


Isha Judd

Resentment builds up when we are not real with the people in our lives. It is that which is left unsaid that causes resentment -- little things that pile on top of each other.

Johnny Miller's Whole?

Trish Kinney | Posted 09.25.2009 | Living


Trish Kinney

When I see Father of the Bride on the program guide, I cannot resist watching it again. I rely on movies and television to show me, and validate for me, the way life is supposed to be.

Hospital's New Policy Welcomes Role of Hmong Shamans

New York Times | PATRICIA LEIGH BROWN | Posted 11.21.2009 | Living


At Mercy Medical Center in Merced, where roughly four patients a day are Hmong from northern Laos, healing includes more than IV drips, syringes and b...

Awakening and Mending

Arjuna Ardagh | Posted 11.21.2009 | Living


Arjuna Ardagh

We must be willing to look at the "broken zones" of our personality with honesty and courage.

Travel as Therapy, Pt 1: 10 Ways to Heal the Soul & Expand the Mind

Dr. Alex Benzer | Posted 11.19.2009 | Living


Dr. Alex Benzer

Remember, you're only traveling because you've got time on your hands. So relax, take a look around you, and know that what you call a problem now will be a funny story later.

Let Go and Laugh!

Eva M. Selhub, M.D. | Posted 11.18.2009 | Living


Eva M. Selhub, M.D.

Research is very strong showing that laughter is the best medicine. Yes, life is difficult, especially right now, but laughter and even smiling is so good for you.

The Fierce Urgency of Now: This is the Moment for Sane Health Care Policy

Karen Kisslinger | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics


Karen Kisslinger

Until the profit essence is taken off the table and progressive, prevention-based health care is understood to be a basic public service, there will be no meaningful health care reform in America.

The Secret of Patient Care: Lessons From A Bathroom Wall

Dr. Larry Dossey | Posted 10.19.2009 | Living


Dr. Larry Dossey

When physicians express caring, empathy, and compassion, the duration and severity of illness are often reduced and the body's immune system is stimulated.

Art of Attention: From Acceptance to Intimacy

Elena Brower | Posted 09.28.2009 | Living


Elena Brower

We must cultivate a state of radical forgiveness to experience true intimacy.

Computer Loneliness

Eva M. Selhub, M.D. | Posted 09.26.2009 | Living


Eva M. Selhub, M.D.

Take some time away from cyberspace and connect. Appreciate. See life and yourself as small miracles and allow yourself to experience awe.

A Holiday To Hope

Patricia Yarberry Allen | Posted 09.25.2009 | Living


Patricia Yarberry Allen

I often tease the husband that over the years of our marriage he fancies that he is a doctor. Well, he was my doctor and guide as I trusted him enough to stop and take time for a holiday.

There Is Always Trauma In The Room

Sharon Salzberg | Posted 09.18.2009 | Living


Sharon Salzberg

I've done a little bit of work with soldiers returning from Iraq and have worked with domestic violence shelter workers on issues of vicarious trauma. I've also found in teaching the diverse groups who come for meditation guidance that, as someone once said to me, "There is always trauma in the room."

Shannon's Story: Health Care and Our Desperate Need for Cultural Healing

Cynthia Boaz | Posted 09.14.2009 | Living


Cynthia Boaz

We in the United States have a health care system that creates (rather than eases) burdens for those battling critical illness. We have it all backwards.

Heal Yourself

Lee Schneider | Posted 09.14.2009 | Living


Lee Schneider

Can you heal with a shift in attitude?

8 Ways To Read Your Body's Warning Signs For Health

Anne Naylor | Posted 09.09.2009 | Living


Anne Naylor

This morning, I woke with a stiff neck. I was not aware of it until I turned by head to brush my hair and then - ouch! A stiff neck tells me I am bei...

Whites Who Say Blacks Are Racist Are Onto Something

Logan Nakyanzi Pollard | Posted 08.31.2009 | Politics


Logan Nakyanzi Pollard

In Glenn Beck's mind it doesn't add up. How can it be that people who are treated badly are not filled with hate?