Holism & Health
Disease starts in the mind, Paracelsus proclaimed. But so very few physical treaters even consider this fact – let alone attempt to alleviate.
I believe – fervently – that there is within each of us a Deep Unconscious of Pure, Pure Love, beneath the usual superficial unconscious of admixed love and fear. It has been called the Soul, the Buddha-Nature, the God Within – the metaphor doesn’t matter. Only the certainty that It is There.
The Zen teacher says to meditate with a slight smile—an outward sign of the inner smile. The true smile comes from within.
The inward smile may not show on the face but it shines out through the eyes. We smile because we feel loved—smiled on by our mothers. And it is her love reflected back to
It is said that when drowning your whole life flashes before your eyes. If so, then at that very instant we suddenly Know why we have lived.
Chi is everywhere – Heaven’s Breath. Around us everywhere as etheric chi. When inspired into the body it is transmuted into bodily chi by the thymus, the controller of the acupuncture system. From there it flows through the meridians in a definite sequence, bestowing this energy, this “love,” on every organ and tissue. Then finally exiting to rejoin the etheric chi.
As a doctor, my work was to help, to encourage, to treat, perhaps even at times to heal. Always underneath is a degree, often a large degree, of preaching, of fear-mongering: “Do this – or else.” The other day I overheard a (lay) “healer” telling a “patient” that he could possibly come to need a colostomy. Telling – terrorizing.
In the draft of the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson famously wrote: “We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable; that all men are created equal and independent, that from that equal creation they derive rights inherent and inalienable; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”
One of the most difficult ideas to accept is that a person who has wronged us is doing his best. The act may have been hurtful, counterproductive, destructive. It may seem to have been a very bad decision, yet it was for him at that moment the best he
Over my many years in clinical practice, I have increasingly come to the conclusion that all of us are suffering from a condition more basic, any more fundamental, than any illness. And we all are afflicted by it, whether apparently healthy or not. This I call anguish, the anguish
Most imbalance and disharmony within the body’s energy systems are eliminated if we improve our posture. Poor posture interferes with thymus flow, and thus lowers Life Energy and introduces cerebral imbalance. And obviously the therapeutic power of our breathing — for our selves and others – is adversely affected if our shoulders are hunched over