“The Healer as a Buddha”
Our word physician is from the Greek phusis: physics and physical things. So a physician is concerned with the physical body, the physique.
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“Do We All Die as Hedgehogs?”
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 – Heaven’s Breath”
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.
“Renouncing the Medical Model”
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.
“Declaring Your (Holistic) Independence”
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
“Not Wanting to Give Up Their Illness”
For years I had to use a faulty electric hand drier in the toilet of an office building I visit very frequently. Sometimes it would turn on when, as instructed, I placed my hands under the
“We Are All Doing the Best We Can”
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
“The Therapeutic Environment”
When I worked in the chronic back wards of a large mental hospital, I had more than two hundred highly disturbed and disintegrated patients whom I was supposed to treat. But how? What could I do
“Liver Meridian III: Unhappiness vs. Depression”
The negative emotion associated with the liver meridian is unhappiness. Unhappiness is often confused with depression, so it important that we distinguish between the two. In psychiatry, depression has now become quite acceptable because we have
“Liver Meridian II: Gambling”
The liver meridian relates to the feeling of happiness or unhappiness, which relates to whether you believe that mommy is smiling on you, or not. When the gambler blows on the dice in his hand, he