I once saw three students who were patients of three different dentists, all highly skilled. These students each had a different type of acrylic appliance. They had been checked by their respective dentists, and all the appliances had been found to be of great benefit. In each case, however, we discovered that the student was allergic to the acrylic and thus was being harmed at the same time as he was being helped.
“Mother is a verb, while Daughter can be nothing but a noun.” Here am I on my birthday, thinking of, invoking, my mother.
Selected poems by Dr. John Diamond. // To die / never having released / the music inside you, / is indeed a tragedy. // Your hand / as soft / as your heart.
Poems from Dr. Diamond's "Ever More Simple and Pure" book. // Planes keep flying over my kite. / We must be sharing the same flight path.
When one writes from the heart there should be passion in what one writes; a deep concern. And this frightens an editor. What can we learn from this?
What do we mean by “holistic”? Offering work in many different areas – yoga, meditation, massage, and so on – does not necessarily make a clinic holistic.
I went to sleep last night thinking about Metanoia and had this dream. I was in a far northern country and it was a bleak midwinter.
"We all stumble through life. The mark of a good therapist is that he stumbles a little less than others and can help those who stumble a little more."
I became aware of Dr. Goodheart’s Applied Kinesiology in 1973. Over years I delineated which emotional state was associated with each acupuncture meridian.
The book "Stillpoints" is a breathtakingly beautiful synopsis of healer John Diamond's method and philosophy of Haiku Painting as a form of meditation.
