My first patient, a married woman in her mid-thirties, was an inpatient in a neurosurgery ward. She had been suffering from severe headaches for many years. The neurosurgeon, though academically brilliant, seemed to have an unsympathetic
I believe that the purpose of all artistic endeavors, and, for that matter, every activity, should be to enhance Life Energy: to encourage the Embracing of Life – enthusiastically, passionately, wholeheartedly and gratefully.
Dr. Diamond shows how, by comparing different recordings of the same work, one can "find" the composer. From the "Music for Healing" series of informal talks by John Diamond, M.D. See more videos by Dr Diamond
Buddha’s First Noble Truth: life is anguish. The word is derived from the Indo-European root ANGH, "painfully constricted," which also gave us "strangle."
A free video introduction, by Dr. Diamond, to one of the deepest and most universal problems affecting health and relationships.
Who can ever establish when a case of heart disease really started? Was it with the first change in electrical activity, was it with the first symptom of pain in the chest, or was it when subtle biochemical changes occurred or when there were subtle pathological changes in the blood vessels of the heart, perhaps many years before the patient ever had a complaint?
For me taking a photograph is a momentary revelation of an instance of the universal unity. The subject and I are one.
Dr. Diamond distinguishes between the Soul, the deepest part of the self that dies with us, and the Spirit inside us that lives on after our death.
I'm holding this old raku bowl – Reverently. The spirit of the unknown craftsman, long dead, lives on through it, in it.
The Recommended Daily Allowance of a substance exists not for the good of mankind but for the food refiners to convince us that by refining and processing the natural goodness of our food, we really have not suffered at all.
