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Maddee Nash

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How do we heal?

Consider the mental, physical and emotional aspects of healing well expanding your perception of the idea. Indulging the thought that the process of healing begins from a place of vulnerability, how can effective healing possibly take place starting from such a perceived state of shame and fear. Can that perception be altered knowing vulnerability is also the core of love and happiness? Does healing always need to be the precursor to bad? Noticing the link between connection and wellness and isolation and illness, how does willingness to be loved affect our health? From psychiatrists, to doctors to homeopaths; healers come in many different forms, with many different philosophies. Who are these different healers and how do their methods and beliefs differ from one another? Are some proven to be more effective than others? In discovering the connection between the art and science of healing, can we produce a new twenty-first century perspective on what it means to heal and be healed?

Topics: Phsychology alternative medicine discovery healing health care illness innovation medicine mental health science
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    Frans Kellner 100+

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    Dec 12 2011: Love heals. Nothing else does.
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    Beste Arslan

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    Dec 12 2011: For me ,healing starts when one truly knows thyself,understands what the problem is and has the dreams and hope that it will get better.Unfortunately we seem to become aware of this when we have hit rock bottom,because when we cant fall any longer,we start to become aware of the world around us and when we find ourself longing to fly again,we start to question who we are,realise what our problem is and this is where healing begins, for our own self is accually the only person that can heal us and by understanding whats wrong we begin to dream and hope for whats right .By time,the scars will slowly heal...some will leave marks,but those are needed for they are the proof of our determination and hope and as they remind us of what it was like to be hurt,they help us appreciate our health more.

  • Ed Schulte 50+

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    Dec 12 2011: it is not "can we" but

    rather "it will" become a fact because disconnect in heath is getting to $$ expensive $$ to support , there are psychic and there is Noetic healing ..the former is away temporary ...the latter is the permanent ....

    Re "how can effective healing possibly take place starting from such a perceived state of shame and fear. " it can't ..I suspect you are referring to a recent TED where this was being proposed ? this method is being demonstrated / proposed all over the "self help" book industry and TV shows and it is very dangerous ,...it just fuels the fire of the disease.

    Re "Can that perception be altered knowing vulnerability is also the core of love and happiness? " well that is the keys isn't it ? What is it that says "I am vulnerable" ?? It is that which Tolle refers to as the "little me in the head"

    Of course this applies to "Emotional" illnesses ....when it is truly "Mental" illness which is solidly defended by Ego at all cost then no amount of caring or Love can help.

    Dr D. R. Hawkins described a case in one of his clinics were he told a "Mental" patient ..."I can't help you, no one can help you ..your only hope is to surrender to God" The patient replied "I would rathe die"....and promptly dropped dead! Here is a case where Ego won and lost at the same time........ but strangely enough ...standing back and looking at it ..Love DID ultimately prevail!
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