- The Healing Arts - When Healing Becomes a Commodity
Most practitioners of medicine (any modality) begin their careers with the intent to be healers. Many artists (any modality) enter their chosen modes of creativity to be vehicles of healing for others, through expression. The skewed concept of values that our society impose on us takes many of us further away from "the work" and deeply entrenches us into the mechanics of selling it. - The Healing Arts - The Problem With Compassion
Compassion is a trickster. It shows up when least expected. In many cases, it shows up even when unwanted. Wait a minute! Within the context of the healing arts, how could compassion possibly be an unwanted thing? Well, according to the actions of many of our teachers, even though they pay lip-service to the idea, compassion unleashed is considered a detriment to effective care. - The Healing Arts: The HeART of Spirituality
About twenty years ago, after leaving a 12-year career in emergency medicine, jokingly I began stating, "Anything I learned, I learned in the back of an ambulance." What once was almost a flippant comment has actually become a touchstone for my life. When it's time to look at the real things I have learned, I start there. - The Healing Arts: Healer, Heal Thyself!
I'm particularly fond of this directive because I am a fine example of the exploration. Were you all to spend time with me (probably barely longer than a day), there are any number of you who'd think I'm not someone whom you'd expect to be a healer! - Healing Arts: The Most Revealing Interview of Ram Dass You'll Ever Read
At wits end about any number of my personal life dysfunctions, one Friday night I decided to go see a video at Maui Booksellers, a tiny little bookstore in Wailuku, on Maui. That night, they were showing a movie called Fierce Grace, a documentary about Ram Dass, an icon of American spirituality for my generation, the Baby-Boomers. - The Healing Arts: Head, Hands and Heart: Part Two, The Path To the Heart
Fast forward thirteen years. I had shifted away from allopathic orientation into “alternative” and Spiritual forms of healing, as I supported myself in marketing while working on a book and a screenplay seeking to articulate my experiences as a medic. - The Healing Arts: Head, Hands and Heart: Part One, A Paramedic's Journey
I’ve had a simple concept grip me with such power that I’ve spent more than thirty years of my life exploring its many facets. Oddly enough, I didn’t know how to put words to it until just a few years ago. It has to do with learning how to be a Healer as opposed to what I call being a Flesh Mechanic. - The Healing Arts: Exploring Heart-Consciousness, Part 8; Heart-consciousness and the Healer
The word healer, to me, is a catch-all term, much like the word God. If you go back and look at its origins in action you will find story-tellers - The Healing Arts: Exploring Heart-Consciousness, Part 7; Hearts Speak To Each Other
If you’ve ever been in love, you understand the metaphor. But did you know that there are actual physical, measurable indications of that truth?
In studies using electrocardiograms (again, from information provided by Joseph Chilton Pearce, with his permission) it has been shown that a mother and child, when separated, will have different heart rhythms and rates, but when brought to close proximity, their electrocardiograms will match. - The Healing Arts: Exploring Heart-Consciousness, Part 6; Discover With Others
Understanding the concept of filters can have a considerable affect on not only how you see your life, but also how you experience it at any one time. We have much more control over our reality than we usually give ourselves credit. - The Healing Arts: Exploring Heart-Consciousness, Part 5; It's a Muscle You Can Strengthen
In this moment, every cell of your body is receiving information. Each takes in sensations..... - The Healing Arts: Exploring Heart-Consciousness, Part 4; It's About Relationship
By the time I was born (1951), 90% of my environment was composed of things gleaned from information, not nature. (Maybe 99%, I grew up in Brooklyn!) As such, the vast majority of my decisions have been based on what my head thinks, rather than what my heart knows. - The Healing Arts: Exploring Heart-Consciousness, Part 3; It's In Your Blood
Picture yourself in nature and so long ago that nothing that looks like *man* as we know it has made its mark. Even you aren’t quite sure just how smart you are! Compared to the predators that hunt you, you suspect you’re even a little slow on the uptake.
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