Here’re several fantastic ideas which you may apply and adapt to fit the needs of your community.
Coordinate with a grocery store and a local dietitian to give a grocery store tour demonstrating how to read food labels and choose heart-healthy foods.
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I asked Klein if any of her clients had ever become violent. She replied:
People have expressed a great deal of violence. They have expressed it verbally and they have expressed it physically. And I’m trained to work with that. And if I need help — which I often do … I ask for assistance from partners.
Read MoreDuring the introduction period, Klein said her doctorate was in counseling psychology. She stated that she had met the Grofs in the 1970s and that, after training with them, she had begun conducting holotropic sessions in 1987.
Read MoreHolotropic Breathwork
Psychiatrist Stanislav Grof, M.D., and his spouse, Christina Grof, developed holotropic breathwork in the 1970s. It involves breathing exercises, sound technology (including music), bodywork and the drawing of mandalas — aids to meditation symbolizing the unity of the soul with the universe.
This question led to a shallow and useless conversation regarding career, family and my skeptical bent. After this, Gumpel asked me to close my eyes again. She stated:
I want to tell you that there’s nothing magical about Rubenfeld synergy method, and it’s not a method that’s more than what happens between the two of us, you being an equal part of what happens here.
Read MoreRubenfeld Synergy and Holotropic Breathwork
Body psychotherapy is also called “body-centered psychotherapy,” “body-oriented psychotherapy,” “direct body-contact psychotherapy,” and “humanistic body psychotherapy.”
Read MoreIf I’d Known Then What I Know Now . . .
I know that health care is a cooperative process and that I’m responsible for my own health, so what could I have done differently?
Well, first of all, I could have done a little more homework on homeopathy. Had I done that, I would have understood the necessity for avoiding antidotes for a year or two. But I don’t feel that patients should have to become experts on a subject before they seek help. I think I was as intelligent, informed, and involved in my health care as anyone should have to be. For better or for worse, patients rely on their doctors to tell them what they need to know, so it will always be up to the doctor to try to anticipate the level of education that is necessary.
Read MoreBiotechnology has developed a salmon that can be raised in half the normal time. Since salmon is a healthy food and the world’s food supply must be doubled in the next 25 years to feed Earth’s expanding population, this “super salmon” should be viewed as a true success story.
Read MoreThe essence of patient consent is informed consent. If the patient doesn’t have critical information ? information that might make the patient delay or even forego treatment, information the lack of which contributes to aborted treatment ? then that patient cannot truly give consent. In these circumstances, she doesn’t even really know what she is consenting to!
Read MoreHarvest Moon, so orange and bright,
Shine on us this autumn night.
Light the way for all to see
The bounty of the field and tree.