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Think in the Beauty Way
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Navajos believe in the importance of thinking and
speaking in a positive way: in "the Beauty Way." Larry
Dossey contrasts this belief with the way caretakers can
hex a patient's recovery with such statements as
"You have three months to live if you're lucky."
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A Brief Time in History
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Born in 1942, Stephen Hawking was told in the
mid-sixties he had three months to live. He is now a
world-renowned astrophysicist, best known for his 1988
book, A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to
Black Holes.
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When I Wish, I Blow
Bubbles... --
In wishing
well we let go of
needing to be in control, of expecting a specific
outcome. We focus on serenity, delight, purpose,
meaning, and compassion in an easy flow with the
cosmos. This quality is conveyed by the quote: "When I
wish, I blow bubbles..."
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What We Know in Our Bones
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Early in Close to the Bone: Life-Threatening
Illness and the Search for Meaning, Jean Shinoda
Bolen reminds us the Chinese pictograph for “crisis”
contains the ideograms for both “danger” and
“opportunity.”
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"Holistic" is Not a
Technique --
Eight dysfunctional stress patterns, from The
Creation of Health: The Emotional, Psychological, and
Spiritual Responses that Promote Health and Healing,
by Norman Shealy and
Caroline Myss.
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Life is a Rorschach
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Dr. Michael Yapko offers "learn by doing"
exercises that teach you ways to look at yourself and
your world that create a more satisfying and peaceful
life (from Breaking the Patterns of Depression).
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A Gathering of
Flowers
-- In
the foreword to the anthology Healers on Healing,
W. Brugh Joy, M.D. tells us the word
anthology
"literally means a gathering of flowers." Richard
Carlson and Benjamin Shield, editors of this remarkable
collection of essays, search for the common thread
among healers and healing methods.
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A Strange Blessing
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"...a life-threatening disease like cancer is a strange
blessing that casts our life and purpose in sharp
relief," wrote Hamilton Jordan in No Such Thing as a
Bad Day. "Some cancer patients allow cancer to
dominate and define their lives... But there are many,
many more who use their illness to find new meaning in
their lives."
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Forgiveness is the
Miracle -
In Love is Letting Go of Fear, Dr. Gerald G.
Jampolsky has applied the principles of
A Course in Miracles
to what he describes as "lessons for personal
transformation."
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What is Ayurveda?
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Ayurveda (eye-yoor-VAY-dah),
a Sanskrit word for "the science or knowledge of life,"
is a 5,000-year-old system of medicine developed in
India, still in practice today, and now in mainstream
U.S. awareness.
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The Tibetans Call it a "Bardo"
-- In
the Tibetan
Book of Living and Dying, Sogyal Rinpoche refers to
a "bardo" as a juncture "when the possibility of
liberation, or enlightenment, is heightened." My
experience of this different state of mind, this totally
unexpected new reality, opened my mind and my heart and
began a lifelong spiritual path.