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Consciousness and Healing: Integral Approaches to Mind-Body Medicine, 1e: Marilyn Schlitz PhD, Tina Amorok, Marc S. Micozzi MD PhD, IONS: 9780443068003: Amazon.com: Books

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This collection of essays on integral medicine, consciousness, and healing integrates mainstream medical knowledge with recent developments in the emerging areas of frontier sciences and insights from alternative healing perspectives. It promotes a model of healing in which personal relationships, emotions, meaning, and belief systems are viewed as fundamental points of connection between body, mind, spirit, society, and nature. Integral medicine embraces the recognition that human beings possess emotional, spiritual, and relational dimensions that are essential in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and the cultivation of wellness.

Readers learn from the leaders in the emerging field of integral medicine and consciousness research, from the most well known (Deepak Chopra), to the frontline policy makers (James Gordon-one of the heads of the White House Commission on Conventional and Complementary and Alternative Medicine). Readers also gain insights from health professionals who have experienced healing within themselves and witnessed remarkable healing in their patients.

We hear from other medical professionals (through the essays and the interviews on the accompanying DVD) who approach medicine from an array of cultural perspectives, and can attest to this multicultural, interdisciplinary, and participatory healing system in action. Consciousness and Healing contains 47 essays in the book plus 9 bonus essays read aloud on the DVD. Essays are short and in language suited to an audience of both lay and professional readers, with extensive references on the DVD to original scientific studies for those interested in further exploration. Marilyn Schlitz narrates the video, introducing the topics and defining terms that are discussed throughout the interviews. Topics discussed by the interviewees include: The Big Story in Healthcare, The Mystery of Healing, and The Search for a New Healing Model.

Interviewees include the following medical field experts: Mitchell Krucoff, MD (cardiologist and medical researcher at Duke University Medical School), Larry Dossey, MD (doctor of internal medicine and book contributor), Marie Mulligan, MD (family practitioner), John Astin, PhD (medical researcher at California Pacific Medical Center and book contributor), Tom Janisse, MD (director of physician’s health and senior manager with Kaiser Permanente and book contributor), Loretta Ortiz y Pino, MD (pediatrician in private practice), Paul Choi (fourth year medical student at Stanford University and a voice of the next generation in health care), Stanley Krippner, PhD (a leading authority in the study of healing at the Saybrook Institute and book contributor), and Nancy Maryboy, PhD (Navajo cosmologist and book contributor).

Amazon book link: http://www.amazon.com/Consciousness-Healing-Integral-Approaches-Mind-Body/dp/0443068003

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Consciousness and Healing: Integral Approaches to Mind-Body Medicine
Table of Content

Foreword: The Integral Vision of Healing — Ken Wilber
Preface: The Integral Impulse: A New Perspective for Medicine — Marilyn Schlitz
I: Defining Integral Medicine
Section 1 begins by introducing the implications of an integral perspective for medicine. In order for the transformation to an integral approach to medicine to take place, a full system shift is needed. Section 1 essays detail the needs of this transformation.
	Editors Introduction
	Overview
		Towards a Post-Modern Integral Medicine — Elliott Dacher
		An Integral Approach to Medicine — John Astin and Alexander W. Astin.
		From Integrative to Integral Medicine: A Leap of Faith — William Benda
II: Mapping the Healing System
Section 2 explores the nature of the healing system through the review of recent developments in mind-body medicine. The subfields in this section (new perspectives on the body, a re-visioning of illness, and honoring the spectrum of life) are not well-known within modern medicine, but the contributors present a valid argument for their place in medicine.
	Editors Introduction
	Mind-Body Medicine
		Mind and Mindlessness in Mind-Body Research — Harris Dienstfrey
		The Psychosomatic Network: Foundations of Mind-Body Medicine — Candace Pert, Henry Dreher, and Michael R. Ruff
		Psychological Aspects of Mind-Body Medicine: Promises and Pitfalls from Research with Cancer Patients — Stephanie Simonton-Atchley and Allen C. Sherman
	New Perspectives on the Body
		Meaning and the History of the Body: Toward a Postmodern Medicine — David Michael Levin
		Breathing, Moving, Sensing, and Feeling: Somatics and Integral Medicine — Don Hanlon Johnson
		Transformational Surgery: Symbol, Ritual and Initiation in Contemporary Cosmetic Surgery — Loren Eskenazi
		Healing and Transformation Through Expressive Arts: Dance as Integral Therapy and as a Healing Force — Anna Halprin and Michael Samuels
	Re-Visioning Illness
		What Does Illness Mean? — Larry Dossey
		Living with Cancer: From Victim to Victor, The Integration of Mind, Body and Spirit — Caryle Hirshberg
		Our Evolving Views of Health and Illness: What Does it All Mean? — Richard B. Miles
	Honoring the Spectrum of Life
		The Conflict of Biological & Cultural Imperatives — Joseph Chilton Pearce
		Aging with Awareness — Ron Valle & Mary Mohs
		Timeless Mind, Ageless Body — Deepak Chopra
		An Integral Approach to the End of Life — Karen Wyatt
		Consciousness Beyond Death — Marilyn Schlitz
III: Healing: A Move Toward Wholeness
Section 3 presents more markers for the expanding role of consciousness in healing and embraces other dimensions of the healing system, including religion and spirituality. The essays in this section reveal the epidemiological data that better health is correlated with religious participation. In society, there is increasing interest in the influence of prayer on healing, both at bedside and intercessory prayer at a distance.
	Editors Introduction
	Psychology’s Movement Toward Wholeness
		Integral Psychology: Psychology of the Whole Human Being — Bahman Shirazi
		Psychology of the Future: Lessons from Modern Consciousness Research — Stanislav Grof
		Transpersonal Images: Implications for Health — William Braud
	Spirituality, Religion & Healing
		Etiology Recapitulates Ontology: Reflections on Restoring the Spiritual Dimension to Models of the Determinants of Health — Jeff Levin
		The Practices of Essential Spirituality — Roger Walsh
		Opening Your Heart: Anatomically, Emotionally, Spiritually — Dean Ornish
		The Return of Prayer — Larry Dossey
	Essential Capacities
		A Prolegomenon to an Epidemiology of Love: Theory, Measurement, and Health Outcomes — Jeff Levin
		The Art and Science of Forgiveness — Frederic Luskin
		Gratefulness — Brother David Steindl-Rast
		The Contemplative Mind in Society — Jon Kabat-Zinn
IV: Honoring Multiple Ways of Knowing
Section 4 focuses on the multiple ways of knowing that are involved in an integral approach to healing. With the increasing popularity of alternative medicine in the United States, biomedicine is being forced to view health and healing within broader cultural contexts. These essays examine the assumptions in the medical field about health and healing and the role of worldviews in shaping healing experiences.
	Editors Introduction
	Epistemological Pluralism
		The Implications of Alternative and Complementary Medicine for Science and the Scientific Process– Marilyn Schlitz and Willis Harman
		The Technologies of Shamanic States of Consciousness — Stanley Krippner
		Multiple Ways of Knowing — Frances Vaughan
	Integrating the Wisdom of the World’s Healing Systems
		Restoration of Dynamic Balance: Traditional Ways of Healing Expressed through Navajo Consciousness — Nancy C. Maryboy and David Begay
		The Spiritual Heart of Tibetan Medicine: Its Contributions to the Modern World — Sogyal Rinpoche
		Changing Perspectives on Healing Energy in Traditional Chinese Medicine — Garret Yount, Yifang Qian, and Honglin Zhang
V: Envisioning a New Story for Health & Healing
Section 5 reviews the challenges facing Western medicine: economic factors, an increasing burden of chronic illness, higher levels of physician and patient dissatisfaction, and environmental and social ills. The essays in this section call for a shift in individual and collective consciousness: one that leads to a more expanded, humanistic, ecological, and life affirming model for ourselves and future generations.
	Editor Introduction
	Transformations of Medicine
		Recapturing the Soul of Medicine — Rachel Naomi Remen
		Through Conventional Medicine to Integral Medicine: Challenges and Promises — Tom Janisse
		Transformation of the Healer: The Application of Ken Wilber’s Integral Model to Family Practice Medicine — Larry George
		Metaphysics of Virtual Caring Communities — Jean Watson
	Socio-Political Transformations of Integral Medicine
		The White House Commission on Complementary and Alternative Medicine Policy and the Future of Healthcare — James S. Gordon
		Sociopolitical Challenges of Integral Medicine — Sumedha Khanna
	Healthy Earth-Healthy Human
		The Ecozoic Era — Brian Swimme and Thomas Berry
		Living in the Earth: Ecopsychology, Health and Psychotherapy — Sarah Conn
		Surviving the Great Dying — Michael Lerner
		Healing through Collective Consciousness: The Therapeutic Nature of the Human/Animal Bond — William Benda and Rondi Lightmark
	Social Healing
		Social Healing: Herald of a Shift in Human Consciousness — James O’Dea
		Reinventing the Human — Thomas Berry

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Accept what you cannot change or change what you cannot accept.

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Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them – that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

– Lao Tzu

A poor man visited the temple daily.

Even after several years he found no change in his financial conditions. He was thus frustrated and one day, he complained to God for being unfair to him and not paying any heed to his needs.

He cried that he was not even in a position to buy a pair of sandals for himself.

He blamed God for not answering his prayers and vowed never to visit the temple again.

He left the temple in frustration, determined never to pray again. When he was halfway down the stairs, he saw a disabled man walking towards the temple. This man had lost one leg and was walking with the help of crutches.

The poor man could not control his curiosity and questioned the handicapped man, “Why do you come to the temple to pray when you have lost one leg?”

He was astonished to learn that the man had lost his leg in an accident just outside the temple.

He further questioned the man, “Don’t you feel cheated? Don’t you feel dejected that God has been unjust to you?”

The answer he received to this question transformed his thoughts.

The disabled man replied, “Look down my friend. Can you see the man who has lost both his legs? I am very lucky indeed. I met with an accident but lost only one leg. Parmatma (A Supreme Soul beyond knowledge and ignorance, devoid of all material attributes) has bestowed immense grace upon me due to which I still have the ability to walk and commute. The accident was so horrendous that it was impossible for me to survive. I too could have suffered from the same fate of being totally handicapped forever.”

The poor man who could not afford a pair of sandals was stunned at this response. He wondered to himself, this young man is leading a happy life even though he has lost one leg, and I am crying just for a pair of sandals? He is so grateful to God, as he has the ability to count his blessings. I am abled by all means, yet I am merely cursing my life. My greatest poverty is my disability to count my blessings!

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Comparing yourself

to more fortunate others
is a recipe for unhappiness

Counting on blessings that came to others may easily cause us to forget our own and this invites dejection. On the other hand comparing our situations and problems with those less privileged than us, makes us feel grateful and satisfied with what we have. How much we get, what we get, when we get blessings, how we get blessing is all due to our own process. Every individual binds different karma (the causality of future actions) and thus proceeds accordingly. However, we may as well choose how to percept situations fashioning these as the way we like; we can do so as we choose a reaction in every situation. Thus, while there may be no control in what passed, in a new moment, formation of concepts and stored emotion may be according to choice. No karma has the ability to determine our reaction and our perception if we set our precepts. Hence, we may strive to store even what is at first unpleasant as whenever we can and learn to accept whatever we cannot. Train your mind to avoid unhealthy comparison and unhealthy competition. Let’s be realistic — bad karma isn’t going to remove itself — it requires some action on our part. We have minds and hearts and mentors and all sort of Internet articles and so on — we are privileged and greatly blessed.

Please read more at:
The Practice of Acceptance
The Healers Journal

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This actually arises in countless situations. For instance here is a humorous example:

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We are to learn to go with the flow. I have a perfect peaceful morning routine. One day my morning was disrupted. I felt some anger, frustration; Later, I felt disappointed because I didn’t get to do my morning routine. I was feeling stressed from changes to what I do usually. This was a disturbance that could ruin my day, keeping me frustrated for the rest of my the day. I became an observer of my thoughts; I became my self-examiner. I talked to myself. I changed my precept on this situation.

Breathe. When I feel myself getting angry or frustrated, I take a few deep breaths. This is an important step that allows me to get calm. Even to practice this by itself was years ago a great help for me.

Get a fresh perspective. This always helps me. I get upset over something happening and then I begin deep breaths, and take a step back. I focus away from the problem, until whatever happened doesn’t seem so important. Upon the upset of this day, I thought “Tomorrow or a week from now or a year from now, this disruption won’t matter a single bit. No one will care, not even me. So why remain upset about this? Just let it go, and soon it won’t be a big deal.”

Laugh. It helps me to see things as funny, rather than frustrating. I realize that its funny to act as though I am in control. Its hilarious. So, I bring myself to see the absurdity of acting as though I am being wronged. I can usually have things my way because I am accepting and peaceful and realistic. However, I cannot keep everything going my way just because I want to deserve this. I am a very small part in a vastly supermassive universe. I must change myself when things are beyond my control. Its either enjoy the ability to make choices about how I feel and think about some necessary changes or be upset. So, I laugh at myself.

Be reminded that this is perfection. The world is perfectly beautiful, as it is. Life is not static. There is a flow of change — things are never staying the same — perfection in our universe is moving from one moment to another moment — always — getting complex and more diverse and more beautiful. There is beauty in everything around me. So, I remember to see my life as perfect, just as it is — right now, in the flow. Recall, I already conditioned myself with the earlier relaxation breathing, thinking and laughing.

Accept what is beyond control and change what is not. It was my upset. I have the ability to do something to change my upsets. I cannot change the fact of what already happened. So, that day, I did what was best for me. I changed how I was thinking.

I go to a happy peaceful memory place in my head and then I get peaceful again and when I am calm and relaxed its much better for me and I can solve my problem without the ruin of my day. Sometimes, as with that day’s household problem, it involves getting an expert. Sometimes problems take days or weeks to get squared away. Some problems are longer lasting or even permanent or life threatening. Nonetheless, its my choice as to how I’ll either adapt or increase my suffering.

I’m working on reducing the suffering for me and for others — and for you.

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Thanks for visiting.

 Eric

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mindfulness and prayerful healing

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do memories unlock or lock consciousness?

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Tuesday, August 27, 2013

remembering changes memories…

I’m working on this and on how consciousness works. Don’t miss it. Memories are powerful — but they change… so, I set out to learn all there is to know. This will take considerable time; meantime, I’m reporting as I go. I’ve uncovered some rewarding findings including why telling another person about your anger, fear, even a phobia is part of a powerful healing technique. ____ awakening a new future Recalled memories are reconstructions of events, situations, thoughts, ideas, and so on. Memories are not an actual record of what happened. Additionally, your own experience tells you that memories need not even be at all accurate. In some cases though, we “think” a memory is accurate and yet find out sometime later that this is not true. It proves out to be that exploring of memories is a way to heal. There is a reason of the physical laws of the universe for this is what eventually that I’ll explore. There may be an image copyright In fact, taking this just a bit further, you’ll realize that reviewing a memory creates a new memory… the very act of remembering changes memories; in treatment, perhaps substantially. My friend; so, a past memory is REALLY a memory of a memory. So, what about creating memories? Well, I’ve been experimenting with something that ties in. In fact, during meditation, I sometimes review past memories; even of events and times that I’d prefer to forget. It turns out that if I concentrate on what I did and only what I was feeling during the event, I can actually take it out of the mental/emotional baggage area and by doing a positive review with the person or with a substitute if need be, I can choose to handle future situations differently and even take the sting out of my shameful self or victim memories and even for others too. Its truly amazing that I can heal of the emotional past. Yes, it seems that the mind’s ability includes being able to heal past hurts and past mistakes. So, in effect, the future came reach back to change the past. Now, actually according to quantum physics, the Newtonian sense that cause and effect move only toward a future end point, in reality, perhaps the points in between a cause and effect sequence of events may in fact be uncertain. In fact, modern physics supports that anything can come from nothing and that time is based on units that are infinitesimally small (see planck time). Because particles can physically occupy alternate realities, there is possibly something to the experience that is similar to miraculous. I’ll get back to this in a future post and that in effect will change this experience (memory). Back to this post… the set right-minded idea isn’t to hide the truth. That’s what we tend to do with painful situations — hide it or suffer and so, hide it generally. That is in ways the other side of mind’s strength and yet its a tremendous weakness if without the important review process. In cases where I’d like to heal, hiding memories isn’t a good thing… it preserves the fear and the inner hurts too. The hiding drains energy — matter is compressed energy and matter requires tremendous amounts of energy. Think about this: Going over hurts and feelings is potentially a positive force for change. Again, its too much for this one post, so, I’ll return to this also in the future. Now, what really happened is important. However, when I say really, I do mean exactly that. What did I really feel and therefore think and do? Is the truth in there? With it is my feelings, my reason and there is in where the problem lies… LIES to me. It turns out that my thoughts directed me… and it occurs upon review of a past event that there were many possible thoughts that I might have had. When I select to review past situations as purely an observer, many alternate realities become available sometimes. As an example, most can relate to loss of control occasionally. Years ago, I yelled at my Dad and it turned out badly. I wasn’t really listening and I made assumptions. I thought I had a valid reason to yell at my Dad — turns out I was wrong to yell at him; and therefore, I needed to deal with what Dad did and the memory of my anger separately. Once I’d seen this, it was easy enough to change my thinking and see that two wrongs didn’t make either of us right. I went to my Dad and confessed that I had lost control and that it was wrong to get mad at him. He thought he was trying to help me. So, he’d been feeling that I was ungrateful and rebellious and selfish. Dad died about five years later. Meantime, I was free during all of that time to enjoy him and he to enjoy me. What if I hadn’t gone to him to discuss my outburst? Was that pre-determined or was it because of my conscience that we were saved from the bitter separation from each other? Memories are important; but reviewing memories of failures and of loss of control is essential to making progress towards a peaceful and joyful life. Memories are stored in a region of the brain called the hippocampus, shown in red on this illustration. (Photo Researchers, Inc.) ___ Think about past choices — should you reset your course? ___

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