For some time, I have considered posting a blog with a reading recommendation list. The list alone, I have figured, would not be sufficient. As such, I’ve since decided to offer a biographical reading list, explaining where I was at the time of reading the following books and why I found them important and impactful in my journey of overcoming
Read MoreWith the right questions, by going inside, by examining the self, the soul, going into the library of the psyche, investigating past traumas, whether in the here and now or another existence, whatever the case, I have found that the impact and utility of a good question can work wonders. It provides a greater service than all the drugs and all the diets in the world.
Read MoreHow do we survive? We survive because of God’s grace, the grace of invisible angels and miraculous helpers, and of course, the momentary boosts of energy that waft our way mysteriously. When I think of the past year, unemployed, looking for work, finishing a novel I had been struggling to complete, I know it could have been worse. I consider the life of the Russian writer, Pavel Petrovich Bazhov (1879-1950)
Read MoreNot so much the most comforting thing to hear. None of those men and women could offer any further advice or consolation. Back then, I couldn’t help but think, these people who’ve spent years and years in medical school, what have they really learned? They weren’t doctors but walking pharmacopoeias with limits.
Read MoreFrom a place of retrospect, it makes sense that she was so curt in her response. With over fifteen thousand subscribers to her channel, each video getting three thousand plus views, why would she change her channel’s format? Suffering was the secret to her success. When you’re not sick, how can you have the attention? Where is your identity now? Healing would mean shooting the goose laying the golden egg.
Read MoreWhile I definitely adhere to the concept of cell memory, others may have trouble with the radical and unconventional idea. There are many who want to heal but perhaps feel this unorthodox, off-the-beaten-path approach far too wild to even consider going down.
Read MoreOn the one level, the Count is an antagonist, a ruling party pooper. Yet he is more than comic fodder. Mozart knew this. We feel pathos for the short-sided man. This character blindly spends the entire opera in this mire of anger and longing, conspiring to pain and manipulate, to wrongfully seduce another man’s wife. He has no regard for his actions, no awareness of what his intentions might entail; from a limited perception based upon his own righteous self-justification, he is attempting to undermine the order and happiness of the day. Towards the end of the opera, the veil begins to life for the Count, and he soon has eyes to see.
Read MoreFrom an early age growing up in Canada, I was exposed not only to English but to French (through school) and also to Dutch (through my father’s family). Words, then as much as now, have filled me with wonder and that wonder contributed to my yearning to solve mysteries; namely one of the sources of the ulcerative colitis.
Read More…with my Opa. After all my research, I finally understood that my body back in March 1997 was expressing a latent grief. I thought of a friend’s sister. Jess had got the Crohn’s disease following her grandmother’s hit-and-run accident. The raging sorrow. My gut back then at the age of 17 was crying. It was doing the weeping for me.
Read MoreI would argue that the name ulcerative colitis blocks many patients from learning such things. Patients are like Jacob, I would argue. But instead of facing themselves, the mysterious, they wrestle with the label and throw drugs and diets at it instead of tackling the deeper and more difficult task of healing the self, the psyche.
Read MoreHere, in Vienna, more specifically the 19th district of Heiligenstadt (literally, ‘healing city’), the museum’s intent is on exploring the daily habits of the composer while in the former spa municipality. After buying a ticket, one begins the journey in a shaded courtyard, where the various sections of the house are numbered. There are the composing rooms, the performing rooms and what I found fascinating, the rooms for recuperation or rather, section 2, the rooms for ‘rejuvenating’ — the German, Erholen.
Read MoreMaimonides, a man of profound thinking and influence, was affected by these years of upheaval. Like many of his Arabic-speaking Jewish and Christian contemporaries, he fled the country with his family, landing upon the nearby shores of North Africa, specifically Morocco then Fostat (Old Cairo) in Egypt. Following this exodus, Moses’ father died a year later in their new adopted land and Moses’ younger brother, David, a merchant and a man determined to make his success in the East, drowned on a trip to the Indian Sea (today, Indian Ocean).
Read MoreWhen I first turned to the passage myself and read it throughout, I nodded. I felt a frisson frequent and flow through my own body. At the beginning of my favourite part it reads: For the body is not one member, but many (Corinthians 12:14).
Read MoreFor me, illnesses are not forms of punishment but rather our body’s way of warning us, of questioning us, querying us, of indicating a deeper hurt or buried emotional misinterpretation.
Read MoreWhen the flames broke out and rose again, it almost consumed my ship. After a disastrous bout in the hospital, one where I was humiliated and patronized by physicians, I started to turn away from the medical community to learn more about the power of spirituality and emotional healing. Drugs could only go skin deep. I needed to remove the true source of the disease’s fire.
Read MoreI fought and fought this thinking. Having read about ‘spontaneous healing’ and the mysteries of remission, I figured there had to be some distinct key or assortment of keys to health and wellness.
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