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What’s Unconscious?
What’s Unconscious? In recent columns, I’ve written about the mysterious effects of mind on body and their unpredictable intertwinings. One reader has left Comments on these columns, twice urging me to read John E. Sarno’s book, The Divided Mind: … Continue reading
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In Quest of Healing
We are just back from one of our weeks in California, in quest of healing for my neuropathy. As I’ve said here before, the experimental treatment on offer at Loma Linda’s neuropathy clinic sees the illness as the result of … Continue reading
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Tagged anti-semitism, body shaming, consulting psychics, curable hurts, diagnostic mistakes, Director Mark Busssell, experimental treatment, finding meaning, harmful psychics, harmful shrinks, hypocrisy, incurable hurts, inflamation blockage, insider wounds, life review, life strategies, living honestly, lost innocence, medical frontier, mind/body, NDE, near death experiences, neuropathy, neuropathy treatment, placebo effect, processing suffering, psychoanalysis, psychosomatic, self-blame, somatizing painful experience, spontanious remissions, Thomas Nagel's subjective and objective in Mortal Questions, walking handicap, women friends
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“Healing”
“Healing” In my seemingly endless quest to heal my right foot, one of the angles I look at is the mind/body relation. For this reason, I’m now reading a book called The Healing Journey by Matthew Manning. The author is … Continue reading
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Tagged "The Healing Journey", addictions, alternative medicine, belief system, coping strategies, Dr. Peter Nixon, emotions, God as Witness, healing, holistic healing, Human Function Check List, In God's hands, journal keeping, Matthew Manning, medical cure, mental power, mind/body relation, neurologists, personal defenses, positive thinking, psychic abilities, psychic phenomena, psychosomatic, Second Law of Themodynamics, self-monitoring, self-talk, stress, suicide, therapy, Western medicine and holistic medicine
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“Knowing Thyself”
“Knowing Thyself” My right foot has a walking difficulty. I have been trying unsuccessfully to cure it for as long as I’ve had it. That’s about twenty years. No one in the medical field has been able to diagnose it. … Continue reading
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