For a couple of years, I guided a mental health group for older adults at the hospital where I worked as an RN. Amongst the seniors in the group, there was a lot of wisdom bouncing around the room, and it was a joy to share in the insightful life experiences they had...
Out of desperation one evening, feeling very distraught at a family gathering many years ago, I phoned my father to express my conflicted emotional state - family get togethers often elicited this reaction from me. Now, I know I was feeling desperate to talk to...
It is a common misconception that coconut oil is bad for you. People all over the world are experiencing the healthy benefits of using coconut oil. It is actually one of the healthiest oils you can consume. Here are the top seven reasons why you should use coconut oil...
“Be a warrior, not a worrier.” - Anon Stress will often manifest in our lives when we carry over yesterday’s worries into today. Stress can accumulate if we collect it day after day without letting some of it go. Inevitably, if we are not paying attention, our stress...
“The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure that you seek.” -Joseph Campbell In the West, the approach to ‘mental health’ has become big business: professionals tell us what is wrong with us, pharmaceuticals take away our pain, and various therapies try to help us...
Determining what our purpose is in life can be one of the hardest questions that we as humans must try to answer. In this article we will be going through a step by step process, exploring your feelings and options, and by the end, you should have a fairly solid tool...
Some people believe that it is primarily through suffering that we find our way back to God; the Source; or the all-abiding Universal Consciousness. In the past, some religious aspirants used to practice mortifications of the flesh, such as self-flagellation (slapping...
How does one choose a Reiki Master? Peterborough has a number of qualified Reiki Masters, but how does one know which one is best? I guess the answer is not necessarily which one is best overall, but which one will be best for you - that is what matters most - no...
When you learn to still the mind, you begin to take notice of your thoughts and feelings as they occur. You become somewhat of an "observer" to your own life. As the observer, you are more cognizant of your own actions. You begin to view how you interact with the...
What is disease and illness? To discover its origins, we must first know a little about our own origins, as human beings. The Bible states that "God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them." Genesis 1-27. What...
Disease. Does a disease require a name before it becomes real. If I come down with an unknown ailment, does it mean that I can't treat the disease until it has a name? Just because I can’t name it, does that mean that there is no way of knowing what to take for it? Of...
Old Testament, Proverbs 17:22: "A cheerful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones." When humor is used as a method of healing, I like to refer to it as "humor healing". Research has shown that humor healing or humor therapy can reduce pain,...
Emotional Kinetics is a healing modality created by Wayne Adam and Kirk Johnson, based, in part, on the teachings of Reiki Master, Bernard Morin. The following is Kirk's story behind the creation of the modality. For more information on Emotional Kinetics, see this...
Healing. It puzzles us all. What is it that makes some of us healthy while the rest of us struggle to maintain good health? Why do some people recover from fatal diseases while others succumb? Why does it seem like some people get all the breaks in life while we have...
In early 2000, while I was waiting, or should I say living, at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto for a heart and kidney to become available for transplantation, I was asked many times whether I had any concerns about having someone else's heart inside my body. At first...
Today is January 1, 2015 and I find myself lying in a bathtub of water containing two boxes of Arm and Hammer baking soda and 1 cup of ultrapure magnesium flakes. I'm sitting here feeling very lethargic today - a feeling I had felt many times before in the past. I did...
Your first responsibility as a patient/client is to select a practitioner who will join your “team” to support you in obtaining and maintaining optimum health for your body, mind, emotions and spirit. While most holistic practitioners use modalities that are currently...
You might wonder which is the better choice for you: allopathic (traditional) medicine, with its vast library of science and research, or holistic health, which often includes alternative remedies and focuses on a more wide-ranging approach to health care. The good...