Gaia: The Healing Arts

Reiki Class Golden, CO

http://zadkiel.gaia.com — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 21:42:30 GMT

Hi,
I am teaching a Reiki Class in Golden Co this Saturday if anyone in my area would like to join in a day of immersing yourself in the healing energies!

David Zadkiel

Looking for a Holistic Psychologist/Counselor

http://sparrow48161.gaia.com — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 00:44:26 GMT

I recently began an MS program in Counseling. One of my first assignments is to find somebody who does what I want to do and interview them. I have a certification in Myomassology and a bachelor's in Psychology. I hope to combine the two and create a holistic therapy practice. Is there anyone out there that is already doing something similar? Are you a psychologist who encourages clients to treat the whole body? Do you go to a psychologist who uses alternative treatments?

This is a really important project and I would appreciate as much help as I can get. Pleasse email me directly with information. thank you for yourr support!

Peace,
Sparrow

sparrow48161@yahoo.com

Re: Environmental health & healer heal thyself!

http://Skip.gaia.com — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 16:50:42 GMT

Hello everyone,

I'm trying to get the word out to health care practitioners who are concerned about the impact of the enviornment on medical practice and the impact of medicine on the environment (an often under-discussed topic). Any help you can provide is appreciated.

Helping to create leaders for Sustainable Medical practices is the focus of the Teleosis Institute and their Green Health Care Online program (see http://www.teleosis.org/ghcp.php for details).

I'm trying to help this non-profit find health care practitioners who would be interested in this 8 week online course, which starts Jan. 14, 2008. The course is available flexibly on the schedule of the practitioner and covers some pretty important topics:

Week 1: Leadership and Green Health Care

Week 2: Integral Theory and Medicine

Week 3: Ecological Literacy

Week 4: Sustainability

Week 5: Creating a Sustainable Medicine

Week 6: Precautionary Principle and Wellness

Week 7: Biological Systems and Stressors

Week 8: Green Pharmacy

Furthermore, they get access to an audit of their practice for Green health care practices.

If you have pointers or ideas on how to reach health care practioners and connect them to this important topic, please post a response or send me a note!

Thanks!
Skip (Aikido Traveler)

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Re: INTRODUCTIONS

http://nohealani.gaia.com — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 21:22:45 GMT

Aloha! I have recently received my Reiki 1 attunement and am studying the healing arts. It wasn't until recently that I have finally accepted these gifts that i've been blessed with, and have been trying to "fine tune" it. As a child I was always very introverted and not quite understood by others... for a long time I didn't really understand myself, the visions I saw, or the greatness of my ability to ease different types of sufferings. As a "healer" I would have to say I am an old soul... it comes second nature to me, but as a student I am very new to all of this and feel like a sponge soaking up all this new information. I would love to hear and share the experiences of this road traveled!

Re: "Healer, Heal Thyself!"

http://calmseas.gaia.com — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 00:12:21 GMT

I too have gone through a difficult time to emerge with more knowledge and expeience to heal others. I was diagnosed with labels, anxiety, depression, meaningless terms to me because help did not come with the pharmaceuticals or traditional therapy that were then applied. I finally realized that I needed to feel this "despair" to really understand the depth and breadth of how and what can be healed. I am still learning, but have found that the greatest teacher is listening to my body and intuition. I know what I need, I just need to listen to it.:-)

Re: I'M A HEALER LIKE YOU WOULDN'T BELEIVE!

http://calmseas.gaia.com — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 00:06:03 GMT

I understand even more now the synchronicity to choosing the word "healer" to describe myself. I have always been one who listens, who offers encouragement, one who finds the positive ray of light in a situation. I studied psychology in school, learning more about the people I interact with every day. Then I went to massage school, and brought a whole new depth and understanding to what it means to help and heal others. Knowing there are even more paths, I began studying Reiki. I believe myself to be a healer in the truest sense of the word, to bring loving compassion and health to others.

Re: I'M A HEALER LIKE YOU WOULDN'T BELEIVE!

http://firetender.gaia.com — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 11:51:29 GMT

In a lot of ways, what we consider "inanimate" objects (I don't really think there's anything inanimate, myself!) are far better recipients of what we could call healing simply for the fact that they don't know how to get in their own way!

The good thing about healing humans is we get to see our reflection come back to us when the key we offer fits the lock that's the cause of dis-ease. In the healing, we become healed.
I suppose that's true on all levels. If I re-assemble a broken scissor, the first thing I do is picture it whole (awareness) and then do what it takes to get it back to that state. I am literally manipulating the action of my hands and available materials (transformation) to manifest wholeness for the scissor ((intention) . But first comes the thought, and that thought has to do with a vision of wholeness for the object.

You know...and even some scissors don't WANT to be fixed!

Re: I'M A HEALER LIKE YOU WOULDN'T BELEIVE!

http://Gaiabreeze.gaia.com — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 04:44:18 GMT

I heal 'things' too. Like soil, when I grow vegies, or sometimes mechanical things, like leaky faucets. Every 'thing' is composed of the same energy that I am and so it's not really that far fetched to think aligning thoughts toward 'inanimate' objects could fix them. I could possibly compare it to finding the perfect parking place when you pull into a crowded lot, or maybe like that parlor trick where you float a needle on water and then pull it into another direction with your thoughts. I believe we all have more power than we often use. I was just reading another Zaadzter's methodology (Sol @ Regenetics) and he offered the three paths to mastery as Awareness, Transformation and Intention. That's probably a pretty good map to healing in general. Be aware of the oneness, transform your thinking to join back together and then intend it to be so. And so it is.
Good Will, Gaiabreeze

Re: Environmental health & healer heal thyself!

Mon, 08 Jan 2007 14:42:10 GMT

       Russ,
              I thought you would see that, you are forgiven. :-) We have to be careful with this forgiveness, I think many people mistake it for the word " FIRE...."
                                            Your friend, Don

Moments of Compassion; Lifetimes of Healing

http://firetender.gaia.com — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 07:12:36 GMT

Here are stories of powerful moments that, through compassion, provided an insight into the human condition so strong that it influenced the writers' understanding of healing and their role in it ever since.

Don, in answer to my suggestion that he describe the path he took to get in touch with his abilities as a healer (in a different thread in this Pod), responded:

At 40 years old I was diagnosed with manic depression and was homicidal suicidal. After getting on medication I realized I had been like this all my life, it only got worse and I couldn't cover it up any more. Drugs, alcohol, sex, money, nothing covered it up for me. It was in prison when I realized I had been in my own personal prison all my life, covered up with everyone's false beliefs. So having freed myself from the prison I was in all my life, I realize that nearly everyone is in their own personal prison and so my compassion extends to all those who have covered themselves up with false beliefs that were handed down to them. I hope this answers your question. Your friend Don (underlining and italics are mine)

This is a beautiful illustration of the power of compassion. Compassion, which literally translates as "to suffer with" is an extremely potent agent of healing. Through it, we gain insight into the suffering of others because we recognize it as our own.

What happened to Don, in my opinion, was that the real prison that he was in became a metaphor (something that represents something else) for the kinds of prisons that we all put ourselves in. Through his very real understanding of such things as the pain of enduring time, being subservient to a system or a person of authority, having to walk on eggshells to not cause waves, even such things as needing to protect every little thing you own (If you can't tell by now, for the sake of full disclosure, I know the territory because I, too, have been there!), are concepts that are very applicable to the kinds of everyday prisons in which so many of us choose, or are forced by circumstances, to live in.

The end result was, having gotten in touch with the metaphor's meaning for himself, he suddenly gained insight into this particular state of the human condition. Because he's been there, his compassion for others in the same or similar situations allows him to delve into his experience and then translate it into something useful for others.

Of course Don has many areas that he is able to offer healing in, but, from what I can gather, this personal insight has been a defining factor in his path as a healer. On one level, his experience with jail provided compassion that influences everything he does as a healer. The principles he's learned are universal.

The reason I'm building a new thread on this topic is because I want to encourage participants here to share with us defining moments of their experience as healers. By doing so, others of us can see living examples of the power of a moment to change one's perspective into something useful for the healing of others.

Re: Environmental health & healer heal thyself!

http://firetender.gaia.com — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 07:02:39 GMT

Don (and please forgive me for calling you Bob before!) something you brought up is so important to the topic of healing, it deserves its own thread. In fact, I'm gonna start it, so check out Moments of Compassion; Lifetimes of Healing

Re: Environmental health & healer heal thyself!

Mon, 08 Jan 2007 03:55:58 GMT

Russ,
Yes I would like to share with everyone. There are no specific sensitivities that came from my life circumstances that I know of. For 18 years I was married to a woman who was depressed and very sickly, continually in and out of hospitals. At 40 years old I was diagnosed with manic depression and was homicidal suicidal. After getting on medication I realized I had been like this all my life, it only got worse and I couldn't cover it up any more. Drugs, alcohol, sex, money, nothing covered it up for me. It was in prison when I realized I had been in my own personal prison all my life, covered up with everyone's false beliefs. So having freed myself from the prison I was in all my life, I realize that nearly everyone is in their own personal prison and so my compassion extends to all those who have covered themselves up with false beliefs that were handed down to them. I hope this answers your question. Your friend Don

Re: I'M A HEALER LIKE YOU WOULDN'T BELEIVE!

http://nitya.gaia.com — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 19:28:10 GMT

Thankyou.

You made it seem so nice and simple. I don't need to effort anything to become anything. Its happening now. OK.

Re: I'M A HEALER LIKE YOU WOULDN'T BELEIVE!

http://firetender.gaia.com — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 12:59:38 GMT

Nitya, you said:

"I get to have fun funneling the fun!."

That describes so well what you shared. There's a part of you, conscious or otherwise, that chooses to see the "good parts" of the people who you portray, or to whom you apply Henna. You can call yourself a "Polyanna" if you like, but as long as it is not with a negative connotation!

The role of the artist is to see what is below (or even above) the surface. It is the role of one with in-sight. It is also a healing act to reflect what is seen back to the subject, for the senses of the artist are trained to both recognize and communicate the beauty. How many artists do you know who spend a lot of time communicating ugliness? If they do, it's because they can recognize the beauty in it. Why else would they spend such time?

So, my interpretation of what you said is your art is healing in that it reflects the beauty that you see in the person that you're working with at the time you're working with them. Both your intent and focus is on presenting the positive side you see. I did not hear you say that you have to make an effort to see the positive. That's just what you see.

What a gift for someone to recognize themselves through Pollyanna's eyes! We all need to be reminded of the innocense that lives inside us still!

THE ALOE-PATH: Allopaths Exploring Healing

http://firetender.gaia.com — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 12:27:24 GMT

I'm guessing here.

When you first started to become involved in medicine, you wanted to be a healer. You came to that choice largely as a decision from your heart. Something inside you told you that you could actually touch the lives of others in meaningful ways. You didn't even consider being eaten up in the process.

And then -- so quickly! -- your center shifted from your heart up to your head. Inundated with facts, and overdosed with patients, your connection with the moment took a back seat to protocols, procedures and paperwork.

You started out as a human being working with other human beings in need. You turned into a Flesh Mechanic working with problems to be solved. You spun a hard shell around you for emotional protection, and then found you couldn't take it off when you got home.

Years went by and then, without wanting to compromise the wonderful things you could accomplish through modern medicine, you began a new search for meaning in your profession.

Now, you are right here, at a place where you can interact with others like yourself who are learning new ways to be with themselves and their patients. You are breaking the silence because there are others with you who are doing the same. Here is a place where you can discover, together, how to really be the healers you've always been. In the process, you can change the culture of your professions, for the good of all.

Re: I'M A HEALER LIKE YOU WOULDN'T BELEIVE!

http://nitya.gaia.com — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 05:54:13 GMT

I like that affirmation! Thankyou for this question. OK here it is.

All my life I was healer inclined.

My mother was a pharmacist and from a young age I listened intently to all of her work stories concluding not to take most of what she hands out.

I would love and take care of the click rejected kids..."the polly anna type" at school.

Next i would rescue my brothers and sister from having to eat the "highly nutricious" foods that they hated (handing to me under the table)....I had such a need to be well.  Never really felt very well.

Artwork and music was mostly my expression. 10 years of piano and creating very fine commercial art, realism and fantasy art...(few pieces in my photos section in my profiles page).

I have found myself feeling too isolated.  After taking up meditation, I created this intuitive portrait art position at a local metaphysical bookstore that opened up a huge unexpected door for me.

As I sketched and chit chatted, feelings would wash over me....more than just feelings....sensations, textures, sounds...all good! Nothing bad.  I guess thats what my polly anna character had caused...to see only the good. It felt like a blissful birthday everyday. A mother of a client tearfully thanked me and said I had changed her son from being a confirmed bedroom hermit to an outgoing happy fella.   Oh what a feeling! I get to have fun funneling the fun!. Ownership has transfered and this was terminated.

Since then I have been doing henna body art at the local market or working at a hardware store enjoying people and occasionally feeling this energy flow especially when I stay with a vegan and/or raw food diet and a habit of meditation.

I'M A HEALER LIKE YOU WOULDN'T BELEIVE!

http://firetender.gaia.com — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 04:30:34 GMT

Healers know who they are, but are discouraged from claiming their powers when they don't fall into boxes that are well-defined and acceptable to the mainstream. This is true, (and it varies!), from culture to culture. Please tell us about yourself and how what you do contributes in ways that we wouldn't ordinarily associate as a healing modality. And do it so we can broaden our abilities.

WATER COOLER, WINE BARREL, or HOOKAH if you prefer!

http://firetender.gaia.com — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 04:24:51 GMT

Sidle on up here, Bunky, grab an implement to replenish yourself and let us know how the crazy stuff inside this pod is tweaking your world...and building a better one!

BULLETIN BOARD

http://firetender.gaia.com — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 04:15:30 GMT

This is where you can post announcements, updates, and "hey check me out" shout outs.

INTRODUCTIONS

http://firetender.gaia.com — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 04:14:24 GMT

C'mon in and have a Cyber-seat! Let us know a little about yourself and your path as a healer. Don't worry about whether we think you a healer or not. It's not our job to judge. We're just here to learn.

What does healing mean to you? How does it live inside you?