Testimonials
These articles are testimonial in nature and cover
all subjects. These people's experiences may help you to understand
yourself, and others. Scroll down for an introduction to our featured articles, or
click directly to one of the articles from the list on the right. |
Tattered Hearts
by Patsy Clairmont.
Twenty-five years ago, as a young
adult, circumstances felt as if they
had spun out of control. Depression,
insecurity, fear, guilt, and anger
dominated. |
Blessings of an
Imperfect Life
by Philip
Simmons.
It's been almost four years since I
was diagnosed with Lou Gehrig's
disease, a degenerative and ultimately
fatal neurological condition. In that
time, I've managed to finish climbing
all forty-eight of the New Hampshire
peaks above 4000 feet... |
Faith
& Other
Simple Things
by Jim Brickman.
I like the word faith: faith in God, in yourself, in your family. It’s
such an important thing to believe in something these days. And my faith tells
me that eventually when times do get
rough, I’ll be guided through it if I
continue to believe. |
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Looking is the Key
by Mark Epstein, M.D.
 There is a story that has kept popping
up in my work over the years. It is one of the
tales of Nasruddin, a Sufi amalgam of wise man and fool. He has the gift of both acting out our basic
confusion and at the same time opening us up to our deeper wisdom.
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The Greatest
Christmas Gift
 by
Bobbie Christmas.
My most cherished Christmas memory
involves a Christmas when the only
gift I received came without
gift-wrap. My mother gave birth to my
new brother, Richard... |
Healing Old Wounds
by Caroline Myss,
Ph.D.
 Many
people in the midst of a process of
healing have redefined their lives
around their wounds. They are stuck in
their wounds. |
Hidden
Spring
by Sandy Boucher.
The one still point in this turning
world was the Buddhist practice I had
been cultivating for fifteen years.
This practice had steadied me through
major crises in my life, providing a
reliable base point to which to
return, no matter what else was going
on. |
America's Broken
Heart
 by
Bill Douglas.
The levels of consciousness...we are
now going through as a nation: The
first is a shocked numbness, the next
rage and anger, and this followed by a
great sorrow that seems so unbearable
that sometimes people stay locked in
the rage/anger stage in order to avoid
the sorrow that seems so desolate and
overwhelming. |
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A Necessary
Journey
by Nancy L. Snyderman, M.D.
 and
Peg Strep.
The life I imagined for myself,
growing up, was simpler and neater
than the one I ended up living. Life
was, I thought then, a straight,
unobstructed road to the destinations
I would choose, with pretty vistas and
sunsets on the way.
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Unanswered
Prayers
by
Tracie Ann Robinson.
If you think
back on some of the prayers you’ve said along your journey
I’m sure you can come up with at least one that you are
grateful went unanswered. |
Chantways:
A Song for Healing
by Lori Arviso Alvord, M.D. 
In many places in the world when a
person is ill, a song is sung to heal.
You may think it irresponsible of me,
a trained physician, even to mention
the medicine ways of my tribe, the
Navajo.
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World
Healing at the South Pole
 by
William Lee Rand.
In May, 1997, I placed a specially designed and empowered Reiki Grid -- the
World Peace Crystal Grid -- at the North Pole. It was created with the intent of
promoting world peace by becoming a planetary beacon charged with healing
energies sent by people from all over the world. In December 1999, I placed a
companion grid at the South Pole! |
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Last Day at the
Radiation Clinic
 by
Cindy Buranek.
As I stood in the bathroom one morning, my mother’s voice told me rather
rudely to "check my breast." I always did what my mother told me, even
if she had gone to God over ten years before. I wasn’t about to argue with
anyone that had the power to reach down to me from so far away. She was right. I
listened and I am alive.
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Guide the Way
by Peter Coukoulis, Ph.D.
I
looked at him straight in the eye and said
"Yes, I was really shaken by your news,
but you know this is a blessing in disguise..." I
don't recall what else I said. I noticed that
at times he looked at the door, perhaps
wondering if his shrink had gone bananas... |
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The Yaqui
Deer Dancer
 by Eric Leber.
To perform, whether surgery or
dance, we must practice. We practice doing what we cannot do. By giving
ourselves wholly to practicing we may transcend practicing, and find ourselves
playing, with mind, body, heart and soul fully surrendered. |
