February 2005, Volume 5, No. 2

  We are part of a vast galaxy.

              What is our place in this amazing cosmos?

 

	NGC 613: Spiral of Dust and Stars
	Ours is but one of millions and millions of galaxies in the vast universe. Ours is but one of billions of planets circling a star.	Can we survive long enough to bridge the distances or consciousness between planets and stars and galaxies and nations and religious/ political/ social differences?
	Just as light and gravity extend forever, connecting galaxies, stars and planets across the universe, so our consciousness extends everywhere and everywhen.     - Daniel J. Benor, MD     How Can I Heal What     Hurts (in press)	. Credit: Neeser (Univ. Sternwarte MYnchen), P. Barthel (Kapteyn Astron. Institute), H. Heyer, H. Boffin (ESO), ESO
	When morning twilight came to the Paranal Observatory in Chile, astronomers Mark Neeser and Peter Barthel interrupted their search for faint quasars, billions of light-years away. And just for a moment, they used Very Large Telescopes at the European Southern Observatory to appreciate the beauty of the nearby Universe. One result was this stunning view of beautiful barred spiral galaxy NGC 613, a mere 65 million light-years away in the southern constellation Sculptor. Over 100 thousand light-years across, NGC 613 seems to have more than its fair share of spiral arms laced with cosmic dust clouds and bright star forming regions near the ends of a dominant central bar. Radio emission indicates the presence of a massive black hole at the center of NGC 613.

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RE-ENTRY PROTOCOL FOR DE-STRESSING WITH WHEE

For soldiers, children after divorce, released prisoners, people involved in relief programs, and others in shifting and changing environments

Daniel J. Benor, MD

Introduction
New approaches to dealing with stress are enormously helpful in clearing emotional traumas. The Wholistic Hybrid of EMDR and EFT (WHEE), briefly described below, can often reduce and even eliminate stress reactions within minutes.

WHEE invites the body to participate in releasing anxieties and stresses. You simply alternate tapping on the right and left side of your body while reciting an affirmation, and the negativity melts away. You can then use the same process to install positive feelings, beliefs and awarenesses Ð to replace the negativity you have released. (Benor 2000)

Wartime stresses
One of the clearest situations where WHEE can be effective is in wars and their aftermaths. Troops coming home from a war often suffer severe re-entry stresses. In going to war, they are indoctrinated by the military in ways that make them more capable of killing and more able to survive in very stressful situations. Being in a war zone, where they may have to kill or be killed, these lessons are often strongly reinforced by repeated frightening challenges. For instance, terrorist activities make it impossible for troops to trust anyone, because terrorists could attack at any time in any place. Soldiers may have to choose between shooting innocent people and risking becoming the victims of suicide bombers.

Upon returning from war, soldiers carry with them the residues of considerable stresses they were unable to process and had to "stuff away" -- in order to survive and function in as healthy a way as possible while in the war zone. This is a "survival mode" of functioning, because all of their psychological resources must be available for combat duties. Soldiers cannot afford to be distracted by their emotions, even when these would otherwise be overwhelming. Therefore, soldiers end up carrying a bucket full of undigested stresses, anxieties and fears.

On returning home, their buckets of buried traumas may be so full that if any further stresses come along, the buckets overflow. Some may over-react to minor challenges and explode in tears, anger or violence. Some may be unable to focus or concentrate, may have memory lapses, and may feel grossly misunderstood and unaccepted.

Others may find it difficult to fall asleep, and powerful nightmares may waken them Ð in replays of the terrors they had to "stuff away." They may suffer flashbacks and periodical emotional overflows from their "buckets." (Technically, much of this may be labeled as a "Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, or PTSD.) These symptoms are much worse if the traumas involved participating in or observing the killing of enemies or comrades (Benor 2004; McNair 2002).

Rescue workers' stresses
Rescue workers who witness unspeakable horrors of natural and man-made disasters may have similar stress reactions. These may occur in the process of the rescue work, as workers may be unprepared for the magnitude of the disasters they encounter, or may also occur upon return to their homes.

Civilian stress situations
While we are perhaps more acutely aware of the dramatic re-entry problems of soldiers and rescue workers, others frequently suffer similar re-entry difficulties. I see this often in children and families I work with as a psychiatric psychotherapist.

Children who have been abused may have PTSD reactions of fears, sleeplessness, nightmares, and rages. Even on being moved to a safe home, they may exhibit all of the reactions that soldiers experience on re-entry to normal society.

Children who move from the home of one separated or divorced parent to the home of the other often experience repeated re-entry stresses, and may exhibit very similar behaviors for a day or more upon their return to one home, following their visits to the home of the other parent. They are often irritable, oppositional, crying and have temper outbursts.

Children who visit parents in jail often return home distressed over the visits, and experience overflows of feelings stuffed in their buckets.

Prisoners released from months in jail often have re-entry anxieties. Much as they are relieved to be out of prison, they are unused to being in an unpredictable environment. They may over-react to minor stresses, such as noises, motor vehicles moving near them, or having to sort out the requirements of daily living. Being questioned about their situation is extremely stressful to many who anticipate being criticized or rejected for their past misdeeds.

People who witness the horrors of war and natural disasters may experience stress responses Ð simply from seeing the horrendous images on their TV screens or through other media. There are people who still shudder to this day when recalling the sights of those who perished in the Twin Towers on 9-11. They may fear that they are no longer safe in their homes, unlikely as it may be that they would ever be targets of similar disasters.

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Image credit: Mirtala The Path to Self	EDITORIAL COMMON DENOMINATORS ACROSS HEALING MODALITIES Daniel J. Benor, MD        THE PATH TO SELF COMPLEMENTARY GIFTS Carol Spence HEART FAILURE - Preface Michael Greger, MD        RESEARCH A SHARED MEMORY CASE STUDY: THE MIND RESONANCE PROCESS AND EVIDENCE FOR NON-LOCAL CONSCIOUSNESS Nick Arrizza BASc, MD
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INTEGRATING HEALING REIKI INTO THE NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE (NHS) IN THE UK Angie Buxton-King	USING MENTAL IMAGERY TO CONQUER OVEREATING Robert Jager
VARIATIONS ON THE THEME OF HEALING
THREE HEART BALANCING FOR TREATMENT OF CANCER Jaentra Green Gardener	USING MENTAL IMAGERY TO CONQUER OVEREATING Robert Jager
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From IJHC January 2005, Volume 5, No. 1
 

The path to Self

HEART FAILURE Ð Preface
Michael Greger, MD

A medical student chronicles his struggles to maintain a healing presence

       To all the students who went to bed crying or woke up screaming.
       To all those who needed to leave their hearts at the door.

I just graduated with honors from Tufts University School of Medicine, the class of 1999. I don't feel honorable, though. I have become disillusioned - disgusted even - by medical training and medicine as a whole. I want to help others dispel their illusions as well.

Medical school is four years long. The first two years are basic science lectures, more like an extension of college. The last two years, however, third year and fourth year, involve rotations through hospitals. "One of the few statements with which most physicians would agree," one doctor writes, "is that the third year, the year on the wards, is the critical year in medical education."

"In no year of their adult lives," another contends, "do students change so much as during the third year of medical school."

This is my story of third year, the worst year of my life.

For many students, who - like me - have had no prior clinical experience, third year is the first real contact with medicine, the first taste of what doctors really do, what doctors are really like. I saw medicine as a humanistic career of intimacy - helping people, sharing, caring for people. But what I found was a profession that didn't even seem to care about people. No one around me seemed to question what was happening to them, to the patients, to all of us. As Michelle Harrison wrote in her book A Woman in Residence, "I came to feel I had been fighting a war which no one else even knew existed."

The unusual format of this book is a result of its origins. It started out as excerpts from my diary, a compilation of notes I scribbled to myself in the dark - fragmented snippets, flashes of images. Disjointed and chaotic, it is a reflection of my life and mind at the time...

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INTEGRATING HEALING REIKI INTO THE NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE (NHS) IN THE UK
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USING MENTAL IMAGERY TO CONQUER OVEREATING
Robert Jager

      Here is an innovative way to deal with overeating

The desire to eat unnecessarily has little to do with genuine hunger. It is usually a conditioned response that is activated by a number of factors. The three main factors that set off the response are: the presence of outside stimuli that suggest eating, the need to change unpleasant emotional states, comfort food", and genuine eating situations that get out of hand. I will discuss the outside stimuli first.

I can recall sitting in front of the television, happily engrossed in a show, when a food advertisement came on. Within a very short time I would experience a strong desire to eat something, anything. The same thing happened whenever I visited a coffee shop. I would go in intending only to have a cup of coffee. But the presence of those delicious cakes and sweets would set off the craving in me to eat food that I usually didnÍt need. Like most, I simply blamed the food for causing the craving and left it at that.

When the time came to do something about my ever-increasing weight I knew that it would be an absolute waste of time and energy for me to go on yet another diet or exercise program. I know from experience that these approaches require more will-power than I can muster to make them work over the long term. I suspected that if I could do something about getting rid of the desire to eat unnecessarily I would stand a much better chance of success. These are the steps I took to do this.

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	BURNING SUN
	Beautiful landscape...   But devoid of life...       What can we do to prevent       this desolation on our entire       planet?            - Daniel J. Benor, MD		Photo Credits:Matt Heinemann
	Burning Sun Near Mount Baker North Cascades National Park, Washington Matt Heinemannis selling some of his stunning photographs.  Proceeds will go to an orphanage in Bangladesh.  For more info, and to view his photography, go to: http://www.heinemanphotos.com/ For more info about Charfassion Orphanage in the south of Bangladesh, go to: http://www.thedartmouth.com/article.php?aid=20040423015 .

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