What's New on IJHC (July 2009)

Editorial Musings     

IN THIS ISSUE OF IJHC     
Daniel J. Benor, MD, Editor in Chief     

Editorial of Editor     
Listening from Within the Heart     
Martina Steiger, ThD     

Research

Healing: A Theory Based on Intentionality
Rothlyn P. Zahourek, PhD, PMHCNS-BC, AHN-BC

Understanding and studying healing is one of our challenges as health care providers. This study is a presentation of a secondary analysis of data collected to study intentionality in the context of healing. Six healers and six healees, five of each who participated as dyads, described their experiences and their concepts of healing. The theory, Intentionality: the Matrix for Healing (IMH), is presented, along with a more expanded definition of healing as an awareness of shift and a transformative process.

Remarkable Recoveries

Scleroderma: My Path to Healing
Ellen Marie Schweickart

"There are several different types of Scleroderma. I was diagnosed with the most critical variation on this exquisite torture… By January, 2002… my skin was rock hard. I thought I could not move my fingers because of the swelling but I soon discovered my hands were frozen in a claw-like position because of my skin. This thickening progressed quite rapidly, moving from my hands up my forearms, and from my feet to my calves in just a few months. It then spread across my chest and into my stomach. Within a year’s time, it moved all the way up my legs and arms, my entire chest, and the most frightening of all for me, into my face.

This Scleroderma had spread from head to toe and I was completely disabled by 2003. I was unable to walk alone more than ten feet due to all the pain of stretching skin that did not want to bend because it had become rigid. Another part of the pain was caused by this generalized sclerosing (hardening) of tissues, which constricted and narrowed my veins and blood vessels.  This process severely compromised my circulation.

Not long after it had spread across my chest and trunk, the sclerosis also had spread into my esophagus, which restricted me from eating solid or dense food."

Ellen managed to reverse her scleroderma, using EFT and a variety of other approaches. This is unheard of in conventional medicine.

Ellen has taught another woman with Scleroderma her methods. Katie's disease had advanced to the point that she was on dialysis. Katie's scleroderma has also been reversed.

Emotional Freedom Techniques:
A Journey of Healing from Crohn’s Disease
Patsy Anthony-Green
 

(KNEE HEALING)
by Patsy Anthony-Green

Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) for Traumatic Brain Injury
Gary Craig, EFT Founder

Living with Life Challenges

Prescription: Humor Healing
Pam Lacko 

 
Variations on the Theme of Healing

Wholistic Approaches

Healing Humanity with Homeopathy:
Homeopathy for epidemics, collective trauma and endemic diseases
Harry van der Zee, MD

Student and healee experiences of healing
 
A MEDICAL STUDENT OBSERVATION IN A NATUROPATHIC PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE
Jeeshan Persaud, Medical Student

Poetry, The Creative Arts and Humor are Healing

An Artist’s Vision
Sue Coleman

Wholistic News Reviews

Traditional, complementary, alternative, and psycho-social modalities of treatment
Larry Lachman, PsyD

Mild cognitive impairment may be prevented by a Mediterranean diet

Better results, less stress, if infertile couples seeking treatment get along well with one another

Drinking green tea promotes healthy gums

Psychosomatic Illnesses Increase for Kids Who Are Consistently Bullied At School

Book Reviews

Lombardo, Tom. (ed.)  After Shocks: The Poetry of Recovery for Life-Shattering Events. 

David Korten. The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community

The Pear Proposition: Scientific Study of Consciousness-Related Physical Phenomena

Philip Yancey and Dr. Paul Brand, The Gift of Pain: Why we hurt and what we can do about it

Sandra Ingerman. Shamanic Journeying: A beginner's guide

Mehmet Oz, MD with Ron Arias and Lisa Oz. Healing from the Heart: A Leading Surgeon combines Eastern and Western Traditions to Create the Medicine of the Future

Gary Chapman. The Heart of the Five Love Languages

Rajan Sankaran. The Soul of Remedies

Rajan Sankaran. The Spirit of Homeopathy, 3rd ed