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- 5 Beliefs That Can Sabotage Even The Best Healing Method - by Submitted on Oct 23, 2013 from Joan JacobsScientific research demonstrates that belief in a treatment method has a direct affect on the probability for its success. These findings apply to all types of healing methods and approaches. Given the immense power of belief, following are 5 of the more common beliefs that can sabotage even the ...
Views: 1586(2 votes) - Why People Don't heal - by Submitted on Oct 13, 2013 from Joan JacobsGiven the vast amount of therapeutic methods known all over the world and the vast amounts of money invested in medical research, I find it puzzling that disease prevalence stats demonstrate a continuous rise in the prevalence of chronic and life threatening disease. With all the existing ...
Views: 1514(1 vote) - The Speaking Body- Information Based Healing - by Submitted on Mar 27, 2013 from Joan JacobsInformation based healing is a new and unique type of energy work based on accessing energetic information from the body and activating it for the purpose of healing. The Science of Information Science reporter Mark Buchman wrote in New Science Magazine that “an increasing number of ...
Views: 1232 - Women’s Gender Related Health Issues Part 2 - by Submitted on Mar 27, 2013 from Joan JacobsWhen it comes to chronic disease effecting both women and men, three main processes should be noted: 1. The prevalence of chronic disease is on the rise in both women and men. 2.The prevalence of certain chronic disease is outstandingly more dominant in women. 3. Diseases that just a ...
Views: 1098 - Women’s Gender Related Health Issues Part 1 - by Submitted on Mar 27, 2013 from Joan JacobsWomen’s International Day is a great opportunity to explore common women’s health issues and how they reflect social and cultural processes or in other words: what is gender related health ? The National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) determined that disease is affected by sex ...
Views: 1306 - Why Evolvement is More Inspiring Than Empowerment - by Submitted on Dec 15, 2012 from Joan JacobsDana stormed into my office looking upset and exhausted. She collapsed in the arm chair announcing that “ I can’t take this any more. I can’t go on like this any more”. What is it? I asked. “The rat race and constnt need to to meet the standards of all my roles. These days its not enough to be ...
Views: 1081 - Fate- The #1 Obstacle to Self-Awareness - by Submitted on Dec 01, 2012 from Joan JacobsThere is something very misleading and incomplete in the concept that thought creates reality. Not that this statement is incorrect, but at the fundamental level, reality is created by processes much more extensive and complex than just thought. The main power of the popularity that this ...
Views: 1223 - Fitting In or Standing Out - by Submitted on Oct 26, 2012 from Joan JacobsOne of the most common question I’m asked by most of my clients and many of my students is whether developing the Self conflicts with or jeopardizes family, relationships and other social connections. I find the question intriguing because it addresses a much more complex issue than most of ...
Views: 1133(1 vote) - The Quieter You Become the More Able You are to Hear ( Rumi) - by Submitted on Oct 15, 2012 from Joan Jacobs"Listening to oneself" is an icon in the new age arena. Many spiritual and new age advocate the practice of” listening to oneself”. When asked to listen, most people naturally expect to hear voices. You sit for meditation, pull you full focus inward and expect to hear voices giving you specific ...
Views: 1966 - Self-Love; The Silent Healer - by Submitted on Oct 15, 2012 from Joan JacobsSelf-love is a big issue in spiritual awakening and healing processes and yet so many people experience such vast and all-encompassing self-condemnation, some to the degree of complete emotional and functional paralysis. Given the bio-chemical connection between emotions and the body, its ...
Views: 1004 - From Victim to Creator - by Submitted on Feb 11, 2012 from Joan JacobsWhen observing life's processes and events, many people wonder if there is a logic that determines these processes and why they go through the specific events they go through. Disciplines such as theology, psychology and philosophy and most spiritual doctrines address this question, proposing a ...
Views: 1201 - How Emotional healing Can Save Your Life - by Submitted on Feb 11, 2012 from Joan JacobsThe Newtonian mechanistic approach to medicine has definitely gone bankrupt. The assumption that experiences and feelings are not primary causal factors in illness since they can’t be quantified in material terms, has been scientifically proven as incorrect. Unfortunately, the impact of these ...
Views: 1256(1 vote) - Making Healthy Choices - by Submitted on Feb 11, 2012 from Joan JacobsMaking decisions is one of the most important aspects of our life journey and has a profound influence on the roads we take and what we encounter along the way. We can walk the roads of our life in elegance or pain. Decisions and choices direct us along the path of life and to a great extent ...
Views: 1474(2 votes) - Listening To Oneself- Fad or Fact? - by Submitted on Feb 11, 2012 from Joan Jacobs"Listening to oneself" has become a popular token of language and cultural icon in this era of spiritual awakening. Healer, coaches and others in the self-management industry discuss the need to listen to ourselves. The verb "to listen" causes expectations of hearing things. The only sounds ...
Views: 1292(1 vote) - Personal Growth-A Growing Factor In Health-Related Issues - by Submitted on Feb 11, 2012 from Joan JacobsConsidering the rise in health-related challenges, Many people search for alternatives to the common medical system. It is becoming clear and clearer that Personal growth is a significant aspect in establishing health due to the association between the "person" and disease. According to the ...
Views: 1384 - Dealing With "Emotional Eating" - by Submitted on Feb 11, 2012 from Joan JacobsFor people dealing with excess weight issues, the connection between food and emotions is very familiar. The thin and good looking woman sitting in her room consoling herself with ice-cream after having gone through significant emotional upset has become a symbol that demonstrates how we ...
Views: 2358(4 votes) - Can You Really Teach An Old Dog New Tricks? - by Submitted on Feb 11, 2012 from Joan JacobsSelf- sabotaging health is very common and mostly associated with bad eating habits, lack of exercise, smoking etc. But more serious and much more hazardous is resistance to change. You can't change your bad habits without dealing with change. Its only logical that you can't modify bad ...
Views: 1345 - Can Meditation Help in Dealing with Emotions? - by Submitted on Feb 11, 2012 from Joan JacobsOne of the most important tools for shifting the focus inward and creating inner harmony is meditation. It brings the concentration inward supporting introspection. When the focus is better centered its easier to access pleasant thoughts and emotions. In the common, very stressful life ...
Views: 1468 - Can Changing The Way You Deal With Emotions- Affect Your Health? - by Submitted on Feb 11, 2012 from Joan JacobsEmotions have a direct and profound influence on physical health. I have yet to see a disease that doesn't have an emotional aspect to it. Learning how to deal with emotions in a resourceful way is vital for anyone wishing to establish long term health and well-being. The body records all ...
Views: 1455 - Are You Managing Or Managed By Your Life? - by Submitted on Feb 11, 2012 from Joan JacobsWhen examining the processes and situations in our lives, people often look for a system that is responsible for our life processes and why is it that they experience the specific situations of their lives. Disciplines such as theology, psychology and philosophy and most spiritual doctrines ...
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