Today we are sitting in the PWI library and next door a celebration is happening. Our volunteer today wants to work on having sinus infections. She has tried many treatments and knows what she is allergic to and what to avoid but still it continues. There are many aspects to sinus infections that are disturbing, …
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The January Dreambody Medicine Forum was visited by a raccoon climbing on the deck and gazing in the window at us. It seemed to arrive at certain moments when things got most interesting. I wonder what it was thinking. In our introduction we talked about steps to exploring and unfolding a symptom experience such as …
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In our November forum we talked about the mystery of symptoms and our reactions to our symptoms. These experiences attract our attention but are discounted and ignored until we are forced to attend to them. How we relate to our bodies and how we decide to heal and determine if it is healthy or not, …
In the October forum we talked about Big and Small Health and the tyranny of wellness. Also, that true health means to be open to the diversity of experiences that we have. We explored an individual’s experience of weakness from arthritis in their hands. Then in small groups we explored questions including: How do you deal with …
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Yesterday in our Dreambody Medicine clinic we worked with a friend and colleague who is recovering from a severe car accident. She was struck by a semi-truck and spun around in her car until she hit the railings. Her car was totaled and by pure luck our friend survived the accident with “only” a concussion. …
In our April forum we talked about having curiosity about the physical and medical aspects of our symptom experiences as well as how they are related to who we are. They are connected to where we are in our momentary lives, found in our feelings and dreams. Our body reacts to what we think and experience and nobody …
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In the beginning we discussed what brings us to the forum and our interest in body symptom experiences. We mentioned many things ranging from: How to work with the medical world that sees something as a problem and disease and wants to fix it and bring in the paradigm that sees in addition a symptom …
In our January Dreambody Medicine forum we explored the ideas of physics and the Higgs boson particle Large Hadron Collider and the idea of symmetry and how a disturbance is needed to create life. Body symptoms disturb our inner balance or symmetry and bring awareness. Curing symptoms, taking medicine and having surgery is important, but …
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